| 单词 | straw |
| 例句 | Behind them the kids crunched on Frito Lays and noisily sucked pop up through peppermint straws. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. It was very curious. He complained that he felt as if there were long pieces of straw stuck in his throat. When I told the doctor he was able to prescribe the proper medication.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I wish we had some straw,” Eilonwy said, “or anything to keep us warm. We’ll freeze before we have a chance to think of anything at all.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Pearl bought a Coke, got two straws, and they sat down at a table near the door. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys were dashing in their crisp, new sailor suits, and the addition of the straw hats provided the perfect finishing touch. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z There is no indoor kitchen, so all the cooking is done outside under a straw roof awning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a burst of straw, he shot up and made a leap for the door. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z We climb on and claim a space of two straw mats under the deck, enough for us five to lie side by side. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She dressed her in white gloves and black patent-leather shoes and a straw hat with artificial cherries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The truly daring, however, gamely climbed into a rattan gondola, felt hats or straw bowlers grasped tightly in hand as a hot-air balloon lofted them skyward. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The lying in a hospital bed with only a straw sticking out of your bandaged head kind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Hidden behind the organ, I carefully pulled the lid from the small wooden box and removed the top layer of straw. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z An old man with a sun-weathered straw hat and faded overalls unbent himself from his chores in the garden to nod our way as we walked up to him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Someone came around with a stack of small jars and fastened one to my cage; a little pipe led through the bars like a sipping straw—drinking water. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Das reached into her straw bag to find a bandage which she taped over the cut on his knee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “We’ll have to harvest potatoes without her help this year,” my mother said, and they turned away toward the fields, straw baskets in their arms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner would have thrown himself down on the straw. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was staring at an old lady wearing a straw hat, wondering if the flowers on it were real, and if they were what they would taste like, when the train lurched to a halt. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm supposed to ride against the straw man." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The hair came out between his fingers, brittle as straw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I kept trying to picture my mother or somebody, or my aunt, or Sally Hayes's crazy mother, standing outside some department store and collecting dough for poor people in a beat-up old straw basket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z In middle school, you pooled your money most days after school and shared a slice of pizza and a Frappuccino three ways, giggling and taking turns with the straw. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z A nest of dry straw bedding filled one corner of the room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Today Esteban is wearing jeans, a faded Beatles T-shirt, and a straw cowboy hat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She could tell by the sound of his breathing that he was sleeping peacefully, deep in the straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Tidbit even ate the apple cores and promptly fell asleep on the nearest pile of straw. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The man sprinkles some straw and grass on the coffin and as he climbs out the other man shovels in the earth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So she left him alone, made herself a bed of straw beside his, then paced up and down between the bare walls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Inside the stable, William opens his eyes and pushes straw from his face. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Really, this was the last straw,” Henry said crossly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She discovered the burrows they made in the bank, built with mud and bits of straw. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Staring at that little straw hat, I realized we’d spooked Milton Harper, the kid who tore the legs off bugs. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Ana widened her eyes but then just started tearing the paper wrapper off her straw. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Then, last of all, she pulled down over her ears a blue straw hat with a drooping, exhausted brim. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up a handful of straw and threw it at her head, hoping to start a game. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The image of it was the last straw. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z People lay on straw mats on the floor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily, Root would have blown his top at this point, but he knew that Cudgeon was grasping at straws, desperately trying to save his career. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He dared ask nothing concerning them, but he dragged his load doggedly, and he ate hastily his bowl of rice, and slept the day fitfully through in the hut behind the straw. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z At dinnertime, they woke again but could not raise themselves from the soft straw and woolen blankets. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A wisp of bilious green straw perched on her brow like a tropical bird. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Inside are the food rations and water filtration straws our ship’s passengers were going to use to survive on Sagan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the fields she wore a straw hat low on her head, a thing she had not done consistently in her youth, so that now around her eyes there were squint lines. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well...is my father wearing a straw fedora, and is my mother walking with a broken heel?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The presiding judge gave a signal and the bailiff brought over three fans made of woven straw which the three judges started waving immediately. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z It was April who won the straw drawing this time, and she thought quite a while before she decided on a question. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Its roof and walls are covered with bamboo leaves and straw. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on straw mats or wooden stools and chairs, we listen to Pa’s instructions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Only it was much hotter, and as if by some miracle each member of the jury, the prosecutor, my lawyer, and some of the reporters, too, had been provided with straw fans. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Peeking out from under her straw hat, wisps of mahogany hair garlanded her ears like a laurel wreath. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As long as Vonetta kept her fear to one shriek and Fern kept hers to biting Miss Patty Cake, I kept on spinning straw, making everything all right. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Gulf Stream will flow through a straw, provided the straw is aligned to the Gulf Stream and not at crosscurrents,” he read aloud from the one with an 11 scrawled over it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z This layer cake of manure, woodchips, and straw gradually rises beneath the cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Curving his paws expertly around a warm brown egg, he held it firmly, then cracked it with a neat sideways tap from a long incisor tooth, the contents settling intact on the straw. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Perry, sitting on a straw suitcase, was playing a harmonica. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But when she says that the American School is going to close its doors temporarily, it’s like the last straw Chucha says broke the donkey’s back. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Maybe even chewing on a straw or a toothpick, a fat wallet in his back pocket, full of receipts and no money. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z They would sleep on piles of clean straw, with fires blazing to keep the chill of night at bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She dropped off the counter and jammed a battered straw hat onto her head as if she’d suddenly remembered this garden of hers. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I want to be here, on Tuesday, in May, sitting in the red- topped booth at Sunnysides, watching Cordelia as she delicately slurps the last of her milkshake up through the straws. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Every cot was occupied with injured women and children, many on straw mats on the floor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I found things I had never thought of before—plastic bags and cotton balls and toothpicks and straws. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Templeton crouched under the straw at the bottom of the crate. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Glue a few flies to the other end of the straw, a fly lollipop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Between the lines of straw the expanse of stubble was as open as the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But when old Master Nkrumah, age eighty-seven, had begun referring to the Greater Jungle as “her,” that had been the last straw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Old women on thin straw mattresses that line the walls, which they must sleep on, because I don’t see anything else that could be used. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Covering the poles were hides and rags and in some places patches of straw thatch. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Min rushed forward and unhooked the straw bobble. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The smell of straw, chicken feathers, and chicken droppings rose up to my nose. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She and the other girls stayed in a rundown house with shabby equipment and patched straw mattresses. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Abbey’s little adventure was the last straw,” he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She’s wearing her puffy winter jacket and the hat of the day—a blue straw thing that is scrunched and crooked from her sitting on it so many times. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Time to move past holding hands, two straws over a raspberry soda. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma Knife stretches her long arms and rolls up her straw mat. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She picked up her straw hat and looked at it instead of him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I noticed Mother’s coat tucked into his bed of straw. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z All manner of household goods could be had, baskets and straw sleeping mats and wooden chests. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “It’s dark. There’s a drop of about a foot. Just jump. We put some straw at the bottom, so it’s soft.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I followed, and found her in her old straw gardening hat, a trowel already in one hand and the flat of pansies balanced in the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a smell of straw and dust and hawthorn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She sits on one of the beds and jostles it, listening to the straw crackle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A man’s voice said, “They’re children. What’ll we do, have them draw straws to see which one gets a rope around their neck?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s only so much you can do with a piece of straw clamped between your teeth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But he’d put on a straw hat, which made Marie laugh, and his forearms were all white under the black hairs. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Hidden under the straw was a little pile of lump sugar and several bunches of ribbon of different colours. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I pulled out the broom and tore out a batch of straws and tossed them into the fire and watched them smoke, turn black, blaze, and finally become white wisps of ghosts that vanished. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The men were becoming very attached to their dogs, making straw mattresses for the dogloos, saving special treats for their favorites, and even crawling into the dogloos on occasion to share the dogs’ warmth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As Turner got up from his straw bed he took the revolver. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “That’s it! That is the final straw! We are moving out of this dump!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “We suck their brains out through their noses with a straw!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The rope moved a little and the straw rustled. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the second, she constructed the cake, using cardboard bases and straws for supports, and made the basic icing to cover the layers. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z And her warm leather shoes, while everybody else wore handmade straw slippers, or even nothing covering their feet at all. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Roustabouts are sent to toss straw down on the hippodrome track. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He picked crops in fields, his back aching, a straw hat full of holes the only thing shielding him from, the sun. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The stone walls were whitewashed, and there was straw on the ground and wooden feed-boxes and water-troughs set against the wall. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I twirled my straw through my chocolate soda. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There were more of the walking stick-holding, straw hat-wearing white men singing out for you to come see what they had hid up in their tents. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Canvas ripped and straw exploded as Lannister guardsmen joked and cursed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then the next day, when I go for straws, I find the dry-storage room locked. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am but a man of straw, Arthur,” he said. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z George stepped over and threw his blankets down on the burlap sack of straw that was a mattress. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z By morning there was only straw in my ears. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The pine twigs and straw burst into flames that licked the dry, weathered boards. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The straw walls and roof burst into flame. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a short time he had dug a tunnel in the straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The box contained a linen sack filled with straw. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z You need five Shiny ones For a snow cone: Strawberry and root beer, Grape that stains The mouth with laughter, Orange that’s a tennis ball Of snow You could stab With a red-striped straw. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We found her in the barn, which was hot and hazy with straw dust and pollen. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Its straw hat was hanging from an ear. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The red-and-yellow straw carpet covered the center of the room, and the honey-colored Formica cupboard divided the space into a living room and kitchen. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She had this brother that stuck a straw down her ear when she was a kid, she once told me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Twisting, bending, trying to make straws stand on end. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z She settles into the straw, curling her legs back under her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z This closing of the port of Boston was indeed tyranny; this was oppression; this was the last straw upon the back of many a moderate man. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All day Pa was busy, banking the little house and the barn with dead leaves and straw, held down by stones, to keep out the cold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I stare at him for a moment, then lay my shovel in the straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z My body sank into the straw and into the quiet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There’s a straw shoulder bag on a hanger, and Felicia digs with her broken fingernails for clues. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I realised for the first time since I had come into the room that my legs were trembling, weak as straw. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He buried himself deep in his side of the straw tick; he felt where the wooden slats of the bed crossed under his body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The last straw came a few days later, when my family decided it was time to sell Grandpa Portman’s house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Jobs turned out to be sorting the plastic forks, spoons, straws, and napkins for the cafeteria. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Mother’s zinnias stood sad and brown and rustled like straw in the wind. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “No,” I told her, “I don't think so,” clutching at a straw, for this might serve as an excuse later, if I was over-pink about the eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps her cold feet woke her, or the itchy straw under her head. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was the face that haunted him most; surrounded by a nimbus of fire, hair blazing like straw, the dead flesh melting away and sloughing off its skull to reveal the gleam of bone beneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My mother liked to look at the ducks and plan how she would dig a pond for them near the sweet potato field and arrange straw for their eggs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, Kingshaw crawled on his hands and knees back over the concrete and the mucky straw, on to the sacks. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The cellars under Kingspyre were empty when she returned to her bed of straw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z While he talked in the mornings, Billy Buck cut twenty or thirty straws into neat three-inch lengths and stuck them into his hatband. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood still in the torchlight with some straws in his beard, a pitiful figure in his jester’s patchwork. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some old rusted tools lying about and some desiccated straw lined the far left corner, but half the roof was either missing or about to fall off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But I remember it was a scorching summer day and I was driving up a rutted dirt road, nothing on either side but sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Crane-man exclaimed one evening, tucking in the final straw as the last of the winter light faded. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We had also tried to cover up the spaces between the boards with mud and straw, but even so the wind would get through into the barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not know that under the straw was a rat, and inside a knothole was a big grey spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He pulled a heap of straw out of his pack, ate some of it, made a pillow out of the rest, and was snoring in no time. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We all wore pith helmets to protect us from the sun except Lin Nai-Nai who wore a Chinese straw hat. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only eighteen sleeping bags, originally meant for the overland journey, and the men drew straws to see who would get them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Isobel, the lord’s daughter, will have to be married, and squat in the straw, and scream with the pain and pray for her life same as me. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z He would step from his three-foot- deep bed of straw, give Smith an affectionate bump with his nose, and leave the train bucking. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It took nine separate burnings before the fire got down to the straw and cotton ticking of its insides. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When they could, they stopped at small farms, where Tristran would put in an afternoon's work in exchange for food and some straw in the barn to sleep upon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z There were fleas in the straw, though she couldn't see why a few more would bother her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the window I watched the crowns of people’s heads passing beneath new straw hats not yet unbleached. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys had stuffed so much straw into hers, we had to flatten it some so we wouldn’t slide off. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z While we sucked away on our straws, my father read to us from the latest newspaper. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura liked to watch her, and she learned how to braid the straw and made a little hat for Charlotte. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Break up that prayer meeting!” the white straw boss yelled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom hurried into the garage, coming back with a long straw torn from an old broom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Holding her breath, Mrs. Frisby jumped blindly into the blackness, and felt the cushion of straw under her feet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A black boy bounded past me, thumping my straw hat to the ground, and yelling: “Straw katy!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting in the straw, munching on a carrot, like Mom does. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He punched a straw into an iced tea carton and took a long sip. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z When Cora was young, the overseer’s hair was a livid Irish red that curled from his straw hat like the wings of a cardinal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Waitress, waters for us and one joke for my wife. Skip the straw.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z There was always straw on the floor from the wooden crates the statues were shipped in. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The third visit to the shrink, and the last straw, came in grade six. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z This girl Maddie from student council lines us up behind the float in rows, and then someone passes down pieces of straw for us to hold in our teeth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z With one eye pressed against the straw weave of the basket, he could see a blurry, golden view of what was happening outside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Doreah grew gaunt and hollow-eyed, and her soft golden hair turned brittle as straw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I kept thinking about that beatup old straw basket they went around collecting money with when they weren't teaching school. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z For the heads, she stuffs her red checkered scarf with straw. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the phalanx of arrows gleam like an eyeflick in the moonlight All his life up to then he had been shooting into straw targets which made a noise like Phutt! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles was wearing a white tennis sweater, and Camilla a sun dress with a sailor collar, and a straw hat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Arwin chases Cody to our work area, and loose straw flies. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z To amuse myself, I plucked fleas from the straw and crushed them between my fingers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “We had to wait ninety days before the adoption was official back then,” Grace’s mother said, and Grace noticed for the first time that the straw in her iced tea was chewed into ribbons. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But here she was, dewy and fresh, bespectacled, olive-skinned, almost childlike, smiling shyly at him and sucking a milkshake through a straw. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The roof was gone up too, and things were falling down, pieces of flaming wood and bits of straw and hay. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If she asked questions, I’d have to spin a lot of straw; and I couldn’t spin a lot of straw and look her in the face the way I’d like to. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved his hat, a beat-up straw one with part of the brim missing, in front of his face. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Now it was soft, and dirt had settled into the notches where the pale straw fibers crossed each other, especially in the crown. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The straw was damp, not a good place to sleep, but still better than the bare stone floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A well-built man with a broad suntanned face, he pushed his straw hat back, scratched his head, and laughed ruefully. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Then Avery picked up a handful of straw and threw it high in the air and gave a loud yell. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I turned the comer, looking for the white straw hat he always wore. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I was wondering just how the long fluffy white curtains would look if I lit a bunch of straws and held it under them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Every few days he covers it with a layer of wood- chips or straw. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was nothing special as Sparra habitations went: a straw palliasse, some butterfly wings stuck to the wall by way of decoration. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Min’s vessels were muffled in layers and layers of tightly packed rice straw; Tree-ear thought grimly that even if he ran at full speed, no harm would come to the work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z There weren't any bunks for us, so we slept on straw on the second floor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Jonas and I lay on our straw, bundled in our coats and boots. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They burrowed into a thick pile of straw and for some time remained listening for rats. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The air carried the hushed sound of stirring straw, and the horses shook the sleep from their bodies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned around and went over to the pile of straw lying on the floor in a corner of the room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The pilots laughed and a man in a gray straw hat with a white band said, “Aw, let the boy stay, Feather.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Half of the car was knee-deep in straw, half was left unbedded so he could stretch his legs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Rafe took her milkshake away from her, inspecting the top of the straw. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I slept on a straw mattress upon the floor, and I was often awakened by his pained tumblings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z You and Muthu played with your balloon while Arul and I placed the straw mats and new pillows inside the tents, making them look almost cozy. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They would give the strangers whatever weapons or pigs or cattle they’d saved from destruction, and the strangers would give them an outbuilding, the worst of their food, and some straw. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently we came upon a circle of straw huts, intact but abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And the last straw—everyone seemed to agree—was the Sun Valley game, when Stargirl rushed across the court to aid Kovac, the Sun Valley star. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I start to bend toward the right-hand straw, but she whispers, "Too hot. It's always too hot. Just stir it for a minute or two." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he grew weary of gathering rice, he would sit at the edge of the field plaiting handfuls of rice straw to make mats and sandals. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z There is nothing for Violet to beat or hit and when she has to, just has to strike it somehow, there is nothing left but straw or a sepia print. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I stick in one of those long wiggly plastic straws that Mom kept from when I was four and sit on the window ledge in the living room, sipping slowly while smiling at the birds. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I open my eyes and take a sip of pineapple juice, nodding around the straw. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So no straw taken from the goats as a temporary sechach. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He was looking down now, playing with the frayed edges of the straw mat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jemmy was disappearing, limb by limb, under the straw. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z They went downstairs and stepped outside to find a pen of plump black chickens pecking heartily in straw. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I feel like this was the final straw in a line of fails. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z My father wears his favorite white straw fedora, saved exclusively for tropical vacations, because it looks so ridiculous anywhere else. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Davidson had bought Joey a little angel that was kind of chubby and had big wings and a halo made out of straw. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But they lost interest and, soon, the watch sat abandoned on the straw mat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Ay, that was one of her failures, she explained to them, a child's double-compartment drinking glass with an outsized, built-in straw. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The stone floor was bare but for some straw gathered along the edges of the room. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Spent quarrels lay strewn across the hard-packed earth like straws scattered by a storm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "No," I said, seeing a woman moving slowly past with a row of about a dozen dressed chickens suspended by their necks from the handle of a new straw broom . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoke from the hootches smelled like straw. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He bleated plaintively and was answered by a rustle of straw within. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At a picnic table on the lawn outside, four old women, all wearing broad, straw hats, were playing a card game. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z They raised it with sun-dried bricks and plastered it with mud and handfuls of straw. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was the size of a small fishbowl, bright coral, with colored straws and paper parasols and bits of fruit sticking out of it at frenetic angles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You have tried to do too much in the past few days. The dinner was the last straw; you might have dispensed with it” “Yes,” she admitted; “it was stupid.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Again she reached into her straw bag, this time for her hairbrush, and began to run it around the edges of the translucent visor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She sips daintily from her straw, fingering it with lacquered nails. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We were issued steel army cots, two brown army blankets each, and some mattress covers, which my brothers stuffed with straw. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she sat in the chair by the side of the tub, and braided the straws. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Dodged that bullet, she thought, as Grace stuck her straw back in her mouth and continued to chew it to oblivion. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It held a small wooden table, a chair, one bed, and a straw mat on the dirt floor. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She dreamt of a young, handsome man dressed all in white, with patent- leather shoes and a straw hat, walking across the desert bathed in sunlight. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel her keeping an eye on me while I played with the straw in my soda. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z His straw hat was slightly tilted to the right and he had long, dark sideburns that were trimmed and came down to the middle of his square jaw. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z All the same, Meggie slept well or, anyway, better than on Capricorn's damp straw or in the hovel with the ruined roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And then Shasta said he wasn't a Calormene either and didn't care a straw about these old stories of ghouls. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Before I put all the photos away in what had now become Caitlin’s box, I selected the photo of her wearing the big straw hat. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I was staring at the cow in the straw. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Doxology stood patiently in the stall, head down, his milky eyes staring at the straw under his feet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Feeling much aggrieved, I ate the food, then lay back upon the straw. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then from an old flint and iron he caught a flame and thrust it into the straw and there was a blaze. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Smiling, he took off his straw hat and sat down at the bottom of the bed. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He believes mice are spontaneously generated in piles of straw. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “And to think,” said his uncle, “Luigi’s unraveling really started with one book. The one you plucked off the shelf for me, Marjory. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z His straw hat shaded his eyes and made crisscross marks on the upper half of his face. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Along a polished earth, pieces of straw and twigs scampered until they were stopped by some rooted thing; and little stones rolled crookedly before the wind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At one point the man released one hand, cursing—the straw had cut into his palm. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z From the consulate’s doors people emerge, men in cream-colored suits and women in straw hats, walking arm in arm to a waiting launch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Can you please stop chewing on your straw?!” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Softly, softly, Robin slid off the pallet, trying not to rustle the straw. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I reach for my glass of water and do that thing where your mouth can’t quite find the straw. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Amari gloried in its warmth, for her head felt thick, like it had been packed with straw. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A kind of anchor watch had been chosen by straws. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the carriage house there was what is called “signs of a struggle”—in this case a broken box, a shattered carriage lamp, scraped marks in the dust, and straw on the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “So, a liquor crate, some of them dead flies, a straw, and a mousetrap.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Conger ordered the Garrett sons to collect a few armfuls of straw and pile them against the side of the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When the herd passes, the thing that was August is a tangled mass of flesh, innards, and straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Dummies made of wheat sheaves, of barley shocks, of straw, of chaff. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On the lowest shelf, at least, purification straws are stacked neatly. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He helped me hold my glass and put the straw to my lips. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She waited for something to drop from the ceiling or climb up from under the straw scattered in the corners. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Sit tight,” said a young rat, from the straw close beside him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was grasping at straws—it was merely coincidence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They scooped out nests in the straw, uncovering one of Medwyn’s breakfast guests curled up and fast asleep. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z When she slipped inside and pulled the door shut, she shuffled to the nearest pile of straw and plopped onto it as the first tears forced their way out of her eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Our bedding consisted of a single sisal, or straw, mat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The floors inside were covered with straw and manure; they’d collapsed in several places under the weight of cows that now roamed free on the property. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "Just come stomping in and jerk your life up by the roots! But this here's the last straw. They ain't going to bother with my Bible!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I found this to be the last straw, and my patience snapped. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It senses the density of the fabric and selects the strength,” she says, and then becomes absorbed in a bit of dry straw before she can go on. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But during the bright day when the soldiers searched the street he slept safely in the furthermost corner of the hut behind a pile of straw O-lan gathered to make a shield for him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Molly stands up to find a straw, and I swear at least one hoy from each table looks up as she passes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The hair beneath the visor was a squirrel's nest of dirty straw, and her face . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On one street corner, three boys had already settled in for the night, huddled together on a tattered straw mat behind a dumpster. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But all I feel is relief—relief—as though I’ve been underwater and breathing through a straw for the last two months, and now I have my head in the air again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Captain Smith finds me and hands me a straw hat and a hatchet and tells me to get to work. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He was stretched out on his side in the straw when the Overland Limited drew up in New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Wash brought them the things they needed, worn-out clothes from his mother’s scrap bin, heavy wire to connect the limbs, armfuls of straw they could pack into the sleeves and pant legs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The one right next to me had one of those straw baskets that you see nuns and Salvation Army babes collecting dough with around Christmas time. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I hear the noise of a straw sucking more air than milkshake. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The damp straw felt too real, and so did the cold wall behind them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The two hundred or so patients are lined up on straw mats or cots on the floor, their cries echoing off the cold stone walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mama bought me a straw hat,” he sneered. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This proved to be the last straw, and the NEC would not give in to such a demand. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The mule wore a straw hat, and the woman wore a sunbonnet. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen was made of earthen bricks as the house was, great squares of earth dug from their own fields, and thatched with straw from their own wheat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "I never walked the whole time. A farmer brought me half that way on his cart. I even slept a bit on his load of straw." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z This was the last straw, he told them. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The straw popped back up when he was done, just like a dog's would. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes, pulled some straw over himself, and dropped off into a deep sleep. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z All her spare time for days, she was braiding straws. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached into her straw bag in search of something, then pulled out a packet of puffed rice. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “They grow on this road, Meg, so do combs and brown straw hats.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmers’ market at the Civic Center parking lot is a great spot because they give you samples, things like honey in a straw or peanut brittle. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The lady’s face was hidden by a fancy straw bonnet, the brim decorated with roses that matched her gown. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She was drinking her lemonade through a straw, daintily like a girl, trying to make the sweet pleasure last. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She gestured at his torn pants, the dirt and straw embedded in his sandy blond hair, the mud—or worse—that hadn’t been washed away by the rain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her bedchamber was small, but there was a Myrish carpet on the floor and a mattress stuffed with feathers in place of straw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I drew one of the short straws,” he said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She’d fallen off a ladder trying to thatch their roof with yellow rice straw and had broken her back. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Following the rules, she rolls her straw mat off the floor and leans it against the wall. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached into her straw bag and handed him a small square wrapped in green-and-white- striped paper. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He held a straw hat on his knee. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Kneeling, he searched through the straw with his hands to see if anything had been concealed beneath, then made a round of the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If you were close to her, you wondered if she was about to smile or was she merely shifting a straw from the baseline of her gums to her tongue. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Audrey only ever drank iced coffee, and she sipped hers through a ridiculously long straw. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I’ve always hated foam chairs covered in fabric, because they seemed hot and sticky. The skin is an organ, it breathes. This idea of getting something breathable like the straw hat was intriguing to me.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z You sucked the sherbet up through the straw and when it was finished you ate the liquorice. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I unzip my sample collection bag and scoop straws into the bag until I have enough to filter water for our entire lives. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I put on my straw hat and pick up a basket. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Otto struggled down from my arms and crawled to the pile of old straw on the far side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And perhaps the corporals weren’t such complete dolts—Mace with his straw mattresses, Nettle with his gift for the brothers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I can’t believe I wore a floppy straw hat to school again. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Uncle Jack was the last straw and to hell with them all. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In bed, the pressure of the bed slats through the straw tick felt good against the boy’s body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “He used to be fat! Now he’s thin as a straw!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I took a long draw from the straw jammed into my Yoo-hoo bottle, trying to calm myself. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Lupita quickly realized why the pickers all wore straw hats, because her wool baseball cap was unbearably hot. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Grace said, yanking the straw back out of her mouth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The halls become packing yards, their floors strewn with straw and sawdust and twine. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Such as those used to carry rice, only perhaps double thickness, lined with more straw and silk. The vases would be well protected.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Bombs were dropped on the clusters of round straw huts that made up villages in the Nuba. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She buys a tall cup of cocoa and asks for two straws. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Stableboys emerged sleepy from their straw to tend their lathered horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That was hers alone, so she hid behind the rack at one of Duggie's little illegal tables and played with the straw in a chocolate malt. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But as he reached the straw at the entrance it seemed to him that he had run forever. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He just sat there, flopping the reins every now and again or slapping at a fly or fanning his leathery face with his straw hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He had his straw hat across his chest like folks do when a Confederate veteran’s funeral procession passes on its way to the graveyard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They put the embers back in the fire pit, they pick up the straw from the beds. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There sat a large bed of straw and blankets in the corner. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z All I've felt these past few years has been metal, splinter, dirty straw. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She made a fine, narrow, smooth braid, using seven of the smallest straws. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z "He had ninety silver stags in a leather bag buried be-neath the straw." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I test the particulate and the sediment is nothing more than sand, making it completely drinkable with the filtration straws. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A moment later came the sound of water splashing on straw. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z For Bragg this meeting seemed the final straw in his relations with Crick. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As he smoothed out the lumps in the straw mattress, I sat on my own bed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In the straw of the box, his wife would brace the children against the tooth-shattering, tongue-biting crash of the runners against stone and ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Milligan, disguised as a gray-haired gardener in a straw hat, puttered gloomily about the iron fence, tending to the rose bushes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Pottery and straw baskets and all stuff like that. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He dipped his straw into his milk, capped the top of the straw with his finger, pulled out the straw, reached it over my head, and released his finger. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I sucked through the straw and my mouth filled with the sweet, blended fruit. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We have an enormous crowd that night—a “straw house,” so named because after all the regular seats sell out, roustabouts spread straw on the hippodrome track for the overflow crowd to sit on. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They had been built of mud and straw, she judged, but long years of wind and rain had worn them away to nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I remember the smell of burnt straw; I remember broken fences and tom-up trees and heaps of stone and brick and pottery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This time he brings me a big bottle of prune juice, pours a glass for me, and drops in a straw. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The piercings were the straw that got her thrown out of that foster home. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z On a morning work detail in December, a couple of weeks after his return to school, Shin discovered a dried-up ear of corn in a pile of straw and devoured it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I don’t know how many straws Bernard had, but I can’t watch him get his last one. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Tree-ear laid armfuls of straw on the hillside, and there Min sat, the hollows under his eyes dark with exhaustion. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Even with the binoculars, the agent could not see the boy’s face, which was also nearly hidden by the downturned brim of a straw hat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I hover over them, looking at the boy who lies motionless on a straw mat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought a little woven straw bag of red beans and a gourd full of rice. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Joaquin just took his straw and pounded it on the table until the wrapper was crinkled up at the bottom. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Tommen's opponent was a child-sized leather warrior stuffed with straw and mounted on a pivot, with a shield in one hand and a padded mace in the other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I sat down in the straw and stroked Mouser, who looked like she could stand a little attention. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Who would bother about a few straws if I burned them? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "A leg of lamb would be pleasant," he said, from the heap of soiled straw in the comer of his cell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Everyone fled to his own sleeping-place.The birds jumped on to their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I scrunched the white paper down the straw, making a tight accordion. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z "I take it back!" he gasped as he doubled Over on the straw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mary Alice wore her straw hat and a dress because we were going to church, more or less. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z That was good, one straw at least that she could clutch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I live in just one room now, with some saggy straw chairs, a wardrobe whose mirror has gone yellow, a dressing table, and a brass bed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The unlaugher kicked ground straw at a boy who hadn’t spoken. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The birds kept planting weeds in our garden, Miss Maggie wanted fresh straw in her rabbit hutch, and I had yet to pick the blue mussels that we’d be steaming for our supper. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I stash my hidden straws inside and roll up my mattress, spreading a blanket over the top. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Miles dragged a handkerchief from a back pocket and mopped at his face, and Mae sank down heavily on a rock, pulling off the blue straw hat and fanning herself with it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His pants are always too big and belted awkwardly so he looks like a scarecrow, like if someone pulled the belt he’d turn into a pile of straw. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But I think the power threatening to go out was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Gradually, the empty straw container came into focus before him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z My legs were like straw, but I walked. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The honeysuckle in the upper left-hand corner, for example, echoes the contour of the adolescent’s back, while the two straws are virtually parallel to each other. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the final straw—I knew something had to be done. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Crane-man stood aside while Ajima lifted the lid of the container and closed it again, fastening it with the straw bobble and braided loop. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He was lying at the bottom of a deep dark pit upon a pallet of warm wet straw and at the top of the pit he could see the cold blue of the distant sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Although bellowing that Beetle was stupid as a woodchuck and clumsy as a donkey in a dress, the midwife allowed the girl to help her into the cottage and onto her straw bed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We had put straw and leaves on the roof of our hooch back at the base to keep the sun from baking us, but it didn’t help that much. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They had rested in the straw of a starveall, or lonely barn, and woken to find themselves attacked by rats. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The vacancies have been filled and the sacks of straw in the huts are already booked. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s in that corner, under the straw, asleep,” said Charlotte. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She pops the top off the cup and puts both straws into the drink. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone saw him wrapping up an alarm clock in a towel and burying it in the straw of a filly’s stall, letting her get used to the ticking. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One lady was all in pink, with a pink straw hat. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a rag blanket and a burlap sack with some straw that I used for a pillow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She began by shoveling up all the soiled straw and wood shavings and depositing the stinky mess into Papa’s wooden wheelbarrow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It walked along the stable to the furthest stall, where it lay down in the dry straw, and the star scrambled off its back, dripping and miserable. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he sank deeper into the straw and tried to make himself as small as possible. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Presently, very slowly, she raised herself from the straw. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Next day Pa cut the heads from several bundles of the oats, and brought the clean, bright, yellow straws to Ma. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I had another block of straw for when the one in the barn runs out, but I’ll think of something. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you’re breathing through a drinking straw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her tired eyes and morning mucked-up hair the color of straw. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Our host has graciously provided two more heaps of moldy straw.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The horses stamped and snorted, and they chewed the straw of their bedding and they clashed the chains of their halters. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She asked for some water and I gave her a cup, and she leaned forward a bit to sip through the straw. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It is the same bed that the three of us shared on the ship, and by now the straw is rotting. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Inside, about ten feet down, the floor was strewn with straw and sawdust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He slid his feet into a pair of braided straw sandals and padded out of the changing room. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For bedding, he spread out a thick mattress of dust-free rice straw. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They are fighting about being superior when we all might drown like straw. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Maybe...maybe it’s something you need to find out for yourself,” said Hermione with a faint air of clutching at straws. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But there are years and years’ worth of filtration straws and additional rations if I can find a way into that room back on the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Because maybe I do,” she admitted, and then she realized that she had chewed the top of her straw into two separate pieces. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Together they packed more straw between the vases. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z In the pen, maybe thirty others sleep on straw laid atop frozen mud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z ‘Yeah,’ said the man with the straw hat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The floor was entirely covered in straw, owl droppings, and the regurgitated skeletons of mice and voles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Her aunt, who wore a man’s straw hat, shone the flashlight on the road, and an old, battered brown truck drew up to the mailbox and stopped. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He was a huge guy with stark white hair, a straw cowboy hat, and a braided white beard—kind of like Father Time, if Father Time went redneck and got totally jacked. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I brought some straw for us to sleep on,” announced Jonas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I grab a fluffy pink pillow and cover my head—I’m still embarrassed remembering everyone laughing at me about the straws. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Men, women, and children wearing straw hats to keep off the sun straighten up, turn our way, take a moment to stretch their backs as they watch our train go by. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The straw on the floor stank of urine. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I suck the last of my soda through the straw. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z She wore a white linen suit and spectator pumps topped by a straw hat as smart as a lampshade. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z They emerge from behind the stable tent and menagerie, sleepy, with straw in their hair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He helped Ma and Carrie in, while Grandpa picked up Mary and Uncle George picked up Laura and they tossed them over the edge of the sled into the straw. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She wears a straw hat with a floppy brim pulled down over her black eye. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Mary Alice and I carried the tale home that a suspicious type had come off the train in citified clothes and a stiff straw hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z While his companion kept Tree-ear pinioned, the first robber quickly opened the straw container. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A pallet is a rustic bed, usually a makeshift mattress of straw or some other humble material. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigwig, crouched close to Blackberry in the straw of the cattle shed, leaped to flight at the sound of the shot two hundred yards up the lane. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nitta, a small woman with a waist no larger than a soup tin, darted up and down the rows like a hummingbird beneath her straw picking hat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I filter the water through a straw and it easily removes the parasite. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They wear red ribbons across their foreheads with red fake flowers made of dyed straw. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivan started inspecting the straw, as if something was actually hidden beneath it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The straw mat that was covering the dead body next to her had slipped, leaving the face exposed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He was bent almost double, hefting my straw chest with his good hand as it rested on his back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A waitress named Susie put three plastic cups of soda on the counter and then pulled three straws out of her apron pouch without looking down. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Tally felt the heat still rising from the bed, the straw mattress and thick quilts fuel for the conflagration. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The straw seemed scratchy—not as comfortable as the cow manure, which was always delightfully soft to lie in. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z More straw was cleverly twisted and woven to form the sides. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Despite the blows to her head, Fannie’s straw hat remained pinned to her hair. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z They gave the straws to Marshall to hold and everybody drew. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His heels scrabbled at the straw as he tried to push himself into the comer, into the cold damp stone walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She cannot eat unless it’s through a straw. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The arrow whistled, its fletching catching a breeze, and it hit the target in its straw belly. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The peasant woman slurped and snored, sunken in her bed of straw. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She sat with her coat on, holding herself, while her daughters beat flat the straw in the mattresses and lit the oil heater. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Dandelion gained the nearest shed and went headlong between two bales of straw at the foot of a pile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Diaz Castellano had a pencil moustache and a rakish straw hat. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A few times he revisited the buffalo pen, where he covered himself with a second blanket of straw. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The strongest oaths are straw to the fire i’ the blood. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The tall Seminole who was driving the airboat wore a straw cowboy hat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gummed into the straw, ground into the dirt, stuck in the fencing, flung against the slats of the wall of their enclosure. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You can buy them. My father never did. He liked to work in the sun. When it got too strong he wore a straw hat.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As we sip the sweet, tart juice through the thinnest straws ever, our cousin says a prayer aloud. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “The final straw was a wedding where a Wall Street executive tried to bill me for the wedding gown and medical expenses,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Little Milton Harper tore off their legs and stuck them on top of his straw hat. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z How else would the night watchman know when to roust his fellows out of their comfortable straw beds to begin the day’s devotions? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Usually August was such a trouper about his medical issues, whether it was skateboarding a few days after a surgery or sipping food through a straw when his mouth was practically bolted shut. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Maybe she had gone down to the Amen Dollar and bought me a straw hat to cheer me up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew everything about building houses, he knew how to mix mud and straw just right to make strong adobes that would not crumble. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy got to his feet, pushing straw frdm his hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The other sellsword—a stripling, hardly more than a boy, with fuzz on his cheeks and hair the color of dirty straw—scooped up Penny under one arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Arya drew second watch, so she found a straw pallet in the haven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I found a hatchet, broken crockery, a barrel of wormy flour, a mildewy straw tick, a ball of twine, but no rope. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I sadly swigged down my sarsaparilla through the straw Charlie had kindly provided. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Remember when Margaret Evans and I tied for senior class president and we drew straws to decide the winner? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Each Sucker consisted of a yellow cardboard tube filled with sherbet powder, and there was a hollow liquorice straw sticking out of it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the bottle and inspected the straw. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Their hair had once been piled in curls, arranged with jewels in the style of Roman noblewomen, but now their locks were disheveled and dry as straw. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The targets had once looked like straw men but now looked more like straw lumps. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z As Tree-ear stared, rice began to trickle out of a hole in the straw box. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Its center they filled with straw, brush, bark shavings, and bundles of dry grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On his head, he wore a straw boater. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Charles smoked a cigarette and drank his soda through a red-and-white-striped straw. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I knew I’d soon be in a hospital drinking soup through a straw. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He shook his head and finished his drink; he had earlier put the straw aside, sipping from the glass. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She hadn’t stopped chewing on her iced-coffee straw, and now it was stained with her pink lip gloss, the top starting to fray into pieces. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He seized the sides of the straw container with both hands and pulled. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I shift my bag filled with straws behind my back. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but why?” she persists, chewing on her juice straw. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z My straw hat had been crushed and forgotten. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was also something comic about her—or was I clutching at straws? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Getting mixed up by the photographer seemed to be the last straw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I began ransacking the house and while overturning the torn straw mattress I found a pair of old, rusted keys in one of the holes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, he and Juana might have stepped out of the wheel rut, and these people from the inland, these hunters, could follow, could read a broken straw or a little tumbled pile of dust. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Father’s granite demand placed the last straw on the load I was carrying. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The straw is filthy and has obviously not been changed for many transports. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A colored man floats down out of the sky blowing a saxophone, and below him, in the space between two buildings, a girl talks earnestly to a man in a straw hat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As I lie on the hard wood and dirty straw of my bunk, I think about the night the angel came to me, giving me my new voice. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I kicked at my itchy straw, staring at the rusted ceiling. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He set down the receiver and came toward us, glistening slightly, to take our stiff straw hats. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I sat in a corner and stuffed straw into my coat for warmth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z During the night, as he slept in a ferryman’s straw hut, Siddhartha had a dream. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He trotted away, then galloped around the field on his own while Anya sat down next to one of her lumpy straw men. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The pupils ate apples and put straws down one another’s backs, until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt collected her energies, and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch-rod. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Also young, he was tall, thin, and wore a high-crowned, straw cowboy hat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “I had no straw to put in them, but they will last my life, and my old donkey’s. We are happy there, Lotus and I.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z His head hung so low that his nose almost touched the straw of his bed. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that the soldier, returning from guard duty, was going, absent-mindedly, to leave his musket on a pile of straw. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy shook hands solemnly, grinning under his straw mustache. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When, they had left Boston, packing had taken weeks, with trunks and crates and loads of straw to cushion whatever might break. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He scampered over to the crate, crawled between the slats, and pulled straw up over him so he was hidden from sight. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The pillow crackled like a wad of straw. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “You have tried to do too much in the past few days. The dinner was the last straw; you might have dispensed with it.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z She still had straw in her hair and looked very pretty and excited. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Suddenly she gave a little wiggle and—plop!—it landed on the straw. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “There is to be no more cow manure thrown down into that pigpen. I have a terrific pig. I want that pig to have clean, bright straw every day for his bedding. Understand?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That meant we had to draw straws to see who was gonna be what. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He lifted the kitten from the straw and tucked it into the bib of his overalls, where it looked at home and produced a rumbling bass purr remarkable for something its size. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The biggest girl was valiantly trying to ward off the monsters with a straw broom while the rest of the kids cried or screamed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The long mane of grizzled gray hair was withdrawing into the scalp and turning the color of straw. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Met Bong takes her old clothes and stuffs them with leaves and straw to make dummies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything around me was art, from the stains in my bathtub to the razor blade and short length of drinking straw I used to cut and ingest my speed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Rice straw was layered between them and crammed into every pocket of space. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Jemmy began burrowing like a barn mouse under the moldy straw. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the man in the straw hat began to laugh. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He had been to the barn, had thrown rocks at the swallows’ nests under the eaves until every one of the little mud houses broke open and dropped its lining of straw and dirty feathers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged my shoulders and fiddled with the paper from my straw. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The hills lost their straw color and blackened under the water, and the winter streams scrambled noisily down the canyons. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Foul-smelling brown ooze crept across the floor of the cell, soaking into the straw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I laughed into the Yoo-hoo straw, making the drink bubble up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z My hands tremble as I struggle to tuck the decades’ worth of filtration straws under the mattress in my beehive cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Baachan wore a bright blue cotton kimono and her big straw hat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The reaction on the part of the entire family was instantaneous; it was as though someone had thrown a match onto a pile of straw. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When they finally got the shell onto the dock, the boys trooped back onto the Manhattan, their serge coats soggy and their straw hats starting to droop, and waited for the formal disembarking. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His hair had turned white; much of it had fallen out, and what was left was stiff and dry as straw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The straw walls and roof of the hut rustle and shake. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had never had guests before, and they went to work like darling elves, sweeping, mopping, cooking, baking—making mattresses of straw and burlap bags, setting tables, putting party favors at each place. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Joaquin jammed his straw into his drink with more force than necessary. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The bright clothes of the Match-Man faded, and his straw hat turned into his old ragged cap again. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “It scares me that the waste man’s so interested in where we live,” I told Arul that evening as we spread plastic on the ground beneath our straw mats and pillows. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The coach smelled faintly of mold and straw. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z As the months went by, the straws grew shorter and shorter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When, at ten o’clock, the temperature dropped sharply, they moved into the bam and dug into a straw pile. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z All of them wore woven straw pickers’ hats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Celia reaches into her straw handbag for more red lipstick, then darkens the mole on her left cheek with a black eyebrow pencil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up his shake and used the straw to vacuum the bottom of the glass. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I noticed the sound of the straw slurping made her frown, so I cut it out. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He marked the shocks with a bundle of straw laid crossways on top so the workers could easily find them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z When animal droppings and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling give forth heat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The child’s face lights up as she puts in a straw in the can for him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There, in the midst of the straw, stood a cauldron. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z They had “stolen” much more, and Jiichan separated the grain from the straw. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She handed me a glass of water and I drank a little bit from a straw. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z We’re issued small bottles of milk which we drink through straws stuck in through a hole in the cardboard bottle tops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For the thirteen-day journey, they slept on straw mattresses on a deck above the engine room, hanging tight to their bunk beds as the ship pitched and rolled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Two or three old leaves lay inside, and a plastic glass with a straw sticking out of its cover. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The final straw came when Cole returned from a walk alone around the bay. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The last straw that busted the wagon’s axle was when something the cap’n had said in the moonlight in the river finally made itself clear to me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Instead of Cokes, we’re drinking vanilla milkshakes, with two straws each. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He bent over and picked up a straw wrapper. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z It felt like straw but was the color of a rusty nail. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It filled his clothes like straw in a scarecrow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She had recovered her hat with her other garments, but rather than put it on, she picked the straw brim to pieces between her fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Tyrion found Penny asleep in a comer of their tent, curled up on a thin straw pallet beneath a heap of soiled bedclothes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mace diligently emptied the straw from the sacks and dismantled his table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He didn’t care two straws for Julius or what happened to him—on the contrary. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The street below me is quiet now, except for the sound of straw brooms sweeping the day’s litter into small piles on side streets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His straw hat was far on the back of his head and he sank down into the bow with the pull of the line as he felt the fish turn. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Sisterton’s streets were mud and planks, its houses daub-and-wattle hovels roofed with straw, and by the Gallows Gate there were always hanged men with their entrails dangling out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Just old, wet straw, when there was anything at all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When they had foraged, they rested comfortably in the straw until the western light was quite gone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is, as they say, the straw that will break the camel’s back. Once it leaves the Alexandriaville Public Library, we feel quite confident that Mr. Luigi Lemoncello will want to leave, too.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z And from the very largest straws she made the widest braid of all. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell someone that this was it, the last straw, I couldn’t go on anymore with my own misery plus Piper’s, which was so much worse. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t get a big head or anything,” Adria said, angling her straw to get the last sip of her smoothie. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I woke with a drinking straw in my mouth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She played with her straw, shyly, not meeting his eyes, and it took him a while to realize that she was reacting more to him than to the situation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He finds everything—if it is cold, a small stove and wood, hay and straw, a table and chairs—but above all food. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The roof and walls are made of straw and the hut has only a dirt floor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy pressed his head deep into his straw pillow. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The shrew was holding a stalk of straw, which she now thrust into the earth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z On the last day of August, his grandmother packs his clothes: his bathing trunks with the elastic band broken at the waist, his buckled sandals, the round straw hat he’s taken to wearing indoors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This wrinkled old man in a straw hat tried to show me something when I poured out the water. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His pate opened, his eyes grew wide, and his mouth froze into an O. He fell to his knees and then toppled forward into the straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It was filled with animals and machines and piles of straw, and two robots. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The floor was dirt and there was straw bales along the walls. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two straw targets fifty yards apart, and when they had shot their arrows at one, they had only to go to it, collect them, and shoot back at the other, after facing about. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I cheat a little. On warm afternoons, I just pull a little straw over the eggs and go out for a walk.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I push my straw up and down through the plastic cap and it make a squawky sound. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Her hair poked out of her kerchief like black straw. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “He can’t lift his hand,” I thought, “while he’s sick in the straw. Not to me, nor Mother, nor wee Jack.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z He returned to shallow tentative breaths, drawing air past his lips as if he were sipping from a straw. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He came to the back of the kennel, reeking of creosote and of rank straw. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Five people sat there, all shabbily dressed and wearing straw hats—two middle-aged men and three middle-aged women. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He blows into a straw and pinches both ends shut. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z By the time I was done, I was sweaty and stuck all over with straw and feathers. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He encounters a man wearing a white straw hat on a horse. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Without saying anything to the others, she went to Mollies stall and turned over the straw with her hoof. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z So he pushed the straw to one side and stretched out in the manure. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z A small fire was burning in the middle of the straw mattress where we’d left the matches and the magnifying glass. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The two of us were lying next to each other on the straw mats Wahid’s wife had spread for us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The women arrive in straw hats and linen dresses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The shed was entirely empty save for a pile of straw in one comer of the dirt floor. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The boys wore straw katies with a cord attached to the brim and the other end to their coat lapel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The wrinkled coverall was gone; he was dressed in a whole new outfit; khaki drill slacks, very neat; a blue work shirt; even new work shoes and a straw cap. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She wore a straw hat that protected her face from the sun. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She opened the car door and began walking up the path, wobbling a little on her square wooden heels, reaching into her straw bag to eat handfuls of puffed rice. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He got a cold bottle and a straw. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As we lay there propped against our packs, a tourist in an unfortunate straw hat, clutching an ice cream, came up and looked us over in a friendly manner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t wait but a minute afore the white man with the walking stick and straw hat came out on stage and told some jokes that didn’t no one think were funny. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He fell to his knees and scrabbled in the straw near the horse flop. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z So she decided to love—well, find out about—the eighteen-year-old whose creamy little face she tried to cut open even though nothing would have come out but straw. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved in the straw uneasily, listening to some secret movements in the room below. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Travelers had placed little stones, twisted straw, and dried flowers at its base to ensure a safe journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Gasps, the crunch of straw or leaves, a strained groan. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I wheel Ma—always wearing a colorful, patterned dress, her hair in fresh straw curls—out to the passenger side of the car. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “Nope. What he did was sit there on the fence, with a piece of straw in his mouth, and he said, ‘I seen a red cat running through the yard. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z On the way back she stopped for some straw from behind the kennel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And worst of all, the smallest mutt, with dark glossy fur, huge brown eyes and a collar that reads 11 in woven straw. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was pitch dark on the other side of the door, but Meggie heard a rustle as she stepped into the room, as if an animal were moving somewhere in the straw. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The docent giving the class a tour was elderly and thin and looked as if all the juice had been sucked out of him through a straw via his pursed mouth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Jemmy sat on the bed straw beside the prince and contemplated his breakfast. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z If there were any decisions to be made, then he should be the one...Even though she might allow herself to hope, to take a little notice of odd straws in the wind. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Templeton crept into the crate and buried himself in the straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Apart from the still lifes, what I’m showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That night she lay in her narrow bed upon the scratchy straw, listening to the voices of the living and the dead whisper and argue as she waited for the moon to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He watched his chance and when no one was looking he crept into the crate and buried himself in the straw at the bottom. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Curly hair as pale as spun straw spilled over his shoulders, and eyes like icicles touched on the crowd of villagers for a heartbeat each. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There was straw in her hair when he roused her, and when he called her she put up her arm suddenly in her sleep as though to defend herself from a blow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I wish I had a straw hat and some suspenders. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Smeltings boys wore maroon tailcoats, orange knickerbockers, and flat straw hats called boaters. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Whatever it was he’d done wrong in her opinion, it was really the last straw. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to buy a straw hat from one of the ladies, but she would not sell it to me for the last two gourdes I have left in change. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It was far from foolproof—and to be brutally honest with herself, it was more like a desperate grasping at straws than a plan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She shakes her head at him like he is one sorry human and says, “Come with me, Bernard. This is the last straw.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I fetched a straw sombrero Grandma had given us in Arizona. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The monsters made a semicircle around a young guy in Greek armor who was hacking on a straw dummy. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z With more muttered curses, he pulled out the second vessel and threw a final handful of straw on the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Put your arm around my neck,” he said; deftly he whisked her up, as lightly as if she were made of straw, one arm under her head and the other beneath her knees. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Her straight hair was the color of rotting straw. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Robin was so tired he felt as if every bone pushed through the straw to find the unyielding boards beneath him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z A white man with a walking stick and a straw hat stood on a box shouting to people to pay a dime to come see this hunting woman. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z And when she brought her feet down on the men, snapping their necks like cheap drugstore straws, they never heard a thing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He’s dropping liquid onto the curled straw wrappers to make the snakes squirm. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The camel at the zoo was unfazed, but that straw broke Father’s back. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Prince Brat sat sullenly on a pile of moldy bed straw. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z People goggled through the bars at him as he lay, starving and weak, on a bed of straw. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The straw sticking out of the mud started to smoke. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She had a margarita in a plastic cup with a lid and a straw. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then I caught sight of the straw in Naomi Erlanger’s hand. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “I love you too,” I didn’t know if Audrey was drunk, but perspiration beaded her upper lip, and she sipped her vodka and Pop! through a Krazy straw. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z With pencil and tablet, I walked nonchalantly into the schoolyard, wearing a cheap, brand-new straw hat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She mixes her drink with her straw and stares off into the water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The straw boss had no faith in her, having watched her sweating hard to fill her sack as quickly as the children, but she was highly and suddenly vocal in her determination. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And he was wearing straw sandals, which did not look easy to walk in. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The two friends roofed the pit with tree boughs and straw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Officers dressed in black find the boys curled under their blanket in the straw. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It’s like her brain’s processor just froze with this last straw. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’m a pig!” cried Avery, tossing handfuls of straw into the air. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He measured Tree-ear’s feet carefully and plaited several layers of straw for the thick, sturdy soles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I feed Virginia one more time and lay her down on a straw bed to sleep. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He blinked as the light vanished, lowered his head to his chest, and curled up on the straw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The straw- filled mattress was lumpy and smelled of moldy vegetables, but it was better than anything she had felt in a long time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother came to my side, his eyes drawn by the blazing straws. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair was the color of straw, his fat face all sunburnt and peeling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The soft pattering of raindrops against our straw hut makes my eyelids heavy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The older one might marry the baby in the stroller, who’s trying to jam his straw into his juice box. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Soiled rushes covered the floor, whilst a heap of straw in the comer passed for a bed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mom rarely buys fancy church-lady hats for herself, but for Penny, she’ll sometimes pick out a crazy- looking straw hat with bows and ribbons and bring it home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The cows stayed in the barn all the time now, except on sunny mornings when they went out and stood in the barnyard in the lee of the straw pile. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z With all that behind me, I whip out my straw, sit down on the toilet, making sure the bathroom is locked; bring it to my nose and snort. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He wore flannels, a gray jacket and a stiff straw hat. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As if this was the last straw Sam burst into tears. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Muck it out and load in fresh straw,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Just the drums and the Colored Boy Scouts passing out explanatory leaflets to white men in straw hats who needed to know what the freezing faces already knew. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot fell sixty feet, landing on deep straw in a dungeon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A landscaping crew was setting pink and white petunias into the new pine straw mulch around the shrubs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “If anyone stops you, tell them these two are your slaves. If you think there is danger, hide them under the straw.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The imaginary smells of blood and urine, old straw and fouled floors enveloped them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He had on a straw hat and a bow tie and was carrying a walking stick. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He rolled close to his little brother and tucked the edge of the coverlet under his body to keep out the cold that seeped up through the straw ticking. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "It was Robb Stark put me in the kitchens. For the best part of a year, I've been left to scour kettles, scrape grease, and warm the straw for this one." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On his second day back at school, Shin walked with his class to a camp farm to gather corn straw and haul it to a threshing floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Fern pushed the straw aside in the center of the run to reveal patches of grass but mostly dirt. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Her mouth made a small O, like she was drinking from an invisible straw. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I pulled several straws from the broom and held them to the fire until they blazed; I rushed to the window and brought the flame in touch with the hems of the curtains. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bedding was stuffed with straw instead of feathers, but she had no trouble falling asleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When he laid the edge of the blade against the swollen throat of the creature on the straw, the skin split open in a gout of black blood and yellow pus. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Women shoppers with bundles and impatient men in straw hats and seersucker suits stood along the platform as they passed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was decided that they would draw straws and the winner would get to be the first one to ask the oracle a question. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried it as if it were made of straw. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “I see what we have,” the woman said enigmatically and clopped back to the bar in her straw sandals. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote to her about the American custom of stomping on straw hats come fall. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We took off our shoes and stepped on the straw mat that covered the floor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She straightened her straw hat and walked slowly back to the hut with the herbs she had been sent to find and gather. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Although he was still a wealthy man in his own right, Tycho felt this to be the last straw, and made immediate plans to move on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They reached the other five rabbits in the straw. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly neither kid could see the other, because a broom came down like a straw curtain between their faces, and a voice said, “/’// take it.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman in die next niche rolled over on her straw and complained of the light, so Arya blew it out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Chris looked ridiculous as he tried to get the last bit of chocolate shake up through the straw. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Booth hears the crackle of burning straw and smells the sweet smoke of burning cedar. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Their hair was straightened, curled at the tips like Miss Brown’s, or pulled up into a twist at the back with wispy curls and straw straight bangs over Cleopatra eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Drop down on their knees in the chapel, sweaty straw hats in their hands, to smell the candle wax and watch the flickering red and blue votive lights? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This is the proverbial straw that broke the relationship between Mom and Uncle Max. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Instead, he was ordered to pick up every scrap of straw on the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He propped himself on his elbow, swatted a straw from his ear, and gave a better listen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Another man in a straw hat without any crown was at the wheel. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, old friend,” he said, “you have helped us more than once. But I never would have imagined they’d have hidden the Crochan in an empty chicken roost, under a pile of dirty straw.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The corners are tucked in tight like a paper football we might have flicked through straw goalposts last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z On the straw mattresses, men lay in various positions, but of the faces I could see, each of them wore a moronic kind of grin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And more loose straw, falling down on them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The streets are crowded with men and women in straw cone- shaped hats. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was the final straw for Severus. I think the loss of the Order of Merlin hit him hard. So he — er — accidentally let slip that I am a werewolf this morning at breakfast.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z At one meeting, as I lean against the straw wall and slowly fall asleep, a loud scream shocks me awake. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I arranged my raincoat over some of the straw that Jonas had brought. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On one wall there was a huge stack of musty, dry straw bales. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She wishes we had a drop of hair oil in the house but water and spit will keep my hair from sticking up like black straw in a mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I tap Kaila’s good hand with the ballpoint and motion to Mom, who’s moved on to straightening the stirrers and straws at the self-service station. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The oldest kind were, indeed, no more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I hide in butter churn, breathe through reed of straw, while own brother killed in same house. After, I come to London to escape the hollows. But they come, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They were all wearing what Hanako knew were their straw sandals that they used just for inside. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Gurgi, meantime, had returned with a huge armload of straw from the chicken roost, and the companions gratefully began heaping it on the clay floor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He picked up a straw and leaned against the wall picking his teeth. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z While we kids make do with squatting, my parents sit on a little straw mat that Ma has packed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Seemed clear enough: shovel out the manure to the pile out front and put in new straw. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He spat straw and dirt out of his mouth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There were no more sacks, only a pile of the straw, matted up in the corner nearest the door. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When he greeted them with a tip of his straw hat with the shimmering blue feather, his huge smile revealed only occasional teeth. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Lurvy picked up a pitchfork and walked away to get some clean straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Emily ignored him, drawing the last of her milk through her straw with a series of loud slurps. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The straw was curled and mangled as if Mr. Munch had been cleaning the sidewalk for, like, twenty years with it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I was hoping that the teasing would cease, and tomorrow I would leave my straw hat at home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Holt’s old work boots on my feet, a pair of Karl’s patched overalls, rolled up, those heavy canvas gloves on my hands, topped off with my straw hat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I’m just saying that I understand why that happened. It was the last straw. We are tired, sir, and what you saw was a reaction to that.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z So under the shadow of my straw hat, 1 just looked over at him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His face went crimson inside its helm, where nobody could see it, and he felt a warm glow under the straw fillet which padded his skull. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dark, the straw walls and roofs combust into yellow and orange flames, illuminating the red faces of girls running away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We arrange our sacks of straw side by side. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z First order of business, drawing straws to see who has to get in the Chuckie costume. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z In the summer, he wore a straw boater. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I shove my bag with the straws behind my back. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His shoes were a shiny orange, and he had on a citified straw hat, a light-blue suit, and a cat’s-head stickpin in his tie. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Tucker put a big piece of ice in each and then made a show of stirring them up with a straw he had found that afternoon. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z With that eagerness I grasped at every straw of kindness, wanting to give a good report. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong crouched inside the basket, one eye pressed against the straw, trying to see the world outside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The final straw came one evening while she sat downstairs on the phone listening to my dean from Riverdale explain why they were placing me on academic and disciplinary probation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I offered my services to farmers for food and a bed of straw in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Across the track, Tom Smith was leaning against the easternmost barn, turning a straw in his teeth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy nodded and picked his teeth with one of his little straws. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When the door swung open, a scissor of daylight fell on to the concrete floor, showing clumps of trodden-down straw, and mud. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When winter comes, I’ll have shoes on my feet instead of rags and straw. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “But this? This the final straw. Brianna wasn’t acting like that when y’all lived with us. Making vulgar songs and getting suspended. Got everybody in the church talking ’bout her. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I felt giddy and almost overcome,” Edna said, lifting her hands instinctively to her head and pushing her straw hat up from her forehead. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Or at least a straw to grasp at. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I could get used to this,” Sookie said, taking a drag off his straw. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Ma unrolls the straw mat and lines it up next to the bed- sheets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I wake, I am sitting upright on the straw mat and Keav is pushing food into my mouth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The straw they had given him seemed even moldier than the pile on which Meggie had slept, but the boy looked as if he hadn’t closed his eyes since Flatnose had locked him in anyway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Templeton, not wishing to come out in broad daylight, stayed quietly under the straw at the bottom of the crate. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Now he saw that both men and women wore tan uniforms and wide, straw hats. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a cup with a straw in it by my bed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Curzon was lying on the stones, with no blankets covering him nor a pallet under him, not even straw. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the empty bottle and the flattened straw, and sent Estha back into The Sound of Music. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Long hair floated out from under her straw hat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay wet and sticky, quivering all over, dust and straw clinging to his fur. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Many products,” Estha said, not looking, with the straw in his mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama sat on deck looking very pretty in her jade-green straw hat and a yellow dotted-swiss dress that she had borrowed from Aunt Evy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as president was the last straw for the South because he opposed allowing slavery in these western areas. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She reached up to feel her head and groaned when her fingers touched a hundred hay straws tied into her hair. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Taran came to his senses on a pile of dirty straw, which smelled as though Gurgi and all his ancestors had slept on it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z A pair of straw thongs that were purchased for 6.50 guilders were worn down to the soles within a week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Oddly enough, Johnny slept well on his straw pallet in the jail. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He crawled over a fence, found some rice straw, and dug in for the night. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It wore a crude straw hat and a pair of sackcloth pants. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As soon as they had eaten the bread and cheese, Brother Luke helped Robin up the narrow stair and put him to bed on the straw pallet. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Two men were working fast, trampling the straw and building it into a stack. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That straw will puncture the lid on things, make the world drink something with some fizz and fight. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He picked one of the little straws from his hatband and put it in the corner of his mouth. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, at night when she was too tired or too hot to sleep, she would take the gunnysack out from under her straw mattress and count the money in the darkness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Or, “We will sell the wheat straw and burn the bean stalks in the kitchen.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Min used a pair of special wooden tongs to carry out the still-hot vases one by one, and placed them carefully into the cart, where Tree-ear had prepared a bed of straw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I carefully arranged the straw over the swan and slid the top of the small crate back into place. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And I would see the young boy with the broken straw hat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Emma and I sat down just as the curtain opened, revealing a straw boater hat floating atop a gaudy red-and-white striped suit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then he came out to the stable to listen to them bedding down in the straw. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Gracie sips from her straw and tries to slurp up a boba ball as slowly as she can. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I threw myself into it and felt a chill bleed up my arm from my right hand that held the piece of straw. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Prisoners slept on bunks filled with loose straw. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z So Sir Lancelot was led away to the pigeon house, to be King Pelles’ fool—and there he was locked in, and fed by throwing, and lodged on dean straw. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But seeing her hit with a bicycle, living like a prisoner in her own backyard, that was the final straw for me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Mate finished the last of her drink and sucked the sugar through the straw, making a rude sound. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, men in mail and leather and crimson cloaks were making the morning ring to the sound of swords, and riding down mock warriors stuffed with straw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Oh my God, everyone, okay.Change of plans. No straw. Everyone take out the straw. Okay, good. Be loud, y all. Remember to smile.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “You sure you need two glasses? I could bring one glass and two straws.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z But you see their connection in the way they twirl their hair or chew on their bottom lips or how they whistle through their straws before each sip. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Smith stocked a rear car with all the oats, hay, and straw Seabiscuit would need—he didn’t trust eastern feed—then climbed in with his horse, unfolding a cot at Seabiscuit’s feet. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He, too, was satisfied; the woven straw had sustained no damage. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z One of the hounds that searched for bones among the straw litter learned to come to Robin for tidbits, seeming to know that he had found a special friend. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She was walking with her mother, a bespectacled woman in a plum-purple dress, whose long, somber face was shadowed by a straw hat adorned with enough silk violets to plant a garden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The straw fluttered down like confetti into Fern’s hair. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Jemmy's eyes swung back to the bed straw. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, that laughing was the last straw. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Then he glanced about at the bare furnishings, the hanging ropes of garlic bulbs, the bed straw, the chest of stolen goods. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I watched, fascinated, as he disemboweled the whole row of dummies, hacking off limbs and basically reducing them to a pile of straw and armor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Momma gave him her “last straw” look and closed her eyes, then so did we. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He's still sucking his meals through a straw. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z About all I could think of were those two nuns that went around collecting dough in those beatup old straw baskets. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The pile of straw next to me rustles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z When I awoke that morning, the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, the straw mat covering my bed was already sticky. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s when I learned that some of those who walked out had assembled at the vacant lot at Sixteenth and Park across from the school, where they hanged and burned a straw figure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Off you go now, to bring me some straw. You will need some extra sandals for such a journey, and who is to make them if not I?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z My straw hat shaded my eyes, but that was all in the world good it did. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was a little bit like playing jackstraws, where you toss all the straws down in a pile and then try to take one away without disturbing the others. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Eight days ago, Jeanne lay in her bed of straw, staring through the smoke hole in her thatched roof. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then I picked up a drop of Coke with the bottom of my straw and sealed the top with my thumb. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z All that day Wilbur stayed inside, taking life easy in the straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He swept his way into the back room, jamming the straw broom into nooks and crannies he had already swept clean. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He jumped into the pit, kicking up sudden blooms of sawdust and straw. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The debris was everywhere and bizarre—tires, refrigerators, tricycles, couches, a straw hat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z With a straw, I’d measure from the lip of the can to the money. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z To save his energy, he lay down on the straw and tried to relax. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z By the time I made it to the Donnelly house, my bruised and bleeding feet were decorated with lollipop sticks, chewing gum, hairs, broken soda-can tabs, straws, buttons, and some things I couldn’t even identify. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Then I made out a sweet, pale girl tending a trough of straw on which lay a tiny baby. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This old man with no teeth and a straw hat showed me how to tie the plants up to stakes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But I could see the bird on her nest of straw. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I looked at straw hats and other things, like wicker furniture,” Stumpf says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One look at Grace’s straw pretty much told Maya that she was not in a good way. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Normally, the second floor housed twenty patients that needed long-term care on straw mats covered with blankets. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z On her head was a wide straw hat with a tiny crown; long jet-beaded hatpins held it on. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "His foeman will be stuffed with straw," Joff said as he rose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "The straw knight jousts better than that one." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She dreamt continually of bread, of grainy ryes and pumpemickels, whole wheat and challah in woven straw baskets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to get up but my legs were things of straw, they would not bear me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Tired from his romp, Wilbur lay down in the clean straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It was about two inches on a side, little more than a scrap, and aged to the color of last season’s straw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For example, Jeanne lived in a small cabin in the middle of the desert, while I lived in a small hut built of straws and pine tree leaves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A few of the children were barefoot, a few of the boys wore geta, and the others wore straw sandals. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It may be found curled in the straw of stables or else sheltering in the midst of the herd it protects. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s chicken soup without the chicken or the noodles or the vegetables. Now, your gums are going to be real sensitive, so use this straw.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She pushes the little lever of the box for a straw, yanks a stack of napkins. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit was a dark lump half buried in the straw, dead to the world. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The dog was immediately outside, scratching eagerly, whining and throwing up loose straw as it sniffed along the foot of the bales. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z By sunset our space is one straw mat, enough for us five to huddle together. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Note: The straw connected to the trigger makes it so that when the bird eats the flies and sets off the trap, the arm doesn't snap down on the bird’s neck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He wore a straw hat with a wide brim to keep off the sun, and the tail of his white shirt flapped in the wind. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Between my straw mattress and the bed planks, I had actually found an old scrap of newspaper, yellow and transparent, half-stuck to the canvas. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He searched the floor until he found a plastic bar straw, and then he played with piles of cigarette butts he had gathered. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She played with the straw in her milk shake. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Again, and loose straw separated from the bunch. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The gymnasium of the Red Army Officers’ House had been transformed into a dormitory for the recruits, with bunks made out of wooden planks and straw mattresses. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It had been kept warm with straw, which had been cleared off that morning, and now the close-worn grass sparkled green In the white landscape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He prodded the straw to close the gap but to no avail, so he threw his arms up in mock despair. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He himself was dressed in new white clothes, and he carried a new hat—not of straw but of fine black felt—and he too wore shoes—not sandals but shoes that laced. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby girl lay asleep in her bed of straw. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z As they walked, the boy dabbed at his cuts with the wet rag, picked bits of straw out of his hair, and ran his fingers through the tangles. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Inside was a nest of straw and newsprint, and inside the nest was a bird—something, Abdulrahman thought, between a pigeon and a dove. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Crane-man fussed about with his creation, making invisible adjustments to the straw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Trying to appear unhurried, he went back to the floor by way of the straw bale and crossed over the door. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Reginald and I laughed about Philbert, who, the last time I had seen him, had gotten deeply religious; he wore one of those round straw hats. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Queenie’s white tail stump is visible for only a moment before she burrows further into the straw, like a crab in sand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Her hat had a wide straw brim and a crown completely blown out, as if whatever was in her head had exploded many times. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walked across the dirt, tufted with dark green grass, Doc lifted his straw hat and wiped his brow with his fingertip towel. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He dug an apple out of the straw in the apple- cave; no one would question that—a boy needed something to munch on in midmoming. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Only here there wasn’t even musty straw to sit on, and the lightbulb hanging from the ceiling didn’t work. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A white lady with a straw hat drove by. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I only get caught if I try to spin too much straw. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She took a fresh juice box off the counter and popped the straw into the hole. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Burning straws was a teasing kind of fun and I took more of them from the broom and cast them into the fire. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But no matter how she scrunched, she could not see if their roofs curved skyward like the temples of China or were topped with straw like the homes of peasants. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Inmates slept on straw mattresses atop iron bed frames attached to the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead it just snaps down on the straw. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The nurse takes a Styrofoam cup with a bendy straw from a little table I did not notice. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The ladies in pretty dresses and straw hats. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Unobserved, we arrive again at our sacks of straw. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I found some straws that need to be disemboweled. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He passes me a straw and I drop it in the glass. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Bales of straw made a ramp up to the griddly barn roof, so up we climbed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As spring came, children brought her early wildflowers in small wilting bouquets and they helped her weave the stems into the straw of the hat s brim. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He removed his straw hat to wipe a bit a sweat off his forehead. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He wore an ancient flat straw hat, blue jeans, both coat and trousers, and heavy shoes of which one sole was loose so that it slapped the ground when he walked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way to Casse we make a house call, stopping at a hut to greet an elderly-looking couple sitting together on a straw mat. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She used nine larger straws for a wider braid, and made it notched all along the edges. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Flames were licking up its sides from where a torch had fallen on straw, and she could hear the screaming of the animals trapped within. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They went through a gate and across a concrete yard, and the air smelled thick, with cow dung and silage and straw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There was no point spinning straw and coming up all straw and no gold. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Then he scrambles back to his boxcar and settles into a bed that he and his friends have fashioned out of straw they found inside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Jack and Jakob slept on the floor on a mattress filled with straw. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew down the valley, picking up dust and straws, and grew stronger and harsher as it went south. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I go cook now. I fry carrot in bacon grease! Taste good! Not worry. I will cook, and after dinner, I will make straw sandal for Hana. Not to worry!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And the soldiers wore the girls’ hats, one a tiny yellow straw boater with a bunch of daisies on the crown, the other a white knitted half-hat to which medallions of blue cellophane adhered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just put a straw in a bottle and leave it on the counter. That will make a nice dinner.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z On the wide dirt road in front of the station, there was a row of bodies covered by dirty straw mats. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He removed his straw hat and swept it grandly in the direction of the fresh salad bar, and called his cows to their dinner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It is like the surface of a straw. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That was pretty much the last straw for Mr. Trepid. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “I am sure there is not on his. I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her—who could about such a nasty little freckled thing?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He had pushed his straw hat hard down on his head before he hooked the fish and it was cutting his forehead. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just got on a master’s bad side. He made sure I drew the short straw for this little trip.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Abra stirred bubbles delicately with her straw and thought how her father had changed since the lettuce failure. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Among us scratches and lumbers Vishnoo, the shipboard tortoise kept so that he might dispose of the roaches that hang on the beams and scuttle into the straw of our mattresses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Some of the girls sat by the flagpole with bell hooks and Sonia Sanchez in their straw totes. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It looked like iced apple juice, with a green straw and a paper parasol stuck through a maraschino cherry. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Naw, I just slept up there. Had a bed tick with straw in it and changed it every spring I haven’t always lived in the luxury you see me in now.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A third straw in the wind was that Gareth fought on Lancelot’s side at Westminster. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wow. That takes guts,” she said, playing with her straw. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Her straw traveling basket was gone and the best of her clothing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And there was Tea Cake in the big old station in a new blue suit and straw hat, hauling her off to a preacher’s house first thing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z As Dr. Fanning spoke to one of the waiters, a dancer approached the table, carrying a large straw basket with a strap that went around her neck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z So if people generally believe that mice are spontaneously generated in straw, then the task of the philosopher is to explain why this is so, not to question whether it is so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The first driver was a tall white man with a straw hat, gray-whiskered and as impassive as a wall of rock. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Each morning, I put on a straw hat and rough gloves and worked in the garden for two hours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She took off her straw sandals and felt the cool grass on her feet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Their giant family offered them glasses of cool lemonade with sprigs of mint stuck in like straws. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When we get to shore, he is holding our shirts and three wide-brimmed straw hats. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The handle struck Nathan’s head with a sickening thud, and he crumpled into the straw. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z This morning and last night, dummies made of straw and rubber were dropped from the air behind German lines, and they exploded the minute they hit the ground. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We lean our heads forward to sip our drinks, lines of boba balls marching up the straws. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z These are my first drinking straws, and they amaze me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The straws were different lengths, and when she came near the end of one straw, she put a new, long one from the tub in its place and went on braiding. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He had hardly said a word since they were locked up again, but had flopped down on the pile of straw and turned his face to the wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The horse had his back to him, a dark mass shifting in the straw. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The treads of the huge tyres in front were caked in and out with mud and manure and crushed straw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They might work sixteen hours a day without pay, expecting only the food they ate and the straw mats they slept on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She is standing with one hand on a railing and with the other she holds a straw hat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He threw aside the packing of straw and silk, growing angrier with each handful. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Two vases—not the ones chosen—were packed in the straw container as a test. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z We brushed the oars and hulls lightly with handfuls of ancient straw from the stables, leaving a fine layer of dust over everything. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Jacob was curled up in the straw between his parents—I know this because he told me, later. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z We ease the paper covers off the straws so that they pleat up into short caterpillars of paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The big railcar door slid open and Seabiscuit got up, shook off the straw, and poked his head out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Men in straw hats and ragged pants and shirts, with torn sneakers or flip-flops or leather shoes without laces, were gathered around a cockfighting pit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While Mr. Das adjusted his telephoto lens, Mrs. Das reached into her straw bag and pulled out a bottle of colorless nail polish, which she proceeded to stroke on the tip of her index finger. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Shady and Jinx opened the coffin and inspected the dozens of bottles resting in a bed of straw so as not to clank against each other. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He crawled into the tunnel and disappeared from sight, completely covered with straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Their grandmother was out in one field, wearing a broad straw hat, picking tomatoes into another of the bushel baskets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Trying to figure out what to do with the thief’s letter had been the final straw. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z As much as he welcomed food and the chance to rest, Taran was silent throughout the meal, and continued so when he retired to his nest of straw. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Thinking I must have dropped a grain or two, I vacuumed the entire apartment with a straw up my nose, sucking up dead skin cells, Comet residue, and pulverized cat litter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then he sighs and slouches off to one of the inn's small bedrooms, to collapse on a pile of straw. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Icy cold, filled with orange juice, a straw with a frilly white collar. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Her father’s clothes smell of straw; his fingers reek of oil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was one of those fancy white summer straw hats you see brides wear at their wedding receptions. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Now there was a rasping sound under the straw. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z A half-used bale of straw stood against it—no doubt clean bedding which, in the dry weather, had not been put back under cover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was very stuffy and hot where I crouched, and the straw tickled my legs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Powerful smells of straw and cow dung mingled with those of elm leaves, ashes and cattle feed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no straw to grasp or spin, but soon I was talking about Island of the Blue Dolphins and how it was about a girl alone on an island. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The barn was divided into twelve smaller pens, each with a thick layer of fresh straw for them to bed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But the last straw for me came at the end of the year. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z All the structures had been burned, except a simple straw hut that had been only half scorched away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A bed of sweet straw, water, and ample food were put down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Well, in the hospital they had straws. That made it easier.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The helm was an enormous thing like an oil drum, padded inside with two thicknesses of leather and three inthes of straw. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he walked slowly over and laid it in the straw at Jody’s feet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z As the yellow light of summer streamed into the darkness, they saw the straw of the beds scattered all over the floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I lowered myself more deeply into the Heart of Stone and forgot the world apart from the two candles and a piece of wick and straw. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When I return to the stock car, Silver Star is against the far wall in knee-deep straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Why would a straw hat cheer me up? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried on hats with plumes, straw hats, knit caps, even a cowboy hat from Miss Lilian’s riding days. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z But then I saw a tall fellow loping toward me, wearing broad blue suspenders and a floppy straw hat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The separator swallowed the bundles, the golden straw blew out in a golden cloud, the wheat streamed golden-brown out of the spout, while the men hurried. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We had potatoes and carrots buried in the straw and salt pork bangin’ from the rafters. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "So long as the fire's warm and the straw reasonably free of fleas, I am a happy man." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We were sitting on an old mattress that they used to sleep on the floor, basically a sack stuffed with dried straw. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the center of the room, a few children of all ages sat on straw mats on the floor listening to a silver-haired teacher who sat cross-legged, reading aloud from a picture book. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a postern gate to the north, and Gerren discovered a trap under the straw in the old wooden bam, leading to a narrow, winding tunnel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was wearing an old-fashioned type of suit and a straw hat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z An extra thick milk shake with two straws? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She crawled inside the crate, gagging as she riffled through the bits of straw on the floor and felt the walls for signs of safes or hidden compartments. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A week after the Bay Meadows Handicap, Seabiscuit and Pumpkin walked up the ramp of the Pullman car and settled into the straw to sleep. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In an effort to avoid conversation, I made a major mistake by wrapping my lips around the straw of a mega-sized Coke and guzzling the whole thing before the flick even started. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was as if he had been breathing through a straw and was finally able to use his whole airway to inhale again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The cubs slid through the stinking straw till they fell against the cold trees on the other side. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Furious with frustration, she pummeled the lumpy straw mattress with her fists until she was out of breath. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Wearily, she lay down on the prickly straw. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “It still needs more straw at the top! Everybody grab some and help,” I say, but Auntie pulls on my arm. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He looked at her straw bag, delighted that his address lay nestled among its contents. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A young man with curly brown hair, pebbly eyes dark beneath his straw hat, drove a team of workhorses from the west. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The three travelers nodded and snuggled into the clean straw. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z How strong was his scent over the tar and straw and farmyard? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When the teacher turned away, Hanako closed her book in defiance, slipped off the straw sandals that Baachan had made her, and looked under her desk and wiggled her toes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I brushed straw and dirt off me, and carried on walking till I came to an old-style bathtub in the corner of the next field. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Billy pursed his lips, and the little straw that had been in the corner of his mouth rolled down to the center. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonas unwrapped a straw, sank the straw in the drink, took a long pull. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Mrs. Odom, who usually dressed in demure long dresses and straw hats, had on a pair of men’s overalls and an old plaid work shirt. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z |
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