Yes. The beast is a hunter. Only- shut up! The next thing is that we couldn't kill it. And the next thing is that Ralph said my hunters are no good.”

STEADFAST: also stedfast adj. 1. Fixed or unchanging; steady. 2. Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving. — steadfastly adv. — steadfastness n. After their plane is shot down, a group of English schoolboys are stranded on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. There are no adults to look after the boys, who range from six to 12 years old. CRIMSON: n. 1. Color. A deep to vivid purplish red to vivid red. — crimson tr. & intr.v. crimsoned, crimsoning, crimsons. To make or become deeply or vividly red. — crimson adj.Argument started again. Ralph held out the glimmering conch and Maurice took it obediently. The meeting subsided.

At last Ralph induced him to hold the shell but by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child’s voice. Piggy knelt by him, one hand on the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly. Now people seem to use everywhere. Even near the shelters and the platform. You littluns, when you're eating fruit; if you're taken short-" MIRAGE: n. 1. An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air. Also called fata morgana. 2. Something illusory or insubstantial.The wood was not so dry as the fuel they had used on the mountain. Much of it was damply rotten and full of insects that scurried; logs had to be lined from the soil with care or they