The Isles of the Blest, for people who had chosen to be reborn three times, and three times achieved Elysium. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We have a big family, nine in all: Pa, Ma, three boys, and four girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate three helpings, though the dinner gathering was as quiet as a chess match. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them waited and listened for footsteps from within the house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She tries to count my fingers, then tries to count her own, but all she knows is one, two, three, five, so she says that over and over. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He closed the house at two-thirty and was in bed by three—but he couldn’t sleep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And our three girls romped and played with the heavyweight contender. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time a car pulled away, Dicey looked to be sure her three were still there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long lines, three and four abreast, funneling to the meeting hall, were kept in strict ordfer by Fruit of Islam men communicating by walkie-talkie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure scared us that time, man. Skinny as you are, it took three guys to pull you off him.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“To DC. It’s been three weeks. It’s hard not having him here.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But three out of four birds that walked out of the white box looked just like his: gunsmoke gray. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But not if there can only be three. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Not even Hodor could climb down into a sinkhole with Bran heavy on his back, and Jojen could no more walk three leagues than run a thousand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I hear the Welsh sentry outside. We can count the paces and can tell how far away he is. One, two, three, four—” They counted forty paces. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The bomb blasts were down to only two or three a year, and you could pass by the Green Square without seeing the aftermath of a Taliban killing spree. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So it’s up to me and it didn’t take but five or six maids before everbody already know what I’m on ask before I get three words out my mouth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

No one could make them hatch if I refrigerated them for three days first, could they? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps three meters away from him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The parents sat at a table with three—no, six—children. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been asking her to meet me at Listening Rock for three weekends straight, ever since school had started again, and finally, she’d said she could. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought there was fire enough there to burn three bulls. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Watch out for your mouth,” was all that Pilar Ternera brought out after spreading and picking up the cards three times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before the robbery at this bank, Day had already appeared on our records three times. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I have three of them. All day they are running around, troubling their mother.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to get cleaned up. We been three days on the train with no chance to wash or • • • “Comment t’appelle?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since starting at D-C three months ago, he’s been in—for lack of a stronger word—a funk. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One of these three centres was held to be the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stayed in the laboratory for three months, hoping the radiation level in the air outside would go down, but it did not. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

By 1711, the company was shipping 200,000 pounds of tea a year to England, and just forty years later, that had reached three million pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I'm getting out of Dell's car three days later and the monthly maintenance man has trimmed the lone jade plant by the front entrance of the apartment building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

More words were exchanged, hot words and dark, and the whole thing ended with the arraignment of the three black men, and an appointment to appear in civil court Thursday next. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t believe how happy he felt; he had Ron back on his side, he’d gotten through the first task, and he wouldn’t have to face the second one for three months. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It threw up yellow dust for three skips and then skidded off. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then all three Witchlings hovered up and landed with hard thumps against the ground on the other side of the river. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We might describe these three reconciliations as attempts to explain nature’s past, present, and future through the lens of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sunlight poured through the three wide windows that faced the street and spread gold across the gray rug, the French-style sofa, chairs and end tables, the polished, glass-topped coffee table, and along the white walls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The three men left, and Brian looked at the digital clock on the table in the entryway. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Above these were three other names that belonged to complete strangers as far as Jethro was concerned. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of them’s at the bottom of a deep grave, with a broken ankle. The other three are, well, they’re a long way away.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I recognized the three boys who got out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

For three days, Yakima was paralyzed and cut off from the world, its airport closed, its approach roads impassable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We walked for three days more, stopping at restaurants when we came to them, and camping in shelters, which once again we had mostly to ourselves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls got up and ran as fast as they could. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I liked the thought that three billion bugs fly over my head in a single month in summer or that an inch of soil might contain millions of creatures from thousands of different species. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m three years older than you, which is a lot now but won’t always be.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After three years of silence, banning, and internal exile, I looked forward to the chance to speak out before the people attempting to judge me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three pastries fell on top of it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had been up for examination three days before. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone knowed ’bout her and talked ’bout her ’cause word was that out of the three hundred families here, she was the only one that never had to borrow no money to get her land. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was the last of three key cases heard since the camps had opened. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was gone three days, and when he came back, he brought the black trash bag from her bedroom closet. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

‘He disappeared from his bed three nights ago together with his wife and ten children.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A later commentary tried to reconcile the three commentaries by the method of pilpul, the result being a happy one for someone who enjoyed pilpul but quite strained as far as I was concerned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg spent the next three months in a hospital bed, recovering from a severe concussion and a broken knee. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It took her about three minutes to eat the entire tray of food and drink the orange juice beside it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After the longest three minutes of my life, Supreme takes his earbuds from his ears, unplugs them from my phone, and hands my phone back to me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was now ten minutes to three and Gus had not come. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If just one of them moved, I thought, the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The three guys, who I sort of knew from classes and lunch, were all talking about going to a freak show in the back of the carnival. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who did were sentenced to three years in jail. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got Mr. and Mrs. Diamant up at three thirty, before the house was stirring. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Pauline, the oldest of us, owns her own home, but she sleeps on the living room sofa, while her four grown children and three grandchildren fill up the bedrooms. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother came to my bed one night bringing my three- week-old baby. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yessuh. All three of us went upstairs when I brought ’em in in the car. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The total for the three of us came to fourteen dollars, and was packed up and ready to go in four minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The bedroom fired out and filled in three seconds. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hint: of the seven major explanations on the list, only three can be shown to have contributed to the drop in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was comparatively quiet while leading the three through a long corridor and down a flight of stairs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Geyer realized to his astonishment that Holmes now was moving three different parties of travelers from place to place, shoving them across the landscape as if they were toys. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I just finish baking three cherry pies, ’Lijah, and Mr. Brown tells me he been having a powerful yearning for some perch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

For three weeks we trudged all over that desolate land with enormous loads on our backs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what if, at that point, it realized it had three highly edible humans sitting on its back? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They went upstairs to get ready while we three men stood there shuffling the hot pebbles with our feet. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He glances at Jacqui, and reluctantly adds, “All three of you.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

About three o’clock of that day, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up three train tracks and half a dozen small dinosaurs and quickly tossed them in a toy box nestled under the sofa arm. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah,” I heard him say, even though I couldn’t find him with my flashlight, “Janet, the older one, she loves cereal. She’d eat it three meals a day if we let her.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In that bedroom at night, that man, who had never raised his voice to me, unleashed the fury of three ancestors at me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually they seem like three unwilling children who’ve been dressed up and dragged to a party when they’d rather be jumping rope, ha! I quite sympathize.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Grandpa entered along with Lena, who carried three mugs on a tray. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he was losing his balance—it even made him stumble once or twice—for the buildings were two or three degrees out of the vertical, all leaning the same way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Returns with a dish full of jasmine rice with three chunks of butter melting into it. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All three of them were acutely alert, ramrod straight in their seats, listening to every sound of the wood, looking through every shadow, catching every scent, searching for something out of place. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She could see no more than two or three yards in the murk, and even Pantalaimon’s owl eyes were helpless. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With me, it’s regular checkups, new filter every fifteen hundred miles, and new oil every three thousand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were three children, and they stared at Penelope with the shining, watchful eyes of wild things. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

By the time my father had been in the hospital three weeks, the evenings had become almost an automatic routine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jorge wasn’t much older than me, but he already had three children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize that three summers ago the most exciting moment of my life was welcoming guests to The Children’s Home?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At least three days a week, Monday would hang with me, and we would use the computers to watch music videos on YouTube. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

From my pocket, I pull the three silver bullets Tess had given me, the three bullets from my hospital break-in. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Santa Anita Handicap was a grueling mile and a quarter, and Seabiscuit still had more than three quarters of a mile to go. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Okay, all three of us will talk to Coach," my cousin says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the move back to New York, nine years later, three months after my mother died, that threw me, and threw me terribly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Hazel, never taking his eyes off it, heard three or four of the others coming up behind him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them turned to stare into the darkness ahead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Celia ran around it three times for every wish, until the tree repeated itself like a flashing deck of cards. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my tote sack and pulled three chunking stones out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But as soon as a tour called his name, he’d pack up two of his three road guitars, his alligator boots, his fancy show vests, and his brown porkpie hat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I was so scared. How can you read aloud well when you’re terrified? He made me try three times. Oh, I felt so sorry for them—I don’t want to talk about it!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I thought there would be more. We came at them three times, and three times they threw us back.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

David Hume, in his 1748 book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, wrote, “There appear to be only three principles of connections among ideas, namely Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It looks like we’re going to have a guest tonight. Can you show her up to room three?” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I left right after the three o’clock count whistle, I returned before the next. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange being at the Rock Hall marina, given all that had happened there almost three months ago. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The explosion was seen on Earth with the naked eye for three months. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he wore number three just like me.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“That makes three days in a row you’ve missed. I’m sure your teachers will understand, but no more, you hear?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were glowing red, and even from three feet away I could feel the heat they gave off. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But, to his surprise, after three weeks on the job, he was asked to take the final oath of secrecy. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

According to a provocative insight by Paul MacLean, the higher functions of the brain evolved in three successive stages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d lost our home, but you three were still cheerful, and I tried to forget my worries and be content with that. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

During my time at the Clinic nearly three decades ago, Dr. Luce ran me through a barrage of tests. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the back yard With three red Chickens, the goat With a tin can For a bell drinks From a rain puddle. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, around three o’clock that second afternoon they let us in and we found the social worker. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd been living in the cabin about three months when she was awakened one morning by someone kicking open the cabin door. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He nodded over at a lady from Moscow who had run away from her husband and who never came down to the courtyard, but watched from a window three stories up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Together we recited the words “Hello, I am your American mother. Hello, I am your American father. You have three American brothers. Their names are Adam, Erik, and Teddy. Teddy plays the piano.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot imagine doing this three times a day for the next four weeks. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On June 22, Federal Judge Lemley granted the school board’s request for a stay in the integration order for Central High School, delaying it for three and a half years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the three listening, only Poirot caught the nuance of hesitation in the reply. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could probably have three feet of empty space between us if we wanted to. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It only took three pieces, which isn’t great, but who cares? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Floating in the abyss, maybe three hundred feet below, was a doorway of black marble, leading into some sort of large room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“My dad got us those to carve if you want,” I say, pointing to the three pumpkins squatting on the doorstep. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the time Fischer was notified of the new arrangement, he’d already made reservations on all three flights going back to New York on the day of the third game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the blanket is unconditionally guaranteed for a period of three years by Sears, Roebuck and Company, Chicago, Illinois. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three hours the grin faded from her face. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three need to be running at all times, but the rover's batteries can't handle that load for long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was easy to do because Rufus only had two shirts and two pairs of pants and Cody only had three shirts and two pairs of pants. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Problemo The girls let down their ponytails, high-five their coach, then walk over to shake our sweaty palms after beating us five to three. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I'm thinking of those three kids hanging on to Cecelia when they took her away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her in my wedding sari, her eyes darkened with kohl, her cheeks and lips rouged, and designs painted on her forehead, was like seeing myself again as I had been almost three years before. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost three in the morning and the city was still. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A high school graduation photo that showed a mouth full of braces and a bad haircut, posted by a grandmother who had blogged a total of three times. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They died from the scarlet fever three month past.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In Honduras, Leti and her three children ate once a day—usually two pieces of bread with a watery cup of coffee. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We share with three families: fifteen people in one tent. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow had seen the warden a handful of times in the last three years. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Plus Mrs. Franklin has three cats, and they’re the meanest cats you ever saw. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He comes back with a few interested families, but no one wants to take in all three of us and we would rather brave the cold than be separated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again Basil vanished only to reappear some three yards out on the common. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

James also signed Steve with three little lines coming up from the second e like a cowlick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I ordered two mediums to cover the three of us, both with pepperoni. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

For three years, from sixth to eighth grade, Ben would go to the courts adjacent to the Centre Theater in Alexandria, Virginia, to learn the fundamentals from boys much older and stronger than he. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was brought in I was half conscious. The Count was giving the orders, but three soldiers were carrying me. They know too.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One Tuesday morning four hundred excited schoolchildren were packed like sardines inside three buses. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon all three men were watching the light grow, the flames twisting higher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks daily buses began to arrive from Reykjavik—sometimes two or three a day—filled with the gaping tourists that Bobby had so desperately wanted to avoid. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The three boys gave up all attempts at dignity and now were just trying to keep from bursting into laughter. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He has tried to enter the United States three times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dell went to night classes and after three more years got a certification for adolescent counseling, and that put him on the path to work in education. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The setup was ideal—exactly what they had been looking for during the three days it had taken them to hitchhike from California to Nevada and across Nevada and Wyoming into Nebraska. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three, and I chose the middle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At her glance, three girls rose and abandoned theirs in the far comer of the room beyond the dining tables. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then the three of us just sat there awhile, drinking and watching the fire, not really saying anything. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The plane they were escorting, a transport aircraft with good navigation equipment, landed safely; but the three Yaks ended up crash-landing in the snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They stood, the three mice, two with hoods and one without, and contemplated the abyss before them. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She opened the pack and pulled out three lovely sandwiches wrapped in wax paper, three apples, and, my goodness me, three ice-cold Coca-Colas. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock that afternoon, tufts of clouds had drifted in and the sun had slipped behind them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was smooth and grassclad inside, and there were no trees except three very tall and beautiful silver-birches that stood at the bottom of the bowl. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The three boys made a pact, promising one another that if one boy got caught, he would take all the blame and not implicate the other two. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them crashed in front of the television when they got home, and watched a sitcom about a family with twelve kids. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m applying to three schools in New York, two in Boston, and one in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Divide thirty-five dollars by, say, three weeks, minus Boseman’s share, and the lost bounty was a very small price to pay for silence and a restful mind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All three pointed to the one facing the kitchen. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sam gave Mrs. Tennyson an additional three onions, and she fed them one at a time to Mary Lou. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

You ask me the best place to live, I’d say right where we are, a little four-room house with hills on three sides. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could come home with stories of what had happened that day and not have a chorus of three naysayers to correct her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So just before three A.M., he checks into the Pennsylvania House Hotel, where he is assigned a double room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For six months after that, all I did was go to therapy three times a week and do light conditioning that didn’t involve the shoulder. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Through the outer courtyards and along the corridors we went, going with the crowd to whom this was evidently a nightly routine, and into a large vaulted chamber with arched entrances opening on three sides. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ’member looking out them front windows just waiting for Cholly to come home at three o’clock. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says, Over these three years, our leader has had the courage to face a Europe that was in danger of collapse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In just over three years, she solved a staggering twelve thousand secret messages for the Coast Guard and its allies in the Rum War. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But perspective also encouraged a new way of looking at the world in three dimensions and of recording what one had seen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy looked at the envelope, on which “personal” had been written three times in red ballpoint. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that oak trees have three strikes against them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us, though, weren’t the least bit shy about standing up for another round of applause. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Jane and Michael and Mary Poppins spread the crumbs in a circle on the ground, and presently, one by one at first, and then in twos and threes, the birds came down from St. Paul’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Fischer would now be the first non-Soviet or non-Russian in more than three decades to play for the title against the reigning World Champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the big earthquake happened, I was in a courtyard—our house with its two floors was on one side, and another bigger house with its wide three floors was on the other side. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With just three messages, the columns are shallow, and you can’t learn much. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Their hands had only three fingers and a thumb, with sharp black claws instead of nails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I didn't feel so much as a twinge of pain, despite having been flattened by a train three days ago. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“To help in raising and dowering her three daughters, as they are soon to be of marriaging age.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, the February supplement wouldn’t be out for another three days. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The gray-green surface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them tried to convey the sense of the pink live thing struggling in the creepers. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Buttoning the three buttons in front, she remembered suddenly how she had thought the dark blue dress Gitl had given her ugly, how she’d called it a rag. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking: with Morrill gone, I have perhaps three hundred men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Woody also checked out every single book from the five hundreds room about squirrels—all three subcategories under 599.36 for Sciuridae.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw the three Trementina sisters dancing around me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things between you three won’t always be this intense,” Mom said. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small fish swam everywhere, some narrow and long, some round, most of them three or four inches long, some a bit larger and many smaller. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least three of her so-called friends had even videotaped the show, and one of them stopped by after dinner to drop off the cassette. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Later, the three detectives silently drank papaya juice as they sat in Mr. Thirsty’s. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Less than three months later, on July 27, Robespierre himself was dispatched in the same way and in the same place, and the Reign of Terror swiftly ended. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I heard three clicks as the latches were undone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely, Dad. Besides, the freezer is getting dangerously low on fish — we’re down to a two, maybe three years’ supply.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The twelve of us that showed up had been able to put away only two or three feet of the pair of six-foot-long grinders wrapped in blue cellophane. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he's finally ready, I hand Quang-ha the cookie pan, which has the moist seeds, and I say: "Plant three. Equidistant. About an inch down." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And next to it is a floor lamp, a long black pole with three oval spotlights attached like the broad leaves of a rubber plant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I will count to three, and when I’m done, I will move on. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And often the court waited until the demise of two or three potters before searching out their replacements. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

After he left, I sat at the old square oak table in one of the three unmatching chairs and examined his small kitchen, with its dark paneled walls, bright yellow cabinets, and white linoleum floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the bell went for morning break I found I'd filled three sides. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And according to legend, a few minutes later, the employer and his guests heard three gun shots. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a long moment, the three of them stood alone, glowing like human lanterns on the dark bridge. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I made it to the gym parking lot in three minutes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It took three or four flights before you could pick out the subtle shapes of the land when you were high in the sky in the middle of the night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It took her just three minutes on the Internet and two phone calls before I heard Joey’s voice on the other end of the line. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“You guys! This is what I get for having three boys as my best friends.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

We have now considered examples of three contrasting areas, in all of which food production did arise indigenously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rob piled eight pieces of com on the cob, a mountain of mashed potatoes, eighteen chicken wings, and three pieces of cheesecake on his plate. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted the three dolls and held them to my sick uncle’s mouth, and when he breathed on them they seemed to squirm in her hands. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I had said one—“T’ad ta i”—we had gone three steps. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hotel’s register Geyer found an entry on September 30 for “three Canning children.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the three women were able to bring their children to the United States, some legally, others with smugglers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I drove past Holly Meadows three times before I finally found it—everything in the area was oak trees and ranch land, and Holly Meadows—lacking a sign at its entrance—didn’t stand out much. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Where Sesame Street tests a given show only once — and after it’s completed — Blue’s Clues tests shows three times before they go on the air. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In three dimensions, you just have a z axis as well. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, we took a suitcase full of food up to the attic and stayed there for three days, watching the city burn on my grandparents’ small black-and-white. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I did have a few cans of meat—three to be exact—and also some canned hash that he would have eaten in a pinch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Well, no one except you…and me…and Jessica makes three. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We are due to arrive between two and three in the morning; but already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late, so we cannot possibly get in till well after sun-up. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

From ramblers all on one level to three stories. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He estimated the power demand of the full-sized accelerator at 150,000 kilowatts, enough to light a city of three hundred thousand residents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The other three old people nodded their heads slowly up and down, and said, “Absolutely true. Just as true as can be.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dylan blows into his hand and three fiery butterflies burst into life. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There were three children, the six-year-old patient, and his two sisters, Mary and Anna, who were eight and five. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three times a week means a hundred and four times minimum, up to a hundred and fifty-six. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It doesn't seem possible that he's been gone for almost three years. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took three days to reach Suwon at the slow pace they walked. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Commander Jameson sits opposite me on the far side of our banquet table, and between her and Thomas are three of my Drake classmates. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was now nearly three hours after noon, and they had come only a few miles from the Gates. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Near three thousand of the devils. Wish we could have shot them all.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell three times and I couldn’t understand why because no one else was dancing besides Ellen and me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sergio’s grandmother made dinner, and the three of them stuffed themselves, and they watched Jeopardy! on television afterward. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And on the floors below us, in order of descent, were three small firms of computer dealers, attorneys, and real estate brokers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other three reached what they believed to be the summit at 4:00 p.m., by which time the clouds had become so thick that visibility was reduced to no more than 100 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘You knew I couldn’t help you any more. You should’ve found another way to keep going with the statue. But you wasted three days watching over me. Why?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I have no intention of dragging her into anything. I just want to make it plain to her that none of us have seen Bunny for three days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were only three types of communications that arrived by post: packages, official business, or letters from the eccentric—the only type of people who still wrote letters. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then the Lady unbraided one of her long tresses, and cut off three golden hairs, and laid them in Gimli’s hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d been there three months prior with a delegation out of Ohio. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was three days ago that Harvey had won two hundred francs from me shaking poker dice in the New York Bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ever since Momma had met Rufus and I told her about sharing my sandwiches with him she had been giving me four sandwiches and three apples for lunch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gone was the preppy athlete of her first three years. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The three Dominicans, a husband and wife and their business partner, agreed because Bodega had twice helped them make their rent. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

For three solid weeks I practically lived on the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know anyone—besides the human resources manager at my father's work—who had one car, let alone three. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The three of them press their pointed Vulcanoid ears to my bloated belly, and my belly speaks to them in guttural evil growls like Satan himself has purchased a time-share in my intestinal tract. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“How about the third person? The person who got letter number three?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cage had two floors, one level with us, the other at the back, higher by about three feet, that led outside to the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For three years, Ellis thought of Jones Point as the ideal spot for he and his companion Sampson, a 9-year-old golden retriever, to fish and play. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It took them three days to carry it to Cannery Row, a distance of five miles, and they camped beside it at night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long minute the three of them looked at her, Theodora and Luke curiously, the doctor gravely. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

If, after whatever matter it has lost to space, a star retains two or three times the mass of the Sun, it ends its life cycle in a startlingly different mode than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Furies. The three worst monsters from the Underworld. No problem. No problem. We’ll just slip out the windows.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At about three a.m. on July 5, 2010, the grave of Bobby Fischer was opened by a team of experts from the Reykjavik Official Cemeteries Department. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The north wall was lower, and on the stone ledge were three metal figures. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Light my cigarette,” and three or four matches would be struck at the same time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“About three miles out past the river; he’s circling around to meet up with the female.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Caleb peels the square of fabric away, revealing first the Abnegation tattoo on my right shoulder and second, the three birds on my collarbone. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Of the three thousand square feet of livable space, fully half of it was the living room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Robb had given the Blackfish three hundred picked men, and sent them ahead to screen his march. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few days prior we had two carts and three horses but some German soldiers we encountered had taken one of the wagons and two horses, claiming they were needed for the war effort. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“All women and children have to leave Hankow today. You have about three hours to pack and get ready.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And since I took that charge, King agreed to let me out. It made those three years worth it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Think of her three years ago, a weeping jelly of fear under fire. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

All three watched my hand with opened mouths. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we’ll all three of us just sit there watching TV together, not really talking anymore. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I hurled them off in the black void at my right, three more identical daggers instantly appeared in my hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Geryon shrugged, which was very weird since he had three sets of shoulders. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The three of them kicked their feet, jumped and stomped, so vigorously they rattled the photos on the walls. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know Glenn Burke wore number three until I was researching him and came across the photo of his 1978 Topps baseball card. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

‘But the day is getting darker instead of lighter: darker and darker. As far as I can tell, it isn’t midday yet, and you’ve only slept for about three hours.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

By the time the blankets were drying and I had washed the three smelly children, Eliza had gone out to care for the sick and Mother Smith had taken control. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a military craft, with three men aboard: a soldier, a man with a video camera, and one holding a microphone and a notebook. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

To distract attention from Finn’s teary face and from the fact that all three of us are just numb and clumsy and stupid right now? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When we got off in Cape May it was the first time in three weeks I had been on land, and I had sea legs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Even three stories up, Luke could see Matthew’s hangdog expression. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls were a little younger than me, and they seemed to adjust to me pretty quickly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There are three kids in the photo of a refugee family, but two of them could be about Mustafa's and my ages. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

All three of the sons of the fifth Aegon had wed for love, in defiance of their father’s wishes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The flowers swung in the light breeze, tickling her face as she crossed the terrace and carefully negotiated the three crumbly steps down to the gravel path. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure it's Windkloppel, Judge, I checked all my spellings three times over." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace would later wonder what the three of them must have looked like as they walked up the front steps of the house toward the front door, huddled together like a scared flock of ducks. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Thorn appeared with a plate full of chocolate chip cookies and balanced three orange fizzy drinks in her spindly arms before handing them to Seven and Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sullenly counted my money as I left the cobbler’s shop: three jots and a drab. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody comes down on their family tree from just those three, because God made a big flood and drowneded out the sinners. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kay and three other girls are here, too, but two are sixteen and the other is seventeen. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He stayed three days and then he walked out to the road and he looked down the road and he looked back the way they had come. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In 1993, three people rolled a measuring wheel along its entire length and came up with a distance of 2,164.9 miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the story of three regiments of aviators, only three out of a thousand aviation units fighting for a common cause. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They had a suspicion that he had waited outside the door, peering in at them for at least three hours before he stepped in, beckoned, and led them to his small office. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mourning regiment planted a little birch tree for the three young women over their grave. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As the climate warmed, the glaciers slowly melted and sea levels rose; within three thousand years, Beringia had again disappeared beneath the waves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The day before, I was a boy in a town three hours farther than that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We are still waiting for the potting soil, so Dell and I carry the three machines up to #28 and right away I start to take them apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Police have apprehended three teenage boys who were seen in the area on the night of the incident. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The One Stop was packed, with only three barstools open at the counter. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I would know those three opening chords anywhere. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The three dogs sat, waiting for Reginald to complete his walk down the red carpet. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The three of them picked their way through the forest for the rest of the afternoon, stopping only to drink from the streams they crossed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me that the three days a week that we meet, teacher-collaborators will instruct on core subjects. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

After months of talking about how much I wanted to help in Jordan, we arranged a trip to help Syrian refugees, many of whom have already missed school for three years. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The three jam themselves between a grate and an opening on top of a hopper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One huge branch had recently broken off and fallen, and three pine trunks lay bent double under its weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“On three,” said Harry, looking back down at the locket and narrowing his eyes, concentrating on the letter S, imagining a serpent, while the contents of the locket rattled like a trapped cockroach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

St. Augustine—who in his Confessions writes, “I came to the fields and spacious palaces of memory”—gave memory the honor of being one of the three faculties of the soul. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In a minute or so I felt myself being lifted up; and swinging back and forth in the net, I was carried with my three companions to the white truck I had seen earlier. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It sometimes seems to me there is a formula—about three compliments to one reproach—except that I know Volpe’s methods to be too instinctive for that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So, against our parents’ ongoing warnings to stay away from Bir El-Shami, the three of us agreed to sneak a look. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“After that, I did what I had to do to get by. Raised all three kids without a dime from their father,” Miss Esther said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The strangeness of Mr. Collins’s making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

They ate supper back where the trailers were parked, at a campsite that had only three trailers on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dina’s talking about a stir-fry that Molly has thrown together for the three of them after returning from the library in Bar Harbor: tofu, red and green peppers, black beans, and zucchini. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe three seconds later she started to heave, literally almost regurgitated into my mouth. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Grenn loomed over him, thick of neck and red of face, with three of his friends behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had taught Fezzik for three solid years before they mutually agreed that he was ready. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As he did, the three roads vanished and a new one suddenly appeared, heading in the direction that the sign now pointed. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He makes wooden boxes with compartments, each containing a different item: three pairs of outsized ladies’ panties in fluorescent colors, a plaster hand with long false nails glued onto it, an enema bag, a toupee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mark and Trina were halfway through their pancakes and deer sausage when they heard the familiar sound of the other three friends they’d picked up in the tunnels of New York. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After three days there was no sign that he had been hurt at all. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought three packs of peanut M&Ms from a vending machine and sat on top of her bags. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This much was plain from the moment his gang turned down the road to the big house and saw the three gallows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“For sure. But we could all three of us end up in juvie hall.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so proud of you—all three of you! Sit down—and let me just look at you! It’s been so long since we were all together!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At precisely three forty-five Mrs. Olinski locked the door to her house, got in her van, and drove to Sillington House. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

With them was the chief cook, the three undercooks, the sauce cook, the salad master, the souffle maker and a dozen dishwashers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was deadish for three whole days, and ended up missing every last performance of her dance recital. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All three of the would-be escapees were dead before Nurse gathered up the reins again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sam stayed on the farm for three days, pursuing the affections of Georgina to no avail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She spat on the spectacular pile of coins, put them in three canvas sacks, and buried them in a secret place, hoping that sooner or later the three unknown men would come to reclaim them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He would go on binges, three- or four-day hauls that were tough for everybody to handle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we dropped the twins off, the three of us went on to campus. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Believe me, you were. You and Bruce and Darryl and Don were all in that center ring,” he says, naming my three closest high school friends. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d never win a baby-crawling contest, but by the time I was three, I had learned to get across a room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Was it only three months ago that he had helped Sister Stephanie to get them over tail rickets? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Frank tackled his friends, and the three of them skidded across the cavern, landing at the edge of the ghost’s tunnel as rocks and spears flew overhead. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then sudses with all her heart those three or four ounces of gray hair, soft and interesting as a baby’s. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carefully pulled the blanket tautly over the three of us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whether there was two or three or twenty, he still must do what he had come to do. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They saw that they had only come some three or four miles into the forest: the heads of the trees marched down the slopes towards the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Someday, she was going to cost Eastern Shore plantation owners a huge amount of money by guiding three hundred of their runaway slaves to freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dona Ramonita paused and looked at the three of us carefully, making sure that all of us heard what she had to say. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The perhaps surprising answer is 2A, since there are three equally likely possibilities— older boy, younger girl; older girl, younger boy; older girl, younger girl—and in two of them the family has a son. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After doing this three times, she flipped him over on his back and asked Mama to bring her three eggs. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Argus to take me down to cabin three, so I could pack my bags for home. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The apple tree my dad planted took forever to have fruit. I’d walk past it every day for three years, just waiting.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The “One two three” rhyme, for example, uses all four maintypes of body percussion—stamping, clapping, patsching, and snapping—but not all of the types of body percussion need to be incorporated. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I fumbled in my pocketbook for the gilt compact with the mascara and the mascara brush and the eyeshadow and the three lipsticks and the side mirror. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A block ahead, he sees movement: three women carrying bundles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A tiger aboard and I had waited three days and three nights to save my life! Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I opened it to the first page and read the inscription Ben had made more than three years ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That left her with three dollars and fifty-nine cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day at that time, not so very long ago, three things happened and at first there appeared to be no connection between them. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but...you have three lines in this scene.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The serpent below, the jaguar in the middle, and the condor above, one sitting atop the other. And all three worlds are connected through the spiral.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Big windows adorned three full walls, so you could sip your hot drink and use the nosy-nelly spell, chisme, to observe your neighbors at the same time. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She gave me three invaluable gifts that day. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Ron and Hermione seem to think that the three of you are dropping out of Hogwarts,” she began in a light, casual tone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Male chimps, although they are only four feet tall when upright, are at least three times stronger than a grown man. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Omer was wearing a thick, white, long-sleeved T-shirt with three buttons at the throat, blue jeans, and purple high-topped tennis shoes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he spotted three Russian tanks, he shot at them with his Panzerfaust from behind a cellar door. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because they couldn’t be upset about something rational like Frank’s constant smoking or the fact that the three of us have to share a room together. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then three men climbed out, and she could hear what they said. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘Dad,’ I said, ‘the storm is three kilometres away. Even if it was nearer, your chance of being struck is approximately one in three million.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they all kept perfectly still for three seconds. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had been there three days and three nights. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another daughter and three sons followed, although one boy died of diphtheria shortly after birth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This woman’s got a plate of grits with fried whiting, biscuits in white gravy, three thick slices of beef bacon, and a side of candied yams with marshmallows and raisins. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

To move people and goods from place to place, Indians built networks of ruler-straight causeways and canals, some of them three miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were still three little china figures in the middle of the table. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Iorek held a small rock of some sort of ironstone in his left forepaw and struck it no more than three or four times on a similar one on the floor. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“When I checked that one table of Maskelyne’s, I worked every figure three times, just to be sure I was right!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother held three sterling silver serving pieces she had sewn into the coat. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then Miss Peregrine tapped the ground with her beak three times, then ten times, then five. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I want you two—you three—to always act kind and respectful. Just because your friends are using bad words doesn’t mean you should. Right?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Only three days ago, people were living here. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the testimony of the three robbers, and her own testimony, and, under oath, the storekeeper’s indecision, there was no evidence on which to convict him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Each pound to be launched required three pounds of propellant. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of his three tridents, only one remains, and it’s in Peeta’s hands. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not so long as that,” said I. “Two or three months at most.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

An inmate with three years in concentration camps behind him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lewis Powell, starving after three days of sleeping in the woods, instantly realizes he has made an error. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a miracle the producers were able to cobble together enough entertaining footage for three weekly shows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You rogue! You traitor! Jo, how could you?” cried the three girls, as Snodgrass led her friend triumphantly forth, and producing both a chair and a badge, installed him in a jiffy. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain and dirt had blended into a heavy goo along the rail; breaking from the three post, Seabiscuit would be right down in it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I send the message and wait around the computer, organizing the pills into groups of three, then ten, when really I’m hoping for something from Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wrote two or three a day sometimes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The first was less than three feet high. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

All of its internal life exists within three paper-thin layers of tissue—the phloem, xylem, and cambium—just beneath the bark, which together form a moist sleeve around the dead heartwood. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had had three weeks of happy exemption from Mr. Elton; and Harriet’s mind, she had been willing to hope, had been lately gaining strength. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I was three steps from the door handle when I heard voices inside the office. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

To commit “a seven-three” was to use seven words when three would do, and a “ninety-nine one hundred” meant quitting on a nearly completed job. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This had been going on for three grades now. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb followed me eight years later, after losing three of his fingers to a table saw because he was drinking on the job. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The commonness of his name was a consolation, too; there were three Henry Smiths in any given oil field of reasonable size. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Porter, Guitar, Freddie the janitor, and three or four other men were exploding, shouting angry epithets all over the room. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men laughed in the slow and easy way that three men laugh at one. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each of the three camps where they’d been imprisoned had been different, all awful, but not in exactly the same ways. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were many seats and the three sat together. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, by 1243, he managed to buy three hundred pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I get twenty when I add three plus one, which is four, and multiply four times five. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He leaped down the staircase, three steps at a time, and skidded to a halt, searching for a way out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the hospital everyone's suspicions were confirmed: my arm was fractured in three places. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The three of us were together again, without any leftover weirdness from being apart. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

That was always good for three and a half minutes before they caught on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He used three adoption studies, two American and one British, each of them containing in-depth data about the adopted children, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Peewee paid them three hundred piasters, about three dollars, for four bottles of the hair stuff and the feet stuff. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reminisced that three years ago no one would have even thought of locking their doors at night, let alone barring them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

August 22 American Address Our cowboy in an even taller hat finds us a house on Princess Anne Road, pays rent ahead three months. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Emerging from their houses, locals found the land rolling in waves up to three feet high and opening up in fissures several feet deep. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He found the tall house on the side of the hill, and he examined the three bodies he found there, and he studied the pattern of the knife-wounds. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He talked about video games for three horns before telling me he was getting back together with his ex-girlfriend from Indiana. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

So, at three in the morning, the attorney parked his Model T at the ranch and went to sleep in the car. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When she was done she stood the three dolls around the light of the flickering candle, and I saw three women. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, three mounted figures appeared on the hill just above Port Conway. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next example is three lines of dactylic hexameter scratched onto a drinking cup: “I am Nestor’s delicious drinking cup. Whoever drinks from this cup swiftly will the desire of fair-crowned Aphrodite seize him.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boundaries of these three countries are nothing but ten feet of fog. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In fact, all three had a single cause: the telescope, whose impact was the same for anyone who looked through it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, wriggled her hips, and moved another inch as Frankie squatted down and yelled for Z to grab the desk and pull it up on the count of three. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I let Too Bad beat me three times. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fell like a rock—straight toward the pavement three hundred feet below. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A high school, he believes, is composed of “the three A’s”: the highly academic kids, the artists, and the athletes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I put on my Sunday dress and the three of us walked to church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The three other men in the corral still had hold of the reins. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe she'd turn right and head down the three steps to the kitchen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He got twenty dollars to put tape on the bridge of his glasses, wear too-short pants, and don argyle socks for three days. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Genovese was chased by her assailant and attacked three times on the street, over the course of half an hour, as thirty-eight of her neighbors watched from their windows. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also felt guilty about the three pens I’d stolen, but only for a second. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wes ran up the three white marble stairs that led to the front door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The visitors poured through the castle gates in a river of gold and silver and polished steel, three hundred strong, a pride of bannermen and knights, of sworn swords and freeriders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I visit the Commander two or three nights a week, always after dinner, but only when I get the signal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour for nearly three weary days he had jogged up and down, over passes, and through long dales, and across many streams. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I went through every possible clothing combination I own, but somehow none of my dozens of black rock-band T-shirts seemed to match with any of my three identical pairs of Old Navy jeans. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shift the gun three inches to the left and fire at his arm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Please, I need three hundred to get my son out of jail. I don’t have anything else. I’ve pawned everything!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were two or three commercial subscription libraries in Oxford, but no free public library, and Malcolm wouldn’t be the only young person whose hunger for books had to go unsatisfied. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After two hours, three cuts, several scraped knuckles, and endless holes, we had only eight snails to show for our efforts. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Rose asked, reading from a huge stack of three- by-five cards in her hand. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Over the next three days, he traveled less than a hundred miles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The long hair was pulled forward and tied into two droppy pugs which protruded three or four inches from each ear. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valentina spent three days in space, making 48 orbits around the Earth. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you know that Rastafari is a small offshoot of the three main Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Any of these will run you three to five dollars.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d tried standing her ground in the beginning, but three against one was never a fair fight, and she’d quickly learned her lesson. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I picked up a stone and threw — one, two, three, four! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

A contemporary philosopher has distinguished between three sorts of facts: brute facts, language-dependent facts and institutional facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I got to the batdeground and saw die three radioactive graves, but when I moved the rock on the first one and dug a little bit down I didn’t hit one dinosaur, not one! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed the old man a hundred thousand Afghanis, or the equivalent of about three dollars. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Michaelis and several other men were with him--first four or five men, later two or three men. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The tip had been hammered flat, and a jagged blade, three feet long and rusty, had been welded into place. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The most ingenious craftsmen of them all, he decided, were the three dwarfs known as the sons of Ivaldi. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Soon the three of them were trekking past the Washington Memorial Chapel, Russell and Piper with their bag, Maniac with his satchel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the shower seemed to have been designed for someone approximately three feet, seven inches tall, so the cold water hit my lower rib cage—with all the force of a dripping faucet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Soon they saw a group of three young black men and C.P. once again pulled over. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them stood like that for a long time, looking out at the world. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed like I was cooped up for hours, but it probably wasn’t even twenty minutes before Shelly tapped three times on the side. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly, thoughtfully, I took up catching the hedge apple again, One, two, three..., but I wasn’t really paying attention to my counting anymore. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

With hardly a ripple, Winifred and three of her otters slid into the water. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I politely thanked Sir Lawrence for accepting me and told Max I would be back in three weeks for the start of the Michaelmas term. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I was only three or four years old then. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I apologized to Kim on the way out, and asked her to please apologize to Black on behalf of the three of us. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Once you have three people you may as well have a hundred. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Shadow felt as if a weight were suddenly lifted from his back: three old men were enjoying themselves, riding the world’s biggest carousel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I start to dial Dad's number three times, and three times I stop. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scurried over with three glasses of fruit juice before busding off to wrench a broken beer bottle out of someone’s hand. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was slow moving—the water was about two or three feet deep and some twelve yards wide. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each “house” had three floors and, greatest blessing of all, each inmate had his own room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor space was barely big enough for us, and those three other guys were monsters, anyway. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In a clearing, two hundred feet from the shed, were three people—a man, a woman, and another, younger woman. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There were ten in the class: a bunch of juniors and seniors, one sophomore, and three freshmen, with me being a strange new addition. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“She’s just about ready to shear. Paul, I’m glad you remembered that. If I order it today, Henderson’s will have a new one in three or four days.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I was on my mom’s until primary three, then my dad said we needed to get our own passports,” Osahon said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And then I fell deeply, endlessly asleep and slept until three in the morning, when the Colonel woke me up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His way of telling you something was to stare at you for three seconds and then grin nervously like you’ve misunderstood each other. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inmate, once “written up,” faced three or four days of constant confinement until his hearing, and then possibly weeks or months more if the Adjustment Committee agreed that he was guilty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she takes about three minutes and tells the condensed version of how Bobby became a fugitive from the law. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These are the dwarfs Ben tried to buy,” the seijeant told the spearmen, squinting, “but the big one ... best bring him too. All three.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He reads the letter three times before he sits at his desk to compose his reply. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before the fever, a letter could travel by fast post from his home to the city and a reply be received in three to six days. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Burning down the palace, the palace of the king who had three beautiful daughters. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I peered over the seats in front of me at Jessica Carter, three rows ahead. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Electing to descend must have been supremely difficult for these three clients, as well as for Frank Fischbeck, who’d turned around hours earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"At the Crillon. Harvey was just a little daunted. Hadn't eaten for three days. Doesn't eat any more. Just goes off like a cat. Pretty sad." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We’ve done three major things in our life now: this book and our two documentaries. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a breakfast of three biscuits and one can of water, I read what the survival manual had to say on the subject. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph didn’t say anything, even though Nick Porter and Brian Boss both laughed like it was so Sometimes, Coach Swieteck was watching those three guys too. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Madame O’Malley had left us with an entire page to answer the question, but I figured I’d covered it nicely in three words. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For three more days the siblings went door to door asking for help. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fear, certainly: she was just three years old when a B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, forever linking the name Hiroshima with annihilation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The man had been through this drill two or three days before, and assented. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sciola rummaged for a light, found it, got his cigarette lit after two or three tries. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of us, she wanted to serve suppers, and scold servants, and set aside money in her almari to have her eyebrows threaded every three weeks at the Chinese beauty parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

President Bush had come to New Orleans two or three times at that point. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

María Eugenia, the oldest of the three little sisters, has joined us at the front window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Suppose they got two or three hundred for the old Chevrolet. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three of them in the row behind us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once we drove to the Outer Banks for a vacation when Jeffrey was three, and he stayed up until after midnight on the way down. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had become the largest industry in the world, the most productive, the most sophisticated, outproducing the Germans by more than three times and the Japanese by nearly five. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The three of them reached Baby at the same time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My daily routine never changed: Open the store at seven, school till three, come straight home and work till ten, then flop to sleep. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is taking a long time, much longer than she ever imagined, which is likely going to be problem number three. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even if he was being generous, the Jew had likely meant three or four days at most. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Xhalal was reunited with Qendrim, his wife, and his daughter, and together they lived in the camp for three months, awaiting placement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The doorknob guards were three dried-out fish heads that someone had nailed to the door. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It is one of three things the defendant hasn’t counted on—the body itself, the bloody fishing gaff, and the mooring line he’d left behind in his haste to leave this scene of murder. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had another three children with his second wife, one of whom was married to the man I was going to work for. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I asked the boat captains about that. They said we could try, but it’s a tiny airfield. You have to charter a plane two, three weeks in advance.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The mountains, towering above her after three nights’ travel inland, seemed suddenly crystal clear, their snowy peaks catching the last rays of the setting sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One was a vegan; she ate three helpings of yams and most of the pumpkin bread that she brought. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

In the morning the rebels broke into the house and found his parents and three sisters. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“They say three were here, and I never saw a hair of them.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I become a robot who repeats how I knew Khalil since I was three, how we grew up together, the kind of person he was. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She ordered tea, and three pieces of toast and margarine, and strawberry jam of palest pink. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His current household consisted of his most recent wife and his three youngest children. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There were four nearby, three in Boston and one in Providence. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was up three flights of stone steps to Lord Ramsay’s bedchamber, one of the rooms the fires had touched but lightly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was a little late because Mrs. Mason had loaded me down with three hostas and five tall ferns “for your mother’s perennial garden.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They laughed together as Reznak sputtered, but the laughter ceased when Brown Ben said, “We caught three Astapori. Your Worship had best hear what they say.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m at three airless minutes when he says, “Well, then. The matter at hand.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The assistant arrived with three large bowls of food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only three of them, and they come only that one time. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pascal was almost three, picking up English like the smart little parrot he is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pound on the door—twice, then three times, then six times, as my mother told me to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat out on the porch as the stars were beginning to twinkle up in the Carolina sky and ate blackberry cobbler before supper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her mother had frowned with mild disapproval at first, but eventually, the three of them ended up laughing uproariously in front of the hearth that whole evening. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a locomotive, a tender, and three little boxcars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have three hundred thousand notes with you. Do you have any idea what that’s exchanging for?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They creaked, when Marian had creaked three times to account for Kay and Wart as well as for herself, one hundred times. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What three new things do you know, that you did not know before?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I feel so lousy, I don’t say three words to anyone on the boat ride home. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the steps three at a time and sped down Broad Street toward home. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My dad became really angry, and he not only whipped Chester but took away his learner’s permit for three whole months. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed—I couldn’t help it—and then they both turned red, and all three of us kind of wanted to disappear for a few seconds. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sent his mother three dollars every week. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Francis, as well as I, knew almost nothing about how inorganic ions were arranged in three dimensions. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The screen was full of floating asteroids and I'd've died in three seconds flat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Father says we have to do three rows before we can go home for dinner.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

This table gives approximate dates of widespread adoption of significant developments in three Eurasian and four Native American areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It took all three of us to break that glass.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I take a sip of water and I listen to the crickets chirping sex, sex, sex and I wonder what her life was like before these last three days. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

While we were waiting I saw a cockroach on the parquet floor that must have been at least three inches long. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Howard hired three guards to stand by the stall, one in the daytime, two at night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We take all. The fat man hires three ships for his little silverhair queen." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Briony was impressed by the muted response—such was the three men's worldliness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The whole thing could be finished in three days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three boats of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition ran from the force of the Southern Ocean back into the pack. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Most in the air, three or four on the ground always—this is anguish—let him go or kill me now!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued her piano lessons at three in the afternoon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she looked inside, instead of a steaming heap of fine white corn, she saw only three lone kernels, the ones she had placed in the pot day after day. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We went from a party of three to a double date. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I stopped working on it three years ago, when he married Linda, his administrative assistant. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“He dropped down three stories to the street and his bayonet stuck in the earth between two cobblestones.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Most often these dialogues took only a few minutes, but by the end of September there had already been two occasions when they had lasted more than three quarters of an hour. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Besides, there’s a reason a quest is usually limited to three demigods, right?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was no question about it: for the sort of country we lived in, a good dog around the place was sometimes worth more than two or three men. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a silent countdown from three, they each thrust a hand forward, smacking the side of the car. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two or three times I went out to the encampment to try to see him, but they wouldn’t let me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The best knowledge of the past three millennia. Anything you want to study, anything you want to be, my dear.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him, “What’s the best thing about it for you? Luis stood up to get us three more. When he sat down, he answered, “Just like you said. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door of the phone booth had been pulled closed, and the three of us were crammed inside on the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The woman introduced herself as Rosemary and brought them to a makeup area, where the three backup singers were smoking. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She hugged the three little girls and Aunt Pearl, then hooked her arm into Alfred's, kissed him on the cheek, and pulled him inside. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the stairs three at a time, flung open the door. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You think I can get three strikes in a row like I did last time?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Grace was forty weeks and three days when homecoming rolled around. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, two or three members of the Fugees would drop in five or so yards behind him, to form a safe area between Zubaid and the goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, all three of us agree on something. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is we did have an eclipse that summer, around three weeks before school started. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hour, two, three pass, and my eyelids refuse to get heavy. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe all three are knitted together, like the woolly blanket she’s working on. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The teeth were thoroughly brushed, followed by three rinsings of the mouth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With their kind parents dead and Count Olaf treating them so abominably, the three children were not used to kindness from adults, and weren’t sure if they were expected to do anything back. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘He’s been gone three hours. This hasn’t happened before.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the three months he rented our room, I’d never seen his bare back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Luke spent practically every second of the next three days either reliving his secret visit to Jen or planning another one. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Upward he bounded, up, two bounds, three, hardly slowing, until he was among the lower limbs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We three have been raised in good families, we have the opportunity to get an education and make something of ourselves. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If Piper had lived through three millennia, she would have gone loopy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“On the count of three, we open the zippers carefully, okay?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Gray urged all three to consider the hazards of contesting the charges in court. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It was another parlor, three times the size of the one downstairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the year’s end the family moved away, leaving an envelope containing three hundred rupees under Bibi’s door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Clay, seemingly calmer, replied, “She was my birthday gift this year. I wanted the three of you to see her.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing we did now was to go to a drugstore where my father ordered three ice-cream sodas. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is from Kingston and has three kiddies, all girls. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At seventeen, however, he met his Beatrice, who was three years his senior. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley earned three dimes that shone in her palm as brightly as medals for valor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The square, which was usually very busy, was almost deserted when the three children entered it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a dead tree, split in two by lightning, were perched three huge, black birds, too big for crows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once I’d counted out three stacks—one, two, three—then I didn’t have to count the last one. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Testing, one, two, three, then played it back. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just realized. The border will be closing in three weeks.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The three of them sat for a moment in silence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The psychologist Nalini Ambady once gave students three ten-second videotapes of a teacher—with the sound turned off—and found they had no difficulty at all coming up with a rating of the teacher’s effectiveness. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just the three of y’all?” asks the host, resting his hand on my shoulder for barely a second, but it’s enough to make my stomach flutter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

While he was lying on the ground she hit him three times with the whip. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I climbed down, I paused next to the Airstream trailer three units below ours, where my friend Mrs. Gilmore lived. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ben saw that the boy was Jim Don Cooper, the linebacker and captain of the football team, and the boy who had gone steady for three years with Ansley Matthews. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buphead counted to three and on the third swing they let me go in the air. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, under the three strikes regime in California, a “repeat offender” could be someone who had only a single prior case decades ago, and one arrest can result in multiple strikes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once he had painted three sides of a kitchen green, and the other side yellow. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ice pack, with Ocean Camp piggybacking along, made a steady three miles north every day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We walked up Fulton like three cool dudes, one of which was holding yarn. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Often she helped her mother take care of her white family’s three young children. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m speaking very loudly, and you’re only three feet away. The elementary physics of sound waves assures me that you are receiving my auditory signals.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us roll up to the store and step inside, taking in our surroundings. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lianne closed her eyes for a second and her face lost all expression, as if she’d aged three or four years in an instant. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The white cottage and the three figures grew smaller. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She reached a comfortable spot where three branches forked, tied the rope securely, adjusted her harness, and rested. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

These three had elaborated old Major’s teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

More than three weeks now, already into November. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The three formed a small arc between the rest of the party and the tunnel entrance. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes, I was on a red-flowered couch and three faces were looking down at me. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Union position was approximately three miles in length, or so it seemed from here. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olly gives his to me so that I now have three layered around my neck. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scythes were charged with five gleanings per week, and to the best of his knowledge, these four hadn’t taken a life in the three months that Rowan had been there. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My Sunday school dress was torn in three places, and Peach’s white shirt and blue suit pants were brown, heavy and sticky with mud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour now, the plane had been flying at just three hundred feet, following the Welsh valleys, dipping and swerving to avoid the mountain peaks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Leaves at three o’clock. Do you want to buy a ticket, boy?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Lavey’s husband took the examination for letter carrier three years ago. He’s still working on a truck.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later I walked out of the school, ran the three blocks to the bus stop, hopped on the M86 to Central Park West, and took the subway home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The six of us, including the people we had entered the town together with, gathered at the edge of the swamp as planned and started crossing the clearing three at a time. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had only met our grandmother once before, when she was around three. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

During the next three days, the two travelers passed by a number of armed tribesmen, and saw others on the horizon. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, peoples named in these other three theories could have mixed to form the modem Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So honored was she by the presence of these three stud football players, according to Derric and Gary, that she insisted on Polaroid pictures being taken to commemorate the occasion. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left for school in the morning, I compressed three inches and then another three when I came in from school, and another before I went to bed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I already have two—no, wait, three—of them.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around; all three of the Dursleys were cowering with their arms over their heads as their glasses bounced up and down on their skulls, their contents flying everywhere. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For some reason, Onofre’s attitude, tone of voice, words, or all three taken together did the trick. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It always has three parts: instructions for dinner, a reminder to do my homework, and a trivia question. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prisoners there were allowed only three “gills” of water—three quarters of a pint—per day; they were not allowed any exercise, bathing, mattress, or change of clothes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock tolled the hour, chiming three times after the introductory melody. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There are, however, two texts and three voicemails from your mom and it’s probably not fair that you haven’t responded, but hey, life isn’t fair. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were three clear parts to the city. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Seizing a horn from a youngster near by, he blew three loud hoots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He strictly forbade his boys from smoking, cursing, or drinking, though he was known occasionally to do all three himself when safely out of sight or earshot of his crews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to get up, but all three girls started kicking me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

But we only had the wagon three quarters full on this run. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course. She was...let's see, she was three then, wasn't she?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Were you responsible for the death of a city patrol captain during a raid on the Los Angeles Central Hospital? Did you steal medical supplies and break into floor three?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Apollo 8, as Borman’s flight was called, had to aim at a place in the sky where the moon would be three days later. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby, as was typical, arrived past two o’clock, the restaurant would be sparsely filled: perhaps a Danish hippie, two American tourists, and three young local girls preoccupied with what they thought was important gossip. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He chewed on his Up and blinked three or four times quickly. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

After a while, the medium recovered enough to sit up, point at the children and shout, “Those ones! They do not belong. Throw all three out!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You already had three,” said Oz, talking through a visible mouthful of chewed fruit. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Nay, I had it from you. You wrote me word of it three months ago.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Rancid milk is stinking up the insides. That’s what happens when milk and sugar are left to pool for three days. My own classes haven’t even had a chance to use it.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He saw the three of them look stunned and raised his eyebrows. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

During those war years I went to three different schools—a kindergarten and the equivalents of your junior and senior high school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night she wore a dark gabardine suit and a silk blouse, the top two or three buttons undone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

George stared at the three words on her page: PERFORM, MORE, and FOR. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

With Kathy’s family there, all told there would be eight kids and three sisters living together in a house that would likely lose electricity in the high winds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She estimates three for each adult, one or two for each of the children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has added the names and phone numbers of scouts and alumni boosters from the three Florida schools—people like Mr. Donnelly and Larry and Frank. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was three months before I laid eyes on her or Minerva or our husbands. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peach stopped wailing long enough to sneeze three times violently. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

First, Mr. Kleiman, our merry sunshine, had another bout of gastrointestinal hemorrhaging yesterday and will have to stay in bed for at least three weeks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Because three is shy, four is rude, and two is, like, your buddy. I hated taking math in school because I always felt bad making numbers who didn’t like each other work together.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I knew exactly why my stomach felt this way—it had felt this way ever since a certain girl with colorful braces had walked into La Cocina three weeks ago. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And for three days he did not go into the town because of his anger. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Right, Professor,” said Harry, with as much contempt as he could put into the last three syllables. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was a scarf — or rather, three scarves tied together. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lori came out, she was mute and bald as an egg for the first three years of her fife. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the same token, there are movies that people hate when they see them for the first time, and they still hate them two or three years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It's another Monday morning, and after three full weeks at home, a ringing doorbell is a major event in my life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary was shut down in 1981 after a riot that lasted for three weeks.Three weeks is about thirty-six million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Get your backpack. You can get at least three math problems done during the commercials.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She spins on her sneaks and takes the three steps to the door with something green clutched in her hand. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Move along, woman,” shouted a man three places back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he took off his glasses and lay down, eyes open, facing his three birthday cards. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back in white bandannas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My skirt rose with every pedal push, and I almost wrecked three times trying to hold it down and steer one-handed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Carolyn ran to meet them, fresh red ribbons tied crisply at the ends of three long braids. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On account of it was Sunday, there were only about three shows playing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The three of us take turns moving wood, and soon we're breathing hard. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It began in the auditorium three floors below. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But I thought the three of you would be safe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s only the middle of October. He wasn’t planning on the game officially starting for another three weeks. Maybe there aren’t others out there yet.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“An exception to a rule. Lily thought we should try to convince them that three children would be appropriate for our family.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Stung by this rejection, the three men of the Retrenchment Committee themselves resigned. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Evidently there were nesting holes in the sheer face below them, for as the light grew they saw three or four martins dart out over the stream and away into the fields beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer the three of them would go to a cottage on the Gulf and he would dress the children in their sun suits and guide them carefully into the green, shallow waves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The three mercenaries looked ready to boil someone alive, and then there were the two shackled murderers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth did the extra three sleep?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Three of them for three of us. That’s an augury, I bet.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But then she put on three boxes of tinsel, one strand at a time, so that the entire tree was under a silver veil. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

While the three men wrote their answers, two others, white men, sauntered into the office. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before he can throw his car in reverse and get outta there, door three does rise, and Mr. Rivers motions for Justyce to pull in. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Subdividing a beat by three instead of four naturally makes each of the new smaller beats slightly longer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t come up to say that. Clover’s had her litter. All good, healthy kittens. Three bucks and three does, she says.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rose said that while the three were riding in a car she’d “shot her in the top of the head,” then, with Joe’s help, dumped the body by Three Mile Creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The red woman walked round the fire three times, praying once in the speech of Asshai, once in High Valyrian, and once in the Common Tongue. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before he goes to bed, Volkheimer descends three flights of stairs to the atrium to check his mail. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For three days, we'd had nothing but boiled water with some old dried mint leaves I'd found in the back of a cupboard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For the next three weeks, Oshiro was stuck in a bed in the 8th Field Hospital with deeply embedded tubes draining his wound. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And Laius was murdered by robbers, where three roads meet on the way to Delphi,” she concluded triumphantly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Ben set up his mother’s dining room and kitchen chairs in a straight line, at intervals of three feet, from the back of the paved driveway to the front. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then around four, when Becca’s mom called her to come home, the other three of us went to my house to check on the eggs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Only three days ago she was finishing off The Trials of Arabella and waiting for her cousins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The culprit, I learn through the grapevine, is the ultraefficient twenty-three-year-old who trained me—another trailer home dweller and a mother of three. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when the kindly man asked her what three things she knew that she had not known before, she was ready. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You had to win at least six games to win a set, and two out of three sets to win a match. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Because the prince dragged me into a council meeting that lasted for three hours,” he said, a muscle in his jaw feathering. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The lights went out, and Eleanor heard all three men talking in the living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All three cars head east, out of the city. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock, about the time Harrison was giving his speech, Prendergast walked into the Unity Building in central Chicago where Governor John P. Altgeld had an office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He held in one arm a stuffed Adidas duffel bag; in the other, three Head tennis rackets, the Arthur Ashe Competition model. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next three weeks, I hardly spend any time with Suesetta. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each aircrew risked two or three of these bombing flights in a day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We lived in a little shotgun house, one room for the three of us, worked in the oil business, and then started my own. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single billboard, mounted on the cornice of the building across the alley, dominates the view; its surface gleams three yards beyond the glass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wash my eyes three times a day with the boric acid powder. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the pavilion was a sunken rectangular courtyard fenced on three sides by a row of seven-foot basalt columns atop a low red and yellow adobe wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All three were breathless from running through the rain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they’d run awhile—Thomas had no idea for how long or how far, but he guessed three miles—Minho slowed to a walk, then stopped altogether. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had come to prepare for his departure, with three others, for military training in the People’s Republic of China; we had renewed the contacts that Walter had made back in 1952. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes three times a week to mop the floor and the nurse is there every morning to take my temperature and pulse. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mom made macaroni and cheese for dinner tonight, the kind with three cheeses, just the way you like it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He died of lung cancer maybe three years ago. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He returned home at about three fifteen in the morning to find his father dead and himself arrested. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What security? I left this building at three o’clock this afternoon and there was only a porter on duty, as usual. I should be asking you for identification. Who appointed you? And why?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The modern rows were almost as tall as he and the traditional were about three inches shorter. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But War Relic had been an angel for exactly one and three quarter races, and he was pushing his limits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer came to know this man’s face very well, for he ate at one of his tables three times a day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The funeral service for Joseph was three days later. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

His lunches lasted three hours, and he made paper airplanes of the homework he was supposed to supervise. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ran into the avenue where in the light of a flaming liquor store I saw three old women scurrying toward me with raised skirts loaded with canned goods. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One, two, three . . . shoot! “Ax breaks rock,” Lefty said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It may appear now that Count Olaf will go to jail and that the three Baudelaire youngsters will live happily ever after with Justice Strauss, but it is not so. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The three of them start to walk away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s raining outside the cave, something they haven’t seen in at least three months, since the sun flares struck. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

On the weekends when he was allowed to leave his boarding school, he would visit the three Mora sisters in their old mill to study various occult sciences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I offered him you. I told him I’d trade an hour of his time for three hours of yours. I thought that was fair.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To let them know he was done talking to them, he bent straight back to his paperwork while the three young women were still standing in front of his desk. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I’m over to that car in three seconds flat. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just tell us which one of you it was, and you other three can go,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have three weeks until our presentation. If we work Monday, Wednesday and Friday after school, and Saturday afternoons too, I think we’ll be ready. Maybe. I hope.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least three determined individuals had managed to climb over it since I’d moved in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And fore I know it, all three kids is playing in there, splashing around, having a good old time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We were assigned two of these for the twelve people in our family group; and our official family “number” was enlarged by three digits—16 plus the number of this barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was six feet three inches tall and weighed over two hundred and thirty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sharing our list with our parents sounded like a much better idea before we were actually standing in front of the three of them in my living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I jump down three at a time and almost fall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had won and been proud to win the Galbraith Football Trophy and the Contact Sport Award, and there were two or three other athletic prizes he was sure to get this year or next. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like how three brothers who are adopted by three different families—one Muslim, one Hindu, and one Christian—could discover each other as grown-ups and team up to save a woman who gets kidnapped. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He walked through first class—there were only four first-class seats, three of which were occupied. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He could make out, on just one side of the package, at least three of his old A.P.O. numbers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"So you made a hundred and four and I made a hundred and three?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Set against the wall was a square table and three straight-backed chairs, chairs without dragon feet. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don't understand how she'd get together with a married man with three kids. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thwaites and I and my other three friends were in the Second Form, the lowest but one, and we lined up against the red-brick wall of the playground shoulder to shoulder. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecilia, singing harmoniously as she went, filled all three tubs in the upstairs bathrooms with bubbles. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The three boys, pale as ghosts, followed him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We had to space them out to every three or four weeks, and we’d only speak for a couple of minutes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Viola recruited three of the women to help her cook in the old stone kitchen in back of the house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

How old was she in this dream, three? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kvothe closed the window’s shutters while Chronicler removed his shirt; there were bandages stripping the backs of his arms from where he had been wounded by the scrael three nights ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of how he recognized her powerful way with horses the very moment she entered his menagerie tent three years before—sensed it from the horses themselves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

What would it sound like to hear three or even four notes simultaneously? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Patrolman William Michael O’Brien had heard about her shortly after his assignment to the precinct, but it wasn’t until nearly three months later that he actually met the old woman. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the three drew nearer on the road, Kino dug little pits with his sandaled toes so that he could leap without warning, so that his feet would not slip. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ortizes had three teenage birth daughters and four adopted children, plus a constant stream of foster children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She had folded it twice and fastened it with three staples to prevent our reading it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Leo counted silently to three, then tossed the sphere at the goddess’s feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I barely said three words to Dana before the paper chain project, and even now I wouldn’t describe us as friends. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He had the same red hair and slight build, but he was taller, clearly three or four years older. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had three holes across the top, and I covered the third one to generate the 2600-hertz tone that had made this whistle famous in the annals of hacker history. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She said we wouldn’t start for two or three weeks to give her a chance to rest. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

About three minutes had passed since Crawley had left the office and he had said he would be back in five. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

According to the instructions, each 500-gram carton was supposed to last one survivor three days. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could make three dishes now — boiled rice, egg rice, and fried eggs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A car parked in San Francisco was sprayed with bullets, killing three people inside. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had checked three times now, and the door was still locked. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

George undid his bindle and brought out three cans of beans. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother presided over three huts at Qunu which, as I remember, were always filled with the babies and children of my relations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lantern swings back and forth in the night, revealing at least three people. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

These three components of the campaign on behalf of Newtonianism developed momentum over time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Usually my pole was only a foot or so in the water, but then suddenly it would go down three feet and I knew I had found the gut again. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, every paper, pamphlet, document, book, notebook, letter, magazine, and clipping that the police had accumulated in the last three years of searches was produced and numbered; twelve thousand in all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large, low-ceilinged room, with naphtha lamps on side tables and two or three anbaric standard lamps beside the armchairs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

One was wearing a nose stud and three studs in her ear, all on the right side. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

All three were leaning forward on the concrete railing in front of them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the silence, I could hear the sound of the bone breaking, and the dog backed away on three legs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quick, quick; but it took him nearly three minutes to get on to Helmholtz Watson. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, he came and dodged...two, he came closer...three, he broke his gait, paused...four! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him only three days to earn the place of honor in her nightly prayers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Always at least two of us per house, sometimes three or four. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The drakon was three stories above us, slithering sideways along the building as it sized up our forces. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The hard one of the three, Mercer had said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The littluns played here, if not happily at least with absorbed attention; and often as many as three of them would play the same game together. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The other three forces are either short range, or are sometimes attractive and sometimes repulsive, so they tend to cancel out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerable colored tents spread among them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn't changed much since they had both been twelve almost three years before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That morning she gave me three powdered sugar doughnuts. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They drove the three hours to the closest airport only to find that Lucy would have to purchase an extra seat on the plane because she wouldn’t fit in one. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There are three people standing by the table, filling cups and handing them to marathoners as they go by. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Within three days he could lift his left hand to his nose. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

All three of them started to laugh, and once started, it was difficult to stop. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I tap it lightly with my three middle fingers. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Though, I thought there were only three of you...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The three knights had got into it, and sat down to see what would happen, because knights were never supposed to refuse an adventure. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within three hours of leaving the Col, Frank decided that something about the day just didn’t feel right. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen in our house was at least three times bigger. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The three children had no time to be astonished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Catherine LeMaigre died on Tuesday, despite the efforts of her three highly skilled physicians. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Guy Greco struck the downbeat three final times—hop^hop-hop—and the two lines collided at the gate in a frenzy of hugs and shrieks and kisses. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Inside, sick and emaciated women—the first women Jack had seen in three years—watched fearfully from the shadows as the boys entered the camp. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They have some small children and an old grandmother. They need someone to help with the children and around the house and they are willing to take all three of you.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only one out of three, I’m afraid. I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don’t want Harry dead....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They widened X-Ray's hole, as well as the holes Armpit and Squid had been digging, until the fourth day, when all three holes met and formed one big hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"Hard to believe it's only been three since we left London." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mother hoarded the little he earned, and after several months, she was able to rent a room for the three of them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them climbed back up on the old horse, then headed due south. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lived less than three blocks down the street. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

It was written on the back of an overdue notice from the library dated only three days before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The three of them stood there looking at one another. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then she slides off three wooden panels that make up its roof, and turns it over. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But,” he said, “you’ll learn more in six months at Sing Sing than in two or three years someplace else.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly three o’clock in the morning in late January. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waterman was a small person, barely five feet three inches tall, with an elfin face and the sinewy, inexhaustible physique of a gymnast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet the kids don’t come out of hiding for three days,” he replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three months of living here and there, with strangers and relatives, we were finally on our way home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then three small, plump shadows emerged from the darkness and swayed toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ever since they had run away from their grandfather's house, Prosper had asked himself at least three times a day whether he had been right to take his little brother with him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

This Son is a god who died in three hours, with moans, gasps and laments. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told my sisters to each pick out three postcards. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out three hairs from her head and dropped them on the fire. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the shop they could dimly see the glass-topped counter that ran round three sides of it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving toward it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up his right hand from which three fingers were missing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, right now we can get over 270 with Texas or Nevada and Alaska combined. Richards has to get all three of those. So nobody is out of the game yet.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In a series of secret meetings, each in a different location, the three men reviewed their options. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rheumatic fever, chicken pox, pneumonia three or four more times, started coughing blood when he was six, was anemic, drowsy all the time, constantly sniffling, weak and miserable, and—everybody thought— dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear faint footsteps and a girl of about three, in a dirty pink dress, emerges from the hall. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 2004, Reuters had grown its Bangalore content operation to three hundred staff, aiming eventually for a total of fifteen hundred. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The three men were actually boys with suntanned, youthful faces. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Big APE radio from Jacksonville was turned to such a high volume that Ben did not hear the first three sentences Sammy spoke to him after he was in the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three arts of the trivium relate to the mind, and the four of the quadrivium to matter. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Papa pulled in front and Francie and Neeley pushed in back and they began forcing the big tree up the three narrow flights of stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the three boys, only Johnny read easily and well. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be three kinds of houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived in groups, two or three at a time, and stood looking down at the baby. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So every day she wove on the great loom— but every night by torchlight she unwove it; and so for three years she deceived the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays we’d go to the Apollo Theater, and if you got there by eleven A.M. you could sit there all day through three shows. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hunt only one day out of three, and gathering takes up just three to six hours daily. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Moushumi has to teach a class three days after the wedding, they have to postpone the honeymoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked puzzled, took off his skull-cap—three mice fell out—and scratched in the middle of his bald head. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trees begin producing fruit after three to five years and can continue for another seventy years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jon lit a taper from an ember in his brazier and three candles from the taper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When you see a light in a window blink three times throw the box in the snow and drive off. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked, the ridiculous words drummed themselves into my head over and over again, rising to the rhythm of a buzzing noise: Three blind mice... three blind mice, See how they run! Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He learned that the three Fates had spun all of Admetus’ thread of life, and were on the point of cutting it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you put a check beside your top three things to do on weekends. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I heard Duke broke three legs. He heals quickly!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The House floor was so chaotic that the roll call was repeated three times to be sure of its accuracy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She went to Sunday school three days a week. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would try to console me, telling me, “Ibtihaj, when you have three sisters, you have all of the girlfriends you need. You don’t need your teammates to be your friends.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Each charge also contained a hate-crime clause that would increase Richard’s sentence by an additional one to three years in state prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“How are you supposed to keep your eyes on all three heads at once?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But in my opinion, here are the three big things to take away from the news we've gotten today. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t tell whether the time was midnight or three in the morning, so she started beating it for home in a rush. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"That you have three gifts from the Goddess of Beauty." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When the bell sounded from the castle at the end of their lesson, the three of them dropped their trowels at once and hurried through the grounds to the edge of the forest. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He thumbed three cars before one stopped for him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hope to bring all three of the vessels back laden with food. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"What is table three's answer?" the lawyer asked. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook three of them into my hand. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

W. Sterling Cole, a Republican from New York, took the initiative of arranging a meeting for the three physicists with President Eisenhower for the following Monday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Just two minutes into the second half, Josiah made his way through three defenders, dribbling the whole way, before finding himself with a clear shot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“And you shouldn’t be, either. You watch what happens on Monday. If Antoine keeps his word, two punks are gonna have new attitudes, right around three o’clock.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flipped the switch on the wall and track lighting illuminated three columns of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the signal, the three chairs were tipped over. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors opened and the passengers came out in twos and threes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whistles from the people of Phippsburg, and shouts of wonder that the minister’s boy, the minister’s skinny boy should be able to hit a ball that far three times in a row. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the case of the Treason Trial, the three judges rose above their prejudices, their education, and their background. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dividing one chicken so it stretched into three full meals by using the back and wings in her lemon-rice soup. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the three of them turned and trotted away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The mare took another step, two, three, and the rabbit matched it, following along beneath her. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The three Mora sisters were students of spiritualism and supernatural phenomena. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found three more dead monkeys in Room F. They were dying steadily, a handful every night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen door was up three steps, so I grabbed the ice cream and headed up. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a minute or so, there came three quick jerks on the string, and Mr. Little carefully hauled it up. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

‘Did anything unpleasant happen in your city three nights ago?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and James broke apart for three women with yoga mats slung on their shoulders and then came back together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The voices were growing louder, she realized, and it seemed her heart was slowing, and even her breath. . . . three treasons will you know . . . once for blood and once for gold and once for love ... A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That night the Voice of the People offices were routinely burglarized, the three rented electric typewriters and the enlarger stolen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, there were only three, but it is strange that in mentally reviewing the crossing we should always think of a fourth, and then correct ourselves.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“About three feet away from me, in the air.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I brush my hair to one side and section it into three. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But will it cover all three of us?” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They paid for all three in full through December first. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy threw up a three and caught nothing but net and everybody on our side of the gym went off. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next three months I receive several dozen letters, weeks after he writes them, sometimes two in the same day, depending on where they were mailed from. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A moment passed among the three of them, and then Ekon felt it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“My mother stayed here three months before she went back to Sylvan,” I said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had arranged three stools in a row, while she herself jammed her rump into an ancient baby’s high chair—a bohemian touch that gave her a tennis umpire’s advantage of height. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She herself is a veteran relo, having moved three times in the past ten years to help keep her husband’s career on track. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Claudette faced three separate charges: violating the segregation law, disturbing the peace, and “assaulting” one of the policemen who had pulled her off the bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

That’s like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I only had three other friends and they were all grown up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, he ran a field of milers off their feet, stopping the watches in 5:03, three seconds faster than Pete’s record. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

How could the American “I,” assuredly wearing a hat like the Chinese, have only three strokes, the middle so straight? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he played for a win, sacrificing a knight, but ultimately winning back three pawns in exchange. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the priests who taught at the school turned up at our classroom door and talked to our teacher for a minute, then started taking students from the classroom three at a time. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

After she hung up on him at two a.m., after she’s gone 100 percent No Contact, he was absent for three days, and she’s almost surprised to see him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Catherine has been by, once, three hours ago, stone-faced and sad, to tell Henry that she loves him and he could have told her sooner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Which is not easy for someone who speaks three languages, as I do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After rowing in the number three and four shells all fall, Joe couldn’t fathom why he had suddenly been promoted. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The three Witchlings went inside the ornate Hall of Elders, where all government business was handled and the council kept their records and held their meetings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I accomplished a lot in three days, even putting a new edge on Timothy’s knife by honing it on coral. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About three tons. It had a little cabin.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Item three: We have also found his shield and sword belt. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The amateurs never practiced more than about three hours a week over the course of their childhood, and by the age of twenty they had totaled two thousand hours of practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I'll add to this whenever I can, but I just came up with this idea, and your surgery is three days away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had stripped to the skin and he and his room had been meticulously searched by the other three men. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It cost almost three dollars, but she couldn’t think of what to do about the expense. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t stuttin ’em when I first laid eyes on ’em, I sure wasn’t thinking about them three years later. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’d be floating alone three hundred and fifteen miles from shore in a life jacket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

With three partners, Cottrell established a company to commercialize the process. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We had separate blankets, and there were never fewer than three layers between us, but the possibilities kept me up half the night. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Strike three,” he heard a voice say on the other side of the door. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Two or three other migrants set up their buckets along the same sidewalk. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As a result, they’ll probably both confess and both spend three years in prison. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally counted forty-one more packets, enough for three SpagBols a day for two weeks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The end of the Greenwich Road was lined with British soldiers, relaxed and laughing as their prisoners—captured American soldiers— walked three to a row between their enemies through the doors of the Bridewell Prison. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wall had no gates as such, neither here at Castle Black nor anywhere along its three hundred miles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The way she had talked about the three of them being a family. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She halted at the head of the shrouded body, completing her three circles, and set the saltcellar down on the ground at her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And yeah, she’ll wind up with three broken ribs, a fractured femur and a strained neck, but the ambulance drivers won’t ever mention that. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Again Melquíades tried to dissuade him, but he finally accepted the two magnetized ingots and three colonial coins in exchange for the magnifying glass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock that afternoon, in the early hours of the first heavy snowstorm of the season, I greet Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen in Mrs. Murphy’s parlor, with Mr. Sorenson and Miss Larsen standing by. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the time of his death he had been carrying a pouch of rice, a rifle, and three magazines of ammunition. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls in the flower dresses were standing on line looking at us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid not,” Theodora said, and the other three turned and regarded her with frank dismay. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Luke by the arm and jerked him back a good three feet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He just never bedded her, is all. When they made him king, he locked her up in a tower. His other sisters too. There was three.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It kept up for two or three weeks with Nunkie getting bolder all the time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But now, three years later, tens of thousands of American soldiers had been killed in brutal battles. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“My family lives on this side so you three sleep in that corner over there.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you name the next three games in the series?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For several seconds there was silence as a dozen pairs of eyes frantically darted back and forth trying to pick up the outlines of the three metal objects. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally thought fast “Sure. But I guess I didn’t really eat three meals every day, Croy. Like I said, I was pretty sick of SpagBol after a while.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For exactly three seconds, he was keenly aware of their chests rising and falling against each other. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After three weeks of the doldrums I made Ruth May get out of bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bounced the ball three times again, looked up, and swished in another one. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Roberta calls to tell me, in fulsome tones, that my “drug screen is fine” and that I’m due in tomorrow at three for orientation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thirty-six pictures around the dial were minute and clear, the three hands and the one needle were exquisitely shaped out of some silver-gray metal, and a golden sunburst surrounded the center of the dial. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now that you’ve wrestled with three major religious traditions, apply your newly enlightened mind to Alaska’s question. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” he says, managing to stumble over three simple words. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next months, Allen’s squad was repeatedly sent into the bush for three or four weeks at a stretch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The way things stood now there were three against Gus, and that was just as he had wanted it to be. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What Maier found is that most people figured out those three solutions pretty easily. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But giving shelter to three North Koreans had annoyed the farmer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then Anya, Marina, and the three girls let go long enough to compose themselves. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Encased in black, invested with a rare solemnity, she stood during the three minutes of the interview. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I got in beside him and the driver, noticing that there were three men in the back. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every schoolday afternoon at three o’clock, twenty-five of us Comanches were picked up by our Chief outside the boys’ exit of P. S. 165, on 109th Street near Amsterdam Avenue. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There are four of us, but only three can go; we must shake off Tjaden, so ply him with rum and punch until he rocks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the three Reich doctors reached their decision, the parents were told that their son or daughter was going to be placed in a special hospital. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I was captured prisoner by the blackhearted, southron, faithless King of the Dragon, and then, in spite of it that she had three beautiful daughters already whatever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came to tell you that one of them is behind you and below, not in the apartment. It will be the hard one of the three and you must retire it first.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We alternately wept and talked until after three in the morning when we finally went to bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And at first Hazel thought he had, because three boys appeared in front of her where she had been expecting one. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A picture arose in her mind’s eye—the shelves at Mrs. Murdo’s house stocked with good things, and the three of them happier and safer than other people. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later she said it was three kicks for three murders, and told of Lovey, Caesar, and Jasper to let them live briefly again in her words. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the base of the pole from which the light bulb hung were three seeming haystacks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Books were stacked three deep on the mantelpiece, books with titles like Charm Your Own Cheese, Enchantment in Baking, and One Minute Feasts — It’s Magic! Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Werner can hear the Austrians two floors up scrambling, reloading, and the receding screams of both shells as they hurtle above the ocean, already two or three miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before the puzzled faces of Mr. and Mrs. Beale, he opened the front door and looked at the three cast-iron digits nailed to the door frame: seven two eight. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I was sure all three of them had received my message, I initiated the next phase of my plan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t smoked in three years. A couple of months back here, and voila. Every bad habit I had, back on me like a tick.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“For my tea! Nonsense, child, I would not dream of exacting a toll for my hospitality. Come inside, and the three of us shall drink together.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The family had fled the first day the riots broke out, and had left three vicious dogs to guard their property behind a high fence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dissolved three aspirins in water and tried to get Rufus to drink it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I grew angry at the thought of the three men disdaining Cristiana. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The three of them were chasing a raggy-tailed rooster around the courtyard. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sailing dead east and making three and a half knots and that way lay the land. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she was three, Matilda had taught herself to read by studying newspapers and magazines that lay around the house. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I thought that everyone in her class would hate me because I joined the group after they’d been together for three years. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dark stone surrounded us on three sides, but there was a clear view of the ruined cabin and the destroyed trees below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t seem possible. For three years I’ve been working under the direction of androids. Why didn’t I suspect—I mean, enough to do something?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We took turns, splitting into groups, Hunting and Homestead, switching off every three months. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At three in the morning, by his watch, the spooks returned to interrogate him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There are only three weeks left until someone wins the competition. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Rather than arguing, I picked up the last three bundles of supplies and tucked them on the raft, securing them with straps. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the larger screen were several images of a brain, with three key spots lit up in orange. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And now she was sitting not far away, with a baby carriage at her side and three blond children playing close to her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would have never let my long-gone daughters travel nearly three thousand miles without turning on the stove. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish was pinned neatly and he took two more with the same ease, then carried all three back up to the fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick had been gone three days, but they hadn’t yet talked to me about what happened. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You will resume fighting then. Today, you’ll be learning how to aim. Everyone pick up three knives.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“What a singular rabbit,” said an elderly lady with three strings of pearls wrapped around her neck. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Stalingrad, the Russian city that has been under attack for three months, still hasn’t fallen into German hands. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

From almost one to three every afternoon George was stuck with the packages. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though, actually, the image of all three kids was largely hidden, because they had so many files and games and shortcut links strewn about the desktop. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Frankie tightened his grip, closed his eyes, and counted—one, two, three. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But three years removed from proper full-time schoolic exposure to my peers, I felt a certain unbridgeable distance between us. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I continued to study until two or three A.M. each night, believing it was the price I had to pay to earn God’s support. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was happy that the three of them were together, that Mom and Dad had fixed their family and replaced one Ruby with another. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One summer day, three years after the end of World War II, Harry Gold fell in love. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three numbers are pressed so quickly I barely have time to hold the phone to my ear before a voice comes on, “Nine one one.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’d made my way into the Arcanum in three days instead of the usual three terms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the end for Hulbert came on a night when, three hours before a scheduled 5 A.M. execution, two inmates es-caped from another part of the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With monsters attacking me every three feet? Are you kidding?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I might not have easily recognised the Square in the photo, except for the white bunker-like two-storey buildings in the background, on all three visible sides of the pool area. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat on the couch while the Colonel stood in front of us, outlining the plan and our parts in it with an excitement I hadn’t seen in him since Before. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was large, three stories, which gave him plenty of things to get into and out of. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The three discovered long afterward that they all had the feeling that there was a fourth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Yet here she was, three months later, with a full-fledged tumor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Together, the three kids—mostly Emma and Finn—had decided that “succotash” was the best word to use. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us were lying in our sleeping bags on the floor in Ximena’s bedroom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

At 1:55, we pulled back alongside the field, with three new players, including Fornatee, in the backseat. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It seems the chickens don’t like fresh manure, so he waits three or four days before bringing them in—but not a day longer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The three of us had never really hung out together before. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A long pause followed, as if the three of them were trying to come up with an explanation for the girl. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The price of a pair of boots is about two or three loaves of army bread, or a loaf of bread and a small, tough ham sausage. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure trains all of her senses on the entryway three flights below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead he got his coat and the three of us walked to the car. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It seems as if every three months the Khmer Rouge has either increased or decreased our food ration without warning or explanation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the Long Knives were three hundred Shoshone and Crow warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had three toes facing forward and one facing back, like a bird. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The gate opened and three huge dogs came pelting out into the lane, and dashed towards the travellers, barking fiercely. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Consequently, three thousand devices were collecting dust in army warehouses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All three of them—himself, June, and Nora—have their roles. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On November 11, 43 BCE, these three joined forces and formed the Second Triumvirate to rule Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

How he hid there for three months until an American helicopter came over and he signaled. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We were just coming out of the third den when we saw three men appear in the courtyard. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The gate closed after you went in, but when the Sixers arrived, they used three of their own keys to reopen it.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He holstered the gun, and, shooting his three brown teeth at everyone from a wide grin as he politely tipped his hat to the onlookers, he walked outside and headed home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday morning there were two more camera crews at the McCulloughs’ door, and three segments that evening, on Channels 5, 19, and 43. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The maharajah of Kapurthala, visiting that week from India, sat in a makeshift throne on the ballroom stage fanned by three servants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The three rules of the Tipping Point — the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context — offer a way of making sense of epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I like those three or four miles.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held August 28, 1963, attracting as many as three hundred thousand people to the nations capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As the Washington boat swept under the black skeleton of the railroad bridge at the three-mile mark, it was still nearly three lengths back with a mile to go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then the other three kids fanned out in a semicircle in front of the goal. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The three of us walk to the park and make the same loop around it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I got them in anyway, but the complaining caught on with the two or three keeplocks whose cells were on the other side of the shower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here's the thing, I've been running the eight hundred for three years straight. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It sat far back from the road in a clump of pine trees and to a child might have been the house where Goldilocks met the three bears. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, there were three small splashes and a whistle of admiration. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Traditional grammars tend to run the three concepts together. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Out in the kitchen Doc was frying steaks in three skillets, and he cut up tomatoes and piled up sliced bread. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only time Miss Celia walks ten feet is to come in the kitchen for her lesson or to sneak upstairs every two or three days, up in the creepy rooms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There would be three Spares tonight, Seven knew. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Before long, the three Pe-2 pilots were flying blindly alone in deadly fog, hoping only that they could find a place to land. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mom and I made three pies with wild blackberries that Teddy and I had picked. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he retires to his own rooms, a suite three times the size of his flat, Marco quietly returns to the library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were three that ran to the road whenever they heard the car, a fourth one sometimes came in the arms of the oldest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock the sun had swung down over the west goalposts of the high school football field. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was enough to feed all three of us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

All three of us exhaled at the same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In any event, she brought out a man and his wife, with three children, one of them six years old, one of them four years old, and a three-months’ old baby, and another man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry shouted the password at the gargoyle and ran up the moving spiral staircase three steps at a time. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One time, two times, three times, and four, just as our turn came, a white lady rushed up and jumped in front of us, saying it was her dinnertime and she had to hurry. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I start banging on the heating pipe, three quick, three slow, three quick. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With his damp hair combed back and his face clean-shaven, he could have looked a good two or three years younger than he had the day before, but his eyes told a different story. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ms. Tolson: The last three years have been exciting but difficult. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a lot of concentration, and when Janet stepped off into the street, Nick said, “That’s three points for me.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three Hessians were upon the ground, their bodies twisted, their torn uniforms filthy with earth and blood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion only wished he could as easily make city walls twice as tall and three times as thick. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

None of the three tall windows would open because their frames had warped long ago, and an aroma of warmed dust from the Persian carpet rose to meet the diners as they entered. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He moved his blade to the expanse of yellow rind above the gouged eyes, and she could see him make three deep rippled cuts across the broad forehead. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All three of us were in the bathroom, brushing our teeth. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Deep inside the hedge, there’s a nest of twigs cupping three speckled eggs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Rodel looks down at the hose: black, three feet long, stiff in the cold. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When it had almost reached the foot of the bank it scuttered over a fallen twig with two or three green leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that gray place the three women lived, all gray themselves and withered as in extreme old age. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

People had heard of it, especially the three village teenagers who studied English in school and often dropped by to discuss life in what they called, "Ny." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

To tell you the truth, the three orphans were so excited to be out of Count Olaf’s house, and in this pleasant library, that they were a little distracted and unable to concentrate on cooking. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In die end it took three of them to pull her away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Only about three quarters of the bunks were full. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Keeping under the raised floor of the barn, they all three scuttled back toward the elm trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good three miles away, and would require a portage over the highway, but Zeitoun was happy to have a clear-cut task. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Since its first known eruption 16.5 million years ago, it has blown up about a hundred times, but the most recent three eruptions are the ones that get written about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Where were you these last three thousand years?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The tiniest tooth was like a pebble and tallest tooth was three centimeters high. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The first three—Yudhistira, Arjuna, and Bhima—were the sons of the god of death, the god of the heavens, and the god of the wind, respectively. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boy next to me stays only three days. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In 1987, Money magazine ranked it as the fifth worst city to live in in the country out of three hundred. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about three kids who build a spaceship in their backyard and then fly off to meet aliens. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He and the three others were still being watched by dozens of soldiers and cops. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And then the three of us are laughing again, exhilarated, bolstered together in our defiance. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“When Nuwa, the great goddess with the fish tail, sacrificed herself to save the sky, the earth, and the seas, she left behind three things. Do you remember what they are, Storyteller’s granddaughter?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, “Never Let Me Go.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At this pace, your queen’s dragons will be larger than Aegon’s three before I can lay eyes upon them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s lollipop shaped, with the road being the stick that leads to a circle of four houses—three that are lived in and one that’s been empty for years. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And so, naturally enough, it was more than three times as long. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had been there for the last three days, ever since the mailman had delivered another letter from Milton. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After three months, I knew most people, but I regularly talked to very few—just the Colonel and Alaska and Takumi, really. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Cole guessed it might be another three or four hours until high tide. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I put him up on the changing table and take off the wet one and Lord almighty if there ain’t three tinker toys and one a Miss Leefolt’s bobby pins in there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We made a pit stop to eat at a Cracker Barrel restaurant about three hours into the trip, and everyone piled off of the bus. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When the Riveras showed up, Micho bunched the three of them together in front of our door and made them pose while he snapped a shot. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A total of three hundred years in and out of prison. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But there are three in the general vicinity. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The woman and her three small daughters circled us protectively. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them looked around the parking lot. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They followed him up the steps to a kitchen, where he poured three mugs of tea, then led them into a small sitting room. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The superintendent ordered that rations for the three remaining men be cut in half for two weeks, and he clubbed them on the head a few more times. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Or do you count to three and then we go?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She even hung the shot of all three of them together, which looked like nothing so much as a triple-headed ghost. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started giving the three witches at the next table the eye again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Some chose to brave nature’s fury: three men from the University of Berlin strung a pair of seven-hundred-yard steel cables between two Alpine peaks and waited for a thunderstorm. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"They may not come here for three or four days now if they start on parties at San Sebastian." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Another one came in as well, and between the three of them they were able to throw Alec on his back, pin his arms and legs down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gey and his wife, Margaret, had spent the last three decades working to grow malignant cells outside the body, hoping to use them to find cancer’s cause and cure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was sure it had engulfed two or three buildings at least. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In August alone the building took three lives. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The bureaucrats assured them that Bacon Street was just one of three such projects planned for their city—the other two of which would be built in predominantly white neighborhoods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

She comes in and we drink cheap beer or wine or watch a movie or all three. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Horace showed the sheriff three fragments of the deceased’s skull that had lodged in the tissue of his brain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His dad bought him a bunch of supplies the week school ended—lengths of two-by-four, pulleys and screws, and sheets of weather-treated plywood—but Charlie didn’t choose a tree for three whole weeks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Where were you this morning,” he asked my dad, “between three A.M. and four A.M.?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The three best years I had with my father were the three years before he died, after we had Tommy,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sliced onions, and Bailey opened two or even three cans of sardines and allowed their juice of oil and fishing boats to ooze down and around the sides. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The payoff to the gun seller—usually $50 or $100, but in one California buyback, three free hours of psychotherapy—isn’t an adequate incentive for anyone who actually plans to use his gun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“We can trade our three turkeys for someone else’s. That way, at least he won’t have to eat his own bird.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient school-bus-yellow sign with a black circle holding three equilateral yellow triangles. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If he were to say anything, the baker would spend three days thinking about giving it all up, even though he had gotten used to the way things were. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the three pounds of gray matter he carried around in his skull served him well in the classroom. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure that his cigarette was out of his mouth for more than three seconds at a time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She has little Fifi by the hand, who I guess was crying because she wanted to be outside with her three older sisters. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He had three long red marks slanting across the left side of his face. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the handmaids toweled her dry and wrapped her in a sandsilk robe, Dany's thoughts went to the three who had sought her out in the City of Bones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Workers from my dad's union organized this event and three people are speakers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The three females were more standoffish, but they didn’t seem to mind Marc coming onto their island. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the business of the evening had started so promisingly—three people down before any of them had even had a chance to cry out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We walk for three weeks, finding the occasional respite in the barns of sympathetic villagers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The other three detainees in the young man’s cage were visibly annoyed by him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I spent three hours in conversation with him and was struck by his sophistication and willingness to listen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leaned on the rail, looking down into the water, the three poles like three slanting threads of yellow fire in the sun. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But unless we’re doing a custody exchange, it’s never the three of us together anymore. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“There are only three real men in this world, Amir,” he’d say. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really. I mean, I can hold my breath for three minutes underwater.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And three days after he left, we forgot to say Kaddish. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our villages are usually miles apart from each other—two, three, four—so kids are not encouraged to go to other villages to play. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Nate went to the Jiffy store and bought three bags of ice, and we loaded them into the wagon. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I addressed myself to the tallest of the three. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Finally he chose three which looked particularly good to him—“quagmire,” “flabbergast,” and “upholstery.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

"They will. You haven't been around the movement as I have, for three years now, and I can feel the change. They're ready to move." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last we left Mrs. Cadaver and Mrs. Partridge, we drove for approximately three minutes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“On the count of three, we’ll both push away from the wall at the same time. Whoever’s cart goes the farthest, wins.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I thought how great it would be to go to my senior prom three years from now with Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned her round three or four times and pointed her at Coraline. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Then he smiled for the first time in a long while and said in Spanish: “When I die, burn mercury in my room for three days.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then, to his bafflement, he saw the three of them come out of the souvenir shop in perfect formation with Prosper and Bo in the middle. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have room for three in your cabin.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Trip hadn’t even let me try three balls at first. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If I ever do get married,” Tariq said, “they’ll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Around three, when I figured Augustus would be home from school, I went into the backyard and called him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But this summer Audrey and I started sitting on this couch, and I now realized that it didn’t fit three comfortably. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you noticed,” he said, “that Bunny’s had an awful lot of cash around the last two or three weeks?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, three round faces peered above her like plump peaches. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He ate three more before holding it out to her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The three women, and their hall, were in the black mirror. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because BHS has some two thousand students, they have us divided into three different lunch periods. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On its bottom he finds a tiny hole, not at all unlike the keyhole in the jewel safe in the museum he saw three years before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I found nearly three million Americans had served “in country,” almost 10 percent of their generation. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

What my father could not know then was that of the remaining three, including himself, only one, my Uncle Jim, would die in bed, of natural causes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Miss Honey taught it to us in three minutes so we'll never forget it. She teaches us lots of words in three minutes." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, for at least three days of that week they would be in the Savage Reservation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the ceiling she heard a thud, then three fast thuds, followed by another thud. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was stronger because he was almost full grown and he’d flunked some grade two or three times. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got to sleep soundly when he was only three hours from Ilium, with his legs splayed toward the entrance of the busy dining car. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly it became two lights, then three: a ragged row of beacons rising from the water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You work twice as harder as other student, then you catch up soon. Maybe three time harder. Even if four time harder, you must do.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At least three policemen are on top of him, his burgundy blazer barely visible. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Now he closes his eyes to remember; it’s a habit of his, he’ll often shut them for three, four seconds, as he gathers what he’ll say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atop their interlaced bodies, three small scraps of parchment rose and fell with their movements. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We always work on projects together and were thrilled when we got our schedules during orientation and saw that we had three of our classes together: social studies, music, and science. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was a jovial, smiling man, if one could believe the mask he wore, for upon it was painted not one smile, but three. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m quick and got a pretty decent handle and I can shoot threes for days. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There were three kinds, yellow, red, and green.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We buy it from the local hardware on Thursday afternoon and descend on the town at three that morning. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The faded cutoffs crossed the line a full three feet ahead of him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a marvel to behold: three tall tiers glazed in pink with sugared petals, far too tall to have fit beneath the cover it was under. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In a copper dish on the altar are three silver murtis, representations. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mully had the keys for the j three gates, where bars of black iron as thick as a man’s arm closed off the passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tubes and wiring herniate from the opening, all leading to a series of dials and gauges, connected to three ruptured vats, and behind it, a series of arrested pistons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He has been arrested and deported three times before. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It must be the Place,” said all three. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And I was really relieved they didn’t say anything about the three extra chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Childcare specialists were trained very carefully in the discipline methods: a quick smack across the hands for a bit of minor misbehavior; three sharper smacks on the bare legs for a second offense. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the country sent two women into space on three different spaceflights, one might assume that gender barriers in space were a thing of the past for the Soviet Union. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

At once the hawk screamed three times, so loud that Lyra’s head rang. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first three had overhead images being relayed in real time from different sectors of Iraq by Predator drones. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wind up leaving the last three answers blank. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Aimee had been involved in gymnastics since she was six, which meant Ronnie had also spent almost three decades immersed in the sport, first as a gymnastics mom and later as a coach. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had a cook, a driver, and three housekeepers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Worse, only three days ago two Dancing Trout swinglers from Kansas City had been startled by a bunch of arrogant midnight anglers who had spot-lighted them nakedly intertwined in a leafy grove near the creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were two or three deep behind us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At three a.m., with only two white correction marks on what is now twenty-seven pages, I slide the manuscript into a yellow envelope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

These were men who could afford to spend large amounts of money for two, three, or four hours indulging their strange appetites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She had been in New York for three years but knew as little English as I did. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The apartment consists of three rooms all in a row without a corridor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is the fourth largest proton event in the past three years, and will likely continue at or above the current level for the next several weeks as we approach the solar maximum. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she could even find her balance, the brachy hooted once and then lunged forward, reaching the burning theater in three massive clomps. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Taisin walked around the perimeter of the camp three times, and each time she felt the web of protection tightening. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But three days before I started ninth grade, I went to juvenile court to testify against my two best friends, who had been charged with second-degree murder. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She made such a fuss that Mrs. Prentice, the driver, ordered Jesse off the bus, and he had to walk the three miles home. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Feliciano and I were a team, and there were three other pairs like us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was three separate shots, and one of those bullets went right by my head! I swear I heard it zing past me.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The castle rose from the shores of Cape Wrath, on a lofty crag of dark red stone surrounded on three sides by the surging waters of Shipbreaker Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were a solid gang of three: myself, Geoffrey, and our friend Gilbert, whose father was the chief of our whole Wimbe district. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Sergeant,” Mark said, knowing he was about three seconds from going too far. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If you had a wheelbarrow, you could take three. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Besides her, the House of Black and White was home to two serving men, three acolytes, Umma the cook, and the two priests that she called the waif and the kindly man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A sigh of relief escaped from my lips as the soldiers herded three other kids into a small room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I eat three bowls of stew and half a loaf of bread while the others dine at the table. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian writes 3/10 equals point three hundred on the board. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Summer was a fading memory, and it had been three years since Asha last enjoyed a peach. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One three five; she gulps breathes gulps breathes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Say three hundred and fifteen miles, at least, southwest of the California coast, to where he sat right now, rolling heavily in a boat half full of water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bartender named Sam cooked it up for me. ‘Drink three of these, son,’ he said, ‘and you won’t be able to find the door’ and bless me, I couldn’t. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cobb paid the man’s fee and he directed them to this night’s bounty: two large, two medium, and three infants. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Without the money or credit necessary to sustain a family for three months. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had shot back to a hundred and three. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Several members of Abnegation, three members of Dauntless, and a former Erudite initiate.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After about three songs, Sam and Patrick came back completely coated in sweat. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, they’re already thinking twice after last night. This will make them think three times.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These riders, three of them, appeared to be headed east, toward the Martins’. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s no sense in all three of us taking a hit. I’ll tell you what happens later.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Last night, Mrs. Hall and one other parent showed up at the school board meeting and complained that the Unity Valley School District has a “homosexual agenda” and made calls for three teachers to resign. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In an angle formed by a projecting house front three men were standing very close together, the middle one of them holding a folded-up newspaper which the other two were studying over his shoulders. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We marched on for three days, and I still hadn’t been lucky enough to get any food from the kind-hearted Czechs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ivaldi’s sons are making three treasures as gifts for the gods of Asgard,” said Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Yes, three flights down. Or the lift is faster, miss. Oh, wait, aren't you..." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"I've got three years of high school to catch up on, myself," I groan. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At more than three hundred pounds and well over six feet tall, he was easily twice my size, probably the largest person in B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Renegades aren’t losing three in a row to the Knights.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And what was she doing out at three a.m. anyway? The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three voters stopped in front of him, held their hats in their hands, and waited. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Just about” The other three uglies walked up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The knotty joints of his hips and shoulders stood out a good three inches from his body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the couple that lived next door: raided, imprisoned, and sold into slavery three weeks ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were three walls all right; three broken-down sides to what must have been a stone house ravaged during la Revolución. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“These are the counts from three turns ago,” Marsh told Jon, offering him a thick sheaf of papers, “for comparison with our present stores. Shall we start with the granaries?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now it is eighty thousand and leaping pell mell on in a mathematical progression—a hundred thousand in three years and perhaps two hundred thousand in ten, with no end in sight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Etta was still so sick that she couldn't sleep crowded three in a bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Holding the baby in one arm, rocking him to stop his crying, the widow pointed to the three younger children. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In three days no one could stand him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Immediately, two or three others cried out also, and a wind, a foretaste of that great down-pouring they awaited, swept the church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We count the days solemnly, every one. It’s been two months and three days.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The three demigods stared up at the buildings <5f drizzly downtown Portland. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Byrd shouts, a word she has said three times this morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And when I carried and tugged the trees up three or four or five flights of stairs, I laughed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It took them three days to name me, and those were the three most anxious days of my life. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been more than three minutes before I grounded and that other Fayre Eleyne and a neighbor pulled me out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided that he could not have gone more than three or four miles from home, and that the best thing he could do would be to sit still and listen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A three-day strike that is canceled on the first day is only a one-day failure; a strike that fails three days running is a fiasco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will be there—with bells on! Anastasia will get you there by three, okay?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then she turned to the other three, Prosper, Bo, and Hornet, one by one. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin reached up to hold Maya’s wrist in his hand, their skin and blood the same, and they drove home, the three of them together, just like they had promised. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

You always hear that, too, and if you wait long enough, of course, everything comes in threes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kitty, I fell three times on the way over here.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom’s voice was still grating from three floors away. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The drakon lashed out, swallowing three Californian centaurs in one gulp before I could even get close. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Old Methuselah could only remember three other such summers in his long lifetime. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We use the fence to help us climb up onto the garage and then we look up at the three or so stars we can see through the light pollution and smog. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You are assigned three days of After School Detention,” said Principal Peattie. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His three daughters were among the first women in Japan to receive university degrees. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s be honest with each other; sure, you’re a genius, but even a genius gets rusty. You were three years out of practice. Forty minutes’ll be plenty.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Brace ordered up three, not more than a pound and a half, she said, and that night their excellence was demonstrated beyond a doubt. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had attempted suicide three times, and she survived the last attempt—an overdose of pills—only because someone found her in time and rushed her to the hospital. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the Waterworks burned down at around three in the morning, the pumping machines went dead, and the water supply to the city stopped. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about his father and about his father’s three oldest friends...Moony, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I landed on the wing of an old-fashioned silver airplane, which pitched and almost spilled me to the floor, three stories below. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“One, two, three—six, Monsieur. The old American lady, a Swedish lady, the young English lady, the Countess Andrenyi and Madame la Princess Dragomiroff and her maid.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was Doug Swieteck’s brother, for one, who was already shaving and had been to three police stations in two states and who once spent a night in jail. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She wound her bracelet around her wrist again, fingering the knotted red thread, the three sparkly silver beads. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Anyone with three fingers could play it, and if you had one ear and a bucket you could carry the tune. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just to be certain, he took three more steps then turned yet again. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had been three months since the Governor's visit. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Determined to leave nothing behind, she had bought three large, brown-plaid suitcases, only to find that her clothes would not even fill one. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she was stepping forward, pulling the three of them into her arms. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Milwaukee put three steamers and their crews onboard a train, leaving that city with only one working engine. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The accused were three Green boys, only a few months out of Cubbies. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago Miss Thomas’s little boy Jimmy got caught up in some kinda whirlpool there and they didn’t find the poor soul’s body for three days.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been in the camps since 1940—over three years now, and almost twice as long as Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were just ninety or a hundred kids in all of Juvenile Hall, most of them boys, even though the facility had been built for three hundred and sixty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“That means he’ll be in there about three days,” Matt said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the limp form of Uncle Andrew gently in her trunk and set him up on end: upside down, unfortunately, so that two half-sovereigns, three half-crowns, and a sixpence fell out of his pocket. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

For three days the rain poured in the waterfall torrents of tropical storms. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to slap him back, but he is three times my size and could easily throw me against the wall with one swipe of his arm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

After two days, Kermit and the men managed to maneuver three canoes down five of the waterfalls. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The three of us bowed in sync, and then we took our individual bows. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We've come to an intersection where three streets cross each other, veining off at odd angles so that the sightline cuts off after less than twenty-five meters. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We knew if we yelled back, he would jump out of his Caddy and box with two or three of us at once. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

During the first of his three years in prison, Perry had observed Willie-Jay from a distance, with interest but with apprehension; if one wished to be thought a tough specimen, intimacy with Willie-Jay seemed unwise. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that went for the three sisters in flower dresses. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three surgeries, he finally regained feeling in his fingertips. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As a new wave of rats danced along the edge of the clearing all three men ran to the truck and from it pulled long-handled nets. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The turkeys—well, they sound like three thousand Grandpa Eds gargling Listerine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Okay, gents. Lift on three,” Mr. Ray ordered. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” said Catherine, “if it hadn’t been crooked we'd never have backed him at all. But I would have liked the three thousand lire.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brolin began taking attendance and had already called out three or four names when she got to me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He reached the end of the corridor then ducked back as three guards appeared, walking together toward a set of double doors. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I learned three apples could be the number 3. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Back in Faye’s room she poured the three tablespoons of vegetable compound in the glass and stirred it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three faces turned to her, vivid with expectation. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We’re to the steps out of the hall when three knights move to block our way. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After several minutes, Trina finally stopped in front of a small shack that had been boarded up with three wooden slats nailed across the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

All that was left of the great stronghold of the First Men were three towers . . . three where there had once been twenty, if the taletellers could be believed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He looks three years old, do you agree?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Young ladies,” she announced, “here are three new friends for you.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She dipped out three ladles of batter, poured them sputtering into the other pan, then set the bowl down. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The three American manatees were still hanging out in the middle of the room. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The clues must be in the books, so now I shove the other ones to the side and focus on the three finalists. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It's probably three inches thick under my feet, and a few strands of it jut out stiffly from the slats of my locker. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Practices would take place twice a week and would last three hours, Luma said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were two or three of them in the barn, in my father’s workshop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before he got to the lane’s end there was Farmer Cotton with three of his lads, Young Tom, Jolly, and Nick, hurrying towards him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A waitress named Susie put three plastic cups of soda on the counter and then pulled three straws out of her apron pouch without looking down. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies; some are born with no arms, no legs, some with three arms, some with tails or mouths in odd places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Howards ambushed three friends of the Turners—the Cawoods—killing all of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Boys who are two to three times my size. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The three of us met outside the quest gate on Tokusatsu and entered it together. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Last night I had to recount my register three times because he kept walking by. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A couple of schoolchildren, an old man, three women with stuffed shopping bags, a group of nuns...suddenly he grabbed Riccio's arm and pulled him inside a doorway. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten peculiar children and one peculiar bird were made to fit in just three stout rowboats, with much being jettisoned and left behind on the dock. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

About three or four officials from the Black Tennis Association were also present. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three men looked in my direction and, seeing me for the first time, threw up another chorus of whoas and took another step back. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“No, my parents withdrew me three years ago.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Their job is to ride the yard’s dusty streets, spotting sick animals and bringing them into Poky’s three “hospitals” for treatment. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the top of the wooden platform was a metal shack with three walls, open on the fourth side. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they got to the southern end of the valley and found a cave that would fit all three of them, the tips of her ears throbbed and her nose was numb. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The newspaper was over three years old and stiff with age. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Fog cloaked the three figures standing under the glow of a lamppost. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Enough, you three,” Mrs. Brenner said sternly, putting an end to all bickering. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After three cups of coffee, two pastries and a bowl of rice pudding with cream, Sydelle Pulaski had offered nothing in return. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Detective Stevens, and she texts that she’ll be calling me at three o’clock tomorrow. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I suspected that they numbered far more than three hundred. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The boys are going to be in one room and the three of us girls will share the other. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just coming over the slope of the hill were three dark figures. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weren’t there supposed to be three days after the Crucifixion— so it’d be Saturday, Sunday, Monday, right? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

After all, I had three sisters and they were giggling all the time, too. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet the only ones he remembered in his will are you three. Why is that? To what use did he think you would put his Deluminator, Mr. Weasley?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No boats passed during the three hours of my watch, or I didn’t see any lights on the water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not all the expensive clothes in the three suitcases in the trunk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The three of us sit as far away from the chaos as possible. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Felix had devoted the past three days to basketball and not much else. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatima returns from the living room, holding three bouquets of flowers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The third week turned out to be the best of the three. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It showed three small boys fishing in an odd-looking body of water, one of their jackets draped over a “No Fishing!” sign. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

By the time the doors of the Explorer opened and the three teenagers piled out, she had turned off the water and greeted them with a smile. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Gallup police would find his body in the bushes along the big arroyo, and he would be just one of the two or three they’d find dead that week. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Standing near the shore of the Ashley River ahead of them, Amari could see three young men about the same age as Clay. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded at the three of them and walked on to the next injured child. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, dancers, less than three weeks till showtime,” Miss Jovy says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The average toy block in this collection, we might assume, is three inches on a side. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were covered with shavings and smelled like they really had been in here for three hundred years, without getting their cage cleaned. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

With the remaining insurance money Milton rented space in three malls in the Detroit metropolitan area. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had three children of her own, and there were two other girls who were placed with her, so altogether she had seven children to take care of. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are only three dozen bottles left of the ’98.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Seymour made sure I ct a proper meal three times a day and let me sleep in the tiny attic bedchamber on the bed where I laid after my time in the stocks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some three thousand carved pieces of sugar stood on that table, showing every step of her trip, down to carved sugar birds in sugar cages and sugar elephants on parade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After a while water was brought to them, and then they were led to a table where food was set for three. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

After three and a half weeks, Magyar Television somehow learned that Bobby was staying at Nagymaros and sent a camera crew to film him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Near the site of where the Boston Massacre had taken place almost 150 years earlier, some of the guardsmen opened fire on the mob, killing three people. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I took three running steps, leapt into the air, and then I was flying. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And in another three or four years, they’ll need to do further surgery that will make you look a lot more normal,” she said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He paused and took three deep draws from tobacco wrapped in brown paper. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three blind mice... three blind mice, See how they run! Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had sold only three of her children—left her one to live for and protect. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a full three weeks after he’d submitted the application before Garvey had casually said, “Well, Champ, you’ve been accepted for Circle Justice. Now what are you going to do with this chance?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He carried a country mark on his face, three straight lines that had been cut into his right cheek when he became a man in Africa. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, most telling of all: “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But at three o’clock Monday morning, he decided that was what they would have to do. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I saw three other figures behind them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The larger ones sometimes sat until he was quite close, then bounded and jerked two or three steps before freezing again. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now bring up three more bottles," Mike said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you remember coming downstairs one night in the country, about three in the morning,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock, after her classes ended, she went to work again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, I toss three granola bars and a juice box into my backpack, then pause for a moment. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was like I’d been hit by three successive waves of heartbreak, each one bigger than the last. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, all three are so readily respectful and nice to my mother that I feel bad about how I go around feeling so superior to them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I push against it, imagine erecting a giant wall three times my own height. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Behind him trailed three young men, his new assistants. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had broken his pelvis, his right femur, and three of his ribs on the right side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would go home, she would make hot potato soup for the three of them, and then she would take out her new pencils and draw. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Briares did the same with all one hundred hands, which sounded like an army marching three steps forward. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Colin pulled into a rest stop near Paducah, Kentucky, around three in the morning, leaned his seat back until it pressed against Hassan's legs in the backseat, and slept. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

So it was quite an achievement when in 1946 he was able to announce with some confidence that the Earth was at least three billion years old and possibly rather more. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In front was a more recent photo of the three of them at the park on the basketball court, looking sweaty but happy. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

"You require passage for a hundred Dothraki, all their horses, yourself and this knight, and three dragons?" said the captain of the great cog Ardent Friend before he walked away laughing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Her name is Sarai,” he said, and their three heads swung to face him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I was eleven years old my dad took Gabriel and me to this museum about three hours from Lily. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He is a prominent character in three of Euripides’ plays and in one of Sophocles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are several actresses, two dancers, three painters besides me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was three days of walking before the harbor-tree disappeared over the horizon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She kept muttering: “Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. Very fast.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The second try is a bit better; with three rectangles, we get a value of 24. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In his reply, Senator Hillyard wrote that the January session was coming up in only three days and therefore he wouldn’t be able to do anything about the issue this session. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And like I said, it was only three weeks after Granny Blakeslee went to the grave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was nothing fine about being told by a twenty-seven-year-old guy who lived in his parents’ basement and had Cheetos stains on his T-shirt that you had to clear out in three weeks. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Where the balloon is, it’s three feet deep. We can cross here.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Government spending on nuclear weapons research was running about $ 150 million a year, Bradbury estimated, about three times its rate prior to the establishment of Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There were five pigs, three sows, and a couple of bar’ hogs, all but the pigs wearing our mark. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls disappear back into the house, and they are replaced by Adam Walker, a tall blond with questionable balance. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was eating like he hadn't had any food since the last time Jazz cooked, which was three days ago. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was like a man who had been watching a passager for three nights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consistently made the top three in my class. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Just be careful” implies that there’s an end to it all, maybe in an hour, maybe in three years, but an end just the same. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t return Jenna’s three phone calls last night; I’m just not ready to share what I’ve learned about myself yet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Shelves stuffed with books were built into three walls, and a TV dominated the fourth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Quite early on, three who tried to do so were hunted down and forced to return. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His best option was to join the dozen or so kids who were already scattered over the bleachers, heads bent together in clusters of two and three, and blend in when they left. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock, the rain had stopped and the sky was a cur­dled gray burdened with lumps of clouds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have over three thousand lire. He must be a splendid horse.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dad’s daffodils are almost three inches high right now. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He could see one set of four people around a dining room table, and one set of three. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The King was mounted on his horse, and the horse mounted on a white marble pedestal that rose to the height of three men standing one atop the other. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, Mami didn’t think it was a bad idea to send all three of us away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this was three times farther from the basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man shot three Masks with a Nirvana gun. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the 588th’s airfield—about fifteen minutes’ flight away—there were only three small lights to guide the returning Po-2 down to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“First bell is in exactly three minutes, and I have no plans whatsoever to write tardy slips for any of you. Good day.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Halfway through, three derelict men in suits also come out, one banging on top of a bin, the other playing violin, and the last also playing harmonica. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then for three hours he disappeared from view. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His hands flashed through a series of signs: the collar he’d made on the ridge; his sign for hunting; three fingers for the family. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After being an apprentice for nearly three months, Citra couldn’t deny that she wanted to be chosen by Scythe Faraday to receive the ring. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

How could he be stable after only three months? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also unusually tall for his age, already three toadstools long, when Seven had only been two when she was a baby. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

To think that somebody not only knew we were on the trail of the Rattler but had taken the time to write a note to three girls. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Yes, yes. Still standing. Last house down that lane, about three kilometers, just past the bridge." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They walked through the zoo and down the boulevard, the three of them, Amanda and Mars Bar/ Snickers and Maniac, Amanda grumbling all the way: . Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t return after three, four, five minutes, he slid his pencil into the spiral of his notebook and followed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then all three dogs tossed back their heads and laughed at the Alps. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Clairmont sits at the highest point, with water views in three directions. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The three of them were sealed up inside their Apollo command module on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy when a fire broke out inside the spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three flights to climb to Miss Pat’s house. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your shirt’s cool,” Mena said to me as we three made our way into Burke’s one afternoon. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he reached the mouth of the bay, he spotted three seagulls pecking at a half-eaten fish on the rocks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Dicey picked out three chicken TV dinners and went to the fruit counter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was three years old and had just taken my first steps. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I string the fencing around the trunks of three small trees, for corner posts, and then back to the pine tree again where I fasten it with wire. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock in the morning, at a handsome whitewashed farm three hundred yards off the main road, they finally come to a halt. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

So many that Quentyn, seeing the port for the first time from the deck of the Meadowlark, had told his friends that they would only linger here three days. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After coining down from the side of the Devils Thumb, heavy snow and high winds kept me inside the tent for most of the next three days. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The task took three hours, but my knuckles were bleeding in a quarter of the time. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The etagere had three shelves of delicate glass, and each one held beige ballet-dancing figurines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Luke sat with her for another two or three minutes before the janitor came in, earphones on, and nearly fell over when he saw them sitting on the mat. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Most were two or three years his senior, yet not one was half the fighter Robb had been at fourteen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dante won two out of the three sets. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Penelope would not soon forget the horrified looks upon those three innocent faces. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The Nazis owned almost all of Poland now, even three hundred meters underground. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were three landing cables that could stop a plane from rolling off the carrier deck into the ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Declaring the pig nearly done, Schiem brought out a round farmer’s loaf and shared it three ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Juliet had been a hardworking and loyal member of the Fowl household for the past three years. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“He decides he doesn’t want an MBA, which I could have told everyone since he was three years old.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The three "newbies" hustled down to the other end of the track. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Why put a perfectly soft, sweet, warm marshmallow between graham crackers? I don’t get it,” says DeShon, munching as he toasts three marshmallows at a time. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t possibly. It’s taken me three hours to tell Mary and Lois—and I haven’t got them off Bourbon yet. Little girls shouldn’t stay up that late.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinner conversation was dominated by the three clients who were doctors—Stuart, John, and especially Beck, a pattern that would be repeated for much of the expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For more advanced groups, try dividing into three parts, with the melody in one part and sung ostinati in the other groups. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“As I was saying .. . your project for this . .. class is to report on ... at least two, preferably three . . . wonders of Indiana.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The spider also sent down three woven baskets filled with clean water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the three friends boldly stride out the exit. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining three let themselves be struck down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were three, and Hazel wondered what would happen if a big hand came and plucked one of them away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then all three climbed the stairs to one of the hotel rooms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Groves, the son of an army chaplain, was a West Point graduate who tipped the scale at three hundred pounds and was not shy about throwing his weight around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each of the last three lice seemed more and more painful to the lion, and he howled more loudly each time the hare drove another nail into the floor. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The three Domishmen were silent as they left the command tent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

About three seconds too late, she hit stop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The three boys fell to the ground in different directions. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

After Oliver’s conversation with Jimmy L, he came back inside, swiped three of the double chocolate pecan cookies Mama had baked earlier, then retreated to his bedroom for some Beiderman brainstorming time. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He kept swallowing, his eyes darting between the three of them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could swear he was standing three feet in front of me through a screen of mist, except I could only see the part of him that appeared in the rainbow. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Only one part of the form had given him pause: in approximately three lines, he was asked to provide a reason for seeking the change. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“After track practice, senior year of high school. Full-on naked battle, in the showers, three against one.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She went to Chinatown three times a week, thinking of it as one more foreign quarter of Shanghai, like the British concession, or the French. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether, about three thousand Black Muslims from their mosques in most sizable cities were in Chicago for their annual “Saviour’s Day” convention, regarded by them as similar to the holiday of Christmas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The pin’s clean. I only need about three good drops.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The door in the corner of the dungeon opened and three people entered — or at least one man, flanked by two dementors. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But the most dangerous thing I learn during this three weeks is that people who run schools are nosy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I told Daddy that Shotgun had been decorated by U. S. Grant and wounded three times at Bull Run, it brought it all back to him, and we had to come.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once our roof was up, we pulled the other tarp around the poles, securing it as best we could to make three flimsy walls. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I cannot show you a tesseract, because we are trapped in three dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosemont emerged from the barn three days before the race and scorched the track in his final workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patterson paused briefly, before launching into his standard convocation address, the one where he used the word “august” with all three of its meanings, just because he could. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All three of us were bobbing our heads up and down like doofballs at this point. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted the three of us to stay that way forever. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

My babies, all three of them, were going up in flames. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least three more hours of daylight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knows where Charlie got the gun he used to hold up Poncho's candy store three years ago. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She had never had any children, and each of her three husbands had slunk off in turn during the night, never to be seen again. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Ally. I have three brothers. I am not capable of letting someone win.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It snapped me out of the memory of that night three years in the past but so not gone, so here with us in the water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused to let the Inspector imagine the horrors that could be visited by a sex-crazed Paravan on three women alone in a house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him three dog biscuits, rumpled up the sterile bed, and went out to sleep in Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only three out of fifty girls will be queen: the Queen of Com, of Sky, and of Water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the three of them looked like normal high schoolers on their way to an overnight trip. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Standing where they could see her pregnant condition, she told them that she was alone with her three small children, and that my father was away, preaching, in Milwaukee. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You don’t get that on the first try. It takes three chances. And each chance costs a dime.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The three of them in his kitchen meant that Lovey didn’t know about the railroad, and they hadn’t mentioned the shopkeeper’s name at any point. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Brian heard reports that someone had gotten permission to solicit at one of the local factories—four guys had circulated through the place and sold three hundred boxes in a couple of hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could sense the tunnel ahead, sloping gently down for about three hundred feet, then opening into a large chamber. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Endovier sentries usually shoot a man down before he’s moved three feet.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand leagues in three and a half months, writes Professor Aronnax. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In addition to practicing for almost three hours after school every day, Monday through Friday, we also had practice on Saturday mornings from nine a.m. to noon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Only after we were three or four miles out of Imre and we came to a good, straight stretch of flat road did I nudge him up to a gallop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But his three sons who were not yet dead heard nothing at all. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He just popped the three from the corner and we were only up two with a whole minute to play. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll need all three of you to distract the Helpers while I doctor the food.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody knows it exists other than you three.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Most classes are out at three, but it’s not gonna be effective if we wait until after that.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

“Now you three go and find a seat. I’m going to sit way in the back where I like it.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trent doesn't get a good look at Aunt Ethel for three reasons. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pin on the sidewalk, one, two, three, while the other boys threw their hands up and cheered like audience members and taped the whole thing on their phones. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She glanced out of the window in time to see her father cleave a log into three separate pieces, which he then heaved onto a growing woodpile. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Stories she’d repeated so many times that all three of them knew what she was going to say before she said it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we were far away from the house, the three of us suddenly reversed direction, charged away from Zuraiq, and threw pebbles at him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The breeze catches his hair and plays with three rogue locks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But annexed to it and preserved with it, probably in a single red case, were the three large volumes, bound in red leather, that Bilbo gave to him as a parting gift. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I said I found him. Day. He just visited a house in one of Lake’s quarantine zones, a house with a three- lined X on its door. Corner of Figueroa and Watson.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He says sometimes they have three or four corpses in the cooler at the same time. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She meticulously kept the record for three weeks, and in the fourth, she went to my school and had a talk with the principal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a bunch of us went charging at ’em whooping and raising Cain they might disappear back into the forest for another two, three days. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow we’ll go to services as a family. Then I’m taking the three of you out. Mom needs a break.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We called three more places, but they were all the same. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth wrapped Franz in a fluffy towel, then braced herself and knocked on the bathroom door three times. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Let the other companies behind follow these three that lead, as they have chance. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

By winter’s end the bedding, and the cattle, can be as much as three feet off the ground. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The three of them strolled together through the Japanese Gardens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After extensive negotiations, the king convinced the government of Athens to lend him what amounted to state treasures: the definitive editions of the plays of the three great dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The three children walked on tiptoe, and they did not speak for fear of the echoes from the walls of the empty house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rémy makes three more turns, and my feet get colder and colder. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He propped the rifle on the dead and useless arm that had been so full of life a minute ago, and sighted with stolid concentration: one shot...two...three, and each found its man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The delay allowed Lawrence to exploit Groves’s largess without competition: by the time Brookhaven was chartered, the foundations for Lawrence’s three new accelerators already had been laid. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hall insisted, however, that after just three trips above Base Camp, climbing 2,000 feet higher on the mountain each time, our bodies would adapt sufficiently to permit safe passage to the 29,028-foot summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Inside there were three eggs, one piece of ham, a wedge of waxed orange cheese, and the quart of milk that came every three days. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems,” Bando said, “she must be one of those three. She’s somehow survived all the hazards of her first forty days.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pilate chose the laundry and walked in, saying to the three young girls elbow deep in water there, “Can I stay here tonight?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shucks, this is one of the bad things about talking to librarians, I asked one question and already she had us digging through three different books. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their pairing was watched and monitored for three years, after which they could apply for a child, if they wished. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Spoon's car was an old blue Plymouth, and the three of them squeezed into the front. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed in the hole for three days. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten times one hundred and thirty-five is one thousand three hundred and fifty!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One of three strips was planted with barley; another, wheat. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In three to four days he’d be home and there’d be a malt and a hamburger and his mother and father. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I skipped breakfast for the next three days. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Setting out with six camels packing food enough for three months, Burke and Wills ran out of provisions while in the desert north of Menindee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His four dead sons looked at him sadly as his three living sons carried him to the window. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t believe that somehow he would not be working on those cottages earning three dollars an hour. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh, actually, you need to go three avenue blocks that way,” Oliver lied, pointing in the opposite direction. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“The phone’s been ringing for three days, sportsfans. I’m glad you found time to answer it. Let me speak to Ben, on the double.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, it was hot, and I suddenly realized how dry and cool it had been for the past three days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her hands, however, she triumphantly held up three large, shimmering catfish. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were seen at the enemy camp three days ago. And you were talking with one of the troops there.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, when the tribe created its first court system, which adjudicated mostly minor crimes, he was elected one of the three judges. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You would never announce to a companion, “I’m going to say three things to you. The first thing I’m going to say is that a woodpecker has just landed on that tree.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They help me find three dresses they called jumpers. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Annabeth pushed past him and took the stairs three at a time, Hazel right behind her and Frank trailing, still gasping for air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After almost three months in the jungles of Vietnam, he got found. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In case you all aint noticed, the first three letters of the word funeral spells FUN. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z