The entrance is easy to miss, a scratched-up glass door between a newsstand and a nail salon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom, I stared at the white tile hexagons on the floor and saw nothing but the crud in between them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In their rush to slip away, they’d left with few supplies, and riding in the gaps between train cars meant it was impossible to scavenge for food. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard work running back and forth between those cutting and those weaving. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would please Mamá and make her think all was well between her and Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I'd shout, and start running past women selling tomatoes or mangoes on the side of the road, dipping beneath the clotheslines that crisscrossed between the dozens of identical wooden slab shacks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her expression turned stony and the lines pulling between her brows and at the comers of her mouth seemed to harden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The central theme of the report was the rejection of the idea of integration between the races in favor of a policy of separate de-velopment of black and white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, the fraying relationship between Whitiker and her boyfriend fell apart and, without him to pay the rent, she fell further behind. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My life had diverged from my sister’s, and it felt as though there was no common ground between us. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The distance between the men and the errant robot was being cut down momentarily—more by the efforts of Speedy than the slow plodding of the fifty-year-old antique mounts of Donovan and Powell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Joan, marking the gulf between me and the nearly well ones. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Moreover it was agreed between Hwin and me that we should steal ourselves away together and we planned it in this fashion. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

To his right, the jungle’s trees still loomed like sentries; to his left, a barren expanse of russet dirt stretched several yards wide between the city’s edge and the jungles border to create a no-man’s-land. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As the balloon expands, the distance between any two spots increases, but there is no spot that can be said to be the center of the expansion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One good thing, between the downpour and the flooded banks, all signs of his hiding place have been wiped out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even though there's still some weird vibes between us, I feel safe. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But I know I don’t want things to be weird between us either. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And yet, as Polly said afterward, there was a sort of likeness between her face and his, something in the expression. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She relished the familiar feeling of the sticks rolling faster and faster between her palms, the smell of smoke and then the gradual warmth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

With every step she took into that tunnel between life and death, sensation washed over her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, Lev and I have only brought one bag between us, and Papa's viola. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the judge held his hand up, and Josiah, seeing this, left the stand carrying his hat between his fingers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the glass, between the slender white bars of their cribs, half a dozen babies are fast asleep. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He sees an open target with nothing standing in between. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He handed her the notebook, his finger holding a spot between the pages. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For some time now my grandmother had suspected the growing intimacy between Milton and Tessie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a strip of water between the island and the fill, and the man clung to the tree and cried for help. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We sat, and I could tell from the silence collecting between us that this was going to be a hard conversation—one neither of us wanted to start. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He slowly slid his fingers between her long and delicate fingers. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A couple of guys were shooting around and I knew they wanted to see what was going to go down between me and Nick. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As a reader works his way through a text, the next challenge is to keep track of the ideas that run through it and to discern the logical relationship between one idea and the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The paper disintegrates into mush between her teeth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thus it came about that a kind of affection grew up between the two boys, but it was more like an association between brother and sister than between brothers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was putting distance between himself and the family that had been completely open to him and given him everything. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The prospect of a united front between Africans and Indians, between moderates and radicals, greatly worried them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wedged him tighdy into the back seat of the car, between the two policemen to whom he was handcuffed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dill leaned down and kissed her on the spot between her ear and her jaw. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The cans would not last long between the two of us—in fact, I was loath to share even one with Richard Parker—and it would be foolish to rely on rainwater. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slid to the ground between a huge bag of rice and shelves packed with canned goods and spices. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Wow!” he says, glancing around at Chucha’s purple towel hanging from a peg, her purple mosquito net strung between two nails, her purple dresses draped over a chair. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The hoverpath wound through the smoking camp, over what streets remained between the charred ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Suheyla had said that it wasn’t a marriage anymore, whatever it was between them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The spirit world was thus a blurred zone between the material and the immaterial. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He still held her left hand between his. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to walk the road between Sillington House and mine. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Manhattan, where we lived, Fifth AV was the divider between the West Side and the East Side. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Interstate 35 goes from the Mexican border all the way up to Lake Superior, and some of the heaviest traffic is along the two-hundred-fifty-mile stretch between San Antonio and Dallas. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was a state neither of dreaming nor of waking, but somewhere in between, in which I was caught like Trueblood's jaybird that yellow jackets had paralyzed in every part but his eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mitraillette, weeping, tried to take my face between her hands to comfort me and shut me up. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’m certain that if a door shuts between us, it will lock and I’ll have to spend the night without him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took a few more steps, leaving at least twenty meters between us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But between the small man and the grown man, the point had been made. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In 1918, Fisher published his analysis in a paper entitled “The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Europe’s fragmentation did, and China’s unity didn’t, foster the advance of technology, science, and capitalism by fostering competition between states and providing innovators with alternative sources of support and havens from persecution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

These questions filled the gosling’s mind, and his feelings for his mother swung between love and confusion and anger. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The people had seen him a year now in between. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Some Marines know what to buy. Your father has some difficulty in telling the difference between treasure and garbage.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except the big difference, according to Aunt Nancy, between their first home and their last, is that Pennsylvania hills “have got nothing on the Sangre de Cristo.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Prison regulations stated that no child between the ages of two and sixteen may visit a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It annoys her that the waiter, perfectly attentive, looks neither of them in the eye as he describes the menu, speaking instead to the bottle of mineral water positioned between them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And after that I couldn’t stop picturing moles all over New York City, digging tunnels between Manhattan and Queens. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I quicken my pace to put more space between myself and that fear. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Attacks alternate with counter-attacks and slowly the dead pile up in the field of craters between the trenches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Javier curled into himself; his brown hands jerked up to his chest, and blood squirted out between his fingers. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Woven carbon thread ran slowly through the press, which sandwiched it between polymer sheets. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some discomfort stands between us now, and I know I don’t belong here anymore. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I shift, trying to find an open space between them, but I cannot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As to Mr. St John, the intimacy which had arisen so naturally and rapidly between me and his sisters did not extend to him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But this one was equipped with four shimmering blades—one each where the wheels of a groundcar would be—a cross between a normal hovercar and the rangers’ helicopter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was struck by the similarities between black and white people’s stories. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray’s raspy voice came sliding in between me and Love. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’d washed Mother’s china, which had never been used, and I began laying it out, eyeing the distance between each plate and knife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He felt that he could have run between the legs of the men on either side of him, or taken their bright daggers from their sheaths, while they still moved on undreaming. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No—no—please—as you were. With only two men for each officer, and all the men sick, I think we can do without the usual pageantry between officers and men.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He straightened his legs as best he could between the baskets and clothing bundles. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

James, who was standing between Emily and Matthew, had been swinging his head back and forth between brother and sister as their debate went on. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“If you’re not going to do the extra credit for Faraci, you need to ace every test between now and the end of the term.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Henry had stopped tapping the unlit cigarette on the side of the pack; it dangled loosely between his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I need a favor. Do you think between the two of you, you could finish my shift?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Halfway between Tower Hill Road and Margaret’s, in the middle of the campus, there is a suspension bridge over a deep gorge that had been carved out by the glaciers. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the spires sticking up from some of the roofs between us and the Masjid-e-Jameh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The kitties were between us and Nergal's crew, patrolling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Another supposed dichotomy that becomes blurred in reality is a distinction between food producers as active managers of their land and hunter-gatherers as mere collectors of the land’s wild produce. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fairy queen’s yellow curls reminded her of Amy, and between the acts she amused herself with wondering what her sister would do to make her ‘sorry for it’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the older woman did not have that old standoffish expression, did not speak stiffly with her eyes focused somewhere between Olanna’s face and the hand-carved paneling. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what the difference was between the two. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now she wore one layer of protection between herself and the replicative Other. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We always left home between six and seven in the morning so we could be among the front wave of people rushing the trucks as they came in, usually around ten. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The association between arsenic and cancer in man and animals is historic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My house was narrowly fitted between two mountains and a creek, but there was a small clearing behind Mom’s rose garden. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He laces his fingers through mine, and we let our arms swing together in the space between us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Siobhan recalled the conversation she had overheard a few weeks ago between her parents—the day after her father challenged the Wallace team to the game. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for my eyelids, I might not have believed any of the things that had passed between me and August. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man quickly moved toward her, and they started shouting louder and louder, even as the distance between them closed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“They have eyes. They can see whatever is between them,” Nathan said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a barrier between me and the world, and I thought for a moment that the world had never wanted me and now it was taking the opportunity to get rid of me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her expression lay somewhere between anger and disappointment but settled into a familiar look of annoyance as Ophie began to stammer out an excuse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

You could stoop down and pick a fallen petal, crush it between your fingers, and you had there, in the hollow of your hand, the essence of a thousand scents, unbearable and sweet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The heart of flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Satisfied on all counts, he hurried back the way he’d come, anxious to put distance between himself and the note. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The crofter’s village stood between two lakes, the larger dotted with small wooded islands that punched up through the ice like the frozen fists of some drowned giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The only difference would be the cigarette seemingly permanently fastened between their lips, rising and falling in accent as they spoke. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s true! He wore a gray suit to work! Did he have a gap between his teeth?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was crusted between my nostrils and lips, as if someone had clocked me right in the honker. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One false step, and he could slip right between the ties to the river. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Raskin wedged himself between us, yelling at us to break it up, and wrestled me away from Adrian. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It’s a good throw, and the blade goes end over end between the heads of the dinner guests before lodging squarely in the temple of the shambler. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He put out his leg, and the ball locked between the tops of the two players’ feet with a loud thwump. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But the entrance to the Underworld looked like a cross between airport security and the Jersey Turnpike. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned over and over between his sheets at night, attacked by the horrifying dreams, and then, when he woke, by the recollection of the truth, that waking was no better than sleeping. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

So it was Jesse who’d gone on the Web and, between bouts of Quake II, tom through various search engines and relevant Chicago websites. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes skip back and forth between El and me before taking her chili and walking out the door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For at that very second a disagreement broke out between Baroness Hoover and her husband: “We shall catch a play in London, dear. Will that make it all right?” he soothed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Nothing yet. But what I am bound to do will drive a wedge between me and you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Two hours later Alba felt a warm viscous liquid between her legs and saw that her slacks were stained with red. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of her life, she’d been pulled between following her heart and her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some big tears squeezed out between her fingers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches her hand between her legs and slips him inside her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Keyboard instruments were quite unique in that they had soft and loud settings - but no way of moving smoothly between the two. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Another obvious difference between seeds that we grow and many of their wild ancestors is in bitterness. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was not opposing the authorities but mediating between my own people and the men I had so long fought against. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A head pain caught her between the eyes at the taking in of such a wonderful sight. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, remembering all the times I woke to find Newcharlie sitting on the edge of his bed, with his hands hanging down between his knees, just staring out the window. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Snaking between the cars and trucks, he was racing toward the international divide, while Milton pursued, flashing his brights to get people out of the way. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When fighting between Spaniards and Incas finally did commence after Atahuallpa’s execution, the Spanish forces were more formidable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when she was between apartments, just moving into one or just moving out, she’d use my washer-dryer for her laundry. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black tiles covered the palace roof, many fallen or broken; the mortar between the stones was dry and crumbling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cooperation between students and staff and the focus on working-class issues were unusual, if not unique, among the campus protests of this era. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

However, between now and the average life expectancy of seventy-five, we will live about five hundred thousand more hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was always having to choose between decent hair and a good night’s sleep. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could see the Captain, British flagship, stationed between Long and Hancock’s Wharf, and over by Governor’s Island, the Lively, and beyond, the Mercury, the Magdalen, the Tartar. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm smart enough to read between the lines. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had hair coming out of funny places—like his ears, his nose, between his eyes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He rubbed it back and forth between my teeth so hard that foam came out of my mouth and my nose. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flung himself between me and the killer hogs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben does the same, like we’re in a secret club with energy passing between our hands. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I shoot Professor Ghering right between the eyes, just as I did Othello, then once more, because seeing a man so casually turned for some blowhard’s cause has put me in a fine temper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He swept between them as they practiced, looking just as much like an overgrown bat as ever, lingering to watch Harry and Ron struggling with the task. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was the only sound in camp, the only sound in Owens Valley, the mess hall bells, their gongs echoing between the Inyo Range and the nearby Sierras, their furthest ripples soaking into dry sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wedged between my pillow and the metal bed frame is a letter. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With my thoughts bouncing between my restless nerves and persistent determination, I missed the pastor’s entire sermon. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In 1507 the relationship between theory and evidence changed, and changed for ever. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gale had shattered some invisible barrier between us and, with it, any hope I had of resuming our old, uncomplicated friendship. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke with a French accent, and there was a gap between his front teeth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually there would be what is called a phase transition and the symmetry between the forces would be broken: the strong force would become different from the weak and electromagnetic forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused, saying it was a confidential matter between myself and my attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He alternated between running off to chase the dog and returning to hold her hand. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His knack for injecting himself into the cracks between warring political factions might have been interpreted as a sign of his independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Somehow Mark got his free hand up, slipping it between their two bodies and up to his foe’s neck. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Clouds float down between the steep green mountains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The length of the boat and the sleeping Lyra lay between them, or otherwise, he felt, they would have embraced and wept together. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As relationships between family and friends become strained or false, not only are people’s understandings of one another diminished, but, because people are social, they themselves are diminished as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I walk toward the community garden opposite the subway station, set right in between the basketball court and the playground. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The ruffians came tramping along the East Road, and without halting turned up the Bywater Road, which ran for some way sloping up between high banks with low hedges on top. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He hovered tenuously between life and death for three days. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

At school I found the principal and all the male teachers waiting for me, their faces cold and menacing, as they tested their canes between their hands. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a distance, the war between East and West—between communism and democracy—might have seemed like a simple choice between good and evil, black and white. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting at the kitchen table, looking out at the storm, a beer bottle between his hands. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stretch of shore had been as yet between us and the steamer’s smoke, by reason of the bend and wind of the river; but now she was visible, coming head on. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He frowns as he rubs the thin stuff between his fingers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For three days she hovered between the darkness and the light. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A swimming pool glowed between two glass towers with more balconies and restaurant decks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The jacket was the green of far forests, and needed cuffs to catch the sleeves between biceps and deltoids. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Gassendi saw no need to make an explicit distinction between the evidence of vestiges and the evidence of witnesses, but he certainly did not think that the scar ‘testifies’ to the wound. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Only sometimes I’d get too fast and my cards would fall between the slats of the bench onto the ground, and then we had to make the game pause while I picked them up. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing between us was ever planned—not even you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I can only say that after living so long with the birds and animals, the movement of a human is like the difference between the explosion of a cap pistol and a cannon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slotted one of his legs between hers and pressed himself in closer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny held his temples between his cupped hands and his eyes were bloodshot. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blow a long breath from between pursed lips. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sunlight glowed through the blanket between the shadows of overhanging trees while Fletcher made conversation with his horses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“What we’re going to see now is a demonstration of rapid oxidation. Quentin, tell us the difference between slow and rapid oxidation.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This, in his opinion, is the biggest difference between them, a thing far more foreign to him than the beautiful house she’d grown up in, her education at private schools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is important here to distinguish between teleological history—the notion that history has a purpose or goal—and retrospective history, which seeks to study history as a process of development. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Just between the two of us, I don’t think that accident affected him that much. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spend the night holding each other in some halfway land between dreams and waking. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think I can hear Evie crying, but when I go through to check on her, she’s sleeping deeply, her blanket clutched tightly between closed fists. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside this heap he put another of all the bones, dressed up with cunning and covered with shining fat, and bade Zeus choose between them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, I’m trying to explain to her the difference between dipping and polishing the silver, how only the tacky houses do the dip cause it’s faster, but it don’t look good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But when they privately conducted blind head-to-head taste tests of their own, they found the same thing: when asked to choose between Coke and Pepsi, the majority of tasters—57 percent—preferred Pepsi. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to tell the difference between idle threats and serious ones. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I love David so much, but right now there’s also the cracked earth between us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I placed even more faith in the charm my mother had given me, wearing it constantly between my breasts. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel's place and mine, it says open. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t expecting it, my hands were caught between us, fumbling against his body. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much difference between longing and greed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He does his best talking in stories, but in recent weeks, those had become few and far between. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon all traces of Dictionopolis had vanished in the distance and all those strange and unknown lands that lay between the kingdom of words and the kingdom of numbers stretched before them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air between them felt suddenly charged somehow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“They fed each other! That’s the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The principle of the Farm was work or die; but there were leniencies in practice-gaps between work and death, provided by the guards. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her eat her macaroni and cheese and fried chicken and green beans and coconut cake while I pushed my food around my plate between tiny bites. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

James, who was standing between Emily and Matthew, had been swinging his head back and forth between brother and sister as their debate went on. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So, I walk next to him, leaving a space between us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I heard sirens coming up the street, and I swear I would have stayed staring if it hadn’t been for the cop car that pulled up onto the sidewalk between us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But he did feel that there was something strange between the .young man and the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bottle of nectar wine sits between us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The difference between the intervals A to E natural and A to E flat is even more noticeable. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

‘Tardy as usual, Hippolytos. I hope your news is worth the wait. King Porphyrion should be . The ground between them split. An even larger giant leaped from the earth like a breaching whale. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Jefferson spoke for many of the participants caught up in this intensely partisan and nearly scatological political culture when he described it as a fundamental loss of trust between former friends. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I thought talking and not talking made the difference between sanity and insanity. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold extended his walking stick between the two men, trying to force his way through, but the tall man grasped him firmly by the shoulder. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The time of in between when it is neither day nor night, when nature seems to pause, to sigh and turn and prepare for another day. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been plowing all afternoon, holding a green cedar club between the plow handles. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The differences between the old service and the new can be summarized in this change. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vetch had been made sorcerer this fall and was a prentice no more, but that set no barrier between them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

John and his father stared at each other, struck dumb and still and with something come to life between them—while the Holy Ghost spoke. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She flexed her fingers, and a small shimmer danced between them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some carried ammunition boxes, the length of two cement bricks, between them, and others had semiautomatic machine guns and RPGs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Sefia would stop in the middle of the path to look up and watch them flickering between the tree trunks, and the boy would pause by her side, looking too. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Cartesianism, by making an unambiguous divide between the material and the immaterial, left it unclear how angels and demons might be present in the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The favorite hour was the golding time between five and six in the evening. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Although they never permitted matters to come to bloodshed, they still fostered these quarrels between them so that those citizens would not unite against them, being busy with their own disputes. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Skin would be shined with Vaseline, while the forgotten bits—between the fingers or at the elbows—turned a dull ash. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a few days he began to improve, and we braced ourselves for the nightly arguments between him and Grandma. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They watched silently as the undertaker inched through the field between the road and the house, his tires sinking into puddles of red mud. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now, although he had passed several adventures in between, he was still thinking of the lady’s advice and feeling wretched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes right up between me and my sister. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I got out cereal and milk, and it was so quiet between us that I was getting grossed out by the distinct sounds of our food-chewing processes. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giraffe passes between us, its long neck bobbing gracefully even in panic, and when it’s gone I see that Rosie has pulled her stake from the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I rolled his toes between my fingers, lost in the task. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nearly raised his hand to strike him, but did not move, for Elisha lay between them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Because the virtual photons between the plates can have only the resonant wavelengths, there will be slightly fewer of them than in the region outside the plates where virtual photons can have any wavelength. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor said, “I don’t really know. It’s two slices of bread with meat or cheese or peanut butter or something between them.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the girls handed it back to me, I looked at the map more closely and I saw once again that there were no houses or farms between us and Hacienda Dorada. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only difference between him and Fred was that his hair was long and wavy, while Fred had a buzz cut. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The debate between the ‘ancient commune’ and ‘eternal monogamy’ schools is based on flimsy evidence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pounding of her feet echoed through the tomb as she ran between the sarcophagi for Damaris, the sword of the ancient king. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The other option is to listen in on very brief snippets of conversation between each doctor and his or her patients. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Every step was reluctant, and time seemed to slow its pace, so that between the raising of a foot and the setting of it down minutes of loathing passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“It will be better if I take him with me now, with his tail between his legs.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a magnetic field between the anchors and the citadel,” Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, was telling Kether, artist of siege engines, in the guildhall dining room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond it a rutted lane ran between low well-laid hedges towards a distant clump of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As casual as they strove to seem, they both felt something momentous take shape between them, and—though she didn’t for a minute question his intentions—something intimate, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She and Bunny had a relationship the likes of which I had seldom seen except in couples married for twenty years or more, a relationship which vacillated between the touching and the annoying. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Wildly, I lunge; sloppily, the weight between my legs uneven. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A sentence on the back advised: Plan to see Vermont’s fall foliage between Sept. 25 and Oct. 15th when it is at its vivid best. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maniac lies between the two brothers, on the bed. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gingerly, I walked up the driveway where tufts of weed now grew between the sun-faded bricks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful day, with the sun streaming down between puffy clouds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was there, between the two trees, that the village sometimes gathered to sing and talk around a big f ire. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t, because I was unable to distinguish between the fictional story and the factual backdrop. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The men sat on one side and the women on the other with an aisle in between. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood still for a moment between the fields and the house and reminded myself that I was in a hostile place. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There's another sign, a long vertical one that hangs like a drape between two columns. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t touch her after that, and in the morning there was no acknowledgment of what had passed between them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of these was a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Underwood holding a small baby between them. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If I do, you have to promise that it stays between us.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

By the time we emerged into the evening gloom to the uproar and bustle of the striking workers, the distance between us had grown even greater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the first few minutes I concentrated on die circular light, but finally, drawing in my chin, I looked down to see that Luce was holding the crocus between his thumb and forefinger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Put her in an asylum, Helen. It’s the humane thing to do,” Mrs. McCraw said between bites of cinnamon nut cake. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mother’s tone, Dedd can already hear the distance that will come between her parents. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Cora asked everyone on the farm sooner or later, the farm being its own kind of depot, attracting people who were between places. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

You stretch the string tight between your two hands, but you start by keeping it very short, only about three inches. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She raised herself from the pillow, holding her head between her hands. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

This idea hangs between us, almost visible, almost palpable: heavy, formless, dark; collusion of a sort, betrayal of a sort. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked into the goddess’s eyes, and some kind of understanding passed between them. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I took another piece of potato and mashed it between my teeth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When Harry had taken his place between Ron and Hermione, she said, “Wetll be repotting Mandrakes today. Now, who can tell me the properties of the Mandrake?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I count down from three as we swing toward each other, closing the small distance between us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Relations between the United States and Vietnam are now friendly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even at the cemetery, they stood apart from each other, a huge distance between them even though they were side by side. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were split between admiration and wariness of his dangerous presence among them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station—seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Planks of wood stretched across the tanks with netting in between. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had had dreams as a child, dreams every child had, of the witch who chased him down dark alleys, between lawn trees, and finally into rooms from which he could not escape. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk all the way to this Little League field that's halfway between my house and school. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I fall between her legs, I fall on top of her, we sink . . . and then we’re twirling, spinning in the water, me on top, then her, then me, and giggling, and making bird cries. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow palmed it in his right hand, classic palm, then produced it from between his third and fourth fingers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There were only two years between them—well, two and a bit. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When Groves met with Uranium Committee members in Chicago, they told him it would take somewhere between ten and one thousand pounds of uranium to make an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when we arrived at the village we saw the homed day-moon fixed exactly between the two dark mesas at the southern end of the valley! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilse took a drink of water, and then setting the glass down, twirled it a few times between his thumb and fingers. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingertips traced up the length of her arm, and paused to roll the fine silk strap between them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He peered with elaborate caution between branches at the edge and could see Robert sitting on guard at the top of the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They drifted between rows of kelp as tall as apartment buildings. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He walked primly between the benches from Jerusalem to Jericho. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in between my mom and brother since my dad was off getting a better camera angle. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, between the man and yourself, there will be a gamma ray field.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In addition, Pilate wanted to make peace between them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Bull darted between the trees, not laughing anymore, just running with Virgil’s backpack in his hands. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For so long now, I’d felt torn between their worlds—so different, and yet so much the same. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the road in between, everything I see is like a vision. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing between two trees, one hand on her hip, is Fina. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jennifer and Emma are at the kitchen table, a stack of flash cards between them so the quizzing of division facts can continue. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Benny’s black instrument case sat on the floor between us. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She has more than 2,500 miles between her and what’s coming. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The farther west the trail went, the higher it was; the pines were tall and thick, and brushy pinon and cedar filled the spaces between the big trees, blocking out nearly all the light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris said the time between Christmas and spring was always the longest time of the year. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They turned out of the lane that ran between tall houses and the outer wall of the fourth circle, and they regained the main street climbing up to the Citadel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But because two handlers were strolling up the center aisle between the rows of cages. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Harry lurked between the parlor and the hall so that he could watch the front door for the great arrival. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She had another two tucked under her arms, and one held between her chin and her chest. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My breath falters, and my body, traitor that it is, tugs me forward until there are only inches between us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was deep in thought, wriggling his bare toes into the gaps between the paving stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I will be the hero, the one who put herself between the traitors and her king. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She stuck her head between her legs and stayed like that. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe this moment right now between my dad and me is the meaning of today. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the third grade I could distinguish between venial and mortal sin. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, it was a long business to get anything done between us, with Mother laughing and egging each of us on by turn. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They moved silendy between the hedge and window to watch the tea parties from deep shade. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their quarrels, there was a deep bond between her father and the brother he had once disowned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Selaesori Qhoran was a wallowing tub of five hundred tons, with a deep hold, high castles fore and aft, and a single mast between. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She shifted the particles across the yawning emptiness between them, this way and that, until a new whole emerged. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I watch the Spec from between a man’s work boots. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The lanterns were spaced far apart here, and the shadows between them looked deep enough to fall into. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Before the moment ignites, I step in between the two of them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were so many piles, you had to wriggle through their apartment in little pathways between the clutter, like you were stumbling through a tight maze. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He nodded toward the rolling pack of Grievers between them and the Cliff—they looked like one big mass of rumbling, spiked blubber, glistening with flashes of lights off steel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I reached up and twisted a few strands of his straight gray hair between my fingers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked between us once and retreated back into the tent, only to reemerge a second later looking torn between confusion and worry. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For a brief second, Cole felt a furry head pass between his back teeth and he willed his jaws together with every ounce of strength he could gather. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

So Sarai rose to her toes, erasing the last little gap between their flushed faces. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He could take a hundred-pound flour sack between his legs and scissor it open without thinking. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In discussing the ANC’s policy of nonviolence, he emphasized that there was a difference between nonviolence and pacifism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that half-world between sleep and wakefulness, I can almost hear the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of the arc welder at the little machine shop by the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He patted himself somewhere between his heart and belly. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Their height is variable, ranging between two and four feet of our measure. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to talk about that," he gasps out in between deep breaths. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The monster army cheered for the Minotaur, but the sound died when I dodged his first swing and sliced his axe in half, right between the handholds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I drop the sickles, and as I fall to my knees someone kicks me again in the back, the boot digging deep between my ribs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Values between 0 and 255 can be expressed as 2 hexadecimal digits. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let the gritty goo slip between the tines of the fork and plop back down onto his plate. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If you bleed into the third space, you bleed into the space between the skin and the flesh. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All it takes is one hitting you between your eyes and you’re done. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was fiercely racial in spite of his stupendous hatred of his race and he had a theory that marriage between two of alien races would result in mongrel children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because as I watched the school district offices recede into the distance, I was certain that the old dynamic between Dell and Mai and me was over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The distance between us will never go away or change. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In the far corner, a tall desk was wedged into an alcove between a bookcase and a window. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If there’s a thunderstorm or fireworks or a lot of sirens Devon lets me sit in the hidey-hole in the corner between the foot of his bed and his dresser. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A candle flickered between the settings, and the first floor of the house was fit a soft gold. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Something trotted in bouncing dips between two trees. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wanted him close enough to feel excluded, to be aware of the distance between them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jody pulled a swollen tick out of Mutt’s neck and popped it dead between his thumbnails. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time he saw a white-robed woman—maybe a nymph or a goddess—holding a wicked-looking knife, slipping between ruined columns in a public park. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was awake and dressed, pacing the narrow corridor between the beds, before the four-thirty bell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The most obvious sign of the difference between the Physics Department and the Rad Lab was the divergence in their research budgets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then an eerie voice sounded, halfway between a house cat and something wilder. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After another couple of hours, they stumbled across a tiny village between the railroad tracks and a two-lane road. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It weighs between two and four tonnes, the female being larger than the male. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither man’s pronunciation was very good: they had six teeth between them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found him three houses down the street, leaning against the wall at the entrance of a narrow-mouthed alley between two adjacent houses. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because our yards meet up with the orchard between us. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The distance between him and the horses grew longer and longer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She sits before the gray computer, and Jasmin stands between her legs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Pools of the stuff dotted the narrow space between the buildings and the line of poles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s that direction, but still a ways south. It’s actually between Chatfield and Bruins.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he should hop another train to put more distance between him and the events from the night before. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She entered the classroom and maneuvered her way between the desks. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And she's looking up at him, but the camera is between them. Like no matter what happens, she can document it.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is true that there has often been close cooperation between the ANC and the Communist Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vanguard passed through the trenches of fire by many devious paths that had been left between them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I throw these books across the room and even kick some of my favorites off their shelves because the line between favorites and books that will never be favorites doesn’t matter anymore. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

What is the interval between the mode and the major key with the same key signature? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had so much energy that he bustled back and forth between Billy and the scouts, delivering dumb messages which nobody had sent and which nobody was pleased to receive. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It filled the space between a pair of party towers, a squat teapot between two slender glasses of champagne. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Things were even thawing slightly between Cap and my daughter. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If they’d left more space between the old cabins and the new cabins it would have spared a lot of grief over the years. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Showerheads line one wall, with see-through plastic curtains between them. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Creeping between the bushes and the side of the house, we heard voices and laughter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have three uncles on my dad’s side and two memories between them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It showed a glacier with a curious serpentine shape, flowing down between three almost identical mountain peaks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And all we could think about was putting distance between us and them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There may be interaction, too, between a physical and a chemical agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We sat on the log, and I made sure there was a foot or so of space between us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The director’s eyes dart back and forth between the battle with the bat hybrids overhead and the fight going on in the hallway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She went to bed sometime between eight and eight-thirty only to be startled awake later when a horse-and-wagon clattered past her window at high speed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Linda paused again, but there was a gentleness between her words. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A pillow molded itself under my head, and my body floated, without pressure, between thin sheets. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Get out! Get out of here!” yelled the man, brandishing his broom so menacingly that the terrier tucked his tail between his legs and fled, soaking and miserable, towards his waiting companions. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arguments arose between the FAFs, the Fresh Air Friends, who wanted a hatch open, and the FUGs, the Fetid Undergrounds, who argued against letting out the heat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She puts the soccer ball between her knees and smacks them both. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

His tongue lolled out between his sharp yellow teeth, licking his colourless lips. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It took weeks for an inmate in the general population to get an appointment with a therapist, and the wait between appointments, once a relationship had been established, also seemed to be weeks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he came up with a sketchy plan: he would travel west and south, putting as much distance as possible between himself, North Korea, and border patrol soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise sat between her brother and Henry, who had listened soberly to her account of Mr. Tuffett’s state of mind. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He wiped the snowflakes from his eyelashes and fiddled with the dirty buttons on the front of his thin jacket, rubbing them between his fingers the way he had rubbed the cover of his notebook. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was something—something he could glimpse between them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down in wonder at his split knuckles and at the blood that flowed down between his fingers. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants me to choose between taking the Trials and deserting. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as he saw the Mark come up, he alighted a little way out in the field, halfway between the undergrowth and the sentry line, and began pecking about in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

People had raised flags and put up clotheslines between them. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘But when the Door opens I do not think you will be able to drag your Bill inside, into the long dark of Moria. You will have to choose between Bill and your master.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He eases down next to me, keeping a careful distance between us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I sat, wrapped up with a handsome thief, an orphan boy and a newborn baby between us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the walls between the arches hung tapestries woven with scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, tales of gods and humans transformed by love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The isolation only worsened what the press had begun calling the “credibility gap”—the gap between what Johnson was telling the public and what the public believed was really happening in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the decade that followed, an edgy peace between labor and management settled on our town, broken only by intermittent strikes, usually quickly settled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So the race between predator and prey remains exquisitely neck and neck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also marked the start of a war between the two that became increasingly bitter, underhand, and often ridiculous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The clean-jawed spook reached down and twisted Shadow’s ear between finger and thumb. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The boys move only their eyes, only their thoughts, tracking in their minds the passage of the two officers as they move between tables, seeking out the next boy whose father has been killed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Something had changed within her when she looked into the Queen’s eyes; now there was a bond between them, Fairy Queen and human girl. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Have they caught you too?” he said between parched lips. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now I am the one letting my words just sit there in the space between us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not that I wouldn’t have called them that, much less given just about anything to sit between them. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A boy holding a pencil between his hands, studying it with a terrifying intensity—the pencil bursting into flames. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There began to be more space between the trees, and the shrubs grew closer to the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He wondered if her tears were for him or for herself or for what might have been between them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve worked for Gringotts ever since I left Hogwarts. As far as there can be friendship between wizards and goblins, I have goblin friends—or, at least, goblins I know well, and like.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Vivian plucked a single peanut from the bowl and held it between her thumb and forefinger and studied it for a while. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jehovah’s Witnesses took the Bible as the sole rule of faith and believed in a coming Armageddon between good and evil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe a few months ago I wanted to grope the breasts skewed between the straps of her translator. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vice Principal Marten patrols the parking lot between classes, making sure only students with passes escape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The crowds that pressed around the cars were so dense there was no space between people and they blended into one another, wrappers blended into T-shirts, trousers into skirts, dresses into shirts. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

This road narrowed and ran straight between fields of tall, ripening corn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that sometimes, about what that must have been like, and I wonder if that explained the tension between him and my dad. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the study, between bottle sips of brandy, he attempts to work. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The weight of finality—so heavy that it felt like a physical thing—hung in the air between us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Bloomberg dear!” she said, and kissed him fervently between the eyes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dad tells me a few more times, between my holiday shifts at Pagoda and his new meditation routine, that he thinks I’m cool. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

These patterns emphasize the differences between the stronger and weaker beats to help the performers keep track of where they are in the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The distance between Mesoamerica and South America—say, between Mexico’s highlands and Ecuador’s—is only 1,200 miles, approximately the same as the distance in Eurasia separating the Balkans from Mesopotamia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her tongue was clenched between her teeth, and her eyes were fixed on the surface before her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We practice in levels from past championships and everything in between. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A single line of twine runs between the table and the bathroom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The summer between his sophomore and junior years Chris again returned to Annandale and took a job delivering pizzas for Domino’s. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So was the gap between black children’s test scores and those of white children. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Like the long finger of blinding power that plays between two terminals, except that this was a thousand miles high and ten thousand miles long: dipping, soaring, undulating, glowing, a cataract of glory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later she was in the doorway, looking at me, the expression on her face somewhere between disbelief and disgust. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He takes off his scarf, shakes it out, and wipes the stripe of brow between my hat and goggles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That was nice, too, the quiet between us, disturbed only by birds singing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fiona kept a pot of wormy garden dirt pressed between her knees. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Until that moment, I had not understood the depth of the volatility between blacks and whites in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I obsessed over the distance between that other sector of space and my own. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

During “weeding combat,” which occurred between June and August, primary school students worked from four in the morning until dusk pulling weeds in corn, bean, and sorghum fields. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

An idea came, and he ran out onto the quayside, right into the empty space between the gunners and the bear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was no goat’s-hair blanket between them, so Lefty covered his eyes with his hands, peeking through his fingers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it when she sat next to me, propping her backpack between us so she wouldn’t catch any of my cooties. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I nodded then stuck the stem of the gardenia in the open buttonhole, where it flopped in the wide space between my soon-to-be breasts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you think something’s going on between my dad and your mom?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these stories were bound to be true, and some were not; to discover the line between, I decided to walk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s quite a hug: full body, no space between them, Cal whispering something in her ear the whole time. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As the earth and Jupiter orbit around the sun, the distance between them varies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lame Einar took up his sticks again; he righted himself between them, for balance, and went slowly away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Private George Washington Buck, former sergeant, had a place to himself, wedged between two rocks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The link between Norman warfare and Victorian foxhunting is perfect. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the mom kept wiping his face in between taking drags off her cigarette. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s definitely some chemistry between us—so much, in fact, it gets overwhelming at times and I have to get away from her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A moment later, though, a frown came between her eyes as she watched his trembling hand place his cup back in its saucer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arch into him, reveling in his strength, his fire, the alchemy between us twisting and burning and melding until it feels like gold. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her face is tired, but her eyes are wide, reflecting the small lamp between our beds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The highway between them is bumper to bumper. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three others monitored the metal detector and pat-frisked inmates as they passed through the short tunnel between the mess hall and the bridge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Portia spoke in a low voice, and she neither paused between words nor did the grief in her face soften. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The breath that came from between his chapped lips was hot and dry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were no more words between them so I led my mother to the room that Ma Charles and Miss Trotter now shared. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She would squeeze his hand between her fingers, which had grown more callused and hard at Manzanar, and he would squeeze back, and they would return to their weeding. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thousands who ride freight trains must hop between seven and thirty trains to get through Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You know that’s not true,” she mumbles, holding a needle between her teeth. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the silence between us, he began to hear the world crying.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For all the talk in the late 1920s about the links between genes and identity, the gene itself appeared to possess little identity of its own. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Either way, such moments were few and far between, and it felt good to laugh, as it did to see Trina’s face fight up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I held the steel seat with my hands between my legs so I wouldn’t fall over when we took the curves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a whoop, or a screech, it was about halfway in between. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was pulled into a tight line, eyes darting back and forth between me and the direction of Martin’s voice. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She also kept a fight from breaking out between the children of Mars and the children of Ares over the best way to kill a hydra. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys, and my boxers between us, I thought. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Baxter is clasped tightly between the man’s legs, like the winning grip of a wrestling match. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of times she noticed me hanging on the dock, and she waved, and I waved back, and it was this secret between us that thrilled me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He’s acting like what happened between us didn’t happen, so I am too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He would put down the hammer to pick up the “How to” book and then lose the hammer between there and the project he was working on. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each wave would be oscillating back and forth between the state on the right and the one on the left. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She’s a year older than me, and between her and Janae, I know all about what to expect for applying to college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The boy was sitting with both hands on top of his head and looking out between his forearms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Crow,” said Mr. Benson, the pilot who spent much of his time at the grocery between jobs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But even as he pulls away, I know that the space between us has changed permanently. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yes, there still is a huge difference between the lifestyle of the average New Guinean and that of the average European or American. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a small table with a Kleenex box against the wall between the two chairs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now I didn’t have to feel bad about the imbalance of secrets between us. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Now the man laughs, and his laugh echoes up between the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They ate their poor meal cold and lay down in their bedding with the lamp between them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They installed me at the marquetry table with some harmless dummy documents to work on—finding the best connections between French rail and bus timetables and making a list of them in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I glanced back up and shrugged, bread between my fingers like a pinch of cotton. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The towel was thin and rough between my hands, a carpet burn of a cloth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They slide onto a cushioned bench with a high back and sides, the door on one side clicking closed as Poppet settles in between Bailey and Widget. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time he saw a huge difference between the way the bodyguard treated him and how everyone else did. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome knew what I was, as suddenly I did, too, for the first time clearly understood that I wasn’t a girl but something in between. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“They think he intends to use Dust in some way in order to make a bridge between this world and the world beyond the Aurora.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was touched, sitting across from him in a cafe and feeling between them the warm affinities of something shared. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

South strode Éomer and men fled before his face, and they were caught between the hammer and the anvil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto’s long- cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The workers scurried between the bins and the generator or simply stood and watched the thing shake. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His warm canteen was empty, and he was too distraught to remember the lister bag hanging outside in the shade between the two tents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I’ve just run into a wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A seam appeared in the deck between two planks, and water started bubbling through. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He pushed up and then threw himself backward, crushing Will between himself and the parapet, and that was too much; all the breath left Will’s body, and in the shock his hands loosened. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched between the boulders and laid his head against the rock to look up at the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sit down across from her at the table and put the vial of memory serum between us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a question that dogged me through my first month, even as I began to settle in, even as I got used to the predawn wake-ups and navigating between buildings for class. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I use an air rope launcher to connect a thin cable between two buildings. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

From a historical perspective, however, the lack of correlation between crime and punishment is nothing new. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

How could principle, an abstract thing floating in the air, wedge itself so solidly between them, and turn Blaine into somebody else? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the pain suggested by dissonance - the clashing of adjacent notes - is almost entirely absent from music written between 1750 and 1800. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Old ladies, hustlers, and everybody in between pay him to fix their computers and phones. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He caught hold of the back of Fang’s jacket and I shoved my way toward him and together we jerked upward until Fang was wedged between us and we started dragging him away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The meal was served by three novices, well-scrubbed girls of good birth between the ages of twelve and sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The reactions may be between two or more chemicals, or between chemicals and the radioactive wastes that are being discharged into our rivers in ever-increasing volume. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Griffith’s identification of a chemical capable of carrying hereditary instructions between organisms—the “gene molecule”—would have sparked a thousand speculations and restructured the chemical theory of life. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The triumph of the automobile encouraged not only a geographic separation between buildings, but also a manmade landscape that was loud and bold. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

But the relationship between opera and the populace could not have been more different in Italy, where opera was a popular art form. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In it were no tables, but a bright fire was burning in a great hearth between the carven pillars upon either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Just alike. Both of you. Never was no difference between you. Want some oranges? It’s better for you than chop suey. Sula? I got oranges.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

From there, we rode together back to the house without a word passing between us. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This grudge between our camps...I can fix it.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He has written mysterious things on the lines that he draws between cities. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I moved from one bed to the next, peeking through the gaps between the curtains. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My Maxim laughed and sang, threw stones into the water, took my hand, wore no frown between his eyes, carried no burden on his shoulder. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She get the same wrinkle between her eyebrows when she worried, like her mama. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The discomfort between the two friends has fallen away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever hit her!” he snarled at Jordan between clenched teeth. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tuffett gripped the edge of his desk and said between clenched teeth, “For that bit of impudence you may remain one hour after school, young lady!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Theo is a man of the world, and he understands how to navigate the line between passion and presentation; Vincent does not. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’s running alongside the train, ducking to look between its wheels. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It seems we must proceed on foot, Mister Xuan. Run if you like, but expect a sharp and fatal pain between your shoulder blades.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When he told me I had a chance at freedom of body and soul, he knew he’d force me to pick between keeping my soul and losing it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In any case, it is a string of notes that follow one after the other and that belong together in the music.The articulation is what happens in between the notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She looked up into the branches of the cedars and breathed in their perfume, and he moved his lips over her collarbones and then down into the space between her breasts. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Uncle D, who was probably used to being between his mother and grandmother, was already in the truck. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

That sharp, piercing love pain stabbed her right between the ribs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Listening to Ellen, a stranger would have almost believed that the marriage, which subsequent events would indicate had not even been mentioned between the young people and the parents, had been actually performed. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ampleforth marched clumsily out between the guards, his face vaguely perturbed, but uncomprehending. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But during the high school all-star football game in July at the Astrodome between players from the north regions of Texas and ones from the south, he had felt an intense pain in his back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins sat between them, offended and silent, and presently, because they were very tired, they crept closer to her and leant up against her sides and fell asleep, still wondering.... Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

In early June my sister Gerry took me to school, but after a hurried conference between Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Flynn, I was promoted to the fifth grade and moved to a new school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We ride on through a cavern, between pillars of roots, over packed earth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Menzer finally left, and Mom pulled away first, holding me by the shoulders and leaving a gaping empty space between us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It sounded if she had a cigarette between her lips. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Moss was familiar with this particular dance between Esperanza and her parents. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I learned that no matter what I physically lost on that journey between countries, my history never changed. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He slows the speed down, gasping out words between breaths. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“And don’t you dare to eat any of it yourself. Your Aunt Spiker and I are going to have it between us right here and now, half each. Get on with you! Up you go!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking between Nicole and me, her arms over our backs. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

These three volumes were found to be a work of great skill and learning in which, between 1403 and 1418, he had used all the sources available to him in Rivendell, both living and written. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jacob’s heart is pounding as he looks between the cruel men with their lazy sneers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But as I think about it, I see that a lot of the difference isn’t between you and me. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an open brawl out there now between some of our guys and some of theirs, but the referee did not blow his whistle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body plops to a table between our pods. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At this stage in her life Briony inhabited an ill-defined transitional space between the nursery and adult worlds which she crossed and recrossed unpredictably. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That makes me laugh because I know Malachy and I have four hands between us and one glove would be silly. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I poked my head between the front seats. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

This time the women were charged with “congregating in the park,” “holding a meeting without a permit,” or “building a bonfire on a public highway between sunrise and sunset.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They stared at her intently, curling their lips between their teeth and biting down. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ash sat down across from her and put the bread and cheese between them, and the huntress began to slice the apple as she spoke. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A broad river divided itself into two streams and on the island between them stood the city of Tashbaan, one of the wonders of the world. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She slid the berries in between her lips, still holding her hair, the canes rebounding in quiet arcs when she freed the berry caps from their cores. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But this only made Moon Orchid groan louder, and tears seeped out between her closed eyelids. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because nothing between me and Ice is on the program so you know it’s not happening.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And though she wants to apologize, to make things right between them, she’s afraid that anything she says now will ring hollow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The barrier between things was thinner, easier to pass through. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mother’s been trembling, torn between the terror that I’ll screw it up and glee that I actually like men. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When he described driving from Colby to Charlotte to Greenville and everywhere in between, she said, “It must be so fun to go to all those different places.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She slipped her arm between two crate slats and stretched it out as far as she could. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up at this bizarre light fixture while standing between two cracked and peeling, yet somehow still majestic, horned carousel stallions, all I can think about is watching the solar system episode in Mom’s lap. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It is understood between us by now that it is never too late, but I go through the ritual politeness of asking. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when we made a move towards her, she too came forwards, and—perhaps I imagined it—tucked her shoulders in tightly as she passed between us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the huge divide now between Johnson and King, it was a profound loss shared by the two men. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She feels its absence between her thumb and forefinger. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wedged himself down between two big rocks and sat totally still. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The conflict was mostly geopolitical, with a long-standing border dispute between both nations. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Fights between bears were common, and the subject of much ritual. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The notes are very connected; there is no space between the notes at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I sat in the back row, carsick and dizzy, sandwiched between the seven-year-old twins who kept reaching over my lap to slap at each other. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a difference between jumping off a cliff and having fun. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ivy and June whispered and giggled all the way back to the gym, papers crinkling between them. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The last category is what stands between the contestants and the big money, and Mom says it doesn’t help that some of these celebrity partners are as dumb as a bag of hair. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He held out his hand, pinched the Tic Tac between his thumb and pointer finger, flipped it into his mouth — and promptly threw up onto my sneakers. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying awake in the City, Ash could hear Gwen’s steady breathing in the dark, and she felt the distance between her and Sidhean for the first time, and it made her long for him. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the nurse had asked Grace if she wanted to, and she ignored her mother’s worried eyes, her lip caught between her teeth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are more than frantic moments of chaos. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some tear apart bedsheets for diapers; a few find newspapers and fold those into triangles and pin them between their babies’ legs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d wrapped his scarf around his mouth, and between that and the wind howling down Central Park West, it was impossible to understand what he was saying. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s me,” he muttered, crouching down between them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I listen, but succumb to anxiety—lose all distinction between left hand and right—fumble the musket—find myself marching into my companions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As a new decade dawned in the Cold War, the struggle between America and Russia was quickly spreading around the globe—and into the skies above. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angry enough to pull away from his grip and put some space between them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

‘Well, it did not skewer me, I am glad to say,’ said Frodo; ‘though I feel as if I had been caught between a hammer and an anvil.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The process was endless because between each call there was a line of cars waiting to be filled with gas and oil, and all this had to be done with a stately slowness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they stood between the teeming crowds of people and the increasingly sensational cakes on display, searching for some way they might possibly be needed. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I lowered my head, dodging people, passing people, growling, pushing between them to get farther and farther away. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There is a small negative correlation between death rates per thousand people in various regions of the country and divorce rates per thousand marriages in the same regions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I motion for Suma to remain at the back of the line, sandwiching the three of them between us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Almost always, between loves, they would eat naked in the bed, in the hallucinating heat and under the daytime stars that the rust had caused to shine on the zinc ceiling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The first story, about the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, is out of sequence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Keeping Peace in The Family Octavia also managed to keep the peace between her brother and her husband as their arguments heated up and their disagreements escalated. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Kali and Janaki between them had to show me how to milk the goat, how to plant seed, how to chum butter from milk, and how to mull rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

These learners think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was that evening, shortly before dinner, that I overheard the conversation between Mr Lewis and M. Dupont. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stops with literally six inches between us and looks down at me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then like black smoke on the wind it recoiled and fled, formless, down the water towards the bright gate between the cliffs. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He slithered between the battering branches like a snake and placed his front paws upon a knot on the trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As much as I loved our adventure, I was always on the lookout in between just looking. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a strange disconnect between what he saw and the way his mind processed it—or rather, didn’t process it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Just over and over and over, without barely any rest in between. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were long, dark alleyways between the historical buildings, hidden paths, secret entrances, and a few unsavory occult shops where only the most mysterious villagers seemed to congregate. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It gave her something to focus on as she continued the agonizingly slow ascent between the dark, damp walls. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Take your hands off me," I said between my teeth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The lines, the connections you see between all things. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“They guard the portal between our worlds. We have managed to buy some time, and I was able to slip past...” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Milo turned livid with indignation, his slim long nose flickering spasmodically between his black eyebrows and his unbalanced orange-brown mustache like the pale, thin flame of a single candle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Belet ended the call and dangled the phone between her fingers, clearly not happy about what she just agreed to. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He flopped down between me and Zooey and grabbed the remote, which was my cue to leave. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We met at a restaurant north of Tampa, which was about halfway between our homes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He thanked Steve Jobs, or, at least, quoted the Apple cofounder: In the first sixteen to eighteen years of our lives, we have lived between 140,160 hours to 157,680 hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She drove the car and trailer on paved and dirt roads between Norfolk, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and North Carolina. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as a human being, a collection of 100 trillion cells, is typically in a steady state between synthesis and decay and is more than the sum of its parts, so also is a galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When pressed to explain the discrepancy between his hypothetical antislavery position and his actual dedication to self-imposed paralysis, he tended to offer several different answers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We get out of the trucks at the divide between our world and theirs—whoever “they” are. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was such a gulf between my insides and outsides, between what was in my heart and what I was putting into the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Blue and endless, it lay between her and freedom. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bird and beast and stone and star—we are all one, all one——” murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Pseee,” Sam called, squeezing air between his teeth to make a bird sound. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They would switch from Farsi to English between sentences, or sometimes even within them, and me and Dad would be left out. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Bigger,” his mother’s voice came low and quiet; she caught his face between the palms of her trembling hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta spent most of her time separating out the different poems; and in between, she read them. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine that it was actually located between a woman’s legs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I do so want things to be all right between us. August is simply delighted you’ve joined us. And so is Uncle Al.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Why do I need ... ,” I began as I turned around to see Ada Taylor standing before me, a green wooden counter and a thick awkwardness between us. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I made special note of which two trees the dawning sun appeared between and set my sights for the opposite direction. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the library will become filled with books with the trapped world of prisoners' thoughts concealed between the lines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Mr. Daniels moves his king, placing it on a black square between his own bishop and my knight. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Alex reaches over and takes Henry’s free hand into his own, lacing their fingers together on the console between them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She’d put on some bright orange lipstick and this made her face look whiter than usual and the skin between her eyelashes and eyebrows look bruised. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was under the delusion that the war between the states would be resumed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is important here to distinguish between the impact of the telescope and that of the microscope. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He tucked the tobacco in his mouth, between his cheek and jaw. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was as much of a lesson in that, Willow had explained, as in anything she had been told by anyone about life or death or the stages in between. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Was” is the difference between salvation, and doom. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m reading a little between the lines here, but I actually don’t think Blue has ever kissed anyone. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to worry. I promise. There’s nothing between Moody and me.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yet as the dusk deepened and darkness seeped into the hollows between the trees, Jon's sense of foreboding grew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My dear Emma,” said he at last, with earnest kindness, “do you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between the gentleman and lady we have been speaking of?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

This all seemed like a game to Twig, a strategic board game come to life, and I was tom between telling her to take this seriously and joining in. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No noise of the falls could be heard, for a long southward slope lay now between them and the ravine in which the stream flowed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My father finally broke the silence between me and David, saying that it was time for us to get my stuff up to the dorm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Fig seemed to sense my exasperation and planted his chonky body between me and my nemesis. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once I have stepped between the magic gateposts, will I find myself through the protective barrier, the spell broken? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a muffled argument between a man and a woman who were very far away. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I went over and sat between her and Charles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It rolled on its side, and the water ran down between the planks of the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But your father was a man torn between two halves, Amir jan: you and Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to Lake Arrowhead,” he says, “But they won’t get there. There are two mountain ranges and two counties between here and there.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He seized one of Winston’s remaining front teeth between his powerful thumb and forefinger. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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They did not wear many clothes, and the shadows between their sliding muscles were blue on the nut-brown skins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theodore spit a thin line of saliva between his teeth, causing some of the other boys to complain about the need to keep their "home" sanitary. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We’ll be lucky to make one pizza between now and midnight, when we officially close. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two women, I think, carried me between them down Grande Rue and into a doorway. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children sailed boats down the fetid gutters and flew kites between the beer hall signs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a harsh look between moans, and I felt bad for asking. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Albert locked the pipe between his teeth, took the candle, and walked to the door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Thus he sat by her many hours of the day, and they did not talk much for she was faint, and besides there had never been talk between them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The field between the barn and the river was full of rushes and tall grass. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green—the river and its fields. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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The western boundary of the Black Belt met the eastern boundary of Packingtown at Wentworth Avenue, presenting the opportunity for all sorts of cooperative interaction between the races: in stores, schools, parks, each other’s homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He turns onto a remote, tranquil block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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Uriah puts an armrest down between us and leans over me to look out the window. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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Wash felt a sudden coldness between his shoulder blades, a tightening in his groin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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Ranofer was up in a moment and after him, pausing only long enough to assure himself of a safe margin of distance between them. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Lines across class and lines across race, lines between the immigrants and those who had lived in the city more than a handful of years. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

No matter who won, they would “save,” or split, the purse between them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a fantasy book. The Wicked Wizard War. My character, Ben-Jamin, is the chosen one in this war between wizards.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The swinging door between the kitchen and dining room was left open, except when we had dinner guests. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I asked, even though I was already stretching my shirt to show her the bright stripe of white that fell between the dark skin on my neck and my shoulder. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Alexander held the toy between two fingers, as if it burned his skin to touch it. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The road dipped between rising turf-banks, carving its way through the terraces to the river’s edge, and up again upon the further side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“It was eight days, time before last. And about three hours last time. The intervals between trips don’t mean anything.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was translating today’s writing for von Linden, my elbows on the table and my head between my hands, not daring to look at him. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward moment when Luke had to rewire the connection between his brain and his mouth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then came the sound of footsteps again, and they emerged, the two inspectors, with Robbie between them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She shrank between Iris and her mother, whispering, “Don’t let them see me! Don’t let them see me!” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m content to simply sit next to him in silence, the air between us still crackling with possibility, but Phil is going to ask, and I know I have to answer. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Even with all the tension between my parents, a smile burst on my face. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Those dumb mountains seemed to be perched right along the river, standing smack between him and the sea. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He watched his mother s fingers fiddling one of the bracelets round and round on her wrist, and thought of all the private things she and Mr Hooper had between them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Others insisted that Renly had killed the king in a drunken quarrel between brothers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His wide smile exposed the gap between his top center teeth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hardly daring to breathe, Harry edged right up to the opening and peered through a tiny gap left between crate and wall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I ask between mouthfuls, just to keep her talking so I can keep on eating. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

By now, Lyddie was propped up on her elbow listening, tom between pride for Betsy and horror at what she was proposing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It belongs to a different, far bigger and more scholarly book to trace in detail the development of rhetoric teaching and theory between the ancient world and the present day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Fadi spotted a gap between two women in burkas and dove in. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He takes the wrapper and rolls it slowly between his fingers. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As it was, when she spoke with Reta she moved back and forth between a genteel grace and a childlike exuberance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Please focus your eyes on the area between the lobby archway and the entrance to the Children’s Room.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But 346 miles is more than the distance between Boston and New York City, almost as far as from Los Angeles to San Francisco, about the entire width of Iowa. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Grace and Kojo measured the distance between the two rock pillars. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A coherent text is one in which the reader always knows which coherence relation holds between one sentence and the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A kinship exists between people who’ve fed from the same breast. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the truth is somewhere in between all that I'm told and memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A man came out from between the columns and gestured to them to go away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They propped him up between them, with Tayo behind the wheel. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I roll up my sleeves and stretch my dark, strong forearms into the space between us, right under Harm's nose. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was connecting all my skills smoothly, with no hesitation between moves. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My sister wanted to look at every single stall in the bazaar that sprawled between the ticket office and the entrance to the ruins, but Babou managed to maneuver her away from them all. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, his success in demolishing the supposed antipathy between garlic and magnets remained hidden from history until very recently; it is della Porta who established the new fact within the world of learning, not Garzoni. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her intention was to spend November and December shuttling between the Italian islands, in some off-season rental, completely alone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the times between transmissions he tried to prepare himself for what he knew was coming. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had straightened up and turned toward his guest again, he found him standing, embarrassed, halfway between the bed and the door. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The invention of writing makes a convenient landmark, for the absence of written records is surely one of the key differences between prehistoric and historic societies. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was food at her husband, and she realized that she had come between him and hh friend. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vertical creases appear between his eyes; he looks like someone trying to remember something vital. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, between losing you and coming upon the mud slick, I tried to get to a lake I saw from the mountain.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My body already ached enough—I couldn’t sleep wedged between two rocks. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The fingers were blunt, callused, wiry black hairs grew between the knuckles, there was dirt under the nail of the thumb. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At any rate in our family my sons and daughter had always been as one in their thinking: such schism as there was opened between them and us, never between themselves. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The settlement of the world’s remaining islands was not completed until modern times: Mediterranean islands such as Crete, Cyprus, Corsica, and Sardinia between about 8500 and 4000 B.C.; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping between them, he puts his hand on Seven’s chest. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The porter took a friend with him, a machine-gunner on leave who worked in a tailor shop, and was sure that between them they could hold a place. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After that, it would travel to a solar orbit between Mercury and Venus. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became afraid, since I could no longer tell the difference between dream and reality. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s halfway between two of the red stars: Tyler’s house and Courtney’s. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Kendra pushed between a pair of imps, heading for the door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In between gags and coughs, I sucked air in hard. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Place your hands on the table. I will build a bridge between the world of living and dead.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So that now there was this secret feeling between them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I gingerly stepped toward him the shuffling mass of black cowhide between us parted, and there stood 534 and I, staring dumbly at each other. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The corpuscular philosophy is, in the end, a parenthesis between scholasticism and Newtonianism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He watched her braid sway between her hips. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I avoid it by asking him to meet somewhere in between. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They all liked him and came over to talk between trips. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one hand was a barbecued pork sandwich, suspended between the tray and her sneering mouth. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head and lowers his eyes, twirling a few blades of grass between his fingers. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Every decade has had its landmark moments in HeLa research, and the connection between HPV and cervical cancer was only one of several in the eighties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He picked the insect up very gently between his thumb and forefinger and held him out for his parents to see. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

February 4 to 9, 1918, inclusive, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. have been designated as the dates and time when registrations must be made. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It looked naked without its feathers, which she’d yanked off in between dips into boiling water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

From now until then, she will pretend that there is a big wall between her and them. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The photo-cell banks that alone stood between the full power of Mercury’s monstrous sun and themselves were shot to hell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond the garden, a small path led into the Wood, weaving between bay trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He reached forward and touched its sleeve, rubbing the fabric between his fingers for a moment. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Doha and Gunwoo walked the rest of the way, supporting the woman between them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In this tiny room, it was about as far away as if he'd sat right next to her on the bed, but the distinction between chair and bed somehow felt safer, less scandalous. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There aren’t just sparks between us, there’s a giant flame leaping back and forth, engulfing us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And then her expression turned grim, as if, in the brief silence between us, she had intuited the terrible thing I’d come to tell her. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the spaces between the roots, I see not dirt but water, and metal rods holding the roots in place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when Wash thought of Naomi, he fell into thinking about the why of her anger and the how of fixing things between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But between my daddy being gone and my grandma passing on, I can’t make myself. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

We heard the footsteps stop outside Irene’s door, but there was empty time between the end of those steps and the heavy rap of his knuckles: ghost time. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Didn’t they say something about an argument between the father and the boy around seven o’clock that night? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also firmly defended the idea that atoms moved about in a void and that there was literally nothing in the gaps between atoms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Will could almost see the bond between them, the dæmon tugging and the girl responding. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence hung between us, punctuated by the pounding in my head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They stay that way a moment till the baby yelps between them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For little Chestnutt it was fine—she just ducked in between a couple of branches and hid. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Still, much could be done between the end of work and the coming of full dark, which was later now than in the winter seasons. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

For several minutes they sat, no word passing between them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then, in the 1920s, when elsewhere in the world the menfolk took a break between wars to perfect the airplane and the automobile, a white man finally did set eyes on the okapi. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that, as arranged between Baba and him, he had lived in Baba’s house since 1981—this I knew about. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We walked between rows of small houses behind green or white fences, some with their verandas hidden behind the tamarisks, others standing naked among the rocks. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

What’s the difference between three weeks or three years or even three decades of mushy peas, tapioca, and Depends undergarments? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Guenever, sitting between guards under the Constable’s ward, had to ask for a shawl. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tucks the bills in between the buttons of her jacket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the younger boys drifted off to play King of the Mountain on the slope between the upper and lower fields. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The plaid flannel shirt made a jacket unnecessary while the muffler guarded exposed Reilly skin between earflap and collar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, he claimed to have noticed the eerie similarity between Jackson’s speech on behalf of slavery and one delivered a century earlier by an Algerian pirate named Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There lay nothing in between; they did not say as much, but their brusqueness implied it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I put some space between us and watched MacDuff run back and forth on the lawn, sniffing and wagging his tail. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We’re driving and it’s stifling hot outside, but the heater is on and the windows are up, and the radio is loud but tuned to the garble between stations. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without a warning, die engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many things wrong with the relationship between Bo and me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“There is no comparison between Plutarch, who masterminded the rebel breakout, and those three beauticians,” says Fulvia icily. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There, the sky is black, and lightning forks between the clouds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a pause in which Hermione beamed at the pair of them, and Harry sat, torn between exasperation at Hermione and amusement at the look on Ron’s face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes it is,” he said, his gaze flicking nervously between me and the man. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sky between the stars was of the deepest and fullest velvet. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end stood thirteen tall white columns, the Peristyle, with slashes of the blue lake visible between them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So Howard parked his horses between the two tracks and began playing one against the other, hoping to pressure Santa Anita out of giving Seabiscuit an excessive impost. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were enough years between that I remember what it was like not have him come between my time with them. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was love, and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us, just to stay vertical. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He kissed her between the eyes, then whispered something—what, I’ve always wondered—in her ear. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As usual, before I lay down I fetched the cross from the pouch from around my neck and placed it between my hands when I, upon my knees, began to pray. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As expected, the next fight between Christina and Al is quick and painless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Well, wasn't there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

General William Westmoreland, the commanding general of US forces in Vietnam, pointed out that the American air base in Da Nang, near the border between North and South Vietnam, was now vulnerable to attack. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was always a space, a small one, between the wooden floor and the dirt below. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then you would barely be able to see a difference between my spots and the rest of me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Also, even though technology is not classified as “addictive,” some neuroscience points to stark similarities between how technology use and drug use trigger chemical release in the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It sat up with a nut between its paws, nibbling busily. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as we tried to create a buffer between them and the more fraught aspects of Barack’s job, I knew that Sasha and Malia still had a lot to take in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So when the child regained consciousness, she was lying on the kitchen floor under a heavy quilt, trying to connect the pain between her legs with the face of her mother looming over her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentence sounds much better with the noun in between: “Your furniture and mine can’t live together. ” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had always got along with Ifemelu’s mother, the easy relationship between two people who carefully avoided conversations of any depth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And if he looked at the difference between a student’s score in June and then in the following September, he could see how much that student learned over the course of the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The mist swirled between the tall grass and the low- hanging branches. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two oaks stand like twin guardians by the back wall, and between them is a greenhouse. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like, if you want to see the common characteristics between mammals, reptiles, and fish, for instance, you draw a Venn diagram and list all the attributes of each one inside a circle. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He slammed the last drawer shut and dropped to his knees between the beds. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The new house was taller than it was wide, as if it held its breath to squeeze between the neighboring homes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As though it were one of her beloved Tareytons, she put it between her lips and inhaled. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But he was with Quintilian in believing that there was a vital connection between virtue and rhetorical accomplishment. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he hovered, his body rising and falling between his wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rice straw was layered between them and crammed into every pocket of space. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

For example, a quantity of iodine as small as two ten-thousandths of a gram spells the difference between health and disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

High up, small chinks of blue sky showed between the leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"She was reaching for that when you grabbed her. Give her half a chance and she'll bury it between your eyes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And tomorrow she would have to face Shay again, and explain what had happened between her and David. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ghastly deed was done between the hours of three o’clock and five o’clock in the morning. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“And then I was in the hospital. I don’t know where I went in between.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Tired, irritable, he walked down Fifteenth Street, glancing up as he passed one of his other houses, its silhouette melting in the light that trembled between dusk and twilight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They advanced towards me, some from one end, some from the other, and some came down the middle between the rows of empty chairs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

What a difference three years made between us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He tracks me down at the university, rumpled and unshaven and suddenly too old, and pleads with me as I walk between classes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, there was no point in making the distinction between the ANC and the party that existed on the outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he sensed something moving between the folding seats, it was already too late. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, between sips of coffee and further scribbling and doodling, he vented his criticisms and skepticisms of women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in the bathroom looking between my actual body and my body in the mirror. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twirling it between his fingers for a moment, he tucked it into the top buttonhole of his shirt. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His low whistle betrays disappointment at what he finds—or fails to find—between the boy’s ears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Some weeks, between our family and theirs, there were twelve people living and sleeping in a room intended for two. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“After I got the wax off my fingers they were working okay so I folded some tissues into a wad and shoved them up between your upper lip and gum. That’s what stops a nosebleed.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It usually took Chacko between eight and ten days to assemble the aircraft, with its tiny fuel tank and motorized propeller. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was talking, she spooned in the chocolate powder and started rolling a small whisk between her palms really fast. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked at her, and intercepted the look that passed between the two women. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They stack their oranges into careful pyramids, then squat on thin legs, resting their angular wrists between their knees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There,” he said, pointing his chin at the bridge, “they sleep over there, in alleys between the bars.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the tears, in spite of the fountain of feeling which had sprung between them once again, Lancelot persisted in remaining loyal to his Grail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone proposes another match race between these two super horses,” wrote a reporter after the race, “henceforth, he will be tried in the morning for treason, mutiny, mopery and non compos mentis.'''’ Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo and Jimmy were sitting at the kitchenette table, a case of beer open between them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself away from Kaede, feeling the link between them stretching like a gossamer thread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I rub it, looking down to a frill of seaweed, bits of rope, and a broken lobster trap caught between the huge rocks at the water’s edge. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath is Justice, brandishing a golden sword and scales, standing between Death and Punishment, and treading underfoot Avarice and Envy, the gods of the merchants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walks a circle around the Grand Gallery, navigating between squeaking floorboards; she hears feet tramp up and down museum staircases, a toddler squeal, the groan of a weary grandmother lowering herself onto a bench. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her textbook has fallen in the open space between the driver and passenger seats. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jack made a move toward Piggy who scrambled away till a great rock lay between them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mine, I think, is that I know the difference between a mystical story and a love story. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The dreams had been terror at loss, at something lost forever; but nothing was lost; all was retained between the sky and the earth, and within himself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We folded ourselves between a woman with too many bags and a man holding a crying baby. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The new owner made my father the official liaison, akin to a translator, between himself and the Christian Poles still allowed to work. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A similar argument could be put forward for attractive forces between guanine and cytosine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting, and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Minister of Law twirls a black mustache between thick fingers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The only thing I can advise, boy, is that if you detect the gamma radiation between yourself and the man, you may as well sit where you are.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In a flash Basil had lugged a haversack from the undergrowth and was spreading a repast on the grass between them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The wind comes up between eight and ten in the morning, and if it’s in your face, it makes the job more time-consuming. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But look back at the second table, which shows what happens between September and June. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He touched a whitewashed wall as he went through a doorway, and rubbed the powdery clay between his fingers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The vet gently rolled the labeled glass vial between the palms of his hands. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And there are evenly spaced orange plastic crowd-control barriers—you know, the kind you sometimes see along parade routes or at outdoor concerts—between the fence and us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As she hung her septa’s crystal about her neck, to nestle in the cleft between her breasts, she teased him with a smile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fraternal twins come from two totally separate eggs, and the differences between us were obvious: I got all the scientific genes, and Harry got all the artistic genes. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We all have a strong prior association between a first name like John and the male gender, or a name like Lisa and things female. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Succinct, yet magisterial, this formula captured the essence of the interactions between heredity, chance, environment, variation, and evolution in determining the form and fate of an organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor put the comics between her books and stared at the window. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Bella, please just do this my way, just this once,” he said between clenched teeth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a private understanding between the two of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As we U-turned in front of the school, she added, very carefully, “Your IEP form disappeared somewhere between Lake Windsor and here. It’s the kind of thing we should probably never mention again.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This highlights yet another payoff of the passive voice: it can unburden memory by shortening the interval between a filler and a gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I shift my body slightly to the left as I walk, trying to position one of my feet between his advancing feet. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If she chases me any harder, she and I will wind up playing a scene from that Bible she reads. The scene between Potiphar’s wife and Joseph.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was the wife of a tenant farmer; the farm, an especially windswept and lonesome one, was halfway between Garden City and Holcomb. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alvarez’s own record, he argued, proved that the lab had reached the optimum balance between work on the cyclotron and work with the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I noticed someone passing between the rows. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peered through the scope, searching the mountainside, fixing distant stalks of wheat between its crosshairs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every bed was occupied, and new cases were left on the stretchers and laid between the beds to take advantage of the transfusion stands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Asteroids, as most people know, are rocky objects orbiting in loose formation in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their brows shiny with perspiration, the evangelists sat speechless as Limela unleashed his blasphemous tirade, drawing parallel after parallel between Christianity and witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep it together, I thought to myself as I set the grinder down between us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He stopped and pinched his chin between his fingers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Carlyle explains that schizoaffective is a cross between bipolar and schizophrenia. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Two hours ago, everything had been perfect between them, and now . Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She put one between her lips and stood before the small oval mirror on the wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was hesitating between the two, unable to make up his mind. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Maniac, “I don’t think I’m bad. I’m not saying I’m an angel, either. Not even real good. Somewhere in between, I guess.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fourth factor was the two-way link between the rise in human population density and the rise in food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something in the way she looked at Manolo when she said that tells me there’s trouble between them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hung it carefully against the log wall between the windows, and Ma stood her little china woman on the shelf. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became aware of the other feeling gradually, for it was swimming against the current within her: Sidhean’s pain and sorrow, rising up like a beast, and it pushed itself between the two of them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about, dependent?” the man said between spit bubbles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, confession: According to Granddaddy, I “jump to conclusions faster than lice jump between white kids’ heads.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

White men were looking at him, waiting for his words, and all the feelings of his body vanished, just as they had when he was in the car between Jan and Mary. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was tom between a fear that made my body tremble, and a desire to help the poor man. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Safer posts me in the little hallway between the laundry room and the elevator. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell her I’m fired, I don’t want her to blame her mama and make it worse between em. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was only third period on Monday morning and already she’d left a couple of notes at my locker and had tracked me in the hall between classes. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a house between here and there,” Styx added. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The word hangs in the air between us—church as opposed to the synagogue were buying this suit for. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They remind me of the paintings Gram left in her studio, the bits of blank canvas peeking out between all the colors. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He suggested sometime between September 15 and October 1. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Like maybe I was hearing what Dwyer was saying under his breath, between his words. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I watch a mind movie of her taking a stick and drawing a line in the dirt between us under a bright blue sky. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sheer, silky saris are draped between the toilet and shower stalls, transforming each one into a private boudoir. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had my head sandwiched between the mattress and my pillow, something I got used to doing whenever they were going at it, when my mom crashed into my bedroom. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Tally looked at the surrounding forest, trying to peer into the black spaces between the trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t respond, and we stand there, staring at each other in silence, something bordering on understanding passing between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And ninety-five more who weighed between fifteen and twenty. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My breath had made a little ice-bridge between my lips and the mesh. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

All my cousins would gather in the courtyard between my house and Geoffrey’s house to kick the soccer ball—made from plastic shopping bags we called jumbos, which we then bound in twine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Miss Love was in the back, squeezed in between two mountains of grips, boxes, and hatboxes and boy howdy dressed fit to kill in a new fall outfit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The main point about it was that it alerted me to the fact that things between Miss Kenton and myself had reached - no doubt after a gradual process of many months - an inappropriate footing. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the North, men said that it had cost anywhere between forty and a hundred thousand dollars for the United States Government to return Bums to his master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was inadequate to Ugwu, their exchange; he felt as if Mama’s death required more words, more gestures, more shared time between them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He moves to place it on her shoulders but the lace disintegrates between his fingers, falling into dust. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s Will’s voice, ragged, coming between sharp, shallow breaths. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

That evening, when Mrs. Muokelu brought the antibiotic capsules wrapped in newspaper, Olanna asked her to come inside and showed her a photo of Kainene, sitting by the pool with a cigarette between her lips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was aware, in his sleep, of being curled up in a chair, his hands tucked between his thighs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the string between his teeth and unfolded the blade. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a gap between two tunnels, a nurse was delicately probing with a long fine syringe into the gelatinous contents of a passing bottle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This contrast between local meanings and cosmopolitan messages is a perfectly sound one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if a car had hit her at full speed, in the tender place between the lower tip of the breastbone and the belly button. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jackson works out a guard schedule, and, since I’m not on the first shift, I wedge myself in the tight space between Gale and Leeg 1 and go right to sleep. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ida's boat swayed, tightly moored between two painted wooden posts. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

If ‘Romantic’ still means anything specific in the history of music, it best refers to a period when the composer’s or performer’s personal emotions, or sentiment, became paramount in the dialogue between music and audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Isabella. I’m so very sorry that the problems between me and your mom get all mixed into your life.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Jumper was a dun mule with a narrow black stripe running along his backbone between his mane and tail. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something seemed to pass between them—a look of understanding, perhaps. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an ease between them that, Moody was sure, could only come from being intimately comfortable with another person’s body. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Booth stepped to the front of the barn and peered through a space between two boards, examining the manhunters. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you tell the difference between a boy and a man?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Nothing in between is allowed, so to get from 30 to 40 miles an hour, you have to make a quantum leap. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That their influence was felt powerfully for only two or three centuries is an irreparable loss for all those human beings who lived between the Ionian Awakening and the Italian Renaissance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the years between the two world wars, children in Soviet schools were treated with complete gender equality, with girls and boys studying the same subjects. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian had us trapped between the fence and a thicket of bushes and vines heaped with snow. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Abbey scrunched low in the bow while I hunkered between the seats. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The prison itself is set amidst the strikingly beautiful scenery of the Cape, between the mountains of Constantiaberge to the north and hundreds of acres of vineyards to the south. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big difference between them was that for Lawrence, the future might well be now. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Since I found my family, something has changed between Bushra and me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The contour lines being close together on the map meant that the banks steepened between the hills. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It was Zu,” I began, already well aware of the narrow line I’d have to walk between the truth and what I could actually tell them—both for myself and for Zu’s sake. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But he often did not respond well to advice from these same people, and had trouble distinguishing between constructive criticism and personal betrayal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The two women whom Ignatius indicated ambled slowly to the cutting table, gingerly took the banner with their thumbs and index fingers, and held it between them as if it were a leper’s shroud. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all get out of the train, somewhere between relieved and angry. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her invisibility cap rolled off her head as she drove her bronze knife between a chink in the serpent’s scales. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They spoke politely to Nhamo when she ventured from Grandmother’s hut, but there was already a wall between them and her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize that we won’t fit with all this space between us, so I turn and curl into a ball, my spine against his chest. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy trapped Harry and Miss Goodacre in a corner and gave them a detailed explanation of the difference between the male and female Deinacrida, or giant locust. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In between these undertakings, he somehow found time to conduct a good deal of solid science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The worst for me was the painful aikido grip where you placed your thumb between victim’s pointer finger and middle finger, grabbed his thumb, and twisted his hand up under his armpit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want him to think that there was potential here, between us. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a long time, he never said anything to me about it, but between that and the swelling in his face from all the steroids he was taking, he was looking horrible. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walrus had all but vanished from the coast; the gray whales were rare, and the seals were few and far between. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his mom came to check on them, they were sitting with a hundred cassette tapes between them, and as soon as she walked away, Park leaned over and kissed Eleanor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The woman stood barefoot in her underwear, pulling the black net of a body stocking taut between her fingers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The perfectly round spot on which we’re standing is still safe, but the clouds are moving in on us, and the ring between us and the approaching danger is being pulled tighter and tighter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As happens sometimes between two people speaking different languages, the demon had begun to shout at Father as if Father were deaf and the demon could make his words better understood by being loud. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he watched the distance between themselves and that side street close, getting nearer by the minute. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She realized that there was a commercial arrangement between the French count and her father in which she had no say. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strollers littered the walkways, with young children weaving between them and screaming with glee. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A boy to my side was crying fitfully and telling me between gasps how they didn’t mean to stay on him as long as they did. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering the boar from the floating island—shot clean between the eyes—he obeyed, unbuckling his holsters and letting them drop—Executioner and all—beside the Lady of Mercy. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Where were you this morning,” he asked my dad, “between three A.M. and four A.M.?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was torn between believing these rumors must be false and knowing the Nazis were capable of anything. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And not just a mention of them pressed flat between the pages of a book in the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A very general system of chemical communication between living things of all kinds, plant and animal, has been termed “allelochemics” by Whittaker. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sword in hand, he strode through the snow, putting himself between the riders and the king’s tower, its beacon glimmering behind him like the orange eye of some strange god. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boys now had open water between them and the California Clipper, and in the last half mile they accelerated in a way that no shell had ever accelerated on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When she was a child she had deviled for a while at the Maycomb Tribune office and had witnessed several altercations, including the last, between Mrs. E.C.B. and Mr. Underwood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For example, typhus was initially transmitted between rats by rat fleas, which sufficed for a while to transfer typhus from rats to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, choosing between two boxes of breakfast cereal is a little different from deciding if a mushroom will poison you. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Holly flew low, skipping between mist hazes and trees, matching the troll’s course. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Lana stuck a cigarette between her coral lips and lit it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Puffy red lanterns hang high between buildings, strung like beads on a necklace. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I went in and found Rufus in bed with his leg sandwiched between the two boards of a wooden splint and held straight by a device of rope and cast iron. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I step forward, closing the gap between our bodies, stand on tiptoe and kiss his lips. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and ran, trying to put the rows of chimneys between us, wondering why he didn't yell "Halt!" or shout, or shoot. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, the relationship between an organism’s physical or mental attributes and heredity was much more complex than anticipated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Many generations ago, our kingdom negotiated a treaty with the Fairy Queen that established the border between her lands and ours,” said the Mistress. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Merry and Pippin lived together for some time at Crickhollow, and there was much coming and going between Buckland and Bag End. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She tensed, her legs preparing to leap from the bed—perhaps toward the balcony, since Elena stood between her and the door. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony and Cleopatra divided their time between discussing military plans and tactics and enjoying the merrymaking in their honor. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Above it was a dark blank space between the top and the low arch of the opening. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It would be no easy thing to forge a peace between these brothers, Catelyn knew, yet for the good of the realm, it must be tried. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The picture drew an important continuity between home and the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised at such affection after all these years, but then, in the stone walls I had built between my present and my past, I had forgotten how close we once were. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I looked up, checked the line of big rocks between the sand and his blue beach house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy makes a sound something between coughing and laughing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“So you saying they ain’t no line between the help and the boss either?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The argument itself was not new: it had already been formulated in the debate between Averroists and their opponents over the reality of epicycles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There had been a battle between gods once. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She knows I split my Sundays between them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hazel shuddered as the wind danced around her gently, as if this was all there had ever been between them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When at last she surfaced and looked back, she’d put a good distance between herself and the shore, and saw to her relief that she wasn’t being pursued. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The greatest wave of immigration the world has ever known engulfed America between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they sailed in pairs before the wind with a net between them, scooping up the fish. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raid forced both Elizebeth and William to ask painful questions about the tensions between security and freedom, and to reconsider the path their country was now on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They had seen him and they were scattering between juniper trees, through tall yellow grass, below the mesas near the dripping spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like maybe Axel doesn’t know the whole truth of the things that happened between Byrd and Frank, and maybe—no, definitely—he doesn’t know what happens next. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The seventy-six days between election and inauguration felt like a critical time to start setting the tone for the kind of First Lady I wanted to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The rope seemed to give him confidence, though he shut his eyes more than once when he looked down between his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But with a spear throw from behind Telemakhos hit him between the shoulders, and the lancehead drove clear through his chest. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls away just an inch—just enough for the air to move between us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That sent him back a step and a white cowboy stepped in between us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movement of the glacier in the Icefall has been measured at between three and four feet a day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then I set up the card table on the screened breezeway between the house and the garage. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Whenever two torches crossed in the air, a naked girl leapt between them, spinning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Clouds drift between the medallions, with more cranes soaring among the clouds. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

On a plantation there were large groups of workers—between fifty and several hundred. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Curious gazes cut back and forth between me and the clock. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I ask between heavy breaths as I wipe my hands off on my trouser legs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After I had completed that book, I realized that other modern, as well as prehistoric, encounters between peoples raised similar questions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the grateful Athenians would have given him a large sum of money he refused and asked only that there should be friendship between Athens and his own home, Cnossus in Crete. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wringer is two rubber rollers, the color of pale flesh, that revolve around and around, the clothes squeezing in between them, water and suds squooshing out like juice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest, Margarita, was about ten, then three more with about three years’ difference between them down to the baby with her pacifier on a dirty ribbon round her neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas at first I gutted fish and peeled their skin fastidiously, soon I no more than rinsed off their slimy slipperiness before biting into them, delighted to have such a treat between my teeth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stare at each other for a moment, the open air between us feeling like miles and miles. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As a child I secretly welcomed the first warm day of spring by yanking off my shoes and standing waist deep in the cordgrass to feel the cool mud squish up between my toes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I stepped over all the sunflower seed shells that had piled up between my feet like a mountain of dead flies, and walked, not on the track, but just beside it, on the grass. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Did the factors acting in the encounter of Atahuallpa and Pizarro also play a broader role in encounters between Old World and New World peoples and between other peoples? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But three years removed from proper full-time schoolic exposure to my peers, I felt a certain unbridgeable distance between us. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The woman was lying on her bed in a purple dress that fastened at the neck with a cameo brooch and reached midway between her knees and her shoes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the break between classes during Sunday school, and I’m starving even though it’s only eleven a.m. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A soybean field between my house and his has a path worn down through the middle of it we’re back and forth so much. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Frankie squeezed in between them to show off his latest drawing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that it would not matter much if it did, as the difference between little and nothing seemed a rather fine one. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had journeyed together in a truck expedition across central Africa, looking for Ebola virus, and a lot of tension had built up between the two men by the end of the trip. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, a group of three girls walked up to me as I took a bite of my string cheese, carefully held between two toes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He slipped a few drops between her lips and thought she swallowed it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he had, and if he had been able to call me voluntarily, I might have found myself standing between father and son during one of Rufus’s beatings. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking pale, cutting his eyes between me and Mr. Brunner, like he wanted Mr. Brunner to notice what was going on, but Mr. Brunner was absorbed in his novel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It’s to break the vacuum between shell and egg cup, so the shell can be extracted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe our friendship could survive the light-years between us. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A spider had strung a web between a wall and the bucket of waste. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have made peace between powers that were never at Enmity....In short, the mighty defunct Potentates of Mount Wollaston and Monticello by your sorceries...are again in being.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then I began to record my own lines between his lines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He plucked the cowboy hat off my head and crushed it between his palms. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edna looked at her feet and noticed the sand and slime between her brown toes. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between camaraderie and imbecile I tap her beige bare shoulder with the note. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I stepped between the sleeping bodies and pushed through the tall, heavy door. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after Jadzia left, the Nazis set up a border between the two towns. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Central Park looks like nothing but a landing pad and there’s so much blue between my body and the ground. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Luke patted Grover’s head between his horns, then gave a good-bye hug to Annabeth, who looked like she might pass out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With some apprehensions of our hazard, we marched between houses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It happens somewhere between eight and seven o’clock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest population replacement of the last 13,000 years has been the one resulting from the recent collision between Old World and New World societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am not allowed to move so freely in this your world, it said with a trace of bitterness that pooled, oily, in the air between them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We dashed back through the rows of boats, crouched behind a giant crate of life vests and buoys, and wedged ourselves between the crate and a giant plastic barge. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew it was wrong, the whole time,” Tobias said in between gasps. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their guns were probably rifles, he surmised, and they were probably held barrel up, between their knees. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molecular forces between the A:T and G:C pairs lock the two strands together, as in a zipper. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He’s pulling a lip between his teeth, and he’s fumbling behind his back to switch on a lamp, and he’s thinking, I like this person. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She pondered over the shocking contrast between the life of a field hand in Dorchester County, Maryland, and the life she had known and enjoyed in Philadelphia and in Cape May, New Jersey. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly a decade, she and my father held a fragile truce between them, with Jagu living under her care, eating meals in her room and wearing clothes that she stitched for him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My ones are a distance between me and victory, not days between me and tragedy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Soon the way was too narrow to carry Loki, and now they let him walk between them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On land, the old fisherman stopped to light a pipe, and then, with the pipe clenched between his teeth, he walked home, carrying Edward atop his left shoulder as if he were a conquering hero. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Every blood vessel under my skin expands, throwing off heat and warming the space between us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Larger ones tended to have more powerful chiefs, more ranks of chiefly lineages, greater distinctions between chiefs and commoners, more retention of tribute by the chiefs, more layers of bureaucrats, and grander public architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This happens—always—when the chimp is between five and seven years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Boomer and I walk between the old gravestones—crooked and slick with moss, some of them so old you can’t even read the names on them anymore—until we come to the newer ones. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was Jordan Baker; she often called me up at this hour because the uncertainty of her own movements between hotels and clubs and private houses made her hard to find in any other way. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Everything had been great between us since he had stopped drinking when I was thirteen. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“He’ll probably come back like a small dog with its tail slung between its legs.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They surely would not approve of a liaison between their eldest daughter and their charlady’s son. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I suppose it didn’t really matter, but I always looked for the spot that looked like it had the most empty space between the rocks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ordered to stand near the breastworks overlooking the inlet between island and mainland. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Ma’s eyes wandered between the bare knees poking beneath the dress and the device attached to Caroline’s forearm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, there is often an affective connection between music and the emotions, and musical intelligence may share common thinking processes with mathematical intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I always save something for later, case I need it. She locks up the refrigerator between meals.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The track ended, and there was a steepish drop, down between two banks, covered in bracken and fern that came waist high. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At a given latitude, there are also ecological distinctions between the coastal lowlands and the interior uplands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It definitely weighed between twenty- five and thirty pounds. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I will chew you like a piece of gum, until anything resembling Caden Bosch is gone, and you are nothing but black pitch between my teeth. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Does everybody hate me?” she said, looking at us between her fingers. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Dr. Constantine, who examined the body when found, puts the time of death as having occurred between midnight and two in the morning. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dozed for spurts in between attempts to get him to drink. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching across the gap between the two horses, he grabbed Seabiscuit’s saddlecloth and pulled back hard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was stretched between loathing his voice and wanting to listen to the sermon. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they could sow dis-cord between him and his followers, it could only help their cause. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The floor of the Salinas Valley, between the ranges and below the foothills, is level because this valley used to be the bottom of a hundred- mile inlet from the sea. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks had fled, afeard to be caught between two angry armies. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at his first-born kindly, but straight between the eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bruno scampers off with his tail tucked between his legs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was thirteen and had seen enough people slumped over a plow, or stilled after childbirth, and enough drowned children to know the difference between the quick and the dead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mini carefully stepped between two of the pools. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if every day he were forced to cast another vote, between family and politics, politics and family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There was enough poison in that brandy to fell an ox,” he said between tight lips. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Subtler distinctions between old and new money lie in the attitude toward work. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

For the record, I knew what was going on between Brian and Noah even if no one else did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mashed between their tugging fists, the Whopper splurted sauce and cheese and pickle chips; then it split. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, as I remember, Heth’s got near ten thousand men. They’re all within sound of the fight, back that road, between here and Cashtown.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the blade disappeared between them, and when it emerged, dark liquid streaked its length. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Stockton passed through the doorway, between us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, relations between the landlord and Hazleton did not flourish happily during the Army operation and the second Ebola outbreak. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though a semi-transparent curtain had dropped between us, but through which they could see me—for they were applauding—without themselves being seen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this about you and Hassan? I know there’s something going on between you two, but whatever it is, you have to deal with it, not me. I’m staying out of it.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had years and years of experience between them, but they still had a lot to learn before they would be ready. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The gap wasn’t as wide as when we’d first started out, but there was distance between Cecile and my sisters and me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A single steed rests between him and the full championship,” continued Jolly Roger. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we got closer to the house, sweat trickled between my shoulder blades and chilled in the evening air. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Curious, but not wanting to make her uncomfortable, I didn’t pursue it any further and we agreed between the two of us that he was more than half mad. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She put her hands forward and moved quickly between the trees, trying to ignore her thundering heartbeat. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So they sat between his bed and his stereo, where there was just enough room to sit with their legs bent. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

This time he did not zigzag between rubbish heaps but strode purposefully toward a small house set apart from the others at a curve in the road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Lying mute on the floor between us, a crumpled envelope and two concert tickets. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We lay on our stomachs, facing each other with the jar between our faces, and watched the little fish swim rapidly up and down and around. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That was the first time I really saw the difference between those that had and those that didn’t. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was a warm night, and the window between the stove and the sink was open. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She cries as she feeds him, and as she pats him to sleep, and as he cries between sleeping and feeding. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the difference between criminals and people who’ve committed crimes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Father drove away slowly, and the distance between us and our home widened. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And then I can hear someone say I need stitches since it's a deep cut and it is right between my eyebrows and it will likely scar. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, we’ll see how insight into the animal origins of our infectious diseases helps explain the momentous, almost one-way exchange of germs between Europeans and Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two oaks grew close together; there was a gap of only a few inches between the trunks at eye level, an ideal place to see but not be seen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was an awkwardness between us that could not be ignored. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He picks a path to take and along it, between the entrances to the surrounding tents, there is a small group gathered around a raised platform. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She’s short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron- gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his own mouth and let their shriek come down and out between his bared teeth. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a short article on rioting that the reporter claimed was “the direct result of escalating tensions between the West and East government on new birth legislation.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"Have fun," I said, climbing out of the car at the exact same moment Becca was walking between Momly's car and the car in front of us. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But animosity ran high between the different factions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was going to sever the lifelong connection between her and the golden monkey and use the power released by that to destroy her daughter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nathan’s father didn’t like to be put in the position of making a decision like this, especially when it came between him and Nali. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes. So wifely. But how will it work? Will you rotate between us on a schedule, or choose as the mood strikes you?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Boy21 pulls the blinds and turns off the lights so that his stars glow a weird green, and then he presses Play on his CD player and lies down between us. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat down in between Lucas Cader and my father, I caught a glimpse of the headline on the front of the newspaper that hid his face from view. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He holds my gaze, and I feel the same pull I’ve always felt toward him, an undeniable gravity that dares me to close the gap between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Guth suggested that the universe might behave in a similar way: the temperature might drop below the critical value without the symmetry between the forces being broken. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie just shook his head, crushing his smile between his cheeks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I walked around the corner, and way down this side, which seemed to go on for another mile, was the moose, blocking the path between the brick and a dense thicket of bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Theon kept his eyes downcast as he crossed the yard, weaving between the tents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A slow dread built up inside her as she began to make the obvious, logical and completely mistaken connections between the night’s happenings and the missing children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three Kings Day Dear Little Book, I had such a time deciding between the patent leather and white leather for church today. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grover told me he could dissolve the empathy link between us, now that we were face to face, but I told him I’d just assume keep it if that was okay with him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars it would begin heating and evaporating. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose the boy had been caught again, somehow, someway, in his travel down to the landing, running through the midnight streets between the dark houses. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly any communication between us the first evening, but the second night would be different. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t decide between red or blue lettering,” I whisper back. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

By the time Sefia returned with a bundle of clothing, the boy had curled up between the roots of a banyan tree to wait. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Treebeard was not to be seen; but while Merry and Pippin were bathing in the basin by the arch, they heard him humming and singing, as he came up the path between the trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I feel the plan moving inside me like thaw-time waters rising between cliffs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry night air slipped between the fabric of her dress and her skin, and she felt smooth and agile in the dark. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looks above the photo and sees it’s attached to an email between two people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The chicken coop squatted between the pigsty and the mango tree, a branch of which held one end of Mami’s laundry line, the other end stretched to the trunk of an acerola bush. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When we reach the end, I look out at the distance between us and the mainland. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He drew his hands apart, as if to indicate a sizable space between them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then we stand there in silence, but for the first time the silence that lingers between us feels a little more natural. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the gap between rich people, a young girl pushes her way through. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Notes marked marcato have enough of an accent and/or enough space between them to make each note seem stressed or set apart. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The kids on the sidelines made way as McNab stomped off the field, past the dugout and into the woods between the field and the creek. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His concerns about his future no longer weigh so heavily on him as he exits the tent, turning right down the curving path that winds between the striped tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The ends of the nails will enter the hole about halfway between the top and the piece of tin,” he continued. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have seen papers that had been apparently swept off the terraces upon the shrubbery between them and the lagoons,” Olmsted wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Communication between headquarters and the commanders in the field was limited. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The dead woman lets loose a sound somewhere between frustration and fury. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was about the antagonism between Cicero and Catiline something of the settling of old scores. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was hardly room for the shape to fit between the walls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Knock it off,” I said, stepping between them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For over a century, institutional care for Americans suffering from serious mental illness shifted between prisons and hospitals set up to manage people with mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself between the ferns, tunneling in. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hannah finally heard the commandant’s car, then saw it as it barreled toward them, down the long bare avenue between the barracks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs my jaw between his rough, calloused fingers and squeezes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

One enterprising rock critic has tried to solve the problem simply by calling his music a cross between the British new wave music of the 1980s and hip-hop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if Doc or Jay could hear it, but a screech, somewhere between a person’s scream and a bird’s cry, filled the air around me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harry felt slightly resentful at this: If their lessons were so very important, why had there been such a long gap between the first and second? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

That night they made camp on the southern edge of the bogs, halfway between the kingsroad and the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The conflicts between these four familiar types of evidence are what make Japanese origins so controversial. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But there is really no connection between his status as an economist and his Mavenism. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fold my hands together and pinch my lips between my fingers to restrain my words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But the were-person would stalk down our street; his thick face smiled between the lettering on the laundry window, and when he saw me working, he shouldered inside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one they all went dark; they turned away, and a great bulk, beyond the light’s reach, heaved its huge shadow in between. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to change and get out of there before something else happened between JP and me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I know Grandpa’s soul isn’t wandering the woods like the ghosts I sometimes think I glimpse between the trees. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

An electric scale sat on the counter between them, and occasionally Mother would use it to weigh dried leaves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At home we’ve rigged up a walkie-talkie with two tin cans and a piece of string, which runs between our two bedroom windows and doesn’t work very well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no dirt between her fingers, around her nails, or ground into the lines on her palms. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A column of riders moved between the burning buildings toward the holdfast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The children begin to scamper between rows of the dead, over leathery leaves, looking for their own names, a handful triumphant when they are able to claim a grave they are related to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So we have traveled on, the cries of the sailors above us, Vishnoo trundling between our knees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At last they reached the entrance hall, slid back the lock on the oak front doors, squeezed between them, trying to stop any creaking, and stepped out into the moonlit grounds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I often caught glimpses of her in the hallway between this class and the next. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“For my younger brother’s sake,” Yitoo said, “I will show you the shortcut we water monsters use to travel between the worlds.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

David leans between the front seats to scratch Robin’s head. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Every day the hulk took one drink from the watercooler and went once to the bathroom, stumbling between the presses into the back of the laundry, big shoes clumping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked awkwardly across the floor and sat down on the bench between Marshall Nicolls and John Roberts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” he says immediately between breathless giggles and shrieks. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This was the difference between me and the Jack and Jill kids, many of whom were now my close friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The space between us is worse than our awkwardness, worse than not knowing what she's thinking during our long stretches of silence. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the telecom companies weren’t paying close attention to the developing mismatch between demand and reality. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wished I could iron it all between sheets of wax paper like I’d done with the bright red maple leaf I’d mailed to Dad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Piggy peered anxiously into the luminous veil that hung between him and the world. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I look at the straight electricity poles with cables between them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wave to him as the door closes between us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He drove the truck between hills of Time. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi nodded a few yards to the right, to a small body of water glinting between the trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Given the charged relations between white societies and native peoples, inquiry into Indian culture and history is inevitably contentious. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The people with the pen between their teeth found the cartoons much funnier. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“He’s not tight with her. Anyway, there’s nothing happening between us.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But then again, everything below the summit seemed fuzzy to me, as if there were a thick veil between me and the lower half of the mountain. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, Oliver had earned that right by being born between two sets of sisters, but he had the honor of being the only boy, which held him apart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was holding the unlit cigarette between his fingers, flicking at it as if to get rid of the ash. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Their span was three times their length, each wing a delicate fan of translucent skin, gorgeously colored, stretched taut between long thin bones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was wedged between Park and the steering wheel, and when he pushed his hand up her shirt, she leaned against the horn. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I'd slid halfway down the curve of the barn roof, clattering between dreaming and waking, before I got my balance back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ever since I told him, there was a clash between us. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had come between Adah and me for the worse, since the day she was supposed to have been followed by that lion, which the whole village was still talking about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped a scarlet bracelet in the shape of a small snake with its tail between its jaws onto her wrist. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fujiko picked up her glasses again and held them between her thumb and forefinger. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The many parallels between mass incarceration and Jim Crow are explored in chapter 5. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At times, descending, it appeared Snuffy would slip and fall, sailing out between silent echoing walls, floating like a romantic, suicidal dreamer toward the green ribbon far below. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish it could be different between your mom and me, Izzy.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

From that point forward, the old setup would be replaced with a series of matches of ten or twelve games each between the eight individual contestants, with the loser of each match being eliminated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was struck most forcefully by the discrepancy between my old assumptions and my actual experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched uncomfortably as he and Hand Clap each grabbed a box of our belongings and walked into the alley between the iron fence of the house and the tenement next door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that lay between was too clamorous, too fluid to understand, though she sensed she had succeeded, even triumphed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t mean it to change a thing between us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ashamed, Your Headship, sir. Doesn’t want to be seen. She’s a horrible mess. Saw her running through the landscape up on the fourth floor, sir, dodging between the trees. Crying something dreadful,” he said happily. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My mother would smile softly between her remarks; my Either at the other end of the table would chew and chew at his food, while he stared over the heads of his children. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if he were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I went over and looked between the glass balls and the popcorn chains for an ornament we hadn’t hung there the day before. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody knows this is the best bakery between Miami and Tampa, so it gets crazy. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Which meant that what to do with me became just one more source of tension between them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The accounts of the initial encounters between Indians and Europeans are windows into the past, even if the glass is smeared and distorted by the chroniclers’ prejudices and misapprehensions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He swerves into the alley, spurs his horse down the cobblestones between two large brick buildings, and turns onto F Street, avoiding the procession. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t breaking any Olympic records, but I was definitely putting some distance between myself and the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yet all four times the train rolls by between 6 A.M. and 10 P.M., she goes out to the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was handsome even now, but his stillness was terrible, the gulf between sleep and death immense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A slender man all in black pushed his way between the Redwyne twins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"What is the difference between a pig sty and the sixth grade?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

This Sarai knew from years of perching on sleeping faces, and not from Feral who, though he had begun to shave, could go days between with no one the wiser. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So rather than choosing between the rights of women and the rights of African Americans, the American Equal Rights Association adopted a memorial favoring a position of gender and racial unity. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They snake between dusty boxes, overwhelm a sawhorse; he leads her through a thicket of them to what feels like an upholstered piano bench at the far end, and helps her sit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The interminable pages about light and stone and water, a narrative split between three different points of view, the hovering stillness of nothing much seeming to happen—none of this could conceal her cowardice. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because these enforcers received pitiful salaries and were prized for being quick draws, it’s not surprising that the boundary between good lawmen and bad lawmen was porous. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I told them I thought many of our problems were a result of lack of communication between the government and the ANC and that some of these could be resolved through actual talks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The particular path he chooses to wander down has no obvious doors, it is only a passageway between tents, endless stripes illuminated by flickering lights. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“People are too complicated to trust with anything in between.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even though the variations between these different "half steps" are small, they strongly affect the sound of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What nobody was tuning into was that there’s a big difference between keeping myself occupied and actually taking care of myself. passed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was a great revelation. It explained everything about the difference between both countries,” Emenike said, knowing that they would laugh, and they did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Writers are well advised to avoid between you and I, since it makes many readers bristle, but it is not a heinous error. can versus may. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Thorn threw a rat tail into a cauldron between them and jumped back when the potion in progress squealed and turned green. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We’re awfully glad you can come, Nat. I—well, this is just between us—but I’m hoping to make a very important announcement tonight.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because as soon as they step inside the convenience store, the white clerk behind the counter looks between him and G’ma, and her eyes narrow. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The foot of the bridge was a half-sunken enemy galley with Dragonsbane painted on her prow, her bottom ripped out by one of the sunken hulks Tyrion had placed between the quays. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ben deletes, retypes: What are the differences between America's far past and its recent past? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Soldiers,” said his friend, fitting the word between strokes of the bell. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

So much money spent so that between 1969 and 1972 a dozen white men could take the express train to a lifeless world? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, the war raged on, this time between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah, and Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Blues scales, used in blues, jazz, and other African-American traditions, grew out of a compromise between European and African scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The trees lay between her and the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has flattened most of them to her body while lifting those between her shoulders. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child was lying between her feet, wrapped up so thickly that all Malcolm could make out was the top of her head and the brilliant butterfly Pantalaimon perching on her hair. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our clothes clung to us, and under our feet the dry dust of the courtyard softened into mud and squeezed up between our toes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the boys, under whose chairs water was pooling before spilling between the floorboard cracks, she knew they could never understand her ambition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘Less us all make up now before us goes. I can’t stand this here fighting between us. Less us not ever quarrel no more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The woman takes out a small net and swings it through the air between us. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Stanley could count more than thirty seconds between the flash of lightning and the clap of thunder. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The time interval between the arrival of successive waves at the spaceship would get longer and longer, so the light from the star would appear redder and redder and fainter and fainter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kissinger was still shuttling between Paris and Washington to maintain his sex appeal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When they went inside, they were made to stand with their backs to the wall and have the distance between their fingertips measured. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Just ahead, the elk wove between the snowdrifts with his head down, his huge rack of antlers crusted with ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her sequins flashed like liquid diamonds, a shimmering beacon between the multicolored hides. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He lies down on all fours, peering between the bars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I went through the rest of the day alternating between violent rage at Reb Saunders’ blindness and anguished frustration at Danny’s helplessness. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I drew a swastika on her palm and the hammer and sickle on top of my hand, the Lithuanian flag shredded and falling in between. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Scraggly grass poked out between the cracks and in the brown dirt around the tree. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He tried to walk on the turf-mounds in between the ruts though it was uncomfortable. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He darted between the horse and the railings and began going forward. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The growl came again, prickling the hairs on my arms, and a moment later a furry face appeared between two of the lower railroad ties. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Thus they legitimize a profoundly anachronistic reading of the dispute between Hobbes and Boyle by placing their own view of that dispute into the mouth of Hobbes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From above, it resembled some fabulous dusky jewel, fallen between a green mantle of light silk and dark velvet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The tug of war between the two elderly men reached a climax one winter day at noon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena awoke with a gasp, a hand on her throat, cold sweat sliding down her back and pooling in the hollow between her mouth and chin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There's no room for thinking, just feeling, feeling like the dread is oozing up through the cracks between the boards on my floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apartheid,” I said, “thrived on the enmity and fear between black and white.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what things were like before the War between the States, and even though the years after were chaotic, at least colored folks like me were free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Just between you and me ... I think you might have gotten three, because you’re the kind of bullheaded person who would refuse to make a simple choice just because she was told to,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spent more and more time in my room between interviews and conferences with Mr. Levitan and our PR man, Benn Hall, while Mr. Levitan had a constant stream of visitors in his suite. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain that had been hung between two poles parted. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In between he asked her about dormitory life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then I don’t want his hand between my legs no more, because I think I am softening away. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The funny thing is, if he hadn’t put the backpack between us, I most definitely would have offered to help him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now, on the witness stand, he held his hard-billed captain’s hat between his fingers, crossed his arms over his barrel chest, and pointed his cleft chin at Nels Gudmundsson, who wavered unsteadily before him, blinking. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I catch his tongue poised on the precipice between his front teeth. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the center of the square, Aggo fed him a withered apple and dropped him in an instant with an axe blow between the eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fishing with Kapugen was murky-tan in her memory, for they would wade out into the river mouth where the stone weirs were built and drive the fish into nets between the walls. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you won’t stop anywhere between here and home? So if I call you after five minutes, you’ll be home by the phone?” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I weave through its empty roads, darting between the flickers of sconce-lit streets, and pray I don’t run into one of the patrolling Sons of the Six. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Denna led the way along the dirt track that wound back and forth up the side of the hill, between the trees and the occasional outcrop of worn, dark stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In one place a pillar was missing between two arches and the bit that came down to where the top of the pillar ought to have been hung there with nothing to support it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They put a mask upon my face, with a metal bit between my lips to silence me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, and the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our trip was between a mental hospital on the East Coast and here. We’re all schizophrenic, with defective emotional lives—flattening of affect, it’s called. And we have group hallucinations.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the carpet between my feet. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then I followed my instincts, crossed the small space between us, and put my arms around her. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to me that those brief displays of affection between one's parents were rare or special or that they even required hard work to achieve. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can see the concerned crease between her brows. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between the television saying "I thought you died in the car crash" and "I love you too much to let you marry him," I heard a key being pushed into the deadbolt. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

His mother still saw the man, though not as much, and Brian thought it might be passing, what they had between them. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The faint tail of knighthood straggled in by twos and threes, then one at a time, then with intervals of days between the solitary riders. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete, and this she set down between John's cot and Barbara’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Zero’s words come back to me, suspended in the air between us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But there’s another difference between you and her. You see . . . Kelly believes in women’s rights so much that she would never let a guy hit her. I guess I can’t say that about you.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Farther away this time, though still emphatically, there sounded another snap! that stabbed like a steel-tipped arrow driven from a hundred-pound bow into that part of Herbie’s spine located between his shoulder blades. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At present our understanding is meager—probably because disarmament budgets have, since the time of Sargon of Akkad, been somewhere between ineffective and nonexistent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had eight children between them—all grown, all college grads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m shot down by the sound of my mouth slipping away from hers till silence staggers between us. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She is like a cross between the chief executive officer of the world’s largest corporation and the chief executive officer of the world’s second largest corporation. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She regularly checks the time difference between different college locations. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her frown wrinkles two deep vertical lines between her eyebrows. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

While she was growing up, Petey’s mother, frank as she was, would talk to Petey about falling in love and falling in lust and everything in between, because surely someone would one day notice Petey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She made her way down the aisle to the back, where Rasheed sat with her suitcase between his feet. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We took our usual route to the market, not along the streets but through the narrow walkways between the buildings, mostly commercial warehouses and garages, that bordered the square. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

After the first door, there’s a second door, so we’re trapped in a cage in between. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"I know what you're saying, and I'm trying to figure out how to help. We're just so overextended—" I didn't know what to say, and a long silence fell between us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One end of the tube was wedged between his bars at stomach level, and the other protruded halfway into the narrow gallery space between cell bars and fence, like a miniature bazooka. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk along the gravel, between the slabs of overgreen lawn Serena Joy is sitting under the willow tree, in her chair, cane propped at her elbow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man crammed his beard in his mouth and began to chew it, as he generally did when he was put about He bit through one of the hairs, which stuck between two teeth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Choosing between a career in Education and a UN job wasn’t easy, she said—but the thing to remember was that the very fact that she had a choice was a great privilege. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday is a teacher workday so between Sunday and Monday I have spent six hours and thirteen minutes cutting that stupid tree. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to his diary, he spent the journey introducing himself to every pretty girl he saw, including a total of five between Chicago and Ohio. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She held it between her thumb and forefinger, suspended between her lap and her mouth. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Fornatee knew was that the hair rule was putting him in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between his coach and his friends. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was unprepared to accept that my whole sense of Adah was founded on a misunderstanding between my body and my brain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high financial stakes would spawn intense and often vicious competition between gangsters, and many would die. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re unlucky enough to be in my line of sight, and I don’t want any sudden reconciliations between father and son before we set sail.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His rich voice rang out, a rippling stream of energy across the wire between their rooms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“How was it, since you were nervous of this man Ratchett, that you hadn’t already bolted the door between the compartments?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a place halfway between consciousness and unconsciousness where Tessie did her best thinking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It causes an odd shiver to go running down my spine, and I step backward a little too quickly, anxious to put some space between the two of us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His black hair is covered in mud, and his eyes burn with the panic of a cornered animal as he looks between Faris and me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Friends, there exists on this planet a delicate balance, a balance between good and evil, righteousness and wretchedness, crime and punishment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you’re being honest with me; I’ll be honest with you; no more charades between us,” the Count said, putting down a number of notebooks and quill pens and ink bottles. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tori moans, and I slip between two Dauntless to reach for her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But anyway, between the Halloween zombie commercial and Voldemort’s noseless face, I was kind of a mess. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She sat down and put her head between her legs, sobbing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My dear, I’m going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The brown grocery bag was on the ground between them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rough and broken, fading to a winding track between heather and whin that thrust amid the cracking stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And there was a metal grille between the back and the front. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He stood in the dim gray light, watching the darkness push between him and the bare room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next she disconnected the wiring between the electromagnetic shield and the detector, and found the wiring plan in a drawer of the filing cabinet and set light to it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last in slow motion one of the soldiers turned his head so that his cheek was cradled between the girl’s legs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in between Phoebe and Ben, and his arm pressed up against mine. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The apartment is empty and I wander between the two rooms, the bedroom and the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like the way she always wears a little gold Allah charm from Pakistan around her neck and the easy way she switches between English and Urdu when talking to her mom and mine. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Soon the struggle for control distilled to a personal conflict between Burnham and Davis, its primary battlefield a disagreement over who should control the artistic design of exhibits and interiors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I believed so strongly in Mr. Muhammad that I would have hurled myself between him and an assassin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived without fear of what would happen when they stepped over the border between childhood and adolescence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I remember watching him in a kind of daze, awed at the distance between punishment and offense. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In Portland, Maine, I came closest to achieving a decent fit between income and expenses, but only because I worked seven days a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That doorjamb really hurt between my shoulder blades. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had not had a fight or even a quarrel, but ever since Monday, Columbus Day, October 12, something that had always been between us no longer was. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio came to life, cushioning the space between us with soft, bluesy jazz. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Tess looked torn between going to be with Ernie and hot leaving Grandma alone to sit and stress herself to death. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the pillowcase that Valencia still had pinched between her thumb and index finger. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I longed yet feared to see Hamlet, remembering our loving words and our embracing on the battlement, Had that night changed everything between us? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She also showed that she understood the important link between women’s rights and the rights of enslaved people. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And we were careful not to touch, so careful it felt like some repulsing magnetic field had settled between us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The children in question were alternating between the chills and hot flashes of a bad case of sunburn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I folded the linen napkin and laid it between my lips and brought my lips down on it precisely. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

According to military theory, “regular warfare,” or “conventional warfare,” refers to war between two or more nations, using battlefield tactics and typical weapons of war. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how you and I have been having similar experiences, despite the number of miles between us. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The next year, Mohammed entered the famed race between Capri and Naples, a contest that attracted the best swimmers in the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The painting was so detailed Pinmei could even see that between the fingers of the maiden’s outstretched hand was a thin silver needle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Stepped on a dead body, wedged between rocks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two low work-tables faced one another; between them crawled the conveyor with its load of separate parts; forty-seven blonde heads were confronted by forty-seven brown ones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see in him a man who divides himself into compartments and can switch between them on command. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“She is your sister, signore?” the waiter asks as he sets the check between them, glancing at Moushumi and then back at Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Florian appeared as I was walking between the maternity ward and the infirmary. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He rocked himself side to side trying to control his form, which was weakened one minute and strengthened the next, constantly shifting between beast and boy. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pax peered over the edge and saw a silver brook, studded with black stones, glinting between green reeds and purple blossoms. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Is that true, Kyle? Would you actually destroy property if it stood between you and your prize?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I do not like his eyes, Tyrion reflected, when the sellsword sat down across from him in the dimness of the boat’s interior, with a scarred plank table and a tallow candle between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone was painfully aware of the term used to describe the open ground between opposing trenches in the fields of France, Belgium, and Germany and of the deadly struggle for that land. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From a passing car radio, the news blared out and echoed between the sidewalks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fryer came to wonder: is distinctive black culture a cause of the economic disparity between blacks and whites or merely a reflection of it? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I look at him, I realize that he’s the only family I have left and I feel desperate, desperate to keep him around, desperate to narrow the gap between us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I got out and walked ahead, going between the trucks and carts and under the wet necks of the horses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kira pointed down to the area below the window, a small piece of land between the Edifice and the edge of the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a strange object right in the center—two metallic rods, standing tall, with a shimmering wall of gray stretched in between them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He leapt from the beast’s back, strolled coolly down the aisle between the many rows of seats meant for student assemblies and choir concerts. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I struggle and try to kick the soft place between his foot and ankle, but he yanks me off my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

These campaigns were called the Crusades and were framed as religious wars between Christianity and Islam. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of laughter, crying, and everything in between. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes hiding out away from the dead for an hour or so can mean the difference between life and undeath. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He sat down between his hole and Zero's. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Through a break between the buildings, I saw that the sun hung low over the horizon. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the intervals between guard patrols, there was no one close who could fire a weapon at Shin and Park. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

People milled about between stands selling fishing gear and food. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The human genome contains about between twenty-one and twenty-three thousand genes that provide the master instructions to build, repair, and maintain humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the AEC’s dream of thermonuclear research blooming via a collegial relationship between Los Alamos and Livermore proved chimerical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Since the summer began, the group chat has mainly been filled with messages exchanged between me and Serenity. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It nailed a dummy straight between the eyeholes of its helmet. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Out back is a small garage for the car we don’t own yet and a small yard that looks smaller between the two buildings on either side. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Tehlu drew a line in the dirt of the road so that it lay between himself and all those who had come. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He cupped his hands between his mouth and her ear, to block anyone else from hearing. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As scared as I am of hiding that burner phone between my mattress and the wall, I’m so thankful that it made this moment in the pantry of the Mess possible. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He looked at me for a long time, like he was waiting, his black bottomless eyes hinting at an unspo­ken secret between us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It is difficult to say exactly in these matters,” said the doctor, “but I think I can say definitely that death occurred between midnight and two in the morning.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

An exhaustive list of prospects would have included between twenty and thirty names, with Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, and James Madison enjoying spirited support. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But then the silence between them stretches on. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

We had just sat down cross-legged on the floor, the pick-up-sticks between us, when we heard voices in the courtyard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And what’s the connection between whatever’s hidden in the cupboard and whatever’s inside the box from Madagascar? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Two score Brazen Beasts stood between the pillars, torchlight shining off the polished brass of their masks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wheels he borrowed were the kind for boys—with a bar between the legs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hideo brings up a new screen between us with a subtle wave of his hand. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Death, mounted on his pale horse, seemed to ride triumphant; there was but a step between the people in the city and the tomb. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The contrast between the friendly greeting and the weapons propped against their shoulders is almost humorous. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s not here, so now it’s between you and me.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The link between peoples of the North and the South can be seen in the diffusion of corn from Mesoamerica along routes created by the people and used for millennia. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Inside his shirt he felt the cold metal of the gun resting against his naked skin; he ought to put it back between the mattresses. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A tennis shoe sticking out between two Dumpsters. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She carried the chips in her apron pocket, and when no one was about she crushed the soft lime between her teeth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She covers her face but looks at it again through the spaces between her fingers, and then up into my eyes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Each day black boys between the ages of eight and twenty-five came to swim, draw, and read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A contemporary philosopher has distinguished between three sorts of facts: brute facts, language-dependent facts and institutional facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was still wedged into the opening between the rocks, his muscles aching with cramp. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Alex says between kisses, resting his head on the pillow next to Henry’s to catch his breath. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With the blessing of both Sargo and Argentina’s president, Hellmuth was going to seek closer ties between his country and Hitler. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The balcony of the second floor merged into the barn and there was hay coming out between the columns. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I felt the air whoosh out between my teeth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, while Dad is doing his nightly murmuring-into-the-phone ritual with the door to his room closed, I slip upstairs to Mr, X’s apartment and wedge Safer’s balled-up gum wrapper between the door and the frame. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The sailor alternated between talking and heaving over the side of the raft. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So the three days passed, with much coming and going between the multitude of boats and the Zaal. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the naphtha lamplight there was a gleam of dark gold: it was a lock of hair, and the President was twisting it between his fingers, turning it this way and that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Again the parallel between chemicals and radiation is exact and inescapable. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You can't measure the distance between my block and City Hall in miles. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence between us grew uncomfortable until eventually I asked him the stupidest question, because I actually wanted to know its answer. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a plump one, speckled brown, busily pecking at a crust that had fallen between two cobblestones, but when Arya's shadow touched it, it took to the air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The reading part of her feels private, between her and the characters in a book. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I picked it up between two fingers and dropped it into the sink like it had been a piece of hot coal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It makes no sense,” said Jessie, pacing back and forth between the couch and the picture window. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As my tears dried and the silence spread between us until I thought there was nothing more to say, I turned to leave. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He IMs when he can—in between classes or, sometimes, right in the middle of one. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cate was the one in the passenger seat, a rifle steady between her hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Although there is no real difference between boys’ stretch socks and girls’, neither ever considered wearing the other’s. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that point, four years later, the initially modest gap between rich and poor has more than doubled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I might have been ignoring whatever was growing between us, but he wasn’t. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One of our earliest and longest debates concerned the relationship between the ANC and the Communist Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiona’s home, larger than the cabin that Nathan and his father shared, sat neatly between several rows of corn and beans. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My money perish with me if it stand between me and the eternal law of God!” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eunice jumped in and said, “For your information, he’s black and Japanese. Can’t you tell the difference between a Japanese name and a Chinese name?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the constant sunshine between earth and moon, it was difficult to decide whether it was “morning” or “noon” or “evening.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lived all her life in America, and then she had spent the last two weeks in a dizzying half-world between America and Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His voice was quiet, but all the other boys suddenly fell still, for in his tone as in Jasper’s the spite between them now sounded plain and clear as steel coming out of a sheath. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the hall lights had been turned off, and black areas yawned between them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home later, Bridge stood at the living room windows, counting the blocks between her building and Sherm’s house—two up, one over. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wondered for a moment what had really gone on between David and Shay. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Styx teased the candy cigarette between his lips. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The photographer arranges their whole group, even the mariachis, and Joaquin stands between Birdie and his sisters and his aunt and his parents, and he thinks of Melissa. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She saw women wearing skirts that sat low on the hips and tops that tied like bandannas between their breasts. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“That’s quite a shift. That kind of leap in personality between generations is almost genetically impossible these days.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pinch one between my fingers, unsure what to make of it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then I slowly wove each outside section in between the other as tightly as I could. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were narrow windows slotted between each section of bookcase, and he caught glimpses of the summer sky as he rolled past them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“They’ll try to discredit the other kids,” I said between gritted teeth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They collected somewhere between thirty thousand and seventy thousand biting insects inside the cave—the cave is full of bugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s the difference between wagering at the Crow Club and speculating on the floor of the Exchange?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Elias...it could never work out between you two.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the Eye of Meshe are all the stars, and the darknesses between the stars: and all are bright. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They began to work on the vertical stroke, moving along between the strawberries, the boy advancing, the man retreating, the two of them together in it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We have a lease with Mr. Beiderman. It’s an agreement between us for living here.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ivy floats between the Suffering Artists on one side of the aisle and the Thespians on the other. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turned and stepped out from between the buildings, heart hammering in my chest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bran asked as they crossed the drawbridge between the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually, he snipped away at the distance between them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple matter for Venus to bring about a meeting between the two. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bush administration tax cuts stand to widen the gap between the hyper-rich and the rest of America. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

From this vantage point, he saw Nina wedged into a space between two stacks of crates. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nya's mother tied the baby on her back and walked with several other women to a place between the village and the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gun handle I saw sticking up, jammed between the driver's seat and the middle console. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He crossed the ball between his legs, causing one defender to slip. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She settled beside him on the ground, and a sweet smell filled the space between them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Alma cried silently in bed that night before tiptoeing into the bathroom and sitting on the edge of the tub with her head hung between her knees. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As a bonus, I also learned there was a difference between napkins and tissues. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The racetrack had been built in a grassy field between the archery range and the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They have been spaced, two by two, with an empty seat between each pair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that passing between Faerie and the mortal world isn’t all that difficult. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A continuous dialogue is going on between the two hemispheres, channeled through an immense bundle of nerves, the corpus callosum, the bridge between creativity and analysis, both of which are necessary to understand the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a massive slab of sandstone between the two mines, and my father had fought through it like he was in a war. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Miguel, “once we have more clues, we can use Sherlock Holmes’s famous ‘deductive reasoning’ method to make logical connections between all the random junk.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He kept well out of the moonlight and away from the flare of torches, and huddled between a warehouse and a tanning shed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let his garments fall to the floor, then crawled onto the bed and gently pushed her legs apart and kissed her between the thighs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It makes me think that the love between a man and a woman must be the strongest thing in the world. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rasheed had filled the cracks between the boards with something, put a large and immovable object at the foot of the door so no light came from under it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stag of the Sea split one of foffrey's galleys clean in two, but Dog’s Nose was afire and Queen Alysanne was locked between Lady of Silk and Lady’s Shame, her crew fighting the boarders rail-to-rail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lincoln replied, “We must both be more cheerful in the future—between the war and the loss of our darling Willie—we have both been very miserable.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, between the sunlight and the rocks, the water's warm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The narrow strip of sky visible between the rooftops was as dark as if the sun were about to set. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Kira said, “I’ve walked the forest path between this cottage and the center of my village so many times.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I can barely see them between the spots on my vision, but Tobias touches my shoulder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped a finger between her hand and his arm and tried to pry her off. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He peered between the gaps in the wood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Slung between the two giants of modern biology, he was inevitably haunted by an acute sense of scientific inadequacy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He is here at my invitation,” said Dumbledore, looking between them, “as are you, Severus. I trust you both. It is time for you to lay aside your old differences and trust each other.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t wipe the smile from my face, even as the time stretches thin and wide without another word being exchanged between us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Turtle was hunched over the table, her small chin resting between her crossed arms. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lehoux wants to argue that there is no real difference between Plutarch and della Porta, which is fair enough; he could not have made the same argument if he had compared Plutarch and Garzoni. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Roars of rough laughter rang out again between the short bursts. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Worse, there was the contrast between the frantic activity of the poor sailor and the gentle repose of his leg at the bottom of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The growing number of mills and factories changed the landscape as well; towns and cities were expanding, as was the division between rich and poor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He spread the government out between Virginia and New York for its protection. To make sure none of the fugitive Psi groups or the League got any ideas about wiping it all out at once.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She pencils hair in, under their arms, and on their chests between the breasts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I get up, and turn back to her as I stand on the threshold between the kitchen and the dining room. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Faster than Polly thought possible, they jumped over logs and under low-hanging branches, the only thought being to put miles between them and Clay Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the breaking of an unspoken agreement between us—a very basic agreement—and he knew it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting next to Georgia, but the table is so long that there might as well be two people sitting in between us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tap your foot to find the beat, and then notice how often important musical "events" are happening "in between" your foot-taps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In between planning for the memorial, my mom made good on her promise. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was neck and neck between Shady Howard and the boy Jinx until the youngster won out, taking home the 1918 victory quilt for a bid of $25.75. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she took the pearls and she tore a bit of the corner of her coat away and wrapped them and hid them between her breasts and was comforted. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

On seeing my person, he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The men seemed to avoid it as they built a fire and cooked dinner, going out of their way to keep a good distance between it and themselves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong did not give it these things, with the result that the truck stood in the tall grass back of the grocery most of the time with the mallows growing between its spokes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several girls and boys were playing in the sunshine, in the open space between the store and the houses. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the bar he was working on looked unchanged, but he’d pulled enough iron from it that the cloud between his hands was nearly black. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Kneeling between August and June for evening prayers to Our Lady. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were entangled in the plants, leaves growing between the skinny bars. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I returned to the matter that lay between us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry shouted as the girl who so resembled a veela got gracefully to her feet, shook back her sheet of silvery blonde hair, and swept up between the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tables. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This back and forth movement between theory and evidence, hypothesis and experiment has come to seem so familiar that it is hard for us to grasp that Galileo was doing something fundamentally new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Were it not for the anxiety, an Election Day might qualify as a kind of mini-vacation, a surreal pause between everything that's happened and whatever lies ahead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Scipio wedged the bag with the money between his legs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fred tucked his tail between his legs and dropped his eyes. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mother crushed the leaves between her fingers, breathed in the fragrance, and smiled. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They don’t see any hierarchical gap between themselves and the pilots in the air, and to them, mitigated speech from a pilot doesn’t mean the speaker is being appropriately deferential to a superior. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Stood you between the foul line and the rim. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The other end was tied to the rope handle of the wooden bucket below, midway between the fire and the greystones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ron let out a noise between a whimper and a groan and dropped onto the sofa: Hermione joined him, gripping his arm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lack of physical distance between our bodies as we stood on an unimportant sidewalk in the middle of an unimportant town. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I will threaten to tell what I know, he resolved as he hurried between the darkening fields. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When things went south between my mom and Nate at the boat launch that day, I swear giving Bryce one rock after another was the only way I kept him with me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It looks like we’re heading for our first showdown between the captains!” the announcer shouts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even when he missed, the spin on the ball made it die on the rim and it would often bounce once or twice between the rim and the backboard before falling in. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments, without difficulty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her profile, his tongue clamped between his teeth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Everyone in your family is very powerful. Your brother and you divide the world between you. Your mother come back to life to break your bowls. ” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The ship moved slowly between the black rocks and into Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bidding goes on and on, until it narrows down to a battle between two users. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d figured out how long we could hold ourselves between going to the bathroom, how much money we’d spend on hamburgers, how much was for any emergencies, everything. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are mas-sive human warehouses, two of the largest prison housing units in the world, containing over a thousand inmates between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the time my family gets home, were sitting on the love seat in the living room with a pile of textbooks between us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between one day and the next, he supposed; but even of the days he had quite lost count. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Still singing, my sister reaches across the small space between our beds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From that weird angle, through the gap between the wall and the shower curtain, I could see a slice of our backyard out the little window over the toilet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

From the other side of the street I watched as the Indian woman, startled, stopped in her path, at which point the dog leapt up and seized the end of the sari between its teeth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined her on the dock, between us and the shark, sizing it up before figuring out how she was going to lay it out on the ground. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When I open them, he’s holding a ring between his fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"But of course," he thought, "I was quite safe. That is why the Lion kept on my left. He was between me and the edge all the time." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I roll my fuzzy souvenir between my thumb and finger and can’t help but smile. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And he was suspended between radiance and darkness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The older children rose, carrying Matt between them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was the exchange of nasty germs between the Americas and Europe so unequal? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s torn between having an operation and letting matters take their course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I could stop a puck from passing between the pipes—but I had to make it all the way to winter before anybody would care about that. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, Mama, I’m okay,” he said between breaths. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Let me finish this,” he says, the tension between us dissipated. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The construction had come a little further along on this floor; half-finished plaster dividers rose up between the metal beams, and electrical wiring snaked alongside the ceiling pipes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

For one thing, the various parts of the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were manufactured in factories as far apart as New York and California, with places in between such as St. Louis, Missouri. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortified towns emerged in the third millennium B.C., with cemeteries whose great variation between unadorned and luxuriously furnished graves bespeaks emerging class differences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps “enduring” and “continuous” are better terms for it, although at first glance all Egyptian art between 3000 and 500 B.C. does tend to have a certain sameness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So...is that the only really big difference between the two worlds? Who your mom married? And then did that lead to all the other differences? What state they lived in, and...?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Watching the battle of wills between Captain Smith and Chief Powhatan is like watching the dance of a sword fight between two proud, powerful men. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jacob picks up some spun wool and twirls it between his fingers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She snared it between her teeth to play tug-of-war. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He housed Pumpkin in one stall, Seabiscuit in the next, and tore down the wall between. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z