| 单词 | temple |
| 例句 | She’d washed her face, but her neck and temples were still dark with grime. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The point of my arrow disappears into his right temple, and in the instant it takes to reload, Johanna has buried an ax blade in Cashmere’s chest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt the metal barrel on my temple. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He got ready his golden car and Hermes took the reins and drove the black horses straight to the temple where Demeter was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z San Jose Mogote quickly rebuilt the temple a few yards away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His temples still throbbed with the light but as he became accustomed to its sharpness he opened his eyes more and more. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it very funny that he should say that, he who hadn’t stepped into a temple with a serious intent since I had had the faculty of memory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And now, even though there was no more temple and no more high priests, they still left a little piece. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Discs of hammered gold at her temples were connected by spans of fine chain across her brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "I remember now," she says with both hands on her temples. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When he’s not doing chores down in the temple’s kitchens, I know that sometimes he sneaks into the library. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A team of Cyclopes was placing the domed roof on a new temple, using a blue whale as a crane. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “And in that spirit,” he goes on, “be at the temple by nine a.m. Saturday and we’ll do this right.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z As we neared the temple we noticed several people, mostly old and crippled, going the same way. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And when at last the sun rose out of the sea and the great silver-plated dome of the temple flashed back its light, he was almost dazzled. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The vaults were full of old clothing, garments claimed from those who came to the House of Black and White to drink peace from the temple pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I catch a flash of red hair and brown eyes before pain bursts in my temple and I fall into darkness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He saw square brick towers, a great red temple, a distant manse upon a hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps somewhere, in one of the temples, there was a monk who knew about his parents, who remembered sending him to Ch’ulp’o. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Her dad tapped his temple, his shorthand for I can read your mind. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z "She is going to make her new family very happy. Thank you for letting us meet her. We should get back to the temple now, shouldn't we, Pong?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He found him again at prayer in the temple of Vishnu, where he related to him stories about Vishnu and Lakshmi. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He let his glasses slip down on his nose and reached up to massage his temples. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Against this column she could just make out Briony beyond the island temple, standing right by the water’s edge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I try to rub the headache out my temples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z August replaced her glasses, walked to Rosaleen, and examined the stitches on her forehead, the cut under her eye, the bruises along her temple and arms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was he who whispered to his friend, “Don’t you think this is the temple, Pylades?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His face, and especially his left temple, was misshapen, swollen, and lacerated; his...mouth was a coagulated pool of dark blood; he coughed up more than liter of blood in his agonal moments. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I know a thing or two,” Muriel continued, tapping her temple. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A few feet away on the temple's sparring lawns, Brother Lekan is glowering at me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, willing his father’s voice to go away, willing the wretched memories to go away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When they settled, he saw the temple’s worship hall had been transformed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I feel at home in a Hindu temple. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Let me just turn the temple of Christian coffee into a black pit of lies. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Harry saw the edge of Snape’s sallow face turn a nasty brick color, the vein in his temple pulsing more rapidly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It spread from the bottom of her jaw up to her temple, from her eye to over her ear. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I went to temple at crowded times when the Brahmins were too distracted to come between God and me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Percy, Annabeth and she found themselves in a cool, damp pit that seemed to be the basement level of a temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Since then, the battle-scarred temples with their beautiful statues, stone sculptures, and multilayered towers remain one of the seven man-made wonders of the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a day had passed at the temple that Pong hadn't prayed for his friend and wished he could know what he was doing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I wandered along these rows, listening to the deep hum of the machines, until I finally reached the center of the temple. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She had been commander of the six seraphim, according to legend—and holy book—and her temple stood just across a broad boulevard from the guildhall. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Dunbar asked plaintively from the floor, wincing at the vibrating pains in his temples that his voice set up. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I took it all in: the firm but biscuit-doughy feel of Big Ma’s arms; her gardenia talcum powder and Dixie Peach hair grease dabbed under her wig around her temples. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When he fell skinning the cat on the monkey bars, it was Mia he ran crying for, and Mia who dabbed the gash on his temple with iodine and stuck a bandage across it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A sunken temple loomed up out of the greyness as Yandry and Duck leaned upon their poles and paced slowly from prow to stem, pushing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I can feel a headache beginning in my left temple. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Always he had been happy, working joyfully in the temple, proud to serve not men, but gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Bring it on, mangy boy. The Hunters of Artemis are on their way right now, just like last time! That’s a temple of Diana over there, you idiot. You’re on their home turf!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Someday, I’m going to be a famous scholar of the temple.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then in the cities with their temples and bazaars came the pictographs, and later, symbols that produced sounds as if by magic, and what followed was written culture. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d never experienced anything like it: crushing pain between my temples—pain so severe that it was accompanied by shuddering waves of nausea and made it impossible for me to speak in coherent sentences. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z To the south, beyond the lake, a cluster of temples perched on a hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "It was wrong of them to bum my temple," the heavy, flat-nosed woman said placidly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In this modern post-religious age, secular institutions flounder to imitate the gift that is uniquely found in the temple and mosque and church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He came home with a crescent-shaped scar on his temple, seriously weakened vision in his left eye, and a suspicion of his own cowardice from which he could never recover. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A hundred hues of red, yellow, gold, and orange met and melded in the temple walls, dissolving one into the other like clouds at sunset. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the morning, I decided, I would go to the temple. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But there was no time to take in the view; first they had to deal with the children, who were racing up toward the temple, screaming with rage and excitement. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The widows in their white saris stole silently from the temple. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “This wasn’t part of a temple,” she whispered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The broken stones of temples and palaces were sinking back into the earth, and gnarled old willows grew thick along the riverbanks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Finally she walked right out of the temple, threw the paper on the ground, and said, “I think we just better stop playing this awful game.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He took Tree-ear to the temple on the mountainside, but the monks had been unable to take the boy in because fever raged there as well. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Again, the ding sounds, followed by a brief tingle along my temples. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All around the temple, wolves howled as one. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "You riffraff. Think you can enter a temple stinking like garbage!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z As soon as he laid eyes on her, saw the identical fear in her eyes, he’d recognize her from the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A hard blow came to his temple and he slumped to the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His eye glinted with anger, and the bruise on his temple throbbed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Harry did not doubt that speech would return to him, and soon — the vein pulsing in his uncle’s temple was reaching danger point — but something about Dumbledore seemed to have robbed him temporarily of breath. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He brushed by a gaunt, cadaverous, trustful man in a black raincoat with a star-shaped scar in his cheek and a glossy mutilated depression the size of an egg in one temple. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I was raised here in the temple. I could help you get the map, and I could translate it for you.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At eighteen, Pa left home and went to live in a Buddhist temple to get away from his violent home, further his study, and eventually became a monk. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mami cut it short whenever it grew into my eyes, but I’d seen dark brown wisps by my cheeks and near my temples. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Every year at around this time the monks came down from their mountainside temple to collect their tithe of rice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps the boys were hiding in the island temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z From what I could gather, the recruitment attitude at the temple seemed to me to amount to a self-defeating waiting view ... an assumption that Allah would bring us more Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My lungs are tight, they breathe always the same hot, used-up air, the veins on my temples are swollen. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, when they lifted their foreheads from the temple floor, the scrap of paper was hanging in Thoth’s curved beak, and Toby was backing away from the altar, bowing at every step. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Their eyelids were rimmed and elongated almost to their temples with black eye paint, best protection against Egypt’s glaring sun. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They were dressed in overalls and faded blue shirts, but each boy wore one perfect turkey tailfeather tied with tape against his temple. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What we decided to do was to set a trap, like Daniel in the temple. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, it’s always irritated me that my temple has freckles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When it clouded, they pounded her temples with the rocks in their fists until she was dead. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He combs his flaxen strands meticulously from the lower left side of his head to his right temple, then swirls them round and round on his bald crown, securing them with a greasy pomade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Its foremost symptom was a sensation of heat that on occasion flamed in the nerve endings of his forehead until the arteries in his temples pulsed visibly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Ekon thought he knew where these led—to the other end of the temple's ground floor, not far from the stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The downtown area alone had six thousand masonry structures: homes, temples, palaces, and granaries, even an eighteen-foot-high defensive wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Pong felt trapped—squeezed by the walls of the temple, by the walls around his heart. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “It’s better than living in the temple of zits.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The little gold hairs were curled in a very engaging way at her temples. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On his knees before the double doors is David, a gun barrel pressed to his temple, blood trailing down his chin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The nurse started swabbing my temples with a smelly grease. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Distantly, he heard the sounds of party revelers still in the temple’s worship hall, but they felt like inhabitants of an entirely different world now, like something separate. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Massive gateways, temples, roofs and whitewashed walls rising thick along its crowded streets traced a long, angular pattern against the sky. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Two soft pads, which felt slightly moist, clamped themselves against Winston’s temples. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Bacchus winced and pressed his hands to his temples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I held a warm washcloth over my eyes and pressed my hands against my temples. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I lean forward and press my lips against her temple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I do have her blood,” I said, looking now at a young girl standing before the gate of a Buddhist temple in a dark velvet suit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They made their way up its winding path, and even from there he could already discern the temple itself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And thus they went until they reached the western field where stood the temple to the earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Strong Belwas lingered at the door of death in the temple, under the care of the Blue Graces ... though Selmy half suspected they were finishing the job those honeyed locusts had begun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Percy thought thunder was shaking the temple again. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She took some of his weight as they walked toward the great mud temple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “No one,” it repeated until it sounded like the ringing of a temple bell signaling something sacred, some great happiness, a moment freed from attachment. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z After battling through the underground temple of Hades, the last thing Jason wanted was to deal with more evil spirits. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Galazza Galare awaited them outside the temple doors, surrounded by her sisters in white and pink and red, blue and gold and purple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Like an angry fist, it pushed the black shirts from the temple, forcing them back into the jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z His black hair was touched at the temples with silver. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Vanished states tended to leave visible archaeological hallmarks, such as ruins of temples with standardized designs, at least four levels of settlement sizes, and pottery styles covering tens of thousands of square miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The idea that the temple, wearing its own black band, grieved for the burned-down mansion, that it yearned for a grand and invisible presence, bestowed a faintly religious ambience. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The sky was overcast, but Emily was pink-faced and wiping sweat off her temples by the time they reached their building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t be rude with me, boy. Just take us to a temple. Any temple.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Smells of night, earth, and salt air were cooling my temples. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Ryan has already memorized Link’s entire temple service just from listening to Rabbi Gold’s recording so many times. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The anesthesiologist absentmindedly strokes my temples through her latex gloves. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her black hair, with a few strands of gray at the temples, was pulled back like a ballerina’s. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z One or two of the regulars in the temple recognised us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Pizarro then raided all the temples and palaces and melted down the gold he found and sent that back. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She pointed at a distant temple tower rising above the forest of buildings. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He pinched the bridge of his nose and massaged his temples. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z From the vantage point of the Night Zoo, she’d only ever seen the barest glimpses of Lkossa’s namesake temple; up close, it seemed more than a little daunting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Athena Parthenos was thirty feet above them at the top of the temple, and even if they could reach it they couldn’t shadow-travel until they actually had shadows. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z One of the blue-robed brothers of the temple cupped a hand around his mouth to make his voice carry to the other side of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Maneuver us that way. We’re close to the temple. Very close.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My temples throbbed, my cheek stung, the spit was still on my face. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Little remains of the Heraion on the Aegean isle of Samos, one of the wonders of the ancient world, a great temple dedicated to Hera, who began her career as goddess of the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need my pipe,” the woman murmured, rubbing her temples. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Well, if you do not arrive tonight there is a temple not far from here where you can eat and sleep.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The dagger she’d taken from the temple was still there, at least, but that brought her little comfort. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Wait, brother? As in a brother of the temple?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then he leaned in and pressed his lips to the corner of her forehead, just above her temple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She went directly to the side of the temple where her books had been. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There were rumors the city’s worst criminals were kept in another part of the temple, in a cellar perhaps even lower than this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The older official is tall, with graying hair at his temples and a chiseled jaw. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The Ayemenem temple wasn’t one of them, but these days, thanks to its geography, things had changed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Few temple meetings were held, for instance, without the minister looking down upon some freshly shaved bald domes of new Muslim brothers in the audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to rise—a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise—and, at once, to leave this temple and go out into the world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Priests walked about the temples, most of them wearing the golden-yellow feathers that showed their high status. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “I had the same reaction,” she said, rubbing her temple. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She points to a small temple a few feet away with a water tap in the courtyard, where people are rinsing their feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z This time he aimed for the giant’s temple, and he hit Skrymir with all his strength. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He stumbled through the thick grass with Lyra running ahead to see, and then back to help, and then ahead again, until they reached the stone pavement around the temple. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, they sat on the weed-choked temple floor and shared a chocolate bar, which tasted better than anything Jen could remember. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Mom wrapped her arm around me and pulled my head down to kiss me on the temple. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The hard ridge of his glasses pressed into my temple. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He does the maneuver and swings his back foot right up to my temple. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Thresh brings the rock down hard against Clove's temple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He was sure he’d never been so glad to leave a temple in his life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There had been temples and priestesses and fire rites and sacrifice, but that was a long time ago. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One path led south across a bridge, up to the hill with all the temples. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And in the faint gleam, he could see it: just above her left temple, there was a little patch of hair that was shorter than the rest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind me was a Mormon temple, and Kamikaze, Luke’s old goat, long dead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even Christ had chased the moneylenders from the temple, and Lydia’s friendship was a temple to him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I stopped and clenched my fists, then bent over, knuckling my temples and gritting my teeth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He poked my temple with his index finger as he got up to get himself a Diet Coke. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z As they approached, Mr. Kapasi explained that the temple had been built between a.d. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I assumed her pallor was the result of being indoors all the time and that the blue vein that beat wildly at her temple was a kind of inner metronome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At last they came to the ruins of an ancient temple carved into the side of a mountain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Ma stared at the old temple, but refused to get out of the car; she merely looked out the window. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Brother Apunda, the temple’s head custodian, was a stern old man who always smelled of spoiled legumes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A fur of red dust gathered on the curly hairs of his forearms, and rivulets of perspiration ran down his temples. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her fingers to her temples and discovered the electrodes still attached to her skin. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z From throat to temple she was all one hot blush. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The last statue, on the northern wall of the temple, was Mr. Kapasi’s favorite. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes as the beginning pangs of her ordeal pounded at her temples. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds swirled over the largest temple, a round pavilion with a ring of white columns supporting a domed roof. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z By the time they reached the temple’s back door, the starry sky was obscured in cloud cover. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He rubs his temples, stretching his hand across his eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Dad pulled over and asked me to cross the temple grounds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At the temple the priest—or priestess, he added graciously—would pass the paper over the sacred fire, and do whatever other stuff he could think up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It said she was dark, short, of a muscular build, with a deep voice, and that she had a scar on her left temple, scars on the back of her neck. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z At the temple inside the cave, I could go up to the altar and talk to the Rain God if I wanted to, but I didn’t have a thing to say to him. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all of them, he was tall, but he wore a tidy beard, and his long blond hair showed gray at the temples. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z 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 went to Springfield, Massachusetts, to tiy to start a new temple. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt pressed his hands against his temples to keep the idea inside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A mile away, on the crest of the next hill, a storm had gathered over some old stone ruins—maybe the remains of a Roman temple or a fortress. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That afternoon the girls and Marshall got to the storage yard first, and they were all sitting on the edge of the temple floor just waiting when Ken and Toby arrived. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was the synagogue office. They say to get to the temple by nine on Saturday morning.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Ben said, “I bet the Holy Ghost hates living in the crummy temple you got for Him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was a sacred sector, a complex of temples and palaces, the tallest clearly the emperor’s home here in the city. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The roar made Mark’s temples throb and the inside of his forehead ache. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Their silver light is ethereal, impossibly beautiful as it spills over every rose and blooming gardenia in the temple’s sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Henry’s hands on him, his thumbs braced against his temples back in the garden, Henry’s hands other places, Henry’s mouth, what he might do with it if Alex let him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I wet his temples with a moistened finger and give him a swig. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was thirteen, she had a bat mitzvah at a temple in Portland, and during the candlelighting ceremony at the reception, I got called up to light one. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The blows to her face had left one eye swollen shut and performed a gross injury to her temple. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Swiftly she hastened down from the heights of Olympus to the barren, leafless earth, and standing at the door of the temple she spoke to Demeter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This morning he was preaching on Bel in the temple, from the Apocrypha. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In her dream, Piper flew above the Parthenon - the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z While the temple has at least a dozen doors along its walls, Poppet immediately finds one that leads back out into the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The scar showed, pale and puckered, on his right temple. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the pistol to his temple and fired, twice. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Lourdes felt his calloused palm, the metal of his ring clapping her temple. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And with this he turned away and went into the temple. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “This new schedule makes me feel like I’m walking underwater. At the temple, we were up before sunrise and in bed by dusk.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It especially hurt at the temples, but my mother said we were lucky we didn’t have to have our feet bound when we were seven. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I can feel blood running down my temple but I know it’s from the sugar bowl cut that’s split open again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z All Mom said was they were coming to the temple service. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Now she looked resigned, slumped over the table with her fingertips at her temples. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The holy man’s mouth was set in a tight line, and a large vein near his temple throbbed dangerously. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He has green eyes and one rolls around in his head so much he’s constantly tapping his temple to keep it where it’s supposed to be. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It won’t be a far walk, but August in Florida is brutal, so it doesn’t take long for my glasses to fog up and the curls at my temples to spring into tight coils. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A pain stabs my left temple and I press my hand against it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A familiar guilt gnaws at my edges as I think about Tao, about the things he said to me in the temple’s kitchens. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "Place a pinch of sacred ash from the temple on your turban every morning, and as you do so, remind yourself that you must be firm with him." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I thought it was outrageous that our small temple still had some empty seats. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and rubbed his temple with his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The neckline and temples had been trimmed conventionally close, but the sides and top had been left rather more than just longish, and were, in fact, a trifle “distinguished-looking.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z When I looked into the temples, I could see the holy sadhus sitting in long rows, bare chested, their heads shaven, holding sacred lamps and accompanying their chanting with bells. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z My head hurts and I press my index fingers against my temples to try and stop the explosion. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a temple, a chapel—no, an underground cathedral. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “That’s something you can still do as a custodian of the temple. Working here still allows you to serve Lkossa, to be like Baba...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I saw two pagodas, one on each side of the street, as though they were the entrance to a great Buddha temple. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She winced after saying it and stumbled a step backward, holding a hand up to her temple. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Inside the temple, things were damp and messy from the wind-blown rain. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes cut back to the front of the temple, where others were looking and waiting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Without her, he wouldn’t have felt the monsoon downpours in Jakarta or seen the water temples of Bali. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She turned to run and heard the click of the gun pressed to her temple. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She sighed, and she rubbed her temples with her left hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z April herself led the procession; and when they had gone twice around the yard, she lined everyone up on the edge of the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He made himself think of Kamau, of the temple, and of the life the two of them had made here after Baba’s death. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Several men were bleeding from their noses and Shmuel had a dark bruise starting at his temple. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her boyfriend is handsome, with broad shoulders, graying temples, and a mustache. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “You have to keep moving your temple hooks,” Diana said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The hair at her temples blew about in the breeze, the column of vermilion fresh in her part. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The Governor’s words pounded in Pong’s temples: Those who are born in darkness always return. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A book of photographs: a dragon dance at Tet, schoolgirls in white do dais, a temple built on a tree trunk. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Every now and then, he placed his wand-tip to his temple, removed another shining silver thought, and added it to the Pensieve. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I found myself stealing away from the temple, relieved to be out in the open air. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone was walking across the temple grounds toward him a little too fast to be an ordinary temple visitor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mom led us up the wide stone steps to the temple, and showed us where to slip our shoes and socks off. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A man with his hair cut sharply at his temples and a pointed nose spoke. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Mom started rubbing her temples at the mention of macaroni, and by this point had her head fully in her hands. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Her skin was dark and smooth, and at her temples was just a bit of gray. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There must be dozens of temples in the mountains surrounding Songdo; even if Tree-ear could find that monk, it was likely that he would no longer remember. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A blue vein in her right temple throbbed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I put my hands up to my temples, like I’m trying to keep my Noise inside, trying to keep all the wrong things from spilling out into the world. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Except for the black bar Isagol had painted across her eyes, temple to temple, like a slim mask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was eyeing the entryway that led into the temple, the very entry Ekon had come through just minutes before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She turned her back on the island temple and wandered slowly over the perfect lawn the rabbits had made, toward the bridge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The crown of golden roses girded his temples, jade stag's head rising over his forehead, long black hair spilling out beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Koffi knew they were being reckless, knew that at any moment they could run into more of the temple’s workers or the Sons of the Six, but luck stayed with them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Years and years ago, this had been one of his and Kamau’s jobs as temple apprentices. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I press my temples, trying to sort it out. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Distantly, he imagined he could hear the low hums of the temple's brothers in the adjacent wing’s worship hall, the scuffle and slide of their sandals as they prepared for the day’s visiting patrons. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On the clifftop, a collection of ruined temples and modern cranes gleamed silver in the moonlight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Now a real fire beat in my temples, all the fevers I’d ever begged for, caught up to me at last. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They smiled on and the girls were stroking their hair over the temples. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the monks and widows in the temples were silent. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Beneath one of these makeshift tents, she saw her baby, Tariq’s baby, its temples wasted, its jaws slack, its skin mot- ded, bluish gray. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Kapasi was pleased that they liked the temple, pleased especially that it appealed to Mrs. Das. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Near Ettumanoor they passed a dead temple elephant, electrocuted by a high tension wire that had fallen on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that I looked more closely, I noticed that she had a bruise high on one temple in addition to the bandage on her arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “On the train. I saw her get on the train to Delhi. It wasn’t an hour after I had taken you to the temple.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Each morning, Father Olufemi visits the worship hall to receive prayers and offerings from the temple’s patrons.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She has to see the beads of sweat on my forehead, the beads of sweat dripping down my temples onto my cheeks. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They worked willingly to build her a temple, and when it was finished Demeter came to it and sat there—apart from the gods in Olympus, alone, wasting away with longing for her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “In case you forgot, we are in a temple, not a tavern,” he said through his teeth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z So, perhaps, was music, both vocal and instrumental; excavating Caral, Shady discovered thirty-two flutes made of pelican wingbones tucked into a recess in the main temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As one person the five biggest Egyptians turned and looked at their temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She would go to her room and bathe her aching head and temples in cold water. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z She had a small face, an even smaller nose, and short dark hair that grayed at the temples. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I watched the row of neat black stitches across his temple. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “You did all this, Moss,” Wanda said, and she planted a kiss on his temple. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The three surviving fiery fingers had not been sold yet, but they were chattels of the Lord of Light and could count on being bought back by some red temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Those with nowhere else to go always went to the temple. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Adam felt the punches on temples, cheeks, eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A group of our colonists have burned the natives’ houses, stolen from their gardens, robbed valuables from their temples, beat the people with clubs, and shot them with muskets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His father kisses him on the temple and deep in the hair and says he wants him to fetch us some drink, some food. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, they softened some, but they always remained the chief features of Inigo’s face: the giant parallel scars running one on each side, from temple to chin. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She kisses my temple to seal the deal. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He looks sweaty, uncomfortable—I can’t imagine the heavy blue robes masters and brothers of the temple are required to wear are comfortable during the Zamani Regions hot season—but I don’t dare to ask. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I visited the temples: the Govindji, with its great hall and its row of columns like tree trunks and its high ceilings where neat rows of bats hung like small furry pennants. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He would buy a stick of incense and place it in the little temple to the Earth God. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z After Mama had left and Baba had been killed, it had been Kamau who’d found them a new home at the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Dumbledore drew his wand out of the inside of his robes and placed the tip into his own silvery hair, near his temple. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z On every trip to Logan, the family did, however, visit the city’s majestic temple, the second oldest in Utah, right up against the mountains, viewable from the Cache County Attorney’s Office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I had expected a withered corpse, but Mr. Crumbley looked perfectly intact and surprisingly young, perhaps only forty or fifty years old, his black hair graying just around the temples. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I go to temple. You better not be talking about the Jewish people.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Mulch felt the cold steel of a gun barrel against his temple. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In the temple it was suddenly so dark that the reflected candles lit Thoth’s glassy stare with points of fire. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you are done, please make your way to the temple’s worship hall.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad visited the Muslim countries, and upon his return he directed that we would begin calling our temples “mosques.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But Mr. Michael, fists taut, his temple vein popping, does. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He shuffled, grew dizzy, stopped for breath, started again, stumbling and sweating but refusing to wipe his temples, still afraid to look at his hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Or, as the woman who ran the local Hindu temple’s summer day camp liked to remind Aru: Don’t go outside without sunscreen or you’ll get darker and won’t find a husband! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Enrique races so fast he feels the blood pounding at his temples. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Her temples were neglected; her altars foul with cold ashes; her favorite towns deserted and falling in ruins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m allowed to go to temple, but not to the feast?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then the church seemed to swell with the Power it held, and, like a planet rocking in space, the temple rocked with the Power of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He tapped his temple with his free hand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Nok paced beneath the tree, letting her eyes wander the temple grounds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Perhaps it had been part of a temple, or the hall of the village lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Closer to, the temple had a sorrier look: moisture rising through a damaged damp course had caused chunks of stucco to fall away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z This seems to have been the case for the man whose death was celebrated in the San Jose Mogote temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I love the line about the temple being a place of glory. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z His hair, still coal black except for touches of gray at his temples, was combed back, but his cheeks were sunken, and he had a thin beard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I took the mirror and pointed to a splatter of black dots near my temple. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I really blew it,” Seth said, palms pressed against his temples. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The limestone covering the floor was all that remained of the original stone temple, which the King of Adarlan had destroyed when he decided to replace it with the glass structure. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The gods of Olympus loved order and beauty in their sacrifices and their temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew the temple that I could build if I could really get to those Christians. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweat was rolling down our backs, plastering our blouses to our skin when we finally reached the temple. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Harry could see a vein flickering horribly on Snape’s greasy temple. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He had caused the coffin of O-lan to be brought from the temple and it was put on the ground to await the old man’s burial first. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He makes adjustments to the flood of Prussian blue paper himself, responding to her arrangements, surrounding replicas of ancient Egyptian temples with columns of curving bookshelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The inside of the hotel reminded Armpit of pictures he’d seen of ancient Greek temples, with stone pillars and marble floors. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z To their right a nightfire burned outside a temple of red stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Being willing to sit up here and talk,” she said, and she kissed him on his temple. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This forehead with its hollow temples, this mouth that now seems all teeth, this sharp nose! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pythoness, Apollo’s priestess and prophetess, had found him one morning, a little baby, lying on the temple stairway, and had brought him up as tenderly as a mother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Larson passed over an old National Geographic that showed the architectural detailing of some ancient Mesoamerican temples. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a large field near the temples in which the people could gather. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Across the street stood a majestic domed Greek temple, situated on the banks of a winding shallow lagoon. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She held up a piece of the light hair near her temples. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His forearm presses against my windpipe, I can feel the blood pulsing at my temples, my eyes blurring. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As she hurried them along, the scar from the old wound on her temple began to throb like a toothache. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z What remained was the artificial lake and island with its two stone bridges supporting the driveway, and, by the waters edge, a crumbling stuccoed temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She made him stop for religious reasons—the body is a temple and so on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Against Baby Kochamma’s better judgment, it was he who took them, along with Lenin, for all-night performances at the temple, and sat up with them till dawn, explaining the language and gesture of kathakali. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove through the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and then along the outskirts of Washington, D.C., where we passed a temple with gold spires striking up into the air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Also she went to the princes of Eleusis who had built her temple and she chose one, Triptolemus, to be her ambassador to men, instructing them how to sow the corn. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The temples and forums of New Rome gleamed in the sunlight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In all the temples, I saw the widows chanting hour after hour. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked up then, but he’d turned away and was facing the track again, his hands up at his temples. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She was moving fast—fast like a dancer in a temple ritual, fast like a snake in the Red Desert, fast like water down the side of a mountain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This is what had haunted him all those years in the temple. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But in the fourth round, out of nowhere, Schmeling landed a hard right to the temple that knocked Louis to a sitting position on the floor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Seated in a pew in the rear of the spacious temple, Celaena kept her mouth closed so tightly that it hurt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The temple, made of sandstone, was a massive pyramid-like structure in the shape of a chariot. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Its temples and villas, enveloped in thick tropical forest, were as close to a lost city as we would ever be likely to see. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In his final piece, Parsifal, of 1882, Wagner turned the theatre into a temple, the plot into a sacramental ritual and the leitmotifs he bestowed with sacred power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Receivers dangle from their bases like temple bells. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her hair is parted down the middle and graying at the temples, braided and wound over her head into a flat hair crown crisscrossed with hairpins. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It connected in a brilliant flash, and Luke swung the gun one time, right at her temple. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Rubbing her temples with her peach fingernails, she shakes her head. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I would never be a temple, or a resort, or a hotel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Pa led me to a temple area where the trees were so tall that they seemed to reach the heavens. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Using a network of concealed vents and channels, priests piped loud, roaring sounds at those who entered the temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was roofing a temple with the skulls of his victims. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘This is the temple of my brothers, Deimos and Phobos.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z An old man with a wooden leg thumped back and forth across the road, clutching his temples and announcing to everyone who passed, “They shot my cow.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Yes, in those ways, life in the temple was similar to what Pong was used to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “It is a worse foolishness to do something foolish and then to be unable to laugh at it later! A fox, then. It was a fox that kept me from the temple.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She pressed her fingers against her temples and began to massage them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z That ‘your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost’ routine is a dead giveaway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The window, facing east, provides a perfectly framed glimpse of the Logan temple, which stands less than half a mile away, and the majestic Rockies behind it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Toby, please. I promise I—” She stopped and rubbed her temples. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But when he got to the bathroom, he was shocked to see his reflection, with the gun pressed to his temple. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He reads about how the pyramids and Greek temples and Medieval cathedrals were built, studying the plans of churches and palaces in his textbook. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was damp, drippy weather but with no real rain, and they all just sat around on the floor of the temple in the darkening late afternoons and talked and talked. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined his father’s temple hitting the side of the concrete steps. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “The Fiery Hand. The Lord of Light’s sacred soldiers, defenders of the temple.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t hear any buzzing,” he said, and twirled his finger beside his temple. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He put a hand to his forehead and pressed his temples for a moment, as though trying to remember something. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She nudged Elizabeth with her elbow and whispered, “You say, ‘The mighty ones have summoned us to their temple.’” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Danger to her own person was the first thing she had learned to see, back when she was still half a child, a slave girl bound for life to the great red temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With both hands he pries the glasses from her face, clasping the frames where they meet her temples. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There were no wounds to show how he had died, nothing but a leaden bruise upon his temple. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I returned to the temple and placed the guitar on the altar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Before their eyes the tiny, lowly hut which had been their home for so long was turned into a stately pillared temple of whitest marble with a golden roof. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Gawaine flushed to the eyebrows, the veins swelling at his temples. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a few threads of gray at her temples, which I hadn’t noticed before. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There's a noticeable scar on the side of his face near his temple. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He took a sip from his cup and rubbed his temple. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z David’s successor, Solomon, set up a music school attached to the temple at Jerusalem for the training of musicians. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Brother Apunda is getting older, and he needs help overseeing temple maintenance, especially with the Bonding coming up in two months...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She showed him Nyame’s bright adinkra charm, which winked under the red blaze of the hole in the sky, then pressed it against his temple. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z My headaches, the sensation of tightness around the temples, have a particular and sinister cause. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “We sell the silks right from the temple,” Sister Wanda explained above. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Pong spent most of his time inside the temple grounds, but when he turned thirteen, Father Cham began taking him along more often on his visits to the village and surrounding countryside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Silently, Brangwain Spurge stared at each monument and temple as if committing them to memory. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “It was me,” Mother says as she rubs her temple. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z In fact, Piper realized queasily, he was the same size as the Athena Parthenos that had once dominated the temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He’s so close I could run my fingers through his shiny, tangly brown hair, run them across the faint spidery wrinkles that fan out at his temples, across the dark worrying shadows beneath. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Crane-man—how is it that when you lost your home and your family, you did not go to the temple?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “We need to decide on the title,” I say and rub my temples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She explained that the bullet had grazed my temple, near my left eye, and traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder, where it stopped. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Moss didn’t envy them as he wiped at a drop of sweat that ran slowly down his right temple. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In a heartbeat, he had bounced blows off the knight's temple, elbow, and throat, the wood ring-ing against the metal of helm, gauntlet, and gorget. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Like how Pastor Tom says, ‘Thy body is the Lord’s temple.’” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She called me a desgraciada and ground her knuckles into my temples. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We gave up and leant our backs against the painted wall which encircled the temple, the vermilion and white striped wall we had foolishlessly thought meant safety. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A temple which Mr. Muhammad numbered Thirteen was established there with the help of Brother Osborne, who had first heard of Islam from me in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong had never been to a temple before, but based on what he'd seen in books, this one was on the plain side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z More than the dilapidation, it was this connection, this lost memory of the temple’s grander relation, which gave the useless little building its sorry air. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She looked around, the bruise on her temple a sharp contrast against her pale skin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He could feel, somewhere deep inside him, anger and pain building, a knot of tension at the base of his skull, a tightness at the temples. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Each day Puli accompanied us to the quarry, usually remaining with us while we worked and always returning with us to the temple. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of Lucille would remember the temples that were bombed, the mosques, the acid attacks, the synagogues. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She pulled May’s head to her so it rested against her shoulder for a minute, and then she lifted her sister’s face and pressed the towel to May’s forehead and temples and along her neck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A minute after the snow goose had appeared, the last of the children left the temple, and the only sound was the rush of air in the branches of the circling witches above. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Decorative hieroglyphic borders were added to the poster-paint pictures that already adorned the walls of the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me Zooming the temple? Why does that have to happen at the school?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He draws his gun and points it at Tobias’s right temple. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z On their way back from the Heart of Darkness, they stopped at the temple to ask pardon of their gods. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The lonely-sickness came over her again, and she pressed her fists to her temples to force it away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The destruction of the temple of philosophy was not, for him, an historical event; it was a personal experience, the moment when he had awakened from a nightmare. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In a very short time they had accumulated all sorts of fascinating facts about tombs and temples, pharaohs and pyramids, mummies and monoliths, and dozens of other exotic topics. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She righted it, stepping back, and blinked, pressing her fingers to her temples. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I struggle into an upright position, push my wet hair off my throbbing temples, and brace myself for this meeting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The figure in question for me was an older sister of Mother’s, of a more traditional mind, who brought me to a temple when I was a small baby. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In order to bring the new Buchis bull to its temple at Flermonthis, a city near Thebes in Upper Egypt, Cleopatra traveled more than four hundred miles on the Nile by boat. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Thus the human-made tunnels into the temple were part of what made it embody the power of a mountain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Over the music and the laughter, the buzz of the building throbbed in Pong’s temples. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z That’s why he had hidden a case of them and the radio in the old temple. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Being weary from the march, the soldiers stopped to offer sacrifices at the temple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My hand shook so much the earpiece slid away from my ear to my temple. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Their steps were slow—Brother Ugo wasn’t as fast as he’d once been—but in time, they made their way to a corridor that led to the temple’s library. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Babulya said a long, long time ago, everyone had given some of their food and harvest to the high priests in the temple. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Horace was dazed but conscious, a trickle of blood running from his temple. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I was covered from my temples to my toes in grime. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You can go and chant in the temple like the other widows do. The monks will give you food.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Near the grove, off the highway, there was a shimmering temple topped by a golden statue of the angel Moroni. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Their material cultures were simpler, too—no writing, no stone plazas, no massive temples—though Plains groups did leave behind about fifty rings of rock that are reminiscent of Stonehenge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The procession wound its way back and forth across the storage yard several times, and came to a stop in the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A trickle of sweat ran from her temple down her cheek. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Finally Reyna pointed to the cluster of temples on the distant hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The arteries in his temples had begun to pulse, as they often did when he’d been sleepless. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It landed on the archway above the temple gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The windswept hills were barren except for rocks, grass and wildflowers - and, of course, a bunch of crumbling temples. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There were mostly retired warriors listed, occasionally the name of an esteemed master scholar of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The sum of it had almost entirely depleted the modest savings Ekon had accrued from his time at the temple, not that Koffi needed to know that, or anything else about his financial situation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z That afternoon, in Egypt, she’d put her books down on the edge of the temple floor and Ken had been fooling around and knocked them off. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The temple, for the mound was surely built for religious reasons, was laid out in a wide, shallow U about 150 feet long and 60 feet high, with a sunken plaza between the arms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The way the sexton figured it, James Grew had propped the gun barrel on the books to bring it in line with his temple. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He cut Percy out of the net and propped him against the temple wall, enveloping him in the airy shell of the ventus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I’m useless in the temple’s library, memorizing passage upon passage of boring scripture, but out here on these lawns, I come alive. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The hallways and doors of the temple went by him in a blur as he tried to lay out a blueprint in his head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “He’s new to the city, and no doubt in need of a guide. I’m going to offer to give him a tour of the temple, maybe the western gardens.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z One of Jabir’s odd jobs at the Night Zoo was to deliver a Zamani goat to the temple every week for ritual sacrifice. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Father Masego is about to expel me from the temple; he’s going to tell my parents that I’m not allowed to train here anymore. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He knew, somewhere in this temple, there was a beast locked away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In pain he gripped his temples, ran fingers through his hair, turned away from her, toward her, paced across the room and back, stopped at a window, lowered his voice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Or else Pharaoh must have rewarded the stonecutters handsomely indeed for the work on the temple. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Nothing like a ruined temple that only ghosts could enter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I was returning to the temple one evening, hurrying so that I should be in good time for the meal, when I heard someone running after me, shouting something I could not understand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins in his forehead were standing out, on each temple a pulse throbbed fiercely. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth gave a little scream and everyone rushed out of the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The temple was a beautiful space, built entirely from glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z After Jam’s surgery, Glass had come by the house every couple of days, massaging her feet and hands, dabbing oils on her temples and scalp, loving her with her hands. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I push on my aching temple and sigh. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They’d found separate places to change clothes in the stable before heading into the market, and now he was wearing a plain brown kaftan instead of the white one befitting a servant of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She had heard of their arrival and she had taken refuge in Hera’s temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z August vibrates with anger, a vein pulsing at his temple. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Fear washed over her, as it had in the Spartan temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidence of Cleopatra’s time in Rome may be seen in a temple that was located in Palestrina, a town twenty-four miles east of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z ‘I think those are their faces above the doors. This place isn’t just a shrine to Ares. It’s a temple of fear.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I personally like Bel and the temple; it’s a good story, but with all the delays for translation it was going too slowly to hold people’s interest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her fingertips to her temples and waved toward Virgil’s older brothers, who were tall and lean and muscled, even then. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Though Mr. Kapasi had been to the temple countless times, it occurred to him, as he, too, gazed at the topless women, that he had never seen his own wife fully naked. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It suddenly seemed like there was more gray around her temples than had been there just a moment before. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As we lay still, Anastasia put her lips right against my temple and barked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He feels a pleasant ache at his temples, and a sudden gratitude for the day and where it has brought him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Punched my right temple and grabbed my hair and pulled as hard as I could. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z In the back of his mind, Ekon thought of an old story, the tale of another old scholar of this temple who’d gone missing without a trace. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was saying that the teachings should be spreading further than they had, and temples needed to be established in other cities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Crouching beside his head it licked his temple, his scarred cheek, and softly his closed eyes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z His tie is unknotted and his hair is dampened and mussed and he has a gauze patch taped above his left temple where his head glanced the ceiling of his sedan when it crashed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead the bird struck his temple and slid hot and greasy down his face, and he had to hunker down and stretch for it with fetters clanking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Behold, my temple to the Earthshaker, built from the skulls of all those I’ve killed in his name! Your skull shall join them!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Then they would write it on a piece of paper and bring the paper to the temple of the oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I met a lotta vampires in my time, and their blood was always green. Been sucking me dry in their little temples.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A priest in scarlet robes stood on the temple balcony, haranguing the small crowd that had gathered around the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She rubbed at her temples with the insides of her wrists. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z And in my part of the world, there is no greater temple to all things organic, natural, and unprocessed than my local Whole Foods supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then I turned the other way, and Alaska was smiling at me, the skin between her eyes and temple crinkled into a starburst. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Precisely at that moment, the garden echoed with temple bells. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “That used to be a temple to Jupiter. The Christians changed it to a baptistery. The Roman ghosts don’t like that.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I felt a throb in my temples and my throat. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But the next morning, she was back at the temple. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The nobleman had wings of wiry red-black hair sprouting from his temples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We arrived at the temple laughing and breathless. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Toby pressed the slip of paper to his forehead and walked three times around the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweat plastered his short hair to his temples and the nape of his neck. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It was the same exasperating thing he'd done back at the temple when he disagreed with Pong but wanted Pong to figure out why for himself. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Nightshade, perhaps. A few berries only. Leaves, moistened in wine, applied to the temple.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Sometimes Jason stood in the underground temple of Epirus, the giant Clytius looming over him, speaking in a chorus of disembodied voices: It took all of you together to defeat me. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My thoughts were wound so tight that my temples pounded with a killer ponytail headache. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z His face was a fearsome red and a vein pulsed at his temple as if it were about to explode. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "I thought you knew better than to use a temple's water faucet! Didn't they teach you anything in jail?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Of course the temple and the two altars had to be decorated, too. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Greeks sacked the city she was in Athena’s temple clinging to her image, under the goddess’s protection. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mamá Jacinta rubs her temples, as if this conversation were giving her a headache. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Another loss: his eyes provided him with only half a view of the world, and reading caused his neurasthenia to flare up and made his temples throb. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I could feel my heart beating in my temples. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Father Masego, the head of the entire temple and city, thinks what I can do with the splendor is extraordinary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z As the Kuhani, he alone led the temple’s Brothers of the Order, and in more ways than one, he was the city’s leader. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The lean-to temple now had two altars and two gods. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z At the oral argument months earlier, I'd been hopeful as I walked into the imposing Alabama Judicial Building and stood in the grand appellate courtroom that was formerly a Scottish Rite Freemasonry temple. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Harry could tell that Uncle Vernon was thinking it over, even if his teeth were bared and a vein was throbbing in his temple. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As another daraja, she and I have practically grown up together in this temple over the last seven years, but we’re decidedly not friends. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He stood in the midst of the temple with the other crewmembers, his face covered in soot, his clothes smouldering. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As she spoke, the Waiting Melody that hung over her like a shimmering temple elephant’s umbrella crumbled and gently fell about like dust. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he lifted his gloved hand to his temple, mocking a gun firing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Edward pressed his fingers to his temples and squeezed his eyes shut. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Asif stared at me, and then he rested his elbows on the table and rubbed his temples. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And, also like yesterday, he touched my face wordlessly — this time with the back of his cool hand, stroking once from my temple to my jaw — before he turned and walked away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The smell of hay thickened in the air as Koffi neared the temple's stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The hallway leading into the temple seemed to grow larger as she neared it, and she had to temper the distinct feeling that it was going to swallow her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She cannot hear anything beyond the rain outside and her own pulse discharging in her temples. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Light from the door struck gray in his temples. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, there was another young black man, bleeding from gashes around the temple. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some went insane, or died after leaving the temple. Others lost their way in the tunnels and were never seen again.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Each has a little wire handle and red Chinese temples printed on the sides. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It tasted so fine, the junky little can of ravioli bites, tasted so incredibly fine that it made his temples hurt while he chewed. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one more place he hadn’t checked—the temple’s library. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I arrived a bit late, but when I went inside the temple, anyone that caught my eye smiled knowingly at me, as if they were saving me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It took several more minutes for me to connect the name with the image on the screen—of a dark-skinned man standing in front of a white marble temple and surrounded by a vast crowd. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He wiped his mouth, blotted his sweaty brow from one wasted temple to the other with his sleeve, and gave me a quick glance. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Down in the valley, the Cyclopes work crew cheered as the temple roof was set in place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I was impure and her body, round as the moon, was still the temple. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I rubbed my temples where a headache was setting up camp. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Above all, his sorties reinforced his belief that the Wooded Island, despite the Japanese temple, should be made as wild as possible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She held her aching head in her hands, fighting back the throbbing at her temples and behind her eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But I also loved the stories about Moses parting the Red Sea, David slaying Goliath, Jesus whipping the money changers in the temple. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z ‘My son is very helpful. Just plead with him in my name. You’ll find him at his old temple in Epidaurus.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z So it should have been a simple matter, to pick her way down the bank and go across the grass toward the temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Around 750 b.c. it was attacked and its temple razed in a fire so intense that the clay walls melted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And seven and a half months later, they got married at Los Angeles’s Mormon temple, like Terryl had dreamed about as a little girl. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At least in the temple I would be safe from evil men. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The Mesopotamian temple was the center not only of religion but also of economic redistribution, writing, and crafts technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The pounding had begun in her temples and the pain was radiating behind her eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I could almost hear the beating of my own heart; and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The sky was overcast, but Emily was pink-faced and wiping sweat off her temples by the time they reached their building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Ma, however, allows our fights to go directly to her temples, giving her headaches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I crossed the grounds and held my palm to the temple stone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I focus again on the doctor, smile, and swipe a bead of sweat from my temple when I adjust my hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “If you’d like to unwrap me,” he said, lifting the large wicker basket onto the table, “we still have an hour until the temple service.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She gives a quick peck to my temple. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It's with a real rabbi in a real temple in Shadbush Crossing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z But there are some temples that a troupe will not pass by without performing in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s agreed to let you stay in the temple.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I look up, wipe the sweat off my temple. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I slide my hands around my head and press them against my temples again. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Yet no mosque, church or temple ever felt so sacred to me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His hand moved automatically up to his temple. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother looked like she badly wanted one and rubbed her temples. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He caught the way she was looking around at the temple and its gods with a shrewdness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It looked as though his temple had been dragged on the asphalt, scraping away skin, then bone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There Leto’s children were born, Artemis and Phoebus Apollo; and in after years Apollo’s glorious temple stood there, visited by men from all over the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally the tall cop brought his nightstick down hard against Bucky’s temple. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Her dad tapped his temple, his shorthand for I can read your mind. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The gray hair at his temples seems more prominent. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z A man was just stepping across the threshold of the temple enclosure. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the temple, which actually was a storefront, were three hog-slaughtering pens. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was distressing to emerge from her inner temple and find these black desecrators howling with laughter before the door. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The streets quieted as they neared the road that led to the temple, but just before it, Kamau's expression hardened. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The kindly man was waiting for her at the House of Black and White, seated on the edge of the temple pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The evil gash on her temple disappeared as if wiped away, the stains of blood nothing more than dried paint. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Holding two samosas in one hand and the rupees I had received in change in the other, I hurried back to the corner of the temple where I had left Sass. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and pressed my fingers to my temples, trying to push the guilt and sympathy out of my head. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The recently appointed Kuhani will offer blessings from the temple, and musicians will fill the streets with their discordant symphony. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “There are plenty of maps here in the temple,” he said slowly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “We’ve just received word that there is an intruder in the temple, a thief!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The man swung and the bottle connected with Stick’s temple. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He let them feel the red saddle, and showed them the brass chain throat-latch on the bridle and the big brass buttons at each temple where the headstall and brow band crossed. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the low clouds— an almost featureless carpet a thousand feet above our heads—perspiration stippled his temples. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Small earbuds extended from the visor’s temples and automatically plugged themselves into my ears. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The memories come in an onslaught—the brothers of the temple and their scoldings, the children who run when they see me, the gossiping elders. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She hip-checked Dad out of the way with a smirk, but then she stood on her toes to kiss him on the temple. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z This was a tall man of between forty and fifty, lean of figure, brown of skin, with hair slightly grizzled round the temples. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She flips through her checkbook and massages her temples. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Blood stung Archie’s cheeks and a pulse throbbed dangerously in his temple. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The oracles all had special sacred places, caves or grottoes or specially built temples, and there were all sorts of far-out things connected with them like sacred fires and mystic vapors and magical statues. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z April chanted, making her voice go up. and down the scale; and along the edge of the temple, the other Egyptians took it up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The Athena Parthenos still lay sideways across the top of the temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Earlier in her life, she’d told her diary that she was going to have a family and get married in the Mormon temple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Once we were both in the kitchen and out of sight, she rolled her eyes at me and twirled her finger at her temple to indicate that she thought our grandmother was nuts. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I think I have had a hand in most of Mr. Muhammad’s temples, but I’ll never forget that opening in Atlanta. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Pigeons fluttered in and out of the temple’s open doorways. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I buried my head in my lap, squeezed my temples with my knees, like a vice. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Across the lake to the south, another hill was dotted with even more impressive buildings—temples, Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Her straight black hair reaches her shoulders and is graying only at her temples. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z His picture—never really inspected—had been of clean-eyed young men and immaculate girls, all in academic robes and converging on a white temple on the crown of a wooded hill in the evening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The tech boys were attaching mind-wipe electrodes to the temples of unconscious diners. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Jesus had righteous indignation when he turned over the tables in the temple and drove out the thieving moneychangers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyeballs ached, and then his temples „ began to ache, the pain seeming to circle around inside his head. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as he'd done when he arrived at the temple, Pong had fallen into the daily rhythm of the Mud House. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She pressed her fingers into her temples, trying to think. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then, Tuesday night in every Muslim temple is Unity Night, where the brothers and sisters enjoy each other’s conversational company and refreshments, such as cookies and sweet and sour fruit punches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And Pong was given as much respect as the oldest monks at the temple. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They got out and walked toward the temple, posing first for pictures by the pair of lions that flanked the steps. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She imagines seizing El Lider’s pistol, pressing it to his temple, squeezing the trigger until he hears the decisive click. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the centre stood the well-preserved shell of a Roman temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He had hoped to come across a hunter’s lean-to or even a temple, but no such shelter appeared as the sun began to descend below the treetops. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The White Star Line had built a charming little temple at the northwest bank of the lagoon opposite the Wooded Island, with steps to the water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then she stood up and stomped out of the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaning on the sink, I held the glass to my temple; from the living room, Francis whispered something indistinct but angry, and then Bunny laughed harshly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When she saw I would not go, she grew still and lay like a log, not a murmur from her, but the sweat forcing itself up in oily drops on her throat and temples. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Rahel, breathless, holding a coconut, stepped into the temple compound through the wooden doorway in the high white boundary wall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Although these monks maintained and took care of the temples, now they are left to the jungle once again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, Tanaburi was a scrap of a town with one school and a tiny temple, but they still had to follow the same rules as everyone else. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In the distance, the imposing grandeur of the temple came into view. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His father, who’d owned a movie theater in Kabul, was telling Baba how, three months before, a stray bullet had struck his wife in the temple and killed her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She pressed a hand to her temple and turned and went upstairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The skin is paler than either Ashima’s or his own, translucent enough to show slim green veins at the temples. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And when they went “fishing” enough among more servants, and other black people in and around Hartford, Mr. Muhammad before long was able to assign a Hartford temple the number Fourteen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They found Khal Drogo seated before a square window- less temple with thick mud walls and a bulbous dome like some immense brown onion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “This is my first delivery job to the temple.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I could feel the blood pounding in my temples. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Nearly—nearly could I believe what I saw, sitting there in the darkness by the temple wall. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “I might remind you that I am honor-bound to report information like this to Father Olufemi, and to the brothers of the temple.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Gilded temples, restored to their former grandeur, gleamed in the desert sun. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The marble baths and the contemplations in the temples. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Too quickly, he sidestepped a confused-looking Fahim and made his way to the back of the worship hall and the halls that led into the rest of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On the other side of the Mekong River, I see orange and gold pointed temple roofs and towers erected on muddy red topsoil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Never before had my sass spoken of temples. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z One of her duties was to find them in the temple every morning, wherever they had chosen to lie down and close their eyes after drinking from the pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The grandmother taps her temple, and then repeats the gesture on the glass. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I think I’m just going to read,” I said, rubbing my temples. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Galazza Galare arrived at the Great Pyramid attended by a dozen White Graces, girls of noble birth who were still too young to have served their year in the temple’s pleasure gardens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He’d spent the last ten years of his life here in the temple, but he doubted he’d ever know the full extent of its layout. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The way he looked at me in the temple’s kitchens still burns my conscience. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He sighed through his clenched teeth, rubbing a spot on his temple, and headed through the garden. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z More than ever before, he wanted to disappear, to sink through the temple’s ancient stone floors and never be seen again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “It’s not vengeance,” she said, rubbing her temples. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Had they been in the temple all night? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He lifted me over the wobbly steps to the dark mouth of the temple cave. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The holiest of temples were his to command, as well as the Sun Maidens and all other shaman priests. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It must have once been part of a temple or sacred dwelling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Keeping my eye on the temple to be sure I would not be lost, I went by two vendors before I found one with samosas that looked both clean and tasty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z According to legend, Athena sometimes cut pieces off her mantle and draped them over statues in her temples, or over her chosen heroes, to shield them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I think Jim made that pretty obvious,” Morrow replied, tapping a finger against his temple, just as Halliday had in the Anorak's Invitation video. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the distance we saw the outline of a temple, not too distant however, with a yellow oil flare burning from the top. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Every once in a while, he’d twist his handkerchief around a cube and press it to his temple. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The temple was cool and the sound of the chanting peaceful. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z That is why chiefdoms devote so much collected tribute to constructing temples and other public works, which serve as centers of the official religion and visible signs of the chief’s power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother, whenever I paid her a visit, would make me accompany her to a temple, and together we would pray and pray before the deity, imploring for help until we were giddy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther east was the Serapeion, a vast temple complex six hundred feet long and one hundred wide, dedicated to Alexandria’s patron deity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He remembered the way she’d looked at him down in the temple’s basements—untrusting, skeptical. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Early states had state religions and standardized temples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z More red lightning flashed in the sky, shaking the temple. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “We were fed at the temple,” I said, not meeting those shrewd eyes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Down here, in the temple’s literal bowels, there was no faint smell of ink and parchment, only the clashing smells of old wood, sweet hay, and mucked dung. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She took the pins out and said to him, “Well, here in Africa that temple has to do a hateful lot of work in a day.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So while Mackenzie runs herself ragged in game temples, I wander through my neighborhood making random turns, maybe in search of my own boss key. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I’d drunk close to a liter of wine and my temples were burning. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “I have business at the temple tomorrow morning. Perhaps we could discuss a patronage next time...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Flowering vines sent up creepers from every crack in the wall or pavement, and young trees had taken root in the Walls of abandoned shops and roofless temples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But as an aspiring architect, she couldn’t help admiring the terraced gardens, the fountains and temples, the winding cobblestone streets and gleaming white villas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Some historians and mathematicians argue that the Parthenon, the majestic Athenian temple, was built so that the golden ratio is visible in every aspect of its construction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She broke over an iron gate, crimping it on impact, and there she hung, impossibly arched, graceful as a temple dancer swooning on a lover’s arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And, of course, on Sundays, every Muslim temple holds its services. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After everyone left their offerings in the temple, he went in and spread fireplace ashes all over the floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong put his hands together and did something he hadn't done since he’d left the temple: he prayed. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z With all that was in him, he was willing me to touch the temple and be saved. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He said nothing, and went on chewing the bread, his temples working, the vein on his forehead, full and angry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I don’t really like being inside the temple, and I especially don’t like being in the Kuhani's private study. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Her bracelet tinkled, calling communicants to the altar, but the only one in the temple had been excommunicated from the Faith because of his parentage and continued mopping. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The bonnet covered the scar on her temple, for the most part. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the temples in this area, Khouy says the soldiers mutilated its animal guards, and either knocked or shot off the stone heads of the gods, riddling the sacred bodies with bullets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The red priests light their nightfires at sunset. The High Priest will be speaking. I would avoid it if I could, but to reach the Long Bridge we must pass the red temple.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The city of Lkossa was a collection of neatly ordered sections, but the temple’s district was different. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She sat leaning forward in her chair with her hands on her knees, her mouth open and a pulse beating very fast in her temple. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There were moments when all three looms were running as they ought—all the shuttles bearing full quills, all three temples hung high on the cloth, no warp threads snapping. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But there was only a throbbing pain in my temple as the words “There is no cure” echoed deeper in my brain. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Pressing my fingertips hard against my hairline, my thumbs against my temples, I squeeze. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Perhaps there was sickness in the temple, or some other untoward event that prevented their coming, but whatever the reason, Tree-ear was growing concerned for his friend. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Think of the temple, the brothers of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They made significant outposts in Brigham City, just twenty minutes from Trementon, at the base of the mountains, and in Logan, the region’s hub, which held a larger temple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I tried desperately to ignore Olive’s order, but all my complaints started: churning stomach, pounding temples, shortness of breath. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But for a finely wrought incense burner commissioned by a wealthy merchant as a gift to the temple, the clay might be drained twice or even three times. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z So they took me inside in hopes that getting some food in me might alleviate the steady heartbeat I was feeling in between my temples. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Aeacus climbed to the lofty temple of Zeus and prayed to him, reminding him that he was his son and the son of a woman the god had loved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned over and lifted die headset off his right ear and put it on his temple, yelling to overcome die sound of the engine. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He steps over to Pri and taps two fingers on her temple. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He tapped his temple with his right index finger. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “What? Think you’re too good to do what every man in this temple has once done?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But on that Sunday afternoon when our two little temples assembled, perhaps only two hundred Muslims, the Chicagoans welcoming and greeting us Detroiters, I experienced tinglings up my spine as I’ve never had since. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Christ, I said, when he was left with no alternative, used force to expel the moneylenders from the temple. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy falls slowly into the chair across from me and massages his fingers in his temples. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z An old woman with stringy arms and sunken temples and slow eyes rimmed by darkened circles of weariness, an altogether different creature from the plump, round-faced woman beaming radiantly from those grainy wedding photos. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z One caught the captain in the temple as he tried to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A bottle of Agua Florida was on the bathroom shelf and he touched the stopper to his temples. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The trees and the road opened up all at once to reveal the grounds of a temple. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His chief temple in Rome ran east and west, where the day begins and ends, and had two doors, between which stood his statue with two faces, one young and one old. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the back stairs of this temple that Desdemona found herself climbing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Luke kicked Bo off him as Jimmy landed a hard punch on Luke’s temple. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was about Grandpa-down-the-hill and how he got the dent above his right temple. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And nowhere in America was such a single temple potential available as in New York’s five boroughs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This temple was a small structure, not higher in all than a man’s shoulder and made of grey bricks and roofed with tile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He frowned as what I was saying sunk in, pressing his long fingers to his temples and closing his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The person staring back at me isn’t some crusty old master of the temple, but a boy with light brown skin and black hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Moss wiped a trickle of sweat off his temple before it rolled all the way down his face, returning to his seat now that he’d crested the hill. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They knew better than to steal from temples—especially Pluto’s—and the fauns never came up here. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Sierra actually gasped when they walked in through the front gates and stood surrounded by all those pillared temples of knowledge and lush lawns. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “High Priest of the red temple in Volantis. Flame of Truth, Light of Wisdom, First Servant of the Lord of Light, Slave of R’hllor.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pong was nearly naked, wearing only the thin cotton underwear from the temple, which was almost transparent when it got wet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The villagers told the man to take the child to the bridge, where Crane-man would care for him until the temple was free of sickness. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Frieda and Mrs. Banks went to temple on Saturday, and Mr. Banks didn’t attend a service of any kind. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He had his choice of a dozen Ivy Leaguers, but he wanted her, he said, for her “Iron Curtain look,” the angular temples and jaw, the heady alto speaking voice. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the big museum on Fifth Avenue. With all the steps. I took you there to see the Egyptian temple, remember?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z How could this be a temple for my dad? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Stick touched his fingers to his temple, but didn’t answer. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “Only masters and brothers of the temple are allowed to grow locks.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Wait for the rifle barrel to touch his temple. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “How on earth do you achieve that effect? The skunk stripe,” she says, reaching up and brushing her own temple. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Every temple had “fished” with enough success that there were far more Muslims, especially in the major cities of Detroit, Chicago, and New York than anyone would have guessed from the outside. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They will assemble everything under one unassailable roof, a temple to the human endeavor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It barely covered his palm, and the emptiness in his stomach felt as big as the whole temple of Amon. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Growing more desperate, he ventured into the western wing of the temple, where Brothers of the Order slept. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Not until the next day, when all the participants took an excursion to the Greek temples at Paestum, did I get an opportunity to introduce myself. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He listened to the sound of his sandals slapping against the temple’s stone floor as he let the idea unfurl in his imagination. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Tragedy had rescued the temple from being entirely a fake. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Melanie sat down, too, on the edge of the temple floor and motioned for the others to do the same. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The facades had soaring white columns like Roman temples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The image of Father Cham lying in the temple came back to him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He laughed, tapping his temple, saying, “I don’t have any more up here than old Vernon.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The temple my dad had used as his headquarters was burning with Greek fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “We had to wrap what was left of the remains in a blanket just to get her to the temple for cremation. It...wasn’t pretty.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She had enormous white eyes that tilted toward her temples, and mere dots for pupils. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It featured a spectacular temple dedicated to Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Koffi was massaging her temples, still trying to make sense of the words, when abruptly, she noticed something. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The sound of pattering footsteps filled the temple, and the congregation stood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They took time out to bedevil a little Jew boy on his way to the temple. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z From it in the early dawn two young men came and stealthily found their way to the temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There were pictures of temples and statues and different kinds of columns, like those in an architecture book. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The candles burning in the temple had scents as well; even the unscented ones gave off faint wisps of smoke from their wicks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She popped a small chocolate into her mouth, clutched at her temples, and swooned. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “It was our secret, something that belonged to no one else. You didn’t have to show it to him. We’ve been going up there since the day we first set foot in this temple.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Both were her temples where at any moment she might be present. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They went on in complete silence past the little temple with the two small stately gods within, who never noticed anything that passed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Of the three virgin goddesses she was the chief and was called the Maiden, Parthenos, and her temple the Parthenon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Monday night, every temple’s Fruit of Islam trains. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She stopped and wondered whether she had the courage to keep on to the bridge, cross it, and leave it to go down the steep bank to the island temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was as tall as Father, but paler, and there was a scar by his right temple that he had gotten in a sword fight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The moneylenders have finally gotten Jesus out of the temple. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning Tree-ear presented himself at Min’s door before the temple bell rang. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The sun was very low and the shade was deep in the back of the temple where the new altar to Thoth had been built. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas felt tears swell under his eyelids; one escaped and trickled down his right temple, into his hair. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z All the same, a little sadness was settling on her as she kept hacking away, moving further round the island temple until she was out of sight of the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then, instead of taking pictures of all the Chinese people and the temples and dragons, they pointed their cameras at us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy cracked the belt, the buckle catching Toby right above the temple. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The temple’s front doors, in a sweet reversal of most American entrances, let blacks in and kept whites out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ethan leans over, one eye on the road, and rubs his lips against my temple. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Grandma’s hair is still black with some graying at her temples. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Atop the mound was the temple for the divine kings, who arranged for the weather to favor agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She opened her eyes and stood straight up; all of the saints surrounded her; Gabriel stood staring, struck rigid as a pillar in the temple. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z At the temples we all scattered, and before I could corner Maurice again I realized that I might have had a tremendous stroke of good luck. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The high point of each meeting was the day-long excursion to some scenic house or temple. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “We will begin the shukrani service momentarily,” one of the brothers of the temple called out. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He is older than the others, with deep creases in his dark skin and gray hair at his temples, and he stands on the ledge like it’s a sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But no matter how she scrunched, she could not see if their roofs curved skyward like the temples of China or were topped with straw like the homes of peasants. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Ekon’s heart pounded like a goatskin drum as they followed him into the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His chest heaved and sweat rolled down his temples. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Instead, the first Sumerian texts are emotionless accounts of palace and temple bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her head was aching and the hair at her temples, even though Aisha had not twisted too tightly, still caused a tugging discomfort, a disturbance of her neck and nerves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The priest was pointing at the Black Wall behind the temple, gesturing up at its parapets, where a handful of armored guardsmen stood gazing down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even more astounding than the great temples and immense banners and colorful promenades were the botanical gardens—none existed in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The temple walls are decorated with magnificent detailed carvings of people, cows, wagons, daily life, and battle scenes from long ago. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Griswold used the cuff of his suit jacket to dab a bead of sweat from his temple. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Like Davos, the king was plainly garbed in wool and boiled leather, though the circlet of red gold about his temples lent him a certain grandeur. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This vast brick temple consisted of seven 18-foot-high stories, each painted a different color. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z I lay my hand on her head and under the pretext of lifting her eyelid a little, I pressed my finger against the bruise on her temple, hard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The girl pressed her bloody fingers to her temples, rubbed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When beggars came to the temple from down the mountain, Father Cham received them as if they were visiting nobles, feeding them and chatting with them for long hours. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Henry closed his eyes for a long moment and rubbed his temple with his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Reproductions from the temple at Kujaraho occupied corners of the room along with huge jade plants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And Cassie, who spent the day at her temple filling up water bottles for the elderly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z My father and I looked at the temple. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They took care to engage the temple priesthood, which was essentially a system of religious corporations with their own pecuniary interests. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Artemis took care that Iphigenia should be safe; she made her priestess of her temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The book’s glossy cover showed a photographic montage of Greek temples and smiling monsters. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In addition to all those technological drawbacks, the Phaistos disk was printed at a time when knowledge of writing was confined to a few palace or temple scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Adam’s face was bent down, and his jawbone jutted below his temples from clenching. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He moves his hands too much,” she told them at the temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She put the heels of her hands to her temples and squeezed, as if that could stop the awful pounding. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Castro closed his eyes tightly and dug his fingertips into his temples. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The temple’s halls were quiet, but Ekon still felt on edge. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “But what if there’s another way for me to prove to Father Olufemi and the brothers of the temple that I am capable?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He had massive, soft hands, which he pressed flat against his temples when he spoke. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of her other duties had remained the same, but as she went about them she stumbled over furnishings, walked into walls, dropped trays, got hopelessly helplessly lost inside the temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He touched his temple, asking what was wrong. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Their breathless battle spilled out of the kuthambalam and spun around the temple. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was built on Indian graves and every bit as much a ruin as the temples of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner’s temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Aru had to do that when she went to the temple and ran into the priest or someone much, much older and well respected. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I grind my teeth so hard the pain in my throat moves up to my temples. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a runaway and a thief and a liar, and if there was a word for someone who disrespects a monk in his own temple, he was that, too. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “We have brought this week’s Zamani goat for the temple’s ritual sacrifice.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His neatly clipped black hair, silvery about the temples with scant patches of grayness, reminded me of my father’s head ten years before, those dense shines of hair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Left behind, Marshall sat down on the edge of the temple floor in a good position to watch everything that might happen. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Enough had stood up after about three months that we were able to open a little temple. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s face turned white and I started to feel sick when I saw that the gray hair around his temples was slick with sweat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Huey began to talk in a low, soothing voice, smoothing the salve on my temples and fitting the small electric buttons on either side of my head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Please, Dad, she found herself praying, I have to find a way to your temple in Greece—the House of Hades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And all the temples, towers, palaces, pyramids, and bridges cast long, disastrous- looking shadows in the light of that withered sun. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He could make out the shells of temples and bathhouses, a half-buried amphitheater, and empty pedestals that must have once held statues. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The temple wasn’t too dark inside, thanks to a hole in the top where a family of birds had built a nest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then Samuel’s hands were on Adam’s throat, pressing the throbbing up to his temples, swelling his eyes with blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was quite a change from living at the temple or the Mud House. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Wooden stalls contained under a thatched roof stretched for several yards in every direction, full of the temple’s varying livestock. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The giant king flew backwards out of the temple and Jason ran after him, his father at his heels. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And he was bound to go for the most vulnerable—a spindly girl, stumbling about in the dark in an unfamiliar place, bravely searching around the island temple for her brothers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She recognized landmarks Jason had told her about—the hippodrome, the coliseum, the temples and parks, the neighborhood of Seven Hills with its winding streets, colorful villas, and flowering gardens. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Take us to a temple,” Sass ordered the rickshaw boy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Their predecessors in this included the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites, who all kept significant archives of clay cuneiform tablets in their palaces and temple precincts. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He felt a throbbing in his temples, and his voice revealed an unfamiliar snarl when he spoke. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I looked around, feeling a weight around my temples. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The leading boy slowed down and held up his pistol and fired two or three wild shots toward the temple. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, as the hours crept toward midday, the shadows of temple columns grew shorter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They keep their own animals so the products are ‘authentically’ from the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They continued around the temple's main entrance until they’d reached the large stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Standing in that temple, staring into the fire that had been burning for hundreds of years, I felt the ghosts of my family all around me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But it was hot in the gym, always hot in the gym, the leather headguard squeezing his temples, the metal protective cup pinching his thighs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Victoria called over a respectable gentleman, greying at the temples, who was smoking a black cheroot and who grinned as if he had the toothache. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Pong noticed a dark crust of blood stuck to her cheek that trailed from a gash on her temple. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Worshippers at the temple brought garlands of jasmine instead of chrysanthemums, and roses had disappeared from the feet of the Gods. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He bought an ice cream cup and pressed the frosty paper container against his cheeks and temples until the fever in his face disappeared. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d spent the last ten years of his life here, this temple was like a home, but that only made it slightly easier to maneuver through in a crisis. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Before a great temple they paused wondering how they could get to the Queen, and there new hope came to them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel my heartbeat in my throat, in my temple. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The sockets of her eyes darkened and the blue veins at her temples visibly throbbed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Behind her, back at the temple, she could hear the hubbub of voices. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Like the Egyptians, the Indians had rope stretchers to survey fields and lay out temples. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He passed a small temple on the shore, where it was forbidden to go fishing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The whole temple was open to the wind. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But maybe a Hindu temple is the last place you’d be. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I pulled the hair at her temples, pulled the tears out of her eyes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t gotten permission to leave the temple, so this was probably going to ruin the second chance Kamau had given him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She placed her index fingers to her temples. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z When Hiroshi looks back at me, a black strand of hair hanging at his temple, he doesn’t say anything. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And she’s right; the oldness is now just appearing about her lip, her temples, in the tide of her voice, which is steadily deepening, broadening. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Go down in the tunnels you said you found, and lie there and live for months and years, reading your fine books and bathing in your temple pools. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa laughed and walked me into the temple. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a vein pulsing in his temple like the one Harry had often admired in Uncle Vernon’s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When he turns it, the swing itself rises and the top of the cage opens, allowing them to climb out, escaping into a dimly lit temple guarded by an albino Sphinx. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He opened it, his temples pulsing with foreboding. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father stroked her hair as the firelight flickered over the scar at his temple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Sweat slicked Ekon’s temple as he walked down the prison's dank hallway. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They placed it in a sacred temple near the center of the city next to a statue of Mark Antony as the new Dionysus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z But they didn’t notice the ashes, so they left their footprints all over the floor of the temple. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words were choppy, and she rubbed her temples as she spoke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Hardman came with his son twice a year to scythe the grass around the temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A vein stuck out right above his temple. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d always yearned to visit it, both because she loved architecture and because it was the most famous temple to her mother. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The patches above my eyebrows are spreading down past my temples. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Mom leaned down to kiss Dad on the temple, which I had noticed was her favorite place to kiss him when other people were around. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He was pale, pale and sweaty at the temples but perfectly composed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I guess this old temple of the soul has had it,” he began with his usual sly grin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And as she gazed, the image of a city seemed to form itself behind the veils and streams of translucent color: towers and domes, honey-colored temples and colonnades, broad boulevards and sunlit parkland. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z My fingers pressed against my temples as a mass of thoughts played tug-of-war. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z When night comes, we rest by the roadside near a temple. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rafael massaged his temples, as if the whole thing was giving him a headache. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “They’re all very upset,” said Abby, touching her temples with both hands to, once again, amplify her powers of mental telepathy. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He sits down at his desk and presses his fingers against his temples. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland felt his pulse hammering at his wrists and temples. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Tears run down my temples into my ears, thinking about her walking down them big city avenues I seen on tee-vee with her long hair behind her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her father with a shock of hair like a bristle brush stiff with shoe polish, rolling his large sleeves up to his elbows while the scar at his temple gleamed white. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z At the edge of the palace complex, a temple with a red coral roof exploded, sending fire and debris streaming in slow motion across the farthest gardens. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The next thing I know, I'm lying on my back in the vines, a terrible pain in my left temple. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese temple on the Wooded Island charmed Frank Lloyd Wright, and may have influenced the evolution of his “Prairie” residential designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My hand automatically goes to the scar on my left temple, which I associate with confusion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They joined ecstatic cults and allowed sick refugees to desecrate the great temples, where they died untended. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the outset, with the attempt on Hitler’s life, Finny had said, “If someone gave Leper a loaded gun and put it at Hitler’s temple, he’d miss.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Venus was the patron saint of Caesar’s clan, and her statue stood inside the temple. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z To be sure, the Ptolemies did commission massive new temples in the ancient style, largely to help the Macedonian rulers ingratiate themselves with their native subjects. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I rack the shotgun and turn it on the sheriff, who now points his revolver at Katherine’s temple. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Now, in the courtroom, with sweat on his temples, Ishmael felt embarrassed to be sitting among the reporters and decided that after the morning’s recess he would find a more anonymous seat in the gallery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z An army, temples, guilds, schools—they’d had to rebuild it all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The kindly man took the iron lantern off its hook and led her past the still black pool and the rows of dark and silent gods, to the steps at the rear of the temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But she guessed there was a reason Zeus kept Asclepius locked away in his underground temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In almost every temple at least one single sister had let out some broad hint that she thought I needed a wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Kat’s hands are warm, I pass my hand under his shoulders in order to rub his temples with some tea. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Piper’s view zoomed to the centre of the temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They found their way to the ruined temple and slipped between the columns, hiding. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When the bullet hit my temple, it fractured the bone, sending splinters of bone into the lining of my brain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z An angry knot hardens inside my gut, and a headache punches its way up my neck and into my temples. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She didn’t know the layout of the temple outside of what Ekon had told her: The hallways and doors leading into darker passageways seemed endless. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Above his ear, beneath the wire stem of his spectacles, I could just make out the powder burn and the dark hole in his right temple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z By the time he’d gone outside again, the line of people waiting to see him stretched from the temple’s front doors all the way down to the Takatifu District’s golden-arched entrance. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Nok and her parents stood in the temple courtyard, a sprawling jackfruit tree shielding them from the afternoon sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then she came at him with a full wine bottle and struck him squarely on the temple, knocking him down half stunned on one knee. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Her steps took her to the sept, a seven-sided sandstone temple set amidst her mother's gardens and filled with rainbow light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z For a second that contained an hour, I stared at my brother, watching the blood trickle out of his temple and down his right cheek, pouring over his ear and onto his white T-shirt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I put a hand over my eyes and squeezed my temples hard. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Gryphons roosted on the colonnade of an old temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A dark ribbon of blood caked his left temple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The barrel of a gun presses to my temple, a cold circle against my skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Nearby, a body swayed and her gut clenched, her pulse pounding in her ears and temples. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “They don’t care,” she repeated, pulling her hand from Esperanza’s and rubbing her temple. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A trickle of sweat began at my temple and worked its way down the length of my spine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His temples throbbed, sandy eyelids scratching his corneas. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “The ones holding up those Greek temples with their heads. I was looking at a picture of some the other day, thinking, Those women have the second toughest job in the world.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It couldn't be helped. There's only one barge that stops at Tanaburi, and we were on it. We can stop at the temple and still get to our house with plenty of time to spare.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Here were temples too, where sailors came to sacrifice to foreign gods, cheek by jowl with pillow houses where women called down from balconies to meri below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Sir, we ought to teach the people that they are doing wrong in worshipping the images and pictures in the temple.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “The mighty ones have summoned us to their temple.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The roof of the temple was a big open deck that had been set up as a command center. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z On this occasion the king released political prisoners, remitted taxes, endowed temples, forgave rebels, increased military preparedness and, in short, did all the things that modern rulers do when they wish to stay in office. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He must go to the Taurian country, the Delphic priestess said, and bring away the sacred image of Artemis from her temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mia touched a knuckle to her brow, as if she’d forgotten the scar existed, and a drop of warm sudsy water ran down her temple. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “So while we’re here in the temple of Christian coffee, do you still have the snake verse memorized?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Switch out the ancient columns and ruined temples for cows and barbed wire, and Leo would’ve felt right at home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Sweat slicked his palms, and he felt a drop trickle down his temple. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Later on we hear the Khmer Rouge soldiers had killed two people inside the temple and wounded many more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I trained in this temple, same as you.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I walked into Faraci’s class, rubbing my head to try to ease the persistent pounding in my temples. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and felt his hands on my temples where the pulses beat, gently stroking, soothing me in the only way he could. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the temple complex was silent, but Pong’s thoughts swished like the wind through palm leaves, filling his head with noise. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She bounded up the main steps of the temple, then climbed a section of metal scaffolding so she could see above the heads of the ogres and Cyclopes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It split the temple’s quiet, long and agonizing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He put his hands to his temples, as always. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t a mountain goat, but he found a set of stairs at the back of the temple and raced to the top. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He rubbed his temples with the fingers on his right hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Nok suddenly remembered what her father had told her years ago: when the Governor rose to power, the first thing he had built wasn't a temple, but a jail. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Grant chewed on his mustache, never a good sign, and the vein in his temple throbbed, an even worse sign. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z His glasses hung around his neck, and when he lifted them to his eyes, they slid around his temples, as if he were trying to put them on someone else in the dark. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba’s beard was graying, his hair thinning at the temples, and hadn’t he been taller in Kabul? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I hear my classmates now, the things they’re probably saying about me back at the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He thought of the disapproving way Kamau sometimes stared at his fingers, the way other boys at the temple had laughed at him for using bigger words as a child. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was, she thought, like a cursed temple, still beautiful to look at—the shell of something sacred—but benighted within, and none but ghosts could ever cross the threshold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Why does a temple even have a stable?” she muttered. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It worked and worked faster: I felt the pulses throb in my head and temples; but for nearly an hour it worked in chaos; and no result came of its efforts. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Azaan and I are standing in the midst of the temple’s sparring lawns, inside a large circle made from fist-sized stones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘Only problem: the Athena Parthenos is still thirty feet in the air. Gonna be fun hauling you guys and your gear to the top of that temple.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His ears rang with the metallic bellow of the saa-horn up in one of the temple’s towers, rattling his bones from head to toe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “They propose an outdoor exhibit of their temples and, as has been usual, they desire space on the wooded island,” Burnham wrote in February 1892. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Despite the February cold, sweat is trickling down Mr. Byrne’s temple. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z After today, this wouldn’t be his bedroom anymore; he wouldn’t be allowed to stay in the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Near the temple we found a house set in the middle of a sprawling garden. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I notice a rash of white hair at her temples that I’ve never seen before. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He paced around the room rubbing his temples. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Their tall chairs were carved of ebony and weirwood, like the doors of the temple above. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He has a scar on his temple and poor vision on the left side, from a war injury he doesn’t ever talk about, not being one to boast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It smelled like the inside of a temple: all burnt things and spices. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When Toby had backed to where the others were kneeling, he got them up and hustled them out of the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was to help open the temple that today is Number Fifteen—in Atlanta, Georgia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Th e sound of the chenda mushroomed over the temple, accentuating the silence of the encompassing night. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They dragged the horse through the gate and up to the temple of Athena. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Archer touched his temple with his fingers and held the blades of his hands together, opening and closing them like the covers of a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My mother rubs her temples, and while the doctor outlines what he expects to be a quick recovery process, Dean Anderson enters—along with one of the police officers that I saw talking to Phil. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The little vein in his temple is throbbing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “The treachery of Brown Ben Plumm has shocked us all,” she said, “but your warning comes too late. And now I know you will want to return to your temple to pray for peace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Baba was filling Thaya Jaan in on plans for the carnival and how he was inviting local churches, synagogues, temples, and interfaith organizations to attend. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “That is the fourth temple on that same site,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He, too, stared at the prisoner, and observed that a cluster of veins had appeared in his left temple. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The African general and the Gallivespian came in: King Ogunwe in a clean uniform, with a wound on his temple freshly dressed, and Lord Roke gliding swiftly to the table astride his blue hawk. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Are you sure it was this Hall of Pillars? There is another on the West side of the temple.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z If this were a story, he would gallop up just as we reached the temple, to challenge Hizdahr for my hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then her Vision shifted, and she saw the former captain of the Current, a man with a kind face and a bulbous nose, put the Executioner to his temple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I hear something click, then feel cold metal against my temple. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He was tall and dark and had white hair at the temples, which made him distinguished-looking. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Unless you'd like to do the mucking yourself? It needs to be done quickly, as the temple will be opening to patrons in an hour.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He is about my age, early to midthirties, with dark hair, greying at the temples. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Adria went into the bathroom to brush her teeth, I stood in the middle of our bedroom, my hands pressed against my temples. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Others would say “Are you from Jamaica?” as though only foreign blood could explain such bounteous hair that did not thin at the temples. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Shadow’s temples felt as if they had been reattached to the rest of his skull with roofing nails, and his vision was blurred. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “I come here all the time. One might say it’s my temple. This is interesting...” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I can feel my pulse pounding in my temples. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom... Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Clouds drifted in and out among the temples and structures as if they were trying not to disturb the quiet peace of this place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “What is your son doing going to temple?” asked the priest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His hair was matted with dried blood, and on his temple a deep cut glistened red and raw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My heart still skips a beat when I catch sight of the murti, of God Residing, in the inner sanctum of a temple. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her fingers to her eyes, her temples, to the sides of her head. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Next to them, sandstone gods with eight hands who sit cross-legged on lotus flowers watch over the temple ponds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was beside myself with joy when I could report to Mr. Muhammad a new temple address. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For an instant the world recedes and there is just his flushed face, his pulse visible at his temple, his lips slightly parted as he tries to catch his breath. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Denna had been struck on her left temple hard enough to blacken her eye and bruise her well past her ear into her hairline. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A fringe about his temples was all that remained of his black hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m picking up some very strong happiness signals,” said Abby, putting her fingertips to her temples. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He had grown a generous mustache in the year since I had last seen him, and there were threads of gray at his temples, but I recognized him in an instant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Their labor and their taxes helped to build roads, temples, nobles’ houses, and other structures. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He nodded at her, then pushed himself upright, wiping away the sweat from his temples. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Hand in hand, they followed the Green Grace inside the temple, where the air was thick with incense and the gods of Ghis stood cloaked in shadows in their alcoves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nora comes to him at the Residence wearing bright red lipstick and presses cool, patient fingers against his temples and says, “Take me on a date.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He quickly did what he had been doing for weeks to set things right: he pressed his hands hard against his temples. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The temple’s front doors opened, and all three of them immediately straightened as a figure emerged from its shadows. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The little scum-suckers loved to burrow under the temples in New Rome. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Knowledge of writing was confined to professional scribes in the employ of the king or temple. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tenderly, tenderly, Archer swept a lock of hair away from her forehead, along her temple, and back behind her ear. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Little wonder: at the time of its construction, the Huaricanga temple was among the world’s biggest buildings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In Simon's right temple, a pulse began to beat on the brain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Liyana thought you were supposed to dab it on your temples if you were having an extremely hard day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Before she gets to the temple, or it really will be too late! A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She had a terrible headache around her left temple. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was a breathtaking statue, carved in the old style by people who had lived here before the village, maybe even before the temple. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Once inside the temple, he was surprised to discover that his weaponized jars of Lady ’Stache Off were no longer there. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Their words push at my temples, making my head throb with fear. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The great buildings of central Mishnory, government offices, schools, Yomesh temples, were so blurred by rain in the liquid glare of the high streetlights that they looked as if they were melting. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The man puffed up the steps of one of the temple halls. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I want to get the hell out of here and visit some Mayan temples. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She frowned and brushed her long black hair back, giving me a clear view of the purpling bruise that spread from her temple all the way back to her hairline. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They had taken refuge in a temple, Perseus was told. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a few freckles on her face, and a small, dark mole near the under Up and one on the temple, half-hidden in her hair. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z I wriggled up into a fully seated position and rubbed my temples. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z When I asked if I could see Muslim activities in some other cities, he arranged with other ministers for me to attend meetings at temples in Detroit, Washington, and Philadelphia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But the chief part of the ceremony which took place in the precincts of the temple has never been described. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her soft lips to his temple, and he could swear she was crying. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The brother gods Semosh and Selloso dreamed in twin temples on opposite sides of the Black Canal, linked by a carved stone bridge. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Clever modernizations of old Colonial manses, extensions in Victorian wood, capacious Greek Revival temples lined the street, as impressive and just as forbid ding as ever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The temple was filled with chanting widows in white saris. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The hair on his arms stood on end as moonlight filtered through one of the temple’s massive bay windows and cast silvery light on one side of the Kuhani’s face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A dull, throbbing pain radiated through my temples, and my throat felt as though it was collared with barbed wire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He visualized the contours of Emo’s skull; the GI haircut exposed thin bone at the temples, bone that would flex slightly before it gave way under the thrust of the steel edge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Sweat skates down my back, and a headache floods my temples. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z As I near my hut, the stench and heat overwhelm me, causing my temples to throb. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us be your priests, guarding this temple for you—and oh, since we have lived so long together, let neither of us ever have to live alone. Grant that we may die together.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And he reports the battle news, and then says, ‘Oh, and by the way, Pan wants you to build him a temple.’ American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The skin of her face was nearly translucent; her veins were black rivers beneath her temples. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then, instead of taking pictures of all the Chinese people and the temples and dragons, they pointed their cameras at us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know,” he said, fingering the papers on his desk, “you look a little bit like your mother. The smile. Do you attend temple, being part Jewish?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The temples were not much larger than apples, but when Diana asked her to move one, she felt as though someone had tied a gigantic field stone to the end of the leather cord. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Layla sighed and rubbed her temples before picking up another shirt. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There’s hot, white pain as something connects with my temple. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They struggled for a moment, tugging, till the woman wrenched the weapon from his fingers and clouted him across the temple with its butt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The whole place was built like a temple for learning. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The king of Mutal, the biggest and most cosmopolitan city-state in the Maya world, he lived and worked in a sprawling castle a few hundred yards away from the great temples at the city’s heart. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Great rents had opened in the earth, swallowing palaces, temples, entire towns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Thank goodness we have you to look after us, madam. Thank your husband for this food. Tell him to come to the temple tomorrow for a special blessing. Come along, my boy." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When she did, her beautiful voice made the blood pound in my temples. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z For what purpose they had made this place, as a town or secret temple or a tomb of kings, none in Rohan could say. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When the two reached the temple they saw at once that they must wait for the night before doing anything. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Of that legendary library, the most that survives today is a dank and forgotten cellar of the Sera- peum, the library annex, once a temple and later reconsecrated to knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst bum she ever made was on the temple of a customer holding a child across her knees. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Wise men had massaged eucalyptus balm into her temples, steamed her face with herbal infusions. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z From this vantage point, he guessed they were at one of the highest points of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She twisted, lost her footing, and the axehead crunched against her temple with a scream of steel on steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The temple was only the second built in Utah, constructed by volunteer labor over seven years starting in 1877. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Her eyes were large, lidless, and pure black, with two smaller eyes sticking out of her temples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like the dragons living in temple eaves, my mother looked down on plain people who were lonely and afraid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong stepped into a room not much bigger than his tiny one back at the temple. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Some consider the temple’s rites of passage to be the most difficult in all Eshōza. Of course, I didn’t find them too challenging...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Baelor the Blessed prayed and fasted and built the Seven as splendid a temple as any gods could wish for, yet he could not put an end to war and want.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Once I stood here at the corner of Zeus’s temple, venerated by all! I oversaw the games of Olympia. Offerings from every city-state were piled at my feet!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She kissed him on the temple, stood up, and walked into the next room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Within the temple snugly under the roof sat two small, solemn figures, earthen, for they were formed from the earth of the fields about the temple. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z An intruder was trespassing in the temple before his own eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Sweat ran from his temples down the sides of his face. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Monkey, panel, vines, flute, finds...She could feel the blood beating wildly in her temples: monkey, vines...monkey, vines...panel, flute, finds...FINDS! Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Carelessly, she let her shaba fall, satisfied to hear it clink loudly against the temple’s polished stone floor with each bounce. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “There are six of them, one to represent each of our gods and goddesses. They have been anointed by this temple, and shall not be harmed.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They would have pulled the guitar from the stone and immediately returned it to the temple. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Eleven servants of the Many-Faced God gathered that night beneath the temple, more than she had ever seen together at one time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “There are four thousand temples. Which one do you want?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She sent the attendants into the temple to make ready for them, and when the three were alone together she spoke to the young men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Griswold used the cuff of his suit jacket to dab a bead of sweat from his temple. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Archer pointed at it and tilted his head, touching his temple with the fingers of his other hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z After they destroyed the temples, the soldiers roamed the country searching for monks and forced them to convert to the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The filthy streets rang with the early-morning fight as they came out of the temple. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Soon she had a better room in the house, her own private rickshaw, a house for her elderly parents, a sum for buying blessings at temples. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned from face to face and was looking up at Hugh when one of the brothers drew a pistol from his back pocket, held it against the animal's temple, and shot the piglet, execution-style. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He scanned the temple’s interior, thinking: If I were designing a secret passage, where would I put it? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “You are going back to sleep now, my lady,” the Spaniard said, and his fingers suddenly were touching her temple, her shoulder, her neck, and she was unconscious again.... The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Later, I learn that Azaan was taken to the temple’s infirmary with several injuries, but thankfully none that are life-threatening. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then he saw me looking at him and his eyes looked up to the ceiling and he tapped his temple and pointed at Aunt Gloria, grinning. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z This temple was huge, a maze of chambers and halls and atriums. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The book was right where she thought it would be, shoved partway back under the temple floor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweat glistened on his temples and his face was contorted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He had a long narrow face and a chin beard bound about with golden wire, and his stiff red-black hair swept out from his temples to form a pair of taloned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The older girl refilled the shuttles when they ran low and rehung the temple hooks to keep the web tight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He could feel the cold hard ground beneath his cheek, and the hinge of his glasses, which had been knocked sideways by the fall, cutting into his temple. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She pulled her handkerchief from her pocket and held it tight against Lyddie’s temple. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As she made her way past the temples, she could hear the acolytes of the Cult of Starry Wisdom atop their scrying tower, singing to the evening stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He kisses me on the temple and says, “Now I’d better get to work.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She had long lashes that curled up to her eyebrows, which now formed a single wiggly line from one temple to the other. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They must build her a great temple near the town and so win back the favor of her heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As the minister of several temples, conducting the Muslim ceremony had occasionally fallen to my lot. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Lauren was stroking their mom’s hair, holding the towel to the underside of her temple, and Maya forced herself to think straight, to not cry, to figure out this problem. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Across the square they joined the growing throng outside the red temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Hamlet said with an intensity that made the veins in his temples stand out In a strange passion himself, he seemed desperate to control the players, their every movement and word. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "Your Grace," Ned Stark said, "we must talk . . ." Robert pressed his fingertips against his temples. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was already an expert pole fighter, daughter of a teacher trained at the Shao-lin temple, where there lived an order of fighting monks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The most ancient temples to the gods, in the middle of Athens. That’s where Gaia will wake.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They found a temple all slimy and moss-grown, but not quite in ruins, and there they gave thanks for their escape and prayed for help in their dreadful loneliness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns were not interested in constructing a temple of religious abstractions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A single bead of sweat slides down my temple and I wipe it away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Yet walking into the temple still felt to me like entering a mountain of solid rock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He nodded again slowly and then walked around the girls to the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong looked in the direction of his living quarters at the back of the temple, near the forest edge. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z No doubt Pharaoh had paid more than usual for the temple work. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z There was a gash in his head and the blood ran from his temple. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He thought about Memorial Hall, a quiet corridor in the temple that bore a permanent list of fallen Sons etched directly into the stone walls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I drew my guns and walked through the entrance of the temple. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z |
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