And they weren’t holding hands like she and Layla used to hold hands when they ran down the street to play in the park. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he strolls backward to the street, hands shoved in pockets, eyes on me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That White Lady smiled at me, and five minutes later, I was out on the street. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As I approached them, a row of big trucks came slowly down the street and stopped in front of us. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos taps on a trashed television in the street. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I want to get out. Do something different with my life. But I’m not sure what. I’m not going back to high school. I’m too old for that. But I’m tired of running these streets.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the excitement of the family the scandalization of Úrsula, the joy of the people cramming the street to watch that apotheosis of squandering. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She stayed on the opposite side of the street from him and about a block behind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see any more of the streets I walked, and the streets Hannah walked, the night of the party. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A natural extrovert, he would leave the hotel as soon as we arrived and hit the streets, learning by seeing and talking to people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the wind rattling the bare branches of the elms that lined the street. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My jean pockets corked with a crusty hanky to foil the pickpockets, I waded along the high street. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that’s not true. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who Flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m walking along the street and parts of my body are sticking out through the dress, parts of my bare skin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could see it clearly, and behind it some bushes, and behind them a street—all outdoors, and nothing but air between me and them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The woman across the street testified that a moment after she saw the killing, that is, a moment after the el train went by, she screamed and then went to telephone the police. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong shuddered to remember what he'd told him about life on the street. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it went underground with her body, buried in the cemetery across the street from the liquor store. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Meet us in Liberty Park, across the street from the motel.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Luma pointed out that her program kept kids off the streets after school, at no cost to the city. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Anderson used his power to earmark municipal funds to clean up the Black Belt’s crumbling sewers and streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Adria had a soft spot for turtles too, but I was surprised when she ran into the empty street and picked up the flattened thing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Already, at eight o’clock, the streets were dry as bone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nine days later, all over America people were dancing in the streets. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the steps of a bakery across the street from the inn and watched people coming and going as I enjoyed my best meal in months. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As they wandered down the street madly photographing everything in sight, I heard one kindly lady say, “Wasn’t that sad? We should have given him something.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were those young men doing carrying a sofa down the street? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Far away, I could hear a car alarm echo through the streets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After they had ridden for some miles, the highway became a wide street, paved with great flat stones, squared and laid with skill; no blade of grass was seen in any joint. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had been born and raised in a city six hundred miles away, a gloomy city where on ghostly nights the coaches of the viceroys still rattled through the cobbled streets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We start with the back trails, which eventually spits us back out to the main road near Garrett’s school—my high school being just across the street. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The streets changed; houses looked more sturdy, their paint was newer, porch posts straighter, yards deeper. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Go naked for all I care. It might remind the mob that you're men. They're like to have forgotten after seeing the way you behaved out there in the street." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After I have been startled a couple of times in the street by the screaming of the tramcars, which resembles the shriek of a shell coming straight for one, somebody taps me on the shoulder. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs trot along the narrow street, before the doors of the houses people stand and follow me with their gaze as I pass by, dirty and heavy laden. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo and one of the boys had taken off down the street, their bikes wobbling underneath them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She did her own shopping, always carrying the same blue cloth shopping bag, and always walking on the sunny side of the street “to keep the bones warm.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the ride horsemen galloped to and fro, but all the street seemed to be choked with great covered wains going south. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The streets were alive, moving and swaying with hordes of people pushing toward the pier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They got dogs on the street that have heard the sirens so many times they can imitate them perfectly. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the tears come, I dash out of the shop, down the street, past the bus turnoff, past our neighbors’ houses and up the stairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was small; once she had come onto the main street she could see the corner at the end with the gas station and the church. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I take in a big breath and leave the shade of that magnolia tree and walk across the street, stepping over the cracks in the pavement. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The Helms truck came down our street on Mondays. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Entire, streets are in ruins, and it will take a while for them to dig out all the bodies. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And she didn’t want to get caught up in the petty politics of the streets. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma turned the opposite way when she got close to her street. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then it was 11:32 p.m. and I heard voices of people walking along the street. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After our lessons, we joined the children playing barley-break in the dusty streets and on the village green. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Even as he looked at the other two beneath the Cloak, the door of the Three Broomsticks burst open and a dozen cloaked and hooded Death Eaters dashed into the street, their wands aloft. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s 4:15 p.m. and the streets are starting to fill up again with evening commuters heading for the subways. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

At times like that, her cheerful facade would crack, and she’d start crying and confess to Lori that life in the streets could be hard, just really hard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man who claimed to be a superhero time traveler emerged from between two houses, across the street from Petey’s place. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once he had crawled up there and stood on the bridge, looking down at the shelter, and then around at the street where it crossed the tracks; he could even see downtown. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We followed her underground like baby mice to the Green Line and the Red Line, until we popped out on a dirty street in crowded Harvard Square. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even though they lived here, in this concrete desert, tonight they would go home, walking the streets of Spanish Harlem fearing no evil, for the Lord was with them. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But both Caroline and I obeyed, leaving the little scene on the dock behind, making our slow progress up the narrow oyster-shell street between the picket fences that enclosed each house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scanning the buildings lining the street, my eyes land on a butcher shop. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He told her it was hers if she stripped naked and danced for him, right there in the street. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As far as he could see through the glass panels, up and down the street, were white people standing in the cold wind and sunshine. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Veturius looks to the streets, then adds, “We can argue about it if you like. Or we can get the hell out of here.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Angry shouts filled the air, and then he saw a frightened Sunjin and his mother step out into the street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t, the tape goes to the police. I know some kids on that street, and I’ll find out if you don’t take it back. Deal?” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the death carts rattling in the street and did not look up. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around, saw Rondell standing outside the store across the street, holding his clipboard, waiting for people to walk past so he could give them his magical pitch. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In deep dusk I strolled through the streets of the beautiful town. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother vowed her children would never end up victims of the streets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If I saw him waddling down the street, I would sneak up behind him and yell, “Fatman!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In the dust and chaos, we hurry down the street and disappear into the afternoon’s lengthening shadows. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And even though there aren’t tanks rolling down the streets, there are uzis, semiautomatics, and other weapons of war. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to meet her, even speak to her, but I drove to her store and parked across the street, to wait for her to come out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the streets are named after Trujillo's family, so it’s kind of confusing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy paused to gaze around them, saying, “I haven’t been on these streets since I was a boy.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They took an elevator from the street level to a long, curving tunnel with doors on both sides and other tunnels branching off it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

People stopped sleeping in their houses, terrified at the thought that such a disaster could recur, improvising tents in open spaces or sleeping in the middle of squares and streets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I continued on until I stumbled on a wide street paved with stone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, finally, the clock struck midnight, and as the chimes died out, we heard a cacophony of pots and pans being beaten in the streets all over town. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She landed on the pavement of a quiet side street, the vibrations of her fall shooting up her legs and back. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She asked for help from passersby and swept the streets and washed clothes in exchange for money, but one tragic evening, in a pool of moonlight, her mother died in her arms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went out of the station into the street. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the window and stare at the empty streets. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Years later, it was the shady dudes in that same gang that had recruited Jermaine to become a “street pharmacist.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

No street saw more destruction than Pennsylvania Avenue. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In Hadem at large, in the bars and restaurants, on the street comers and stoops, there could be heard more blunt criticism of Malcolm X than ever before in his career. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly the entire Negro population of Bumblebee stood in the street, quietly waiting while the three men voted. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For all the stuffiness upstairs, it was damp and chilly down on the street, and Rachel sat shivering on the bench of the wagon, wrapped in a worn shawl that Lyddie recognized as her mother’s. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A woman was rushing in then, pulling him away, up the street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you listen to me—if you go down to the bush at the end of your street, you’ll find your brother in a pretty bad way I strongly suggest you get down there.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mom hung paintings on the walls and stacked street finds in the living room and put colored bottles in the windows for that stained-glass effect. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At a car that was parked across the street. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Not because anything on the street was different, because it wasn't. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He took off his street clothes as Al tried to find a better station on the little radio he had been bringing to the gym since Billy knew him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the walk made him hungry, and it was then he realized there weren’t any street vendors selling pretzels or hot dogs, roasted nuts or souvlaki. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I did not mark the sobbing in the street, though I saw, when I passed by a window, that a hay- wagon laid with three corpses rolled past. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But mostly folks are so busy, streets so loud, people miss seeing them. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was too much for him and he took off down the street, squalling like a scalded cat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been larger marches in the past decade, but none of them matched in tone, the gravitas of this slow cortege through the streets of Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He flicks his butt into the street and lights up another cigarette. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they disappeared around the bend, Brian and I did a victory dance in the rock-strewn street, giving our own war whoops. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pete was kicking and thrashing, but the mob was still hauling him farther down the street. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sure would of tickled him to see all the neighbors on his front porch staring with their mouths open as Loomis drove the mule team towards the street. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t get any closer without a ticket, and the streets were roped off for blocks. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was especially noticeable after Joe had forced through a town ditch to drain the street in front of the store. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Better to have been shot in Baltimore, where there was the justice of the streets and someone might call the killer to account. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I stumbled down the street, the comet tail in my eyes, seeing a little better now and looking back to see the water spraying like a mad geyser in the moonlight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it wasn't actually like Broadway or Fifth Ave, but in my mind it just felt like we were walking high and mighty like I guessed they did on those streets. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I stood waving until the big car turned out into the street. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I heard one whisper to my left: “I saw him in the street, outside my door. His head was blown off.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Little Rock Zoo was right across the street from the swimming pool. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he crossed back in the direction of home by another street, and emerged into the Street of the Crooked Dog to see Gebu still some distance away in the gloom. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was alone in an alley near the main street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then we were out of the dark onto a busy street and he turned to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the bizarre creature soared over one of the street lamps of Privet Drive, and Harry, realizing what it was, leapt aside. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The minute I laid eyes on that boy in the street this morning,” Mrs. Moss said, “I said to myself, ‘That’s the kind of boy for Bess.’ Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they went by, one of the soldiers shouted out, “The hour of Compline is at hand! The curfew is in force! No one may be on the streets!” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A group of soldiers singing loud as they could swayed down the street, very muddy in drink. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s too risky to walk on the street now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I unhappily threw my M&Ms into a trash can on the street and then walked into my apartment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On every street corner people lounged and stared, waiting for something to happen. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pelletier expected to find him attached to some grand institution, so he was astounded to discover him teaching elementary arithmetic to boys in a small school on a back street. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bigger shifted his feet and listened to the faint clang of another street car passing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I went away from there and walked the streets blindly until it was time to go home to a lonely supper. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, while lying in bed, he heard a body hit the floor in the boy’s apartment, and he heard the woman scream from across the street. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car has warmed up, and the streets are almost empty, and everything feels quiet and cozy and safe. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The bus put me down on a wide street with cable cars. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are not streets that you’d happily walk down, alone, after dark. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell pulled our hoods up too, and we all took off sprinting down the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"This is Decatur Street, son. Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. The streets talk anyway, but they talk even louder to me," he said like a big shot. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The boys crisscrossed between streets and avenues until they found another train station with trains running in all directions. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Grampa, swearing and slapping his hand on the dashboard every time traffic got too tight, directed me to a back street a couple blocks from the square. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then she’s past, dress swaying lightly, cane roving back and forth, and he watches her continue up the street until the fog swallows her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I used to love to walk these streets of Flushing with Lelia and Mitt, bring them back here on Sunday trips during the summer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time there came the crash of glass, shots; fire trucks in distant streets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along one of the streets I stepped into a pothole and severely sprained my ankle. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets of Phnom Penh are noisier than ever. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outdoor jobs, the men hustling through the streets with huge racks of dresses, or pushing hand trucks taller than they were, were largely black. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had no time to count, but there were ten at least, a line of them, on foot, blocking the street, with longswords and iron- tipped spears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve only been to Monet’s a few times, but I think it’s on the street the bus is going down now. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then came brick houses set well back from the street, fronted by yards edged in shrubbery clipped into smooth cones and balls of velvet green. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy said they had been wandering with dazed looks by the shoe shops where the streets get narrower when he stopped to offer directions. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped across the street in back of the Jamisons’ hedge and studied Arnold’s house. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if it’s really an uprising. There’s unrest. People in the streets—” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stray pieces escaped my grip and blew across the street. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

By now he knew every street, every alley, every fence in all the sprawling slums of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This street is much busier than our old one, so I hear not only the whoosh of cars driving past, but every once in a while, motorcycle drivers revving their engines. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The antelope and the lion burst out of their cages and went off together into the streets. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But on the third day, when the sun rose, there were no more trucks in the streets, no more gunshots, no more Nazis. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later the street was empty again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shall never know for certain because in 1906 he was fatally run over by a carriage while crossing a Paris street. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The room was furnished and comfortable enough and overlooked the street, which was still reassuringly busy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

New shifts of street police begin making their rounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Down this street is where the store was. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The year they shot them Irish people down in the streets. Was a good year for guns and gravediggers, I know that.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered laborers hired by the city, called scavengers, to clean the streets of decaying garbage and dead animals, since their vile smell might well be causing the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The streets were black and shiny because of the rain. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He looked behind him frequently as they made their way through the crowded city streets. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If you own a tent, you have the right to throw a party in your street. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We are about three blocks away from my house when a boy runs down the street, yelling, “The police out here are killing people! The police out here are killing people!” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From street sweepers to hoteliers to government clerks, thousands of Germans now went ardently to work to make sure that, come August, the world would see Germany’s best face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We crossed another street and Hackett pointed to a tree in front of the administration building. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy and I walked across the street, to a pecan grove, and picked up nuts from the ground. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The grey day had become an early night while he was inside the storeroom, and it came as no surprise to him when a familiar shadow swirled beneath the street lamps. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In the silent street of the sleeping city, Lazlo’s feet slowed to a stop. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I walked along slowly, remembering the first time I had gone up this street years ago. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Roberts’ house was the last one on the street, but he walked right past it, to where the oyster-shell street gave way to the dirt path across the southern marsh. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there, my fist that gripped the brief case bruising against the street, my head slumped forward. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every other building is in ruins, spilling rubble and broken bricks onto the streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They turned away from the water and headed down a busy street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know exactly what it’s called. I can find it easy, but I can’t remember the name of the street.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the alleys and side streets, falling back on my old habits. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Unable to afford the suit's matching top, she's been reduced to waddling the streets much like two women fused together in some sort of cruel experiment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

James turned away from the water to walk up the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his time on the streets, where police stopped him for violations including trespassing, stealing a bike, and property crimes committed with his older brother and other older teens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We turn onto an empty street, with no soldiers or tanks or hot metal smell. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stories spread that his men were patrolling the streets in pickup trucks, shouting his orders from megaphones. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The streets are so narrow, and the buildings so tall that you feel hemmed in when you walk here. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour, I roamed aimlessly through streets at the edge of the French Quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From experience I knew that no one could sleep when the police engulfed the ghetto with tear gas at night to keep blacks off the streets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having reached their side of the street, he strode off along the pavement, drawing many curious glances due to the flamboyantly cut suit of plum velvet that he was wearing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The street lamps are ablaze, and I see Elizabeth crossing the road outside our house, holding a younger boy’s hand. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

No one was on the streets, and no one was in the houses. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The streets hollowed out, corridors; the trees blackened. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t in sight, and I hurried down to the street and began to look for a cab. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Our buckets filled, we filed out into the street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the children that Mae gave him ran the streets like hoodlums and bragged about their father owning a saloon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small fires flared in the streets as police cars arrived and sirens sounded. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may become desolate, and street, battleground, and flesh may become fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But I hadn’t ever seen her before today, so we arranged for me to get a good look at her before I have to approach her in the street tomorrow. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then she came back, took up another three, and carried them across the street to the Petronis. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Just up that hill,” I say and point to a wide street lined with well-kept lawns and flowerbeds. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Our street is about half filled with houses now. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, walking home with Blanca near me, the streets seemed cleaner, the neighborhood quieter and gentler. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"The guy had a hundred palaces and solid-gold toilets. Statues on every street corner. He lived the life of an emperor. Or a god." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The men looked around, then began walking down the town’s main street. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a domestic dispute that spilled into the street. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We walked past gangbangers, bums, and street hawkers, who looked at us like they were trying to figure if we were worth the trouble of mugging. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As he kicked his checkered soccer ball along the streets, he could feel it lurking in shadowy doorways, behind shaded windows. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The carriage went up the street, Catherine pointed in toward the archway. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Can’t remember no time when I danced in the street but that one time when everybody did. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, in front of the barbershop, I saw three colored men frozen in place. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women, black and white, cried in the street when they heard what happened. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the carriage turned down F Street, it approached a roaring, angry mob of thousands of people swarming in the street in front of Ford’s. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk up the street, along to the corner. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With street crime, meanwhile, that is not the case. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t so much as quiver when a car door slammed on the next street, nor when two owls swooped overhead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I know, Ruthie, it doesn’t make any sense. Sometimes I feel I’m invisible, slipping through the streets, never getting a chance to be part of this place.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I live in the house down the street,” she said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the morning I get up earlier than normal and walk around town with the Doorman and a street directory, finding each house. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Since staying at home meant hunger and chores, I began attaching myself to gangs of five-, six- and seven-year-old neighbourhood boys who daily roamed the filthy streets of Alexandra in search of food and adventure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as I looked out at the dark, quiet street, it occurred to me that walking home wasn’t the best idea ever. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As White and his men worked to corroborate the details in Lawson’s confession, they felt a growing urgency to get Hale and his nephews off the streets. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I pause on the porch until I hear the bar slide into place, then I jog out to join the knot of men gathering in the street. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When I staggered to my feet, I caught a glimpse of Hassan disappearing around another street corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we passed through the wall at Aldersgate, the sun had set, and the streets were growing dark. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she ran right the hell across the street, without even looking to see if any cars were coming. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The street’s clear except for the people hauling the wounded to the hospital. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Beyond that was the yard of Mrs. Wheeler, our neighbor from the next street over. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck with a band of street gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Gnawing on a carrot to still their hunger pangs, they walk from their cold houses through cold streets to an even colder classroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to go to Mass?” he asked, in spite of his terror that Julie might vanish on the streets as Bri had. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castleman abruptly dropped the clipboard and it clattered to the street. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The old man they’d passed earlier lay on the muddy street, surrounded by the women who had been carrying him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then she drives us off down the street. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale and I drop to the street, scuttle the ten yards to the shops, and take cover behind a display of spike-heeled boots outside a shoe seller’s. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The boy doesn’t wait for an answer, just pulls me to a nearby street, one that isn’t yet flooded with people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Every morning we’d open the doors, run an extension cord out into the street, set up a table, and play music. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All of the stores were brightly lighted, but there were few people in the streets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach the middle of the street, the Tribesman pulls us into a narrow, trash-strewn alley. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the restless energy in the street ignited, everything busted out into the open. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I told him how I had found out that all of us who had been in the streets were victims of the white man’s society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the fair closed, many thousands more would join them on Chicago’s streets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But other things could be done to purify it, such as getting rid of the bad coffee and cleaning up streets and alleyways. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I remembered I had promised to take Bill's friend Edna to see the bulls go through the street and into the ring. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And three old men with black coats, white armbands, and sidelocks sat on the stoop of the opposite building, staring dispassionately at me from across the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They said nothing until they had reached the Street of the Goldsmiths and were approaching the Apprentices’ Quarters, with Rekh’s shop in sight at the end of the street. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some fall asleep and roll off; others are thrown by the street gangs who control the train tops. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I turned down a side street of narrow limestone offices, stopped at the third building, and wheeled my bicycle through its wrought-iron gates. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A little colored boy, about ten years old, drove a wagon up the street through the crowd, shouting at the two horses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She would walk me across the street to Miss Daisy’s beauty shop and sit me in the small room built onto the side of Miss Daisy’s house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims . . . and I just started to cry. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What few cars were on the street whizzed their way uptown. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Particularly during the summertime, the streets were full of kids, and this group looked like a good match for a game of street football. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As they walked through the crowded streets of Tenebrion, Spurge clutched the stone’s box close to his chest and wrapped both arms around it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We counted different kinds of funny-looking cars and laughed at people and their pets walking along the streets. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were cruising Main Street one morning, passing the Grand movie theater, when Piper McNab came screaming down the middle of the empty street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few house-lights were going on again down the street, whether from the incidents just passed, or because of the abnormal silence following the fight, Montag did not know. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before I learned how to cross a street, my parents taught me to keep track of time in the afternoons to make sure I didn’t get caught outside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I see it. This city is shaped like a banana. The avenues run from top to bottom. The streets are shorter and they go across." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Up or down the wet or dusty streets, indoors or out, the days and nights began to spell out magic possibilities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the side streets that led to the square we saw the square solid with people, those in the centre all dancing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Back out the door, the sun is set to full blast, lighting the streets a shimmering slick. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Opposite, set in a diagonal across a street corner, the wide-open double doors of a pub suggested a theater stage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They spent some time on the main street, walking down to the foot, where the crowds were just as thick as they had been the night before. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Easter, having learned that The Greatest Story Ever Told was sold out, I just crossed the street and saw Superfly; the second-greatest story ever told. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Find a side street. We’ve got to take him by surprise. We mustn’t let him spot us ahead of time. We have to catch the first look on his face.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Colonel Gerineldo Márquez would visit him at dusk and they would both sit in the street door and talk about the past. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Where I live, there ain’t no street lamps at all, no house close enough to see from our windows. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like New York City, with tall buildings and cars and traffic, and men dressed in business suits on the street, and women walking on the streets as well. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I crossed the street to the Behavioral Center, so lost in thought that I was startled when Margaret approached and said, “Penny for those thoughts.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Need an escort? The talk is, the streets are dangerous." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No trumpet and guitar music could be heard on the streets. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

James looked at the parking meters, the liquor store across the street, the bus stop in front of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Talked with his body like an old street hustler trying to convince people that stolen goods are a steal. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

As we walked down the street, Kermit kept looking behind us. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was carrying a suitcase with my football things in it, and I walked up the street from the station in the town I had lived in all my life and it was all new. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the street below, some fat cop was giving some delivery van a ticket. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Children knelt on the pavement and prayed while water from fire hoses swept them down the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mami said that at night gangs roamed the streets doing all sorts of mischief. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Moss looked up the street toward 12th, and his mother let go of him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty feet away, a bow lay in the street. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

By this time I couldn’t help seeing the humor in the whole twisted situation, and I started to wave at the onlookers and my mom started laughing at my dad flailing around on the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Not free for the likes of you. Get off the street, get off the street.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That tree-lined neighborhood at the top of the smaller slope must be the Crest, Magdalys thought, where all the affluent Brooklynites were said to live, promenading along the streets astride their graceful duckbills. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They sit out in the street, pushing what I can’t enjoy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

John’s words pulled me to the street outside our apartment on the night Ma sent me after medicine for Missy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She glances across the street, and I let out a long, deep sigh. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the street's signs were dead, all the day sounds had lost their stable meaning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until Hazel walked out of school and saw her mother’s car parked across the street that she remembered that she wasn’t going to be riding on the bus at all today. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a me-size slot waiting somewhere in the streets of Harlem. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One member is his brother-in-law; another lives on his street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My body moved through the streets, past sentry fires and redcoats carrying torches down suspicious alleys and into abandoned houses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood at the top of the stoop and stared out into the busy street, but not at anything or anyone in particular. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Once we got halfway up the street, we realized Needles wasn't behind us. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

An unpleasant taste bloomed in my mouth now as I bit the end of the yam and threw it into the street; it had been frost-bitten. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little traffic on the streets and over the bridge. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told him I investigated the accident and that you just skidded on a wet street.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even an oil-burning car slipped through the broken streets, its engine whining and grinding. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s standing on a street I know but do not recognize, among piles of smoldering autumn leaves, holding a coiled skipping rope, licking one half of an orange Popsicle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he grasped his suitcase under his arm and began to run toward the awnings of the main street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"That was the first razzia I saw, too. I passed it on the street. Someone told me later those men were executed." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They finally found parking down a side street, and everyone piled out. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We reached the street in a short time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk the streets I once called home, conversations sputter and die, and eyes cling to my face and body. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She saw them roam the streets and every few hundred yards stop cars for questioning. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They waited with their mothers, hearts pounding, as men came up the street carrying the limp body. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

We were across the street from school, waiting for the green fight. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A few heads peek out at us from the other houses along the street. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As it happened, by sheer luck really, he discovered straight away a street with four shops of just the kind we were after, standing virtually in a row. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, on the entrance wall of a project building, was an altar, meaning someone had just died. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He’d walk the streets to sober up but it never quite worked. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

For the first time, she pushes him through the balmy streets of Cambridge, to Purity Supreme, to buy a bag of white long-grain rice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many parents stayed close to the jail and the fairgrounds so the released youngsters wouldn’t have to wander the empty city streets at night trying to find their way home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove through the streets of Rochester, I looked out the window and saw a city covered in white. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The gate to the ghetto is just down the street, a German policeman walking back and forth in front of it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I glance down the street to see if anyone's coming our way. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But when I went into the streets in the morning I saw sights that killed my hope for the rest of the day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is blood on my hands and blood at the bottom of the street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Right across the street was a blond lady in a blue shirt, standing by the window, stirring something in a bowl in her kitchen. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dusk; the streets were bathed in amber. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The road curved again and became a street between shady lawns with white houses. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the blood in our bodies pooling on the street for everybody to see. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I take my brother’s hand as we cross another street. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Once, the ball even bounced into the middle of the street. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The streets were empty but of broken glass; the sky was black. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I’ve seen so far on these streets. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now I would be out on the street with peoples besides Miss Lizzy or Quincy. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The newspapers reported that there were wild, bearded men parading the streets in Austin, dressed in long robes and carrying big signs that read repent, the end is nigh. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But it used to be across the street from the rest of downtown. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

An arrested Korean gang chief named Han had been publicly threatening him, spreading the word on the street that Kwang had betrayed them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I lived on the streets of London I was a loner. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I took the bill and stepped close to the street light, reading. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, Yanek. The Nazis grabbed them as they were coming back from buying bread. I saw them taken, right there in the street in front of the building.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were up very high; street lamps and traffic cut patterns in the night below. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Webb came dorking and whistling up the street that first day, he never saw me without saying hi. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The camera, hovering in the belly of a helicopter, now swung down at an empty street. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Josh, Luis, and I stand at the window and watch a blond woman in a bright green dress and pointy black heels hurry down the street. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Bridge was almost home when she saw Alex crossing the street ahead of her. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Whitewashed cottages, quaint except for the satellite dishes sprouting from their roofs, lined a small grid of muddy gravel streets. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I went back to my street corner and proceeded to waste three hours begging, not gaining so much as a thin shim for my ef- forts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was so used to the quiet on the streets that at first he didn’t recognize the sound when he heard it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I see the lights scattered all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and sometimes singly; they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Once I reached the street, I headed north, walking as fast as my feet would carry me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The only source of light and air was a hole in the wall that faced the street. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The street and sidewalks are packed with people, and we’re all sweating and wiping our faces with the bottoms of our shirts and fanning ourselves with anything we can find. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"Maybe if I found someone who lives across the street, or works nearby. Maybe they would have seen her go in." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I should say now that there were no women on the streets, only men, thousands of men; and perhaps carefully locked away in the buildings might be a few hundred Tang women. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The empty building across the street will now be a German hospital...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Without the people passing back and forth, the streets seemed wider and darker. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The JV boys walked out of the room enraged, stormed out into the dark, and tried to walk off their anger on the streets of Oakland. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then he let readers relive the mass flight from the city, see the closed shops and empty streets, and meet suffering fever victims and those who bravely stayed to help them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

On Dryades, the whites thinned and I saw more and more Negroes in the street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen so many people on our street. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of flag-waving revelers are lining Germany's streets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

We’d run outside to watch the caravan plod through our street, men with dusty, weather-beaten faces and women dressed in long, colorful shawls, beads, and silver bracelets around their wrists and ankles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the compound, to the street, and looked through the plants on the roadside until he saw the rumpled leaves close to the root of a whistling pine. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before Liberation only the wealthiest had lived here, in grand mansions set back from the street behind sturdy walls. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your table,” she said, gesturing across the street to a narrow table inches from the canal. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I thought Catherine would come by but she did not come, so I hung the papers back on the rack, paid for my beer and went up the street to look for her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The hustle and bustle on the street made it seem like everyone had something important to do. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I step out of the little van and go to the stand across the street to buy two cans of Coco Frio. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

From street level, the antenna is all but invisible. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow street and we kept on the right-hand side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Facing the street were three big windows, and I could see the trees and housetops across the way. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of children played in puddles on the street, scattering as the Jeep approached, so as not to be sprayed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Cortes’s next onslaught came, the Aztecs were no longer naive and fought street by street with the utmost tenacity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m go’n turn up this street,” I said, “but if you ain’t in a hurry, we could drive into the cemetery and sit and talk a while.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He followed the others up the steps to the street. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked his two-wheel mule cart through the town’s streets. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ballpoint pens with London’s streets in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Less us just this one day. Please, Father. I feels like I going to really bust loose. Besides, I don’t want you messing around in the streets by yourself.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dany put her heels into her horse and showed them the way, trotting beneath the shattered arch of an ancient gate and down a silent street. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The first time I only made it up our street and around the corner before stopping. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They were lured off the street with the promise of a hot meal, and here’s where they ended up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Across the street, Ruth stands at her fence, leaning against her cane. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There are acres of open cattle range and few houses or busy streets where migrants can hide. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Collins, a diminutively proportioned man whose stunted legs had left him unable to walk, was propelled in a wheelchair along the crowded New York City street by a black manservant named Odell. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My abuela was right in making my aunt do that. I mean, the Cuban guy was rich and the street activist she had been in love with ended up in jail.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

First he called out the state guard, ordering them to patrol Boston’s streets the next day. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” he answered, “but Fito told me that people there sweep money off the streets.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing quickly up and down the street, I ducked around where she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Every view was magical, whether it was a deserted, lamplit street comer or the neon hubbub of Royal Street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Bible stories were interesting in themselves, but we always twisted them, secularized them to the level of our street life, rejecting all meanings that did not fit into our environment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I walk past a soldier interrogating a girl my age on the street, and once just before I ring the doorbell. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was nobody on the street, for it was late Sunday morning and very hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was looking across the street where there was a small crowd gathered over something on the ground. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Going down the streets in the morning on the way to mass in the cathedral, I heard them singing through the open doors of the shops. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In January, Hilario and Vivian Ortega, who live down the street from Celia, will defend themselves against charges that they have been illegally renting by the hour two rooms of their beachfront home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no work, the dogs overran the streets and there was never enough food. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That's what he asked himself when he tipped into the street, his hand up timidly as traffic slowed for him, and picked up the cracked halves of the skateboard. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They didn’t exactly make it easier to walk the streets unobserved. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Well, I was a butthead, because like I said, I never had a brain until Freak moved down the street. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie paid the farmer to take a detour through the wharfs, down a street lined with old but attractive gray-stone houses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The bus driver had to stop in the middle of the street to avoid hitting her! You should keep your children inside unless you come out with them!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I went back towards the steps into the street. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He would’ve taken the elevator to the street and pressed the button for the top floor. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would become so choked up that sometimes I would walk in the streets until late into the night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So were the reporters, photographers and cameramen who were recording the confrontation from across the street. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A passing wagon had left a deep rut in the street. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there were cars stopped still in the street. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I took a seat next to him and looked across the street at my house. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There it all was, my first eighteen years at a glance: streets and sails and shattered Stop & Shop. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, thousands of children had poured from the church that day and marched the streets of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After tramping the streets and pounding on doors to collect premiums, I was dry, strained, too tired to read or write. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entertainment was hard to come by on the streets. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I roll, hear the butt slam into the street, catch the tumble of bodies out of the corner of my eye as Mitchell tackles Peeta and pins him to the ground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Near the time, Joe assembled everybody in the street before the store and made a speech. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Get out of my house and go back on the streets where you belong.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, as I wandered through the streets, a continual popping and cracking as the guns on Copp’s Hill fired, though I have no notion of what they might have aimed at. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I loosely draped a cardigan over my shoulders, and we made our way downstairs and out to the street to watch the gunfight, where a small crowd was already forming. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was marveling at the glittering cityscape when the truck turned off the street and began galloping so heavily that we were all shaking as if we’d been placed on a vibrating machine. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The street w is just lined with clubs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up the street was a little square with trees and grass where there were taxis parked. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, supposedly she was going to marry this guy she was in love with, some street activist or something, but her mother made her marry the Cuban, at least that’s what they told me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wandered up one street and down the next. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden two guys come running down the street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up and down the street transistor radios clicked on and hummed into the sour air. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night air felt brisk as the wintry wind swept down the street. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the street outside he caught the sound of a harmonica playing a blues song and he knew that the music was played by William, his son. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He shook my hand again and crossed the street. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

If only he could get into the street! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The house was furnished with broken tables and chairs she'd picked up off the street, and every service was haggled over. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Eliza led me down back streets as I briefly explained what had happened since Grandfather and I left the coffeehouse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be clear, Sarai herself—Sarai actual—was at a distance, where she had entered the dream at a street crossing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sound of horseshoes on cobblestones echoes down the quiet street. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I scanned the streets for cops and nosy neighbors as I reached into his bag and pulled out the can with the white top. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I look to our bicycles lying in the street, and realize that if they end up the only casualties from this morning, that’s fine with me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then she glanced with distaste at Nettle, and at last pointed along the street to where a pig was nosing around in the gutter. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

No Fo’ty Ounce and his creaky cart or Mrs. Pearl hollering a greeting from across the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I'd have to step into the street to get past, and then it'd be too obvious how bad I just want to get on my way. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t act like a desperate street kid. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Isolated and desolate, it had no main streets. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This house, a large, ram bling gray stucco with a picket fence surrounding the weedy grounds, stood away from the street, perched on a ledge that dropped fifty feet down into the river below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This his daily order: do the good duty, go out into the street, go into the stores, stop them in the alleyways. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take the sacks he gave us, slide off the seat, and hurry back down the street while he drives away. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A picture window faced the street, where other houses—identical except for their color—sat in a line like chastised children. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But after ten minutes alone in the dark street, a new emotion overtook him: panic. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was falling so thick we could hardly see the street at the far end of the schoolground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, Percy wandered the streets with Hazel and Frank, who kept brushing shoulders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I let her do that—walk across the street with her arm around my shoulder while men whistled at her and asked if I was her boyfriend. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Even barren oak trees flanking both sides of the street make it seem postcard-ready. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For good measure they are widening the street that leads up a short hill to the center of Hanover and its handsome, historic green. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The street vendor strolled over and perched on a fire hydrant. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Rusties had been stuck down in these streets like a horde of rats trapped in a burning maze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sirens screamed and the cars rolled slowly through the crowded streets and he was feeling the cross that touched his chest, like a knife pointed at his heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Up and down the street for the truck. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Police decked out in riot gear closed all restaurants and patrolled downtown streets. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we jump back in the car and peel off down the street, I glance through the rear window at the house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look out the front window, past the dripping pink bougainvillea bush to the street, wishing Matilde would appear now and snip every last tie I have with these people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cruise by and then park down the street. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My teachers always said, “I’m here to help,” but when the time came to start helping they were never dependable, so what I do at school is what I do out on the streets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Other than the distant sounds of the chaotic dance taking place down the street, he couldn’t hear a thing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The three-story brick house facing Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, took that name from the time when it served as a boardinghouse and gathering place for congressmen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Six of the Death Eaters ran toward them: Harry, Ron, and Hermione backed as quickly as possible down the nearest side street, and the Death Eaters missed them by inches. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The street was still hot, even with the sun sliding out of sight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were narrow and unpaved, and every lot was filled with dozens of shanties huddled close together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I darted from shadow to shadow until I was across the street from the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Krause looks at him backstage, still in his street clothes as others are already dressing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Well, jeez, maybe she is sick, but it’s no easy street for me either, being here and taking this guff. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed across the street to a black, looming empty apartment building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s time to go across the street. Your amazingly spectacular new public library awaits!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I nod, still looking at the dark street. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

With the heavily armed troops patrolling the streets, the bloodshed and mayhem began to abate. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Just drop it straight onto the street when it's clear Brick isn't going to take it back. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And up and down the streets people looked out of their apartment windows and men and boys stood on the roofs in the thin-veiled sun. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning Zeitoun rose early, said his prayers, and paddled across the street to feed the dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When he was in the streets, he’d ask autograph requesters if they played chess, and if they didn’t, he refused to sign and disdainfully walked away. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Richard stood in the middle of the street and looked up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s even worst in the summertime. Everybody’s out on the streets till ten—eleven o’clock.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further along, one could see where the street passed over a round-backed bridge and on into more rural surroundings. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the rally was over we changed into our street clothes and me, Ducky, Nick, and Jimmy stopped for a soda across the street. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

John’s feet began to slip; tears and sweat were in his eyes; still moving backward before his father, he looked about him for deliverance; but there was no deliverance in this street for him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I fill her in on Mama’s rules about tap water and street food, and how we managed to avoid getting sick the whole time. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The streets of Berlin, many of which were still lined with abandoned homes and devoid of pedestrians, provided Blake with the cover he needed to hand off such precious—and treacherous—cargo. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Skarpi made a small gesture to the bar- keep who set out a mug of beer as the children began to trickle out onto the street. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I propped the halves up against the garage door and headed inside as Miles drove down the street. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

For a long time there was silence, then Tenorio turned his horse and the procession came back down the street. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could glide directly from the street, diagonally across the lawn, and appear just a few feet below a second-story window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jam cast her eyes down the street, looking into the blackness where Redemption’s house was buried. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The streets are wider, with tall elm trees like back home running along the sidewalks, their branches stretching over me like umbrellas. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I’m no chatterbox now, but if you stop me on the street and ask me directions to the zoo, I’ll answer you. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as surely she knew that Adam Trask was ill, for she had seen him walking along the street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other than cops, the streets were pretty much empty of people. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I see it as my responsibility to ignore the emptiness of the streets, the nonfunctional stoplights, and the occasional clusters of walking dead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the triumphant fliers got back to Moscow, they were swept up in a parade through streets filled with flowers and cheering crowds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I parked on his street and started looking for his address. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The council had extended his curfew; it was death to be taken on the streets after the evenfall bells had sung. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, Mac guided the little gas-powered plane through a series of complicated aerial maneuvers. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The newly freed man took them out of the arena through the one opening that led not down into the cellars, but out into the streets of Rome. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t even have to read the street names. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I crawled away from the street, away from the light, deeper into the shadows, dragging them with me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They had in fact seen a matinee pantomime at the London Palladium during which Lola had spilled a strawberry drink down her frock, and Liberty’s was right across the street. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the South, the struggle for equal rights was moving into the federal courts and, increasingly, into the streets. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been dreaming happily of his ragged but carefree life before he'd been plucked from the streets and sewers of the city to serve as royal whipping boy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Should we go out to the street at the last block? At Chestnut?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Your competitor, Mr. Gupta, down the street, stops me every day to beg me to work for him.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We hit the Friday night street traffic on 39th Avenue going west toward Corona. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were empty and silent, stretching before him white and clean under the vanishing glow of a long string of street lamps. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom of the hill, the slope gentled and the street began to widen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You need to exit the street immediately,” the cop says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I stood in the deserted street until I could no longer hear the sound of the motor, only the hiss of the powdery snow that the wind kicked up in little eddies on the ground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw the traffic moving with the lights, and across the street a few pedestrians were looking back toward the center of the block where the trees of Bryant Park rose above two men. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding her bike along the opposite side of the street, chin lifted just a little toward the sun, hair flowing in a wind of her own creation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as the wheels rattled on cobbled streets, Jemmy felt an immense sense of relief. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have to decide in a split second whether or not he’ll walk me across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Trouble was brewing, and a period that began with fear of Apocalypse was replaced with one in which the Apocalypse might be played out within music itself - by that same firebrand on a Dresden street. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The soldiers carried the coffin into the street and loaded it onto the back of a simple, horse-drawn wagon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sweltering summer afternoon, I attended a Harlem street rally which contained a lot of these teen-agers in the crowd. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four Panthers watched as they walked down the street and disappeared around the corner. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She peeks into the ambulance as she crosses the street, sees the resuscitative equipment but no people. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Below that was an address—a number and the name of a street that sounded familiar. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I shall get to the filing,” Ignatius said when he found himself staring out the window at only an empty street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank a beer, standing in the doorway and getting the cool breath of wind from the street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We walk down the cobbled streets toward the edge of the ocean. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Powell fled down the stairs, out into the street, his eyes searching desperately for David Herold. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape changed around us, and the bus groaned as it made its way out of my neighborhood, into streets full of broken buildings. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He blesses me again, asks me to pray for him, and I’m happy trotting through the rainy streets of Limerick knowing Theresa is in heaven with the cough gone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The street they’d walked up dipped downhill after the cable car tracks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stood up and I made sure there was no one in the street. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cross the street and continue along, eating my licorice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beauty-lanterns drift along streets paved with glistening stones, past mismatched shops painted in pastel shades and lined up like the frosted pastries in a bakery window. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even if you lived on a hill just above the Bottoms, it seemed lower and danker than the meanest hut on a graded street. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Driving back to the church from his weekend job, my father saw Wendell standing in the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its main street consisted of some tired old stores, a bank, a couple of gas stations, and a crumbling hotel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first house we stop at is red brick, with a huge bay window and a glowing chandelier visible from the street. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was no way she could ask around, put the word out on the street wire, because the street was never her playground. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Once Claudio’s done with you, go right ’crost the street and get you a room with a bath at the National Hotel on Woodward. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand and cut around the corner to his street. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As deadly smoke fills the streets, thousands of people try to escape it, but fall “like flies.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Not all spaces are big. Your street is not that big, is it?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had seen guys dancing on the train or on the street before, but he was never this close—and had never been in it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Down into the high street, and up the road to the top of the hill. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock, Melita and her parents stood on the crowded Wilhelmstrasse, the wide street that led past the President’s Palace and the Chancellery, the building that housed important government offices. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She passed by on the other side of the street, and for a moment I thought I had to be mistaken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that kind of storm. Bigger storms than that coming. I tell you, boy, you’re better off in here than out on the street when the big storm comes.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Up and down the streets of downtown Vancouver, Memorial Cup banners hung from the lampposts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They could see the tiny bright streets crossing each other, and the squares, little chips of light, and the dark tops of buildings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted so desperately to kiss her again, just like we did when Julia parked her car on Blake Grunwald’s street. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Soldiers would grab them off the street, beat them, and cut off their beards and side curls, known as payot, just for sport, or what they considered sport. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a street around the corner from mine. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jasmine thought about it as they turned left down Marston, a street lined with houses that her mother always said had been around for a long time. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But two bombers still walk the streets as free men: Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted up the first, blank, page, and surveyed those beneath, to see, as Bono quoth, what the man on the street was wearing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tucked her under my arm and went for the first time alone into a white neighborhood where there were wide clean streets and big white houses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So early that only trucks and people up to no good are on the streets. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The quiet streets and passing minutes without incident had returned our focus to the oozing stromboli and not the Toyota. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All the buildings on this street had garages on the ground level and the houses stacked on top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a dog across the street at the park staring at me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And I remember a lone, almost ragged guitarist huddled on a side street playing and singing just for himself when he glanced up and instantly recognized the oncoming, striding figure. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared into the broken windows of a deserted stone building across the street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I’m back here I can hardly walk down a street without a glimpse of her, turning a comer, entering a door. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Food stands line the street, with blue and orange awnings and wooden stools and plastic chairs and heaps of salads and steaming meats on display. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the first day I met him, he looks off in the distance toward the white house at the end of my street, and he shakes his head. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Joaquin parked across the street and they sat there in silence, the three of them breathing in unison, looking at the house. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Alba went up to them and pointed to the mural on the other side of the street. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to our street, we had another scare. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The young man wipes his hands on my apron and goes to the curtained window of my bedroom, where there’s a full view of the street and anyone who might approach the courtyard. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

None of this orderly and safe crossing of the street ever took place at my school; we had to dash across. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked off the lawn and into the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

King Lords in gray bandanas and Garden Disciples in green bandanas stand on a police car in the middle of the street, chanting, “Justice for Khalil!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Right across the street is a bunch more buildings like ours—old gray-and-beige buildings with lots of floors and lots of apartments. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The fine black soot raced along the street before them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

After leaving Devi’s I paced the streets of Imre, restless and irritated, trying to get my thoughts in order. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not the women who were forbidden to walk the streets of their own towns. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rain had slicked the streets into shiny, reflective tunnels lined with skyscrapers whose tops disappeared into the mist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In some upstate towns, the prison is the main event, visually speaking: Clinton’s imposing wall runs along Dannemora’s main street. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be worse, alone in the city streets, full of strange people, than it had been alone in Hang Wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Beneath the buildings, the streets look like tunnels. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Nat. It’s not everybody who gets to live down the street from thieves and murderers, you know.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the street, it just looked as if maybe there were a ton of trees in her backyard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“For days she has been wandering the streets, speaking to strangers,” another reported. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They are surrounded by old posters advertising wine, and street signs and photographs of Paris arranged above the picture rails. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We went out into the street again and took a look at the cathedral. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I warned my friends not to use their abilities, no matter what, and Emma and I led them zigzagging through the streets, hoping this would make us harder to track. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a tough neighborhood, but a quiet street. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The street around him was dark, empty, but the sound he’d heard was distinct. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Search every street in the Republic if I have to. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A street crime has a victim, who typically reports the crime to the police, who generate data, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists, sociologists, and economists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

One cold, windy afternoon I saw Aunt Xi-wen sweeping the street. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we got there, the street was a river of people—an enormous group already!—winding back from the corner store. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And when we got the food from the side window Mom just pulled around the corner and parked on the street under a shade tree. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband was serving time in the county jail across the street for being drunk or some petty crime like that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were crazy down there; they didn’t have any kind of streets and avenues; they just had names and they looked like a game of Pick-Up Sticks. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"If they cross the street, they're asking for it," Noodle says. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted people to stop them on the street and say, “You must be related.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Across the street a neighbor’s sprinklers come on, hissing loud enough to drown out the ticking of the clock. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to reply that, where I came from, we did not leave holes in the street for people to fall into. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She come off the street drunk and wanted to get into the party. No sweat.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sun sat just above the houses across the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Father said it ought to be all right to do my shopping anytime from the morning to the early afternoon, because there were mostly harmless shoppers on the streets then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the comforting sounds of cars and trucks and sirens and people talking on the street, I heard cornstalks rustling in the wind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It felt strange to be speeding through the streets of this neighborhood where I didn’t belong, in a truck where I didn’t belong, with my brother hurt and my sister sick. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine my mom as she crossed the street with her suitcase, looking in both directions for an unmarked van parked somewhere. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Two were already tied up, and tall soldiers wearing the red uniform of King George were striding down the street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the bus made its way through the streets of Colby, I thought about that trap we were gonna make to catch Wishbone, and my simmering anger disappeared. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

So that maybe when they left and walked the streets that night and at last Bon said, ‘Well? Now what?’ Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been funny to see Red Rabbit moving speedily—for him—up the street, for like us he did not enjoy being around the rats much. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully he turned down the street they’d intersected, which was level. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Perfect Jezebel, with a name of a street walker.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I showed her the pages I had written so far, with the diagram of the universe and the map of the street and the prime numbers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But there, just as he’d expected, was Trip’s car, parked across the street from the house. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though he was thirteen, the judge condemned Ian for living in the streets, for not having good parental supervision, and for his multiple prior arrests for shoplifting and minor property crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The number of folks in the streets must be increasing as word of the approaching horde begins to make its way through the town. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But he was also the city’s most famous kite maker, working out of a tiny hovel on Jadeh Maywand, the crowded street south of the muddy banks of the Kabul River. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are tall and wide buildings on one side of the street and trees, walkways, and the river on the other side. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They bumped against me as they tumbled into the street, and sent me reeling against the wall. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of comfort walking the narrow streets where she herself had walked as a girl. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in this manner that I discovered a room for immediate occupancy, in a house on a quiet street, the listing said, for eight dollars per week. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The drapes kept out the dust and heat of the streets, but they could not keep out disappointment. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I put him in pajamas and wheeled him around the streets in our old pram. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later they had reached the end of the street the pocha had pointed out, and they turned onto a dirt road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

"Actually, I think it'd be better if you girls waited until tomorrow," Uncle Tony said, turning his blinker on so he could pull out into the street. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Together the three of us sneaked through the side streets of downtown while a huge column of smoke billowed up behind us from my school gymnasium. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But most interesting to me were the men who sold their products from the stalls on the street. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we’re at the street fair and it looks like it could develop into something. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the swelling of the creek, I can’t pass between our yards, so I follow the streets around to his house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I’m creepily parked across the street behind a shiny white pickup truck, staring at Lauren’s house like I’m about to walk into a job interview. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And Joey, did you notice how Momma got kind of nervous and didn’t answer your question about not seeing people being frozed up on the street?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's filthy, crowded; dead bodies lie stacked in horse-drawn carts in the street; people are shot or beaten for no reason—but inexplicably, there are concerts and plays. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar — a cat reading a map. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The wide streets are full of dancing people. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were lots of churches, even on the one street Dicey followed out of town. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fewer and fewer guests visited now, and in the evenings the campus streets were ghostly, covered by the pearly light of silence and emptiness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The clinic is a few streets from the ocean, and in the summer sometimes Mom and I walk to the waterfront park while David has his appointment. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone could easily crawl out the hole and jump down into the street below. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She’d slowed down to a crawl and her eyes were darting from one side of the street to the other. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then we’d sneak into the parking lot and hide behind the teachers’ cars all the way to the street, just like the eighth graders do. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It flips and crashes into the street, setting off a series of explosions as its cargo goes off. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

‘The ditch down the street! The ditch! The ditch!’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The buildings were connected for the entire length of the street, and Joseph walked until he came to another attic window, lit from within. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as opportunity allowed, I went to the main street, and ran in the direction Bear had gone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked out again, the street was empty. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Getting into a fight on the court seemed to give Ocean some kind of street cred. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

People had gathered in the street to watch. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My gown is spoilt and never again will I walk through the streets with my eyes cast down. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

When he got up to the street, he pressed in the number. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Then what, pray, are you doing out here in the streets at this time of day?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the street, I see a fruit vendor stacking oranges and small plastic containers of strawberries on his cart. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I never gaze at accidents unless I can help, or attend street fights for kicks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

State guardsmen were pelted with rocks, bottles, and bricks as they patrolled the streets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He went to the vestibule and swung through the door into the street, feeling that ball of hot tightness growing larger and heavier in his stomach and chest. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our convoy raced through the streets with sirens wailing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I kept reading them, a simple and safe white family framed in a circle, like looking into their lives through a telescope or binoculars from the other side of the street. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I saw them on the side of the streets still in their bloody hospital robes. Some were walking and others were pushed in carts or hospital beds by their relatives.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two guys were running on the uptown side of the street but the Mustang came over, facing the wrong way in traffic, and a dude leaned out the back window. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy stands in the middle of the street, breathing hard, looking helpless. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I turned into the street and went on, but I went to the next corner before I stopped. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chased him on the street, and mocked him when he hobbled by. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the street it was usually possible to talk, after a fashion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The church is just across the street, a white picket fence setting it off from the rest of the town. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I don't fit in out on the street. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I saw a pair of handcuffs arc gleaming into the air and sail across the street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets of King's Landing were dark and deserted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bus stop was about five minutes away—we had to walk up a small hill to the top of our street, around the corner, and then up another small hill. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There would be like a hundred of them standing at a comer waiting for the light to change so they could cross the street. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they walk away, The dime of sun Pavs them back With laughter And the juice runs To their elbows, Sticky summer rain That sweetens the street. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked straight through the shop, spoke to Pai a moment at the entrance, then vanished into the street. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

By midday, as temperatures climb to over a hundred degrees, the streets grow quiet again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the extreme end of the street, like the dazzling tip on an arrow, the two boys could see a corner of the palace walls, stained pink by the sunset. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He texts me a picture of a street map, where he’s clumsily traced my route in red. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A typically Dutch, very steep, ankle-twisting flight of stairs also runs from the front part of the house to another door opening onto the street. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He offered her a chair at the fireside, having glanced through the curtains out of a window that fronted the street. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scattered like rats into the debris-filled street, and I could barely recognize where I was. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The streets were blue and cracked, and they were streets, I mean, like for when things went on the ground. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

More students arrived to school on foot, and Moss noticed a group of them collecting across the street, their voices loud and exuberant, but not more so than the pulsing, formless entity outside the school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think about how people ignore her or cross the street when they see her coming. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

With his face pale as a lemon, he lay on the street, crying. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

When we reached the square, I noticed that there was a white truck of an odd, square shape parked on the street bordering it, perhaps a block away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Four thousand people gathered in the streets, becoming more and more agitated as news of the day circulated. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The patrol force squad continues down the street and, in perfect rhythm, they pivot around the corner. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the street, there were signs for various posh businesses: an optician, a doctor, a kitchenware boutique, a maker of ladies’ fine opera gloves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A platoon of large passenger tricycles wheels migrants from the bus stop to the riverbank, swerving along the main, rutted, dirt road to avoid pigs and trash burning in the middle of the street. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She imagines her footprints sinking invisibly through the streets and the sidewalks, below the condensed archaeology of the city to underground plains of rich alluvial clay. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every empty lot on our street has a Sold sign on it, though, so Lake Windsor Downs will soon be complete. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were streets and sidewalks and the sounds of a city beyond the walls. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“That show was almost named after my street,” he says, smiling. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Dad peeled through Blythe at a hundred miles an hour, ran a red light, cut the wrong way up a one-way street, the other cars honking and pulling over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the long summer afternoon, or at the beginning of the long summer evening, the street gradually filled up with traffic, and the sidewalk became crowded with people. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the streets she did not know what to do. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When Big Time reached the street a man was arguing with a policeman while a tow truck hooked up his car. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down the street, thinking, then stood on a street corner, turned my back to the road, and reached surreptitiously for the money in my bra. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One day Tea Cake met Turner and his son on the street. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Stanford looked at their house across the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I continued drifting down the same familiar streets, my body wobbly, my mind still out of balance, until I found myself parked in my neighbor’s driveway. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re from Environmental Protection, ma’am. Just calling on all the houses in this street and the others to see if you’re all right in case we get any flooding.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He bumped into her and gestured with his head across the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll walk you part of the way home,” Danny offered, and we went out of the brownstone and down the stone stairway to the street. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But even if I’d grown up in it, I wouldn’t understand fighting over streets nobody owns. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then, when I look down the street, here come the two boys who were bothering me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he drives slowly down the crowded street, he turns on his latest playlist—he likes jazz. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

About all that happened between us anymore was him calling to me and waving when he saw me on the street or in the hallways. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

There was also this dining room affair with the kind of furniture you see everybody put out on the street for the Sanitation Department in the spring. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mom and I asked the cashiers in the supermarket, the lady in the dry cleaner’s, and the man in the eye shop across the street if they knew anything about him. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We walk down the center of the street for a while, looking for a house with the lights still on. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A village of Oompa-Loompas, with tiny houses and streets and hundreds of Oompa-Loompa children no more than four inches high playing in the streets.... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the Kings blew right by us, straight into the street. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I looked out through the hole where my now-shattered bedroom window had been, and I saw smoke coming from the house across the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A raksha who had just purchased a snack from a street vendor dropped his food. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Woody lived one street over, on Cold Spring Lane. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Joey and I ran over to the bedroom window that looked out to the street. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swiveled around and stared down the blackened street, searching the night for a silhouetted figure. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only now do I hear the sound of voices coming from the street below. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I stepped outside, I glanced at the brownstone building across the street. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the silver mirrorlike walls, people of different height weave through the streets in high heels and black leather boots. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rainclouds over dark towers, rain falling in deep streets, a dark storm-beaten city of stone, through which one vein of gold winds slowly. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed down the street in the direction I was looking. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted in the saddle, scanning the street behind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They passed an elementary school and drove along a street lined with shops, teahouses, restaurants, and a small theater. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

After supper I opened the garage door and walked my bike out toward the street. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At breakfast, Aunt Pearl would make some comment about his huge appetite eating them out into the street, but she smiled when she said it. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs barked in the distance, and the rumblings of the street cleaners pierced the quiet of the night. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The Yunkai’i had sealed the broken gates to keep the dead and dying inside the city, but the sights that he had seen riding down those red brick streets would haunt Quentyn Martell forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a hot, humid month, with a fierce summer sun that left a heat shimmer over the streets and softened the asphalt. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was in the midst of prayer when suddenly there was shouting in the streets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all she had were small scraps of fabric she found in the streets and old newspapers, so she made dolls from the scraps and imagined they were rich ladies. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One lived down the street on his own private island connected by a causeway to the Connecticut mainland. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I follow the Dauntless down the street and around the corner and hear a familiar sound: the train horn. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We walk down the street, and Danny asks me about my trip. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She would rub flour on her face, trying to look pale, like the fashionable ladies she saw on the street. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking down the street, minding his own business, he stopped to retie a shoelace and got stung, right between the eyes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that school would keep you off the streets and out of trouble, but still he was belligerent.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see me—well, in the streets they used to call me Detroit Red. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police usually release the innocent on the street—often without a ticket, citation, or even an apology—so their stories are rarely heard in court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Marvelous things were piled in every window along the streets downtown, and big organ music made the sidewalks sort of tremble. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Red was across the street, watching a colored man who was cleaning up after the parade, sweeping trash into a pile. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not doubt that a boy down the street had been dragged away in the afternoon and taken, with a shaved head and no training, straight to the front in the evening. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of passing Lydia, home from college, on the street, where he stared at her with dead eyes but with no words between them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then I walked around in the hall outside the ward and stared at the people on the street. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The King Lords across the street bust out laughing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Where the alley emptied into the street, he stopped and looked back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I passed other people on the street? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After the car drove down the street very slowly, as if the driver knew how many people were watching, Eberechi walked across. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stood a little taller, keeping in step with her as they continued through the outskirts’ winding streets. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Definitely need the emergency brake for this street,” her dad said, shoving the brake pedal down with his foot. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The small cortege walked on foot, slowly, all the way to the cemetery, between two rows of soldiers who had cordoned off the streets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to find something to hold on to, but the box was already at street level. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The members went street by street to catalogue the number of houses boarded up, infected, and open. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

As the truck slowly rocked along the busy street, streetlights flickered on. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Abby buys me a book about gay penguins, and then we walk down the street for a little while longer. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I’d get suspicious looks from people just walking down the street. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Quickly he slipped up a cobbled street, turned into a garden, stripped off his uniform and hung it on a clothesline. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead at Fifth the lights were bright, a few cars shooting across the gaping mouth of the street and above and beyond, the trees—great, dark, tall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news footage of Iranians protesting in the streets, burning the American flag, and screaming "DEATH TO AMERICA" didn't really do much to bolster our image. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the street waved and yelled as we passed: “Hi Reverend Jackson!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once out in the street, because I was so tired and also because we hadn’t opened the blinds, the day, already bright with sun, hit me like a slap in the face. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But I head toward the main street, which I recognize from my bus route. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They hide behind the teachers’ cars in the parking lot to avoid the security guard and then go through the hole in the fence to the Dunkin’ Donuts down the street. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children’s bellies were swollen out with empty wind, and one never saw in these days a child playing upon the village street. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He kissed her again, shut the door behind her, and she heard him whistling as he ran across the street to his room. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, “Business as usual.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind fluttered like the moths that veiled the street lamp which cast shadows upon the bank of grass below me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out my impression of Shorty as always out in the street isn’t quite accurate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Makeshift confetti snowed from windows onto the celebrants in the streets below. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I could make it across the street without being run down. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Our streets will stink of rotting litter. We’ll be overrun with rats.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s lights strung across the street downtown, and Santa Clauses hanging from the lamp posts. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The marble street echoed with our footsteps, and the mist curling around our waists was the only other thing moving as we made our way to the gate. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, enjoy these pictures of my haul this last Saturday from the antique store up the street from my house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was like watching an old street pigeon pecking the crust of a sardine sandwich the cats left behind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third floor was so high up that street noises were muted into a comforting sound. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t even see that you’re a bunch of bullies, and you probably run this whole street, and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s where she puts her things now, the extra magazines to cut and the string and marbles and buttons and whatever else she finds on the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wait to see if she’ll answer my question, but she doesn’t respond until we reach the other side of the street. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Where streets should have been, green canals etched their way through the neighborhoods, each one jammed with motorboats. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And the sweet little boy who had been the father of his family went out and found a new family in the streets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The men descended on the large shoe store next to the city hall, shouting as they threw hundreds of pairs of shoes into the street. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He vowed to find them once again on the streets of the capital city, and next time, he would be ready. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Javi kept tugging me and talking, drawing me across the street. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the United Nations walked the streets of Bosnia trying to keep the peace. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry stuck his head out of the window: Traffic was rumbling along the main road ahead, but their street was empty. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At midnight, many nights, Mudgett would pace the street outside his lodging. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I sit at the kitchen table and feel quite sure that no one on my anonymous, dew-covered street has had a night like mine. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She ran up then down the street, panting, near tears now, began trying doors blindly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My feet moved, taking me up one street and down the next. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his face looked as stony as the streets of the city—chiseled and sharply defined. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the street people were genuinely happy to see her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three times he has Marie-Laure test it: she stands in the street and swings open the outer gate, and from deep inside the house come two faint rings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever I came through the wall, I wanted to do nothing but walk the streets. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mark saw dozens of people milling about in packs here and there along the streets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The street lamps came on suddenly, lighting up the snow-covered sidewalks with a yellow sheen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I cross the street to my block, I notice Coach Wilkins’s old Ford pickup truck parked in front of our house. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pascal and Patrice will be very excited. Mondele, just think, Muhammad Ali. He is a hero! Little boys in the streets will cheer for him.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She endangered herself every day on the streets of the Barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The narrow street opened out to a square, and against the gray wall of a building there was a high structure of timbers and a noosed rope hanging down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked carefully up and down the street; no one was in sight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets; but he was gone. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Below, among the winking fairy lights, she thought she could see the Xi themselves flooding through the streets. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And while many people on our street do not have a telephone, and though 1 am not allowed to use one, we have two. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On and on she walked, and the streets became darker and emptier. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I walked along the streets in the winter sun, thinking: Well, that’s good enough for you, you fool. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quit listening to people on the streets and grow up to be a man. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school Carol and I walk home, not the way the school bus goes in the morning but a different way, along back streets and across a decaying wooden footbridge over the ravine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got out of my truck and walked across the street from the body shop. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m about to cross the street, I hear a crunching sound—someone walking down the little gravel path that leads from the graveyard to the gates. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Right as we cross the street, a gray BMW pulls up beside us, bass thumping inside like the car has a heartbeat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The “social pathologies” of the poor, particularly street crime, illegal drug use, and delinquency, were redefined by conservatives as having their cause in overly generous relief arrangements. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had been all but drained of familiar faces, and now, only four months after fighting had broken out between the Mujahideen factions, Laila hardly recognized anybody on the streets anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She parked on the street in front and I jumped out of the car with my book bag and sprinted for the door. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The two of them looked out, to where I am now, and they watched two boys walk up the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We both stared out at the peacefulness of our street, and she gave my hand a solid squeeze. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later my mother came bopping down the street, trying her best to steer a shopping cart with a wobbly wheel. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A few passersby on the street look at me and then hurry in the opposite direction of where I point. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I followed Annie along trails and streets, heading south along the shore of the island, and we came to a park where a stream cut a V-shaped harbor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I fill the empty neighborhood streets with my presence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Ignatius, that ain’t true. You remember old Mr. Becnel used to live down the block? They locked him up because he was running down the street naked.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” a rich voice answered from the street, pausing to think of some excuse. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was chasing him through neighborhoods, hopping gutters, weaving through narrow streets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was around eight o’clock and the streets were wet under a drizzling rain. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evenings, after work, she visited across the street, where Francisco lived with his parents and brother. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Out on the streets the local Communists were celebrating the news of the Red invasion with a makeshift parade. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Red sped off, almost hitting one of the colored women who worked in the cafeteria and was trying to cross the street. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned corner after corner, panting as she hurtled through an endless night maze of sleepy, tree-lined streets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The streets were very narrow and as crooked as a hickory stick. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some birthday boys he seemed to totally ignore, passing them on the street as he usually did, as if they were dog doo. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Roli tries to hurry along the side streets, and by that, I mean he drives at twenty-six miles per hour, but we still get stuck at the drawbridge at its scheduled opening. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At Pork Chop’s house, the Soldanos’ belongings had been tossed into a pile on the street. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was answering phones, photocopying, distributing newsletters on the street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room to hold the ceremony inside the newspaper office itself, so we gathered on the street outside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The kids cut through the yard to the next house and their parents follow in the street. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fuller could not believe there were dirt streets in Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though footsore from their long journey, Lupita and Salvador investigated Tijuana’s major streets from one end to another. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

"He don't need no help, Junior. Get across that street!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids were already fans even before the guy moved into the park across the street. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

As they walked the streets, Mariam spotted more signs—painted on windows, nailed to doors, billowing from car antennas—that proclaimed the same. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The street was shiny and cars kicked up chunks of gray muck. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wind tugged at my baseball cap and ballooned inside my hoodie as I raced down the streets of Stokum trying to outrun my life. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There is a living room at the front with a threesided window overlooking the street, a pass-through bedroom in the middle, a kitchen at the back. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes after Powell entered the Seward mansion, a servant ran out the front door into the street screaming, “Murder!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets are jammed with people running errands or licking ice cream cones and soaking up the last days of summer. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In his rousing baritone voice, he called for massive street demonstrations if Alabama’s blacks were not allowed to register as voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse lifted one tired hoof after another and dragged the cart, and the cart dragged me up the broad street where people smiled and laughed and pointed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was water everywhere, the gutters were overflowing into the streets. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arrive and find a parking spot, and then they race across the street to Neumos, which is thrumming with preconcert energy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The driver dropped off the truck at the ice plant and then pointed him toward the right street. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without thinking, I led her down the quiet street where for so many nights I had walked alone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The marchers pushed down the street joyfully, singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ at the top of their lungs,” Roy Reed of the New York Times reported. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the trees along the street were in full bloom, bursting with the colors of spring. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much longer they beat me, but when I came to, I was in the middle of the street. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We lapsed into silence, staring across the street at my neighbor’s bright green lawn. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Old Granny was always glad to buy from me, and at first I would make straight for the corner of the street where she sat with her gunny sack spread before her. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing him walk the streets at night when I was in my cab. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He drove as hurriedly back to the Daltons’ as the snow-covered streets would allow him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sprinted the other way, across the street, hopped an old rusty guardrail and ran along this grassy part near the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a tangle of narrow streets between there and the Royal Arctic Institute, which was the only place Lyra was sure of being able to find, and into that dark maze she hurried now. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since large portions of Amsterdam were shaded in, our first question was what we should do if the water in the streets rose to above our waists. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Up and down the street were entrepreneurial immigrants in colorful clothes—embroidered guayaberas and flowing kente and spray-painted T-shirts—hustling everything from mix tapes to T-shirts to incense from crowded sidewalk tables. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Across the street, behind the buildings, the sun continues its fall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Nearby streets were lined with black-owned grocery stores, barbershops, beauty salons, and restaurants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As I fled across the street, I clutched onto my borrowed hat with both hands, knowing that Haskel would murder me if I destroyed it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bikes and Vespas clogged the surrounding streets, but the square itself was empty except for pigeons and a few old men drinking espresso. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A screen door slammed shut and a lawnmower started up somewhere down the street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai was afraid they would have to wait until the Borrowdale people woke up when he saw a newspaper robot purring down the street. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could see a group of kids milling about in the glass and trash and charred wood that littered the streets. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, they sprang to their feet and looked out the window to see frightened people running in the streets. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The little window is open, through it I see the familiar picture of the street with the rising spire of the church at the end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the streets and the square were emptying fast; the old men were folding up their newspapers and vacating their benches. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Shawn asked her to cross the street and buy him a Snickers at the dime store. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I heard Miss Colette sat herself in the middle of the street and refused to budge until her mother agreed that he could come with them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No daughter of mine is going to be sleeping in the streets.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Almost every street came to be as plain to her in the night-time as her own home block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when there was still money, or when I had earned a few dollars waiting table, I'd eat out and wander the streets until late at night. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A horn sounded from the street, and Armpit looked up to see a long white limousine stopped in the middle of the road. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Tanks shook the streets above our heads, but I felt safe anyway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How many people—on the street, in church, on the sidewalks, in shops like this one—knew who we were? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk down the street to the river we hear the women laughing, tinkling and bright in the night air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When his narration reached his moving to Boston to live with his half- sister Ella, Malcolm X began to laugh about how “square” he had been in the ghetto streets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, she has her moments and she gets too caught up in the streets, but once I make it, she’ll give all that up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I run across the street and head up, up, up the hill. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My back’s against the wall and I’m staring at the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Everything about the Bronx was different from downtown Manhattan, more intense and potent; even the name of the street we walked down—Gun Hill Road—suggested blood sport. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He reads about U.S. planes bombing Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia, Naxalites being murdered on the streets of Calcutta, India and Pakistan going to war. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson came down from his porch and walked across the street to the driveway. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I know Mrs. Grimaldi, the lady who’s always sitting by her window, and the old guy who walks up and down the street whistling like a bird. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was still in my street clothes, on top of the blanket. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked so fast I was drifting along the streets, and the feeling that hit my cheek was a cool breeze out of the summer night. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In Santarem I met a woman who told me that the asphalt street in front of her home had just been ripped up by the municipal authorities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The school we are sent to is some distance away, past a cemetery, across a ravine, along a wide curving street lined with older houses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gobbled my cold food that had been left covered on the table, seized a piece of soap and rushed into the streets, eager to display all I had learned in school since morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children in the streets ran, and the apartment building shook. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was enchanted by the city, the warm tropical air, the diverse faces of the locals, the bright pastel colors covering many of the buildings, the swaying palm trees that flanked the streets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They would stand talking on the streets and hit the bread on a lamp post. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know enough to know that everyone needs a street name. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, Kraków was spared the destructive bombardments that targeted Warsaw and other cities; even without the threat of bombs, there was terror on the streets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a frosty black sand beach led down to the sea, which was as smooth as steel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He crossed the empty square and turned into a narrow street that was abruptly quieter even yet, and stopped before a frame house and went up the flower bordered walk to the porch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was so beautiful, with the shops, the tall buildings, the lights—electricity everywhere—and all the cars honking and streaming through the streets. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much farther to the end of the street. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But in this country, nobody’s sleeping on the street or going hungry.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I saw her come up the street and go into her house. Ruth got it right. The right address, right door, everything.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to follow me, but I rode into the shoulder of oncoming traffic and lost her in the side streets. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At last, Narcissa hurried up a street named Spinner’s End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She has a scar on her cheek, from a street fight, she says. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I could just see two people up ahead on the street, but couldn’t tell if it was the two older boys or not. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the neighborhood was in the streets talking about it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s, Chicago alone had more than 1,300 street gangs, catering to every ethnic, political, and criminal leaning imaginable. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg was recognized in restaurants and stopped on the street for his autograph. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He looked up and down the street; very few people were out and the cop was not in sight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was a little early to meet Emily Sue, so I walked down to the main street. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had a lot of pizzerias along this street. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

You have to worry about your friends’ friends, their gangs on the streets and in school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I know Auntie Seema's building is on this street, but I don't know which one it is. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Ms. Iparis told me about what you did to her on the streets. How dare you force yourself onto someone of her rank." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I asked as we scurried across the field and back into the street. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t sit exactly across from Audrey’s place, but in a small park a bit further down her street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The two men are loudly cheered on every street corner. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Luke and I used to walk together, sometimes, along these streets. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knelt next to Falconer, who had sunk onto the stones of the street, and tried to wrap the cloth about him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But now she was crossing the street and running wildly only to go down at the curb and standing and going down again, with a bumped backside, completely unsteady, now that her momentum was gone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went out to the street and started walking. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to look away, to turn back down the street, but I couldn’t—not after having come so far. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Horse-drawn wagons clattered up and down the cobblestone street, bringing in more fresh vegetables, squawking chickens, and squealing pigs. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Fighting with some poor girl in the street,” Mrs. Reilly said sadly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor would then want to talk about John Kwang and his methods of registering voters, the excessive use of street money and underage volunteers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s mom drives Daniel out to Axel’s house, away from the downtown, where they live, away from their busy street and their large house and all of those sisters. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She and her father cook a pear tart and burn it by accident, and her father opens all the windows to let out the smoke, and she hears violin music rise from the street below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Inside their small apartment, it felt like an oasis from the chaos in the streets, and it was one of the only places my mother felt really safe. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was dark out, and the streetlights along the academic drive in front of the student center and gym barely lit up the street. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I somehow didn’t know him, even though his family lived in the same section as I did, just a couple of streets over. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She hurried to the street to see if indeed it was the second house from the corner. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

On one side of the door, two windows faced the street. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the two days since the accident, I’d thought about your notes a thousand times and tried at least that many times to push away the memory of your body lying in the street. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was dark out, and at first I couldn’t see anything except the massive black ocean across the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You and every other bony street rat in this city. You can hit him up for a handout some other night. Now, scram!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Emily scanned the people moving in and out of the stores and restaurants, the cars parked at the meters, the bus shuttling down the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dubonnet, wearing his miner’s helmet with his street clothes, stepped outside and saw what was happening. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t walk the streets with that face and them two red eyes in your head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’ll meet up with friends at one of these restaurants, have supper, then go across the street to dance at one of the ballrooms and listen to Sarah Vaughan or Cab Calloway. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then she turned around and went across the street to her apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were both thirsty, so they decided to be totally unimaginative and head to the cafe across the street for bottles of water. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was now half across the street, but the roar from the beetle's engines whined higher as it put on speed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we didn’t have access to the school’s dance studio we’d break down oversize cardboard boxes in abandoned streets and parking lots, set up a boom box, and practice. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A hot, foul wind blew down the street, clogging my throat and making my eyes water. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A horse-loving priest from the church across the street opened his yard to let fans park there for free. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town filled the sidewalk and the street, jostling each other for a view of this new entertainment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

By the time he boarded, the inactivity, the picture magazines he’d read, the strolls in the streets near the station, had exhausted him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one went out into the street any more. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nearly every city I know has such a dying mother of violence and despair where at night the brightness of the street lamps is sucked away and policemen walk in pairs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove down narrow streets, past row on row of respectable little houses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walk down the street, I don’t want people to look at me and see a criminal or someone that they can spit on or beat up. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The knock seemed to echo down the street, and after a minute, a woman opened the door. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I crossed the street and practically dashed past the house. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We veered toward the stall farthest from the street, keeping our eyes open for patrol cars. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jule goes to a specialized academy housed in a renovated mansion on an ordinary street in New York City. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It showed me how any country’s moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women—especially its young women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would hurl himself onto the street, overcoming every obstacle in his path, and remain at large for two or three days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not mention the rage he had felt standing on that street and looking at the cab. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she complained about the dust from the ride, the smell of the street, the bumpiness of the road, the lateness of the day, the ache in her stomach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re absolutely right. 4TH JUROR: NO one saw him going into or out of the theater. 10TH JUROR: Listen, what about that woman across the street? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed the residential street and were trekking through a barren patch of rough land that led to the hill when, suddenly, a rock struck Hassan in the back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The streets are crowded with many more bicycles, motorcycles, and compact cars than in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not too bad. They built a new gate in the street and banned okadas after six p.m., so it is safe.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A woman hangs out of a doorway across the street. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then I slid down a drainpipe and legged it away through the dark streets, across the town square to the front of the Tehlin church. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We find a parking space on the street a couple blocks away from the place, and Jane leads me to a nondescript glass door next to a hot-dog restaurant. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The fighting came right outside, gunfire and breaking glass, and when the shots finally slowed and stopped, Henek crept up to the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If you met these people on the street, which would you believe, which would you trust? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She races down my street towards her house, at least five blocks over. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t he the guy who got that garden up the street shut down?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We walk down the dusty street, lined with fields of knee- high com. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Berg flew past them, over street after empty street. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A small crowd surrounded them, enjoying the morning's street theater. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We turned to the right off the Place Contrescarpe, walking along smooth narrow streets with high old houses on both sides. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As night fell he still lingered in the streets, reluctant to go back to the inn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

With his hands deep in his pockets, another cigarette slanting across his chin, he brooded and watched the men at work across the street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the baby-blue scooter zipped through the streets of Rome, the goddess Rhea Silvia gave Annabeth a running commentary on how the city had changed over the centuries. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’d tear it right off and throw it into the street,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he drove off, down the street, away, the little black car clattering busily. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street was filled with news vans and camera crews. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Ferry Building sat across a busy street, perched on the edge of the bay. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Captain Cook quickly got up on his feet again and strutted to the street ahead of Mr. Popper with many quick turns of his head and pleased comments on the new scene. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tommy Segovia had lived across the street from Calder until this past August. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A bunch of druggies used to live there. They got evicted, so they trashed the place and bolted in the middle of the night. They dumped Radar out on the street like somebody’s garbage.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She wore a pitiful expression and stood with arms outstretched in the direction of the harbor, many blocks away, but also toward the Priest Hole, which was directly across the street. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His women, of course, knew it, and it provoked diem into murderous battles over him in die streets, brawling thick-thighed women with knives disturbed many a Friday night with their bloodletting and attracted whooping crowds. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Together with the German people, they cleared the rubble from the streets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Strange to see a New York where you couldn’t get a complete meal on the street. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And before he stepped inside, he looked up and down the street four or five times to be sure he wasn’t being followed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tony was now full-time in the streets, splitting his time between his father’s and girlfriend’s apartments in the Murphy Homes Projects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My father tried hard to shelter us, but he couldn't control what we heard at school or on the street. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was cold and the wind was picking up newspapers from the street and blowing them around as I walked crosstown. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We knew each other when we passed on the street. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The conversation was getting to be stupid and I knew it was going to get worse, because Mr. Lynch was coming down the street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I walked to the street lamp and wrote in my notebook. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned how to jump in front of the gusher and let it propel him halfway across the street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had me demented.Your father walked every street in Limerick looking for you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Not like Father, who once ran out into the street with a knife so he could put an end to it all. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The streets he walks are slick and black. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm going up the street and eat. See you later, Jake." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I dashed into the street, trying to free Manman from the crowd. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We walked arm in arm down the side street away from the crowd and the lights of the square. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A woman called out to us from the mansion across the street. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Did you move them? Did you move my son? My poor son? Did you move him out of the cold street?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We parade through the streets of Underhill, past the site of the shooting, making our way toward police headquarters and City Hall downtown. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sole right he wanted was to be left alone, unmolested by the IRS and corrupt city inspectors and street criminals, so he could just run his stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of street sounds, I began to hear voices coming from the wall, from the apartment next door. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was open to the street and I was surprised to see there was still daylight left. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids cried when the fire engines and police cars went by, and then started rushing the street when the creepy-looking clown rode by on his little bike and threw out candy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She looked across the street at herself—as seen, remembered, and conjured by the dreamer—and she didn’t see obscenity, or calamity, or godspawn. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Minli opened her mouth but before any words could come out there was a great shouting and clamoring outside on the street. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the broken street. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Wagons clogged the streets and the frantic shouts of the drivers added to the confusion and sense of panic. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he crossed the street and walked into the Big Dipper. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sugar Ray Robinson would drive slowly through the neighborhood in his brightly colored Cadillac and yell at us if we didn’t get out of the street fast enough. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Across the street, the drakon slithered down the side of a skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Across the street a girl new in the neighborhood skated up and down the sidewalk on one roller skate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he started running the streets, disappearing with other women for nights on end, and coming back only to sell drugs out of the house while Deborah’s children sat and watched. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He whistled until he was out of the house and up the street. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music blasts from giant speakers— my favorite cumbias—and soon a crowd is dancing in the street. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that easy. We’re not dying from natural causes. How can we try to live knowing some truck might run us down when we’re crossing the street?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some kids were following him on the street and making fun of him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But having Mom there made it different, like walking down the street with a blanket wrapped tight around me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We had been aces for so long, had been playing ball and running the streets for so long that we knew each other’s moves. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Could a fifteen-year-old girl manage to elude capture on the streets for forty-eight hours? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After the museum got boring, Sapo and I would leave, cross the street, and spend the rest of the afternoon in Central Park. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

For the people of the City used horses very little and they were seldom seen in their streets, save only those ridden by the errand-riders of their lord. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every street he could possibly take would go nowhere. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To him, speed games were like playground basketball or street stickball: trash-talking was definitely allowed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Momma looks at the news vans across the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for that, he would be tempted to stay with her, to walk through the streets beside her, or disappear with her into the dark of a movie theater. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were girls standing around in the street. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had absentmindedly let the crowd carry her along like a current, and they had pulled her away from the main canal, onto a narrow street. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Guitar, a habitual street roamer, believed he knew every public thing going on in the city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually on Saturday mornings, guys around the neighborhood have their cars on display, cruising up and down the street and racing each other. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All I’d have to do is match the street to one of each writer’s books. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The whole house is quiet, and I hear a bus making its last run on the street out front. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used to be everywhere, thick in the air and offices, in the streets and in people’s own homes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We have found a girl from the streets of Harlem to play the wife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they had crossed the street and set up on the corner opposite where they once were. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to walk down the street, see if anybody in the other shops has a suggestion.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Jethro would have passed him on the streets of Newton without recognizing him, but the voice had not changed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betty shook his hand at the door and wished him luck, and then they were moving quickly, down the elevator, into the darkening street. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belmonte came down in his street clothes with his manager and two other men. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Yossarian walked out of the office and down the stairs into the dark, tomblike street, passing in the hall the stout woman with warts and two chins, who was already on her way back in. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The magistrate will enjoy this delivery—another criminal off the streets.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And he strode away, head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the packed street. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I yell out to my sister across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was always meeting one of them—crawling naked on a floor or engaged in a game of marbles or even on a dark street with his arms around a girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After school the playgrounds were quickly deserted, and if you had to stay after school it was eerie and lonely to walk alone through the deserted streets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their footsteps quickened as they left the rows of carpenters’ shops and entered the other street. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She points to the building across the street. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Cissy said she thinks there’s about six hundred people in the street now just milling around,” Mrs. Baylor said behind me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as Johnny heard that arresting parties were on the streets, he sent a message to Uncle Lorne. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

White neighborhoods in Baltimore blockaded their streets, attempting to confine the damage of the Riots to its poorer, darker jurisdictions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of Sumner isn’t much more than a few streets lined with the small houses of townspeople and retired farmers. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In time I found myself upon the main stone street again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It felt good to have Kutti trotting close to our heels along the dark streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The smell of street struggles to get its hands on me, but I shrug it off and walk on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But standing on the street with my pipe leg and a sign? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He kick-starts the bike, revs the throttle, and then they’re ripping down the street, her red hair crackling like a wildfire behind them. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Up the street the man was on the ground. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

His dad nods, lifts a metal toolbox from the street, bundles up some greasy rags, then heads for the garage. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Okay, the street sign—let’s see—it looks like I’m at the point of Twenty-third and Fifth Avenue streets.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Waiting for the number one tram on a wide street busy with traffic, I said to Augustus, “The suit you wear to funerals, I assume?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb’s boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I tilted my head up and counted: four floors, each with big windows facing the street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found good schools, safe streets, neighbors they like, and a big house and a yard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was an eyewitness, a miner waiting for a ride at the gas station across the street. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m not on the street and I’m not in New York and it isn’t July and none of it matters. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Bodega had an unforgettable blend of nobility and street, as if God never made up his mind whether to have Bodega be born a leader or a hood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were Navajos, but he had seen Zunis and Lagunas and Hopis there too, walking alone or in twos and threes along the dusty Gallup streets. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After our blinding journey through the sunlit streets of Yazd, it seemed almost dark inside, despite the warm golden walls. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

CityPlace is alive with people crisscrossing the streets and waiting in lines outside the shops and restaurants. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As we rounded the corner onto our street, I let out a huge breath. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Across the street and down the way the other houses stood with their flat fronts. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that bothered me was when a double-decker bus came along because then I couldn't see across the street and I couldn't see where the hell she was. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s a ruin now. It’s in the middle of the street outside the Palace of Justice.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until she reached the end of the street that she realized she was barefoot, and that her feet were throbbing even from that short a distance, but it didn’t matter. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds, there was a crowd of about twenty people clustering around Charlie, and many more were pushing their way in from the street. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They drove on, along the streets where people were turning peacefully into houses and Sunday dinners, and on out of town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street from the bus station, I saw an elderly Negro man seated on a door stoop near the curb. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street in front of her glimmered menacingly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then the street light in front of the Bear Flag came on. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down the street and began to run, stumbling awkwardly, falling, picking himself up, and running on. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to do? Turn him out into the street?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

One more street passed, and we had lost them; the Captain of the Marine company called to Corporal Craigie and demanded that we divide two lanes between us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Tally pushed her way through the drunken dancers, out the other side of the procession, and ran down a side street toward Garbo Mansion, wearing the face of a pig. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Several young girls, including two who lived in my yard, ran confusedly about the street, coughing and choking from all the tear gas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magnificent finned automobiles cruise grandly down the street like parade floats. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa asks, stirring me back to the street stones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A thin coat of ice crusted the puddles in the streets, and it was said on the day after Christmas that only ten miles to the north there was a light fall of snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Working women, “Yoo Hoo Girls” in the local vernacular, hung out the upstairs windows of cheap hotels and dance halls and even the fire department, calling out to the men on the street below. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After I changed back into my street clothes, I met Jenna at her gym locker just as she was tying her shoes. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

We ran through streets and alleyways to the back of a small brick building. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He dashes across the street while traffic is held back by the red light. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

If anyone had ever raised a hand to Trapis, a hundred howling children would have tom them to bloody scraps in the middle of the street. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If there’s someone acting strange down the block, looking drunk or dangerous, cross to the other side of the street, but don’t be obvious about it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He wanted safe streets, and a bigger breakfast program. We can give him that.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Someone was shooting in the street,” she whispers sleepily. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the street paused to watch as the train leaped past crossing gates waving a raccoon’s tail of white and black smoke. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

James McCord, a former CIA technician now working with the Plumbers, set up a listening post in a room of the Howard Johnson’s motel across the street from the Watergate. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And strangers who followed him about the streets and buttonholed him for unexplainable reasons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a while I found the courage to leave the mam, stone-paved street, and began to wander among back ways. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had no idea this beautiful green country existed so close to the dusty streets of Mtoroshanga. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the moon came low on the horizon Dunstan Thorn walked quietly down the cobbled streets of the village of Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I left the building and waited on a bustling street corner in Union Square for my dad to pick me up, I felt like I had found my true calling. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, the nearer he drew to his own street, the more slowly he walked. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The streets—now swamps of muck and mud—were all but deserted save for a few laggards. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When work ended for the day he wandered through the scorching streets, blind and deaf to the spirit of holiday already sweeping the crowds around him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mom immediately starts talking with the other parents on the street. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They saw farmland give way to fenced lots and cobblestone streets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After I walked out of the ghetto that was no longer there, I wandered the streets of the city. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Guy’s walking down the street with his boys and stops to help a lady who ran out of gas on the wrong side of town. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I heard the dishes rattling at the table, I opened the door and ran down the walk to the street. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to curl up in the street and burn. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

This war will be battled out on the streets with, hopefully, only superficial damage to the infrastructure and a minimum of human casualties. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We went up the street, on the shady side, where the shadow of the broken facade blotted slowly across the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved backward down the shining street, looking at his father—his father who moved toward him, one hand outstretched in fury. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ear settled muffs over his ears to protect them from the noisy streets. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gebu brushed him away with a careless gesture that nevertheless sent him sprawling, and strode on past Ranofer to the gate, where he looked this way and that along the street, holding his torch high. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I considered bolting, losing myself in the crowd and thence in the streets of the city. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember being in awe of the new street signs, like some virgin territory had been discovered and we were some of the first to visit it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, in a knot of nerves, I must go to a certain street corner and wait. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A guy in the apartments across the street told us to turn off the machine a few hours ago, but Quang-ha ignored him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The shoes pinch my toes as I crunch along the cinder street. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And as he steered the automobile slowly down the street his heart turned with this angry, restless love. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That’s how I found myself racing through the streets of Key West, trying out the route. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the urban street gang evolved from a club for wayward teenagers into a true commercial enterprise. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The blinds were half-raised, and outside, I watched pieces of trash blowing down the street. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now and then he walked impatiently to the corner to look up and down the streets. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d rather live in the streets than be a submissive Mexican wife who spends all day cooking and cleaning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Until we turn off the street and the house disappears from view. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk the street, and she has her arm linked to mine. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing between us was a major street and some parked cars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

These boys, now, who stood before drugstore windows, before poolrooms, on every street corner, who whistled after her, whose lean bodies fairly rang, it seemed, with idleness, and malice, and frustration. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The cars roar past the covered bazaar, through cheering throngs in the Turkish Quarter where every street- lamp, door, and window streams red cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Back to the street, he yanked a handsome clothes press out a door and conducted it, thumping, down the building’s brick steps. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were more people on the streets, but they seemed as dazed as he was. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Not like here, where the streets were getting more crowded and rougher all the time. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As I made my way through the noisy, crowded, dirty streets, I remembered what Osh had said about New Bedford making me dissatisfied with our island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was demonstrating the use of a pioneer butter churn, and her eyes roamed all over the crowds beside the street. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We each take Max by an arm and walk down the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had stood on the streets and smiled and smiled, and then smiled and begged and then just begged. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The neighbors were horrified when they watched her skipping rope on the street with other children, heedless of the yet-to-be-born baby who was now an almost unwieldy bulge. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already at 6 a.m. people in Phnom Penh are rushing and bumping into each other on dusty, narrow side streets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few people walked on the streets who were not fleeing. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He could have made trees walk the streets like invading giants. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even the wagon horses left no mark, their droppings instantly scooped up by uniformed street sweepers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The driver of the Cadillac never even stopped—he couldn’t have known that he had only killed a homemade go-cart, and not a child, but he sped on down the street, never looking back. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I surely won't answer it in the middle of the street with two women gawking at me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She hoped it might be one of the girls from across the street, wanting to play video games or inviting her for an after-dinner swim. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I heard the noise of the street just as I’d heard it that night, and I felt a zip line of fear rip right into the pit of my stomach. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But”—she wasn’t done—“I convinced your father that since we do know Amy and her family, and since they do live right across the street, you can go to the birthday party.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As we were driving through the tube streets, there was all of this commotion because of the protests about the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same streets she’d walked down when she began her first days at Carver High School. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It's so busy we have to park across the street. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I won’t let you turn my daughter into a street beggar!” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could catch the city bus across the street from the Behavioral Center, at the stop where Morris and I had had our talk. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kinshasa’s main street is Boulevard the 30th of June, in memory of that great Independence Day carefully purchased by thousands of pebbles thrown into bowls and carried upriver. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, we hiked up and down the street, and when we got tired of riding our bikes, we just skipped back and forth to the stop sign, relishing our new freedom. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I heard a rustling and turned to the house across the street to see two rusty gun barrels in a glassless window. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

How many days could you walk the streets of the big city without encountering anyone who knew you, and how many nights? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, following the street further along to where it runs over the little round-backed bridge, I could see the mist rising from the river, obscuring almost entirely one of the bridge-posts. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a sweater and went out to the street. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One day, Boots was seen in one of the side streets south of the city. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She would watch as the scythe prowled the streets and malls and parks, becoming like a lioness in search of vulnerable prey. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Or a trick of the eye, like crouching shapes on dark, lonely streets that turn out to be trash cans up close. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Except for the taverns, the street was deserted when I arrived at the Butler Hotel. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran down to a large hole that had opened up in the street, where underneath water flowed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pair of demons slipped out to follow a well-dressed young couple who were strolling idly down the street, arm in arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my bearings as best I could, but I was only seven and a half, and didn’t know many street names. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Naomi yelled as the two sets of hippie hair disappeared down the street. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Squads of volunteers, organized by Parsons, were preparing the street for Hate Week, stitching banners, painting posters, erecting flagstaff's on the roofs, and perilously slinging wires across the street for the reception of streamers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The cab driver delivered me to an address on Mobile Street, the main street of the Negro quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he spake, we walked outside into the dusk and made our way through the streets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can unlock that door and slip out onto the street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s dirty, as in street fighting, as in jokes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By this point dozens of people lined the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I sprint down the street, my wound throbbing in protest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As he pushed his cart down the narrow street, lively children dressed in gay colors flew toward him like a festival of silk kites. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He gestures for her to wait outside, and a moment later, he locks the door behind him and leads her and Max down streets narrow and sloping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The green Volvo was at the corner of a narrow street. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my eyes to make sure that I was really seeing people on the streets of New York City. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the dim light of the street lamp Bigger saw her eyes cloud and her lips tremble. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It can go purple and keep an orange heart so the clothes of the people on the streets glow like dance-hall costumes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if for some reason, when you get back to the street, the dog is there waiting for you man you might be dead. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And don’t forget the woman across the street. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned out the window and saw it down the street, engulfed in flames. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m torn between making a beeline for the next intersection and trying to get to the doors that line the street and break my way into a building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“So if you see a woman holding her nose as she passes you in the street," she went on, “that woman could easily be a witch." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But at this moment their guide came back and, beckoning them to follow, led the way down the narrow street between the houses. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She—she told me that the night the Roodveldts' hiding space was ransacked, she ran into Mirjam on the street," he says. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wednesday morning, only sporadic outbursts punctuated quiet in the streets, but many were not convinced the trouble was over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the street, in vestibules as well as house parties, they are spectacular, moving like taut silk or loose metal. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear shouts rise from the street, peppering the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused and looked about; the streets were filled with white people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every single person on this street is subject to a mandatory search, by high order of the Kuhani. Failure to comply may result in fines and imprisonment. Make a neat and orderly line.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were both far smaller than my friend from yesterday, the one who had tried to grab Ashley off the street, the one who had my arms pinned until I head-butted him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Other pages of the newspaper had photographs of burning buildings, boarded-up stores, and desolate streets. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were twin beds and a pair of good-sized windows overlooking the street. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Downtown, with its cobblestone streets and absence of traffic lights, could still pass as a quaint New England fishing village. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Classes at Graham High started fifty-five minutes earlier than the classes at Trace; the high school kids were off the streets long before the middle school buses finished their routes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented, X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two lonely guys, I guess, living on the same street. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

With three incomes, the family might soon be able to afford a house of their own, perhaps on one of the wide macadam streets of Englewood. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Most of my time I spent walking the streets or reading journal articles from the early days of genetics. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I heard talk of it in school, on the streets, everywhere I went. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Were the dreadful things whispered in the streets true? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mom had told me I looked like a “penniless street urchin” before I left for school. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Moment by moment the waves of marchers continued to pour out onto the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed the way the roofs all sloped at the same angle on one street, then shifted to a different angle on the next. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A few men were starting into the street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found my swimming-suit, wrapped it with a comb in a towel, and went down-stairs and walked up the street to the Concha. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Clam out on the street looking like somebody. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was this man, a man I always saw as the dude who beat cancer twice, the old guy across the street who ran the neighborhood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He took the boy by the hand and they went out the front door to the street. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rain was falling harder now—my hair and clothes were damp—and I crossed to the other side of the street and stood, clutching my purse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He hired our da as a dishwasher and took us to a neighborhood like no place I’d ever seen—tall brick buildings packed together on narrow streets teeming with people. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A bridge crossed it, and a street of jumbled frame houses followed the river, backed onto it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four trucks parked in front under the huge elm trees that stood along the street. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We were standing in the street against a high wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Down the alley mouth, I could see the cobblestone street undulate and twist like a red-backed snake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned the corner and made their way down the street and into the bakery. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I cross the street and move further away from the party house. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It’s just a big open space with a grid of empty streets still surreally furnished with stop signs and fire hydrants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard a man died of the fever in the middle of the street, and three black crows flew out of his mouth,” said Jeannine. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like an obelisk towards which the principal streets of a town converge, the strong will of a proud spirit stands prominent and commanding in the middle of the art of war. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The further we get into Serra, the more familiar the streets become, until we climb over a low section of mud-brick wall and into the Quarter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond are the dining room, two bedrooms, the kitchen—all situated in the middle of the building so the apartment’s windows have no access to the moon or the light of a street lamp. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magic lantern across the street threw the figures on the sheet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late at nighttime and me and Vega were roaming the streets of Harlem. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Bodega smiled as if this was a part of Vera’s street education that had been denied her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He made his way through the narrow city streets, turning blindly, terrified he’d freeze to death before he found shelter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“When I ended up living on the streets of Tarbean I took care of myself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, after, I found the stairs and ran out into the street and walked for a long time before I went to my room. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was young, pretty, and blond and visited often, using as her excuse the fact that her friend Della Otis lived across the street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to open her up, crisp her edges, ram a stick down that hunched and curving spine, force her to stand erect and spit the misery out on the streets. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those streets with trees on either side, their branches meeting high above like fingertips touching. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Working a gallery was like sharing a crowded urban street with a higher- than-usual number of disturbed street people. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once this controversy was put aside, members of the Free African Society patrolled the streets daily, rounding up the ill and finding shelter for homeless children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Why were some of the streets blocked off by big dirt walls? I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

All us neighborhood kids lined up along the side of the street to wave to him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tally looked up and down the street, checking for side yards to slink through, dark doorways to hide in. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And once the traffic stopped, he yelled for all the waiting students to "get on 'cross the street." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They grip their sticks and smack a black puck back and forth across the street, until one of them shouts, “Car!” and they scatter. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The street stretched before them, long, and silent, going down, and whiter than the snow. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I asked myself who had time to go around and write white only on the water fountains, these stools before me, and all the stuff on the street. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Curving streets spread out in a grid, glittering with green, yellow, and red traffic signals. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“He’s out on the streets pushing a weenie wagon all over.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Cambridge, they had passed each other by in the street. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I go to a window that overlooks the street, and when I peek through the blinds, I’m not faced with Peacekeepers but with a bundled crowd of people going about their business. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A car rumbles slowly down the darkened street, its headlights shrouded. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I met Mary on the street, I'd have to pass her by unrecognized. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are sitting in camping chairs and drinking malt liquor, a volunteer army facing off against the enlistees in the streets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She opened the low gate and turned down the long, silent, flaming street. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Still others played by wearing their glasses while walking around the real world, showing off their virtual pet tigers or populating the streets with their favorite celebrities. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. William Currie’s sixty-four-page A Description of the Malignant, Infectious Fever Prevailing at Present in Philadelphia appeared at the beginning of September, when the fever was confined to a few streets and alleys. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I dropped the paper in the rubbish bin on my way down the street. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Downtown consisted of two intersecting streets, Main Street and High Street, separated by a single flashing stoplight and no traffic. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He spent more time now watching a new kind of traffic: expensive-looking cars driving slowly down the newly paved streets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sal and I had crossed the street to avoid that fight. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Bet there’s more action on my street than in Cab Calloway’s show at the Regal Theater on Saturday night. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bran yearned to ride out among them, to see the winter houses full to bursting, the jostling crowds in the market square every morning, the streets rutted and tom by wheel and hoof. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was dragging his elbow slowly up one spinal muscle and staring down the street, where the answer to her question was everywhere pathetically evident. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I entered the World’s Fair through the side entrance across the street from the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

THE district offices were located in a converted church structure, the main floor of which was occupied by a pawn shop, its window crammed with loot that gleamed dully in the darkened street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the street I saw the cathedral and walked up toward it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I’d like very much if I met her walking down the street. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The procession left the brush huts and entered the stone and plaster city where the streets were a little wider and there were narrow pavements beside the buildings. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were in turmoil, with people and carriages racing about. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the street, the crying woman’s voice rose again and again, hoarser and thinner than the last time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some kind of hunchback with three eyes and a long tongue gawked from a banner stretched over the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I looked around—only one person crossing the street.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wire of the streets, when it wants to, is something like Western Union with the F.B.I. for messengers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down the hill towards the light of the closed shops, then up the street, where the last high houses wound up the hill on their way to the darkness of the old graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The Allens’ street is much worse than mine. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, Ms. Jones and her son sat on the porch, reading. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Men in the street threw stones and broke windows, but still no faces appeared, no lights went on. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

One night Alba was astonished to find the streets in the center of the city dark and almost deserted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red hand flashes at the intersection across the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I could try putting some wood grain in there with the streets. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then we walk back down the street to get my bike. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Even though his fingers are callused from years on the streets, they’re so careful and gentle that I feel heat rising on my cheeks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He came across as so hard-core, so rough and tough out on the streets. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of the smaller places, stops on the underground, and remembered Auburn, a small town, with elm trees arching over its streets, and smooth lawns, and houses painted white. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing we see is Gale, alone on the street, trying to shoot through the cables that hold Mitchell aloft. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was a three block area with stores facing the street, the river visible in fragments of green through the alleyways that cut through to unseen parking lots by the water. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The woman who avoided the streets let into her living room the woman who sat down in the middle of one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave the people of District 8 a reason to be out on the streets after dark, gathering either in the square or in various community centers around the city to watch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lily hid under her hat, and I scrunched down in the seat and watched the street. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have vivid memories of seeing young kids in the streets of Uvira holding guns bigger than themselves. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We drove down the street and crossed the bridge and passed the house where the pink garment hung in the window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I disagreed, that I thought we should go out into the streets and get more Muslims into the fold. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart dilated at the prospect of travel through the streets of the town. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The snow had stopped falling, but cars still inched carefully along the unplowed streets. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Moody would never remember crossing the street, or propping his bike in the front walkway, or introducing himself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His view of the street turned blurry and wet. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He probably does, but I met a man in the street and he told me how to find you.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National Woman Suffrage Association’s annual meeting was taking place down the street, so the women decided to suspend their morning events in order to listen to Woodhull make her presentation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Wagon horses ran in a panic through the streets, snapped their legs in the rubble, and collapsed from exhaustion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wide streets were lined with tall elm trees. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped on the corner and looked down the street. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm looked down the street of the animal markets. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she could miraculously slip past the German, there is no promise that the streets will be safer than the house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Julia was standing with them, trying again to convince Jay about her stupid tinfoil UFO and how it was going to fly up and down the street on a stupid invisible wire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“When I was five, my uncle down the street was having trouble with his house, so my mom offered him ours,” Wayne tells me. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The street lamps were faint smudges of yellow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nazario, with his clean-shaven face and the good looks of someone who never in his life has been in a street fight, went around spreading favors for Bodega. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Down the street, a firecracker sprayed crimson sparks across the sky. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond the waterfront and its breezes, the streets and alleys of Volantis were hot enough to drown a man in his own sweat, at least on this side of the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was alone in his parlor, reading, when the streets below him exploded in confusion. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke casually, almost pleasantly, his voice clear in the deserted street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing left of all that was a street that bore his name in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It's a lovely winter day in Amsterdam, and though there are other people on the street, couples like me and Willem, nobody acts like the forced parade of people is out of the ordinary. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Except for flakes of plaster in its streets, the little city is entirely undamaged. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe it’s by street. No one knows. It’s not official.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His brows furrowed as his finger traced the street down to the glittering water of the bay. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

From time to time, a relative or friend of one of the boys called out a greeting from the sidewalk or ran out into the street for a quick handshake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We became lost in the chaos of the streets. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then, about three months later, on September 12, 1970, Joe was walking down an East Baltimore street with his friend June. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the Republic’s pledge starts up outside, I can hear the people on the streets below chanting along, but I don’t bother to stand. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the swish of cars whizzing by on the wet street out front. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was simply a day when people were more courteous, looked twice at a beggar in the street, remembered that love was a living thing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Vega and me asked the two cops that had picked us up at Manny’s to drop us off near 130th and Seventh Av’, so we could walk across the street to our building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There was no salsa in the streets and the people looked as if they had just arrived home after a long day’s work. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“He hangs out at my place a lot. His house is the next street over.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He put them on and his bedroom came into clearer focus, lit by a faint, misty orange light that was filtering through the curtains from the street lamp outside the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My mom’s humming in the shower mixes with the music still blasting from the streets below. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Caravans of water-slicked black carriages lined the streets outside the city’s train stations, their red waiting lights haloed by the rain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She drove on again and turned off the main street into a small residential area. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In late March, the machine parts factory is padlocked, and Frau Elena and the girls are sent to work for a civilian firm cleaning the streets after bombings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Those of us in the middle—halfway between the street entrance and the back parking-garage entrance—start a surge toward the back door. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Down the street, as the night lit up in sudden flashes of red and yellow, an exhausted Fariba had propped herself up on her elbows. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The smoking, ruined villages, the broken pieces of brick in the street, the frozen corpses, the shattered walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the scurrying rats and lice: how can they live like that? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

What if they had wandered away and were now lost in the city, with its busy, dangerous streets and large, succulent population of pigeons? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We decided we would focus on street children and those in child labor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even after all these years, he cringed if a black Volkswagen passed him on the street. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Walkers veered into the street to avoid us. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Just as fired up as I was, Aunt BB followed me up the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“They were scattered all over the street,” Vanessa said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s a street fair and he lives on this street,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wagon and the automobile were out in the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Papa Legba’s words were street, block, house, door, soul, tomb, and doom. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We make our way out onto the street, now humming with people. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it picked up speed, wheels squealing, lurching from one side of the narrow street to the other. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alma entered the room, and I suddenly remembered why I had thought to turn down her street and walk up to her door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I hurried down the street, my anxiety growing with each step. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day, he wrote, he noticed a young woman carrying several bags of laundry on a quiet street just around the corner from El Malecón. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Loud honks and shouts rose from the hectic street below. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I divided my eyes between all the streets, an insatiable spectator incapable of taking in such beauty in its entirety. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He tossed his tennis shoes across the street with all his might and anger. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Knowing this is where Khalil...I stare too hard, the crowd disappears, and I see him lying in the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The streets seemed wider on this side of town. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Karim had a good job as a mechanic, and Sharon said he didn’t drink or smoke or hang in the streets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We walked stiffly in silence on those manicured streets, and it seemed a repetition of a moment from many years before, when an older boy named Clay had taken away my cap pistol. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the fringe disappear in the rearview mirror, distinct from the abandoned buildings around it only by that string of electric lights draped over the narrow street. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

New languages in the shops and on the street. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after nine o’clock of a Saturday morning, kids began spraying out of all the side streets on to Manhattan Avenue, the main thoroughfare. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That first morning, we just hung out around the baseball field and walked the streets, me secretly looking for Flaca and her friends, wondering what I’d do even if I found ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we did meet on the street it was like we were long- lost brothers who hadn’t seen each other in years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Before being attacked, the supposed Colonel Gregorio Stevenson had freed the prisoners and ordered his men to go out and fight in the street. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bessie crossed the street to avoid the jumble of saloons and their disreputable clientele. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The boy on the slab, a boy of the streets. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can a grown-up forget how to walk across the street, and come to explain himself the next day? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sierra had a vague memory of Gordo going on in music class about how, in certain parts of Africa, they used to throw big parties and parade through the streets when someone died. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I run down the stairs and up to O’Connell Street, the main street, where the lights are on and people are going home from work, people like me with wages in their pockets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

With a gang of children, I roamed the streets, begging pennies from passers-by, haunting the doors of saloons, wandering farther and farther away from home each day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something coming up the street on the opposite side. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knows how long the street is. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But this street was dark, and quiet, and brand-new. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Outside on the streets, it's a crisp autumn day in New York; inside here, it's as humid as Mumbai. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The world they knew had so many dead-end streets, so many dangerous corners, and no clearly marked way out. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, when the sun was gone and the streets were dark, Bryce stopped playing his harmonica. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

As we sat there talking, we heard a noise, boys yelling across the street. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then, as his face calms, he blinks out of it, exits, and moves on down the street, the convenience store forgotten. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was well past and around the last house on the village street when I realized that I had lost my bearings. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the south side of Chicago, people wanting to sell crack vastly outnumbered the available street corners. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then they began to move through the streets, every Jewish man, woman, and child from the village, nine hundred people in all. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s no different from the ones begging for coins on the street with outstretched hands—the ones who make guilt creep over you like tiny, biting fleas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed that a police car might choose this street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was a skinny child, strangers bought Lourdes treats on the beach or on the main street of town, believing she was malnourished and motherless. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, every displaced person milling about on the streets means another pair of eyes looking for the five rebels on the loose. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The same novelty attended the force of a thousand men that kept the crowded streets immaculate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We had not been at work again for more than a half hour when we heard an indignant yell that carried along the street. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying a newspaper pouch instead of a baby brother, he walked right out in the middle of the street without his parents. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They headed up the street, heads bowed against the wind, Ron and Hermione shouting through their scarves. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Alone in the street he felt out of pocket. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Daddy’s van crept along the quiet street, we both crooked our necks up to stare at the ceiling of the tree cave. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He imagined his great-grandmother, smartly dressed, walking through the streets of Harlem. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She just needs to sleep. She’ll be down the street—number thirty-seven. Come visit tomorrow.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On each map, I colored over a different set of streets in the neighborhood with a highlighter. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The neat thing about the slope of the street was the restaurant signs that jutted out from the graceful buildings on each side. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Once, in a crowded street, she had felt his presence. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A tall, bearded taxi driver stood weeping in the street. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cretinos, as my mother would have said. Whatever you want to call them, if I saw them on the street, I would . . .” She shook her head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Already there was a curfew from dusk to sunup, and Jews caught on the streets could be shot on sight. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. Same street as the Pearl Continental Hotel. He might have mentioned it.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t even go to the bodega across the street. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is a poor and working-class neighborhood, and in the late 1990s, the drug trade in the area, particularly on Westchester Avenue and one street over on Elder Avenue, was brisk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I maneuver the stroller across the street, tilting Leda back to get the wheels onto the sidewalk. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rather than cowing the students into submission, the arrests stiffened their resolve, and they returned to the streets with renewed conviction. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roberto parked the car in front of El Camino Junior High, right across the street from a circular lit park, next to the Vets building. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As I descended the stairs to street level, I had the persistent and disturbing sensation of floating above myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He went on past street lamps covered with thick coatings of snow, gleaming like huge frosted moons above his head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His partner was a bulldog of a man who moved as if his chest propelled him down the street instead of his legs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had worked on a dozen or so homes on this street, and knew he would return when the waters fell away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was riding up our street when this cute colored girl came out to the road and stopped me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He looked at the darkened facades of the houses lining the street. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window across the street. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I looked to the kids scampering down the street, flinging snowballs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As ordered, the boys dug shallow trenches on both sides of Heerstrasse, a street on the bridge’s eastern end, and, with their rifles and Panzerfauste, they waited. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My bedroom faced the street, and at night, in the dark, I could see in my mind another life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded like any black man on the street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Word on the street is that cops were starting to mess with people over at Maria Hernandez Park. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he’d seen the Taliban drag his parents out into the street. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I was young and adopted the rules of the street, anyone who knew me knew it was a bad fit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As they advanced up the street, the pig remained just beyond their reach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever notice,” Isa said to Jessie after watching Big Zee stride down the street with his Chihuahua skipping behind him, “that we know everyone in this neighborhood?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A large one in the center of town occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several alleyways on the outskirts of town. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbstruck, I watch Emmett wander, zigzag down the middle of the street. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He also knew that the longer Boobie stayed in a foster home, the greater the odds were of his ultimately landing in a juvenile detention center, or on the streets, or in prison. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer walked along the main street for about an hour. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thankfully he turned down the street they’d intersected, which was level. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Walking down the street one day not long after he had gotten back, he had seen his cousin Hensleigh carrying a child in one hand and a round box in the other. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to watch the traffic bolting by on the street, the people milling in and out of the little sweetshops. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Danielle crosses the street, walking so elegantly in her black go-go boots to a building as drab and dreary as ours. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The message was also written in flyers, tossed into the streets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nobody had ever thought of street lamps and some of them said it was a useless notion. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They gathered thickest at the north end of the street, around their god. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Jacobs yammered on that morning, Hazel found her eyes drawn to the busy street out the window. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My skin broke out so severely that twice perfect strangers stopped me in the street and asked if I was having an allergic reaction. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He jerked his head across the street, where a man in Bermuda shorts was striding along with purpose. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she got to the Acre she was out of breath and could hardly ask the children playing in the streets where Brigid’s house might be. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Along River Street a harsh silence prevailed as white men clustered in doorways and nodded their heads ruefully, then looked toward the street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But right now he was filled with both, in ways he had never felt on those streets. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"In the streets, they call it the Red Messenger," Varys said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We drove though the streets, sitting upon soft cushions with our windows shut against the heat and dust. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

While other boys played in the street, Robert sat alone in his room studying languages, devouring books of literature and science, and filling notebooks with poetry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Reagan’s promise to enhance the federal government’s role in fighting crime was complicated by the fact that fighting street crime has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By noon, the streets near Capitol Hill were already filling with participants and spectators. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The patrol car with flashing lights cruises down the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was up at five o’clock the next morning, closing the boarding house door behind him, joining thousands of immigrant men and women making their way through the streets toward the Union Stock Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I head out into the open, walk quickly along the street, mouth slightly open, keeping time in my head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think of subterfuges: examining his shirts for perfume, tailing him along the street, hiding in the closet and jumping out, red-hot with discovery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had about as much interest in the plants and flowers as she did in a mud puddle on the side of a street. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The other kids had history—they’d been in the same class the year before, or soccer league, or Sunday school, or Girl Scouts, or had grown up on the same street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I held her hand and led her to the street. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m ruined! The General will never come here again. I’ll go out of business, and my children will beg in the streets.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A car idled on the street in front of the church. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if you ought to go” “You keep out of this,” “uncle” said, still peering into the dark street. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked half a block, then crossed the street and reached the vacant lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going down the dark streets to the hotel we saw the sky-rockets going up in the square. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

By reputation, the Overseas park is a nest of crime and crack, and I am hoping at least for some vibrant multicultural street fife. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yohko raced down the street to the streetcar stop near her home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house across the street cut a straight, sharp line against the darkening sky. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When they got to the Fillmore intersection, Emily and James turned up the street, away from the music venue, running to cross in time before the light changed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The postwar joy means that Washington’s theatergoers are making merry on the streets, not inside a theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She sees it, Hamilton Shiley’s abandoned Big Wheel in the street up ahead. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He passed the pool room and then stopped in the middle of the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They spent evenings riding together on the smooth macadam of Yale and Harvard streets, the picture of a happy young couple blessed with looks and money. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The blood in my veins was meant to keep pulse with the rhythm of these streets. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew every alley and every street, every back wall to climb over, every fence with a gap big enough to slip through. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The thought of it was all mixed with the sickening odor that came up with the raw wind from the street. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I stepped out into the street and began to walk in search of food. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out over the street and saw Jack Franklin come running. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the main street there were several blocks of two- and three-story shops and business offices. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think about walking across the street, swinging the door open, and sneaking my mom out the laundromat's back door before these guys can even figure out what's happening. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It had snowed pretty hard and the streets were white with packed snow. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He turned quickly, hurried along the street, and almost collided with somebody who shot out of the Apprentices’ Quarters at that moment. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At first, I searched for pairs of glowing eyes on the street, but like a magnet, I looked straight into Fred’s room. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Let that character lay there till the street sweeper comes around. Then let me get my hands on Jones.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Friday morning Concha was in a better mood, and she promised she would cross the street to the post office on her afternoon break and mail Lupita’s letter. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Outside, streetlights blinked to life along the streets of Bed-Stuy as the swirling orange clouds gave way to dark blue. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The street empty, the house burnt like an ancient bit of stage-scenery, the other homes dark, the Hound here, Beatty there, the three other firemen another place, and the Salamander...? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need the books, the street directory, and, hopefully, a few minutes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s a burrito place across the street, or...?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget to lock the door securely behind me,” my mother said as she ran her eyes up and down the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. stood on his side of the street watching the other man’s back until he disappeared into the noontime crowds of businessmen, shoppers, and secretaries along Main Street. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me the poor wee dog was hit by a car and he crawled all the way from the middle of the street before he died.Wanted to come home, the poor wee creature. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was noisy—cars honking, people shouting, music blaring from somewhere down the street. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The streets went sideways and the avenues went up-and-down; that was all you had to remember. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I suggested a street early that we get off our bicycles and walk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He must want to see how I behave on the streets when I am alone. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Thousands of screaming fans cluster in the streets below. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked out the front window to where the cart lay in the street and then he went up the stairs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

That night I won the right to the streets of Memphis. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned my head to see blue-and-red police lights illuminating the street and a crowd gathering outside. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He kept his head down and cast furtive glances from side to side, but by then the streets were mostly empty in the rust-colored light. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Down in the yard the woman had stopped singing, but the faint shouts of children floated in from the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Well, did or didn’t the woman across the street see the kid kill his father? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I come to, Sheriff Snyder and Bill have me by either arm and are dragging me through the dirt of the street. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She looked the wrong way before crossing the street. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They finally found parking down a side street, and everyone piled out. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The white wooden houses of Paramaribo stood in orderly Dutch fashion along streets paved with crushed seashells. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It came floating down the street towards them, bumping into the housefronts, dull and soft and half submerged. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Brick follows my gaze, which lands on Tariq's sister darting down the street as fast as her little legs can carry her. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At the top of one street, Dicey looked down and saw blue water with sails on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is our cousin, but she lives across the street with a foster family. Her name is Aminata. You will get to meet her.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hannah Relf made an inspection of the sandbags protecting her front door and went along to the end of the street to see how much the level of the canal had risen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the little streets beyond the café, something was screaming. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was also weak with hunger, and as he wandered the streets, he began searching for an empty house where he could eat and rest. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He stumbles and falls on an icy street in The Hague and badly hurts his foot. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When a restaurant across the street from the Heinz farm went on sale, Carl decided to buy it. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

He and Eye pulled him across the street to Mr. Thirsty’s. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The women’s hotel on a Minneapolis side street is just as Lillian described it, with a clean but sparsely furnished lobby and a bored clerk who barely looks up when he hands us our keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We met the numbers runners, gamblers, lottery takers and whiskey salesmen not only in the loud streets but in our orderly living room as well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day before dinner at Patti’s, Jule stood on a street in upper Manhattan, holding an address on a scrap of paper. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Late in the summer Lee came in off the street, carrying his big market basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the street talking to him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A deafening roar engulfs the dark city streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the street was a building that looked like it was made out of giant chopped-down trees. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the small town they got off the train at dusk, walked down its one dark street, and on out into the country. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds of people stood in the street watching the lone man on his platform. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall relaxed and allowed himself to be pulled down the street, but he didn’t look convinced. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that we went to separate schools: we even walked to school on opposite sides of the highway from whites, shouting insults at each other across the street. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

On the streets she dragged us to the counters of each and every jeweler, peering into glass cases, seeking our opinions of tiara designs and locket settings. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

These shooters were investigated, exonerated, and promptly returned to the streets, where, so emboldened, they shot again. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Without intending to do so, wealthy donor countries injected a kind of adrenaline rush into the grubby world of North Korean street trading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye, she saw herself running through the streets of the city in a red jacket. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I glance out my window at the mini-mansion across the street, and I spot Darius stepping closer to the wide window on the second floor of his house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They walked up the street until they got to the bend of Carpenter’s Road where the boys lounged on a disused well. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In my early years, I wondered why it was so rare to catch a scythe out of his or her robes and in common street clothes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A hand had hoisted me up and I was dangling above the street and returned to my feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We went in a gas station and got directions and started walking east like the guy told us, along the busy street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I haven’t graduated from the track yet because even though I’ve been running every day for over two weeks now, Mom’s not allowing me to run streets for a while. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I have to be down the hill at CSA in an hour and now I can take the streets, for once, instead of tearing through the woods, trying to give Fry the slip. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Next we went to check on the house where the slaves we’d caught on the street was s’posed to be living. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Their voices faded into the early darkness as they headed across the street, leaving the quiet of King Hall to resettle behind them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If she were bleeding in the street, what would you do?” she asks. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Seeing his unconvinced expression, she added, “You know, one beer won’t land a person homeless on the streets.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He got away from Mr. Charrington and went down the stairs alone, so as not to let the old man see him reconnoiter- ing the street before stepping out of the door. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There were carriages going by on the street and I saw the trees in the park. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Marble monuments graced the wide streets of Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I turned back up the street, to the window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty paces of open street separated us from the shadows on the other side. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people coming home from work had filled the street for a while; now they thinned out, melted away into houses, out of sight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the square the white wicker tables and chairs of the Iruña extended out beyond the Arcade to the edge of the street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure, but it was right next to the freeway and on the busiest street in the city. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They continued being pressed into the crowd as the warriors from the back herded them forward, and continued moving carefully toward the side street. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a group of blacks responded with a thundering chorus of “We Shall Overcome.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lives on some obscure street in West Amsterdam, and none of us know where it is. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I look up and down the street but see no one, and anyway, Tiny never shuts up, so I would hear him if he were nearby. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

There is so much street noise that when he is on the phone and the windows are open, people often ask if he is calling from a pay phone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chess could have sworn every street in their neighborhood had sidewalks, but there wasn’t one here. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The long main street, with its two banks and the loud row of taverns, was enough to bring her back to the days of the dormitory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Fog on the sea, fog in the streets, fog in the mind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I ran to the street, which was unmarked by any wagon wheel, then veered off and ran through the pristine brush toward the river. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My notion was that every cell and street steward should know every person and family in his area, so that he would be trusted by the people and would know whom to trust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d take off out the door and through the dusty streets of Eden Park, clambering over walls, ducking through backyards. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Someone grabbed him by the neck and dragged him out on the street. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I looked away from the sea and back up the streets of Kuseben I found myself looking for Ashe in hopes he still was following me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Warren glances at the windows across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He unfolded a street map of the city and showed Gold the Castillo Street Bridge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She watched Ser Rodrik set off, striding briskly through the busy streets until he was lost in the crowds, then decided to take his advice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lena and I took Cap’s bus after school and found the right house, a well-kept split level on a quiet side street. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The street took a sharp turn and then ended in a flight of steps which led down into a sunken alley where a few stallkeepers were selling tired-looking vegetables. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And so, on our way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I taught Calista everything there was to know about New York—the streets and the avenues, express subways, bus stops. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling and walls are awash in neon blue from the liquor mart across the street. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From all the other houses down the street came sounds of music, pianos playing, doors slamming. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street passed a small park before it crossed another river. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York is very simple: the avenues run north to south, the streets run west to east. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The church was jam-packed and outside people crowded the streets as if for a parade. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t keep the picture of the streets clear in her mind. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Already a solidly packed crowd stood all over the sidewalks, the streets, on lawns, and behind the lines of the policemen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The world seemed askew somehow; the shadows fell in the wrong places here, or perhaps her eyes simply weren’t accustomed to the angles in the buildings and streets. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She carried the sleeping bird across the street in her hands. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Then stay in the streets; don’t come back here!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got an opportunity to put it to use that night when the Yugoslavian team decided to raise a ruckus down in the street. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He began walking again down the hot, deserted street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We were opposite one of those numerous little restaurants in a narrow street in Soho. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the trees that lined our street. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But this time they'd picked the wrong spot, and the movie doorman intervened and they ran back toward Ras's street meeting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rainbow flags waved on street corners around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We’ll rent a small bungalow on a side street several blocks from the Nielsens, four rooms downstairs and one up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And I began to see these two arms in relation— those who failed in the schools justified their destruction in the streets. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Suppose a soldier should see him sneaking into the Valley, or coming out of it with stolen gold, or should catch him walking about the streets right now, with that bundle under his arm. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was halfway home when I came on a section of the street that still had one or two dim lights. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They knew we were heading for the streets. Probably the explosion will throw them for a few minutes, then they’ll start looking for our exit point.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The community center is a couple of streets over on Ash. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’m practically running down one street and then the next, barely pausing for breath. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem—that's the ancient part of town inside the stone wall—he and the kids on his street liked to trade desserts after dinner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The house, like the others on the slanting hillside street, was a conventional suburban ranch house, pleasant and commonplace. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We headed down our street, me rolling slowly on my skateboard next to Mom. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They began to walk without another glance at the abandoned streets, the dead, empty houses, the gardens, the tombstones . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went out into the street and saw them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The bomb had demolished a group of houses two hundred meters up the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Bronx streets had become a fixture in my life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer parked in the street and walked to Chevalier’s front door. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their flight is at dawn and so they must leave in darkness, driving through streets so empty they are unrecognizable, a tram with its small single headlight the only other thing that moves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lkossa’s streets, it seemed, were only just beginning to stir, filling with people leaving their homes and setting up wares for the day. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She pretended not to see Jasmine when they passed on the street, especially when her former playmate was in the company of her son. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The ball coming off the steps had to clear the sidewalk and land in the street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dee and I cross the street and get in line and press ourselves together. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z