When they were a good thirty yards away, Wash’s father grabbed his arm. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

There were at least thirty men in the shadows, crowded together, and a fierce stench was wafting out at us. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They keep it up for a good thirty seconds. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Sarai said there were thirty of them in the nursery that day.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On school nights, he’s in bed by nine thirty exactly, and allows himself a half hour to read, lights out by ten. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was maybe thirty, forty yards away from him when the black car with the tinted windows pulled up next to him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I could do this for thirty minutes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

That was a good job, but in the early thirties, I started working for the city. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come thirty miles in the dark and fog for this. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I could think of nothing to fill the silence, Richardson continued: "Mr. Stevenson, I have thirty days. Please say you'll help me." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They collected somewhere between thirty thousand and seventy thousand biting insects inside the cave—the cave is full of bugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scattered a handful of sunflower seeds thirty paces down the drive to draw the birds and then I sat down on the steps on a ratty old cushion I’d scavenged from the trunk room. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You could be anything from twelve to thirty.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom wrote to my gran, asking her to send the price of a train ticket, about thirty rand, to bring her home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For the next twenty or thirty minutes, I could hear Timothy dropping rocks against each other, singing softly to himself in calypso. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and I arrive at the police station at four thirty on the dot. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“The thing we got to worry about now is infection. That leg wound is going to take twenty...thirty stitches. What happened?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, they had drained somewhere between thirty and forty cars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mandy had just sprinkled parsley over thirty servings of trout, and Nancy was ready to convey them to the guests. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it was ready, we stood back and counted down to thirty seconds; there was a great roar and much displaced earth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our superintendent kept trying to get him to quit school, but Hosie vowed he was go’n graduate if it took him till he was thirty years old. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then, about thirty seconds after the blast, came the sound. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1996, thirty distinct expeditions were on the flanks of Everest, at least ten of them organized as moneymaking ventures. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I waited fifteen minutes, then thirty, but nobody responded. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The men, whom I knew as Mr. Yoon and Mr. Kim, were both recent immigrants in their thirties with wives and young children. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to be nice to everyone, and polite to old folks, people over twenty or thirty. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Held out for more than thirty hours, then surrendered the fort Saturday afternoon.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was a beautiful turquoise, a color it took Ivy at least thirty minutes to get right, mixing the blues and greens until it was perfect. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I might have plans. How about making it thirty bucks instead?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t think about him for thirty years. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d just turned fifteen and I met this guy on the beach, much older than I was- thirties, probably, possibly even early forties—and he invited me to go sailing the next day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met him once for thirty minutes, and he made six puns and said “oh, fudge” twice. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

At thirty weeks her skin thins, and her hair gets thicker. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We were the first ones who’d ever aced her exam in under thirty seconds. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty yards up the line, the main railway came to a dead end. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you do a sweep of the city? Check the defenses. See who’s left in Olympus. Meet Annabeth and me back here in thirty minutes.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was locked up for twenty-three hours a day, with thirty minutes of exercise in the morning and again in the afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, like all the other team members—alternates and regulars alike—I stayed every day after school to practice, from three thirty to almost six o’clock. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When thirty foreigners were killed in Stanleyville, each one was tied somehow to a solid exchange, a gold standard like the hard Belgian franc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He now has thirty people working for him and does over $1 million in business annually. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We get bogged down in traffic for several miles, and even though Radar is desperate to violate the speed limit, he’s lucky when he can go thirty. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

From studying technical drawings of the plant, he knew he had about thirty yards to go. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's a good-luck story, about a lady who almost lost her arm, but a girl saved it because she had thirty magic beads." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I can think of thirty Eskimo words for you, Rachel. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went down and stayed down for a good thirty seconds. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her eighth child, Leopold, had inherited the gene and died of a brain hemorrhage at age thirty. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Looks like it’s about time for everyone under the age of thirty to head off to bed.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“And after thirty to forty minutes your husband returned. Is that also right, Mrs. Heine?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were seats enough for thirty, lavish and soft, and brass fixtures gleamed where the candlelight fell. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Manufacturing jobs, however, have all but disappeared from the urban core during the past thirty years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d guess she was pushing thirty; an “old settler,” as we called them back in those days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the space of thirty seconds the atmosphere in the tiny room had changed completely and now it was vibrating with awkwardness and secrets. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached my thirties, my brain had been strip-mined by a combination of drugs, alcohol, and the chemical solvents used at the refinishing company where I worked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My mouth is dry, but I don’t want to risk the thirty seconds it would take to get water from the kitchen sink. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was in her late thirties, Lyra supposed, perhaps a little older than Mrs. Coulter, with short black hair and red cheeks. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look up and laugh at me, always tardy, a child still at thirty- six. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their answers ranged from thirty seconds to five minutes, with the average answer two minutes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We couldn't do none of the things we could've done for you thirty or forty years back. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

One writer has claimed that the two didn’t speak to each other for more than thirty years; that’s simply false. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Around thirty kids in light gray suits all stand shoulder to shoulder. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We were out until around five thirty, when my mother came clunking through the door. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Big. I think they used, like, uh, four million tons of flour and thirty million blueberries. It was going to be huge.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I know where I stand. I’ve been out long enough to know. I’m like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he’s no better.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The elder says that Chief Powhatan is in another village, thirty miles away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It looked like a wood shack maybe thirty feet away, on the other side of the fence. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Especially considering that thirty seconds ago, I thought she might be dying. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When Yvonne had first come over, thirty minutes ago, they had started going at it so loud that I knew the whole building must’a overheard. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Also, I had no idea how much people in the thirties liked melodrama. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In total, X-Ray gave him five hundred and thirty dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We got to the hospital at seven thirty on the dot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Looks like you have thirty beads left. You started with ninety." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He’s been waiting for me for thirty minutes while I finished my shift at the Idle Hour. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The lunker pool was the smallest of the fish “bins,” a circular structure about fifteen feet across, in which from thirty to forty-five enormous trout usually swam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul had once told me about how the city’s demographics had changed over the last thirty years, and why that mattered for his job. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Beneath that page is another, then another, thirty or forty spirals, each taking up a whole sheet, all in the same severe lead. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was cleanshaven, sunburned, nervous, gnarled like the roots of the trees; but gnarled and mature with weather and poetry rather than with age, for he was scarcely thirty years old. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not but half full since it’s only a quarter to seven and the choir doesn’t start singing until seven thirty. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at him sitting there across from me, and suddenly imagined him crying his way through his twenties, and probably most of his thirties. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

House cleaners, like Linda Bates, five thirty or forty miles away. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Well”—she would look at her tasteful little Cartier watch—“I’m going home now. I’ll be up for about thirty minutes and then I’m going to sleep.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We got to the zoo around twelve thirty, and I didn’t think the Pigman was going to show. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though Alex was early, the line for his bus was already thirty people long. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

About thirty girls were at camp that week, including a few I recognized from level ten and pre-elite meets. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At the gun, Washington charged out of the stall at a high beat of thirty- eight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She’d order us to sit down on the floor—we usually stood at assemblies—and there’d be no announcements or performances, just Miss Emily talking to us for twenty, thirty minutes, sometimes even longer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s meet in the alley at eleven thirty.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She felt as if someone had erased thirty years, and there she was with their children again. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We pitched our tents about thirty yards away—not an easy or enjoyable process in a driving rain, believe me—and climbed in. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those records are sealed, but whatever they contained led her to give him a sentence of only fifteen years out of a possible thirty. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He imagined there were thirty or more boats out there, all hidden and silent in the dense sea fog, moving to the same tidal rhythm that moved under him, keeping everyone equidistant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

About thirty feet down, the tunnel split into four smaller arteries, each one identical, but the one on the left radiated cold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, John Wayne, do you have thirty cents?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There must have been twenty or thirty of them at least, all pushing and fighting and lashing their tails and churning the water into a froth. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States echoed the Declaration of Sentiments, written almost thirty years before, but it did not include the same demands. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Don Hume took the stroke up to thirty-five, then to thirty-six, then to thirty- seven. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were thirty or forty jailkeepers and a hundred and fifty or sixty prisoners, none of them very well off, most of them sound asleep though it was not much past Fourth Hour. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she was one of those people who collected typewriters and longed for a landline like they used thirty years ago. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died—in his thirties—of kidney disease. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most of our school's built in the last thirty years, but one part's an old grammar school from Victorian times and the Old Gym's in that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘Only problem: the Athena Parthenos is still thirty feet in the air. Gonna be fun hauling you guys and your gear to the top of that temple.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She thought I wouldn’t come because of the thirty dollars it would cost in fuel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The richest acre of Iowa soil could never feed thirty thousand hungry corn plants year after year without added fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It stays steady at that level for the next two decades, before plunging downward in 1992 as sharply as it rose thirty years earlier. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I speed to the post office, knowing it closes at four thirty, despite my fear of the police, and rush inside to the window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With his wife’s support, Miele set out to lose thirty pounds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He started plodding north from tidewater in February, but his enthusiasm fizzled on the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier, still thirty miles from the peak, so he aborted the attempt and retreated to Talkeetna. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were, like, twenty-five or thirty cousins there, eating all of our food. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

No, it had never been very profitable, but the thirty acres had gotten them by for twenty-five years—better some years than others, she added: depended what the cannery was paying out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grace hadn’t realized how long thirty seconds actually was. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Almost every Sunday afternoon Dad wanted to take a long nap in peace, and so he gave us thirty fen to rent picture books. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park Forest, it turns out, was one of America’s first fully planned communities—not just a housing subdivision, but a full village designed for about thirty thousand people, with shopping malls, churches, schools, and parks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We continued to sit, baking in the sun, for nearly thirty minutes while nothing happened. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Garvey returned with juice and warm oatmeal, Edwin appeared at the door and announced, “The plane is in the air. Should be landing in about thirty minutes.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s only thirty kilometers from Leningrad, Elena,” Dr. Seltzer had told Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger kept a full set of thirty dictionaries on a shelf at the back of the room. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This new structure was a one- story rectangular stone fortress with a flat cement courtyard in the center, about one hundred feet by thirty feet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his thirties, Liszt became music’s first international star, embarking on a merry-go-round of European tours, where he was known, and treated, as ‘The King of the Piano’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And no matter if Aeneas’s storms had come to chill his arms or chill his dread or whatever, Turner was determined to finish in thirty minutes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Naylor had been working the farm for more than thirty years, since he took it over from his father in the mid 1970s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The younger was a likeable-looking man of thirty, clearly an American. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen him launch it from thirty feet before, ALL NET. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“First things first. Day’s brother John. I plan to help him escape tomorrow night. No earlier than eleven P.M., no later than eleven thirty.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh. My mistake! Seems your name is on the Memory Intact List. Someone’s off to the Bureau, I’ll bet. Best thirty years of my life. Anyways, good afternoon!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, two years ago I planted thirty. I think there are about eighty now.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a Graphophone record kept on a shelf for thirty years and getting played again now. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, Crazy Horse was the biggest reason the Lakota and Cheyenne won the battle. December twenty-first, 1866, was the start of winter. The temperature that day was thirty degrees below zero.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty- seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr. Filch’s office, if anybody would like to check it.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Such instances are certainly rare, for placing your fate in the hands of thirty prepubes- cent witnesses doesn’t seem like a risk that even the worst teacher would take. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

During the summer they joined together in bands of twenty-five to thirty—cactus leaves, a local favorite, were plentiful enough in that season to support larger groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An adult blue whale can be thirty meters long and weigh 150 tons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love running in the rain. Meet me in the kitchen in, like, thirty seconds.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were other intermediate options, such as respond in five minutes or thirty minutes with corresponding rewards. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now we are protected against lethal ultraviolet rays by a narrow rim of ozone, thirty miles out. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, added to the six dollars weekly from Mr. Platernis and four apiece from the other three stores, made a total income of thirty dollars a week. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we also say fifty and thirty and twenty, which sort of sound like five and three and two, but not really. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I'd known her for a while now; she came around the deli on Wednesdays—at eight thirty exactly—and Mama would always give her a meal and bag of fruit. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

So here I am thirty miles out to sea in a blind fog with nothing but a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a jug of water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Master Percy says we will build a fort at Point Comfort, about thirty miles downriver from James Town, near where the river meets the Chesapeake Bay. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There’s no way she was in her thirties when she had a tag sale twelve years earlier. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s eleven thirty when we sneak down the stairs. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was around six thirty when they returned to the mobile home. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s March, which means that the sun goes down around five, five thirty. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Curfew starts in thirty minutes, and this is a stupid risk. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It’ll only take thirty or forty minutes to fly back there. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A branch snapped under his weight and he fell thirty feet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What is he doing here, in the general store of a town thirty miles from his own? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not to mention me turning forty last year, which was no picnic, but people always guess me not a day over thirty so who’s counting? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange for Mama to be home at three thirty in the afternoon, right when we were getting home from school, and even stranger to see her leaving the house again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sally Ride became the first American woman astronaut thirty years ago. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was back in thirty seconds with a glass of cider for me, but he handed Annemarie what looked like plain water. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

"My lord, I have thirty men in my personal guard, and other friends beside, knights and lords. Give me an hour, and I can put a hundred swords in your hand." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She said he could see me today at four thirty. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What seems unlikely to be undone is the awareness that Native Americans may have been in the Americas for twenty thousand or even thirty thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All of the “normal” children in the music class— I guess about thirty of them—turned to stare. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She said that dad had just called again, and they should be home in thirty minutes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the big cell key in more than thirty locks and finished before Smith; he was stopping at several cells to say good morning, I noticed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And another twenty or thirty around our little town. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

One hot pool, surrounded by large boulders, was about thirty yards from the river’s edge, a shallow puddle twenty feet wide. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether she took in washing for a living, or was merely the slave of twenty or thirty grandchildren. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

During their last summer of freedom before the war, she would get up with Papa at four thirty a.m. to eat breakfast and go to work, even though she was only seven. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“North America is exactly like that. There are countless tribal nations throughout this land. In Washington State alone, there are more than thirty tribes.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We will be communicating extensively over the next thirty days. My job is to monitor and approve all spending.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were just minnows, but they looked edible, and I would have loved to eat thirty or forty of them for breakfast. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he started talking, Gravel figured, he would not be able to stop for at least thirty hours. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But it's only five thirty, and there are ten more days until I can call Claudia, twenty-three more days until everyone comes back here. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She earned thirty dollars a week and got along fine, except at night, when, like all Rommely women, she found it hard to get along without a man. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they was ’bout twenty-five, thirty yards from us, I spotted the one who had to be Sylvanus. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Now in his late thirties, my dad was focused on saving for us kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Heavens, no. I’m going to sing jazz on the radio and make heaps of money. Then, when I’m thirty, I shall retire and live on a ranch in Ohio.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Yep, so that means I was staring at a geometry book that was at least thirty years older than I was. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took Gran’s initial resting heart rate, counting a total of thirty-four beats for thirty seconds, and scribbled sixty-eight in my notebook. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then, eager to catch Fischer, who was by now more than thirty minutes ahead of him, the Sherpa continued down the ridge, leaving Hansen and Hall at the top of the Hillary Step. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

By twelve thirty, the streets were jam-packed as people took advantage of the unusual weather. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Meet you in thirty minutes behind the park? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey got to her feet and walked smartly out of the room, but was back in thirty seconds carrying a thick book. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was the highest paid, receiving thirty dollars a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all of Russia, it was estimated, a hundred thousand prisoners had TB, and thirty thousand had MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The previous black congressman had served thirty years before. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Utter nonsense! The man was pulling your leg. Civilizations thirty thousand years old? Ha! Where is the evidence?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be thirty of them in the sand, crooked letter after crooked letter. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just before dark, they began skimming across the water, their short, winglike fins taking them on flights of twenty or thirty feet, sometimes more. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty? It’s awfully impressive.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every Monday evening at seven thirty sharp, the accelerators were turned off and the staff convened in the LeConte Hall library. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At 8:40 p.m., a third charge of electricity, thirty seconds in duration, was passed through Mr. Evans's body. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I pop it into the microwave and set it for thirty seconds. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I counted thirty in the band that flew up near the house last night.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead man might have had thirty more years of life if only I had impressed the way back to our trench more sharply on my memory. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about thirty seconds, the subject’s ability to focus—his “signal detection”—went down markedly. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By eight thirty, Mama and Baba have gone into their room and shut the door firmly, after reminding me to keep the porch light off in the universal signal of party poopers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When you fall off an apparatus, you have thirty seconds to remount the equipment. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Naturally, the first thing Mr. Ham says is “Please open your textbooks to page thirty.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She's good with doctoring, too, which is handy since the nearest doctor is thirty miles away in Wolf Point. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We waited for thirty minutes before he showed up. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I ought to have some dangly earrings, some bangles, a silver bow tie on a little chain, an outsized Isadora Duncan strangle-yourself-by-mistake scarf, a rhinestone brooch of the thirties, in sly bad taste. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass toward us and shouted something. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You told me to wake you up at six. It’s six thirty. That’s, like, thirty-six thousand miles past six.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This looks like the very same spot where I caught that nice mutton with your daddy, gotta be twenty-five, thirty years ago.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Three-quarters think the chances of moving up to a higher class are the same as or greater than thirty years ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Chairman, this boy’s obviously going to be a musician, he slept until twelve- thirty today, so I propose that we call him Sleepy.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And she was thirty when she gave birth to me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When word passed through the camp that Schindler planned to add thirty Jews to his workforce, I didn't think anything about it. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

September 13: Six women were arrested and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

That they shall pay a fine of forty shillings each, and that they be forbidden hereafter, on certainty of thirty lashes at the whipping post, to enter the boundaries of the township of Wethersfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They figured it would take about thirty minutes to get there. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Uncle had joined the group three days earlier, but since there were more than thirty people traveling together, they had not found each other until now. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powhatan thus invited Captain Ratcliffe and thirty others to trade for corn, and having brought them within his ambush, murthered them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After about thirty minutes of pure joy, romping in the grass and chasing butterflies, he heard Abby whistle for him. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When he ran out of the sales in the forties, he continued into the thirties and Brother Leon did not tell him to halt. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if he pays me thirty bucks an hour.’ A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“If I’m on the night shift, I can’t get there until six thirty. If I’m on the day shift, I will have to meet you at five.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The spectacular pyrotechnic display could be viewed thirty miles away. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken two baths and an entire bar of soap to get the tar off her aching hands and feet, and Philippa had spent thirty minutes cleaning out and binding the wounds on each. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It surprised Brave Orchid that after thirty years she could still get annoyed at her sister’s silliness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became the stuff of legend, with twenty-seven pitches in a row thrown for strikes, a single season in which he hit thirty home runs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped thirty feet down the road and wheeled his pegasus around. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, at ten thirty I couldn’t hold out any longer. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

While Americans celebrated victory, a woman in her early thirties, with short, dark hair stepped off a train in the tiny town of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton let the crew sleep until nine thirty the next morning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But soon he was back in the thirties and was searching the radio, listening for speeches from FDR. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had a special, sausage-shaped canvas bag built for him, maybe about thirty feet long. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the test, me and Dylan practice our steps for the Helsing technique for about thirty minutes and then report to the dueling gym. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

One thing is certain: if Vincent continues to live like this, he will not survive into his thirties, as he told Theo they must. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then I gave the test to a relatively random sample of my friends and acquaintances, mostly journalists and professionals in their late twenties and thirties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After having fought with his father for almost thirty- five years, Mr. Levy had decided that he would spend the rest of his life trying not to be bothered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was startled to see a live person in the shopcase, a hefty girl of about thirty, in a green, yellow and lavender chiffon dress. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

At that time, Malawi was under the control of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a powerful dictator who ruled the country for more than thirty years. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ditshabe and his uncles were ordered to go the cattle post and choose thirty head of cattle to bring back for the celebrations. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Civil War was still thirty years away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Very well. Go get your bags and return here in thirty minutes. My secretary will give you some letters addressed to several friends of the school. One of them will do something for you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After thirty minutes, the room started to slip away from me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

From the river to the ceiling of the main tunnel must be thirty feet or so, he thought. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps twenty-five or thirty applicants would actually be examined by the registrars that day. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Please dig thirty centimeters and get soil samples. At least one hundred grams each. Very important is thirty centimeters down." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane continued south for thirty seconds more, following the same pattern, familiar and predictable now, and McWatt, lifted a wing and banked gracefully around into his turn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Though he had been married since he was sixteen, he had spent nearly thirty years of his marriage apart from his wife. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When my children were growing up, they knew only that I came from Europe and had lost my family. They knew no details for thirty years because I did not want to burden them. “ Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the wheel was a good-looking man in his early thirties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the three New London churches, there was a funeral every fifteen or thirty minutes from nine o’clock in the morning until after eight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wire-brush eyebrows, dusted with snow, rested atop a pair of eyes that looked thirty years younger than the face in which they were set. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Folks—friends!” he calls across the crowd of about thirty people who take up the space usually occupied by Marlena’s horses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps thirty men alive were his equal when he used his left. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone could see it was three thirty—the peak of the witching hour—but Gen stared at the clock blankly. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Most CF patients succumb to death before the age of thirty. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had been more than thirty hours since I had slept. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Even from thirty meters away I could smell it and taste it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small crystal bottle of sleeping-tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since Meteor Crater, Arizona, an impact crater about a kilometer across, has been found to be twenty or thirty thousand years old, the observations on the Earth are in agreement with such crude calculations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We stacked the bodies in thirty to thirty-five layers on top of each other.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One minute would turn into thirty or forty-five minutes, and I just didn’t have the time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

To get to the field, I have to wade across the river, climb a tall hill, cross a broken bridge, and walk thirty minutes in the scorching sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A dog doesn't need courage to chase off rats. They had me thirty to one, and not a man of them dared face me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Debussy’s 'Gardens in the rain’, though, was composed in 1903, a good thirty years after the Impressionist painters had first begun exhibiting their works to a disconcerted Parisian public. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Besides, what I'd really need is to throw about thirty rocks in there at once, setting off a big chain reaction, demolishing the whole lot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s seven thirty on Christmas Day. What are you doing here?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, anybody who started for church at nine in the morning on Sunday and didn’t get home until after twelve thirty had to be peculiar. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was about thirty inches high, forty inches long. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes on the way to school, thirty minutes back. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

That took strong men—about thirty of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He must have weighed two hundred and twenty or thirty pounds, and I could only move him two or three inches at a time. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be funny if she had never left Watsonville, thirty miles away? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he walked into the Annandale house, he had a scruffy beard, his hair was long and tangled, and he’d shed thirty pounds from his already lean frame. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s clock says it’s three thirty in the morning, and Bad Leg’s voice eases through the locked windows and thick curtains to hover above my air mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Van Dorn is about thirty feet back, holding a book open in one hand and glancing down at it every few steps so she won't look odd for walking so slowly. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spiders stopped spinning when it reached thirty feet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch was sentenced to thirty years in prison, and Burger was sentenced to life in prison. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The plan had been to meet at eleven thirty, but Maya had overslept, and when she eventually came downstairs, she felt like a cranky tornado, a swirl of grays. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“There was a spill thirty years ago. The contamination must have affected Pond’s water.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was somewhere between thirty and thirty- five, long and stringy, and nice-looking. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty or thirty kids, skimming and shrieking, all over the shop. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It may take them until they’re twenty-five or thirty before they make that decision, but they will make it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me, the black underbelly of the bridge hovered, a monstrous vulture swooping thirty feet overhead. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The green numbers on the stove say it’s now ten thirty at night. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dinner is to begin at five thirty with cocktails, and Miss Anderson doesn’t want to be late. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It’s about thirty feet long, fifteen wide, with duct tape and plywood boards covering up scattered holes and split seams. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And less than thirty seconds wasn't nearly long enough for her to plan what she was going to say. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Through the fence I told him, “It probably won’t take more than twenty minutes. Maybe thirty.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Do thirty of them,” he mumbled in a bored voice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were no Swiss clocks, but the lions could be counted upon to roar their heads off between five- thirty and six every morning. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It feels milder outside, the air pleasantly damp, and instead of taking the train he walks the thirty blocks, up Park Avenue and over to Madison. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Might there be for him another thirty years beyond that time, to be lived out at some more thoughtful pace? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This morning. Like thirty minutes ago. I just got off the phone with her.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m not ... I hadn’t been drinking when I saw them. It was eight thirty in the morning.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty people had turned up, but he hardly recognized any of them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not only did his hair tickle, but I was embarrassed, even though he went to school thirty years ago and does have some kind of medical degree. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They waited for thirty minutes in the van. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Price, apparently insulted by such a charge, went to the bathroom and then came out shooting with his thirty- eight. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it takes only about thirty seconds for a child to drown, and it often happens noiselessly. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She sped into the wind and covered the thirty miles to the one mountain among thousands in less than ten minutes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lexie would creep home at two thirty, Trip at three, and the next day they would still be asleep past noon. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He figured they could go on from there picking up their own knowledge and, according to his calculations, when they reached thirty, they would be twice as smart as he had been at thirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I finally got a grip, I pulled up the Scoreboard and made myself stare at it for thirty solid minutes while I mentally berated myself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The woman from 8 who Effie calls Cecelia, who looks about thirty, has to detach herself from the three kids who run up to cling to her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there were twenty, no, thirty, no, fifty or so people making themselves at home in our yard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of times we did get a lift on a power-sledge, once for thirty miles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d waited in the lobby for thirty minutes, trying to see past the streaming lines of freshmen and their parents, looking for her wild hair, her petite body. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just to have that thirty minutes of solitude during the drive—it was decadent but essential. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She had thirty men around her, charged to keep her unharmed and see her safely home to Winterfell if the fighting went against them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My parents are still married. I have to call them at the same time every night—in thirty minutes, actually. They're overprotective, I guess, but normal. We're really boring.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Hanako would take out ten flats of thirty eggs—one by one, so as not to break any—and place them near the grill. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Men,” he said, “it is exactly one hundred and thirty- eight years since the Marines fought in Tripoli and first raised an American flag over foreign soil.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman in the boat announced the time every thirty minutes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The next day Colonel Cathcart was there, brimming with tough pride in his new outfit and celebrating his assumption of command by raising the number of missions required from twenty-five to thirty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And yet here was a monster, clear as the clearest night, towering thirty or forty feet above him, breathing heavily in the night air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’s been here a few years longer than me, but has probably twenty or thirty more infractions. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Instead he walked up the side of the hill to where a picnic some thirty years before had left its mark in the shape of a large apple tree. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

While the recitation went on—from the thirties into the twenties. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty that night, after talking for more than twelve hours, Dasch was finally ready to give Traynor his first lead in the case. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“One hundred and thirty on the risk they bring it, plus this here as an early payment, the risk in exchange for getting this March instead of us waiting on all of it ’til June? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were a few more scattered couples, a full family of six eating dinner in a far corner, and a pretty waitress in her thirties walking from table to table, putting down silverware. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Local routes also ran every hour to Mutare s city center, thirty minutes away. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was back outside, thirty floors up on a flat roof with a radio mast and a tall metal fence running around the perimeter. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

John and I arrived around nine thirty and sat down on the benches at the entrance. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bull stood at attention a full thirty seconds before Colonel Varney even looked up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had a yard up in Harlem on one hundred thirty- fifth Street where the trains would lay up over night,” Gunn said. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The group of students grew to about thirty. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The blankets had been pulled off the bed and a thin man of about thirty was bundled up in them, huddled against the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

About thirty minutes later, we’re riding in his truck with the windows down. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There are eight people in Mother, three women and five men, all in their twenties and thirties. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It is conveniently situated on one comer of the village square, a rather charming ivy-covered manor house capable of housing, I would suppose, thirty or so guests. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

To Dad this meant that we had to arrive at six- thirty, too, even though Erik was riding with Arthur Bauer. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was into this world that Ma and Pa sent their two oldest children from eight thirty to four o’clock, with a two-hour break at home for lunch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But inexorably, every thirty seconds, the minute hand of the electric clock above his bed jumped forward with an almost imperceptible click. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penalties for violating security regulations covering information judged to be sensitive had a distinctly militaristic cast, with fines of up to $300,000 and jail terms as long as thirty years for “willful” disclosures. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He never learned to speak off the cuff—and when he tried, at the age of thirty, the occasion was an unmitigated disaster. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Half of the inmates in the Box, as it turned out—all thirty on the upper floor—were not disciplinary cases but men under protective custody, of which there were two kinds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The typical day in the courtroom lasted from nine thirty in the morning until five o’clock in the afternoon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Membership, it was said, never at any point rose above thirty and much of the time remained closer to nine or ten. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty mouths watered; thirty hands itched to go up into the air but no one moved. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew her mother had gotten sick at thirty, so she’d long feared her own thirtieth birthday, figuring that whatever happened to her mother at that age would happen to her too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She thought it was such a lovely sight that she wished there had been a dozen of her or even thirty. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He borrowed his father’s tape measure that could measure up to thirty feet. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

An airliner some thirty miles away reported being pelted with rocks. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Marcus had said she was in her thirties back then, so she was probably in her forties now. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The heavy front door was opened and I pulled wide the gate to the downstairs, standing to the side as some twenty-five to thirty officers responded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if there’s one big God in heaven or if there’s two or three or thirty, or maybe one for each person. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I am only thirty minutes away from her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And he still wore the star from that time pinned to the lapel of the three-piece woolen suit he had been wearing, summer and winter, for the last thirty years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were in this college town called Claremont that was like thirty miles from there.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In Riverside, California, eleven out of thirty men picking oranges became violently ill and all but one had to be hospitalized. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been telling me that for thirty years. Even Ben ought to know it now. Do you want me to say anything to her about it?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon got on the phone to an Air Force meteorologist and was told there’d likely be a clearing between four thirty and four forty-five. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was graced with broad avenues thirty meters wide, elegant architecture and statuary, Alexander’s monumental tomb, and an enormous lighthouse, the Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had nightmares that he would take ten, twenty, or thirty jump shots in the first practice and not make a single one of them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them are attached to men a good thirty years older than her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The main room was clean, modern, and rectangular, about fifty feet by thirty, and had a separate section with a toilet, urinal, two sinks, and two showers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was taken from the stocks in convulsions which lasted some thirty minutes, when he was conveyed to the hospital. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trainees won twenty-nine of thirty races, a feat that may be unequaled at any level of the sport. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Make sure your guest's up and breakfasted for seven thirty, Mrs Taylor.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging there, a long way off, about thirty feet above the road, warped by the rising heat, was what looked like a plank of wood, suspended horizontally, with a bulge in its center. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It turns out this is a group interview, conducted by Todd in a large room, where we applicants sit in folding chairs while Todd, a sharply dressed fellow of about thirty, lectures and shows transparencies. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know any with thirty strokes, but she knew the kanji for “military ship,” which had twenty-one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t taken me more than thirty seconds to look around the room and know that this was the place where the masters of the universe ate their tuna fish sandwiches. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We even stayed in the same campground in the Bighorn Wilderness that I remembered from more than thirty years earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the clear blue of her eyes from where I sat some thirty feet away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But because he got thirty thousand pesetas and people had stayed in line all night to buy tickets to see him, the crowd demanded that he should be more than very good. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then after a while a van pulled up, maybe thirty yards ahead of me, and a man got out dressed as a clown. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas had charged thirty or forty feet into the woods, dodging and ducking and losing ground with every second, when the beetle blade jumped onto a particularly large tree and scooted up its trunk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Counting, Ten, twenty, thirty, forty deep into the winter until one afternoon gravity releases me and my feet fly free in the ropes, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety . . . as my grandmother watches me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was describing things that had happened more than thirty years ago, but the memory still made him angry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Deaths fell to below thirty on Saturday, October 26. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Plumes of fire thirty and forty feet high danced upon the waters, crackling and hissing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘So what I is trying to explain to you is that a human bean who says he is fifty is not fifty, he is only thirty.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lived thirty years of his life buying and selling crystal pieces, and now it was too late to do anything else. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small home was packed with more than thirty people, whose chattering fell silent when I walked in. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We had been at the party for about thirty minutes when I spotted the girl with the legs. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

These people did not look at all agricultural; she was a large, matronly woman who rather reminded me of Mrs Mortimer, the cook at Darlington Hall through much of the twenties and thirties. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Word about the hunger strike spread to the other women behind bars, and soon thirty other inmates from the District Jail and the Occoquan Workhouse joined the effort. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The farthest candles appeared to be ’bout thirty, thirty-five paces away, and it was dark up that high. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It gazed for thirty seconds or so be­fore gently sinking under. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I skim through all thirty- two pages before I confirm something very odd. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The children agreed, and for thirty minutes or so they perused several cookbooks that Justice Strauss recommended. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had started turning gray in her thirties, so I knew that was likely to happen to me too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Thirty? Did I say thirty? Such a fool I am. The price is twenty honors." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Partly it’s because my own normal work is sedentary, so that the housework I do—in dabs of fifteen minutes here and thirty minutes there—functions as a break. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly thirty years Shorry had felt at home in this funky local bar, but tonight he was almost like an intruder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I traveled more than thirty hours without stopping to eat, not even noticing my thirst, and 1 managed to reach the del Valle home before the funeral. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jem better get a move on if he wants to get Irene. That trap of his won’t do better than thirty.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He looked maybe thirty, with a slight potbelly, like a frat boy who hadn’t yet realized college was over. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Colleen is young, maybe in her thirties, and really nice. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a truly happy village where no one was over thirty years of age and where no one had died. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We would be hard-pressed to get past this fence on our own—thirty feet high and always buzzing with electricity, topped with razor-sharp curls of steel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The gun lapped up snow and vegetation with a blowtorch thirty feet long. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was heavyset, dowdy, strict, seemingly old to Terryl, though she was only in her thirties, and a caring talent scout. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Washington settled in at thirty but held its position at a quarter length back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My parents also said you live thirty minutes away, so maybe we could meet for coffee or something? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For they were leaving the shoreline now, and their course was taking them out over a wide bay thirty or forty miles across. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number of bicyclists heading toward the Badlands of North Dakota: thirty to fifty. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By Hazel’s calculation, they had about thirty seconds until their friends arrived. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, somehow, in the thirty minutes of riding the Eye, in his sealed capsule, he had vanished off the face of the earth. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got within thirty feet, and the winged dude looked directly at them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On October 29 fifty-mile-per-hour gale winds raked the outer coast of Washington; thirty- mile-per-hour winds tossed boats about on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Those Big Men may be in the office for just thirty minutes today.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A single, Black woman in her early thirties, she came from Washington, DC, where she helped support her widowed brother and his children. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each morning at five thirty, six days a week, Mrs. Nielsen makes breakfast for her husband, usually fried eggs and toast, and he leaves for the store to open for the farmers at six. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was in her late thirties, plump, her face unblemished still. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes almost thirty minutes to get to us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It is our land; we have been here thirty years.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It spiralled sideways, whisking Jason thirty feet across the courtyard. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance of thirty yards, he looks small to me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listening now, are we? Very well then. Option two. You give me the Book for thirty minutes only. Then I return your magic to you.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was led into a white classroom with thirty other students, who took their seats and placed their pencils on their desks. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was a ditch thirty or so yards distant that we employed as a latrine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad wrote up about twenty-five or thirty questions like that and then insisted we rehearse the interview. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She tells of a giant across the sea who has the strength of thirty thanes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the enemy team is all thirty feet tall. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had, somehow, never felt so secure in his life and was asleep, into deep sleep, within thirty seconds. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a job working twenty to thirty hours per week, earning $8.50 an hour, for the Salt Lake Bees, a minor league baseball team. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thirty-six hours later, Vaughan’s body was spotted lying by the railroad tracks, thirty miles north of Oklahoma City. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bay Minette, where the hearing took place, is about thirty minutes from the beautiful beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I am thirty sidewalk lines away from school when I remember I have to bring home my trombone every night. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"I worked in that organization for more than thirty years and I want to tell you how the KGB works against the best interests of democratic forces in this country." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

An old villa nestled in the shade of some weird-looking pine trees with thin curvy trunks that shot up thirty or forty feet, then sprouted into puffy canopies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder for a second if anything I see was left behind by my family thirty or so years ago. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the location of the camp, thirty miles southeast of Farmville, meant that she lived in worker housing during the week and got back home only on weekends. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Crisscrossing the savanna are networks of earthen fish weirs: interconnected low berms that change direction, zigzag-style, every thirty to a hundred feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We traveled thirty miles that first day and never stopped eating. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Since each side had only thirty minutes to present, I hadn't thought it worth the effort. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I ended up with probably somewhere between thirty- five and forty cans of coffee. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he and X-Ray were at Camp Green Lake together, they were forced to get up every morning at four- thirty. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Americans are arguably more likely than they were thirty years ago to end up in the class into which they were born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After thirty minutes, when Mr. Grin still hadn’t come back, Alex had tried to reach the zit cream that Smithers had given him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He turned to the gods, half of the rock in each hand, and now he was twenty, thirty, fifty feet tall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I figured if we went to bed he’d fall right asleep because he’d walked thirty miles up from New Haven that day. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he tells her that he isn’t even thirty, she tells him that by that age she had already celebrated her tenth wedding anniversary. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Commensal Slose’s fiercely lighted, high, white reception room held twenty or thirty guests, three of them Commensals and all of them evidently notables of one kind or another. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t, not by ten thirty, not by eleven. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I telephoned the Trappist monastery at Conyers, Georgia, about thirty miles away and asked if they would receive me for a short visit. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about thirty boys of my own age on the expedition as well as four experienced adult leaders. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus copy out all the definitions for thirty- five words. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was thirty minutes, after he had waited so long for this moment? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There are only about thirty of us in all, mostly Negroes, with a few of the younger roughnecks to round out the ranks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then Washington began to overtake California, methodically, seat by seat, the boys still rowing at a remarkably low thirty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two decades later, though more than thirty thousand blacks were living in Chicago, only five hundred had jobs in the meatpacking industry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yet they remained in it, though not thirty feet away was bed and warmth. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd been asleep for just about thirty minutes when my alarm clock went off at 6:32. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had seen no visible sign of change in Earths aspect through his thirty- inch telescope. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once my eyes adjusted to the dark, I counted about thirty refugees in that basement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are only ever thirty agents per outpost. They take on only the most dangerous missions.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

During that conversation, at about ten thirty in the morning, Jerome unexpectedly showed up at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand women journeyed from thirty states to take their turn on the picket line. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We work from five thirty to three thirty. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Three thirty in the library. Student council meeting. Don’t let Link down.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Water falls thirty feet before streaming into another square that seems bottomless. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a handsome guy and a lot younger than I expected, in his early thirties, I’d guess. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It means it’s seven thirty on a Saturday night, and I’m four stops away from the first act of my love story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He came about and let the Frog sail closer, came up into the wind and stopped about thirty yards away, rising and settling on the waves and swells. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d drive her to school and drive myself back home, thirty minutes each way. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

McKissick announced that beginning the next day, the city would see thirty straight days of similar demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The story said her name was Helen L., “a young woman in her thirties when she was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with an incurable cancer of the cervix.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you thirty seconds more to get away. Thirty seconds!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister, and there are about thirty people I can call friends. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have forgotten that we were in a Dodge Caravan and not a BMW, because it went from zero to sixty in what felt like thirty minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After thirty minutes of intense discussions, he came by our little cluster and asked us to recap what we’d talked about. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I doubt that my parents, in their thirty years together, had even once discussed it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside of thirty feet it was matching the current, or close to it, and Brian watched the banks sliding past as the raft moved silently down the river. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The weevil is only about thirty millimeters long, easily overlooked, but it has the makings of a myth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest town of any size was Helong, about thirty miles north of where he crossed the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“And you’re an idiot. In thirty years, which do you think will matter more?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

So his mom drove him thirty miles to try out for another club, and now the most dangerous player on the rival soccer club also happens to be your best friend. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If you read the books at Grandpa Hong’s bookstall, you could rent sixty picture books for thirty fen. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty, maybe thirty before finally making it back to her house. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Alex tried making deals with the universe, the way he usually did: “If I hold my breath to the count of thirty, he’ll get bored and stop.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I counted my money and found I had two hundred and thirty dollars left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were over thirty boys between the ages of seven and sixteen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had been more than two years since his release, and he still couldn’t stay in bed past six- thirty. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Located just five kilometers from the fairgrounds, it took us only thirty minutes to reach it by cab. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was about thirty feet from the back of the truck when a family in stained, torn clothes tumbled out from the warehouse next to them and pushed ahead. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He announced that the wedding would start promptly at four thirty. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Old man? You’ve still got all your hair and your teeth, don’t you? What are you, thirty?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty she developed a pit of concern in her belly. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

My own grandfather had been lynched about thirty years before by a mob of white demons almost the moment he had set foot on their shores. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a slender man in his late thirties, with sandy-colored hair and glasses, dressed that day in jeans and a windbreaker. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty seconds later, Marv comes rushing backward out the door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Some of them can kill an animal thirty times their size. Don’t you think that would be an amazing feeling, to have a weapon like that inside you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tom’s father noticed that, thirty paces from where the victim lay, there was a spot of trampled earth and a burned ammunition wad; it was the place where the killer had stood. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had been working hard for thirty years and, bad as it was for him in some ways, camp did allow him time to dabble with hobbies he would never have found time for otherwise. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mitch is right. The crash-lander is high-risk. It could miss Mars, it could reenter wrong and burn up, it could crash too hard and destroy the food . . . We estimate a thirty percent chance of success." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cottage is on a little hill thirty feet above sea level. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His field of study went back much further than you’d expect, that’s all. He was looking for remains of civilizations from twenty, thirty thousand years ago,” the Pole replied. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A big pot, and we’re going to fill it with water as hot as you can take, okay? And you’re going to sit in this pot for thirty minutes...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I slather butter on a paratha and throw it into the microwave for thirty seconds. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He took first shot and killed about thirty of mine with an atomic bomb. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At thirty her hot brown eyes had turned to agate, and her skin had taken on the sheen of maple struck down, split and sanded at the height of its green. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I asked for what sum he would take me there; he said thirty shillings; I answered I had but twenty; well, he would try to make it do. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

With ten packs to a box, that was thirty butterscotch Krimpets. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is in fact a landscape, done in oils, with the blue water, the purple underpainting, the craggy rocks and windswept raggedy trees and heavy impasto of the twenties and thirties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck the car in reverse and pulled to a stop about thirty giant steps away from where I was hiding. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Working in the factory put Shin in close daily contact with several hundred women in their teens, twenties, and thirties. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

With the advent of the first primitive, unpadded starting gates in the early thirties, some riders actually died in the saddle, speared into the exposed steel overhead bars by rearing horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch sight of Cressida and Pollux about thirty yards ahead of us, plodding along with the crowd. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He’s dark skinned, about six feet tall, and one of his arms ends in a stump because he lost his hand in the Games he won thirty years ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately thirty other engines in the building began to thrum. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She did see him the next day, for thirty minutes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I signed you and me and Mena up to run in the race. It starts at four thirty, so you better get changed.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ti Jean was a muscular man in his thirties, a local farmer’s son who had witnessed what Farmer had accomplished in the central plateau over the last twenty years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was keeping pace with her, about thirty feet away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In turn, the Wampanoag were part of a tripartite alliance with two other confederations: the Nauset, which comprised some thirty groups on Cape Cod; and the Massachusett, several dozen villages clustered around Massachusetts Bay. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a low-key night eating leftover pizza and watching The Late Show with Marcus and Todd on the sixth floor, I said good night and headed for my room at about one thirty. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We were a group of about thirty “mature” women—that’s how Padre de Jesus described us, bless his heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, when I had only thirty minutes to make my escape, the numbers changed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t he that eighth grader who looks like he’s thirty?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We ate dinner together every evening at six thirty, and then afterward, my dad logged on to the family computer, a beige Dell the size of a television set. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the morning they woke groggy, drunken from so much rest, and Mrs. McCullough had glanced at the clock on her nightstand and realized it was ten thirty. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had been a day not unlike thirty others, with many neat holes dug in the dawn hours, seeds dropped in, and water brought from the bright canals. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning he helped her dress and undress her Barbie at least thirty times. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, on July 28, Joe Bates, an Osage man in his thirties, obtained from a stranger some whiskey, and after taking a sip, he began frothing at the mouth, before collapsing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ugwu hoped for a little more light; the moon had been more generous earlier when he buried his ogbunigwe about thirty yards ahead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seven a.m., history; seven thirty a.m., algebra; eight a.m., The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only eleven o’clock, but the average bedtime in Lanternwood is probably closer to eight thirty, which might explain why we don’t run into anyone. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

That would have to mean twenty, thirty people. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We stayed out in the cool rain for twenty or thirty minutes and then went back inside. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tried jumping, I discovered that I could leap thirty feet straight up and land back on my feet with catlike grace. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One day thirty ships arrived, thirteen of them from the West Indies, but no one was available to stop them from docking or discharging passengers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Here lies the problem: The great master known as Johannes Vermeer painted, in truth, only twenty-six of the thirty five paintings we now attribute to him. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of the four women, two were sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Better make it more like four thirty, Jay,” Schmidt said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

After a period of time, usually less than thirty seconds, Squire would order the power turned off while he checked for a pulse. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For thirty years, the ANC had functioned clandestinely in South Africa; those habits and techniques were deeply ingrained. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had always been his wish and desire to be a big voice and he had to live nearly thirty years to find a chance. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen such a transformation as in those thirty minutes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Drifting on the water, the Corona bearing down on him in the fogbound night, he figured he needed less than thirty seconds to haul himself up his mast. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You mean, he been three years old thirty years.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper couldn’t see what was happening inside the ruins - just the heads of twenty or thirty giants standing in a circle, mumbling and swaying, maybe doing the evil monster version of‘Kumbayah’. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It takes me like thirty minutes, but finally a button appears just like I imagined it in my head. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Birdbrain Family had set a row of thirty birdhouses along their backyard fence, even though Luke could have told them it was pointless to do that until spring. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could swim thirty miles at a stretch, and faster than anyone else. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Jan Van Eck’s son and our guarantee on thirty million kruge.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I always told myself that since my lessons with Sam were usually only thirty minutes out of a two-hour practice, I could suck up the abuse. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“What? You have other boyfriends knocking at your door at six thirty in the morning?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Strong enough. The walls are stone, thirty feet high, with square towers at each comer and a square keep within." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till thirty years later that I really missed knowing how to read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wild boar, thirty feet high, with a snotty pink snout and tusks the size of canoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She told him that his aunt was in a village about thirty miles from where we were. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He took a few sidesteps, like one wrestler circling another, except that he was thirty feet away; the maneuver was ridiculous. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly before ten thirty p.m. on Wednesday night, the mayor reversed his decision. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The yo-yo attached to Alex’s belt spun, trailing out thirty yards of specially designed advanced nylon cord. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, all 150 of them joined hands and began to slowly retrace the same steps Martin Luther King, Jr., walked down over thirty years ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They would stand me Between them, When I showed them My thirty books, And the cuts On the warrior, Our family of people. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were retracing Charles Howard’s youthful journey, thirty years later. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Issues of building maintenance, and whether or not scythes should be required to announce the turning of a corner so it wasn’t so shocking when they looked thirty years younger at the next conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I saw him, Frankie. Not his face, but—but I know he’s a man. Older. In his late thirties or forties.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As Holt explained, a baby should be left to cry for fifteen to thirty minutes a day: “It is the baby’s exercise.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I remind you that the penalty for slander is heavy. A fine of thirty pounds or three hours in the stocks. Mistress Tyler would be within her rights to press her own charges.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Atlanta—the Imperial City of the KKK’s Invisible Empire, in Klan jargon—was also home to Stetson Kennedy, a thirty- year-old man with the bloodlines of a Klansman but a temperament that ran opposite. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"It is. How do you think they all look so good after thirty?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Three hours before, two fans had been struck by lightning, and thirty minutes after that, a bump had occurred near the face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He is a fair fellow, not more than thirty years old, with scars and disgusting gold spectacles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buoy was just opposite, about thirty feet away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each team gets thirty seconds for seven words. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A total of thirty fresh warriors, armor gleaming and eyes frill of hate, lowered their lances as one—making a bristling wall of death. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The man was, I don’t know, thirty- something, with longish salt-and-pepper hair and a brown jacket over a black T-shirt. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The meeting is in the library at three thirty sharp,” I tell the kids waiting in line at the used-tray return in the cafeteria. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It’s at least thirty seconds before everyone puts back on his or her protective I’m-on-a-train-filled-with-strangers face. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure your mother said I needed to pick you up at three thirty,” Dad says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I ran with Joey and about thirty other guys, twice around the field. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing Mr. Kapasi had noticed when he saw Mr. and Mrs. Das, standing with their children under the portico of the hotel, was that they were very young, perhaps not even thirty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was probably in her early thirties but the lines around her eyes made her look a lot older. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In their thirties, men and women, black and white, these lawyers were comfortable with one another in a way that reflected a shared mission, shared hope, and shared stress about the challenges they faced. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I left the house at seven- thirty to walk to the front of the development and catch the bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were able to donate over thirty baskets of food to area families. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie looked at me with an impatience I hadn’t seen in his face even when he took thirty minutes to loop the laces over his high-topped shoes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scales the cellar steps and holds her breath and hears nothing for thirty heartbeats. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But those fields have been there for thirty years,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

About thirty families shared a well for drinking water. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The auctioneer rattled off numbers that echoed through the huge open room, its ceiling nearly thirty feet high and covered with skylights blackened by years of dirt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now he was out another thirty dollars for the ad in the paper, and it would cost ten more to change it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Though she has lived in Toronto for over thirty years, her French-speaking mind still slips on occasion on the understanding of English sounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This showed me to be somewhere in the region of New Jersey by about now, blithely striding off up to thirty miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harry arose at four thirty each morning to go to the shop, and often he didn’t return home until well after seven in the evening. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Thirty seconds!” said Houston, meaning that they had only thirty seconds’ worth of fuel remaining. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse-drawn San Francisco he had walked into thirty years before had vanished. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Eldorado Cascade I'd been watching their six legs and thirty painted toes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At four thirty, all the copy would go to the composing room, where the text was set into lead type for the printing presses in the basement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The blue sky at thirty thousand feet gives me answers. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The chain is a calendar to help you count down the days of Ramadan, which can be twenty-nine or thirty days long. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She read in the book for perhaps thirty seconds, picked up her pencil, then put it down again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning the thirty men working in the kitchen prepared three hundred dozen eggs, twenty-five hundred pancakes, five hundred pounds of bacon and sausage, and 180 gallons of coffee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The greenhouse is at least thirty feet long. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The droning sound that had begun coming from overhead turned into a roar as thirty Grumman TBF Avengers came swooping in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No Jacob, no Sarah S. In fact, when I go down my list of forty friends, thirty of them, in one way or another, lead back to Jacob. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to head into the woods around ten thirty. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

An Agena is a slim fuel tank about thirty feet long, with a rocket engine sticking out of one end and a hole in the opposite end. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took perhaps thirty seconds for Snape to realize that he was on fire. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

More than thirty years after Henrietta’s death, research on HeLa cells finally helped uncover how her cancer started and why her cells never died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While he, Ned, was but a jeweler in someone else’s store, Holmes controlled a small empire—and had yet to turn thirty years old. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We pull into our driveway around ten thirty, my lips still tasting of chocolate-almond. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Those were the thoughts running through my head after waiting thirty minutes for Marcus to show up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She said, “I stayed in the car alone about twenty-five or thirty minutes, until they returned. Anna Brown was not with them, and I never saw her alive again.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Each morning she got up at four thirty and went to work pouring coffee for businessmen about to catch their trains. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From across the bridge, thirty feet away, his words had reached her ears, so near and full of warmth that they’d drifted for days under her skin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I know this because he winks at me, and it takes him all of thirty seconds to gather up his cigarettes and lighter from the bar and slip his coat on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Establishment was someone over thirty years old who had the power. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today—it was now Monday—I only made it through thirty minutes of ignoring Ocean in bio. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Students who are performing this evening, please be back at five thirty. The play will begin at six sharp. Parents and family, I hope you’ll stay for the PTA meeting that will follow.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

On a warm Good Friday morning, I walked out of a Birmingham jail with an innocent man who had been condemned on Alabama's death row for nearly thirty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sam paid it out slowly, measuring it with his arms: ‘Five, ten, twenty, thirty ells, more or less,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“And Charity’s there—about thirty miles away. But look at this.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I put myself in the onlookers’ places and considered the scene: here is an Asian man in his early thirties. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then”—Mom is laughing now—“there’s some sort of other number, some enzyme ratio level, that’s supposed to be between ten and thirty, and Jordan’s is one eighty!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty, Roberto carried the twenty lunches in a box and delivered them, on foot, to the workers who were given half an hour for lunch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how much longer past eight thirty my sisters could stay awake, but for once I’d listen to Lucy Raleigh. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They climbed the wall, and, over the following seven days, they killed each of the thirty men, in thirty different ways. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I got thirty, maybe, before everything started feeling like Jell-O. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"For the purpose of convenience,” he began pompously, "I have divided my talk tonight into thirty main headings and one hundred and seventeen sub-headings. I will commence with the first main heading...” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the scoreboard on the ceiling, thirty of the thirty-two players had answered correctly, including, of course, all four players from Ohio. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The shelter, which I had to myself, was on a level area thirty or forty yards back from the pond and slightly above it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing a blue suit with a little trim of white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket, Ivory made a striking figure, his poise like that of someone thirty years old instead of seventeen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about that, though,” Henry says, “the chance being with me is going to keep ruining your career. Congress by thirty, wasn’t it?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But as I stood in front of my own house in the cool, violet morning, I had the crazy idea that I could be standing here thirty years from now looking back. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And we have to be back by four thirty for milking. That gives us a couple of hours.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Twenty arrows in its hide, and we just made it mad. The thing was thirty feet long and bright green. Its eyes—” He shuddered. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first day I came here, I was worried that I'd never be able to chat for thirty minutes. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the twenties and thirties the loggers had come, and they stripped the canyons below the rim and cut great clearings on the plateau slopes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. There’s lots of us. There’s about thirty, I reckon.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

So many people with far smaller problems are so self-absorbed, their eyes glaze over if you speak for more than thirty seconds. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the women were eating breakfast, a group of German aircraft descended on the thirty wood-and-canvas Po-2s, firing their machine guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s one thirty in the morning, Zu,” she said. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And now it's almost three already and I've wasted these hours and it's becoming difficult to breathe because six thirty is no longer far in the future. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Coach Murphy blew the whistle again, and thirty minutes of drills began. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stared at her impassively, in absolute silence, for a good thirty seconds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hale had no need to get an insurance policy on his friend’s life—a policy that wouldn’t have a significant return unless Roan, who was then in his late thirties, suddenly died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the last thirty years, I’ve gotten close to people who have been wrongly convicted and sent to death row, people like Walter McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Here I found nearly thirty Norwegian boys from all parts of the country,” Haukelid said of Special Training School No. 3. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month later the prosecution issued a new, more carefully worded indictment and announced that the trial would proceed against only thirty of the accused; the others would be tried later. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thirty minutes or more before Hassan and Ali joined us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It took him thirty minutes to reach the other clinic. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bosses did not pull children out of school, and there were schools within walking distance for everyone; the school year was six whole months long, and teachers got monthly pay of thirty dollars. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was heavily plagiarized from a work written thirty years earlier by the Oneida Community’s founder. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cange, with a population of about thirty thousand, might be described as the most impoverished, famished, and disease-ridden place in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That was almost thirty years ago, and these two restaurants had made him rich, one of Westfield’s leading citizens. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be like Dr. Schweitzer and play until I’m thirty.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But he was that big and at the end of this circle he came to the surface only thirty yards away and the man saw his tail out of water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty or thirty times I tried and failed; then I argued that if I could not write the opening scene, I’d start with the scene that followed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was something that had to be said, and he should have said it thirty days ago. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Bat Lady had their first album, which had to be thirty years old now, on her turntable. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Guam was only thirty miles long and seven miles wide. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, how about this. I’d have thought you’d be too busy spending your thirty pieces of silver to be bumping into us.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In the end, our meal cost less than thirty dollars, but we left Holly a twenty-dollar tip for putting up with us. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It hit about thirty feet up and stuck there. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There were only about thirty journalists present in the room that day, although there were more than a hundred people in attendance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I said my rosary, thirty times a day, for nine days, and for nine more days after that I waited. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me about thirty seconds to hustle my mother into the car and straight on over to Burton’s pharmacy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A little after three thirty in the afternoon of January 22, Lyndon Johnson woke from a nap in the bedroom of his Texas ranch. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Though occasionally there may be as many as thirty people, there are often as few as five. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Waiting here for thirty minutes is too risky. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He was right in front of me now, a head taller and at least thirty pounds heavier. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At Senate hearings, John Dean testified that he had talked with the president more than thirty times about details of the cover-up. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Each kanji was made up of separate lines, called “strokes,” and a single kanji could have more than thirty strokes—sometimes many more. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

How different they are from his own parents’ parties, cheerfully unruly evenings to which there were never fewer than thirty people invited, small children in tow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pick you up for brunch in thirty minutes? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the steam were about thirty teenage girls with no clothes on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Arthur, he was craving a panini today, thirty minutes before you ran into him ordering a panini. And his name is Hudson!” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I would go to Alaska, ski inland from the sea across thirty miles of glacial ice, and ascend this mighty nordwand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard of people surviving car crashes that way, getting thrown thirty or forty feet away from an accident. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Zach drove the honey wagon as fast as it would go, which was about thirty miles an hour. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blockhouse was thirty yards away from the pad, on the creek bank, its dimensions determined by the lumber at hand. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With thirty- one notes per octave, it was ludicrously difficult to play and did not catch on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He rented a car and drove the thirty miles from the airport to Silver Spring. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By 1943, all of them—thirty shells in total—would be his. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli worked with me one-on-one during practice for at least thirty minutes every day until he was confident he could turn me loose with the rest of the saber fencers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And for the next thirty seconds the whole City held its breath, waiting for the end to come. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The other students drain out of the courtyard quickly, still discussing the whipping. “—only thirty lashes, what a weakling—” “—did you hear him gasping, like a scared girl—” “Elias.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At one thirty, after a half hour, Lee hears a large group of horsemen galloping up to the house. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

After thirty years in business, the owner of the store was looking to sell and retire. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes twenty or thirty people stream out of their homes along the rails and toward the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Willie was in his thirties, or maybe even older, and was the kind of guy who thought that just because he was old it meant he knew more than anybody. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were usually about twenty or thirty aircraft to a regiment, with a similar number of pilots to fly them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula is an immense atomic nucleus, about the size of Manhattan, spinning thirty times a second. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd pedaled like mad over here 'cause I was thirty minutes late. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It held together perfectly for thirty seconds, the amount of time I needed to catch up to Nicole, and then it punked right in front of her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The Eagle was wearing his only outfit, and I wondered whether he just had thirty identical white button- down shirts and thirty identical black ties in his closet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Permian had a third and eight at the Carter 26 with thirty seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At six thirty, Ellsberg gathered his papers and raced back to his own office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Not really,” I said thinking about the thirty pans, each with a wafer of black, sticky resin congealed in the bottom, big as a dinner plate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To be the superintendent of a school district like Hardcastle, with its forty-seven buildings and more than thirty thousand students, was a huge responsibility. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Drave, by contrast, was wiry and weather-beaten beyond his years, which were somewhere near thirty. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Windblown went back thirty years, and had known but one commander, the soft-spoken, sad-eyed Pentoshi nobleman called the Tattered Prince. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had to some woman “chear’d ... with thirty lashes a Saturday last and as many more a Tuesday again.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s thirty minutes or two hours, I don’t know, but the house creaks as someone walks down the hallway. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I got off and she got on and rode about twenty or thirty feet. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At five thirty in the morning, my eyes are closed but I am wide awake. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His mom called me at three thirty in the morning. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And those thirty used more than their share of beds and nurses and doctors and stayed around a lot longer than other patients. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grasso worked at construction sites, where he probably earned no more than thirty dollars a week. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

In that moment, he would have given up half his share of the thirty million kruge for the familiar heft of his cane. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By three thirty on January 1, they had filled two large horse- drawn vans with “goods, well and carefully packed.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I drove to Pennsylvania, thirty miles or so to the north. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost six o’clock, and the meeting was supposed to be at five thirty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that they weren’t waving hello, but directing our attention to something in the water, some thirty yards away—the hull of an overturned boat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In 1953, when he was thirty, the newly formed Ministry for State Security, the dreaded Stasi, named Wolf as head of intelligence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the pieces were six to eight feet in length and thirty pounds in weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By four thirty we arrive at the airport. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

At thirty seconds before midnight, they light the tips of their arrows with small dancing yellow flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next thirty minutes were an eruption of mass confusion. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As he turned the bottles in his long, graceful hands the familiar motion eased a few tired lines from his face, making him seem younger, certainly not yet thirty. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He and about thirty of his classmates were walking in early spring toward the train station, where their teacher had sent them to pick up coal that had spilled from railroad cars during loading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The guilty person was a very handsome man in his early thirties. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It then quoted her as admitting she had been in the barn on Sunday night at nine- thirty and that a cow kicked over the lamp. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

For thirty seconds, both squadrons whooped and hollered in an obstreperous rally that was becoming more paleolithic in nature in direct proportion to the number of drinks consumed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved Siobhan, and that is why I spent thirty years destroying the Allens, step by step. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I want to show them The thirty books I devoured In the summer read-a-thon. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mosque is about thirty minutes away, closer to the mall, where buildings are taller and farms are fewer. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

However, something then went wrong between them–nobody is quite sure what–and by the following year they had developed an enmity that would grow into consuming hatred over the next thirty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That had been thirty days ago, and he had never glanced back. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten thirty they stepped out onto the porch under the North Portico. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This was N. A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility, known as Chad, home to some two hundred and thirty males ages eighteen to twenty-five. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And within months of her starting the job, tragedy struck: Harold Washington abruptly had a heart attack and died at his desk, thirty minutes after holding a press conference about low-income housing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, she married Gabe Ugliano, who was nice the first thirty seconds we knew him, then showed his true colors as a world-class jerk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve lived here for nearly thirty years. My father put away every cent he ever made.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She has started a full-time school, the Fugees Academy, which now serves more than thirty refugee students. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Howard motored down in the first of eight Buick limousine coaches packed with thirty of his closest friends. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone thirty or forty feet when he noticed the cave’s walls were closer together. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a typical day, the men woke up at seven o'clock for thirty minutes of physical training. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The lights would be switched off at the main at twenty-three thirty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

So Bernabe tapped the female spiders into a milk bottle, and when there were about thirty in the bottle, Pacheco told him: “Watch this.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I traced the string to a kid standing about thirty yards from us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the Nazis seized power in the thirties, Hitler saw an opportunity to put these ideas into action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The march through town would begin at five thirty p.m., approximately the same time Rashad had been arrested for petty theft, resisting arrest, and public nuisance—whatever the hell that meant. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At ten or ten thirty, the kids went to their homes, all excited about the things we’d done and the stories we’d heard, looking forward to the next day’s adventures. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben must have gone on to think about it for a full thirty seconds. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Through the thirties and into early wartime, his natural vigor had kept these maladies at bay, but the sheer magnitude of the demands on his time and energy finally had caught up with him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Forty, thirty, and forty-five,” he says, when I tell about his dogs. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost a shock to be alone together in our bed, practically elderly, after almost thirty years of little elbows and heels and hungry mouths. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivory lies on the floor with a towel over his head, utterly exhausted from perhaps the most inspired thirty minutes of his life. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, my plane will arrive at two thirty. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? We’re already here. His studio is, like, thirty feet away.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take her out right before I leave at eight thirty. And I’ll come back at lunch to let her out again.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The gym instructor was a short, chunky man in his early thirties who taught in the mornings in a nearby public high school and supplemented his income by teaching in our yeshiva during the afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then the pipe-filling business and the lecture went on for maybe another thirty seconds. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outwardly, it seemed like a perfect existence for an intellectual, civic-minded guy in his thirties who’d flatly turned down any number of more lucrative and prestigious options in favor of his principles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That you'd been in this house for over thirty years, serving a real English lord. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us, stranded in the open, looked at each other and then at Henry—thirty feet away, safe at the shady margin of the wood. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They made their peace at thirty, neither happy with it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But we have been performing such experiments for only some thirty years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not yet thirty, she’d already worked on a presidential campaign and also for Hillary Clinton when she was First Lady, which made her experience doubly relevant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His hair was parted low on the right side so that some twenty or thirty yellow hairs could discreetly cover the nakedness of his head. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Caroline got a job cleaning hotel rooms—twenty-eight to thirty rooms a day for $2-$3 a room, for a total of about $300 a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The job lasted just short of thirty years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Whether the story was true or not, suspicion and dislike settled upon the family, and thirty years had failed to dissipate it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was ten thirty in the morning before they finally returned to Kopenick, nursing massive hangovers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I have been teaching in Cambridge for thirty years,” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Everybody was talking about the upcoming protest, which was scheduled to start at five thirty. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On average, according to one study, college-educated women have their first child at age thirty, up from twenty-five in the early 1970s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I should probably hate it because it’s a babyish nickname, but I hope he calls me cupcake even when I’m really old, like thirty. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were twenty-five or thirty miles from the bars on the other side of the reservation boundary line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it was about seven thirty when the rains began. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Eisenhower told Stassen he was “quite sure the Soviets have never given any thought to any inspection plan which involved the presence ... of anything like twenty to thirty thousand foreign inspectors.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When the woman asked how much she charged, Ann quoted her the going rate back home—thirty cents an hour or three dollars for a ten-hour day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are thirty thousand registered voters in Little Rock,” admitted Mrs. Brewer. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some thirty universities were performing nuclear physics research on navy contracts, which in some cases accounted for 90 percent of their research budgets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The truth is that Herr Ribbentrop was, throughout the thirties, a well- regarded figure, even a glamorous one, in the very best houses. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred and thirty was an enormous impost—many of history’s greatest horses had failed to win under it—but Howard’s statement was not well received. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little after six thirty that evening, a copyboy walked in with a stack of papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lunch period was long past; it was almost eleven thirty and now Aimee was hungry, but she had to find her next class. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In consequence, over the next thirty years, nearly all the hills of northern Georgia were turned into sunny groves of stumps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lustig said, “But suppose, by accident, in space, in time, we got lost in the dimensions and landed on an Earth that is thirty or forty years ago.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young man in his early thirties, neither short nor tall, came into the room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The car only went thirty giant steps before it commenced to bucking and finally cut right off. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After thirty seconds of running, I was already winded. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“A massage will take me thirty grueling minutes. And you will be experiencing something new, a delight you have never encountered in all your long years. A similar opportunity may never arise again.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Above them, looming thirty feet high against the wall, was the name of the museum exhibit in which they currently found themselves. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wondered idly what fixed memory they would have of me in twenty or thirty years. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

August is gone about thirty seconds when she leaps up and grabs my hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I led Sohrab to the living room, which looked like it had been host to a Level Twelve Party by twenty or thirty Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Around ten thirty Norton Kelly arrived, and the party was in full swing. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Manet had been attending the University for nearly thirty years, and everyone knew him as the eternal E’lir. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then Paul showed up at six thirty in the morning. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I’ve come to recognize this as the signature look people over the age of thirty give me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On awakening each one had the juice of forty oranges, eight quarts of coffee, and thirty raw eggs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It must suck to get to thirty thousand feet and realize that your pilot is a control freak nutjob. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of the country’s thirty million homes had a radio, about double those with a telephone. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

With thirty aircraft flying in the regiment, it was possible to keep a steady stream of bombers headed over the enemy lines all night long. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Winter hasn’t achieved in thirty centuries what Terra once achieved in thirty decades. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

MacGregor entered, looking thirty years younger than the last time Matt had seen him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, dude. Take her side like thirty seconds after she was trying to embarrass you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A black flip phone is in a small plastic bag, along with a note: In thirty minutes, there will be a shift change. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Fezzik picked up a rock the size of a cannonball and aimed at a crack in the mountain thirty yards away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't have to be home until eleven thirty on Friday and Saturday, and most times he squeezed in right as the second hand was moving toward eleven forty-five. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-five or thirty families on that island and when Pilate made it clear that she wasn’t afraid of work, but didn’t like the mainland and the confinement of town, she was taken in. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And within ten minutes, Ireland had scored twice more, bringing their lead to thirty—zero and causing a thunderous tide of roars and applause from the green-clad supporters. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ngubase was a soft-spoken fellow in his late thirties, with a shaky command of English, who was currently serving a sentence for fraud. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us were deep into our thirties and working in all sorts of careers, from banking and government to nonprofits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And just like every other morning over the past month, Sir Fig Newton inhaled the entire bowl in thirty seconds flat, then followed with a frozen pause and a low rumbling, “Urp.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If he dresses out two-thirds of that at thirty cents a pound? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he assumes she is older than he is, closer to thirty than twenty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the physical I was herded into a large room along with thirty or so black men, mostly migrant workers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bad weather from one at a stretch to the thirty June. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My family and I leave thirty minutes before the funeral starts, but the parking lot at Christ Temple Church is already full. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The tiger standing thirty paces from Julius turned its head, and gazed at him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Most of these were published over thirty years ago.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He pumped for a time and counted them, figuring that he worked the pump about thirty times a minute, so a hundred minutes would be three thousand pumps. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The backups need to be somewhere safe where they can’t be reached for at least thirty minutes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The magistrate wanted two hundred and fifty rubles in thirty days. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Average life expectancy was apparently just thirty to forty years, but this was due largely to the high incidence of child mortality. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let the phone ring twenty times, thirty, tried the line again, let it ring forty times. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was low on sleep and exhausted after the excitement of the prison break, and now his thoughts were buzzing and jumping at the possibility of thirty million kruge. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One hundred and thirty protesters were arrested and marched off to jail. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was pushing thirty, but that’s how they talked to us then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's nine thirty," I say, catching a glimpse of the screen of a cell phone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning two FBI men in fedora hats and trench coats—like out of a thirties movie—knocked on Woody’s door, and when they left, Papa was between them. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if he does call between four thirty and five thirty, you’ve still got time,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A pale yellow cylinder, thirty yards in diameter, is partially buried in a huge pit. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They capped the number at thirty a week later, and moved on to filling the next wooden structure along the camp’s perpetually soggy and trampled main trail. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I am trying to tell you. I was just giving an example. He might have said ‘ten’ or ‘thirty’ or—‘seventy-two.’ Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There are four hundred of them, plus thirty instructors and fifty more on the staff, NCOs and cooks, groomsmen and groundskeepers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It was . . . um ... I think it was around six thirty. I mean, I think I got the train at around six o’clock.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran up the bank about thirty feet, turned, and looked back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Mr. Nielsen have been married for eighteen years, since she was twenty-five and he was in his early thirties. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

From scouting the area, they knew there were about thirty German guards at the nearby railway station. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child’s mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child’s birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They converge on a slice of coastline less than thirty miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Bright as the sun! And for the Mother of Dragons, only thirty honors." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Mr. Jonson has kindly provided me with thirty new lines to learn before today's performance. I had difficulty enough recalling the old ones." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Someone has counted thirty Nobel Laureates who have worked at the MBL at one time or another. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pen, maybe thirty others sleep on straw laid atop frozen mud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well,” says Radar, “the good news is that we will be stopping. The bad news is that it won’t be for another four hours and thirty minutes.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

From the belfry to the top of the tower it was another thirty feet of climbing. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The final bell rang and he had thirty seconds to get to class. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Zita, then thirty years old, saw the footage of him on television, she said: “It is not his beard. There is something bothering about his eyes. He is a hopeless, broken man.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it circular at first, but it proved to be eight-sided, a good thirty feet in height, and three times that in breadth. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lothrop Stoddard, another protégé of Charles Davenport’s, visited one such court in the late thirties and wrote admiringly of its surgical efficacy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At the camp they found the sheep dog dead, killed and torn to pieces by the wild animals that had killed thirty head of sheep. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, there couldn't be more than thirty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She spotted individual marks recurring again and again on a single page, and found entire clusters replicated, sometimes ten or thirty times in perfect patterns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“And as easy as this, we have a sympathetic link that will work at thirty to thirty-five percent.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was among the first thirty, all of whom were members of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bull would fly over thirty rooftops before landing on top of someone’s chimney, which would be burning hot even though it was summer and no one was using their fireplace. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Three by three they came, ten rows, thirty soldiers, all moving in lockstep, their legs lifting high and stiff. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

"In her late thirties? Yeah? You like that?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The superintendent, a guard in his thirties, wandered among the seamstresses like a buyer at a cattle auction. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was small group, maybe thirty or forty demigods in battle armor, mounted on skeletal horses. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was a little bit after eleven thirty. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The stench hit them like a wall of foulness about thirty feet out. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“How did you get there? You didn’t ride your bikes for thirty miles and back.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s too early—maybe thirty minutes until the faintest daylight shines. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Twenty or thirty buildings were made of abalone, white but gleaming with rainbow colors. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was a man of about thirty, with a muscular throat and a large, mobile mouth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Visits were a maximum of thirty minutes long, and political prisoners were not permitted contact visits, in which the visitor and prisoner were in the same room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Soft-spoken Lord Cerwyn had actually brought his daughter with him, a plump, homely maid of thirty years who sat at her father's left hand and never lifted her eyes from her plate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

You took Winterfell with fewer than thirty men, a feat to sing of. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was six feet three inches tall and weighed over two hundred and thirty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already today, he has been told to expect the body of yet another, in his late thirties. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Nineteen hobbits were killed, and some thirty were wounded. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The medicine goes into effect thirty minutes after consumption, but if I forget to take it, the effects afterward are unpredictable. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You might be able to get it for thirty bucks instead.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The room was larger than Thomas had expected, at least thirty feet square. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was curly haired, about thirty, and looked very much like Bunny in the face. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He heard her start sniffling about thirty seconds in, and saw her take off her glasses. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to go in thirty minutes. Why are you still packing?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No, he has an important meeting with the Chamber of Commerce scheduled for four thirty. He wouldn’t miss a Chamber of Commerce meeting for a baseball game.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jason and Jess are there, drinking wine on the terrace, which is odd, because it isn’t yet eight thirty in the morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a metal floor about thirty feet square, surrounded by a rope. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animal was only thirty feet away from Wild when it fell at last. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

McDonough, as tall as the others but with a potbelly, was, like Perlstein and Proctor, in his late twenties or early thirties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stomped the pedal, pushing the speedometer up to thirty- five. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the end of thirty days, everything purchased with this money will be repossessed.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, around ten thirty in the morning, Kate Finch shows up at our door. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Father had left about thirty feet between Dragonwings and the crest of the hill where it sloped sharply for some hundred feet before opening on the ruin of the Esperanza estate and our barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the lynchings, the Red Summer would be characterized by the race riots that erupted in some thirty cities in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I counted the beats, a total of fifty-five, for thirty seconds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once its onboard radar detected it was thirty meters from the ground, it cut loose the parachute and inflated balloons all around its hull. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child’s mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child’s birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was now thirty thousand dollars in the hole, and soon officially out of business. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That summer, as she turned thirty, Elizebeth went to the Midwest for a long visit with old friends and family. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I only have thirty seconds left, so I quickly pull out a photo I enlarged of Zohra standing next to me, dressed up for a party, making a silly face. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And despite not having been friends for the past thirty years, Hollister had cared enough to dedicate his window display to Mr. Griswold in a time of need. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His storefront office was never called anything but Sonny’s Shop, although nobody now could remember thirty years back, when, presumably, Sonny did something or other there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were not going farther than thirty miles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got within thirty feet of the thick smoke only to be driven back. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The article runs for a couple of inches, next to an ad for fur coats, thirty per cent off. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

With thirty seconds to go it was 51—51 and they had the ball. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

While he talked in the mornings, Billy Buck cut twenty or thirty straws into neat three-inch lengths and stuck them into his hatband. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Colin about thirty seconds to find the address of the warehouse in Memphis. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

But the cloud of white chalk that comes out of thirty erasers is pretty impressive, let me tell you. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It takes thirty minutes to go a full circle. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

At six thirty we went into the chapel for the last prayers of the day. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was more excited about Hermione, even though the person in the costume looked about thirty years old. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had lived in our alley for over thirty years without a single disagreement with any of the neighbors. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was Daniel Ellsberg’s daily routine now—thirty laps, starting at six o’clock. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

An Air Force general blessed with the surname of Power warned a shaken Senate committee that the Russians could render this country defenseless with a missile strike lasting only thirty minutes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man sitting on the other side of the desk in the interview room was in his thirties and wore civilian clothes—black suit, tie, black loafers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“He was my best friend for over thirty years and I will miss him forever.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I have no doubt that during the thirty years he worked there, he learned much about racist Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, around eleven thirty in the morning, after my math class, the detective sends a text with a time. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was a middle-aged bald guy more than thirty years older than he, a lifelong easterner. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably not a hundred, but figure for that anyway, figure that with him going very slowly, at a nice stroll, it might take as much as thirty seconds, forty seconds to walk all the way. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get out of the truck at four thirty and have to walk the long route back to the cabin, my footsteps are slow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was pitch black at five thirty in the morning in Los Angeles, but the sun would be up in Manhattan. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Outside a generator powered the lighthouse, so that each thirty seconds the beacon flashed against the glass of the office window. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“By the time you throw this flyer in the recycling bin, thirty children will have died,” one will say. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It aroused no comment that thirty men of humbler rank—master workmen like Paul Revere the silversmith, Thomas Crafts the painter, or Chase the distiller—met at the Green Dragon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He consoled himself finally with the thought that the rent was paid and that they were safe for thirty days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed in a good safe thirty feet, until the saplings rose up taller than he was, until his anxiety let him breathe right again, before turning to parallel the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here I am one of the few kids I know whose daddy didn’t skip out on him, and he didn’t even make it to thirty. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But think about Squelch aged twenty, or thirty? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The built-in fly escaped the flames, so it was still more or less weatherproof; now, however, it was approximately thirty degrees colder inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This image, created thirty years later, shows one of the many clashes in that war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s preoccupied with Uncle Jack stuff, so he doesn’t question why I have him drop me off thirty minutes early. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I've already called the press. They’ll be here in thirty minutes. They will want to know your story. Mr. Parker’s story. This city’s story.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the door opens, and a tall woman who looks like she’s in her late thirties enters. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The oldest, in his thirties, wore red slacks, red suspenders, a black shirt, and a driving cap. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, ten minutes, thirty minutes, an hour. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was April 1972, thirty years almost to the day, that we piled our three kids into the car and headed out there. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw Kostor, which is four miles high, from foot to crest; the huge slant of its western slope hid the peaks north of it, some of which go up to thirty thousand feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry, Mr. President,” Grant says when the cabinet meeting ends, just after one thirty. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty,” Mrs. Stubbs said, “but he’s a young thirty.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sir let the water run for about thirty seconds, then stopped. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

While Fremont was a balmy sixty-five degrees in December, San Francisco, sitting next to the foggy Pacific Ocean, could be closer to thirty. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I guzzled the soda in about thirty seconds while I edged toward the door. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“My mom could buy dinner for us for three days with thirty dollars.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And he felt a jury would be much less inclined to convict Reggie if the best the prosecution could do was show that Reggie was texting thirty seconds before the wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The younger team kept running: twenty-five minutes, thirty minutes, thirty-five...and so on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Eventually, using enough of the ugly clothing, Violet had a rope that was, she hoped, just over thirty feet long. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What if I offered you the scholarship money or a penny doubled every day for thirty days?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bureaucrats, party officials, army officers, and other well-placed government elites ended up stealing about thirty percent of the aid, according to estimates by outside scholars and international aid agencies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The thirty dollars was gone, apparently confiscated by his mother at the hospital. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would shake for hours every night, then pass out around four thirty in the morning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Cars slumped along the mud and gravel roads at twenty or thirty miles an hour like sluggish beetles beneath the overhanging trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hoodhood has been out at the site of the new junior high school all day, and he isn’t expected back until two thirty.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about anyone else, but thirty seconds without bad news and I’m bored. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Friday night and almost nine thirty. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A floating reception force of more than four thousand Indians—two hundred war canoes, each carrying twenty or thirty people—greeted the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I knew thirty miles per hour was just too fast,” he says—like hitting the brakes was the result of calculation and not fear. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I walked putting heel down first, toes pointing outward thirty to forty degrees, making the ideograph “eight,” making the ideograph “human.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Patterson and Ms. Minerva had worked at the same school for over thirty years. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Their lives were at sea, together and apart, as they passed from their twenties to their early thirties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Day before Hallows’ Eve, thirty- nine years ago. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I can smell the smoke of their wood fires, more than thirty miles away, or if it is only our fort’s fires I am smelling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He said he runs every night at six- thirty, and I could meet him at the guardhouse if I wanted. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road crossed the river on a bridge about thirty feet long. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, in her red plaid skirt and strawberry T-shirt, a woman not yet thirty, who loved neither her husband nor her children, who had already fallen out of love with life. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

First there had been the awful humiliation of the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, when not one of the thirty or forty people circulating competitive loyalty oaths would even allow him to sign. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was also a long rack of thirty Supply Droids, which had been installed along the bunker’s eastern wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Communication would be a great thing. But traversing thirty- two hundred kilometers to Ares 4 is incredibly dangerous. We'd rather he stayed put. If we could talk to him, we'd certainly tell him that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard was about thirty, with greasy black hair slicked sharply against his skull and a shadow of stubble around his chin. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Altogether, we had perhaps twenty or thirty members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s not panic when Aaron wouldn’t stay asleep for more than thirty minutes at a time during the night. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I myself counted one hundred and thirty graves, or rather holes, loosely covered over with earth, close together, many of them large enough to hold a corporal’s guard. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The weather made it impossible to get a sun sight, but Worsley’s best guess put Clarence and Elephant isles about thirty or forty miles north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If I don’t stop drinking, I may not have more than six months to live, ’cause my liver is down to about thirty percent. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The meeting’s at seven thirty in the evening,” said Mrs. Kilgore. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the girls were born and Mama Lessie passed age thirty, she was able to fulfill her long-held dream: to go back to school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The beacon could be seen from more than thirty miles out at sea. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But this was, as I say, back in the thirties, when as I understand, Mrs Symons's books were being admired in houses up and down the country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to be in his middle thirties, and he had broad shoulders and a lean face with a square jaw and a dark stubble. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The slightest shake and I’m sure it’ll fall off! It must weigh twenty or thirty pounds at least!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

One woman with the BRCA1 mutation might develop an aggressive, metastatic variant of breast cancer at age thirty. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It had been over thirty days since she had given Peach to Daniel and Catalina. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There were about thirty or more masters at Repton and most of them were amazingly dull and totally colourless and completely uninterested in boys. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

From it descended thirty or more prisoners, one woman among them, in orange jumpsuits. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And then only thirty feet of bare stone would separate her from it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The fourth person is a woman who's maybe thirty, maybe younger. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to go outside,” she says, the look of relief on her face as big as thirty states. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cylinder, thirty yards in diameter, buried in a huge pit. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s called a bedroom community of Chicago because it’s only thirty miles outside the city. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I met Maxie on the corner of her street at six thirty in the morning. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And despite not having been friends for the past thirty years, Hollister had cared enough to dedicate his window display to Mr. Griswold in a time of need. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I got out of bed at dark- thirty, and rummaged around the kitchen for anything to eat. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My parents left for work shortly thereafter, and I usually had the house to myself for at least thirty glorious minutes before I began my hike to the panopticon. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We have been a faithful outlet for your merchandise for thirty years and have heretofore always had the warmest affectionate feelings for your firm. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The county medical examiner was called in, and within thirty minutes he declared that until the influenza ran its course, the entire town of Manifest would be under official quarantine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He and his wife are probably in their late twenties or early thirties. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Foreign radio! How could we listen to foreign radio? We haven’t had a short-wave radio for thirty years, since the Japanese invaded. Fan’s lying!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still haven’t gotten used to how much bigger junior high is than elementary school, and how you can be in a class with thirty other kids and not know any of them. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

At last count, he said he was up to thirty grand. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The program that opened up opportunities for astronauts, the US space shuttle program, ended in 2011 after thirty years of missions. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A complication arose at ten thirty when a hotel guard told the guests he was locking up; everyone had to leave. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a room in one of the homes where twenty or thirty people were lying in a heap in complete silence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the woman who was still near the tracks about thirty feet away crouched down on the ground, crying with her baby and her son. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’s a lovely woman, in her late thirties, maybe early forties. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I guess it was about four thirty when I made my way down the hill on the path toward the lake. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hed work again from about four thirty to five thirty, when he would take another rest. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I say ‘Jesus,’ I’m talking about a guy who walked the earth for thirty- three years like any other guy but caught the imagination of some PR cats. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thirty minutes to kill before Audrey rejoined me, so I decided to take a peek inside. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Irene coughed and spit for a good thirty seconds, always dramatic. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Within thirty minutes Mom shows up with a big bag of food. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the morning of March 7, thirty thousand German troops had rolled into the demilitarized Rhineland, in open defiance of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact to which Germany was a signatory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The cool waters of the creek came out of a dark, shadowy grotto of overhanging thicket, then flowed about thirty feet before they entered the large pond. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For thirty years she had been receiving money from him from America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be thirty thousand people in the sea of humanity down there. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The stone-work rose thirty feet, without a crack or ledge, to overhanging courses like inverted steps. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, at eight thirty the next morning, an aide came in with an update: “ABC just declared you the winner! You got it. You’ve won.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’d been out of that place more than thirty years, but one sight of this kid, and it all came roaring back in a tsunami of Day-Glo ponchos and organic lentils. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In Berlin, he knew, an ambitious liberal democracy with socialist leanings was shedding the husk of its past and guiding the birth of a new republic in the thirties. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Except when you had to spend five million in thirty days. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was there in the thirties, all right, but 1 didn’t know too much about a depression. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your son has been charged with simple battery and a petty misdemeanor. His sentence is thirty days in detention or full payment of the fine, which is three hundred dollars.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It went up to a tree about thirty feet tall and pushed it over without any noticeable effort. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you also know that it’s eight thirty in the morning?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“This Jones goes out to lunch from twelve to twelve- thirty. So you come around about twelve-forty-five.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in 1892, when Wells was thirty years old, her world was shattered. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A green and orange dragger, black in the night, grumbled and drummed past their balcony, not thirty feet from their wedding bed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giraffes will allow you to come to within thirty yards of them if you are in a motor car, but will run if you are 150 yards away on foot. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tank he was in was huge, at least fifteen feet deep and twenty or thirty feet long. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I reviewed the first thirty sympathetic bindings in my head as the theater filled with anxious students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Do I get my thirty pieces of silver? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Dasch, sentenced to thirty years, gasped out his fears that his family in Germany would be punished." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He strained to think what the sound reminded him of, apart from thirty musical saws, but he had never heard anything else like it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Fifteen, twenty, thirty- nine," I counted out, until I was back at the water fountain. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And she would tell him about her classes, what paintings she’d studied that week, and her favorite, the real reason she woke at four thirty every morning and stayed up late every night: photography. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That didn’t bother Joaquin—he knew Mark would never hurt him, and even if he tried, Joaquin had three inches and about thirty pounds on him, so it would be a fast fight. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Over the next four days it settled thirty inches more, and would have continued sinking if the engineers had not simply called off the test. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was a school field trip, with four teachers and about thirty kids. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wedding will be in Calcutta, a little over a year from now, on an auspicious January day, just as she and her husband were married nearly thirty- four years ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The work that Farmer started in Haiti more than thirty years ago continues to evolve. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

With newsreel cameras rolling and flashbulbs popping, the boys bounded up the gangplank and onto the Manhattan at ten thirty the next morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The red-furred dwarf in the cowboy hat was sitting about thirty feet away at the nearest café table, sipping an espresso held by his monkeylike foot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Although I am rather hungry, and you have, after all, just sold a memento of my childhood for thirty pieces of silver, so to speak.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Connecticut 5th had dwindled down to just thirty men. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You will have thirty men. Ten from here, ten from the Shadow Tower, and ten lent to us by King Stannis.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We could have waited for a car to come around via the hand-operated ferry, but that was some way upriver and would have taken about thirty minutes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pass twenty, and thirty, and Uriah’s hair is finally smooth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The varsity poured it on for the last thirty seconds, just managing to pull even with the freshmen as they reached the floating dock at the shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And he’s been director of the plant for almost thirty years.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania, Navy, and California quickly moved out in front of the pack, rowing high at first, then gradually dropping their stroke rates into the low thirties. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bison can run for hours at thirty miles per hour and use their massive, horned skulls like battering rams. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She herself hadn’t grown to thirty feet tall, or whatever the actual size was of the glowing screen before him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The tribal cops had to pull twenty or thirty adult Spokanes off the court before any of them assaulted a teenage white kid. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is what happened: Sahil picked me up at ten thirty this morning. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was dfferent, a workingman who had never been late for work in the thirty years that he worked for the New York City Housing Authority, and he was a good, good man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I pay him back, I’ll be almost thirty—a wrinkled, old woman.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before they had stopped for lunch the drill had found something thirty feet down that had mangled the steel as though it were lead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What that meant for Alabama death row prisoners and EJI staff was seventeen executions in thirty months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You snake crawl for thirty yards. A trickle of water runs down your body. You reach a mound of small rocks blocking the passageway.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Chiron informed us that the Party Ponies had sent chapters from almost every state in the Union: forty from California, two from Rhode Island, thirty from Illinois . The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ralph inspected the whole thirty yards carefully and then plunged in. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was at least fifty years old, but she dressed stylishly and wore makeup, so she looked closer to thirty. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even where I hid nearly thirty feet away the wind was so strong that I was forced to take a step forward, as if I’d been pushed roughly from behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I figure nobody likes to be preached at, no matter how much he needs it, least of all Judd Travers, who is thirty years old if he’s a day. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some thirty people were left in the building, holding out in the drawing rooms on the second floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not until my last months as a graduate student, nearly thirty years old, was it possible for me to think much about the reasons for my academic success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are replanting, but it takes seven years before an olive tree begins to bear, and thirty years before it can truly be called productive. What of copper?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The landlady is clearly not yet up and about, suggesting there is little chance of her serving breakfast earlier than her declared time of seven thirty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear to think that there were thirty Grisha here. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Besides, we still have about two hundred and thirty pounds of winter potatoes in the spice storeroom.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When he was less than thirty feet away, Robbie stopped, and seemed about to speak, but waited instead as the inspector and the other policemen approached. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I figured nine was a good time, because that would put us at the party around nine thirty. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I'm used to holding a glass or can and raising it to my mouth every thirty seconds or so. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s strange the way thirty square miles can look like heaven or hell, depending on what the weather blows in. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was back on Tralfamadore, taking care of the baby, but the magazine, which was called Midnight Pussycats, promised that she was wearing a cement overcoat under thirty fathoms of saltwater in San Pedro Bay. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The test continues for the next thirty minutes or so. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the clock and realized I only had thirty more minutes before my first bout, and I was sitting on the ground feeling like a sloth. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’m not able to work now because of my liver—I only have about thirty percent of my liver left from drinking. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come by around eleven thirty. My shift ends at noon.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

After more than thirty years there was little hope that the records still existed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But practice starts at four forty-five, and it’s already four thirty. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The tree was about thirty feet from our fire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let her hold me ten, twenty, thirty seconds, then slowly I pull away. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The age the scythe presented was late thirties, although that meant nothing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We suddenly had thirty ravens, and they set out immediately to rearrange our situation so it would be their situation, much as the birds and bees had done in the highway rest areas. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No one in the house saw him go out at eleven thirty. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had stood there, back in the thick trees—not thirty or forty feet away—and watched me drilling holes. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No problem. I’ve put you on the three thirty. It may be delayed, because of the storm, so keep an eye on the screens. Checking any baggage?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Some were very small, no more than thirty yards long. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is the flight recorder transcript of the final thirty minutes of KAL flight 801: It begins with the captain complaining of exhaustion. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

By eight thirty, she was so tired, I practically had to carry her home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been sitting there for some time, and now it was seven thirty, and inside, her daughter must be having her bath. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With the help of Mr. Curtain’s elevator, Kate figured they could be outside the Whispering Gallery in thirty seconds or less. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually Ishmael came to view himself as a one-armed man with a pinned-up sleeve, past thirty and unmarried. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She's in her thirties, with regal features, two irritating twins, and a husband who publishes a ladies' magazine and spends so much time at work that I've met him only once. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I get to the bridge at five thirty, and there are German dogs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We had no prior involvement in Mr. Dill's case, which meant getting up to speed in the thirty days before his scheduled execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were over thirty of us at the junction. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I always think of the right punch line thirty seconds to three days after the setup; Libby’s working on my reflexes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That’s what they call you when it’s your first baby over thirty, over thirty for god- sake. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enobaria looks to be about thirty and all I can remember about her is that, in hand-to-hand combat, she killed one tribute by ripping open his throat with her teeth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each unit has thirty single rooms spread over two tiers, one upper, one lower. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The port bottle was still a good thirty minutes away, but then Granddaddy did something unprecedented in the entire History of Dinner: He left before the port. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If you're not off by the time I count to thirty, I'll tell him you"—her tongue licked the word—"touched me up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When it was finally clear, I turned the water to full cold and stood there for thirty seconds. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His best suit was covered in white dust, which had settled in his hair and mustache and made him look as though he had just aged thirty years. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Here I’m this fourteen-year-old punk, and this dude’s in his thirties, and I’m challenging his manhood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nine weeks he’s been in Auvers, he’s made seventy paintings and thirty drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I know a way you can make thirty bucks a week.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the jacket is about thirty sizes too big for me, shielding me from trauma. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

This time they were sentenced to thirty days in the Occoquan Workhouse in rural Virginia. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We drove through College Park, a neighborhood that passes for Orlando’s historic district on account of how the houses were mostly built thirty whole years ago. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I drink a glass of water, take a shower, get dressed, and leave by six thirty so I can get to the bus. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Several days later I met Matt on Route 27 at three- thirty. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the late 1940s and she hasn’t yet reached the age of thirty. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Metal feathers caught the light and flashed thirty different shades of gold. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pushing her way through the saplings and fallen branches, she found the arrow thirty yards into the trees, its red fletches bright against the mottled green understory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bliss had been a surgeon for thirty years and was considered an expert in gunshot wounds. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s this iconic quality to this scene, like it could’ve been the same thirty years ago. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The point of the roof where the water leaves the cliff must be a good thirty feet above us and the ledge fifteen feet wide easy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

At that moment I would have given anything to be back in our bluebird room instead of sitting there with thirty kids staring at me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Through the portcullis there came a sorrowful howling to bear out Sir Grummore’s statement, as it had been thirty couple of hounds baying the moon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also told him that children were healthier if they were born to younger parents and Charles wasn’t getting any younger; he was nearing thirty. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the thirties, the depression, and folks were poor and they used guns and fishing rods to survive. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were maybe thirty people on that little bus! So much fun!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Stannis would be left with thirty or forty galleys, at a guess; more than enough to bring his whole host across, once they had regained their courage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The voice came from a man standing about thirty feet away. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Before this nightmare happened. Got off around seven thirty A.M., thought I’d swing by to give my support.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Had he been mistaken, he would have stumbled immediately down the Kangshung Face, the edge of which lay just thirty feet in the opposite direction. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Connors talks to the boys’ coach while I watch the rest of the team hit a sorry thirty percent. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Zein sector is a good thirty miles away from here—but what if the strange red mark on my mother's door means that they're infected with this new strain? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

That thirty minutes turned into an hour, and that hour then dragged into two. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t terribly high—thirty feet or so—but it was steep and very unstable, the edge loose and soft from the rain. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tide, steadily on the rise, had turned about three and a half hours before, at six- thirty; by midmorning sunlight lay like a glaze over the water, warming his back pleasantly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I do not have a hundred. But you have three dragons. Grant me one, for all my kindnesses. You will still have two, and thirty ships as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The addict who is “fished” up knew personally that the Muslim approaching him very recently had the same fifteen to thirty dollar a day habit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s been thirty for, like, ten years! Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grams to twenty at the end of the present week. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The baby was thirty days old, and we had to be careful about infections, foul breezes, and the evil eye. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“We only have thirty minutes, so let’s get right to it.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

No such luxuries were available to the jockeys of the twenties and thirties. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very handsome man of thirty odd with a big fair moustache. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landlord would have to give them thirty days to get out—at least that’s how it was in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radar, ever the brilliant tactician, has banked an extra thirty minutes without telling us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The white-eyed or sable-bodied flies that Morgan and his students had discovered in New York had been fished out laboriously by hunting through massive flocks of insects over thirty years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They are huge, stacked in rows of twenty and thirty along each block. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Again it occurred to Brave Orchid that her sister wasn’t very bright, and she had not gotten any smarter in the last thirty years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to tell her I felt fine at least thirty times before she would calm down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I also knew from thirty years of my profession that I cannot write hot on an event. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys were going through a phase of “enjoying” rounders in order to flirt with us, so there were over thirty of us that afternoon. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found him at four thirty in the morning when I came back to the lab after wandering around down at the waterfront—on his side, stretched out in the corner of his cage. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King was arrested on January 26 for going thirty miles per hour in a twenty-five-mile-an-hour zone. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The graphic underneath was at least twenty, maybe thirty years old. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We leave Philadelphia at six a.m., arrive in Miami at eight fifty-five a.m., then leave Miami at eleven thirty a.m. and arrive in Puerto Rico at three ten p.m.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He’s going to be at Hilly’s in thirty minutes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Somebody must have seen us, ’cause within thirty seconds Ms. G’s car was surrounded by five cop cars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Perry had said, “What junk? One of them books cost me thirty bucks.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just thirty—young enough that he needed to draw a line of demarcation between himself and the boys he commanded. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Tom had taught school in country towns for thirty years and as soon as he was under the roof he proceeded to tell me what was wrong with my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone about thirty steps when I fell over Timothy’s body, plunging down in the water. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be at least thirty massive sculptures of running, leaping beasts, their flanks gleaming slickly in the silvery light, jaws open, their slowly melting muzzles dripping occasionally onto the crowd below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At one point they came to a little lake, a patch of intense blue scarcely thirty yards across among the red rocks. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed to himself for a good thirty seconds. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Which means I have to get up extra early, since his school starts thirty minutes before mine. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Not quite thirty fairies had reported for duty, many fewer than Grandpa had expected, even given the recently strained relations. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Down the road came twenty or thirty tired and ragged men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin’s wife answers the door in Lezajsk, surprised and a little suspicious, but within thirty minutes I’ve made double what I could have gotten at the secondhand shops in Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The white petals spun down around them, covering the grass and speckling their fur, while thirty feet above a thrush sang, “Cherry dew, cherry dew. Knee deep, knee deep, knee deep.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be more than thirty years between them, if his father really had been a doctor when David was born. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“How could you know that? We only decided that among ourselves, like, thirty minutes ago.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know Cecile’s exact age, but she had to be over thirty. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was a woman of about thirty, but looking much older. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The game started at ten thirty a.m., and I shivered as I sat on the bleachers, wishing I’d put on a warmer coat. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooksey “brought a certain idolization of Lawrence into the laboratory,” Livingston observed more than thirty years after his departure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Newton waited nearly thirty years before publishing a full account of his discovery of calculus; no one could have seemed less interested in claiming priority. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A ton of coal, which would last most of the winter, cost about fifty dollars—including delivery—or even as little as thirty dollars for the lower-grade stuff. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lifters found metal again, and thirty seconds later she came to a skidding halt at the end of the line. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I am happy to announce that I will be holding tryouts at one thirty,” Ms. Udell continued. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wait for thirty seconds before hitting the button myself. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The land of his birth was at war with America; yet after thirty- five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friends his parents have collected for almost thirty years are in attendance, to pay their respects, cars from six different states lining the whole of Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Nixon family attended a series of inaugural balls, finally making it back to the White House at one thirty in the morning. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was near thirty and, unlike diem, had lost no teeth, suffered no bruises, developed no ring of fat at the waist or pocket at the back of her neck. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth marveled over thirty years later, after she learned the truth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Fischer and Orasanu found that captains overwhelmingly said they would issue a command in that situation: “Turn thirty degrees right.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

East is the ranch driveway, which gradually becomes a winding road, descending, leading to town, thirty miles away. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Waiting at the airport were two black SUVs with Disney logos, and thirty minutes later, they pulled up in front of the Magic Kingdom. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A band of thirty adolescent girls crossed Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

At least thirty wizards, seven or eight to each dragon, were attempting to control them, pulling on the chains connected to heavy leather straps around their necks and legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was dead, the shirtman; a man of about thirty, now bleeding from the cheek. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Alone now, he and his father’s elderly mother share a shack thirty feet square. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Only after thirty minutes had passed did Eunjoo allow her to wake the boys up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Powhatan Confederacy was an alliance of more than thirty Algonquian-speaking tribes. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, it was almost six thirty; it was getting late, and dinner was ready, but Mother and Papa Will hadn't arrived for my birthday celebration. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I counted off seven minutes that night, and then fourteen minutes, and then thirty. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Olympic Village was actually made up of more than thirty white high-rise apartment buildings meant to house the 18,000 Olympic athletes coming to the city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the past thirty years, since screens became commonplace, the number of women in the top U.S. orchestras has increased fivefold. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Now my arm was twenty feet long, thirty, forty, fifty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Like nearly every guard in the camp, he was a nameless, bullish-looking man in his early thirties who demanded that students avert their eyes and bow their heads when they spoke to him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth soon would turn thirty, well beyond the age when most women in the 1920s started their families, and they were both eager to be parents. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After thirty feet, it opened into a wider tunnel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And it makes me feel a little sad that we might not get to dance together for thirty years. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and yet no one would guess as much for another thirty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I ran up desperately, lugging foe box of thirty erasers, twenty-three of which had sent their chalk dust toward Mrs. Baker’s windows. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, he hobbled into the classroom, his home for more than thirty years. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin felt like it was burning from the force of the thirty pairs of eyes fixed on her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1919, so many black families had fled that the area’s black population had dropped from eleven hundred to thirty. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Box held only around thirty inmates, a fraction of those who were under disciplinary restriction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A platoon of thirty soldiers or even a company of a hundred soldiers can function well on the basis of intimate relations, with a minimum of formal discipline. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I savored this news for about thirty seconds before I gave her the second letter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even from thirty feet away, Hazel could sense Annabeth’s life force waning, her pulse becoming thready. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Wait till you have been here for thirty years. Then you’ll welcome the pain. They were once as pleasant to me as they are to you.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Muslim kids go to an Islamic school called Iqra Academy, thirty minutes away. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I was bound into a challenge almost thirty years ago,” Celia says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kelley had been up for more than thirty hours when a new first lieutenant arrived in the chaotic ER. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One student had been charged over thirty talents for his tuition. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Temperatures had fallen sharply over the week, down to the thirties at night, and the sky seemed perpetually overcast. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

More than thirty British bombers were lost and crashed in fog after a single mission in December 1943, an event known as “Black Thursday.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

If he killed for candy, imagine what he would do for twenty or thirty dollars—he’d shoot the President! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you come in here giving them away? Didn’t you tell us to sell them to the cannery and keep whatever comes from that? Now what you want is one hundred thirty.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had just started my first real job, as a camp counselor, which meant leaving my house every morning at seven thirty and not getting home until four thirty in the afternoon. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By six thirty all hands were pitching tents, and Green was firing up the blubber stove to make dinner out of the seal. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

His friends thought him about thirty; he was in fact nearly forty. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Behind him came a motley rabble of about thirty men armed with sticks and rocks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By four thirty that morning, they were stumbling through central Berlin, singing “Bow Down to Washington,” their arms draped over one another’s shoulders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You can finish patting yourself on the back later. Mom said she’d have Nana here by three thirty, which leaves us less than an hour.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Let them be in the dark for a while; I was in the dark for more than thirty years. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pattillo grew up in the thirties, the son of a blacksmith turned railroad worker in a small segregated Louisiana town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I multiplied three by ten and got thirty, which seemed beyond all reason. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Though hybrids were introduced in the thirties, it wasn’t until farmers started using chemical fertilizers in the 1950s that corn yields really exploded. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I heard folks is heading to Louvenia Brown’s tonight at five thirty to pray for Robert, but by the time I lift that twenty-pound turkey in the brine, I can’t barely raise my arms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nearly thirty voices were subtracted from the world that day, not even counting the six gods or the dozen humans who, like the Ellens, had gotten in the way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I kept on calling, but he just looked at me from twenty or thirty feet away like he didn’t understand. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fuzzy cloud comes and goes, and now he looks forward to the pleasure of the brightly colored pictures in the comic book that he has gone through thirty, forty times. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could see people not thirty feet off through the foliage. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A moan went up from thirty thousand throats. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Over thirty rats were in the high reaches of the burning tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I know this is where I’m supposed to laugh, but I seem to have used up my pretending quota for the day, and it’s not even nine thirty yet. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

One Monday at four in the morning, my father woke me up and said, in an embarrassed tone: “Can you lend me thirty cents for bus fare so I can go to work?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuma sold this grinning couple two African hats for thirty bucks apiece. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There was a throne room, a vast hall with a banquet table so long it could seat thirty, a library, a portrait gallery. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My job was to keep him out of his living room for thirty seconds so the Colonel could get the Breathalyzer undetected. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I only spent thirty days in jail. People ask: ‘Do you feel like that’s enough time—for what you did?’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Around ten. After curfew. Sometime between five thirty, when Mirjam said she was going to lie down, and ten, she disappeared, and there is no explanation." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We come to our first crater, thirty yards wide and I can’t tell how deep. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All such news, important and trivial, was carried to the thirty, meeting secretly at the Green Dragon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all of his attempts, he has survived more than thirty train rides. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had devoted thirty years’ spare time to his church, and his church had recently rewarded him with a trip to a Methodist music camp in South Carolina. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But dead ahead, not more than thirty miles away, rose the snow-covered basalt peaks of Elephant Island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Your exercise will take place on the triangular yard outside the unit—thirty yards by twenty yards by twenty yards, with a mural of wildlife hung above the basketball backstop. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She led him into her room, where she had more than thirty stuffed animals. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Anyone who accidentally touches August has only thirty seconds to wash their hands or find hand sanitizer before they catch the Plague. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They hung there, flat against the wall, panting as they looked at the ground thirty feet below. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was taller than the siege tower—thirty feet, at least—with scaly reptilian legs like a Komodo dragon from the waist down and green-blue armor from the waist up. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Irwin was known to pack thirty horses onto a single four-door railcar, ship them to a race, yank them off the car, and run them without giving them water or letting them warm up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your friends? Your family? Aapa, this isn’t back home. And it’s not the same as it was twenty, thirty years ago, even in India.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“His lady wife is long dead. Lord Wyman has two grown sons, and grandchildren by the elder. And he is too fat to sit a horse, thirty stone at least Val would never have him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the next forty-eight hours, all the WEC members we could round up worked frantically, putting the names, addresses and phone numbers of all thirty thousand registered voters in Little Rock onto note cards. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some students thought you should be looking for a person twenty to thirty years older than yourself—the sort of age a normal parent would be. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had worked with Mr. Piliso for thirty years and in all that time, Piliso had never lied to him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I remove them from their power docks, they will only stay viable for thirty minutes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Peninsula Luggage was a sales and repair shop in San Mateo, a town about thirty miles north of where we lived. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the next night that about one hundred and thirty thousand people in Dresden would die. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s daughter looks about thirty years old, around Susana’s age, and is an expert on mingling and posing graciously for pictures. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Olympic Stadium, out at the Reichssportfeld, she set up thirty cameras for the opening ceremony alone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Only the king's bodyguard, thirty of his toughest fighting men, remained in the hall itself. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the thirty thousand enemy soldiers, she says, were just conscripts and Indians. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Not yet thirty years old, with less than three years to learn the levers, Kim Jong Eun had no such advantage. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The wheel Ferris envisioned actually consisted of two wheels spaced thirty feet apart on the axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She said, “Carry your bag to Cooter’s room, Elijah. And don’t be trying to talk to that dunce neither. Another thing he gunn be doing till he turn thirty is keeping his mouth shut.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As much as anyone could be prepared for thirty sets of eyeballs suddenly locked on them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He would ask us a question and we would answer, and then he would ask the same question thirty minutes later. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I say you pack on twenty, thirty more pounds and just go heavyweight,” Toby said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Who read the thirty pages I assigned last night?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Twenty or thirty years from now, when we have accomplished world peace, when we have succeeded in ending racism and intolerance, the world will remember that the Freedom Writers kept their promise. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I should jolly well hope so! Been at this door for thirty years.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But as we walked out, following thirty yards or so behind all the seniors, I was nervous about what I was going to do that night. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The painting was done by an Italian artist, who finished it in the thirties,” said Penney. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Forming the west side of the quadrangle, King Hall had been built almost thirty years later for the University of Chicago’s education department. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian ran right into the hospital, determined to remain there forever rather than fly one mission more than the thirty- two missions he had. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

By the time I was four, I was pretty good with Dad’s pistol, a big black six-shot revolver, and could hit five out of six beer bottles at thirty paces. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Esther arrived with donuts and a new digital camera at six thirty in the morning. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She’s about thirty, is pregnant, and has a little girl who is four years old. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Leo’s head was pointed straight down at the sea—maybe thirty seconds to impact. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I have a League meeting in thirty minutes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

An exhaustive list of prospects would have included between twenty and thirty names, with Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, and James Madison enjoying spirited support. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had built up the ginning enterprise himself and overseen it through this seasonal spasm of mad activity for thirty years; he no longer had the slightest interest or obligation. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s seven thirty, and my bus left half an hour ago. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And then I spent another thirty minutes on my hair. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was no mention of the secret tennis game, and nothing at all that seemed related to the first clue—not until the last thirty seconds of the video. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That amounted to about thirty agents for each state. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At my son’s high school graduation a week earlier, I had listened as a self-important cable news commentator droned on for thirty minutes about the future of the media in a digital world. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They decide to walk to the restaurant, thirty blocks north of their apartment, four blocks west. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squeezing millennia into thirty seconds, it developed consciousness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Instead of positively showing what a black woman could do as city manager,” the politician wrote, “Abigail Caldwell’s inept and incompetent actions have set back racial progress at least thirty years.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Films have always led me to believe that they kick you out the moment your thirty minutes are up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had seen videotape of this at lineup: thirty or forty seconds of inmates massing, running and stabbing, attacking and fleeing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor Donovan had only been in our class about thirty seconds, and we were already jumping all over him. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I have a meeting in”-she glanced at the kitchen clock—“thirty minutes. I left my notes for the Carlson School project here.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

My teacher said you have to be here with your costume by six thirty sharp. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I have to wake up thirty minutes earlier. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I been carrying this letter now,” she said, “for more than thirty years. And I been wondering all that time if I’d ever talk to you about it.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Tonight the temperature is supposed to drop down to the thirties. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you both back here in thirty days for your adjudication.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In 1928 a group of thirty or so Native American Indians had been living on one of the large ranches below the St. Francis Dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was super early, like around six thirty in the morning, when we left the house and piled into Uncle Tony's SUV. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

All these questions and a dozen others raced through my mind as our group of thirty approached the Emalia factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Francesca came at eight thirty, carrying a cup of tea and dragging a small wooden ladder, the one she put out every year for the wishmakers. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Longstreet had sent the spy back into Gettysburg to see what he could find, but Gettysburg was almost thirty miles away and he had not yet returned. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deck must have been thirty feet up. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Well. I think it could happen. Certainly it hasn’t happened yet. I’m not worried. More likely it would be a virus that reduces us by some per-=fr® centage. By thirty percent. By ninety percent.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he continued to get results, would the students call a temporary truce in their planned thirty days of demonstrations? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ten stories high, then thirty, it blocked his view of whatever was behind it. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Marcela called the jockey by his childhood name, Johnny; though Pollard was approaching thirty, Charles hadn’t been able to break his habit of referring to him as a boy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Enrique has been at the river, he has watched thirty other men and boys sleep at the camp, pay a smuggler, then cross the river into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By one- thirty the cross was almost finished. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We look at the work, and it requires a lot of energy and dedication. At thirty, they might have back problems or eye problems or arthritis. We want to avoid that,” Lopez says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And as they approached us, I ran toward them across the thirty days of waiting and wondering if I would ever see them again, across the thirty days of feeling alone without them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But other scientists thought there was a layer of dust on the surface which in places might be thirty or forty feet thick! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nine thirty. Nine twenty-nine. Nine twenty-eight. Adina ran to the control panel embedded in a long desk beneath the TV screen. “There has to be some way to turn this thing off, right? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

One offers outlawed guns and bullets, promising overnight delivery for cases of thirty and up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We made the last thirty meters in less than a minute, with everybody throwing grenades over the top. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken him thirty minutes to come get me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“That was a major issue for me. After you’ve fed and watered monkeys for thirty days, they become your friends. I fed ’em bananas. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father and my brother Rowland knew all this; but they thought only of the thirty thousand pounds, and joined in the plot against me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The train is going local since it’s Saturday, which means we might be sitting tight for thirty minutes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He’ll respond when he hits a stopping point in like thirty minutes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Farther up the bay, on the dead-water east arm known as Little House Cove, the Westinghouse family had built a Newport-style mansion on thirty acres of Douglas fir trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Back home, District 12 is probably in chaos as they try and organize the homecoming celebrations for Peeta and me, given that the last one was close to thirty years ago. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The jetty that divided the inner and outer harbors had been fortified with a long stone wall, thirty feet tall and almost a mile long, with towers every hundred yards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Likewise, a six-foot man cannot be scaled up to thirty feet, Rabelais notwithstanding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men got thirty years or twenty years, on paper. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty feet into the race, I was already way behind the others, but I just kept powering on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It had happened thirty miles downstate, and the victims supposedly worked for the railroad, but nothing specific on top of that. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was thirty feet or so deep, with a dry floor: an ideal den for a bear or a wolf, but the only creatures living in it for years had been birds and bats. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over thirty folks gutted like pigs and the place burned down in a blue flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For one thing, with his hair and beard trimmed and now neatly dressed, he looked a lot younger, though still much older than I. I would guess maybe thirty or thirty-two. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was already training twenty-five to thirty hours a week, and I needed to put in more like thirty-five hours a week. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was out on the surface within thirty seconds. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could be fifty as easily as she was thirty. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I looked at photographs in Cousteau and Cousteau’s book, stopping at page thirty to look at a strange photograph. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The ice was thick but clear, and in some places I could see twenty or thirty feet into it with only a slight waver of distortion. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Later, at dinner, she laments the fact that she’ll be thirty- five in a couple of months. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sparrow, that’s clearly not true. I watched you for thirty minutes; you were just standing there. You can tell me.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My phone’s battery is dying, down close to thirty percent, and I want to make sure the hospital can reach me in case my dad wakes up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She paid me thirty bucks for watching him that afternoon, and she wasn’t even gone four hours. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I would go to the theater around ten thirty at night with Mom and my cousin Claudine. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a second Archimedes sphere - the one he’d spent a whole thirty seconds modifying before they entered the stadium. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was in her thirties, unmarried, perpetually sipping herbal tea. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She was white with straight brown hair and brown eyes. She had freckles on her face, that part I remember. I don’t know how old she was, maybe in her early thirties.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was like I got thirty years older overnight. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The economy is strong, and people are willing to spend money: there are more than thirty galleries in a city where art is revered and has had a long, magnificent history. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I paid special attention to our mail delivery for three days, and figured out that our mail carrier always came to our house between twelve and twelve thirty p.m. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The plane dug a trench more than thirty feet deep into the spongy earth of the old strip cuts on Skyline Drive, directly between two hushed, abandoned pieces of mining equipment. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We are honored guests, celebrating both our reunion and thirty years of progress in Little Rock’s race relations. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these escapades had occurred years earlier, in some cases decades earlier, when I was in my twenties and thirties. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The hill was flat across the top, about thirty yards of flat rock, an occasional tree, but the ascent on all sides was steep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To reach it, she’d had to stand on an elevated treadmill maybe thirty feet long. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

One of the commemorative events was a race between Jableh and Lattakia, in which swimmers from all over the Arab world would swim thirty kilometers through the Mediterranean. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A first step is to recognize that Of Natural Magic is a book written over a period of more than thirty years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If I have to be at a house at eight thirty I will leave my house at seven,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Out of bed before seven thirty every morning, even on the weekends. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

That means they can fight lions, go to war, and have all of the privileges of adulthood except marriage, which Dinka men traditionally put off until they are about age thirty. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed June to her front porch, where at least two dozen pieces of paper were scattered over the stone floor, along with about thirty different shades of colored pencils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Who could forget a death ride to Red Hook with thirty other eight-year-olds in the middle of summer?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

George Ferris’s steel arrived, on five trains of thirty cars each. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had been trying to save money for a whole year, but she had only thirty dollars. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And even the thirty seem to have nested in vain, for no young grebes have been observed on the lake since the last DDD application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“This one hundred and twenty dollar. Strawberries bring one hundred and thirty, next payment is made.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A rally was held, after which the armed men went on a rampage, murdering approximately thirty people in a dreadful and grisly attack. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had held it between his fingers for as long as thirty seconds. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Between the gazebos, pond, and swans, the picture required more than thirty shades of white, gray, and silver. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

These were vast, airy marshes, some of them thirty miles wide, as splendid as fields of ripened wheat, yet as desolate in some ways as the dark side of the moon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

School was dismissed at three- thirty and I was home by three-forty-five unless I had to stay in for talking in class. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This could go on for thirty minutes before, in a final test, he would ask for something we didn’t have. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The following year, Isaac Newton published his epic work on light and colour, Opticks, having deliberately sat on it for thirty years, waiting for Hooke to die. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jesse didn’t have to imagine this fate: Such people were all around him, ticked-off employees in their late thirties and forties, lots of them pleasant and adequately compensated, but few of them happy or stimulated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d escaped her tiny hometown in the shadow of Fort Hood, pulled night shifts at diners to put herself through law school, and was arguing discrimination cases before the Supreme Court by thirty. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Catch the Spirit!—and they handed out a stack of dittos, and for the next thirty minutes, Principal Peattie stood on the stage and read them to us. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Soon there were thirty or more birds living on their roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Athena Parthenos was thirty feet above them at the top of the temple, and even if they could reach it they couldn’t shadow-travel until they actually had shadows. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Been bringing men to the Wall for close on thirty years." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was denied because of an earlier drug possession charge for which he had pleaded guilty and served thirty days in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The New York Athletic Club’s facility there, completed in 1888, sprawled over thirty neatly manicured acres at the center of which stood a posh, sprawling clubhouse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He paints during the day; at night he draws a series of thirty heads, up close. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I waited until about ten thirty before I put my roller skates on and came tearing onto the dance floor. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had been more than thirty minutes since they were pulled over. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After almost thirty minutes of pulling at his hair and chewing on the pencil, he began to compose a paragraph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a long pole and wire, I’d drag the hide on top of rail fences, swing it through the air, and let it touch the ground twenty or thirty feet away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we arrive at the rendezvous area on the roadside, about thirty people have already gathered there. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next thirty days, there was only one day when the skies were not leaden with clouds, only four when it did not rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A game of darts which was going on at the other end of the room interrupted itself for perhaps as much as thirty seconds. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We were approaching a group of about thirty black-caftaned men who were standing in front of the three-story brownstone at the end of the street. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The third night thirty small frogs were sitting on his mat and staring at him with their frog eyes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, Speed stopped opening the letters and let them pile up in the backroom of her store until they stacked thirty envelopes high. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A tall, dark woman of some thirty years, she moved with the feral grace of a panther. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lord knows after thirty years I still crave your forgiveness, but who are you? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d like to say that ten, twenty, thirty years from now, me, Sonny, and Malik will be as tight as we’ve always been, but that could be a lie. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The plane swerved, dove, and skimmed about thirty feet above the ground. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penalty for violating the pass laws was thirty days in jail or a fine of fifty rand, nearly half her monthly salary. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They lost no time, though, in gathering thirty of the best cattle and starting the journey back home. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Twenty or thirty thousand in the central city is more likely, according to Nicole Couture, a University of Chicago archaeologist who helped edit the definitive publication of Kolata's work in 2003. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Charrington, it seemed, was a widower aged sixty-three and had inhabited this shop for thirty years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For thirty years he was turning into teeth in Springfield, and neither she nor the mourner in the inappropriate dress could do a thing about it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m used to ladies giving me clothes—got white lady clothes out the wazoo, ain’t had to buy my own clothes in thirty years. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I read where space begins at thirty miles. I think we can reach it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we rose, the temperature dropped down into the thirties and a frozen rain began to pelt the windshield. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This was how, a week into her new duties, Mia came to be in the Richardson kitchen when Izzy wandered downstairs at nine thirty in the morning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or even earlier than that—the Chilean site had suggestive evidence of artifacts more than thirty thousand years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At about thirty yards’ distance the fox saw the approaching rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped on the gas, hitting maybe thirty, swerving crazily. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scraeling war party fell upon them that night: five hundred men to thirty. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was with a considerable shock that he remembered them later on in the day, his mind now registering the fact that there was no human habitation within thirty miles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long—twenty minutes, maybe thirty—before Luke seemed in his right mind, calm and able to prop himself up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s around seven thirty—a few stragglers on their way home from work. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is maybe thirty, with red- blond hair and a worried smile. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Knowing I would launch anything on my physical person—coins; old friendship bracelets; the rake—thirty feet in every direction, like a supernova star explosion. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He said he could shoot a rabbit from thirty yards. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

More than thirty minutes passed unnoticed as these scraps—memories, judgments, vague resolutions, questions—uncoiled quietly before her, while she barely shifted her position and did not hear the clock strike the quarter hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he asked when the northbound train ran, and the man told him at two thirty. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he adds, “And more important, it’s the weight. How much do you weigh, Jessica? One twenty? One thirty?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the thirty or so people inside, the familiar aroma of spices and good cooking, and the hushed play of children was extraordinarily comforting, the way wakes were, or weddings or baptisms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A good cop, after all, wasn’t the one who ticketed you for doing thirty- three miles an hour in a thirty-mile-an-hour zone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahmad was a ship captain, had been for thirty years, piloting tankers and ocean liners in every conceivable body of water, and he knew as much as anyone about storms, their trajectories and power. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

About thirty men, all armed with spears, set off after the trackers through the tall grass. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, by the way, did I mention that the Andruss triplets are thirty years old? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Simpson had been the art teacher for something like thirty years. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“That was your principal, Dr. Johnson. She wants to see both of us in her office tomorrow morning, at seven- thirty sharp.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thirty kids in the classroom—all juniors and seniors—were only a few years younger than me, and I was afraid they wouldn’t respect me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Up to thirty feet in length, the Hebridean Black is rough-scaled, with brilliant purple eyes and a line of shallow but razor-sharp ridges along its back. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken him thirty minutes and he was almost back where he had started, but shining the flashlight around him, he saw why Ian Rider had sent him the long way around. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the span of thirty seconds, my victory has been tossed into someone else’s hands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I head down the hot sidewalk at eight thirty in the morning wondering what I’m on do with the rest a my day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes people are just here for two. Definitely not more than thirty.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Picked up another magazine and flipped through it in under thirty seconds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And thirty feet up on the gray shoulder he saw a series of little erosion caves. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many states—more than thirty, in fact—had passed laws protecting the confidentiality of a patient’s medical records, but Maryland was not one of them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“They spoke outside. They walked our property for thirty or forty minutes.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She reappeared thirty minutes later, drained, back in a modicum of control. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At its peak, there were around 150 active members of the Youth Corps in Durham, with a core group of perhaps thirty highly committed individuals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot of information about the Heart in thirty- two books and I read it all. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the Daltons were bringing you home. It’s not even eight thirty.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her count reached thirty she knew that they were under even the canals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A cold front had entered New York City the night before, and temperatures had plunged into the thirties. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Knowing that their slaves were likely to die by the time they reached their thirties, Louisiana sugar planters were extremely selective—they bought only healthy-looking young men in their late teens. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

At five thirty, Dad parallel parks in the space in front of our house and goes into the backseat for his briefcase. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I have been driving this Allah-forgotten taxi for thirty hours,” says the driver. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In the living room, about thirty or so Bengalis have taken their seats. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We fell in love doing arabesques on a tightrope thirty feet in the air.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Within thirty seconds, it oc-curred to him, O’Brien would be back at his interrupted and important work on behalf of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We were finally formally arraigned and all thirty of us pleaded not guilty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest looked sixteen and the oldest, thirty, and all were swarthy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recalled that it was Jefferson himself who had first encouraged him “to write something upon Aristocracy” when they were together in London thirty years earlier. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Less than thirty minutes later, they were at the bank. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to see the two coyotes following, about thirty feet to the rear, slightly to either side. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The prefect is head of a section which is thirty boys from the same lanes and streets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If it didn’t start raining soon, all the livestock would have to be sold, like in the thirties, when buyers came from Albuquerque and Gallup and bought the cattle and sheep for almost nothing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after almost thirty minutes of typing, deleting, and typing again, she came up with something that seemed reasonable. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I noticed the oven timer still had thirty- five minutes to go. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

And so we know that particles that were thought to be “elementary” thirty years ago are, in fact, made up of smaller particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get home that night until after six thirty, and I was a little scared when I found my mother there. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She returns to her mother, who has staked out a position in line, only about thirty from the front—folding chair and all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It takes about two and a half hours to get to Kramer, Indiana, population thirty. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You’re late to his class, you get docked in a very big way: thirty points off the midterm. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Can you program the flashlight app to flash once every thirty seconds or so?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even from here, thirty feet away, I know that the reality of her is going to match my memory. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The only problem is our guy is down by thirty points in the polls,” I said as the two of us began to crack up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Before long all thirty or so bears and all their armor were on the narrow shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That she didn’t respect him for being thirty- five and still a student. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was another group shot, of himself and the thirty French kids he had taught in a boarding school near Lille. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This was really unusual—he typically didn’t get off work until five thirty in the evening—but he had to get some papers for work he’d forgotten at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Precisely at that point it vanished--and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He ran off and found the kids, and thirty minutes later he came back with my bike. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were at least thirty people there, including some really fly women. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But I did quit, partly because I got tired of running, and partly because the little ache I had known as a boy was no longer a little ache when I reached thirty. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid they would be expensive, but they’re mostly under thirty dollars. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A bearded man of thirty years or so was brought onto the stage by Stanchion and introduced to the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How could I expect you to know blessed Mr. Poe? He died a long while ago, before Lincoln. All of his books were burned in the Great Fire. That’s thirty years ago—1975.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The torso, the soccer player’s calves and thighs, the arms of the twenty-year-old I never was, I possess now in my thirties. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can watch, m’lord, but if enough climbers gain the top o’ the Wall, thirty men won’t be enough to throw them off.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At a height of 384 feet, its beacon would theoretically have been visible some thirty miles out to sea—more than a day’s sail away. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As soon as I set the hook, it smoked thirty yards of line off the spool. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

For example, it is not a place where people generally wait to have children until they are in their late twenties or early thirties—until their careers have lifted off. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The original plan was to go to school from eight forty-five to noon, then work at the bank from one to five thirty, as a part of the work-study program. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The first year I attended Stuyvesant, I went from noon until five thirty. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We were scheduled to fire our retro-rockets over the Pacific Ocean, west of Hawaii, whereupon we would begin a gradual descent and finally splash into the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida thirty minutes later. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to be in his middle thirties. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sammy grabbed Ben by the wrist and pulled him behind a tree thirty yards away from the automobile. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge tells us that the new citizens on the stage represent more than thirty nations. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Four thirty was the so-called “magic hour”—after that point, no more changes could be made to the next day’s paper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The firm was now more than thirty days late in paying my invoice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time to eat, I tell him, in case he has forgotten what six thirty means. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they managed to squeeze themselves through the narrow windows, they would have to drop thirty feet or more to concrete and brick below. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You said we needed a hundred and thirty dollars,” he told her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon," cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I liked the hours though: eleven in the morning to seven thirty at night, Monday through Thursday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had worked at an elementary school in Maryland for over thirty years, first as a math teacher, then as a librarian. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was holding the Lombard back and shouting, “You offer a usurious rate! Forty percent! Forty! My uncle offered thirty. Thirty is reasonable! Thirty is standard! But thirty is undercutting now?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I found sweet-tasting water I filled her tank, and thirty gallons of water weigh three hundred pounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley could count more than thirty seconds between the flash of lightning and the clap of thunder. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“This proposition is unorthodox, and against my better judgment, but the idea of a massage intrigues me, and I am rarely intrigued. However, thirty minutes is too short. Say...two hours.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale- swept vertex. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every thirty feet or so there is a neat, paved driveway going fifteen or twenty yards to nowhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The lake as big as the desert behind Lita’s house lies less than thirty meters in front of us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of men—in their thirties, I presumed—some women, and a few families with children five years of age and older. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His closely trimmed beard was shot with white, making him look older than his thirty- five years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As it was, Mr. Fender was checking his watch every thirty seconds. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Most people weren’t big fans of fasting for thirty days—each day from sunrise to sunset—but I loved it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day Uncle Tim gives us each thirty dollars and says we do good work. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

For the first time in almost thirty years, my picture and my words, and those of all my banned comrades, could freely appear in South African newspapers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By God, it was pretty hard—nearly thirty years ago now! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I saw his glove lying in the path thirty yards back and went to retrieve it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We sat there for thirty minutes until the vice principal came and drove us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She knew every splinter and crack in each of the thirty wooden floorboards. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t have the flu thirty minutes ago, when we were eating dinner.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cannon went off, a full thirty seconds late, and the man descended on me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the parade reached the Delhi Bridge, there were about thirty youngsters. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That boy must have snuck back in and stolen the paper, hoping I’d forget his name among the thirty thousand students I’m responsible for! Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

A channel that is one mile wide in the dry season can become thirty miles wide in the wet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and the 332nd Fighter Group took the war to the Axis powers from thirty thousand feet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But after another thirty minutes, they had not gotten noticeably closer. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lake Windsor Middle had about thirty kids on its team; Tangerine Middle has fifteen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pumpkin looked up, grinning, ‘I’d rather take those thirty lashes than ride a horse like that without no bridle.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now almost three thirty in the afternoon, and it would have been nice to have a Grapette soda and bite of hot dog. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Three thousand five hundred and thirty years ago. Give or take.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If Caesar could make it the thirty miles to Fletcher’s house, the shopkeeper pledged to convey him to the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“There are at least thirty different clubs here,” Tab said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knew that I didn’t have a great chance of getting myself out of this alive, less with Otto and Songololo, and much less with thirty bonobos herding alongside me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra heard the Master say quietly, “If he forces a vote, we could try to invoke the residence clause. He hasn’t been resident in the College for thirty weeks out of the last fifty-two.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His hand, which had been holding hers since about thirty minutes into the movie, was cramped and sweaty, but he didn't want to be the one to pull away. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He was about thirty pounds lighter then, a constant grin on his face, a man tasting the full feast of youth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Rafe just waved away her concerns, staring at her for almost thirty seconds. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A white man was not too unusual if he had a ten-, twenty-, thirty-, forty-, or fifty-thousand-dollar-a-year job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Charles put a letter in the post by six thirty in the evening, it would get to Down around noon the next day. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those thirty white people, rest their souls, have purchased an all-out invasion against the pro-independents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm another thirty feet in the air when I hear the crack and look down to see Cato flailing as he and a branch go down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They were written during the thirties, but much of it would still be up to date - after all, I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A woman who doesn’t have her first child until she is at least thirty is likely to see that child do well in school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

According to it, there are ten minutes until four thirty, and according to Aunt Pooh, who knows somebody who knows somebody, DJ Hype calls between four thirty and five thirty. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I have to pick up Sugar and get us to the party by six thirty to serve. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

September 22: Four women were arrested and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After thirty seconds, Seymour presents Welles, star of the program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Twenty feet up and about thirty feet away flapped the object of this insane race: a golden flag. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Was it just a coincidence that both victims had been wealthy Osage Indians, in their thirties? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Louis of France is not yet thirty, and already he is the greatest king in Europe. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now, on hot, smoggy summer days, visibility can be as little as two miles and never more than thirty. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Turkish Army is only thirty miles away—and no ships arrive from Athens to evacuate the refugees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I hear her say: "I work until six thirty." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If I waited until then to slip away, we’d have less than thirty minutes to run the dinghy back to Rado’s dock, grab our bikes, and race home. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of the thirty or so kids in my class, almost all of them were white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had made like twenty or thirty squares before Whit, finally, thank you Lord, cut the music. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I believe in oligarchy,” and thirty pencils wrote an approximation of the word “oligarchy,” knowing that it would appear on some test at some future time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clearing was small, maybe thirty square feet, and covered with a thick layer of leafy weeds growing close to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The housewarming party was scheduled for the last Saturday in October, and they had invited about thirty people. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The team had enough food for thirty days, but they were burning calories so quickly, they were constantly ravenous. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After an “intense courtship,” Megan and Scott marry, when she is twenty-six and he is thirty. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone—literally every kid in attendance, twenty or thirty of them—was gathered around, shouting and bidding on the goods inside. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And so they did—perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Naturally there are a few smashups every day. The speed limit is eighteen miles in the city, but everybody goes thirty to thirty five, or forty, even in the down-town section.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Because we refused, duh. He had thirty wives already. Didn’t you know those women were his wives?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The turkey goes in at ten thirty—covered in butter and salt and pepper and celery and carrots and onions. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But at Point Comfort we will have only about thirty men to feed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A Chinese grandmother leads an army of thirty thousand guerrilla warriors against Japanese invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was starved beyond recognition when the first British soldier walked through the barracks door, only thirty kilos. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I got most of the work done in plenty of time for John and me to meet the Pigman down at the Staten Island ferryhouse by eleven thirty that morning. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had a little pointed chin beard now, and threads of silver in his dark hair, though he was still shy of thirty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, about thirty of the world’s most pathetic mongrels were slinking around the immediate neighborhood with hard-ons. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Now, I won’t officially become a man for thirty more days. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s the first horse my father ever had. He’s thirty years old.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong is that it’s ten fifteen and you were supposed to be on the hall thirty minutes ago and no one knew where you were.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Blizzards came and the temperatures dropped to thirty and forty below zero, and those who stayed at hunting camp spoke only in Eskimo and did only Eskimo things. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sound like me thirty years ago,” Manet chuckled. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the car, Dad asks if we want to go back to school as it’s only eleven thirty in the morning. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Safer goes back into the kitchen and reappears thirty seconds later with his flask. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But just when it looked like the Lastrygonians were about to get overwhelmed, the next wave surged out of the maze: thirty, maybe forty dracamae in full batde armor, wielding spears and nets. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Words have been what I have worked with for more than thirty years now. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

After school, Felix and about thirty other kids stood in a semicircle waiting for their names to be called for a team. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was about thirty, pale and thin, with glasses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have a strategy meeting in fifteen minutes and I have a key, so I don’t care how naked you are, if you don’t answer this door in the next thirty seconds, I’m coming in.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Central Mexico alone supported some thirty million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The New Orleans Police Department had put out a nationwide request for law enforcement help, so Gonzales agreed to go, along with about thirty other officers from Albuquerque. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was seven- thirty in the evening and not yet dark. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman looked to be in her thirties, with dark hair and dark skin. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His name was Benjamin Driscoll, and he was thirty- one years old. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine thirty Lupita heard the rattling sound of Lucky’s car pulling into the yard. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if the whole country puts its mind to it, we can get you married before you’re thirty.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I must have served at about thirty baptisms and about the same number of weddings and funerals. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, the Fourth of July, the boys left the Princeton shell house for their race a little before six thirty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, out of a thousand people, there were only about a hundred and thirty warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the pool, a massive statue stood thirty meters tall, a globe held aloft in her left hand and a staff in her right. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They are fierce predators that can swim up to thirty miles per hour,” Matt is proclaiming. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

—Well, the game was over ’bout nine- thirty and we was till in a good mood ’cause we won big—by something like forty points, so we was gonna celebrate. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just two thirty, forty-five minutes before anybody but me expected her to be out. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

To protect himself, he bought a heavy coat made of horse leather that weighed more than thirty pounds; he hoped it would be thick enough to deflect a knife attack. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You weren’t supposed to turn it on unless you were going at least thirty miles per hour. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stood there at the top of her stoop, which thirty seconds ago felt like standing at the top of a mountain, and I crumbled, shocked, as the glow of the day faded to nothing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Countess would never see thirty again and that was fact. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If thirty minutes go by, start digging in with your spoon so you can get the hell out of there. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

That was in another hiding place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And he turned back to his own writing—probably a sermon about hell’s torments, one of which was writing a short essay in thirty minutes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We had to spend it all in thirty days, and then we’d get an actual reward. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is an amazing sight to see as many as thirty young chimpanzees all gathering around the Congolese staff for their morning mugs of milk or their evening balls of sticky rice. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z