But the overcast had broken, and before dawn the thin moon shining between brown-edged clouds shed a weak light on the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t leave like this,” he said in a thin voice. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t recognize any of them—two tall and wide, and the one in the middle is thin and old, older than Matant Jo. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair was white and so thin you could see the pink of her skull shining through. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the waist up, he was more or less human—a thin, bare-chested dude with a dagger in his belt and a band of seashells strapped across his chest like a bandolier. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a while, the vegetation thins and the ground beneath becomes rocky and hard. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Golden light covered the rooftop, spilling over the edge of the roof into a thin slice of the courtyard below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

Hugo wore a thin leather cord around his neck. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair was stacked up in a pile that seemed to be more pins than hair, and the whole thing teetered forward over her thin pale face. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stuck to her teeth in a thin layer. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Everything here—Taninli, the palace, the food they ate—seemed obscured by a thin but persistent fog. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I took two onions and sliced them thin and began to fry them on the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I showed her how to take a thin stream of sand and make squiggles to decorate the turrets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She had rusty hair knotted in a schoolmarmish bun, and thin, silver-rimmed spectacles attached to her breast pocket with a black elastic. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ben bends over to pick up the thin librex, and it slips through his fingers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He used to be fat! Now he’s thin as a straw!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford did not remember a mole; she remembered copper- colored hair and thin lips, but it was so long ago, and well—Mrs. Westing was white. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin, light-skinned African American woman dressed in a beautifully tailored suit, she was soft-spoken and strikingly serene, with a steady brown-eyed gaze and an impressive grasp of how the city functioned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some were fat, some were thin, a few were muscular. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Henry’s mouth is a thin line, but he says nothing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My grandmothers were going to live for ever, and Thanksgiving would always be lace tablecloths, thin china and heavy silver that I stood on a stool to polish. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The crowd had thinned down to less than twenty students, and the courtyard was far quieter than it had been an hour before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Why do they give me such a thin young boy to haul my cane?” he asks the sky. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exhaled, and in the stream of smoke, he thought he saw the thin ghost of his father. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

To Frodo and Sam it seemed that they heard, far away, a long wailing cry, high and thin and cruel. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"I have seen his face, and heard the thunder of his hooves," she proclaimed in a thin, wavery voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

People say the Khmer Rouge buried corpses next to them and now the palm milk is pink like thin blood and the fruit tastes like human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still had only my thin wool coat with the buttons missing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall waved her wand again, and a length of shimmering silver rope appeared out of thin air and snaked around the Carrows, binding them tightly together. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had been a very long time since he had had such a large amount to eat and his skin was stretched thin to accommodate all the delicious meat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Water kept rising and rising until the entire pond bed was filled with a thin layer of water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He made a row of bold vertical stripes topped with thin loops, like bars and razor wire. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Scattered through this thin dusting are exotic elements not normally much found on Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had a bony face, sharp eyes, and a thin lipless mouth made for frowning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They grew and grew, twisting and turning toward me, and too late I realized they were slender branches, thin itchy switches with barbed hooks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Someone pounded my back and I swung around, seeing a woman push past me and climb up to catch Dupre's arm, their two figures seeming to blend as her voice arose, thin, vibrant and desperate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a frail-looking man, whose thin silver glasses seemed to be in serious danger of sliding off his nose with every quick movement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When we went in, the room was already crowded—babies, children of all ages, and women of all kinds: nuns, spike-heeled flappers, lame grandmothers, fat mothers and thin ones, brave ones and sniffling ones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too thin for jelly and too thick for jam. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched her forehead and a small smile made her thin lips curl up at the edges. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were thin chains crisscrossed in diamond shapes around them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She turned away and stamped off quickly in the thin sunshine. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But they belonged to a fiercely loyal Irish community that they could count on to stand together through thick and thin. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Under some road maps in the glove compartment, Ben retrieved a rusty can of cordovan polish and a thin silken handkerchief spotted with dried circles of polish. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the magic seemed to have thinned into a tiny trickle dripping through a narrow channel in her porous bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was slender and had brown hair, which she wore in a long, thin braid that went right down to her hips and looked like a long stinger. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Velutha dipped a thin cotton towel in an earthen pot of water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except we’re on the ugly flower sofa and it’s only one person slamming and I’m not wearing hockey gear, only a thin sweatshirt, and he’s reaching under it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I looked at the thin man, feeling a surge of friendship. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, the linoleum-floored hall, unlike the halls of the Mountain View Inn, was a broad smooth highway with no rough carpets to wear down the already thin tires of a little motorcycle. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

A thin line of tears crawled down her cheeks as though it had been a struggle for them to get out of her eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hair on our heads was growing in thin and scraggly from not-too-recent shavings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter held a small black box tied with a thin pink ribbon. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Alfred shook his head again, and Lou shrugged his thin shoulders. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held her doll in one hand and her own thin braid in the other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t look like very deep cuts, and they’re thin—I have a feeling that when they heal up she’ll look just fine. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He opened a world where a tropical rain forest steamed and dripped, and where vapors laden with heavy scent drifted out into the thin mountain air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He heard the whip before he felt it, a whistle in the air, thin and sharp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was thin and pale, with circles under her eyes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Tower was a thin woman with uncombed hair and shadows under her eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was thin and her face was pinched. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the cake, barely visible underneath a thin layer of crumbs, was a fist-size piece of paper. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The thin rivulet of a tear fell quietly down her pale cheekbone, disappearing into the darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He lifted a hand then, ignoring their exclamations, and began to smooth the thin hairs of his beard. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a dark-coloured travelling dress of some thin material eminently suitable for the heated atmosphere of the train. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are watery, the brown washed out to the color of a penny, his hair completely snow white and thinning. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But this time it is a thin column, like a pole, not very high. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the third day of their voyage wore on the lands changed slowly: the trees thinned and then failed altogether. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A tall, thin player came up to the plate, set his feet in correct position, swung his bat a few times, then crouched into a waiting stance. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was tired and hungry, and my shoes were as thin as cardboard, but I tried not to let any of that color my voice when I spoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There was one boy, a tall thin youth with a shock of black hair, who was so thickly surrounded by the transparent beings that his very outline seemed to shimmer in the air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my blood’s gotten thin, a weakness Father used to accuse us of when we complained of the chill winters in north Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and a woman, pale and thin, gave Seven a small smile. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ben found the number scribbled on the cover of the small thin Ravenel telephone book. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I saw how thin his face was, how lined and drawn. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, prisoners got the thin soup and the foul bread, but portions grew smaller and smaller. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed a thin spiral of blue-grey smoke, plain to see as it caught the sunlight, rising from a thicket above him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When I came out I walked straight into a thin old woman with wiry hair and large, square glasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were still spiral staircases of glass leading to thin bridges in the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Coach cleared his throat and tried to sound as if he wasn't winded, but I knew he was because his words were thinning out. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Each morning after drinking the thin soup, do what you can to clean up, though you have only a trickle of water, no soap, no towel, no scissors, no toothbrush. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

So we set off through the crowd, toward the far end of the square where he’d pointed, our one last, thin hope pinned to a couple of oddly named streets we weren’t even sure existed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Someone had hung up long, thin steel cables, on which were mounted clothespins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was aware of the twins because he heard them cry and laugh, but he felt only a thin distaste for them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She held the thin cup with her bandaged fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He puts his thin cotton towel under her, she lies at the bottom of his boat with his silver haul of small fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lighthearted ironies she might have deployed among her friends deserted her in his presence, and she heard her own voice become thin when she attempted some docile contradiction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Carefully she tugged at a thin side branch, broke it loose, and tossed it aside. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tara asks, running a finger along the line of cabinets fitted with long thin shelves, each one piled with carefully ordered papers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As if recalled by his mood of despair, the pain in his arm returned, and he felt weak and old, and the sunlight seemed thin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He pulled out his thin wallet and started to show the guy a card. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She lifted up a kind of lid about halfway down on its front, exposing thin white and black tiles of ivory. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Patrons face seemed oddly familiar, and his hands— thin and blue-veined—had a shape that appealed to Matt in some deep way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His two thin hands are gripping the edges of the table as if the floor were pitching beneath him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

From its spot on its mother’s back, a baby wrapped in a bright shawl peered into the window, waving a thin arm when it saw the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Between the flashing oars of Sceptre and Faithful, Davos saw a thin line of galleys drawn across the river, the sun glinting off the gold paint that marked their hulls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Crayons wouldn’t do, of course, but with paints you could put one thin color on top of another so that you would begin to see a pale figure moving from deep inside the paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

When they reached the top of the valley, where the trees thinned out and the rainbow-waterfalls began, they stopped to drink deeply of the ice-cold water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had long, straight gray hair and a thin, mean mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of those blurry, shriveled white flowers recoiled out of the thin light, rolling to the far corner, where something moved. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He bowed and faced the wall until she had washed in the chipped basin, dried herself on the thin towel, and undressed and got into bed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As for the rest: a cot, wooden, a rust-colored wool blanket fitted neatly over a thin and bumpy mattress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and reedy with thinning hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are other newspaper pictures too, showing thin- looking children in scruffy clothes, standing in front of piles of rubble. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped in a number of small thin bottles and an eye-dropper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was summertime in London and the night was not cold, but don’t forget that Sophie was wearing only her thin nightie. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t light for reading, but I could tell that the papers were letters, thin and folded neat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Today as we labor in the cold sunshine, Therese pulls her threadbare cloak tight about her thin body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That night, Papa slept on a thin blanket on the floor with only a shirt rolled up as a pillow. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A thin film of ice covered the surface of the pool beneath the weirwood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The only decoration is an odd-looking piece right next to the bed: an end table made out of a slab of unevenly cut marble and thin crisscrosses of black lacquer wood for the legs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s voice was so thin and wavery, it scared her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A thin rivulet of green liquid pours over his cheek. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They went to bed and lay together, cold and thin, listening to the rain returned to the roof above them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked small and thin; her head was pressed into her hands, and her shoulders shook. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As the first sunlight burned through the thin, blue mist and radiated off the blades, a prayer leader said that the Osage were a “humble people, asking for your help.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The towels are skimpy and thin, the sheets have worn places in the middles, rubbed there by other people’s bodies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phineas ventured a little way along it, holding a thin nearby branch for support. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as she lay under her thin blanket, she could hear die wolves howling .. . and another sound, fainter, no more than a whisper on the wind, that might have been screams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was of an age with me, but nearly a head taller, and as thin as Banbury cheese. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We only could find thin twigs under the brush which wouldn’t burn very long, but we found many, and two thicker branches from the lower parts of a bush that seemed dry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t even know they was on the move, did ye? I thought not. You wouldn’t be spread out so thin if you knowed they was cornin’.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind plastered their thin overalls against their bodies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I flip through the pages, whispery thin and edged with gold paint. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat was thin and mangy with one hairless ear and a chunk missing from his now-crooked tail. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She was thin, wiry, with short gray hair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the store the shrimp looked gray and thin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was very thin, but her belly grew high and round, and everyone knew she was having a boy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the clumps of men stretched and thinned into a long, broken thread, Louie sank through the field, to twelfth. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her dad brought us some weird kind of thin ham rolled up so we could eat it with our fingers. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Jan was paired with dour Eddison Tollett, a squire grey of hair and thin as a pike, whom the other brothers called Dolorous Edd. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The morning of Henrietta’s first treatment, a taxi driver picked up a doctor’s bag filled with thin glass tubes of radium from a clinic across town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can see just the edge of a thin iron ladder. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve taken to doing these mirror things with one lens in my mouth, glassy and thin like the tag end of a lemon drop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But they laughed louder than ever, Lyddie the loudest of all, until the tears of laughter and relief ran down her thin cheeks, and her belly cramped and doubled over. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was terribly thin, his hands raw and red from working. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were too young or too old, too fat or too thin. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The door was real thin and the cap’n shouldered it open with one bump. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He was a younger man than Father Quinel, short, thin, with large round eyes and the stubble of an ill-shaved beard. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thin, real thin, but tall, with these big, loose hands. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was thin, and he held his fierce lunatic head at an angle of bizarre arrogance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But her ghost was thrust aside by the ghost of a man who looked like a monk: thin and pale, with dark, zealous eyes even in his death. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He vomited again and again until only a thin, bile-flavored liquid dribbled out. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of it, a thin man with big ears was writing in a black book. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And then Harry heard a thin, piteous human scream from amidst the terrible commotion, the thunder of devouring flame. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She suddenly remembered sliding the thin band of silver—her grandmother’s wedding ring—up and down her granny’s thin fingers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He is thin with a long, sad face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bubbles grow and multiply, thin, trembling balls of rainbows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally accepted a saucer and felt the scalding heat through the thin, white material of the cup. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Clouds had formed above the mountains in streaks, like clumps of dough that had been stretched too thin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In these few hours his hands had grown white, weak, thin. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green velvet curtain was drawn back to let the thin winter sunshine wash in. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He places three thin slips of paper on the table without saying another word about it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one middle-aged banker with a receding chin, thinning hair, and reedy fingers showed up for dinner one time too many, she heard the doors of her future slamming all around her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was thin, with padding on the bottom so it didn’t damage the grass on the green, and almost three feet high. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

This morning each thin strand was decorated with dozens of tiny beads of water. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Little cat," he murmured in a voice thin and wispy and wracked by pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s enormous, nearly the size of a commercial liner—except thin and sleek, with an elegant, sharp-nosed design that distinguishes it from the other jets. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the crops don’t grow well and the animals get thin. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

High rock bluffs on the far side of the canyon with thin black trees clinging to the escarpment. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A man stood surveying these works, his thin arms akimbo and his fists, one of which grasped an authoritative-looking stick, propped on his skinny hips. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They stood around, hands in pockets and thin shoulders hunched forward tensely. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a thin, hollow metal door stood between her and them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

No boats were tied to the pier, but she could see thin tendrils of smoke rising from some of the chimneys, and part of a wagon jutting out behind a stable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Will saw blazing blue eyes in a haggard face with several days’ growth of beard on the stubborn jaw, gray-haired, drawn with pain, a thin body hunched in a heavy cloak trimmed with feathers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered through fields with the wind blowing their thin dresses against their thighs, and gazed inscrutably. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A large daisy was stuck into his shirt pocket, and a purple bow tie with very thin white stripes lay against his throat. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had become very thin with so much climbing in the mountains and only one meal a day. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Belet grimaced as she plucked a thin triangle of glass from her arm. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Lyra looked at her, she had a shock: the blankets stirred, and a very thin arm emerged, in a black sleeve, and then another face, a man’s, so ancient it was almost a skeleton. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally the obstruction of the piled snow was too much for the thin runners of the sled, and he came to a stop. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She become so thin now you cannot see her,” says my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin, cottony layer of clouds veiled the sky. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The forest had thinned, and hiding places were getting harder to find. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls out a thin rectangle wrapped in red-and-green shiny paper. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I raced downstairs and wriggled up to the edge of the buckled floor on my belly like you would a hole in thin ice. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nhamo and Rosa bathed Grandmother and fed her chicken broth and thin porridge. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pumice rock minefield was dotted with stubborn weeds armed with sharp thistles, which poked up through the cheap layer of thin black plastic under the brick- colored lava bits. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“My mother,” said Ron one night, as they sat in the tent on a riverbank in Wales, “can make good food appear out of thin air.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a somber taffeta suit, a shirt with a round and hard collar, and a thin silk ribbon tied in a bow in place of a necktie. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On a high podium in front stood the conductor, a tall, gaunt man with dark deep-set eyes and a thin mouth placed carelessly between his long pointed nose and his long pointed chin. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our legs refuse to move, our hands tremble, our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness, over an almost irresistible, bursting roar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still thin at that time, with a bushy red mustache. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She tried perching the cat on her own shoulders, but they were too thin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was on thin ice, but I didn’t care. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tats says I wear too many layers, so I choose my thinnest shirt made out of T-shirt material. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He knew it wouldn’t work, the band was worn too thin. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood outside in the cold, the winter air whipping through the thin cotton of my pajama pants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her skirts fly out behind her, her leather riding breeches are dyed red, and her thin crown flashes in her dark, braided hair. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her shirt hangs so low and is so thin, you can see her braless breasts. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sauce is really good, and there’s a lot of it, so I barely taste the thin pieces of tofu. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We did send a letter to her through the lawyer,” Grace’s mother said, passing her a thin envelope. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mabel's shoes are thin leather boots, made for city streets in California. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A branch cracked underfoot as he stepped into the light; a thin man in a homed helmet, armed with a long knife. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A thin, gold, serpent-headed bangle glowed like a circle of orange light around her wrist. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wraps of garri he stood in line to receive, the thin soup scooped from a metal basin once a day, left him hungry. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kainene climbed out of bed, and he noticed a metallic sheen on her thin shoulders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My slippers were thin: I could walk the matted floor as softly as a cat. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The rings are seen by looking down on the lens from above, and the phenomenon is related to the way a thin layer of oil on water produces a swirling pattern of colours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was thus that the other potters, their apprentices, and some of the villagers spoke of Min—usually in jest, but sometimes with derision just below the thin layer of banter in their voices. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

"You could care for the ravens, or Grenn could, or anyone," he said with a thin edge of desperation in his voice. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rob tried to offer me a plastic water bottle from the front seat, his mouth stretched in a thin line. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Angel, who was now twelve, was thin and shy. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curse me, but he was the strongest chap I ever struck, an’ him a old feller, with a white moustache, one that thin you would think he couldn’t throw a shadder.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In thin black marker, right on the sleeve, someone had drawn a picture. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds were thin today, a few streaks of sunlight escaping through far away in the west. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside, there are two sets of her lightest nylon track clothes, her Camel hydration pack, her handheld water bottle, and her thin rain jacket. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He pressed his face against her, clasping her waist with both his thin arms. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pale and colorless in the moon’s thin light. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Like some silly faerie story,” Chronicler finished, his voice thin and pale as paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a blue plaid flannel that hugs his thin body, making his eyes look an even brighter shade of blue. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I sorted through the thin stack of boards, trying to remember if I ever knew which one was her favorite, but I couldn’t think of it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Children don’t evaporate into thin air,’ he said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she raised it, his white night-robe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in her neck had sent forth drops. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

How her eyes are vacant and her body is so thin, because her muscles are actually shrinking and breaking down now. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her tight curls were less than an inch long and jet black, except for a thin streak of natural gray framing her face like a headband. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the walkways in the city had thinned out. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Clever,” the Sister said, her mouth a thin, grim line. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Taft is taller and very thin, golden and freckled, with long dark lashes and a mouth full of braces. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She reached over the edge of the chair and pawed at a stack of books, grabbing a thin, tattered paperback. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The bigger the spell, the easier it is to resist. If you want to sleep millions of mortals, you’ve got to cast a very thin layer of magic. Sleeping demigods is much harder.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The upside was that something this thin could have only three tumblers at the most. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The auctioneer—a tall white man with thinning hair and a booming voice—would eventually step under the tree. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her mouth, thin and overshadowed by her cheeks. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So for a while he forgot, and sought out the southern peaks that were thin blue and skeletal in the great distance. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘I saw him, Mr. Butterbur,’ said a hobbit; ‘or leastways I didn’t see him, if you take my meaning. He just vanished into thin air, in a manner of speaking.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even our school uniforms, which we had to buy each year, were secondhand, and often thin or torn in spots. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tyrion found Penny asleep in a comer of their tent, curled up on a thin straw pallet beneath a heap of soiled bedclothes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair is falling in all these big curls on her shoulders, and she's wearing this non weather—appropriate top with thin straps and quite a lot of eye makeup. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I knew it from the way his left foot came forward and the bat snapped back and his long, thin body began its swift pivot. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I set my teeth and was rewarded to see a thin curl of smoke rise from the wick of his candle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He raised his upper lip, giving himself a rodentlike face, and spit a thin stream of Coke between his front teeth. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yitzchak’s little boy was so thin and sad-looking, still wondering where his sister had gone, that she could not resist him. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” he said as he emptied his purse onto the table then fingered through the jumbled coins: heavy silver talents and thin silver bits, copper jots, broken ha’pennies, and iron drabs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I cleared my throat, forcing a thin smile. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A giant-child stepped forward, so thin he might not have been there, not much bigger than Loki or Thor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They lay serene and still, wrapped in thin veils of drifting mist. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Pet looked at her with its goldblank face, and thin tendrils drifted out of its mouth. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That night she lay upon her thin blanket on the hard ground, staring up at the great red comet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I blinked, and the world looked different through my eyes for a moment, thin and see-through; then I blinked a few more times and it was back to normal. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All night I sweated in my bed, the thin mattress offering no buffer for my constant tossing and turning. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tall but not too tall, thin but not too thin, her skin rich with color. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He also had a thin, scraggly beard that seemed designed to proclaim him older than he was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Dis,” said Ess, tossing a thin arm wide, to gesture at the sky, the fire, the other children walking back to their cabins in the moonlight. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The old woman had no purse, no wealth at all but for a ring on one thin finger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She may no longer be thin, but she would still be tall. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high hairdo towered over her thin face like dunce cap, the white-blond hair utterly incongruous with her olive skin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was common knowledge that Snape wanted the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, but even Harry, who hated Snape, was startled at the expression twisting his thin, sallow face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was a scroll of parchment with Harry’s name written upon it in familiar thin, slanting writing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She had on silver eyeshadow to match her silver dress, and her red-lipsticked mouth was set in a thin, hard line. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There is nothing inside them to absorb sound except the inmates’ thin mattresses and their bodies. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As before, Sam found that his hearing was sharpened, but that to his sight the things of this world seemed thin and vague. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But with this tall, thin white man with the gray-green eyes something had happened that had never happened to him with any white man before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were all thin limbs and hollow cheeks, as if they had stretched out a great deal in a short period of time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"In big family," she said, "everything . . . everybody spread so thin. Thin like paper, you know?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the thin fractures that crazed the smooth black surface of the body. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her brows drew together and her lips thinned into a nearly invisible line. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When I saw him walk in with that clean-shaved face, close-cut dark hair, and thin mustache, my first thought was to wonder if it was really Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I reflect on that moment now, the image blurs, reconstituting itself into that of a zealous knight astride a steed, charging into an imaginary battle, striking at shadows, hacking into thin air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When there was a thin layer across the asphalt parking lot, Lily reached over and touched Toby’s hand. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The trees are too thin to offer much concealment. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Daniel acts out the jumping from branch to branch and makes his thin arms flap. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Angular and elegant, he was precariously thin, with nervous hands and a shrewd albino face and a short, fiery mop of the reddest hair I had ever seen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Abuelo slept in a narrow metal cot with a thin mattress wrapped in white sheets. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Walking straight toward us in his light-colored suit and thin black tie. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“What, with my thin Ups and my eyes too close together?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was a thin man, going bald, but the little hair he had was as red as any of his children’s. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Trash is heaped near the main entrance steps—plastic cups, fast-food wrappers, broken beer bottles—all partially hidden underneath a thin dusting of snow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of blocks up Breweries Street I turned off towards my lodgings and suddenly, there where the crowd thinned out, found Tibe walking beside me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

So today my face is plain, unadorned except for a thin mist of shiny sweat on my forehead and nose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of these dogs than ever before were roaming around, and they were thin and gaunt and fearless. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The discs sprouted thin, wiry legs like spiders and skittered into the crowd, where they affixed themselves to Mr. Flux’s troops, delivering electrical charges that sent them yelping up and out of the fray. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Where are we?” he asked in a thin voice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie An-mei is holding a sheet of paper as thin as wrapping tissue. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My left thigh had shriveled up to be as thin as my right shin. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

O’Dell had delivered a thin aluminum sheet he’d found in the garbage, so I used some tin shears to cut some rough triangles out of it for fins. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They sit or lie upon the ground, arms too thin for human limb, faces too drawn for flesh, smeared white with powder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Never in my life have I wanted to disappear into thin air as I do now. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The challenger ignored the peaceful greeting and sprang, hitting the old fox hard in the flank and pinning him down, then sank his teeth into Gray’s thin neck. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And as the crowd started to thin in the shadows of the dying embers, I turned to look at David. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But under the hood, his hair was white and thin, and his flesh had an old man’s greyish undertone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The barefoot, sunburned, thin and grinning army, joyful, unbeatable, already immortal. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edith is small and thin, proportioned like a girl, her white hair cut in a bob and her face deeply wrinkled. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A little stream of thin fluid ran from his nostrils. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin, timid dog came close and, at a soft word from Kino, curled up, arranged its tail neatly over its feet, and laid its chin delicately on the pile. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and thin the way Ty'ree said my daddy had been. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Filthy things, tom and stained and stinking of blood and urine. And thin. You must be cold. We’ll put you in lambswool, soft and warm. Perhaps a fur-lined cloak. Would you like that?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The lining of Mother’s coat hung thin, like fluttering cheesecloth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a thin, grey mist everywhere, it seeped damply through his clothes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A thin coat of ice crusted the puddles in the streets, and it was said on the day after Christmas that only ten miles to the north there was a light fall of snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though ill and thin, he still looked sharp. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a sword out of thin air, swept Percy off his feet with the flat of the blade, and pressed the point under his chin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She trembled at feeling the thin soft bit of smooth leather. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin red line just under my chin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was better down in the valley, since, as always, the hills protected it, but up in the Bottom black folks suffered heavily in their thin houses and thinner clothes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was so frail and thin, with no strength left in his hand, but she could still feel the warmth of life through his skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She had plucked her brows to thin antenna lines. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa’s frame was thin, and she was too young to be expected to have curves. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I can’t make cans of corn out of thin They passed through Harken Square, around the Gathering Hall, and down Roving Street, where three of the floodlights were out, making a cave of shadow. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A high, thin chirruping sound came from somewhere nearby. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His thin, colorless hair was unkempt and there was a large bald patch on top. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sister was very tall and very thin. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the form of a man, he was tall and thin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen a thin person wear suspenders, and it was a nice look, the way it matched his red bow tie. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows are high and thin and many-paned, and decorated with cutouts made of construction paper; right now there are snowflakes, for winter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was so blond that people thought I was an albino, and had such thin hair that my scalp sunburned easily. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His fingers scrabbled for the thin pipe, miraculously caught hold before he sank again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What he grew in his fields. They say he was very thin.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He attended a special conference and when he came back he looked tired and thin, and wasn’t allowed to tell her where he had been. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A very tall and thin man with dark brown skin beckons me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wore jean shorts and a thin white tank top. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He's looking at me like I'm breakable—like I'm made of thin glass and one nudge too hard will shatter me into a trillion tiny pieces. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that—little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counselor, a short, red-haired woman, with blue eyes that bulged slightly from a thin face, had asked me what I had wanted to do in life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can be heavy, light, dark, thin, smooth, murky, or clear. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A thin gray light showed her three other bunks, each empty and neatly made, one below hers and the other two across the tiny cabin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She turned as the auto came up behind her, and I saw that her face was thin and pale against the black of her mourning dress. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She took the envelope and shouted, “I made it!” and then opened it to make sure, peering at the thin sheet of paper. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

Halfway down was another overlook, a thin extra lane marked off less as an opportunity to gaze at the scenery, I thought, than to allow drivers a chance to stop and gather their wits. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now need called knowledge out: Duny, seeing the fog blow and thin across the path before the Kargs, saw a spell that might avail him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He presses a needle into the soft, thin skin inside my left forearm and sloppily tattoos a number: A28865. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

These thin, threadlike cells form a web buried in the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had pulled his long, black coat around his thin body and huddled within it as if he hoped to escape the eyes of the villagers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing had changed—the frayed red curtains, the armchairs with the upholstery worn thin, the hideous mud-colored carpet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He tried on the glasses, which had thin frames of Imperial gold. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s hair was white and her skin was parchment thin, but the years had not dimmed her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Croft was lying flat on her back, her head on a peach-colored cushion, a thin white quilt spread over her body. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A thin line of brown ants was crawling across his big toe, and he was trying not to giggle. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the other side, a tall, thin stone stood in front of the water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ice shook his head and the thin man at his side rubbed his hands together, nodded, and walked away. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The air stretches tight; Marie-Laure has the sense that they are watching someone slide onto thin ice or hold a palm over a flame. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she looked back she saw Portia sitting at the table with her long, thin hands up on her face, very still. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was almost my height, but he was rail thin, and he had his hair spiked up in front, almost like a Soulless Minion of Orthodoxy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was thin, with her hair pulled back under a cap, which seemed to be part of her uniform. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then the galactic astronomers are out of business, the stars cool and die, matter itself decays and the universe becomes a thin cold haze of elementary particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a single story, with a thin strip of yard full of sparse, scrubby grass in front. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A thin white belt snaked around her narrow waist, and a small diamond cross glinted in the hollow of her neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was thin, taciturn but amiable, and his dæmon was a ferret. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was tall, kind of thin, with messy gray hair. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

On Ellis Island the people were thin after forty days at sea and had no fancy luggage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His spindly wrists extend from his over-large cuffs, his hands are long and thin, ragged around the nails, like mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her music reminded Bridge of picking wildflowers—she started with something thin and simple and then kept adding new sounds, all different shapes and colors, until she had something explosive. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

He whirled and saw the Ancient standing there, his hands parting the thin curtain of sedge stalks which hid their nest from the path. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was lined and thin, and yet in sleep it looked content and unafraid. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As a result of continuing malnutrition, my stomach stays swollen while the rest of my body is small and thin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not colored yet, and the pencil lines are thin and barely visible. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I almost left the money on the counter and disappeared, but Mrs. Lynch appeared with a thin textbook and placed it on the surface in front of me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Percy thought he might bring out his piece of firewood, but instead he produced a thin paperback book and a note on red stationery. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My nerves were worn thin after the bad night we’d spent. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin and stupefied bleating of automobile horns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rachel and Ema were stalling by slowly filling out job applications, but their excuses were wearing thin. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was the night Laurence Hurd rose up to attack the whites in the audience for their hypocrisy, for using religion as a thin veil for their own racism. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand was very thin, with long, bony fingers digging into Kingshaw’s forearm. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I feel as if my body is dissolving and I am being drawn up and up, like thinning mist, into a vast emptying space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She just sighed and started to peel again, the long coil so thin it was almost transparent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She fries this with mashed tomatoes into a thin red sauce for the manioc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was short and squat, the other tall and thin as a lamppost. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Because she was heavily sedated, Pita slept through the lancing and compressing and didn’t come back around until Abuelita Remedios was done wrapping her leg with a pale thin gauze. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At once, the statue’s hump opened wide enough to admit a fairly thin person. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sat up long enough to procure a pen from thin air and jot something down in his notebook. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His straight baby teeth had given way to buck teeth and gaps, his chubby cheeks had thinned into his approaching adolescence. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After ten noisy, rocky minutes, the trees thinned, and Harry could again see patches of sky. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Liyana whispered, “This is getting ridiculous! Say no!” and Sylvie peeped, “No” in a thin voice that caused her to get a detention note. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"No, he’s not," said Dustfinger, pulling his thin blanket up to his chin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I have,” Chronicler said with a thin smile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her thin arms were wrapped around her body and she was shaking, gasping for breath. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stand straight, and while I'm thin, I'm strong. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like stands of heathen candles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I watch as he puts the thin wafer between her dry lips and administers the cup, murmuring in Latin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The traffic thins, and a few teachers mill around the doors. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a thin, flat piece of birch and brought it back to our hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Both schools of thought are castles in the air, connected to the ground by the thin strings of meagre archaeological remains and anthropological observations of present-day foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked at me and I was starting out when the thin man called, "There's plenty of seats for late comers. Come in, brother . . ." Brother? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell the women,Thank you, and on the way out I hear the thin one, Jesus above, Maureen, who dragged in that specimen? and they laugh along with the telegram boys. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Almost all the boys were thin, some past the point of gauntness, with spindly shanks and arms like twigs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is red, raw, and covered by a thin cake of dried blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Very odd,’ said Frodo, tightening his belt, ‘considering that there is actually a good deal less of me. I hope the thinning process will not go on indefinitely, or I shall become a wraith.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moscow was particularly interested in reports from Werner’s new contact, the thin man with glasses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell that by the way his lips were tight and thin and his eyes flashing like neon signs. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a thin, frail sort of woman in a long white nightgown. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He straightened his thin shoulders and marched up the stairs as though he were the President of the United States. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ice moved smoothly around the floor, thin legs wide apart, head bobbing, the ball moving from his hand to the floor and rushing back to his light palms as if it was a giant yo-yo. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was angry, and his long, thin face with the black eyepatch made him look like a pirate. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, it sometimes seems as if they are just plucked out of thin air. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Such foundries were not unknown to the Inka, but Andean societies vastly preferred to hammer metal into thin sheets, form the sheets around molds, and solder the results. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The thin grass between their feet glowed with rays of the slanting sun. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

One of the men ran to the sheer edge of the roof, overlooking the street; his hand went to his mouth and Bigger heard the sound of a whistle, sharp, thin. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last he held out his thin, hairy wrist and showed him his watch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’s bald, but not shaved-head bald—old bald with thin white hairs in a halo around him. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The ice cream came with a small wooden spoon wrapped in thin white paper. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

TJ’s so thin, he could eat a hundred biscuits and not gain a single pound. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She held out the thin sliver of steel. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Moving as fast as he could, Thomas crashed through the heavy foliage, thin branches slapping at his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The warmth from the stone was beginning to fade; his Levi jacket was thin, and he could feel the cold leaking through worn places at the elbows and under the arms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down and picked up a thin stick. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Once, as I talked, he began to cough, and I stopped and watched helplessly as his thin frame bent and shook. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

With a flick of her fingers, she produces a card out of thin air. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was blowing little puffs of smoke from the thin cigarette he had rolled; he looked very satisfied too, as if he were satisfied with everything that morning, even that his cattle had wandered away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The golden-haired man had no pistol Hunter could see, and his thin boots had never walked country roads. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s much larger than average,” the man with thinning hair corrects himself. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The punishment used for small children was a regulated system of smacks with the discipline wand: a thin, flexible weapon that stung painfully when it was wielded. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That is your tip,” I said as a thin curl of smoke began to curl up from the drab. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The commadant’s lips thin and his eyes narrow and an expression of slow and intense malice rises in his face. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She seemed to appear out of thin air at his side. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Not until then did I look up and see the shiny blue rifle barrel, very thin, the upstairs window six inches open and his face behind it, partially hidden by the curtain. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The preacher stands there, his rheumy brown eyes locked on Katherine's bosom and a smile that borders on indecent on his thin, pink lips. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The blanket beneath her was rough and thin; the bed was hard and creaked when she moved. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at him doubtfully: thin and drawn, with thighs and arms so puny that no muscle showed even when he flexed them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me,” says a tall, thin cat about my size. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a thin coating of wildfire could bum for an hour. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Amil is so wiry and thin, like a twig you could easily snap in half. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Its walls were too thin and were made of a type of steel much too brittle to hold so much molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I stood in the belly of my shadow and listened to the strokes spaced and tranquil along the sunlight, among the thin, still little leaves. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perilously positioned on the thin wooden headboard of the bed, a bottle of STA- WET gel. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The crowd that was here before has thinned. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mama would make thin, yeasty bliny and then stuff them with cheese, fold them up, and fry them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He fell sprawling onto a thin carpet that did little to cushion his precipitous fall to the floor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling’s mouth formed a thin, tight line. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her skin is so soft, like old thin leather that’s been folded and wrinkled a thousand times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She claimed to envy my thin, long legs, but she was only being nice. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Above that rose a steep dome, with thin windows cut all around it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A thin band of gold encircled the girl’s head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thin crust of snow cracked beneath the hooves of their horses, with a sound like breaking bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suzanne was tall and thin with thick eyebrows and luxurious dark hair that fell in a shiny wave down her back. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bony ribs of the wing stood out as high as a hill, and the arteries and veins gleamed like wires of fine-spun ruby and turquoise pressed into a thin sheet of jade. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a very thin face and very dark, almost black, eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In these theories the basic objects are not particles, which occupy a single point of space, but things that have a length but no other dimension, like an infinitely thin piece of string. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He framed the picture and hung it in our hallway, nailing it right next to the old black- and-white of himself in his thin necktie shaking hands with King Zahir Shah. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her bones felt thin and brittle, and her breath rattled in her chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was a thin man who wore polyester suits and styled his hair in the old slicked-back conk, combed to the back in rippling waves. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, they heard the thud of a cane on the thin wooden floorboards, and an old man hobbled around the corner. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maribel swimming in the lake with her friends, coming home with her hair dripping wet, her clothes clinging to her thin frame. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of pain across every inch of my body, as if I can feel the very color of my skin. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the last person to deserve a halo, but I studied the effect, cupping my hands under my breasts, studying my pinky-brown nipples, the thin curves of my waist, every soft and glowing turn. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men thin as insects rowed scows between the clumps, shepherding them with paddles, pressing down upon them, dousing them, drowning them, so that light might play unimpeded upon the winter sea. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly but deliberately, as if he had all the time in the world, he put down the casket and wrapped his thin arms firmly around the Magpie from behind. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The host inserted his hand into the thin neck of the calabash and took out a morsel of food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Superplumes of the type on which Yellowstone sits are rather like martini glasses–thin on the way up, but spreading out as they near the surface to create vast bowls of unstable magma. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Old women on thin straw mattresses that line the walls, which they must sleep on, because I don’t see anything else that could be used. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Squaring her thin shoulders and holding the money tightly, Lupita ran down the wharf after Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He had a thin, almost high, almost effeminate voice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a thin face and heavy brows that have nearly grown into one. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A thin ribbon of thick water that lapped wearily at the mud banks on either side, sequined with the occasional silver slant of a dead fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick silk woven by the spiders supported thin slats of stone cut by the humans. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young man brushed some sand out of his thin hair. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A thin, metal film descended over his glowing eyes and from within his body came a steady, resonant ticking. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The barn door opened then, and a thin, stooped black man limped over to them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the little girl ironing away so quietly with her head bent over the board and he was stabbed by the soft sadness on the child’s thin face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he is upright, I see he’s too thin and tall to be Javier. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He is the only one home and he is thin. So thin. My sisters are married and in Shanghai. My other brother was killed by a shell.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stooped again and lifted up a long thin knife. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations!” he exclaimed bitterly, the thinnest milk- white line enclosing his lips tightly in a bloodless, squeezing ring. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The younger one also lacked her mother’s abundant hair; instead she had thin curls stuck tight to her scalp as though glued there. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old man in the front yard, very old and thin and weak; he hobbled forward, glaring with feeble, toothless rage. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keisha sits in her chair as I stare at her head full of thin braids, thinking it must take three days to do all that—so beautiful. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The arm that curved out of the shift’s white sleeve was muscled by field labor, awful thin, but smooth as a child’s. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound came again, thin and keening, from the black hulk of the body on the far right. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She tied them together, so that she had a thin piece of fabric, several yards long. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, Draco,” said Narcissa, restraining him with her thin white fingers upon his shoulder. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the operating room, Dr. Grossman shaved away at the burned, dead skin, cutting away thin layers until he reached bleeding tissue. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hassan’s reply was a single word, delivered in a thin, raspy voice: “Yes.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marly could see the section where the sap would be, first as thin as water, then flowing into the next pan, darker, and the next, darker still. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly I could,” Sparrow replied, a tartness in her tone that had not been there when she was speaking with Sarai, “if my gift were conjuring seeds from thin air.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He hobbled the mule and tied a long rope to the burro and let them graze on the thin, bluish green leaves of salt bushes growing at the entrance to the canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They would cut you up like a salami and eat you in thin slices.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The hooves came closer, and she heard the high, thin sound of a bugle. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was nestling with thin air and cinders. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moaning of the wind and the cries of the animals outside mixed into the thin smoke of incense and the fragrance of piñón wood burning in the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell—his lips get super thin like Dad’s, like mine. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As small and thin as Ultima was she had the strength to lift me in her arms and carry me into her room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was thin and moaning in the reeds. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Mom understands, and I feel a little better when she reassures me that I’ll thin out as I grow. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

"Too thin, and the hair needs a cut. Nothing personal." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly angry, I grabbed the edge of the comforter and yanked it off of the girls on the bed, leaving them with only the thin blanket underneath. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Nothing like thin wire or human hair strung on a limber stick would do?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hairy, unfinished logs hold up the roof, and there is a gap between where the floor ends and the wall begins, so that one can see a thin line of grass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wispy cloud bank stretched low across the horizon, like wool pulled thin by a spinner’s hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

From above they were thin figures in the evening. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rod and reel were strung with a heavy line and thin steel cable for a leader. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alaskan hunters know that the easiest way to preserve meat in the bush is to slice it into thin strips and then air-dry it on a makeshift rack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The booklet is thin, printed on onionskin paper, curling, bound with staples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At the door of the delivery room stood a thin, stoop-shouldered medical student Buddy knew. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her crinkly gray hair had been pulled back into a thick, braided knot, with leaves and flowers growing out of the thin gaps between the twisted plaits. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

How thin the bony arm feels beneath the coat sleeve. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A young woman, tall and thin, rushed over and grabbed the girl by the shoulders. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Also inside the box was what appeared to be a very thin, old blanket, covered with images of stars and moons. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The plume of smoke from the fire rose straight up, like the charmed ropes in the marketplace in Alkonost that had hung suspended in thin air whilst small boys clambered up and down them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And behind it, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker lay ironed out upon the grass as flat and thin and lifeless as a couple of paper dolls cut out of a picture book. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on the stones, melted wax cooling, his face all faces, one eye blue, the other golden, hair that was brown, red, yellow, black, one eyebrow thick, one thin, one hand large, one small. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water wet her blouse and the thin cotton fabric clung around the curve of her breasts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had ordered the steak, which, bowing to the same minimalist fashion, is served without the bone, the thin slices of beef stacked to resemble a funeral pyre. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were only a dangerous forest and a single road and a thin grip on a life that the Elders had enjoyed for generations. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He went to her and put his arms about her and his thin cheek against her hair. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I accidentally broke a gallbladder, spilling a thin yellow bile that I then had to carefully rinse off the carcass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The black-and-white linoleum floor has been scrubbed thin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Behind each one, a person—some men, some women, all of them pale and thin—sat observing the Gladers, staring through the glass with squinted eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He stands, slips his arm around the man's thin shoulders. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I need to work up some sort of alibi, no matter how thin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t she be as thin and straight as a boy? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was watering at the mouth now and a thin trickle of spit was running down one side of her chin. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

They trailed the boy through the forest, which thinned gradually to a clearing where a small garden and a larger field of crops could be seen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the door opened and a thin, gray-haired woman stood on the threshold. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Held up by a series of metal pipes as thin as dowel rods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Far, far below he could see the real world: the sunlight pricking out every tiny tree, turning every winding river into a thin silver snail-trail glistening and looping across the landscape of Faerie. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But instead the thin waif of a woman asks, “And where are you?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just to the left, and not very far away, were the Triple Demons of Compromise—one tall and thin, one short and fat, and the third exactly like the other two. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I began to sing in a thin and faltering voice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet downhill, two telkhines were placing something on a big rock— something long and thin and wrapped in black cloth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The thin air had a shimmering, crystalline quality that made even distant peaks seem close enough to touch. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As this was being done—by other slaves—Weylin stood whirling his whip and biting his thin lips. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo thought that he heard a faint hiss as of venomous breath and felt a thin piercing chill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mother popped the thin wood shell in her curled palm. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were sharp yellow, her skin was soft brown, she was thin and quick as an insect. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he heard that ripply sound that raised the hair, that high thin scream from far away coming out of the mist unbodied and terrible, inhuman. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand was thin and bony, like a skeleton’s. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shuddering still, she sat up, letting her thin legs dangle over the bedside. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, the blame fell squarely on my thin shoulders. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a thin shift made of a burlap seed bag. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he were thin, they’d make fun of him for that, too. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His cheeks and nose are red from the cold, and a thin layer of snow has collected on his wavy brown hair and the hood of his burgundy sweatshirt. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The eggs of the mantis are secure in little cases of thin parchment attached to the branch of a shrub by the mother who lived her life span with the summer that is gone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

During the first week of September, it was my family's habit to rent a beach house on Ocean Isle, a thin strip of land off the coast of North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His long chin faded off into a thin, apologetic beard, but his suit was a jaunty yellow that seemed to glow a little in the fading light. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Correctional surgery had left her right ankle as thin as a broomstick. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Soon they were walking in the long thin shadow of the thumb. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He pointed off to the left, where a thin sliver of light spread across the floor like an arrow pointing toward a crack in the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His bare feet made no sound, falling softer than leaves in the thin dust. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight, penetrating a thin space between two trees, caught the stream that ran through its centre, so that, now and then, as the branches stirred, there was a gleam of water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, my hand closes around the thin plastic rectangle that I’m looking for and I pull it out. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was tall and brown, built thin and powerful like a wide receiver. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He bowed his head, showing a thin glimpse of crooked yellow teeth through the gold of his beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her own long thin legs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like 100 percent whole grain wheat bread, thin sliced. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mama’s lips are a thin, tight line when I get home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then it happens: The air above the kitchen turns thin pink—like wet raspberries. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

As we began to walk, it grew to a murmur, a thin steady hum. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward and beckoned with a thin, gloved finger, “Want it?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From such a distance, the river looked like a thin band of silver or a sparkling snake that slithered its way across the land. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She knew how thin you needed to make paint so that it would flow and how thick you could make it so that it would clump on the canvas like clay, something to be sculpted. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I watched him stride off to get the spear, a little boy with thin arms and legs like sticks, wearing a big string of sea- elephant teeth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big, full lips and a long, thin Indian nose. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I thanked him earnestly from the bottom of my rapidly thinning purse. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Limping and still stiff, and as perilously thin as Jack, Moniek quickly related how he had spent all this time lying in a far-off barracks, recovering from his injuries. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cable leaned back, making a steeple of her long, thin fingers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sir Fabian’s thin hand drifted to the pommel of his sword. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Weeds grew on either side of the road in summer, and a thin strip of green clung to life between the dusty tracks. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thin scars around his eyebrows, and two crossed blue scars on the bridge of his battered nose. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Might the tall, thin man rise up and declare: We don’t like Ike. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then a thin little woman came over and grasped my hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert is just twenty-one, with a thin mustache and a captain’s rank in the Union army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

My arms were so thin that when I lowered my lance it was all I could do to keep the point from jurrowing the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the beggars were mostly children now, thin and grim-faced, some no older than five or six. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The carpet was so thin that Ivy could feel the cold from the concrete underneath. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re too thin. Dad needs a bath. You guys are stealing my look!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In Arabic, she would say batkhayyal, which also means “to see the shadow of a thought,” as if one is separated from it by a thin cloth. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her flesh had grown as thin and ragged as Lannister hopes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His neck seemed so thin and fragile, his arms skeletal. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes were black, surrounded by a thin line of pure sky-blue, and their gaze was intense. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But even as he spoke, one of those thin black fins suddenly changed direction and came cutting swiftly through the water right up to the side of the peach itself. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, the atmosphere is thin for breathing. But there’s enough oxygen. It’s safe.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The gentleman who was shown in was still fairly young - perhaps around forty or so - tall and thin; tall enough, in fact, that he was obliged to stoop to enter the doorway of the cottage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to make a centerpiece out of waxed maple leaves, acorns, ribbon, and a mile of thin wire. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On its bottom hung two four-pronged hooks and at its tail was a sprig of thin yellow feathers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But there are seats on both sides, and a thin, fluorescent stripe along the wall, like a color-changing glow stick. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He has a long, angular face and a tall, thin nose like a hawk. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But walk we would, some in bare feet and some in odd-sized wooden clogs, in our thin uniforms, in the middle of winter. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kainene steered with a careless confidence, past potholes on the road, past palm trees stripped of fronds, past a thin soldier pulling along a thinner goat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This thin, miserable, dirty garbage is the objective of the prisoners. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my work shoes is so thin, they look like they starving to death. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Underneath he was wearing what looked like a very thin, lightweight blue coverall. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was still pale and thin from his recent open-heart surgery. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was just a normal thin piece of pad paper, all yellow and old. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He was about forty, thin, fair haired. He drove a BMW.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A thin, fully dressed girl came out of the bedroom on the left. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I have been through thick and thin with Walter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thin and short with a blue skirt and jacket and a white blouse and her eyes moved quickly around the room like lightning strikes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Kino’s lips were thin and his jaws tight, and the people say that he carried fear with him, that he was as dangerous as a rising storm. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thin little creature with ticks in its gray fur and ribs showing through its thin coat like stripes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She sat at the table in the thin lamplight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The knife was small, only five or six inches long and very thin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It had a thin wooden door, and when I went inside, I found heaps of garbage and feathers and bird droppings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight Neel was able to push through the bushes and find the thin trail that circled the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

His victim screamed aloud with pain as the scourge lashed his thin bony back. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My arm was only a thin ribbon now, curling through the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Off to one side rose a feeble column of smoke—a thin, wavering distortion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The green visor cast a deadly color upon her face, upon the Dutch cookie crumbs that rimmed her thin lips. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a night of thin sleep and bad dreams, spent much as I’d spent the previous day: being chased by packs of nightmare dogs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Leslie came and leaned over May Belle, putting her hand on the little girl’s thin shoulder. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are also the exciting thin metal posts with the flashers on top, so drivers don’t veer off into ditches because of pitch-blackness or sheer boredom. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my arms tight around her thin waist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The thin man was directly under the balcony. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

At one booth, a crowd was gathered around a tall, thin man. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to talk and the words just vanished into thin air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” The Goober said, swallowing, his Adam’s apple doing a dance in that long thin neck. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin drizzle was falling, so fine it might have been dew, the ground beneath my feet felt like the earth in the early morning and no longer a street. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short, thin, balding man with a shaggy gray beard opened the door. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was tall and shadow thin, with small bright bird eyes and a sharp nose. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I know what Doctor Neal says, that it’s some kind of last strength, some nonsense ab—” She coughs and her thin body arches over like a shell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He searched thin walls, weak sutures of spindle bones above the ear for thresholds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the image changed, her body thinning, elongating, her hair flowing, long and silver. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, thin with hunger. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I see a bird come and go outside the window, a thin branch snap and drop. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Only a thin white sheet of snow covers the burned-out houses and buildings. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the mirror I watched the bright red bubble and the thin line dripping down my throat. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He retrieved it, found some thin line tangled in a ball, and untangled enough to cut and tie ten feet to the handle of the bucket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my smile again, which had worn thin after Auld Lang Syne. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes, bunched the thin fabric in his hand, and pressed it back up to his nose. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was heavily thinning, pulled back and plastered to his scalp. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Bearded vendors draped in thin blankets sold animal- skin lampshades, carpets, embroidered shawls, and copper goods from rows of small, tightly jammed stalls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

April’s chin went up and her lips thinned. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why do you keep so thin?” he asked me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man looked at them—a thin girl of ten with starveling hollows in her cheeks but with the chin still baby-round. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was so small and thin that there was room for Hanako to sit next to him right now, but she didn’t want Papa to feel lonely. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before coming to our hut he had gone into the forest and cut a long, thin branch. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a slight shiver, the Prime Minister got up and moved over to the window, looking out at the thin mist that was pressing itself against the glass. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As we approached the end of the pass the rain-clouds were thinning and rending. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath his thin guayabera, I could see the muscles of his broad shoulders shifting as he reached down and gave me a wad of bills to put in the poor box as his donation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her ribs were as thin as candy canes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The wrinkles on her forehead are like ocean waves, her eyes are deeper and piercing, and her thin lips stretch into a weak smile when she sees me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Someone comes up behind me, a sudden voice out of thin air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thin girl with untidy hair came out: the baby we had heard crying at her hip, a small boy clinging to her sari; stood staring at us with a slight frown. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reverend’s daughter opens it up to see an exhausted, very thin redheaded man dressed in rags, covered with dirt and sweat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She lay in her bed, which was surrounded on all four sides with thin linen curtains. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jorge’s eyes narrowed and his mouth tightened into a thin line when Matt refused to confess, but he said nothing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tio Fello dragged her off right after Christmas because he found her very thin and sad and thought the mountain air would invigorate her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After almost an hour of complete chaos, and after hundreds of arrests, the mob began to thin, which finally allowed paramedics to come in to help the wounded and haul away the dead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning light, she could see that the paper was not white exactly but a faded yellow, and so thin as to be nearly translucent, like the wings of a dragonfly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Side by side, we turned, letting the beam of light cut through the darkness and the thin shadows. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From below her woven nightdress emerged two bare thin legs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin plaited climbing rope rubbed with beeswax made an excellent bowstring. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me she had come back to school in the fall looking pale and thin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"No, it's too long and thin to be a shotgun shell," said Mag-net. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘You must have tremendously thin skin! Even Williamson couldn’t have done that to ordinary skin!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would I think that I was too fat or too thin? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I could draw, I would draw Amil like a long branch, tall and thin, but breakable. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Give her a round, thin perfume bottle to grip. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He stayed for over a year, sleeping in the unfinished structure on a thin mat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Suppose they had seen it, too—the thin figure rising among the cars and quickly ducking down again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I noted the thinning leaves and felt a ball in my stomach. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was small and thin, with big dark eyes and black hair knotted in a bun near the top of her head, exposing her neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Two sheriff's deputies—one thin with blond hair; the other big and muscular, with a black mustache. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gray wool skirt and a thin blue sweater cling suggestively to her sides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When at last the flow of my words slows and thins, when I have recounted the final chapter, silence comes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she wriggled the cloth down and around, until two thin arms found their way into the wide sleeves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were two thin blankets on the floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We had nothing, no furniture, no mosquito nets, just thin mattresses placed flat on the ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Two days later, I tell Mother I’m going to pick up a new copy of the King James Bible since I’ve worn mine so thin and all. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mama’s voice was so quiet and thin that to Anya it seemed as brittle as the magic from earlier. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Goldy, that’s what everybody called him, was thin, a little stooped, with a long face that always looked a little down. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Delicious. Of course, I don’t really eat them. I drink them—drink their blood. I love blood,” said Charlotte, and her pleasant, thin voice grew even thinner and more pleasant. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He held his hand to the thin ribs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her red hair, coiffed like a helmet, glittered in the sunlight—I could see bits of her scalp where the hair had thinned. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger saw a thin spout of steam jutting from the pot and smelt the good scent of coffee. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, we were skimming along just above the atmosphere, which is very thin, thinner proportionally than the rind on an orange. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin sheen of sweat covered his forehead, and he looked very grim. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Its heart, visible beneath skin more fine than the thinnest sheet of vellum, was no longer beating. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The adder, poisonous and silent as the Devil himself, slithered in through the space between the thin wooden door and the mud floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even in reasonably good years there was so little feed that the cattle kept thin running about looking for enough to eat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol and Sonia are woken by these deaths in the early mornings, their parents screaming on the other side of thin bedroom walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We would buy one pack of those thin blades and glue razors onto the edges of our kites. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Gradually the branches thinned and the ground beneath him began to slope. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin thatch roof kept out most rain. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ray is thin and doesn’t have a beard—the opposite of my dad. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

At night Werner stares up at Frederick’s bunk, the thin slats, the miserable stained mattress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I enter her long, thin chamber, which has a computer and two chairs and an array of tubes and robes on hooks on the wall. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Small gold hoops in my ears and a thin chain with a delicate gold hamsa—the hand of Fatima—resting in the notch above my collarbone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There were some thin rugs over the dirt floor. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Up front, under a thin layer of white cotton, her breasts jutted out a bit more. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Hers is thin as a string. And yours is perfect.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’d give her a giant black ceremonial robe when she got to the town square, but it was thin and the night was cold. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Very gingerly the boy began to cut a thin slice of the vast cake. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the thin man smile and say that of course he must go when he think fit; but he will be surprise if he go quite so soon. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But it was only a thin fellow with a red nose and a scraggly beard, smiling apologetically. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I rush over to my backpack and take out the thin metal ruler we use in geometry. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She drifts off, pushing her lips into a thin line. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He’s white, midthirties to early forties, has a brown buzz cut and a thin scar over his top lip. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The madwoman pressed her face to the thick bars in her thin window. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Atticus was a head taller than his brother, his face was broad and open with a straight nose and wide thin mouth, but something about the three marked them as kin. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Cut to the chase I shall. That fraud Fred is skating on thin ice.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The desert heat has faded, and a crescent moon hangs low on the horizon, thin and red as a cannibal’s smile. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was very tall, very thin, he had a chin like a fiddle. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thin brown brook, pulling itself like a ribbon across the curve cut into the rock just ahead. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Every four or five steps I’d have to stop, lean against the rope, and suck desperately at the thin, bitter air, searing my lungs in the process. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the thin color of raspberry pink all around him. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I take a window seat behind a thin colored fella. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The marionettes don’t just swing around in thin air over a couple of hay bales.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He looks terrible—as thin as a skeleton, and half the hair is gone from his left side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry shimmied up a tall, thin little tree. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A paper collar was made out of thin cambric stiffly starched. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thin hair is pure white, her teeth are brown with decay. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water rose over my head and swirled around me like a whirlpool, dragging me deeper and deeper, until the thin light of dawn turned into darkness, and I couldn’t see anything anymore. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her skeletal hands had only the thinnest papery layer of skin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a section with big rolls of silage, too, packed up to the ceiling with thin rope, and another section with huge sheaves of wheat ready to be ground into flour. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We made it while you were sleeping. Your dress is too thin for the mountain. ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the pro-Independence rallies at university; mass movements always made her feel empowered, the thought that for a thin slice of time all these people were united by a single possibility. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The walls really were as thin as I thought. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There, huddled as close to Tansy as her calves, lay a sleeping boy, blue in his lips, frost in his hair, and tears frozen on his thin dirty cheeks. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In class as he lectured on poetry or the arts, he smoked long, thin cigarettes that he pulled individually from a silver case in his coat pocket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin curl of smoke rose from the chimney of one. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long, thin adobe nail had been carefully hammered through its heart. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as Will watched, the ice cube that had appeared from nothing only moments before evaporated to mist inside the jar, and then thinned into a haze, and then disappeared completely. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was like staring through a thin mix of tomato soup and cement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even though the cornstalks had grown, they were too thin and not tall enough to hide him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And she remembered another day too—Ess joyfully tossing her thin body up into the billowing breeze, laughing into the sunlight, and trusting it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“A tree starts out thin and small, sort of like...” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, than of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a straight piece of metal, with thin leather wrapping the grip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I give her my mother's face—thin sloping nose, light brown freckles, a pink bow of a mouth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When she was soaking wet, I could see just how thin and brittle she really was. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was his old smile, the warm smile that turned up the corners of his thin lips and lighted his face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a thin pink jogging suit. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was thin and drawn, with tufts of beard growing on it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the empty avenues of this town, now whistling softly, kicking a tin can ahead of him in deepest concentration, came a tall, thin man. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice was quiet, firm, but kind; there was about the man’s thin lips a faint smile that seemed to have always been there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid filled her sister’s thin hands with carrot candy, melon candy, and sheets of beef jerky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The preacher, Don Joaquín, was slight, with child-size hands, delicate shoulders, and a thin neck trapped inside the collar of a starched shirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The three Burgerton boys were tall and thin and pale, and they were none too thrilled to find the twins taking up space in their house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a piece of paper inside, folded up as small as it could go: that very thin kind of paper that Bibles were printed on. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Molly touches Vivian’s shoulder, frail and bony under her thin silk cardigan. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A hovercraft appears out of thin air, just like the one did in the woods the day I saw the redheaded Avox girl captured, and a ladder drops down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In about an hour the forest began to thin, and Robin could see the blue smoke coming from the cotters’ chimney pots. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I can’t wipe the smile from my face, even as the time stretches thin and wide without another word being exchanged between us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A north Wind swirled through the trees below, sending thin white plumes of snow crystals flying from the highest branches, like icy banners. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sir Zurt was gone, but I saw a thin trail of blood leading into the trees. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Three of the volcanic craters had thin ribbons of smoke lazily curling from their insides and meandering toward the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was tall and thin—with dark curly hair framing her face in a halo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Lord Steward had thinned notably since suffering a head wound at the Bridge of Skulls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I squeeze the scissors and cut off one thin strand. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd was thinning: Only a little knot of people remained below in the Room of Requirement, and Harry joined them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this—smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heat rose from the thin hair atop his head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was in the middle of the night and I was lying on the floor, beneath the thin blanket I shared with my brothers, pretending to sleep. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And so we went upstairs together, and the party had thinned out a little, but there were still some baseball players, including Jase, over by the keg. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across the road, a girl no older than Dany was sobbing in a high thin voice as a rider shoved her over a pile of corpses, facedown, and thrust himself inside her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Now undress and put this on,” she instructed, and gave me a thin white robe. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes us cucumber sandwiches, the edges scalloped to look like flowers, filled with thin slices of salami. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of dust lay over everything. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth made a thin line, but he nodded and handed me back two jots. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hilly’s tall, thin maid, Yule May, is folding dough around tiny sausages. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The thin roof resonated under the rain: it was like being inside a great drum, which might give way any moment under the crazy assault of the drummer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t leave him either, and there was nothing to do but wait, so I gently brushed loose soil from his arms and face and thinning white hair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The tall trees thinned out, bush and undergrowth were sparse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, you’ve managed to extract something very meaningful about him from those thin slices of experience, and that impression has a powerful effect on how you experience Tom Hanks’s movies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The hope was to lower a drill through 14,000 feet of Pacific Ocean water off the coast of Mexico and drill some 17,000 feet through relatively thin crustal rock. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her heart was thudding under the thin gray dress. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” said the other.They stood back to back, the tall thin wizard and the short round one, and waved their wands in one identical sweeping motion. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And jeans and underwear and a thin leather belt and a T- shirt with a windbreaker so tom it hung on him in tatters. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fjerdan flopped his useless arms, then released a low animal growl as Kaz made the pardon vanish in thin air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, as though alive itself, it poured in a thin yellow slab of brightness from under the door, illuminating the dust and splinters of the hall floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips grew thin and his eyes black. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I must sit out in the fields here, I think, and fast till I grow thin enough to slip through.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I met Alice’s thin pale little boy and saw with relief that in spite of the way she talked, she obviously loved the child. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The voice was high and thin and nearly swallowed up by the night, but it took us only a moment to place it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost girl spoke, but in her thin, pale voice, it was only a whisper. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s tall, with cropped black hair, a thin mustache, and dark brown skin. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The heels of her shoes echoed down the wooden floor of the hallway and her long, thin skirt swayed about her ankles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Until now he had not seemed to notice how thin and weak he was. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was thin and slouchy, with the easy boastfulness that came with his inherited wealth, his famous surname. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Except for an occasional and unaccountable insurgent who chose a restive black, they married “up,” lightening the family complexion and thinning out the family features. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slammed and slammed his shoulder, but he was thin, the door otherwise. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had not found any socks to wear that morning, and the hot pavement burned through the thin soles of his shoes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Drummer, like Willie, would be small and thin and dark with nervous eyes which showed too much white. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes traveled along the cracks in the sky, weaving overhead like thin black threads. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Uneasily, she nodded, and continued along the thin corridor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He noticed that the houses had started to gain pillars out front, that even the shabbiest, thinnest house now had its white pillars, proclaiming it, in someone’s eyes, a mansion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Granny’s voice was like a thin line in the dark air. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes focus on me, her thin face serious. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Echoes persisted of the 1986 crash, when the area had become a scavenger hunt for repossessed Lear jets, Mercedeses, mobile homes, oil rigs, ranches, and two-bedroom houses with walls so thin they seemed translucent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very tall and as skinny as a beanpole— so alarmingly thin, in fact, that it looked as if his bones were about to break through his skin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, she hooked a finger up her sleeve and pulled down a thin, woven bracelet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It has now been thinned and I am testing it here to affirm that it is acceptable for writing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Marguerite draws her full lips into a thin, tight line. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The clean cuffs of his sleeves hung down past his wrists—below them his thin hands seemed lighter in color than the rest of his body and the palms were soft yellow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was thin, the color of coffee and cream, with her hair done in fresh finger curls. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the twilight the memory of him was very sharp, the soft pink skin aging on his fine cheekbones, the thin aristocratic nose, the eyes, so shrewd and yet so loving. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Collins smiles and picks up a thin piece of fabric from her desk and holds it up. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve gotten so thin, I’ve had to take in the waistbands of all my panties and stuff the cups of my brassiere with handkerchiefs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin became covered with a thin moss, similar to that which flourished on the antique vest that he never took off, and his breath exhaled the odor of a sleeping animal. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His daemon was a shabby hare as thin and tough-looking as he was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian stood to one side, thin and pale, his eyes red-rimmed from sleeplessness or anger, a string of sacrificial stuffed animals around his waist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Later, the four boys had stopped playing War and had gone inside when Ugwu heard the thin, strangled wail from the classroom at the end of the building. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cutwater wiped his thin, greasy lips with the back of his hand. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as Trub pulls two thin metal rods from his shirt pocket. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Two blocks to the west was a thin sliver of a park built into a rocky hill. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Fudge pulled out his wand, conjured two large glasses full of amber liquid out of thin air, pushed one of them into the Prime Minister’s hand, and drew up a chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s cold and dirty in the barn, and they both look thin, but not ghetto thin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Through his thin nightshirt, he was all heat and hard muscle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

However, the particular spectral lines observed are often characteristic of very thin, diffuse gas, and not the astonishingly high density that must prevail near black holes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Woundwort dropped through the roof of the Honeycomb, Bigwig was already lying under a thin covering of soil on the other side of the south wall, not far from Clover’s burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shrouded figure was as long and thin as it had been in life. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But changed—no longer plump and sleek, but thin and hungry-looking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Black conjured heavy manacles from thin air; soon Pettigrew was upright again, left arm chained to Lupin’s right, right arm to Ron’s left. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Meggie could remember how the thin little man had come hurrying up the nave of Capricorn’s church with his pile of books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was in side the shed, staggering from wall to wall, her legs too thin for her full belly. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It contained a thin strong rope, a padded grappling hook, a vial of oil, some lockpicks and a dagger: Shadow’s usual burgling kit. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The thin line of her mouth was twitching as though she was about to cry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, while I watch the thin, beautiful mestizos living glamorous lives on TV, and the fat, ugly indigenas serving them, I try hard, very hard, to hang on to Jose’s slippery words. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was passing by yet again, I impulsively dropped my hand into the water and grabbed it just ahead of the tail, where its body was thinnest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Panchito and I can find work in Santa Maria thinning lettuce and topping carrots.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her brown hair was cut at the shoulder, and she had a thin face with dark eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The thin drum of rain on the metal roof and the slow darkness falling over everything. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looks down his thin legs his knobby knees his worn leather shoes no shoelaces the grass the dirt. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the shadows beneath an awning, Sefia dimly made out the figures of five old people, as thin as skeletons, sitting in rocking chairs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her nose was too big and too sharp for her thin face, but her smile made up for it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She drew pictures on herself with thin Sharpie marker and told everyone they were tattoos. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was so thin, it was almost like her body couldn’t quite hold up her big head, like she wasn’t balanced quite right. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The ancestor in front was a thin older man, with a heavily beaded blanket across one shoulder, short curly hair, and a stern expression. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nor did I ever kill another cormorant for its beautiful feathers, though they have long, thin necks and make ugly sounds when they talk to each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quiet and thin because of the secret her heart struggled to hold. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“At times, young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Rishi asked a tall, thin guy standing next to him, and Dimple leaned in to listen. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Neatly folded on the top of the case was a thin scarlet silk kimono embroidered with dragons. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the director, he described Rutherford as “a large, rather florid man, with thinning fair hair and a large moustache, who reminded me forcibly of the keeper of the general store and post office.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The docent giving the class a tour was elderly and thin and looked as if all the juice had been sucked out of him through a straw via his pursed mouth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wind whips his thin jacket like a sail. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She tossed some thin shreds of bark into the basket, hoping she’d chosen correctly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The store had a great small-paneled bay window behind which a dignified man sat at a table and made cigars—long thin dark-brown ones which sold four for a nickel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still hate how thin the walls are,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They lay curled closely together for comfort and warmth, and when a thin, cold rain fell as the wind rose they moved under the spreading branches of an old spruce for shelter. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled a burlap pouch with the potato cuttings and hoisted it expertly to his thin shoulder where a batch of new freckles was just beginning to appear. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no longer any life in his belly, and his voice sounded thin like the creaking of ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the sky behind the castle, the fine red tail of the comet was visible through thin, scuttling clouds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A high, thin, crackly little voice came from the back of the shop. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

As the crowd thundered, a man eased up beside a thin, pale woman with a bent neck. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Each time she reached the top of her arc beneath the sun, her shadow legs were transformed into the thin, curved legs of an antelope, with small rounded hooves at the bottom instead of feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That thin wafer was becoming God, it was becoming flesh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or with looks—he had a lopsided frog face and oddly thin arms for a field hand—or with luck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger paused, bewildered; then he saw coming slowly toward him a tall, thin, white woman, walking silently, her hands lifted delicately in the air and touching the walls to either side of her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I find it hard to believe, because Mr. Gore is very thin and fragile-looking, but he is tall. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear their bedroom door close, but the walls are thin. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He went back to his rosebush, thinning the smaller branches at the top. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He headed for the agreed-upon meeting place—a thin dock on a canal lined with butcher shops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s none of my business, but have you always been very thin?” she asked. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Rachel says it was part of a locomotive train, but she is famous for making things up out of thin air and stating them in a high, knowing tone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last the people thinned out and gradually disappeared from the streets and the parked cars drove away and the town settled to sleep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one whisper breaks through like the thin light of the moon in a dark sky. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had a veil of thinning brown hair and a goatee framing his lips. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As Griphook had already warned them, the liveried goblins who usually flanked the entrance had been replaced by two wizards, both of whom were clutching long thin golden rods. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Both hang by straps thin as chicken wire. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

High on the neck of the lute it snapped and the tension lashed it across the back of my hand, drawing a thin, bright line of blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Two gods have warned us we will be attacked four days from now. We must not spread our resources too thin, especially by funding projects that have a slim chance of success.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A thin finger of sweat trickled slowly between Dany's swollen breasts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He sniffed the thin lines of smoke curling up from under the edges of each of them. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cocoa was watery and the toast covered by only a thin layer of margarine, but he and Kuda were too hungry to care. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The last two were one shed, really, with a thin dividing wall. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The theory behind his idea was that the sharp throat I’d designed made for a hot spot along its thin edge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A thin man in khakis and a polo glared at them as he stepped outside. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was thin and dark, and her eyes were as blue and flat as breath mints. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A thin pile of handwritten sheets of paper lay on the table in the light of the flickering candle. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A thin ribbon of sky let in daylight and at night showed a few stars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too thin, too pale, the skin nearly transparent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He waited, watching the thin man unstrap the fighters' headguards and shake a black pencil of a finger in their faces. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I thus cleaned myself, Dr. Trefusis hunkered down, his thin shanks tucked beside his neck, and he fiddled with the lock at my ankles until my feet were free. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some were grotesquely fat, or weirdly overmuscled, or uncomfortably thin, and almost all of them had wrong, ugly proportions. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was here the men had stood; here upon this Green they had formed a thin pathetic fine, a handful of farmers to resist the march of seven hundred British regulars. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unroll a horsehair pallet and place a thin yellowed pillow at the top. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then she looked around the room, and seeing where she was, shuddered; she gave a loud cry, and put her poor thin hands before her pale face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s the thin end of the wedge for you, me laddie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the cell grows thick with the stink from the bucket, and then thins, becomes ordinary again. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He is very thin; his lips are thin too. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A thin spider web of sweat draped itself over his forehead, spreading into his hair. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In ball I was helped briefly by a thin black man called Fatty who was the coach of a team called the Comanches, one of the best teams in the city. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The hopefulness in her voice was as thin as gauze. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His thin lips were set in a short, hard line. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

His mouth was drawn into a thin straight line and his eyes were coldly hostile. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I swung in and out of consciousness until finally I became aware of a thin seam of light burning at the edge of the shade. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A mattress so thin he could feel the springs in his back, like lying on a bed of fists. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’s heavyset, with a furrowed brow and a soiled apron, and he’s got thin strips of hair across his bony head. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A thin film of spit bubbled on Pycelle's lips as his mouth trembled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And this dude, decked out in layer upon layer of flab, a thin undershirt and a pair of tight red polyester pants, poured himself into the alley between the door and the desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Where there should have been eyes, there was only thin, gray scabbed skin, stretched blankly over empty sockets. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I’d cooked you something and you wouldn’t eat it And you hadn’t eaten for days and days and you were looking so thin. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere is so thin that if Viking had landed at a high elevation there would not have been enough atmosphere to brake the descent adequately: it would have crashed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opens the box to reveal a thin gold chain with a clasp. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Irene asked, toe-nabbing her flip-flops and standing up, stretching her arms far above her so I could just see a thin line of her stomach. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

So I was left standing there, a sad little boy holding tight against my chest the thin blanket in which my few belongings were tied. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a little older, for all he was so small and thin. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the taps, dripping had worn the porcelain thin in green stripes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Something very thin, maybe for closing the drapes?” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Come on, keep moving, else you’ll freeze,” she said, for some of the children were shivering and moaning from the cold, and their daemons were crying too in high thin voices. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a thin plastic case from the middle of the stack, the way Uncle had taught me to choose a card when presented with a fanned-out deck. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Georgie was out there, small and thin, his hair full of leaves and feathers, watching, waiting. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

As it is, he always feels as if he is on thin ice. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was holding a rifle in his hands — now they knew what had been in the long, thin package he had brought with them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He is not dressed right for the weather—an old leather jacket, thin black gloves, jeans, and battered gray gym shoes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” she said, her voice quiet and thin. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They were thin and mangy, and the few reindeer Will could see were scabby-coated and listless. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Picking carrots was easier than thinning lettuce, but a lot messier. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He threw a pillow and a thin blanket to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes thinned and the sounding bracken grew rarely in the the swampy earth, so that they could move three times as fast. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd written how soon is now and more on the thin white sticker. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As they passed the blue Benz, Laila caught a fleeting glimpse of the man in the backseat: thin, white haired, dressed in a dark brown suit, with a white handkerchief triangle in the breast pocket. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Hanako watched her grandmother stir the soup, then remove the pot from the stove, her thin arms sticking out from beneath her rolled-up sleeves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Alex doesn’t say anything, letting the silence stretch in a thin thread between them before he cuts it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

To the west the sky was opening into a high gray overcast, and where the clouds were rubbed thin, the streaks of sky were almost blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few thin reindeer brought up the rear, with the great dogs snapping at the heels of stragglers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Appointed Muslim Sisters quickly passed small trays from which everyone took a thin, round patty of peppermint candy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m naked except for a thin nightgown, so I slip the syringe under the bandage that covers the wound on my arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had lost weight and was as thin as a bean pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s large,” another scientist—this one a man with thinning hair--says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the young moon rising; under its thin light there loomed before him a black wall of rock, pierced by a dark arch like a great gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was the smaller of the two, a thin boy, but clever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The shadow on the ground, of Monkeyman’s body being offered up for a beating, was long and thin and disappeared into the shifting knot of people watching. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives her best mysterious look, eyes mostly closed and mouth a thin, serious line. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She is short, thin, and blond, with dark circles under her eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A thin stem of smoke was rising out of the woods ahead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Powell grunted and shifted from one sheet to the other mechanically until his blurred sight focused upon a thin red line that wobbled its way across the ruled paper. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Their public defender was a young-looking man with thinning red hair. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was still thin and rough looking and crippling pretty badly in one leg. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and walked quickly away up the aisle, small and thin, but walking with a straight, strong step the way he always walked no matter how he felt. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She always had a pair of scissors hanging by a white tape from her waist, and with this she began shaving thin slivers of soap into the palm of one hand. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thin and wiry so his Greek armor hung on him loosely. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He has a broad, ruddy face, thin lips, piercing eyes behind eyeglasses, and broad cheekbones. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was still large and the clouds thin as they raced away after the storm, so there was some light from the sky; but under the yew trees it was horribly dark. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A queer stifling feeling came over them, as if the air were too thin or too scanty for breathing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The eyes behind his glasses were bright green, and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Laney held out a thin box to her parents. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was tell and thin, and wore his coats padded, which gave a fictitious breadth and depth to his shoulders and chest. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had lost most of its hair, and its hands were thin and overlarge on its wrists. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They were seated on the mud, which now began to be disturbed by the angry, thin, returning sea, or else were already riding on the water, wakened by it, outside the annoyance of the surf. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked so young in those pictures—her skin taut, her face thin. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ship looked desolate there upon her side, with no one on her decks, and her thin black funnel pointing to the shore. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His scar might as well have been a wrinkle, and his thin smile a seam. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gary was fifty, with that smooth Lacks skin, a thin mustache and soul patch, and a gap between his front teeth that the girls loved. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her thin body seems so fragile she might break. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She was draped in a white-and-green gown made of thin fabric, its loose folds billowing around her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a thin soup of spinach and onions and fed it to Granny a spoonful at a time. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the horizon, looking out across the sea, she could see a thin pink line of dawn emerge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The disappointment must be crushing,” I replied with a thin, heartless smile. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s nose was pinched and sharp, his lips thin, his eyes small and close-set. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His cough gets worse; he is pale and very thin, even though he has a tremendous appetite and eats like a wolf, Jo thinks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As Groundsel had said, it was plainly thin—brittle as ice on a puddle—chalk, pebbles and light soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was short and squat, the other tall and thin as a lamppost. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even with his skin ashy, his legs and arms too thin, he’s still handsome. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I was a child I would look at my father, the thinning hair, the collapsing teeth, and wonder why anyone would give money for a head like that. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That afternoon we continued our progress through the choking green of the jungle, until it thinned out and finally retreated completely. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bay slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited at the porter’s lodge until a thin man appeared and, producing a set of heavy keys, unlocked a wooden door set into the stone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her nose was delicate and thin, and her cheekbones high and wide, sweeping down to a small chin so that her face was heart-shaped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Him,” she answered, pointing to the very tall, very thin man behind the mail counter. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Professor Kylmer had already started working on a variation of the plastic—a thin, slightly porous membrane that you could filter water through. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And that she was thin, with large feet and hands, and small, rather peering blue eyes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And on Saturday night, after my bath, when I lay in my bed, my pillowcase, worn thin from washing and sun, smelled sweet. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The man was thin, it is true, but not starved, as he should be. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Clouds drifted across the sky, obscuring the thin sliver of moon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The ground ran in front of me, thinned beneath me, became a spiderweb of truth and lies. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Age had thickened her husband, thinned his hair, and reduced the numerology by which Bull himself measured his fitness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wet hair was slicked off his face, showing the thin scar through one eyebrow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Together, as the Gangulis drive, they anticipate the moment the thin blue line of ocean will come into view. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was choked with a succulent weed, whose furred brown roots waved like thin tentacles underwater. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys’ talk quickly wore thin, and Reynie was just about to give up and go study when Jackson’s voice boomed down the corridor: “Corliss Danton! There you are!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Music sounded in Doc’s ears, a high thin piercingly sweet flute carrying a melody he could never remember, and against this, a pounding surf-like wood-wind section. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, exhausted, he picked up the thin directory which listed every phone on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice is worn now, as if it’s been stretched too thin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The air was thin, but there was enough oxygen to be breathable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the thin shirt I saw the figure of a woman and I whispered hastily to my husband: “Be careful—it is a woman.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid a thin stick under the score line and pushed sharply down on the lacquer, as she’d seen a glazier cutting glass, and it worked: now she had two sheets. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tomb of Horrors was a thin booklet called a “module.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the coconut trees were growing tall and thin when Naima reached the pond. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their own shapes sectioned in the thin and watery glass of the window there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw was obscurely comforted by the long, thin, man's arms around his body, and the bumping rhythm of his walk. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She boiled cassia pods to make a thin, unsatisfying soup, and roasted spongy, tasteless water-lily bulbs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the list be thin, I slip in that old stinky white fella that live behind the feed store, the one lost his mind from drinking the shoe polish. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He looked at me with a thin smile. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He made his mother a sandwich, peeling the last thin pieces of turkey out of the package and pressing them between twin slices of white bread. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My lap and the branches below were covered with thin, soft leaf peelings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One woman, pale and thin, handed Jinx a bundled-up red handkerchief. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jason stumbled, looking at the thin line of blood down his sternum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Garikayi stared at the thin man, and a message flashed between them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell he had a beard and mustache and a bit of a belly, but all I could really see unobstructed were his feet and pale, thin calves. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex remained impressed with how much sound could come out of such a thin body. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The moonlight quivered as thin clouds scuttled across the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their news of the world comes from the thin local paper Gerald brings back each day from the general store. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ramon’s face was no longer tanned and rosy-cheeked but instead seemed thin and gray. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded as thin and weak as he looked. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was white as mare’s milk, her hair so thin that he could see the scalp beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The vintage tasted thin and sour on her tongue. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were both so thin they could share one bag, which would help both of them since they’d share body warmth that way. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ugwu wondered if she, too, could feel the coal tar getting hotter underneath, through her thin soles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kamau’s voice, strong and confident moments ago, was now thin with fatigue, desperation, and...and there was something else, a hint of an emotion it took Ekon a moment to recognize. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A frail, thin woman and the children cringed against the wall when we entered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin, scowling matron in a white bonnet beckons with a bony finger. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her white hair was so thin that the pink of her scalp showed through. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sky, too, was void, with a thin clarity like that of water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at the table of familiar faces, Jinny felt like she was watching everyone else through a sheet of water or a thin fog. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A jagged line ran across his right cheek, and his eyebrows were crisscrossed with thin white scars. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her skin was fair and pale as almond flowers and she had a little low nose and thin red lips and her feet were small. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

These are thin disks about the size of a quarter which are stuck on your chest with a special kind of glue and then covered by adhesive tape. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands hit the thin iron rails, but the edge of the car hits me in the gut. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The creature eyeing them had the face and torso of an old, bare-chested man, complete with thinning gray hair and wrinkles etched deep into his features. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I set down my bag on the thin bed of grass and tossed some change in the coin thing and dialed my moms. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Where the woods thinned, Taran clattered along a dry stream bed until, exhausted, he stumbled and held out his hands against the whirling ground. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She was stuck because she wasn’t thin and athletic like her father had tried to convince her she needed to be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There is a thin, peacock blue carpet on the floor, slightly too large so that one side curls up against the wall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like it’s coated in some kind of thin resin. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A pale, thin man with a reddish blond beard spoke quickly into the phone and then hung up.“I seen ’er,” he said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

One perched on the toe of my worn thin Chuck T. I tried to feed it from my hand, but it looked doubtful. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Before Valentine’s Day we have to cut out hearts of red construction paper at school and decorate them with pieces of paper doily to stick on the tall thin windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His jaws closed on matted fur slick with hoarfrost, on a limb thin as a dry stick, but the one-eyed wolf clawed at his belly and tore himself free, rolled, lunged for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Posters, covered with a thin layer of dust, still adorned the tunnels. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I’d look at the women in the food lines across the street, thin women with shawls too warm for the weather, and be ashamed of my thoughts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ofglen has hold of my arm, she tugs me with her, and now we’re in the second line, with only a thin hedge of bodies in front of us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall thin stalks of cane resemble bamboo: They have a woody bark marked off with knobs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her flight stopped first in Lagos, and as she sat waiting in the lounge a tall, thin woman hurried past. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He found himself huffing, his lungs thinning and burning within him, his chest hurting. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Then from very far away the sound came back, thin and clear and small, like a little bugle answering the big one. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the coil lay a row of three thin ingots waiting to be drawn. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She could hear the shrieks of the Undying as they burned, their high thin papery voices crying out in tongues long dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He sat there now, wearing his small, black skullcap and pecking at the typewriter with his index fingers, a thin, frail man in his fifties, with gray hair, gaunt cheeks, and spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were lovely: long, thin, white, like the fingers of a model. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded so thin he could scarcely hear himself. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Higher up, the elm branches became thin and whippy, not strong enough to support the plank’s weight. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And then, after a few miles, there was some thinning of the woods, and we were suddenly in a small meadow, or was it actually a lawn? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The new growth covered the earth lightly, each blade of grass, each leaf and stem with space between as if planted by a thin summer wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When my calf is treated, I rub a thin layer into my hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A thin red slash marked the eastern horizon where the sun might soon appear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A strange gray dust was trapped in his salt-and-pepper beard, and a thin white film had crawled over his open brown eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just like its name, the place masked a whole lot of cruelty under a thin veneer of kindness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Such a thin thing would never be noticed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three thin handmade tickets slid into my palm. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She sees it the way other people might: her thin, serious face, her big eyes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even now, she recalled the thin, mocking quality of the creature’s voice, the cool prickle of his laughter. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Severed torsos soaping themselves, arranged like dark busts on a thin, rocking, ribbon lawn. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I emerged into the garden, where the dying stalks of vegetable plants leaned against one another and rustled like thin, dry bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She became thin, and looked like a different person. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I found him in the morning, the day after the deadline, sitting in the thin blue light, his head bowed, his fingers entwined behind his neck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A thin sheen of sweat coated her forehead and the skin above her lips. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When his bowels were empty, Tyrion slipped on a bedrobe and roughed bis thin flaxen hair with his fingers, all the more to look as if he had wakened from sleep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her thin legs swollen, her face surrounded by layers of rouged skin. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw that she was inadequately dressed against the raw November day in a threadbare cotton dress, ragged little sweater and thin cotton stockings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleeves fitted tightly, but she had no difficulty in pushing the sheet of paper up inside one of them; it was as thin as a dragonfly’s leg. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The trees thinned out behind him and the companions entered a wide, rolling meadow. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mai is thin, but I'm starting to realize that she has a monster appetite, especially for things that she previously has been denied. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It is stained and ripped in places, thinned from use. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

My father’s baritone voice drifted up through the thin floor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He sighed so big his shoulders slumped where they curved out of his faded undershirt, so thin I could follow the angles and ridges of his scars like tattoos under fabric. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw watched the other boy's thin fingers, twisting up the grass. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Madam Pince, the librarian, was . a thin, irritable woman who looked like an underfed vulture. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They ate fish and chips in a pub, a thin crust of grime on the sides of the wood table, while she talked about her love of fashion and asked him about Nigerian traditional dress. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She looked down on her long thin and as yet formless legs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up, pulled the trunk out from under the bed, and Chip situated it between the couch and the PlayStation 2 and started tearing off thin strips of duct tape. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The bidder was a thin man in a leather apron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a grim, overcast day, and when I stepped out of the plane, the cold winter wind whipped through our thin prison uniforms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s heavier than before, his stomach undeniably wide, so that his thin legs appear slightly comic. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As requested, the College assembled, but the veneer of mutual respect and consideration had worn very thin. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Landor had had a wife—a thin slip of a woman with a worried face. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Max turned and walked back to his seat, his lips a thin line, his face white, his head down. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I see Mom, a thin, dark-haired woman who talks too fast and uses her hands too much. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

If a girl was thin in Yana Urku, people said she looked as sickly and ugly as a dying tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin dog came to him and threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag, and Kino looked down at it and didn’t see it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging out, in the middle of thin air, were ivy vines stretching to nowhere. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Violet, who was tiny and thin and had a lavender-colored pixie cut, smiled haughtily. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“We feel the water taps in the dark. They are covered with a thin coating of ice, so it is difficult to open them,” Sofya said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Abboud rushed toward the bathroom for tissues, which were so small and thin that she threw them up in the air when she returned. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Along with her shouting now, I could hear the thin faint cries of a baby. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pa is now so thin that his face is no longer the shape of a full moon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The forest had turned to deep pine, the tall evergreens casting thin shadows from the moonlight. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall, thin, and young and wore a black beard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mars has an atmosphere, but a very thin one, and it is composed mostly of carbon dioxide, so astronauts would have to bring their own oxygen to breathe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the villagers, gathered in the thin steaming sunlight on the muddy ground in the middle of the houses, couldn’t understand the words, but they saw the headman’s pleasure. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was thin and chill so high above the ground, but the sun was warm, and the cloud-shapes about them reminded Tristran of a fantastical city or an unearthly town. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The thin red line becomes what I suspected. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At the door, Donatelli's pale blue eyes searched Alfred's face, but the thin lips never moved. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs were as hard and thin as ram’s legs and the skin around his calves was almost exactly the colour of mutton fat. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning his head, he saw a thin white cat perched among the stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tom said it was too thin, and I thickened it with mashed up nuts—I had run out of acorn flour. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was some five years later, by which time I had become quite thin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached down to the hem of her thin roughspun gown and pulled it up over her head in one smooth motion, tossing it aside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was where the skin of the world thinned, and he could slip through. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of melted mix had dried on the bottom of the pan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Miss Lilian descending the very same stairs, dressed in gray, one thin hand grasping the rail, her head high, her eyes scornful. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The thin one cackles, Oh, God, I thought you were here to clean the lavatories. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The front says Best Friends Are Like Sweaty Thighs, and when I open it and read the punch line—Thick or thin, they stick together—I laugh and cry simultaneously. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that my motorcycle is wearing out. The tires are thin, and if they wear out, where am I going to get another pair?” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark, with the exception of a thin band of light where the curtain didn't quite touch the floor. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The thin man eyed the group’s wagon; the wheels were especially well made. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Papa had already left to look for work, either topping carrots or thinning lettuce. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s thin but with mad cuts and a smooth face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A punch from an Ent-fist crumples up iron like thin tin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And then came a tall, thin blonde lady holding hands with a grey-haired man who was much shorter than her. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unconfined by walls, it thinned, and I was able to take in more of the guests at a glance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Hooper came up the stairs, two at a time, Kingshaw watched his long, thin legs, opening like scissors, and saw his long, thin arms reaching down for him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo had just returned from work and, in the bright evening sun, his shirt was worn so thin in front that Richard could see the curled hair on his chest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the next two weeks, Roberto and I worked picking carrots and thinning lettuce after school and on weekends when it did not rain. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When our backs hurt from stooping over, we thinned on our knees. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some could not walk; others were as thin and wasted as Hari was; some had terrible sores and deformities. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She scooted over carefully, like she was on thin ice, and pushed her grapefruit box behind her into the corner. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The desk was the nicest thing in it—glossy dark wood, thin straight legs. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kainene raised her eyebrows; they were penciled in, thin fluid arcs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were tall and had long thin legs like deer; their heads were long and angular, with heavy bone across the eyes supporting wide sharp horns which curved out over the shoulders. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other was small and thin, with a goatee beard on his receding chin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She needed to grab hold of Ess, needed to stroke her tangled hair, clutch her thin shoulder. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her features were watery and indistinct, but he knew her voice: bright and brittle, like the thinnest layer of ice over a fast stream. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He thought of a man whom he had passed in the street a few weeks back: a quite ordinary-looking man, a Party member, aged thirty-five or forty, tallish and thin, carrying a brief case. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The clothes I’d spent so much time picking out were wrinkled and covered in dust, and strands of my hair had escaped my ponytail and curled out in a thin frizz halo. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was thin Eevie, frowning at the lapping water as though it had done something wrong, and Oz and Jak, jostling each other. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Mazen says nothing, I dig the blade in deeper, drawing out a thin line of blood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Maxie tucked her chin into the thin collar of her coat. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There are strappy shoes and artful curls; thin, stylish ties; big smiles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But their forces, as vast and well-equipped as they were, were spread far too thin this time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But now the mist was thinning, and here she was, breaking. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Lon had been right, of course: years of poring over manuscripts had given the Librarian severe myopia, and he wore thin half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Yet Summer gave answer, his deep voice drowning out Bran's thin one, and Shaggydog made it a chorus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The substance of it seemed to me a trifle thin, and I decided to hurry back to Les Amis and touch it up a bit. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A thin white arm flopped over the side of the cart as it jostled over the cobblestones. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin silver mist emanated from him, and his beard fell like a cascading waterfall. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Octavian’s face looked almost ghoulish under his white mantle - his eyes too piercing, his cheeks too gaunt, his lips too thin and colourless. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was a thin man who could have been any age, dressed in a drab and tattered business suit, and he was holding a pencil and a sheaf of papers held together with a clip. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The dead clansmen were thin, ragged men, their horses scrawny and undersized, with every rib showing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Schools at the time still punished students by whacking their hands or bottoms with straps or a long, thin piece of wood called a cane. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Even behind the thin, plastic door, we can still hear it, feel it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The surface was wrapped with thin brown strands of seaweed and encrusted with barnacles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down beside her and put a thin arm over the bigger girl’s shoulder. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She said all this in a cool voice that cut each word in a thin slice from the next and then waited, as if to give Gilly a chance to challenge her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

As he grabbed it, he noticed the thin metal bracelet around her wrist. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could see into the kitchen, where their waiter was smoking a long, thin cigarette. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She then enlisted my father—the family’s resident artist—to paint a series of orange flames on pieces of very thin rice paper, which, when backlit with a lightbulb, made for a half-convincing fire. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Before any of them could say anything else, there was a faint popping noise, and Mr. Weasley appeared out of thin air at George’s shoulder. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We flipped through the pictures, looking at women who were fat, thin, long-haired, short-haired, dressed as nymphs, amazons, nuns, and courtesans, but I was unable to decide because they all looked like trampled banquet flowers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Boukreev wasn’t breathing supplemental oxygen, he had apparently decided to strip his load down to the bare minimum to gain every possible advantage in the appallingly thin air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her pale arms, bare almost to the shoulder, were thin and wrinkled, with faint blue veins and a few purple scabs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She’d stand outside the gate, bundled in her thin coat and mismatched scarf, waiting for the doors to open. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had a small head, a thin body, weak arms, and short legs, but his limbs grew larger and larger as he advanced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This was a small sketch of a very simple palace—just a square, really, with four thin turrets coming up from each corner. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her oily hair is so thin that her scalp peeks through. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thin without the taut look of wiry people, and her printed voile dresses and flowered hats were as right for her as denim overalls for a farmer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like your picture, except you’re not as thin as you were. I cut it out of the newspaper, and it’s posted on my kitchen wall.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A thin boy, wearing a Malcolm X T-shirt and sporting a DIY haircut, sat up from where he’d once been sprawled by a gaping hole in the side of the bus. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At first the overcast was thin, so that the air was vaguely radiant with an even, sourceless sunlight reflected from both clouds and snow, from above and below. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is the Career pack and then there are the rest of us, probably spread far and thin across the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mother was vomiting; the issue was thin and yellow. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One showery afternoon when raindrops sparkled like fairy dew on the new green leaves, Magister Reese sat dreaming over his mug of Jennet’s thin, bitter ale. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I entered our house and locked the door, then put my ear to the thin wall that divided the two flats and listened. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there is something else about this old one, so bone thin but wire-tough. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

His hair looked quite combed, and he was tall and thin and carried the same cane he had waved from the steps that morning. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps a little water would restore her. Hannah, fetch some. But she is worn to nothing. How very thin, and how very bloodless!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nor did they notice that he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, above the thin, gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder and Petra sat down and sipped obediently on tea served in cups so thin that you could see the shadow of your finger on the other side of the china. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

High in the oak trees, stuffing themselves with acorns, the tubby young bears moved along the thinnest branches. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed to eat through the thin cotton fabric of his sleeve. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The winter I was six, I saw a yellow dog on thin ice on the Alliance. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the night it is so thin it sounds frozen; one must stand close up; it would be much better in a room—out here it makes a man grow sad. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in the doorway stood a tall, thin man with waist-length silver hair and beard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Wow,” June breathed, holding the paper like it was made of the thinnest glass. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She closed the book, one thin finger holding her place. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But if I borrowed one thin volume, returning it as soon as I finished, would anyone notice? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’s short, dark, and smiley, not tall, thin, and serious like Father in photographs. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yet, now the paper was invisibly fastened in the book, with only a thin line, like a scar, showing that it had ever been removed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of laughter — thin, distant, like bells. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there she lay, as he had seen her lie so many other times, propped up on the pillows, with a thin, pale face that would make you cry to look at it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

My nose tickled from the dust in the sleeping bag, and the basement floor—which was poured concrete beneath a thin, comfortless layer of indoor-outdoor carpeting—made my bones ache whichever way I turned. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Only a thin trickle of food was coming into King's Landing, most of it earmarked for castle and garrison. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He gave a thin hissing shriek, and seemed to be both frightened and angry. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My mother adores coffee, which we could almost never afford, but it only tastes bitter and thin to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The glass is as thin as newly frozen ice. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The pink wart quivered on her thin upper lip. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He made a thin sound, intended for a laugh. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were walking in Portsmouth Square and already the fog had blown in and I was very cold in my thin coat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were thin and long, with an attachment at the end that made them resemble plumbing parts someone had ripped out of an industrial pump. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

You could see the way their eyes stuck out, and the thin veins along their wings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Capen also noted thin lips, tented by a full dark mustache. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He could mix paint, thin paint, remove paint. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I used to curl up my tongue in front of the mirror and tauten my frenum into a white line, itself as thin as a razor blade. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where Tjaden puts it all is a mystery, for he is and always will be as thin as a rake. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torchlight ran along its edge, a thin orange line that spoke of razor sharpness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He bunched the pillow under his head and tilted his chair back against the thin paneled wall. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of clouds masked the stars and the moon, and it was very dark. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The thin man would look someone over carefully, close his eyes, and then he would point his finger at the person and shout, ‘Seventy-two!’” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The cold wind blew and the thin rain fell upon the soil and the figure stood looking at them with distant eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over the fire and sawed a thin slice of meat from the kid. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He glided on, flattening his tall, thin, black-cloaked body against the side of the building. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight pouring through the colored glass outlined their sweet young bodies through the thin cloth, and Tyrion felt a stirring in his groin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They fought over it for months until Lucy’s nerves had worn so thin that she gave up. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He must be as thin and pale as these bones now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only a little; but it may be the thin edge of the wedge, the crack in the wall that will open, later, onto what? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But this squeamishness about work wears a bit thin when one is forced to assume his upkeep oneself.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I, too, withered away, the moistness sucked out of me, my bones show­ing plainly through my thin flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was squatting against the wall, one thin brown arm raised, the hand over her forehead. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked thin and worn, and his face was pale. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She is so thin it is as if her body is eating itself up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for the first time, Werner sees in his teacher’s thinning blond hair, in his black nostrils, in his small, almost elfin ears, something pitiless and inhuman, something determined only to survive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ve lost a third of the men, Colonel. Over a hundred down. The left is too thin.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some only have sweaters, thin jackets; some, no socks, and some girls aren’t wearing tights or wool leggings. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Then don’t be too technical, darling. I’ll marry you as soon as I’m thin again.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fat bodies are dangling from one of the palm trees, and their previous thin bodies, wispy-looking and dressed in falling-apart bathing suits, are holding hands and walking into the ocean. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked thin and her skin was golden yellow, her greased black hair slicked neat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

First a solitary thin tube of green, then two leaves opened up from the stem—one on each side. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached a hand to my tight, thin braids. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen it written once, on the fly-leaf of a book, the letters thin and slanting, curiously pointed, the tail of the M very definite, very long. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Others looked thin, hungry, and miserable, as if they wished they were somewhere else. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the thin flat face of a fox peering out. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

By now, the rain had begun to thin, but the wind was still a wild thing. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She saw Shay’s face—too thin, eyes too far apart—and an awful feeling welled up inside her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sunshine lay in a thin line under the window. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most look young and all are thin and dark-skinned, like the peasant workers at our uncle’s farm, with greasy long hair flowing past their shoulders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips got so thin that they disappeared entirely. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The mustard-pot got up and walked over to his plate on thin silver legs that waddled like the owl’s. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paring knife she uses is worn so thin its blade is barely more than a crescent moon sliver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the house was the kitchen shed, from which a thin curl of smoke wove into the air. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Boori Ma preferred to think that what irritated her bed, what stole her sleep, what burned like peppers across her thinning scalp and skin, was of a less mundane origin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was thin and weak and hollow-eyed; his illness had left its marks on him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some hang limp from laundry lines as thin and worn as thread; others are nailed clumsily to the doors of modest mud-brick homes not so unlike my own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As he moved all these things aside, he saw a long, thin package lying underneath. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I headed for the first alley I saw, my thin shoes slipping on the light layer of snow that covered the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They sucked and gasped at the thin, thin air and moved slowly so as not to tire themselves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning was clear and bright, with a few thin, high clouds barely clinging to existence, accidental brush strokes on a blue canvas. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Willie tried to jerk his arm loose, but the thin fingers tightened. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The side of his face was silhouetted in the dying firelight, which passed through the fine fuzz on his jaw, illuminating each thin strand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She shrugged her delicate shoulders, and allowed a thin smile to cross her little face as she tamped out a cigarette with long fingers. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

One thin girl wears hers in the middle of her chest. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plates of thin bread-and-butter and wholemeal scones were provided for the ladies in galoshes, and the gentlemen in top-hats had lamb cutlets and custard in glasses. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But she’d been feeling lazy, and she’d allowed herself another few minutes to sleep in, drowsing beneath the thin cotton covers and listening to the rush and sigh of the waves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Responsibility for the Touchable Future on their thin but able shoulders. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There she was, planted before me in the path, rising on thin legs out of the rootless devouring earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By wiggling and adjusting the spile, we get a thin stream running out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A damp wind had greeted them as they climbed down the steps from the station, blowing right through their thin clothes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I trained him to jump through a hoop I made with thin branches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there shivering a moment in my thin dress, listening to the sea as it sighed and left the shore. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They belonged, as Harry saw when he raised his head, to a triple-decker, violently purple bus, which had appeared out of thin air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A bearded man in a dark suit stands stiffly behind a thin woman seated in a straight-backed chair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He studied her thin face, her ragged hair, the way her skin clung to her bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the evening for the small party came, she found that the poplin wouldn’t do at all, for the other girls were putting on thin dresses and making themselves very fine indeed. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dalton paused before answering; her thin mouth was wide open and her face tilted far to one side. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to him so lax, so nearly worldly; they were not like those holy prophets of old who grew thin and naked in the service of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Though his arms and legs were thin as reeds, his belly was swollen and hollow, and ached so much that he found he could not sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

At first I thought the smoke had materialized out of thin air as a sort of judgment, but then I remembered it was Doreen's smoke and pushed the button that opened the window vent. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Shelves of thin folded blankets rose above a hot-water tank. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Farmer had short black hair and a high waist and thin, long arms. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Where is Rebecca? Why did not Maxim come and bring Rebecca?” replied the thin, tired, querulous voice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He reached one thin hand out of his blanket and clutched at Elodin’s shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The freezing cement floor made us children huddle together near the brazier each night, and my mother would cover us with old newspapers, cardboard and our two thin blankets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were similar in build, thin and lithe, with somewhat spindly arms and legs. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the middle is a thin man with medium-brown skin and white teeth, smiling an uncertain smile. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a thin gray beard that hung down from his chin, and was wearing a long red and gold robe that looked like the ones on the plates. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the thin counterpane she could see what was left of his belly huddled before him on the bed like some helpless thing seeking shelter. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The floor is covered with plywood, and standing in front of me is a small, thin woman with a grubby face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Tristran took it; the little man's gift seemed to be a thin silver chain, with a loop at each end. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stretches his thin arms above his head, and his whole body, especially his white beard, quivers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

This time he was running his hand, not over the rocky wall, but through the thin air, as though expecting to find and grip something invisible. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her face had become as thin as a fox’s. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Harry whirled around and Griphook tightened his hold around Harry’s neck: A tall, thin wizard with a crown of bushy gray hair and a long, sharp nose was striding toward them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Roots grabbed at Theon's feet as he ran, and bare branches lashed his face, leaving thin stripes of blood across his cheeks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His feet were long and thin, too long for his slim, bony ankles; he flexed his toes, looked up at me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The frail blooms trembled on their thin stalks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Fire raced up his arm and over his body until he was completely shrouded in a thin veil of flame. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I bit into the thin, crispy outside, and powdery crumbs fell onto my shirt. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and thin, not fat and plump as deer are in the fall. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew and liked the damp earthy smell of the dirt floor, even though they slept on the floor, huddled under thin ragged blankets, aware of the chill. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more than half of Sounder’s long thin ear. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin winter snow was already gone from the high peaks, and the sacred mountain was a dusty, dry blue color. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her body under the red dress looks very thin, skinny almost, and she’s lost that pregnant glow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We three stood shivering in the thin New Hampshire morning light, Finny and I in pajamas, Brinker in a blue flannel bathrobe and ripped moccasins. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It no longer seemed very dark to him in the tunnel, rather it was as if he had stepped out of a thin mist into a heavier fog. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That’s how long Booth and Herold have been in the swamp, scratching at wood ticks, shivering under thin, damp wool blankets, and eating the one meal a day provided by Thomas Jones. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday he had driven an elderly couple from Scotland, both with spotted faces and fluffy white hair so thin it exposed their sunburnt scalps. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then someone threw a small stone at her, and her childhood fled, flailing its thin arms. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I’m going to pull you apart, elf. I’m going to pull off each one of those thin, spindly, pale arms. But you’ll still be alive.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The overuse of the arcana dulls my senses; the room feels thicker around me, and I feel too thin to be part of it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She was thin like her son, with a long face and the same dark circles under her eyes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Behind Father Cham, a gold statue of Buddha glowed in the light of dozens of little flames that danced on top of thin sticks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But while the craters may withstand erosion on the Moon, the rays, being exceptionally thin, do not. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The housecoat must be old because the fabric is worn thin at the elbows and around the butt area. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

A thin column of smoke curled from the library chimney. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He still isn’t telling, and I am reassured: despite his changed facade, his thinning hair and provisional suit, he is still the same person underneath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Fd sprinted across the rooftops, the flame on the shingle had gone out, leaving a thin line of red ember along the edge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He pointed to two thin strands of copper wire connected to the black box. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Many have almond-shaped eyes, thin noses, and light skin, which suggests they might also be of Chinese descent. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed a thin crack in the ground. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She was tall and lanky with short brown hair and thin eyebrows, and she had a very patient style of teaching. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s not till we reach the bottom of the briefcase that we find a manila folder so thin it looks empty. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I say, mustering excitement from the thinning air. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

With so much moisture in the air and loose dirt from both tectonic upheavals and the new species of flora tearing up the topsoil, it was like thin mud being thrown constantly in your face. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I had barely shrieked at the tiny explosions beneath my thin soles before a gaggle of boys with skinned-up knees and red Kool-Aid grins charged us from their tree fort. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“See that ground vine with the tiny leaves? It’s a rare plant called drapeweed that flourishes in thin soil.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

From a fire in the center of the bark house a thin curl of smoke rose, then vanished through a crescent of sunlight in the roof. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The one who lodged deep in their fat, thin, old, young skin, and was the one the world had hurt. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother shrieked, Father cursed, and a thin line of blood appeared on his cheek and upper lip. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin arm reached out of the passenger-side window and tossed the Sunday edition of the Tangerine Times onto the driveway. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I stare at my sky square, in which a thin slice of moon is glowing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He was thin and bearded and seemed to be scowling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of fury steamrolled over Father’s face, smoothing his features. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her thinning, curly white hair was styled into a kind of old lady Jew-fro. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The CIA man who introduced himself as Mr. Hathaway—"thin faced and graying," according to Wolf—announced that he was a personal representative of CIA director William Webster. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face looks gray and pasty and eager, his thin hair combed pathetically over the growing bald spot. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a thin little lie anybody might say, but she liked it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were chemical hand-and footwarmers: thin pads—you broke the seal and they heated up to a little above body temperature and stayed that way for hours. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I could see that on Max’s thinning frame. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A thin sheen of sweat lines the skin around her American flag hijab. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was as thin as a scarecrow, but that didn’t stop her from almost crushing me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Toward the end, the metal became much thinner, and at the very end of the thin bit of metal there was a tiny blade set at an angle. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only that thin, bone-like rib around either wing to give it structure. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grayblue eyes half buried in the thin and sooty creases of his skin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the thin sharp light of the drugstore playing with a long spoon in a tall glass made her think of another woman occupying herself at a table pretending to drink from a cup. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the tension which had been growing in Juana boiled up to the surface and her lips were thin. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the crowd thinned and cart wheels could be heard echoing up the road. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His right elbow exploded with pain as the spikes punched through the thin metal around the joint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A thin silver chain peeks out from the collar of his undershirt and his lips are red with artificial dye, thanks to his endless supply of red suckers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mama made a very fine bread pudding from slices of stale bread, sugar, cinnamon and a penny apple sliced thin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next room, a thin man in spectacles lectures in front of a chalkboard while a girl in one corner studiously takes notes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A thin woman emerged from behind a large box. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He found me in his mother’s room yes-ma’aming her and changing her bed while she sat looking thin and frail beside the window. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitby had a thin brown cigar propped between his lips and was puffing away at it merrily, while Frankie held his own cigar unlit at his side. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She whispered at him, her eyes still closed but her lips tightened in a thin line, “It takes a mighty brave man to run over turtles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is of middle age, cloaked in excremental mud, crabbing slowly along the knife tip of a cliff, his thin hair uncombed and hanging wet across his face. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Icicles bearded its stony banks, but Jon could still hear the sound of rushing water beneath the thin hard crust. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sky is gloaming, and the waves of the sea are as thin as petals of nightshade as they swirl over the road to Mont-Saint-Michel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be carrying a purse if I were wearing jeans, but I’m in a thin cotton shalwar kameez that’s more comfortable in the fierce summer heat. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The other had hungry eyes close-set above a pointed nose, a thin brown beard that did not quite conceal the weak chin beneath it, a bald head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a short while the brush thinned, and I ran through the woods until I reached the banks of Burden Creek. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every single day he looked like he had just walked out of Sunday school: Every thin yellow hair on his pinhead was perfectly cut and licked to a gloss. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the ground, huddling beneath ponchos blocking out ash, thin streaks of light, we hold on to each other and breathe. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Men dressed in splattered painters' caps and overalls sat about on benches, listening to a thin tubercular-looking man who was addressing them in a nasal voice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two large rocks support a thin triangular stone in an upright position. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very tall and very thin, the Lord of Raventree had a hook nose, long hair, and a ragged salt-and-pepper beard that showed more salt than pepper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I know,” Teresita said, a genuine smile lifting the sides of her thin, shriveled mouth. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His thin chest rose and fell rapidly as he watched Harry walking slowly nearer, his wand pointing straight at Black’s heart. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He wore overalls over his tall, thin frame; his black hair was greasy, and he walked with a slight, menacing limp. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All Clara had to do to see her uncle was close her eyes and there he was, weather-beaten and thin, with a pirate’s mustache through which his strange, sharklike smile peered out at her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas spirit was definitely thin on the ground in the Gryffindor common room that morning. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Do you know how many blocks there were before the houses started thinning out after the library? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How does a boy vanish into thin air in a subway station? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Straight as a stick, thin as a lie, and tangled as a spider’s web!” she’d say. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Big Time wiped away a thin edge of sweat from his upper lip. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, he examined his own, thin figure in the cheval mirror. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She never laughed but often smiled the thin smile of the pious. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her voice became chill and her mouth was thin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I cannot tell how tall he is, only that he is very thin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin crust of dirt spread from the ghoul’s hand, straight up Eurymachus’s spectral arm. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He shifted one of the stacks on the table just slightly so that they were even, arranged from thickest and largest to smallest and thinnest. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A cousin lit some incense in a brass holder, and the new scent drifted in thin wisps of smoke toward the yellowed ceiling. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Geak is so thin that her cheekbones protrude out of her face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked out at the twilight garden and felt a thin but bright thread of excitement within her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were mostly thin, beautiful women in formfitting dresses, and heavyset men in what Luke’s dad and brothers called sissy clothes—shiny shoes and clean, dressy pants and jackets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I let myself feel the smallness and closeness of the closet pressing in on me, and I think about Sir Patrick Moore’s black hole trick, when he just vanished into thin air. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We tend to spread them a little thin sometimes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s thin, a cross between a sidekick cowboy and a weak soldier. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But she saw him look carefully at her, at her thin gray hair, her stooped shoulders and gnarled hands, and knew that he could not comprehend yet how she had become what she now was. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His thin lips barely moved as he talked. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat hugged his thin coat about him and scurried back from an errand. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had seen lots of pictures of him in the newspaper, the thin man who wore nothing but a dhoti and glasses. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His lips were thin and his eyelids seemed never to blink. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the stillest hour of the night, the children finally slept, their thin chests barely rising and falling. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been eyeing thin strips of sugar maple in a dreamy cream color to use for my floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The smallpox had thinned her face until her teeth stuck out. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were thin curtains on the windows and you couldn’t see in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looped neatly over pegs beside each marionette was an array of dowels and paddles, strung together with thin black cord. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His flesh was wrinkled and spotted, the skin so papery thin that he could see the web of veins and the shape of bones beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The food arrives, and it is not pasta and veal pounded thin, but creamed chicken over biscuits, and hamburger steak and gravy with peas and rolls and mashed potatoes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’s a small, bald fellow with a fringe of thin hair and wire-rimmed glasses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was a dark green maxi, thin cotton, with a deep V in the front that made it impossible to wear a bra. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They take a few minutes wandering from stone to stone, among thick and thin tablets, some leaning back as if pressed by a wind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his hands he holds a piece of thin rope, less than a foot in length, too short for even him to fashion into a usable noose. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I like the moon when it’s a thin crescent and looks like a cartoon drawing of a closed eye, as if the sky were winking. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His sister’s thin ankles were exposed and black with frostbite. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Angela glanced at her watch and reached for the tall, thin carton wrapped in gold foil. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is hunched in such a way that beneath his shirt his thin shoulder blades have a certain lumpy look. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

And ’stead of being a set of thin lips, the grinning mouth was really the raggedy edges of the new hole that had got cut in Pap’s head. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Tyrion could hear someone screaming from below, a thin, high voice hysterical with fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was thin, but it was clean and didn’t have any bugs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cico reached into a clump of grass and brought out a long, thin salt cedar branch with a spear at the end. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dungeons had left him weak as an old woman and so thin a strong wind could knock him down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a thin ribbon of a trail that led through the forest here, or I wouldn’t risk wandering on my own like this. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was a thin man with a large head and a lot of hair and a brown face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in her bedroll that night, the chilly air seeping through the thin canvas walls of the tent, Kaede longed for the dry heat that used to hake the streets of Cathair in the summer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our bed was a thin mattress stuffed with old corn husks in front of the potato bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

No quite tall as me, but thin as a rail. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had a swoosh of black hair and a thin, pale face. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Outside, a thin mist hung in the still air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some were fat and some were thin; some were browned by the sun and some were paler than Luke himself, who would never be tan again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

His lips were so thin that when he pressed them together they seemed to vanish altogether. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A thin, attractive Asian woman wearing a blue pantsuit approached him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He slumped down on her settee, which had curved wooden legs so thin it looked like it was wearing high heels. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The air around them seemed to be cooling, thinning. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my wallet and started searching for my thin card to open the lock again. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Posey was a starkly thin man with vulnerable eyes and a leg brace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy in a thin shirt and thin tattered trousers walked out of the darkness on bare feet. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He looked thin; his clothes hung a little baggy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The tall, thin master looked at me passively. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s these underpants, thin and gray with use, that hang dripping on the line over our heads as we sit in Grace’s cellar pretending to be schoolchildren. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled back the thin diaphanous curtain that covered the windows and spotted my friend Ayana outside with her mother. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His file also contained a school photo, showing a thin, stoic boy with a shaved head. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Two of them, a tall thin man and a short thick one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No liquid water was present except for very thin films wetting individual sand grains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie just nodded, playing cool as usual, a thin layer of dust building up on his sunglasses. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The floors of the dining halls, the ballroom, and the music room were lined with thin mattress pads for refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She ran to the perambulator and rocked it gently, crooking her thin, twisted, old fingers at John and Barbara until they stopped crying and began to laugh. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Everyone at the party was telling me you’re so thin,” she adds. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He was as tall and thin as his master was short and round, with a thatch of close-cropped ginger hair on top of a face that was so pale it was almost paper white. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right, daughter? You seem so thin. And pale. Do you feel sick?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, there was only a thin tradition for such policies even in Greece. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I stopped breathing when I saw Fred’s hand wrapped around the huge snail shell, his thin wrist and bulky watch. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

That way you could tell how much whiskey there was and it would not suddenly be too thin from the soda. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Levy was adjusting a coiffed black wig over the old woman’s thin hair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of Greenwood, the sun cast patches of light and shadows across the cotton fields revealing a thin gray mist, unstirred by morning breezes, that clung to the tops of the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were thin red scars across her stomach, along the side of her neck, and beneath her chin, each about the length of a cigarette. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Both Carol and Grace are stubbyshaped, but this girl is thin without being fragile: lanky, sinewy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I selected one and held the thin paper to my nose, wondering, hoping that I’d smell something of Gideon as a boy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He exhaled a thin stream of filtered smoke and aimed the cigarette’s ashes like a marksman directly at the center of his ashtray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a ball off one side and stretched it out into a thin sheet. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“The paper is pretty thin and I can’t see any marks. But it’s impossible to say for sure.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her faded black Khmer Rouge pajama clothes hang loosely on her thin body as her back bends over the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were days when the ashen overcast thinned and now the standing trees along the road made the faintest of shadows over the snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cook was squatting at the hearth toasting thin toast. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ape-man could reach out and touch the thin leaves that shaded its cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall, thin, black-haired man standing next to her put his arm around her. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His happy question thinned to a whisper as he looked at me, standing in the doorway, menacing and mean, a pitchfork pointed straight at him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The strange metal of his namesake clings to him from forehead to jaw like silver paint, revealing every feature of his face, from the thin eyebrows to the hard angles of his cheekbones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, there was a little more blood, seeping through the thin fabric between her legs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, and worst, tall and thin Aisha Foster was hurting so badly that after the fifth or sixth time she just curled up on the floor and cried. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I choose mannequins out of a catalog that look like these girls, with pencil- thin eyebrows and rosebud lips and soft, wavy hairstyles, and dress them in the latest styles and colors. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’m too thin, too scarred, too...I meet my hazel eyes in the mirror. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But as I approached, a tall thin shadow of a white man came toward me from the direction of the quarter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t think you should,” Bando says as I serve him the fish on a nice thin slab of slate, garnished with watercress and crisp daylily roots. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lumpy bed, shrouded by a thin white spread, pencil-striped with blue, took up most of the space. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She has round black sunglasses and a thin scarf tied at her neck to keep her hair tidy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And then, seeing its body broken, the thin wings stilled, she had wished it were alive again. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin man dressed like a Confederate soldier. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He kept his thin arms pulled close to his sides and his hands jammed tight in the front pockets of his jeans. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A weird sound, a wail, a ghost, high and thin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smallfolk too poor to own either one pulled their own plows through the thin, stony soil. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beside me, Chou rolls up her thin blanket, folds her clothes, and puts them in her pillowcase. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There was too much of that Mr. Underhill to go vanishing into thin air; or into thick air, as is more likely in this room.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Someone had scratched a line across the side of his beloved Buick, a thin ugly gulch that ran across the door and toward the tail of the car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

McCandless, it occurs to me, must have been forced to make the belt after growing so thin that his pants wouldn’t stay up without it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tenzing was moving closely behind the other four, stepping exactly where they had stepped, when he broke through a thin veneer of snow spanning a deep crevasse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of fortune cookies—thin wafers that had been folded so there was an air space in each one. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put down the thin silver book that he had been reading as he sat easily on a flat boulder. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poked at the fire with a thin stick, more nerves than anything. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They lay together, like thin, strange, secret frogs, their bothes well-boned and ready to fill out into toughness as soon as they might be given decent nourishment. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only twins, mind you, but also a tow-headed toddler, whose skin seemed too thin, for she wailed at the slightest discomfort. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A muscle twitched unpleasantly at the corner of Snape’s thin mouth every time he looked at Harry, and he was constantly flexing his fingers, as though itching to place them around Harry’s throat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was not seen again; it is assumed he broke through a thin snow bridge and plummeted to his death at the bottom of one of the deep fissures. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Very shortly after she opened her eyes in all their softness, and putting out her poor, pale, thin hand, took Van Helsing’s great brown one; drawing it to her, she kissed it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then she poured it all into a cloth and let the thin, yellowish whey drain out. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin, well-groomed woman in her fifties—Chanel cardigan, pearls at the neckline, hair brushed into a stiff, shoulder-length flip—was talking, in a nasal voice which was oddly familiar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was near a shadow himself; bone thin and bone hard, with black eyes and black hair and a stubble of beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The third woman was tall, small boned, thin, but shapely. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to feel the thin material and I didn’t really know what else I had to hope for other than that. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

We shivered in our thin clothes, and then the crowded cellar got warm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He slowed down, however, as he made his way up the hill, the flashlight a thin and shaky beam of yellow light against the darkening landscape. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He had a stomach so big that his thin black belt reminded me of the equator circling the globe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A thin blanket had been pulled up to her bare shoulders, but it wasn’t long enough to cover her entirely, and her feet stuck out from the other end. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was far enough away that the thin atmosphere had no hope of carrying the sound to me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a copy of the Psalms, the pages worn thin and dirty from frequent use. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in my barracks, I crawl, weeping, under the worn blanket and soak my thin pillow with tears. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a thin rattan stick like a toy riding-crop, bound in leather. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After about a week, his welcome wore thin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The smoke blotted out the stars and the thin crescent of moan, so the roof was dark and thick with shadows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Many of the wounds had scabbed or remained as thin white lines, though her back retained most of its damage. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The stiff straight back of the thin male form and the way he held his head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A girl walked in after him, tall and thin with long red hair, just a little younger than Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Under those sturdy towers of legs are spindly shanks, thin and not too straight; with his chest ruff removed one can see the sagging stomach of the middle-aged. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a bony face, sharp eyes, and a thin lipless mouth made for frowning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The first man Jeanne saw was thin, with long, dirty yellow hair, a patchy yellow beard, and a face like a weasel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her body was a boy’s body, narrow-hipped, straight-legged, but her ankles were thin and straight without being slender. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose higher in the sky, he felt drawn thin and tight as a fishing line. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear had learned the answer to their mystery: Min used thin slabs of clay to build the small interior boxes first, then the larger one to fit around them. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Losing his job made him quieter, and a thin wall grew between him and the world. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This was true before they came for her baby, before the Tower—one measure of wheat would become two; fabric worn thin as paper would become thick and luxurious in her hands. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When Rasheed opened the front gate, Mariam found herself in a small, unkempt yard where yellow grass struggled up in thin patches. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I started to sweat under the thin blanket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had not realized how tall she was, how oddly thin she was, like a woman made of a cold breath. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Among the figurines were two dogs and a jaguar, each of which had thin tubes joining its two front feet and its two back feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thor said nothing, but his lips grew thin, and his nostrils flared, and his red beard prickled. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

No larger than a raven, it was young and barely out of its first moult; the head seemed a little too big for its body, the feathers thin and quilly. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

There was a thin beam of moonlight coming into the room, and a shape upon his bed, about half way down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The skin on his lower face had regrown, but it was thin and waxy, as if someone had taken sandpaper and rubbed it to the point of transparency. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable—except that she had jumped first. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A thin sheen of sweat covered the slave’s slim body. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her own voice sounded fragile to her, thin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It shattered and I was left with a thin, curved shard of broken glass about the size of my palm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The shells of her eggs would be thin and eventually smash when she tried to incubate them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

What kind of sorcerer could control elements and sound, then vanish into thin air? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Within a few hours the jungle began to clear, and finally thinned out entirely to another field. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s mouth is set in a thin, straight line. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The bow unbending made his thin hands yield, Take over, no muscle in them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dominated by twelve narrow wood bunks stacked in tiers of three, each with a thin bare mattress and a grubby bare pillow lumpily filled with shreds of Styrofoam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because what I hand her is a long, thin white cane. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a small-boned man with thinning red hair and elegant clothes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt his weakened hands on my arms, the thin stubble of his whiskers brushing my face. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to acknowledge the enormous power of snap judgments and thin slices but quite another to place our trust in something so seemingly mysterious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

From the high ceiling one of the celebrated Devon chandeliers, all glittering tears, scattered thin illumination. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hearts are connected by a thin red line. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Inside the thin platinum-plated “skin” of the globe was a positronic brain, in whose delicately unstable structure were enforced calculated neuronic paths, which imbued each robot with what amounted to a pre-natal education. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“He is about five-foot-ten, thin, pale complexioned, and at first was very reserved in manner.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heirs watched helplessly as the invalid's thin frame was suddenly torn and twisted by convulsions. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thin crust, half pepperoni, half pineapple. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had to change the Band-Aid, which took a few minutes, but I preferred to let the traffic thin out a bit before driving home anyway. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The entire Latin continent was represented, including the thin waist of Central America and all the islands that decorated it like a string of pearls. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He scraped from it a sliver as thin as a hair, wrapped it in wax, and added it to the pan in which the lead had melted. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the sense that I should have been able to unpack them, that there was only a thin veneer separating me from their meaning, and yet the veneer was impenetrable. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

With the knife from the top tray, she cut a thin slice, then slid it on the hook. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The moon was already up, round, white, and beautiful like a thin transparent wafer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path led them into a grey wood of thin, pale birch trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

And as the beetles thin out the weed, desirable range plants that have been crowded out are able to return. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His yelling bark sounded thin and weak, yet just to hear it made me want to holler and run and laugh. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her other teeth had grown into thin white needles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The brown mouth of a drain, stained black at the lower edge by a thin, dried thread of blood: of rabbit’s blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grant calls for his order book, a thin volume of yellow paper with carbon sheets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Wanda paged through one of the folders, and a thin bound book fell out of it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But they’re tall and thin and green and brown and big. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thin man stepped out of the cauldron, staring at Harry . . . and Harry stared back into the face that had haunted his nightmares for three years. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had serious bouts of shingles and diverticulitis, and she became painfully thin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Through them, thin segments of daylight showed from the downstream side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Grandma pressed her lips together into one thin line. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A tall, thin young man exits the restaurant and turns toward the patio steps. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes were warm and fierce and bright and his mustache was thin and coarse. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Laura, coming in through the back door with Athena, a tiny wisp of a child with hair so thin that her pale scalp gaped through. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She decided to try to send a message through thin air to whoever had them: There's money in the seam. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had been lean since the early days of the war, but now he was emaciated—so thin that his bones stuck out and his face looked craggy and old. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because most of us had just arrived from sea level, however, Hall was careful to keep us to a more indolent pace that gave our bodies time to adapt to the increasingly thin air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She slung her purse over her shoulder and walked away, her stride made uneven by broken sandal thongs, thin elbows showing through holes in the oversized sweater, her jeans faded and baggy. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be handsome if he weren’t so sick: he’s thin and pale; he looks as though the life is being sucked out of him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The truck driver, a thin man with a goatee and a cap, yelled out, “Genki de ne!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was the nervous mustache that did not belong to his face, the way he jerked his shoulder, the Adam’s apple on his thin neck, the bagginess of his trousers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To him, he couldn’t have landed any closer to his original dream, because now, as a power plant manager, he gets to create electricity out of thin air—literally—using natural gas. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No. I don’t—” The words suddenly got caught in her throat, the walls were too close to her, the air too thin. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It’s crinkly and thin beneath my fingertips, and lined with several rows of inky cursive. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Any time after I’m thin again. We want to have a splendid wedding with every one thinking what a handsome young couple.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They wear plastic gloves and plastic hairnets that seem a bit too thin for my germaphobe liking. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was snowing, and everything was covered in a thin layer of gray ice and slush. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He grew thin and gaunt, and the angles and bones of his face and hands jutted like sharp peaks from beneath his skin. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even then all I can see is the shape of his thin lips and wide, black nostrils that flare once every few seconds as he talks to Ma. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raspberry mocha, thin mint, stone gray...I’m so good at painting nails, I could open up my own shop. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The mist in the trees had turned to moisture and dripped upon my bare head like a thin rain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was followed by a thin fellow carrying a book near as big as Ruth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottoms of my shoes, which were thin as paper, grew ragged. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was very, very pale—almost ghastly, and so thin that her lips were drawn away, showing her teeth in somewhat of prominence. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was much younger than the others, with a thin, blond wisp of mustache. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I suspected, they wouldn’t lend me a thin shim. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The crowd of students thins, laughing and talking on their way to the next class. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Barefoot and shivering she paced, a thin blanket draped about her shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stops at a corner beneath the awning of a café, watching the lamps flickering on up and down the street, wondering if he should wait until the crowd thins or the rain lets up. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then they could see the drifts of snow outdoors and the great trees standing bare and black, making thin blue shadows on the white snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the mate they seemed to have materialized out of thin air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The stuff they were eating was a thin stew, actually a soup, of haricot beans. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, but I recommend it,” Con said, and handed her a wooden-handled knife with a blade made of thin, strong stone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was ramrod tall, and gaunt, with thinning white hair, bushy black eyebrows, and a mouth that looked as though it had never smiled. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s lips thin, and he mumbles something to Momma. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Are you at all worried that your mother and brother have disappeared into thin air and nobody’s telling you Thing One about what’s going on with them? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above hangs a chandelier made from thin sheets of mica. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The second officer was a tall, thin man with a melancholy expression and dark hair thinning above his forehead. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He went sprawling again, freed from the leather embrace, a thin line of blood under his chin where the whip had cut deep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A tiny girl with freckles and a thin, dark ponytail whispers so loud that everyone starts giggling again. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was a thin, mild kid who hated getting involved in messes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was always thin, always beautiful, and always gone. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He’d had a thin goatee line tattooed along the edge of his jaw. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Only two things are certain: that the crust at Yellowstone is thin and that the world beneath it is hot. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They came with the wind that blows in August, thin as a spider web and barely noticed. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were big in her thin face. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it had warmed up some, the day was cloudy and the thin layer of snow was still on the ground. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders if this is how it feels for an obese person to become thin, for a prisoner to walk free. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no feeling of speed until we reached a thin deck of clouds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could spin stories out of thin air faster than a spider spins its web. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now the crowd has thinned considerably in these hours past midnight as the clock ticks its way into All Hallows’ proper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He pulled a long, thin, shining silver dagger from inside his cloak. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth says, but her voice is thin and tearful. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She spread her thin hands out upon the desk and looked at them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I ran across the room and pulled out the dresser drawer and got my pack of razor blades; I opened it and took a thin blade of blue steel in each hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The danger was that the bandits would make raids on households thinned out during performances. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fig’s pupils were so big that only a thin outer ring of lime green remained. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z