The incessant rain tickled his cheeks and mixed with the blood from his mouth, dripping red by the time it hit the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The mirror still hung there from his time, and beside it a long leather strop for sharpening the edge on his cutthroat razor. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling you, I couldn’t have made the painting come alive! You don’t remember the last time? It takes blood, Aloe, the work does always take blood before something like that could happen.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

By this time he’d almost given up hope of finding the gun. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I fear you won’t be seeing her much longer. It sounds as if her time is running out.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think for a long time that I must be dead, that this is some ring of hell I’m walking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“She knew something, Harry,” said Ron, speaking for the first time since they had entered the wardrobe in the staffroom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Neither of us liked being on a road all exposed so anyone could drive up behind us at any time be-cause there was no place to hide without scrambling up a ten-foot slope. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, black people barely had access to computers, let’s start there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Those who were the inmates are now officers. It’s payback time!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, if something failed, we could take our sweet time in fixing the problem, but not always. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought back to the time Chasca had found me covering my face with mud, trying in vain to hide my scar. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He and his friends were into old weapons and would spend lots of time talking about “material culture” and sketching ideas for fantastical blades. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His voice was silent for a long time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

This time, a man’s voice hollered in answer, and Magdalys heard the crash and tumble of a body falling onto the cobblestones. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you’re right. We have more important problems. And time... time is definitely an issue.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ghost ran with them for a time and then vanished among the trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For a long time I wondered why he ever married a woman like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t fully processed all that had happened at Elm, and she needed some time to do that. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a dead silence while the electric clock chimed eleven times, and then the robopsychologist said, “Very peculiar,” and the corners of her lips moved downward. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

"I can play more than one. It's done all the time." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sergeant had no time to be surprised and simply fell over face first into the sand and squarely on top of his own intestines. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“When I was a girl, I used to dry tobacco leaves one at a time,” she begins in a quiet voice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His appointment that afternoon seemed a long time away. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers who are not overwhelmed; teachers with sufficient time to devote to individual students; to inspire. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time when this word was reserved for people who were... well... heroic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, she thought, children took a long time to grow up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a month and a half before he could sit up, and more time still before he could stand. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Vietnamization would show the North Vietnamese he was serious about working out a diplomatic solution, and at the same time assure Americans the war would soon be over. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She smiled and said, “No, Billy, not every time. He only answers the ones that are said from the heart You have to be sincere and believe in Him.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brothers were also very good at grinding lenses, producing large, accurately shaped lenses that alone would have made their telescopes better than anything else around at the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Steps one and two went great, even though it was snowing pretty hard by the time we got to the parking lot. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A misted half-moon had risen to the height of its arc by the time Tree-ear had swept the kiln entrance clear of ashes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

By time I finally peeped around, they were back in the car. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll just be going back—” “Please,” he said, “stay with us. The dark comes so quick this time of year.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After that first time, the knowledge had grown. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I think I've misjudged the time and the day is already over, but when I peek into one classroom, there are students; they're just so few in number. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At times I thought he was more animal than human. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seconds, he was back on top of him, this time with his fingers closing around Ekon’s neck. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Somehow from this Gilbert concluded that the Moon’s craters were indeed formed by impacts–in itself quite a radical notion for the time–but that the Earth’s were not. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I lean my head back and close my eyes to hear her voice one last time. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, you see, Chief, he was gone an awful long time. We both called out to him but there was no answer.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘No more prophecies, my friends! No more futures foretold! The time of Gaia shall be our era, and we will make our own destiny!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I turned them off a long time ago!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I can come here whenever I want to. At least, I was never here before, but I could have come, any time.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger grabbed him by the jacket and held the knife under his chin, the way Basta had pulled his knife on Mo that time in the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is hard to believe when she has to tell him a million times how 2,700 miles divided by sixteen equals five months, give or take. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As time went along, the people took less notice of these January thirds, or rather they thought they did, thought they had no attitudes or feelings one way or another about Shadrack’s annual solitary parade. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I picture myself nuzzling his head one last time, and I can’t even imagine it without seeing myself crying, my tears turning his blond curlicues straight. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A turtle turned up, a different kind this time, a green sea turtle, bulkier and smoother-shelled, but curious in the same fixed way as a hawksbill. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Percy,” she said, “I know the timing is bad. But it's always bad for you, right?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The woman sounded lazy, made her repeat the number a few times and giggled before connecting her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

How the first time his foot fell asleep and he say it tickle, I told him that was just his foot snoring. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Transaction denied, it says again, when I try a second time. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Its phantom brother seemed to leap at him every time he blinked or rubbed his eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When it was time for bed, she knew she had to let the other girls into her confidence. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said in a half-whisper, “It is the first time I have had silver money in my hand.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The war, he knew, would finally take him, but for the time being he would not let himself think about it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One book that I returned to many times was Tolstoy’s great work, War and Peace. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a kindly couple, and I got the sense that Peggy in particular spends a lot of her time talking people into not quitting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no people in this place and the BFG stopped for the first time since they had set out from his cave many hours before. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time I talked to Mom about it as soon as I got home that day. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t return to the East Coast right after the tournament, so Bobby journeyed alone, this time by bus, looking out the window sometimes, but mostly analyzing games on his pocket set. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time that she was mildly freaked out by the sight of the bearded counselor, she was also excited. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It is my wish that you find a way somehow, Potter Min. It would be a great sorrow to me if this were to be the last time I saw your fine work.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

This time, a younger white man opens the door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It would be a warning cry heard thousands of times during the next thirty-one hours. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remember one time he got so furious that he picked up a ham my mother had prepared for dinner and heaved it into the front yard. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

One time, out of that hundred, I helped her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Most times he don’t even put the TV on, he just sucks on his beer and stares at the cobwebs on the ceiling. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And he told his story in great detail—what everybody had said and how they looked and what time it was—everything. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has heard it only half a dozen times in eleven years. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our fingers touched a couple of times, and when they did, I said, ‘Sorry,’ and she just smiled shyly. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

First time I’d seen any life in him since Granny took sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And now every time I close my eyes, I see him, my father. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The few times they had traveled in the car before, the boy had been calm or even excited. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s been trying to get you out for a long time,” Ivan said. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t but three or four at the time, a tad too young to work the land proper. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The dumbest ward heeler was smart enough to know that time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just look at the power that terrible Grand High Witch has in her eyes alone! She could kill any of us at any time with those white-hot sparks of hers! You saw it yourself!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“This is no time to be proud. We can come back. Or we can start again. We have the money.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

What jail meant to me at the time was that you had to get some money together to get out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I repeated the trick, but this time only by going through the motions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he greets Frank’s truck in the driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sounded like someone else I’d just met for the first time. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at the specimens he had collected, Charles realized that species were forming and changing all the time, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened again when he tried a second time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I lay very still on the lounge chair and thought a long time about Danny. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“A lot of wizards think it’s a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick,” said Fred, “but we feel they’re skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“In Marinn and then here, in Serra. You joined up the same time as my mother. You rose to the top with her and my father. You were third-in-command.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Not much time, child. You need to make your choice.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harriet mentioned the fact of his death to the white woman in the faded sunbonnet, the next time she saw her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again I peeped at the time on my phone. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

This time Lola’s sewing, I’m making sets, and Mom’s organizing the rummage sale. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They were coming the evening of the Fourth of July and that meant Lily would have to cut short her fun at the beach with her friends and get back in time for dinner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They have sketched-out legs and arms at their sides, but that’s the whole point of my brain maps—you don’t need to spend a lot of time on the legs or the arms. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He talks so fast that even his friends have a hard time understanding him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But what I don’t know is what she needed most about tonight—time away from Semaj or time away from Dad. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

By the time those four days were over, we’d built them up a good store of food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But he did not want to be invisible when he died, so he pulled himself loose, one last time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it rains all the time. But it’s light. A constant drizzle. Like this.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Does someone start it at quitting time, I wonder, now that she is dead? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Any other time I would have stopped the boat to watch them play, but Abbey and I were in a hurry. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And in doubtful times he will always find a scarcity of men in whom he can trust. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew our time was limited, and I needed to talk to the First Lady. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Lucky that he'd managed to pull himself together in time after that business ten—no, fifteen years ago. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Strauss looked backwards at the dying century, in songs of heartbreaking, Mahlerish delicacy, like ‘Morgen!’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For a long time, we stared at each other. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex had been told a zillion times not to stand there with the refrigerator door open, but he couldn’t help it. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s the least of our worries. We’ll find a way to get in touch with her when the time comes.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

How many times do I have to tell you—lash that bed to the bolts! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly, I think the best times I have are playing cards or when I’ve dropped someone off and I’m heading back to town, maybe from the city or even further north. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She began to walk again, faster this time, along the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had a look around the tree house, figuring what I’d haul up with me next time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We remained like this for a long while, and by the time he had to go to the loft to chop wood, I knew he was a good, decent boy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Another time, when something provoked him to exclaim, “These Uncle Toms make me think about how the Prophet Jesus was criticized in his own country!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got time to hep her any, Mary Willis?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So, now is not really the time for me to see Jeff Garnet. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

This time she didn't just set it in the wagon and walk away. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell time, take a licking, and keep on ticking,” Fern sang. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He had written many popular German plays and poems in his time, and had married a famous German actress named Resi North. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checked himself in time to turn the nod into a bow of respect, then fled, leaving the scene of his failure but not the knowledge of it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It would only be a matter of time before he also became the secret spymaster of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

White did not realize it at the time, but the Tribune Building and all other fireproof structures had another fatal flaw. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you may as well sit down again. You, too, Mrs. Tuck. I have a great deal to say and very little time for saying it.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent much of his time outfitting his hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Doorman shoots me a dirty look every time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If he had kicked my butt a few more times no telling how far I could have gone in life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She stares into space all the time and rubs her stomach. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One time our cat, Little White, cut her leg deeply on a piece of glass. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a shame you didn’t take out that anger on someone more deserving. In times like these, the Folk go missing.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She came two steps at a time upstairs, and pushed aside Jim—groggy with sleep and wondering what all the commotion was about. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I am a busy man, with no time to waste with childish games." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She left the city room, looking worried, rushing right past Mr. Ali, who had been standing in the doorway this whole time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In a dry voice he said, “Now’d be a good time to kick the habit.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This time, a crowd of people start shooing the poor dog away from the beach, gesturing angrily with their hands. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The whir and roar beneath us was the only sound in my ears — riding the bike was the only time I couldn’t hear the constant insects and birds of Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The spotted dog paused, and turned in his tracks, and again leaped, this time from behind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Mom and Grandma would have a fit about me going to the hospital with Anna—especially with her mother—but I didn’t care, not this time. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I sure hoped I could locate the hogs in time to pay it a visit while I was close by. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the first time that such priceless financial data had fallen into an economist’s hands, affording an analysis of a heretofore uncharted criminal enterprise. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“This is a waste of time! Let’s just grab her bag and go!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily she was not in the kitchen at the time and was not scalded. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But although I made her cry a few times, when I looked over my shoulder she'd still be there, trailing me a short distance away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

At the same time, I felt as if something had literally been placed on my head, heavier than I could ever imagine, and my neck was beginning to ache. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The steps protested my weight with a symphony of shudders and creaks, but they held, and what I discovered upstairs—compared to the bombed-out ground floor, at least—was like a time capsule. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The clouds were thick enough that I couldn’t tell what time it was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of the Med-jacks was there, the shorter one—Thomas couldn’t remember his name—dropping water into the comatose girl’s mouth a few drips at a time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Do as you wish,” Thoas answered, “and take all the time you need.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give her a few days. Sometimes people need time and space.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that he would tell her shook me and Bailey at the same time. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in his own door and had a hard time making out what he was looking at. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Warings was that sort of house, it moved and creaked all the time, it was old and the doors and windows did not shut properly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Is this the usual time you get home from school? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere beyond, a plover called three or four times and was silent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jobs on general cargo ships were prized most; they usually spent a week or two at port, giving the crew plenty of time to investigate the area. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But by the time the Spartan reinforcements arrived, there was nothing to see but dead Persians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If you have time, sah, please find out about somebody for me.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“These men have been dead a long time, but I know their words point, one way or another, to Clansse.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Uncle Kufa returned several hours later, the madness had lifted and everyone was on speaking terms again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a long time ago the glass ceiling over the terrarium had cracked, and so everything was dead, and there was moon dust all over everything out there. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will faced the man directly and saw him clearly for the first time. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m really sorry, but it’s time for me to get off the phone.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m home,” I called out, louder this time. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A majestic green mountain sat in harmony with the deepening blue sky, the sun spreading its light for the last time before it set. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know that I’ve always been on my own—except for Mama Ya-Ya and the neighbors who watched me grow for a long time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We know that Galapagos and Antarctic birds and mammals, which similarly evolved in the absence of humans and did not see humans until modern times, are still incurably tame today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time we get all the way through. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t—for a long time—but thanks to this—“escapade”—I know what you got in there. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Now was the third time in all the years I had belonged to this library that I was on its third floor. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was. But one thing May was right about is that it’s our time to live. It’s her dying wish that we do that, June, so we need to see to it. All right?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like ten times as busy as the Department of Supernatural Investigations. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even when it finally came it was difficult and he had to Hatchet 115 pull first at one side, then another, an inch at a time, squeezing it through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down on five. Smells a thousand times worse down there, but that’s where the water line is. It’s like rotting fish and humans. I hope you haven’t eaten in a while.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And there were many other rules that Mia and Pearl would not be aware of for a long time. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fireworks sprinkled down, dissolving in the air just before they reached the ground, and the children were pulled, one millimeter and one second at a time, into Manhattan and adulthood. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After he sings, it’s time for me and Suesetta to introduce Mrs. Peck. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The joy was so general and so suffused that Mack had a hard time keeping it centered and aimed at its objective. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers the sustained isolation it had demanded, speaking to no one for days at a time, and so he doesn’t say anything. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had been stacking pillows and blankets as they cleared the gym floor for the blood drive, right around the time Ivy had been looking for her notebook. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Everyone thinks I’m in bed. It took me a long time to climb out my window and make my way here.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was reassuring to know that the world had not flung out of orbit, that time passed the way it used to, before any of this. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Capricorn leaned back in his chair, looking expressionlessly at Mo. “How many more times are you going to tell me that, Silvertongue?” he asked in bored tones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"We stand straight up at all times. Understand?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He tried to be amused by the fickle nature of clients’ tastes; it was part of the job, and if he got exasperated every time someone changed their mind, he’d never survive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The experience of watching was ruined, time and time again, by an interminable explanation of how things were put together. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had fed the goats and the chickens, and gathered the milkand the eggs, and thanked the animals for their time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

What is more, it presents almost exactly the same face to the Earth each time it is closest to our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a hard time there, but again I came upon hraka about three days old and no sign of holes or rabbits, so I thought there was a chance that they were yours. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed through the crowd to get closer to the action, at the same time trying to spot Needles and Noodles to make sure they were okay. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Arranging the hollows’ meals is what wights spend most of their time doing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One moment of carelessness—a glance down at a watch, a look toward the back of the train at the wrong time—and the branches will hurl them into the air. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"To the right people, and at the right time," I reply. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Each time she asks to accompany him, he demurs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But on the days Mom was in Philly, Dad was still in mute mode, and when Mom was back, she slept and my dad spent time with Jeffrey. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had no time to reply, however, for at that moment a white furry head peered cautiously round a boulder. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She’d been planning to work in her flower beds, the way she usually did to pass time between orphans, but she was currently facing a conundrum. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

At that time almost nothing was published about the possible three-dimensional configurations of a nucleic- acid molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When I did the presentation at school and when I got on the airplane, and both times I’d been okay. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’d gotten the chance, he’d drawn over them with his own stories, buried them beneath layers of ink so he didn’t have to see them every time he looked in the mirror. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The whole year, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was just passing time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And so she and Ashoke had spent Thanksgiving together, not bothering, for the first time in years, to buy a turkey. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman at the gate explained that should Hugh and I volunteer to participate, that is, to spend time with one of these angry young cows, our admission fees would be waived. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon by the time they finally arrived at the bus. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother never seemed bored, and that only further angered me at the fact that I was most of the time unsettled and unfulfilled in everything I did. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were never more than a few people at any one time—twenty at most. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas and Zart were weeding a long row of young corn when Thomas decided it was a good time to start asking questions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“War is not politically correct or polite. It’s a time when you have to do what’s necessary to protect people.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“This home belongs to my wife. I stay here from time to time.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He let his cheek fall to the floor and lay panting for a long time, saying nothing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep doesn’t come quick, and it takes a long time before I slip into that place of broken memories. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Every time he makes a trip to refill from the reservoir, he has to fly past an overcrowded evacuation center. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time you wore a skirt?” he asked me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Your sister wanted to spend time with you. You spend all day off with Sohrab, wandering around doing who knows what, and Laleh’s here all alone.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I know. Just give it time. In a few weeks, you’ll think it’s weird that you won’t have to turn on a computer screen to see me.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then she smiles at me, and for the first time it doesn’t come off as mad-creepy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I tried to show him the kinda care he should get. Heh. But with that one, it’s tough love a lot of the time.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The more time they spent together, the more Moody began to feel he was in two places at once. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Besides, Seaweed Brain, I just thought we could take a walk. We haven’t had any time to be together alone. I want to show you something—my favorite place aboard the ship.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sun had set by the time they all stopped crying. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I was in a home that was below capacity. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Yet even after accounting for thirty-five nonracial variables, the researchers found that defendants charged with killing white victims were 4.3 times more likely to receive a death sentence than defendants charged with killing blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When they’re finally asleep—thankfully Frank’s angry news program works even better than a story tonight—I carry them one at a time from the couch into their bed. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

That comes out to twenty times for each one of you. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At first, it scared me, but now I realize that half the time, when the alarms go off, it’s the machines that are malfunctioning, not the people. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to this time many of them had had little interest in Bostons struggles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the stars and with the night colder all the time he ate half of one of the dolphin fillets and one of the flying fish, gutted and with its head cut off. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His dæmon changed four times while we were speaking to him.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he climbed to the loft of his store, where he stayed for three days, living on cold provisions from his stock and biding his time. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that the next time I found a chanterelle anywhere, I would recognize it and not hesitate to eat it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After a final discussion about Plato’s cave, we are left to our usual ten minutes of free time. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That was the first time I saw Joseph smile. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dad and I check the departure times on a board that changes by flipping numbers and making this ticking noise. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It never does a man any good. Most of the time it costs you money." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He checked his watch one last time and bent forward to speak into the microphone. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“For the first time,” she said, “I am happy.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After that one time the Prime Minister got shot in the head, there was a big old crackdown on the blacks, which was absolutely necessary, but resulted in misunderstandings at many of the foreign embassies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran when the men stopped to relieve themselves at the side of the trail and made it a little farther that time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“This is my daughter, Brianna, the student who was assaulted. May we have a moment of your time now since you won’t return my phone calls?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Six times twenty-four—no, it would be nearer six times thirty-six. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time I did not pull away as she placed something bulky and cold into the palm of my hand and closed it tightly for me, her bony fingers pressing against my own. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She thanks me a few times more, but the best words I hear all day come to me right when I think it’s over. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We spent a lot of time trying to find ten-year-old Johnny’s family. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never had time for boys before; I had been far too busy with horses and walking in the country and Rusty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My blood had been replaced three times over. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Two times this morning, Miss Leefolt’s phone rung and two times I missed it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By the time we get to the couch in the family room, I'm cured. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have much time before he called them to resume. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wish I’d known she was making something to keep us connected to Nan, to wrap us in her smell and the good memories of our times together in England. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His mother had instilled that in Moss a long time ago. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every step she took in the woods was one more bit of string left to time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Most times, though, it just sets and then it's night and what you notice is the day and the night—not the sunset in between. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

June told me that the next time I go over to her house, she’ll show me a horror movie. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“If you imagine what it’s like to have your back up against the wall all the time, you might be less likely to assume someone’s stupid and evil.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Alternatively, it could mean that the sources were more numerous in the past, at the time that the radio waves left on their journey to us, than they are now. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid’s note was dry this time, no tears had splattered it, yet his hand seemed to have shaken so much as he wrote that it was hardly legible. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take him a long time to believe in the rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t help pack, but when the time came, I climbed in the car and joined my father for our move to Euclid. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Words of places Violet and I will go before time runs out and I’m asleep again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Now then—there is no time to be lost. Wilbur will soon be put into the crate. Templeton and I must get in the crate right now and hide ourselves.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was frozen in time with his crazy grin, his curly black hair, and those beautiful eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As I understood, he was asleep for much of the time, and indeed, I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ocean frowned and smiled at the same time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday we hunted together. Just like old times,” Sam said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We stayed this way for some time, two sisters clasped in a motionless embrace that spoke of love, of pride, of friendship. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

High John looked around one more time, then checked the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, another piece of tubing in the body, the Eustachian tube linking the middle ear to the pharynx, was also described around this time, by Bartolomeo Eustachio. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the whirring soda machine, I think of the million times I wanted my mother to stop telling me what to do. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jinx barely had time to stuff his wad of money into his overalls and crawl inside before the front door opened. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered if it had picked that up from its short time here. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

You even looked different, because you’d been holding your back straight all the time. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She checked us again, and this time she frowned as if trying to place us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Heed my warning, Nathan. If you lie to us and this outhouse is short of miraculous, we will move into your sleeping quarters and bite you every time you sleep.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He feels it tighten like a noose, but then the scarf comes loose from his neck, and time speeds up again as Lefty is thrown clear of the auto. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lucky for me the overcast morn caused the other servants to sleep past their normal time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reached the front doors of Washington Irving Junior High School at the same time. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That was the only time that he watched her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I close the door, just in time, so we don’t have to see what comes next. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Many times the primary author does not have enough insider knowledge of the language, and has to rely on someone with that knowledge to help with song lyrics and other cultural attributes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But I stuck to the directions, and to hope, and imagined that, in a short time, the trees would open up and reveal the train station sitting there waiting for me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’d been in trouble at school before, but most of the time, that just meant a whack on the bottom from one of the nuns. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When his time with the navy was over, she hoped her father would drop anchor at their house and take her to baseball games. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Even so, he faced the same barriers of racial prejudice that confronted all African American artists of the time. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Halliday had prepared a short video message, along with instructions that it be released to the world media at the time of his death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And she—Melissa—she died a long time ago. A car accident.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m... I’m going to see Doctor Neal for some tests. It’s just routine, but I don’t want your daddy to know. You know how upset he gets every time somebody goes to the doctor.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?” he asked. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Everybody on our team had answered D. Either we were all correct or all really terrible at figuring out time problems. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The whole time I w as there, I never did go into the Littles’ house through the front door. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, by the time I was fully conscious, I wasn’t weak at all. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The married rebels barely had time to take leave of their wives, whom they left to their own devices. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The time for grief was short, and the walking began again soon after dark. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly time is a rush for the hart: his head flicks, he jerks, his front legs buckling, and he’s dead. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then after an appropriate time of silence the Object made a noise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It gave me some appreciation for what my parents might have been going through back in the fall when I’d spent a majority of my time in private retreat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’ve never heard anything like it, and a chill travels up my back, making me smile wider than I probably have in a long time. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Looks like it’s time for me to go on Barry Rex Live and break the news about your deaths to a frightened nation looking for guidance. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My parents loved telling me what they felt was wrong with me—it was what they called my unfortunate attitude—all the time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Only Luke had time to linger over his undercooked bacon and dry toast. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since my family and then the Washburns left, I feel angry at all of them for deserting us. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

At fourteen weeks her face begins to grow plump, so that for the first time I can recognize the yia yia of my childhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After dropping my bag in the closet of my narrow room on the fourth floor, I sit on the bed and bounce a few times. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I feel a pang in my chest and remember a line from a poem I read a long time ago about terror being the beginning of beauty. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful and frightening, stunningly frightening at the same time. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had secretly sworn her his loyalty and, like an adolescent, there were times when he fantasized about giving his life for her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy trailed them in a jig of his own, while James clapped time energetically. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was trying to kidnap that little dirty girl, but they caught him in time,” Spoade said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time my hand is steadier, my aim is better; I hit Nita’s side, right above her hip. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By the time she was twenty, she had had four children, all born dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern had just come out in Lockhart, and it was time to buckle down to the business of meeting bachelors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There is no doubt that Jane broke the rules, as she is known to do from time to time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing at what he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Imaginary time is indistinguishable from directions in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no time for a honeymoon trip, they went straight back to code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This time around, Starlight Cottage looked a lot less magical. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’s trying to figure out if I’m worth her time or not—a trustworthy grown-up, and not just some worn-out old alcoholic who wasn’t good enough for her mother. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, when everyone had eaten his fill and could not touch another morsel, Uncle announced it was time for the presents. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would race one more time in California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I pace the perimeter, circling all six apartments at least twelve times with my hands on my head, squashing the top of my Belle-bun. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I walked slowly, taking my time, stepping on dead wet leaves that flattened beneath my feet. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed in giving his children and grandchildren names that meant something, like parents did in biblical times. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rabadash had been wagging his ears all the time and as soon as Aslan said, "The hour has struck!" the ears began to change. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Mike device was based on the Teller-Ulam design and built by Los Alamos; Livermore, which at that time was fully engaged in “simply coming into being,” played no role whatsoever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When times got a little better, we traveled by bus. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the time I was enrolled at The Evergreen State College, I was no longer sure about what I wanted. Then I met your dad while he was stationed at JBLM, and...” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He was a little ahead of me at the time,” recalls Lou. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Papa did not pencil in TV time on our schedules. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Papa’s jealous of me since his papa died a long time ago. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had been at die pilot all this time, almost two months, nibbling and chewing and all that remained was the not quite cleaned skull and when he looked up it wobbled loosely. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could’ve seen Mrs. Fitzgerald one more time, but the truth is, when it was finally time to go, I was ready to get the hell out of there. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This time I didn’t hesitate, I stripped off the useless string and started to learn again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At least I think we did, because the time seemed to fly away faster than usual. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This can happen only at very high temperatures where the particles are moving so fast that the repulsive force does not have time to act—temperatures of tens of millions of degrees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went over each section of each page several times, yet still felt she was not being thorough enough; certain numbers seemed to her to be mysteriously reappearing, like mildew. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may take me a long time, but I will try because Sumita is the first person who ever told me that it’s okay to just be myself. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hunting for food took most of her time now. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push myself through time, to work, to the bank to get money, to the supermarket to buy food. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome, Mira! Thanks so much for taking time to chat with me this evening.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

At least for the duration of my time on the Ramp. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She almost bit her lip again, but this time she caught herself and stopped. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or had he, in fact, told Harry, but Harry had not realized it at the time? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After that, for the first time in his life, Billy Ray started wondering about the Lord, whom he’d previously always considered a kind of stern Santa Claus. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, on hot days, all the time was spent in the water, and the boys raced Robin to the weir and back. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Or what time they took him down from the cross. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Shift hasn’t happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes—just enough times to give me hope—my brain jars back into where it’s supposed to be. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had never been in Julian’s house, had never even seen it, though I assumed the rest of them had been there a hundred times. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was time for Will to become inconspicuous again, so he performed the magic that had deflected all kinds of curiosity away from his mother and kept them safe for years. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain, about to be crowned the High King, does not have time to indulge in the petty sport of pretending to take me into his service just because a callow younger brother wishes it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Who knows what the crowd might do. They’re probably already gathering. As for you—you’ll probably be inside. Leading Day to the yard. Commander Jameson will tell us more when it’s time.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And if you didn’t listen to her, she would make you bend over and whack you with a yardstick ten times. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alter, I’m not ready to lose you a second time. Please. Come back to me.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then it was time to present our case. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to me and said, “Still have about six minutes. Maybe five. Let’s grab all the hens we can. No time for the eggs.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Oh, of course she’d thought about it; every girl does from time to time. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the 20th century was an exciting time for music education, with several significant instructional methods being developed and taking hold. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That was how it felt the first time the director spoke to me, like he was speaking from another dimension. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stopped being hungry a long time ago, but not eating makes it hard to think. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This had become abundantly clear ever since a competition in Seoul, Korea, earlier in the year when for the first time ever, I beat Mariel at a competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I hug him again, squeezing harder this time. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t make it about her this time. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The students had all been grinning, because they had listened to Asher’s explanations so many times before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

For all the times that Maya had thought about her biological family, she had wondered whether or not they looked alike, if they had the same laugh or smile or double-jointed thumbs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The first and only time Odenigbo visited her in Lagos, they had stood looking down at the swimming pool and Odenigbo threw a bottle cork down and watched it plunk into the water. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Thomas realized how humid it was in the woods, the damp air already beading sweat on his forehead, the backs of his hands. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I’m not, though? You’d mind terribly if you turned out to be wrong this time, wouldn’t you?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know exactly what’s happened to me, and for the first time today, I don’t really care. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My reputation at Hillpark hadn’t bled into my time at East Shoal. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The young doctor returned, and this time he had another doctor with him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The child to be born at Randalls must be a tie there even dearer than herself; and Mrs. Weston’s heart and time would be occupied by it. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Countless times on that long Santa Anita backstretch Seabiscuit’s legs reached out over the track, stretching to gather up the ground, pounding down into the dirt, then folding up under his belly. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cement scrapes my face, and I turn just in time to see a car bearing down on me, like a giant shoe about to crush me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had bided his time all summer, waiting for the horses to reach their peaks and the demand for the race to build again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a time-traveler, he has seen his own death many times, has described it to a tape recorder. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to bed with a grin, which like the Cheshire Cat's, remained for some time after. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

If God made each minute last six months I'd be middle-aged by breakfast and dead by the time I got on the school bus. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Another girls’ magazine soon followed, this time rescued from a trash can down the block from her house. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The daughters will never know and the old man won’t mind because he’s only half conscious most of the time worn out from all his years in the English army in India. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there was an old, old man named Bluebeard,” she began in a low voice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he did not, in fact, wish to spend any more time with her than he did already. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He came up to Arthur and took a swing at him, so Arthur hit him back. One time. Am I right?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times have you been back to visit your aunt and uncle?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

By the time the adopted children became adults, they had veered sharply from the destiny that IQ alone might have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But for the time being, it appears that nothing will come of nothing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

By the time he was born, in 1887, they weren’t warriors any longer. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he smiled, and his blue eyes were suddenly merry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Romantic love was considered a kind of temporary insanity at the time, not a basis on which to choose a marriage partner. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Retired, they spent a lot of time with the Vanderbeekers, and Mama and Papa helped them with grocery shopping and keeping track of their doctors’ appointments and medicines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I’d watch cheesy reality shows with you to pass the time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His girlfriend picks a fight with him at lunchtime, over the fact that he never spends time with her anymore. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Grievers at least seemed to be moving slowly through the Maze, giving him time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Conversation was my way of avoiding expression; my words were reserved for those times when I sat down alone to write. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare for a long time and actually feel upset that I’ve let this woman down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Mr. Faisal says you two saved his life and saved his store. He says you warned him about the crowd, just in the nick of time. And then held them off until we came." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I feel it all the time. You must feel it too if you are holding it within you now. It’s a dangerous thing, and always will be.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

By the time I steadied myself and made certain my toe wasn’t broken, I had so much adrenaline pumping through my veins that it was like I’d snorted a cup of coffee grounds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The ideal time is when no one’s around and no one’s looking. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She did a poor job of hiding her fear this time. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I kept fairly close to the shore because I was afraid of getting lost on the lake and losing time. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I can tell both of us are only half listening, and by the time we reach the corner, I drop the pretense. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He said it was time they had a clean, new home. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Einstein’s equations showed was that just as acceleration changes the way you move through space, it changes the way you move through time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It felt great making that part of the event, “and I didn’t have to speak one time.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stood up, and by the time I took a couple steps to Mom, my eyes were watering for real. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Twins,” we said at the same time, and then did a high-five. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

This time I really did expect Mr. Ferris to be waiting for Luke and me after school with our belongings in plastic bags. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"So you can go back there and give all the cavemen a hard time about indoor plumbing." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

So all four women transferred again, this time to the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, a special unit for elite pilots, who were of course all men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it wasn’t too crowded. Maybe something disturbed the bees,” Petey said, in a softer voice this time. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the time I got out, I thought I was feeling better. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was no better by the time Kate smuggled her into the boys’ room for their meeting. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After an immeasurable period of time, she went out into the corridor and along to the end where there was an open door to an unused bedroom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This year, for the first time, the Sunshine Bakers of America Annual Cake Bakeoff will be judged by not one but—’” Without warning, Cady snapped her head up from the table. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s for you, Constantine, so you don’t get so hot being up in the kitchen all the time.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Doc pulls his phone from his pocket, taps the screen a few times, then holds it up. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were a help, at times like this. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have such trouble about it. They will let the tea stew. I’ve told them time and time again about it. They will not listen.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He waited with the line between his thumb and his finger, watching it and the other lines at the same time for the fish might have swum up or down. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d probably passed it a million times but never really looked at it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He asked about Rahim Khan, whom he said he had met in Kabul a few times, and shook his head solemnly when I told him of Rahim Khan’s illness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, I still get really nervous every time I speak in front of an audience,” Imam Malik confessed. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I am no longer grasping great handfuls of time. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had me when she was a teenager, but that didn’t stop her from finishing high school, and she moved more times than Steve could even dream of! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t know why, but it always seemed hottest at cotton-picking time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was some kind of toy and I glanced at the crowd's fascinated eyes and down again, seeing it clearly this time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time there was only watchful waiting on both sides. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But who got time to use those little rubber bands? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Unexpectedly Killconey received his reward for flattery at the wrong time—a thwack over his head from the standard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I loved him; but I did not want him hanging on me all the time, so I went out of my way to avoid him. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Shae had always been friendly with him, never anything more or less, and for the first time Con became aware that he might like it if there was something more. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She has been carrying around this little notebook, a nice one, the champion of notebooks, for a long time, not knowing what she should write in it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“While the rest of the world is under Thunderhead rule, the Scythedom is not. Which is why we hold conclaves three times a year to resolve disputes, review policy, and mourn the lives we’ve taken.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

By the time the rest of us had finished packing for the journey, Adam was back in his old spot, only now he was marking Victor’s grave. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Frank protested, but Percy could tell they wanted some time alone. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The next time I ran into the middle to get the ball, my ankle turned. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Each time Worsley calculated the number of miles they had put behind them, the bird seemed to mock their slow progress. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I want to know, Mama. I don’t want to waste my time,” Clara said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to listen, but I had a hard time, because next to me Mother was getting more and more nervous. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend a lot of time in them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She realized she might not have food like that for a long time. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

By this time, Soviet cosmonauts flew and shared missions with astronauts from other countries. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wind seemed to join their whoop of laughter and sweep them up into the sky as the dragon flew for the first time. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t had much time—it was just the one word: TRUCE. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

For a long time hunted and hunter held their weird, fleet course, and the day was darkening fast. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

During one stop, he used the time to have a closer look at the road. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The compass is for orienteering—finding your way with a map—and saves you a lot of time plotting your course. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But this time, Lord Voldemort was acting through somebody else. By means of this diary.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Tally tried to smile back, wondering if she hadn’t made up enough time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was a cardinal bird that came all the time. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I needed a few days to collect myself, but I also needed some time to gather information. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When this was my mother’s room as well, I was allowed inside at any time—but when it became only my father’s room, I knew that I wasn’t welcome. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From time to time, he even gave me extra soup. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So back through the woods they went for the second time in one day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then she says, “Where did you get the scar? The real story this time.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By that time she’d be old enough to know her own mind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What would you do with a time machine if you had one?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘It mighty nigh time for these to be tender,’ she said cheerfully. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s time we visited your relatives at Mtoroshanga,” she said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At what time do you leave?” she asked Robert. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he did. He spoiled us all the time.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

None of that was Jason’s fault; but every time Annabeth saw him, she remembered how much she missed Percy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A relic of a time we have since passed,” Njemile said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He dismounts in one easy movement and starts taking off his gloves one finger at a time. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

To finally get inside the Archives after all this time and not be able to find any of the answers I was looking for was maddening. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I scribbled in that thing every day, multiple times a day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Not, I grant you, but what his manners is given to blusterous,” said Joe, apologetically; “still, a Englishman’s ouse is his Castle, and castles must not be busted ’cept when done in war time. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

At times, I even saw him upbraid them, though this was extremely rare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, he did not go back to sleep. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Sam walked up and held me for a long time. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They both read it silently, looking up at me from time to time. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You know,” he said, “I had a feeling the first time I clapped eyes on you that you’d bring us good luck.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I squared my feet to the line and bounced the ball three times. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through the throngs of shoppers, she spied loose clasps on bracelets and jackets bulging with coin purses, but now was not the time for thievery. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed that in lean times like these, you didn’t actually need much. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time she had come, another girl had gotten the last one. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“You’ll catch on to using it in no time,” he said. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is morning when I see Wahunsonacock, the Great Powhatan, for the first time. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think the First Letters game is going to work for us this time,” said Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Byron said he could remember that she was the meanest, ugliest person in the world but he was probably lying, he was only four the last time Momma and Dad were here. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least a little bit. I think maybe Ess is having a hard time.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After singing over and over a few times, Master asked him to stop. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now the big wave a long time kept him under, helpless to surface, held by tons of water, tangled, too, by the seacloak of Kalypso. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Grammer and Hale generally moved in different circles, White established that they’d known each other for years, from the time when Hale had first appeared in Osage territory, at the turn of the century. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Here was another dreadful choice, and he had no time to ponder it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I took a long time picking out a just-right loaf of bread. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Milo caught it just in time when it began slipping. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every time she ate the head off one soldier, another grew up in its place, with a green military coat and a yellow busby. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It’s too bad we didn’t have time to grab his ExerSaucer. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The next time we’re in church, Pastor Dames asks, “Are there any testimonies in the house?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You had a chance and you changed time back. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Seems to me this is exactly the right time,” I replied. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What’s got you up at four in the morning this time?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I called a parent to report good news. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I spent all my time worrying about which faction I would choose and never considered what would happen if I chose Dauntless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I really had a good time with you this week,” she says. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d have spent a little less time watching the action from the back of the auditorium. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It took a long time but he wanted it to be good and warm. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You said you’d give me three coins for every time he couldn’t dance with anyone else because of me. You owe me...” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I only have a vague picture of a room, lying down on a carpet in rows with other kids like me for a nap time. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But this time Carmen was all alone in the raging flood. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He had been dead a long time and from his footsteps on the earth I could see that he had never reached the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auguste was a thin black man who greeted every officer that passed, no matter what time of day, with “Top of the morning to you, sir!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times do I have to tell you not to bring him into the house with his overshoes on.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A caterpillar’s job was to eat, so naturally he wouldn’t be found wasting his time lounging about on something he didn’t like. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You need your hair done. I say it’s about time you get a perm and some acrylic nails. Girl, we gonna have you looking good!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Um, last time I checked the world is round. It doesn’t have edges.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was the last time she would be able to do that. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the purpose of definitions, the important fact is the notes sounding at the same time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to hang out with you. I like spending time with you. All right?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

During my time at Baker & Inglis, while I was falling in love with the Object, I had remained aware of my grandmother only in the vaguest of ways. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The house that I’d looked at through Google Earth countless times. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Over the eons of unhurried time that is nature’s, life reached an adjustment with destructive forces as selection weeded out the less adaptable and only the most resistant survived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It's hard to tell one month from another that time of year. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know Miss Bates’s niece? That is, I know you must have seen her a hundred times—but are you acquainted?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

For the first time in many long months, he felt a dim sense that something was missing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cabot Searcy lost his job, would not get out of bed, and called Alma Ember fifty-seven times over the span of three days. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I have gotten used to aching every time I move, so now I move better, but I am still far from healed. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Before I have time to move, his hand shoots out, he grabs my forearm and pulls me towards him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no way back in time now. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It took me a long time before I could get close enough to the chimps to make good observations. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think lieutenant Baker will really be home in time for strawberries?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He pushed some buttons at least twelve times; others I stopped counting at five. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to the center of the mall, the crowd became too thick. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This time it was not the pain of memory. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, the dude exploded down the line in a blur, even faster this time, his silver shoes like sparks flicking up off the track. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, son. I wish I did. The country’s fallen on hard times, and that’s a fact.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

About this same time, he drafted a “Thesis on Discretion” for his eldest surviving son. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a decade, Father Olufemi was going to select warriors to go into the Greater Jungle in search of the Shetani. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My general predisposition to spending a lot of time inside reading gave me a distinct advantage over the average Culver Creek student. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, he wondered what he was doing here and why he had come. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The waves grew redder from his blood, but this time he rolled over and was waiting for the charge. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, in time, even something close to what Mom promised. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time I truly appreciate the expression, because the salt in the water makes the pain of my wounds so blinding I nearly black out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the end, for a long time, of the CIA's confidence in its ability to infiltrate the main enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny dried black peppercorns were the perfect item to trade, because the small ships of the time could carry enough to make a nice profit. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We go along the corridor and through another flat gray door and along another corridor, softly lit and carpeted this time, in a mushroom color, browny pink. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya felt so stupid, standing there listening to her, holding the evidence while trying to hide it at the same time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Things had scarcely had time to quiet down after April’s narrow escape when Christmas vacation arrived. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he won’t show mine, the one that’s supposed to be mine, as I’m no longer in official existence, for now. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that was why for the first time after that cold day in France he was beginning to miss the presence of other people. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was too young to really take hold of it all, but for what seemed like the first time ever all I could think about was my own self. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, the information they’d given me made no sense. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Lovely. Well, I hate to end our time together, but I have quite a bit of work to catch up on,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’d seen Her Majesty’s face dozens of times before, in history books, on television, and on currency, but here she was in the flesh, looking at me intently and asking questions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We climb to the top of the highest dune when it’s time for lunch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every time I replayed Nationals in my head, I knew it wasn’t fear that had kept me from doing the Amanar; it was good sense. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I just felt warm and safe leaning into two walls at the same time. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here, for the first time, I found that I could live a different way. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Will you be back in time for the dance?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We are here to pay our respects at this sad time,” Mrs. Weidenbach said when Grandma let them in. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen it for a long time, But I know it’s waiting still. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As time went on, and the months and years came and went, he was never without friends. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were things like this on the news all the time, weren’t there? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And when I didn't come right out, he hit it a few more times. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then it was time to stack them on the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the first light of the sun crept into the cave, Dragon’s breathing was rough; when Minli shook him, he did not wake up. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, come on, Moll, you won’t get caught,’ ” he says in a gruff whisper, “ ‘don’t you love candy, don’t you want some, come on, just one time?’” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Since they were going to be the last blue emitters made for some time, the price was high, and my share was slightly over a talent and a half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But really, I don’t have a clue what goes on inside his head most of the time. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

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

All the time they talked and argued, I felt the excitement bubble up inside me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Alacrans couldn’t strike out 100 percent of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the same way Dad looked at him when he stepped into Mr. Armand’s office that first time after the fight. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

By this time Father Mike saw the Eldorado looming, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You gave me a brilliant son, and I have thanked you for him a million times. But you had to make him so brilliant?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just an arranged marriage to Rishi; this was the rich fabric of history, stretched through time and space. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He remembered all the times the earth goddess Gaea had appeared to him in the ground—her sleeping face made of dust or sand or dirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the rabbi says I’m practicing ten times as hard as most of his other bar mitzvah students, and that I’m asking ten times as many questions. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve even had time to grab a pudding from the fridge. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dimple laughed, and Rishi beamed at her, the way he seemed to every time she laughed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was harder this time—their furnishings and wardrobes hadn’t expanded, but their hardware had. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were in a bit of a time crunch,” she told me, and then reached over to start the car again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I looked up at her and smiled for the first time all day. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was the part she was supposed to be doing, the part that justified her time with the instrument, which was an investigation into the hourglass range of meanings. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he saw them appear, the same as the other time, when they came to put a stop to the war, he could not bear the cynicism of their praise. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were times when we would be in traffic and we had so little money for petrol that I would have to push the car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She tried to remember all the other times she’d stood this way, but besides Deen’s leaving, she found they all blurred. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

—From what I observe, kids that age forget to comb their hair half the time anyway. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we are out on the sidewalk, we both lower our shoulders at the same time and notice and laugh. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Tehlu asked them three times if they would cross, and three times they refused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She fumbled with the hooks, her hands trembling, making worse trouble with it than I did myself, and all the time catching at her breath. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Again she called the police, and the cops who showed up this time actually knew Abel. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But this will require a serious car wash, at the very least, and there’s no time for that before Agloe. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But for Bull and Lillian, it was the hymn that made this night a holy night for all time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ras said chase them! It is time Ras the Exhorter become Ras the DESTROYER!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the roosters drew blood, there was cheers and groans, so much so that you might of thought it was those men themselves that was getting all cut up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth dimension, time, is also finite in extent, but it is like a line with two ends or boundaries, a beginning and an end. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the sun and saw he had some time before dark. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, the political unrest wasn't orchestrated by foreign powers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For a long time, all I can do is take tiny sips from my bottle and watch a beetle crawl up the side of a honeysuckle bush. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It had ached for a long time now, for several years, but it was getting worse, and Claire had difficulty straightening herself She walked bent. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The theory then turns an observed rough correlation in time into a postulated chain of cause and effect. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts the wool from my two hands, where I have been holding it all this time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they made it all the way to Arizona, their car’s license plate and grill were splattered with bug guts and mangled wings. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe that was my burden to take on, yet at the same time I wanted to show them that if they gave me a chance they’d see we were more alike than different. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looked as if he’d been holding that posture for some time, contemplating the squalor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I write you letters all the time in my head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Better to make a fresh start and hope I was more memorable the second time around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Robert was breathing heavily by the time they reached the bottom of the stairs, his face red in the lantern light as they stepped out into the darkness of the crypt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Alexandra said, “I got you two out of it this time, but I may not be around next time.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After Eratosthenes, some may have tried, but not until the time of Magellan did anyone succeed in circumnavigating the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice had slowed down when he spoke this time, so that Carla definitely understood him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m spending too much time thinking about Sahil when I need to be thinking about his brother instead. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The seventh time we drove into the alley we heard sirens . . . real quiet at first, but then louder. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been the first time in my life I was ever truly afraid. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every time he would make a stitch or two, his arm would jerk and the stitches would come loose. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Peaches and me are home girls and I can’t stand for her to be sad all the time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, now we’re all here — time to fill you in!” said Bagman brightly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It took the kid less time to polish it off than it had taken Grayson to get it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed time and a chance to wash and change her dusty clothes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And also that there was a time before. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And I stayed close enough so that when he opened a shop door and disappeared inside, I had time to slow and creep up to the shop. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lolo and I built these planters—my first time using a handsaw. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was by now the first week of April, not a pleasant time for me or anyone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Usually, I would have run, but this time I had a gun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At first I thought that, to go into the store and to use the tractor, I would have to ask permission each time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he returned this time, he said that at his brother Philbert’s home, “we had dinner with our mother for the first time in all those years!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Finny, I tried to tell you before, I tried to tell you when I came to Boston that time—” “I know, I remember that.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent too much time laughing for any serious romance to develop, but it was fun. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then he followed my father to the living room, where the television was timed to the local news. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time, as James Trefil has put it, scientists had encountered "an area of the universe that our brains just aren’t wired to understand." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Daddy hasn’t wasted any time in ingratiating himself,” Kainene said in his ear. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a time, I relaxed a bit, and even felt drowsy. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You just saved me a bunch of time and money. This is the least I owe you.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mutt crept into his own little house and whined softly to himself for a long time. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

At no time did he try to reinterest me in myoglobin. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He scrutinized the trees one more time and then we all hiked off. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The rest of the game, she got on base every time she came to bat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

This is not the time for your tennis leaders to turn their back on us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I said, by the time I got to Spanish, I was in a better frame of mind. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And for the first time since the track meet, I smile inside, too. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

On my way to one of these practice sessions I saw Frank for the first time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then we both grinned at the exact same time. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dr. Jansen smiled and sighed at me at the same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Alan would enjoy this, even though he would probably be the slowest player and spend half the time tripping over his own feet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don't like people that dance with little kids, because most of the time it looks terrible. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The horror of the murders dulled with time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay, that should be enough time. Pass in your papers, please.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Often she spends this time with Tsukiko, but instead of seeking out the contortionist this particular evening, she sits alone at her table, shuffling her tarot deck compulsively. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The two of us remained silent in front of the fire for a long time after that, thinking about these wonderful things. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"You been saying that for a long time, sister. Nothing changes." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After some time of this, François threw down the club, thinking that Buck feared a thrashing. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them was too surprised to see May Belle come screaming toward them at recess time. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

This time Milton answered on die first ring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I never told Mama Ya-Ya but I used to try and speak with her all the time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They would have made good time, but armored destriers and twelve-foot lances would avail them little against the deep waters of the Blackwater Rush and the high stone walls of the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And about time the first rays of sunlight hit the back steps, I sat down out there with my grandfather. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Before we could learn a new step, it was time for tap. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

With me it’s not like playing a game, it’s like the only time I’m being for real. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I figure out that this might be a good time to say something friendly to her, she is back at work. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was uneasy and disturbed by the slinking gray shape that merged into the undergrowth every time he looked back to snarl at it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which way do we pass this time?” asked Duncan, a bald man with a goatee. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

How do children experience music when playing or in leisure time activities? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he hoped for an answer this time, or perhaps he merely paused for emphasis, since he got no answer. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the Angkar thinks the Youns will invade Cambodia, the soldiers stock up on food and supplies and ship more rice to China in exchange for guns. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was very late, and the house quiet, when Tyler stood from his desk and pushed play, saying this was the last time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t do this halfway. Either go to college, learn something, and change your life, or stay here and be miserable. Don’t move to the next county over to be miserable. You’ll waste your time.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

People couldn’t be expected to trudge halfway across the city every time they wanted to communicate with someone. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I refresh a few times and then check my sent folder to make sure the email went through. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Or the power to know that you had a hard time getting out of bed because you were playing games on your phone way past your bedtime. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Had he had his eye on the tiger all the time it was in the storeroom? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then she got into the car and it was the first time we had ever been alone, and she realized I couldn’t even hold a conversation with her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him; you must love him.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She knocked several times at Mr. Randolph’s door before he opened it, his tie and shirt awry and his face still clogged with sleep. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Anyone can fight for America,” he began, giving special emphasis to “America,” “even you boys. In a time of need, anyone can fight for her.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had read and reread the article a dozen times. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will be sold once more—perhaps many times. We no longer belong to ourselves, Amari.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, there was so much space between the times he asked. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone into the library several times to get books for the white men on the job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I boil it for a long time before it’s tender enough to fry. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the time of the autopsy, McCandless’s remains weighed sixty-seven pounds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered what time it was, how many hours had passed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She said that women had “stood with the black man for half a century” and should get the vote at the same time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But for the people of Kilanga fufu was the one thing in life, other than time, that appeared to be taken for granted. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the first few times,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the inside of the Carver County Jail a few times myself, you know. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time,” Nhamo said, “there was a hunter with two dogs. The dogs were called Bite Hard and Grip Fast.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this is really embarrassing, but you asked for it. Every time I hear the song, it sounds like you’re singing, ‘Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I remember the time I went fishing at summer camp. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of my father, who had no time for my dreams. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t realize it at the time, but Grace liked him just because he liked her, and that wasn’t a strong enough tree to hang on to when the storm came. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He spent more time now watching a new kind of traffic: expensive-looking cars driving slowly down the newly paved streets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first time he called, he told me he was using his wife’s phone because his own phone had been bugged by the intelligence services. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lorraine, my assistant, gave Barack a knowing smile each time he surfaced in my office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Every time you do this it makes the eventual payback that much worse,” Wil said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She spends her off time shuttling Christopher to and from school or to Little League practice in her new Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, an early benefit of her higher paychecks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I was nervous the first time by myself too,” I say to Madge. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As proof he showed them the scar on his foot which in other years they had both seen many a time. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We should therefore cut them out of the model and say that time had a beginning at the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, I realized that I was experiencing heat hallucinations for the first time in my life. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded yes, and it was the first time since Dad died that I’d seen her not try to stop her tears. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was clerking for a Philadelphia lawyer, making less than $100 a week, when he drove out to Levittown for the first time to represent a home buyer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Easy for you to say. You’ve traversed time and space. Where you come from, I bet everyone thinks good stuff about you.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there were three beautiful children, two boys and a girl. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There is plenty of salt and butter in the potatoes and I wonder if there’s any chance Minnie could be my mother so that I could eat like this all the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Say it three times and your home will be safe from devils and any kind of danger. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

By the time we finally got home at night, I’d collapse into bed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, I write: I just happened to be there, x V. Less than a minute later, it’s passed back to me, but this time I don’t open it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the voice over the megaphone called out, “If you have any other crimes you would like to confess to the Ministry of Silence, this would be a good time to do that.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And that means he knows I must have been there at the Pirate’s Den at the same time he was. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few are about the Patriots—this time for another bombing up in Sacramento that killed half a dozen soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Every time I set foot on one, it tells on me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what most of the words meant but after the third or fourth time I could recite the list by heart. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This time of year I get about thirteen hours of light. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bull wanted it again, and Romero's cape filled again, this time on the other side. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma was deep in thought, and we were passing the time until she came to a conclusion. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Edward did now have much time to savor the light, for the dog suddenly appeared above him, dark and shaggy, blocking his view. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

But by the time I finished writing about it in my journal I had settled down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

All the time the Voice went on singing. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

This is a striking case of French imposing itself upon English, and of the scientists determining for the first time the language of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His grandma would get up first thing in the morning to vacuum, did laundry four times a week, and once cleaned the bath at midnight before going to bed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

At times he wanders up to the library’s sun-filled, unpopulated top floor, where all the literature is shelved. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fussy biochemical setup had taken weeks to perfect—except each time the ribosomes were caught, they crumbled and fell apart. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

An unaccountable serenity had stolen upon me; I felt the operations of my wits as clean and mechanical, aiming only at that which needed to transpire: the flight at the appointed time across the mud. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have time for theorizing now, Foaly. First light is approaching.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Since Branwell was only allowed to have two visitors at a time, I would need special permission to be allowed to see him at the same time as one of The Ancestors and Beacham. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hangs around the kitchen for a few more minutes, fixing himself the slowest peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich in recorded history and keeping one eye on Samantha at all times. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

You can set your watch by them; these are the times for his “regular sessions.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I was only stunned for a moment, but by the time I had regathered my wits, I had a heavy hand clamped over my mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then too much time will pass, and I’ll start to worry that I ruined our friendship. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He would rather spend his time worrying about more important things, such as the number of owl hoots he’d heard in the night or how many spiders he’d sighted scurrying across his path. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“No, Sissy! No! You can’t go through that again. Ten times it’s happened—ten children stillborn. And it will be harder this time because you’re going for thirty-seven.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it gets no easier, with time, to speak about a tragedy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t leave time for anyone to look at me or say anything, she says it right as we’re all coming in, and in Ms. Smith’s class, you come in and start the Do Now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pounded my fist in my palm three times. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The next week was Thanksgiving, and my new brothers were coming home for the first time since I had moved in. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, when stones were soft and stars were bits of dust, I loved a monster. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It took a torturously long time to circle the cabin. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here I am born into the world in half the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have a hard time holding on to what we have now,” she lamented. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the time of Hawaii’s “discovery” by Europeans in 1778, political unification had already taken place within each Hawaiian island, and some political fusion between islands had begun. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She blinked and Bitter’s face came into focus, a piece at a time, the hard cheekbones, the bare eyebrows, the broad mouth pressed with a matte red. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When Adolf Hitler came to power, he vowed to break the treaty, a promise he would keep, one step at a time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was three times fatter than any other file in the drawer. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The latter sat facing Poirot, and for the second time Poirot studied that unprepossessing face, noting the false benevolence of the brow and the small, cruel eyes. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Glow-worm, who at the best of times was a very shy and silent creature, sat glowing with pleasure near the tunnel entrance. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but this is the last time I’m letting you borrow it. You don’t have to replace everyone's memories, you know.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Twice, three times, four—and the fifth time with the white clay, something happened. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Time for Booth to go inside the theater for the first time since the Lincolns had arrived. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouts something now—the first time she has raised her voice—and strides backward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to stay with me, Pilar? Are you going to stay with me this time?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orr asked suddenly, and looked straight into Yossarian’s face for the first time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could only forget the truth with one shoulder at a time. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was just about to turn his head to the side to throw up when Teresa let out a sharp cry—this time there was no echo. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Honestly, it was probably the longest time we’d ever spent together without talking. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And Lyra thrilled at those times with the same deep thrill she’d felt all her life on hearing the word North. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I need to rest,” she announces, and scrambles up the stairs two at a time, shuts her bedroom door, and thrusts her fingers into the miniature city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize in every imaginable social arrangement. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s him, he’s been in Dome all this time, and now he’s seized my daughter.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All this time, I’d pictured Mother and Daddy alive somewhere, waiting for news of us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Had he really remembered Hazel all that time? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But each time, Jen greeted him with big hugs and acted genuinely thrilled to see him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the fire burned brightly again, sweat beaded his forehead and rolled down his cheeks with his tears. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

So here she is, laying across my bed on her stomach, with her short legs waving in the air every time Larry says something to her. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My actual release time was set for 3 P.M., but Winnie and Walter and the other passengers from the chartered flight from Johannes-burg did not arrive until after two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last Sunday, the last time he had visited the Kidwells, Sue’s mother had mentioned Babe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered all the good times I’d had growing up in Birmingham—at home, in the community, and at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Almost Sam fell asleep as the time went by. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Still, it was probably a high traffic time, so that wouldn’t last for long. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You make good time traveling at night,” came the reply. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Over half of them at night. Mostly on Blenheims—that’s what I was flying all the time I was operational.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few times I have ever seen him uncertain. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how he is. Can’t have him spoiling our good time, now can we?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing him for the first time in front of the Carvel on Amesfort Avenue when I was about five or six. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember the last time I picked up a landline. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She remembered the first time she’d seen him at the Menagerie. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Adele had promised to make me a princess costume for Halloween, and I kept hoping I would get back in time—just as we had the year before. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"You're not concentrating. You're wasting your father's money and my time. If you fail, I fail. That goes down as a stain on my reputation." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He felt even less comfortable than when Vikus had left the first time. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fourth cook, I knew, was just a glorified name for dishwasher, but it wouldn’t be my first time, and just as long as I traveled where I wanted, it didn’t make any difference to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sailors lifted the shrouded body for the third time, it trembled. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I understood where Mr. Ray was coming horn about talking, but at the same time, thank God for text messaging. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hermione’s hand shook slightly as, for the third time, she raised it into the air. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the early Gemini flights, we were worried about the machinery breaking, and so we decided it would be a good idea for one of the two men to be awake at all times. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s cool if it doesn’t take too long. You know I — ” “Have class. I ain’t deaf. I heard you the first time. So, you want t’know about Bodega?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In time, all three of them learned to play the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why is the direction of time in which disorder increases the same as that in which the universe expands? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky’s overflowing with orange clouds and each time one floats down, Brian bats it back up like a balloon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He assumed Kissinger would advise Nixon that it was time to end the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He’s sure taking his time, I thought, pushing down other ideas that were trying to bubble into my mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Kyle thought of something: “This is why Mr. Lemoncello called our time-out a bonus. He knew we’d need a ton of time to find a new source of numbers.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Anya could see her swallowing hard, time after time after time. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He saw with satisfaction that the fella Joe was going to meet would wait a long time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to the main office, I’ve dried my eyes and my face completely. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And my mother, hearing it repeated so many times, began to believe it might be true. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We are both eating dinner at the same restaurant at the same time. It’s not marriage.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Later that year he was registered as a ‘Master Painter’ in the Guild of Saint Luke...became a director of the same guild several times...had eleven children. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time to wash clothes and a time to iron them, fold them, and put them away. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Years later, they would shake their heads and call themselves prejudiced, but at the time they were profoundly disconcerted. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of Bill Joy’s genius has been told many times, and the lesson is always the same. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“So remember that. A lot of times those little facts get smudged out of the history books. If you gon’ tell a story, you better be sure you’re telling the right one.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Time in the woods's older than time in clocks, and truer. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had been standing up the whole time we were in the study and I crouched to a squat, hanging on to the arm of Vern’s upholstered chair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When it was time for her to eat and she made loud noises, banging her cup on the table, I joined her. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily it was seen only once a year, at the time when the village gathered to hear the Ruin Song, the lengthy history of their people. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he had finished reading, tears were running down his face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And the time must be—he estimated closely—five after five now, perhap close to ten. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe on a different day, at a different time, I would’ve been interested in his smile. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She spent most of her free time with Lenny Shepherd now. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I let the time slip on by, didn’t I?” she says. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The tree has been shaped to spread the cognitive load over time with the help of two kinds of topiary. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

After we have done this a dozen times, I am exhausted. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred the water all the time with a big wooden spoon, and sifted in the meal until the kettle was full of a thick, yellow, bubbling mass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought of that poem many times since the war, and of myself, by default, as “scribe and confessor.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were all grateful that tradition called for the ruler to mount the cliff alone, for the mountain can only use its powers for one person at a time. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time coming, born in the city’s beginnings, written in the countless daily interactions of ordinary citizens and city leaders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the end, those kids collected five times as many paper clips as they needed, and founded a world-renowned Holocaust museum. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It took some time in silence, but I felt the air between us ease from a guarded hostility to something that felt to me like acceptance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was no time for second thoughts or long goodbyes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s eleven prescriptions,” she told me once, “maybe twelve. I can’t keep track, they change all the time.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d been picked up late in the afternoon, so by the time I was processed it was close to lights-out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first time we played, it was painful. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was depressed all the time, and taking drugs seemed to be the only thing she truly enjoyed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She always said things that didn’t make any sense, that sounded both good and bad at the same time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to give my home address, where I would probably be by the time the bill arrived, but then I thought of my mother opening the bill and seeing what it was for. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tony was spending most of his time in the Mur-phy Homes Projects, where his father lived. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time I could remember, I heard little children were showing up in Coalwood classrooms needing clothing and food. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The entirety of the circus has been suspended to give us more time, so...” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But my eyes are taking too much time to adapt. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the Elf-wardens then blew a clear note on a small horn, and it was answered three times from far above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A pair of young billies butted each other with their horns, but most of the time the animals were perfectly orderly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the haint’s flare of sunlight embraced me again, my arm this time, pulling me forward. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was stuck in a world where time had come to a standstill except for my digging. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He told me that, other than e-mail, he had never really spent any time on the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So very long a time,” said a voice. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Well?” she says, turning to look at him, somewhat suspiciously this time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It struck her how quickly the meeting had unfolded, how little time it took to confirm four of her family dead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s such an unpleasant place that I spend almost all my time out of it. Besides, what could be nicer than these grimy mountains?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a long time after that feeling like I didn’t care about anything. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At these times Cejas speaks with such grit, such fervor, such fire, I believe she might just do this. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each time Crick frowned as he added another component, Watson’s stomach took a turn—but in the end, the whole thing fit together, like a perfectly solved puzzle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I have to access rapid-fire in order to follow all Dawn’s reference points, but even still, it’s a good time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“My friends, we must do this one at a time,” he said, and that seemed to work. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Half the time, the doctors weren’t even sure what the medicine would do. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

“What time did you take Miss Dalton from here last night?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember my slave ship after all this time?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We’d started Valley Forge at the same time and lived down the hall from each other. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When there seemed to be nothing else to say, Vonetta asked Fern, “What time is it?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Arthur stood up for the second time, and began talking fast “I am afraid for my Table. I am afraid of what is going to happen. I am afraid it was all wrong.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personally, I find that if I run two miles at a time, four times a week, then the doctors who give me physical exams say that I am keeping my heart muscle in good condition. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to know if he felt like he was lying all the time, because I feel like I’m lying all the time. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Usually I have a piano lesson at the same time as Malia’s ballet class. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Is he someone likely to be better over time or has he already peaked? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

To travel a shorter arc requires less time but more fuel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said nothing for a long time, only looked at the shadows the lamp cast on the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you were playing at that time,” said Eitri. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

After we finished with the trash, it was chill-out time, where everyone just did whatever they wanted. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe not when you played in the olden times. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So the next time the ball came at me, I planted myself right under it, locked my elbows and bumped it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even so, over time her tobacco craving waned. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Banana peanut butter smoothie. I was up late working on that essay for social studies, and I didn’t have time for breakfast.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But Obinze said little, and Kayode was left to carry the conversation, his voice getting boisterous, and from time to time he glanced at Obinze, as though to urge him on. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how many times I have to tell you guys to box out.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Come here one at a time, then,” the doctor said, and Theodora moved forward, grimacing as she passed the doorway. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Outside Palmer met Panther for the first time. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Although I was walking straight toward his front door he beckoned me on several times, and he never took his eyes from me, as though it was they which held me to my course. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we arrived there the snow had become drab and sooted, wet and heavy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been treated disrespectfully too many times by him, he complained to some B-block officers a day or two later, and was too old to put up with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trolley was waiting for a light, and we made it just in time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We got it wrong, though, Pan. We got it all wrong about Roger. We thought we were helping him...’’She choked, and kissed Roger’s still face clumsily, several times. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude, I got this,” Michael always said, a joking reference to the impossibility of sprinting upstairs to the platform in time to catch the train. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even while living in the Chelsea Hotel while waiting for my sentencing, I spent more time looking into the mirror at my wounded face than I did into my notebook. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He came at Armpit again, but this time Armpit saw him coming. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We rushed to the doors of the trailer in time to see the zebra galloping down a wide boulevard lined with hotels and casinos and neon signs. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time when I would never have thought to discuss my spiritual life—even with other Catholics I knew intimately. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most of the time I think about things. Write stuff down. Is that what you wanted to know?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Lupe smiled again and this time the grin reached his eyes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut my arm, probably doing irreparable damage to veins and arteries, and then Brutus and Enobaria showed up before she had time to finish me off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sound came from inside her again, and this time it was an irritated growl that so matched her own frustration she thought she herself might’ve made it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If I had time, I could make a chart and trace my luck in them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was time for us to leave, too. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

For the first time I am feeling alienated from the rest of the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was the first time he had ever spoken of how she seemed to him and she answered with a slow painful gaze. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ask one more time for what he needs. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“At the same time, I was doing some independent research on anesthesia,” Az said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My prayers must be working, cuz Mama drops me off on time at Laser Zone for Sneaky’s birthday party. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I clung to him for a long time. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Clovis cul- ture arose just after the only time period in which migration from Siberia seemed to have been possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Either way, the man seemed to have been dead for a long time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When was the last time Audrey had done something nice for me? Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m... damaged,” he said, quoting what Malcolm had said to him many times. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I’m not proud of this, but it is likely that I cried harder and longer after being left off the team than at any time in my life, before or since. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was always sand in the sheets and spiders in the cabinets, and most of the time the sea was too cold to swim in. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know why I am less casual about what he does with the rest of his time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Once more, the desire to slip on the Ring came over Frodo; but this time it was stronger than before. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Both of them started eating at the same time. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something both sad and...and proud at the same time. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So this time around, I needed a reliable way to fix my position on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell forward, under Falconer's blade, and landed on his outstretched left hand, at the same time thrusting his sword before him, parallel to the ground. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Although his friends had no idea, for quite some time the Pope had been keeping his eye on a particular girl. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had tossed it back and forth between his hands a few times, then thrown it again to Asher. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And as always when he came near to one of this race, Kino felt weak and afraid and angry at the same time. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the blow this time, angling her staff so he hit the bottom half. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I hoped I could find the time to return it sometime today and get a new one. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you think he is, some kind of radical rinky-dink reporter? He’s drawing a decent weekly salary from Halversson; he’s got a wife, a brat, a mortgage, and a ’71 Oldsmobile on time.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time you were hospitalized?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When one goes back to the real time in which we live, however, there will still appear to be singularities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure the last time I wore them was last Thanksgiving. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But by the time I’d decided to rejoinder with a perfectly acceptable, “Pretty good, and you?” his back was already to me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If people had known ahead of time, they would have ground corn to prepare for the trip, but there was no time. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not actually at that moment, but at some time on the following day, that the idea of renting Mr. Charrington’s room had occurred to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had no time to find a path so I just jumped into the denseness. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Two or three times she was on the verge of mentioning it, but each time she lost her nerve. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time I was working there, we believed that was the justification for this strange project. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mama gave me this before I left Virginia, a long, long time ago. And I suppose you already figured that I’ve got some salt.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

For a time, she sat by the window and thought out the plan she had gone to sleep considering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness was settling by the time they reached the bottom of the mountain, so Yishan suggested that they find shelter for the night in the village. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In Tartarus, they were a thousand times more vivid. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted to sit quiet for a long time and not think and not say a word. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Diego had been telling us about life in Colorado to kill time while we waited to buy the bracelets that would let us on every ride at the fair. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Looking at the sky to assess the time, she suddenly remembered something. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one-armed boy spoke for the first time. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I had six different best friends that spring, at different times and for different reasons. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had to leap the net as he had done before, and this time he would race toward the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Right around the time, I think to myself, an engagement would turn into a wedding. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

C.P. felt certain that the time had come to take back his city, indeed to reclaim the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to apologize. You didn’t do anything wrong. Go back and play with your friends. Next time just don’t ask me to be your cheering section, okay?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Each time they come back to me, they are like a nightmare and I am living them over again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

By this time the gypsies, seeing themselves covered by the Winchesters, and at the mercy of Lord Godalming and Dr. Seward, had given in and made no resistance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“They just wanted to give us a little scare, and catch us by surprise. Next time we’ll be ready.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

At first the frigid courthouse felt as refreshing as an icy bath, but by the time we took the escalator upstairs, I could not stop shaking. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That left Father all his free time to work on flying. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the only time in my life I ever hit my dog. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A story no one would schedule for prime time. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because their stove and toaster and pressure cooker and imported spices were left behind in Nsukka, their meals were simpler too, and Ugwu had more time to play with her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

During most of the day and night he had no time to think. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Listen carefully, Tally. Do you really think that this is the first time we’ve been told about David? Or the Smoke? Or found some scrawled directions about how to get there?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I was eleven and we first moved here, I’d go swimming at the community center at the same time as Seniors Games Club. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“No, Ash, we would never do that. But every time you get a letter, you go on a little high, then you crash, like too much sugar at a birthday party.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It feels like the first time I’ve smiled in months, though it’s only been hours. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I think I spend a little too much time thinking how adorable you are in emails and trying to translate that into a viable mental image for daydreams and the like. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have much time,” I told the grass-covered grave. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times the pain and loneliness overwhelmed him and he broke down and cried. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Get your cousin out of here, then, girl. And if he comes to, remind him that the next time he poaches off the Capitol’s land, I’ll assemble that firing squad personally.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time you left this apartment?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other times my parents would act out romantic dialogues while I followed along in the books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Papa’s funeral was no time for us to express our selfish childishness, our American rebelliousness. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The lapping of the water was like the tide of time sounding on my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all sit there for a long time, nothing else to say, when the landline phone begins to ring. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

From time to time the sound of voices, squealing laughter, arose from beyond the trees and hedges. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant she was sad and happy at the same time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Patrick and Sam, and we made plans for a Sunday night, and about two hours later, Mary Elizabeth walked up to me in the hall, and said, “What time Sunday?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had run out of ways to fill time, so when I said, "Yes, I'll be fine," she had nothing left to do except try to believe me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I know...I just need some time to let it sink in. It’s strange to think that you and he...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So Hannah just happened to roll her eyes at the exact same time I made that joke? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since Emily had been in a friend’s house. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One thing I can say, though, is that in a certain way I was lucky that whole time, since I never heard footsteps. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

For a time I regarded the picket-guards patrolling the gates of the city. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Woman operator in Bangalore after walking an American through a computer glitch: “Not a problem, Mr. Jassup. Thank you for your time. Take care. Bye-bye.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

At first the wildfire had scared him, but over time van der Donck had come to relish the spectacle of the yearly burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Washington, for the second time in two years, now stood again on the brink of sweeping the regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She wears print housedresses, not only in the mornings but most of the time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My father hated the Erudite, so I learned to hate them too, and everything they did with their time. Only now I’m thinking he was wrong. Or just... biased.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By the time we were seated, there was barely room for the home-team fans. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They flipped them in the air and clapped several times before they caught them, and continued pounding and singing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In Newton’s time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl said the word again, this time louder, surer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A dozen times Jeyne and Sansa cried out in unison as riders crashed together, lances exploding into splinters while the commons screamed for their favorites. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I give Khouy my most charming smile, but this time it does not work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snakes and the sword are bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any surgery would need to be done well before I started school, to give me time to recover. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At the same time, however, many of the new civil rights laws were proving largely symbolic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked for the last time at his sons, but they avoided his gaze. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What time is it?” she whispered, and he pinched her arm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard at first. It takes time,” said Calder kindly. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

What I want to say is that Addie has been my friend my whole life, and Skeezie and Joe, for a long time...and, well, I think they are the bravest people I know. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a vigorous trade in appointment times after the lottery was held. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

People were coming to save them, but if Z had a gun and knew where another bomb was, the rescue workers weren’t going to make it in time. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I toss another treat, this time a little closer to me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But like me, she’d all but given up, having prodded him and been shut down enough times already. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was trying to bring to the table wild pig, wild mushrooms, fresh local fruit, and garden-picked vegetables all at the same time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The lawyer stood, documents in hand, and cleared his throat several times. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was silent for a long time, watching him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I grab hold of the phone and peel off my clothes at the same time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was out of respect for Gramma, or maybe they just didn’t have time. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

What had seemed like not a big deal at the time now seemed like the first wave in a terrible ocean tide. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows that I spend months at a time ‘writing,’ but she does not press me for information. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiking packs leave you with no recognizable center of gravity at the best of times; here we were literally being blown over. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine,” she says, “but this time, you’re going to make the basement presentable, or else you’ll be ringing in the New Year on the couch, smack dab in between your dad and me.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The only times they argued were when she tried to look into their finances. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, now is the perfect time to sneak into a school. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I paced our driveway while Trevor shot the basketball into the hoop a few more times. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sam said, “The time Diana Poisson beat her and she squirted her water bottle into Diana’s face.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Not risking the time to find who’d seen me, I dashed right, turning the first corner I could and then another, hoping to lose whomever it was as quickly as possible. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Td also like to spend more time in front of a camera, so that I get used to the sensation of being taped. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gray plumes of smoke come out his nose and mouth at the same time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This one I just finished for the tenth or so time—Little Women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the summers, a long time ago, my people had lived here. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, actually, it was exactly twenty-four times, but I felt justified in using the generic “few,” realizing that any number greater than “never” was as good as saying “twenty-four.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It took even less time to gather up my belongings than it had for my life to be signed away. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fang claimed there was nothing really wrong with her and the only repetitive strain injury she had was from bringing a bottle to her lips one too many times. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The only time I have known him to show impatience is when the postman lags, for it means we must wait another day before the arrival of our English mail. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The third woman grabbed Anya in a hug and kissed her a few times before releasing her, and the two younger girls slid up beside Anya while the older women talked around them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She has maybe had the best time she’s ever had in her life. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As they run, Mark hopes he has enough time left in life to become friends with the kid. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Without friends and a packed schedule to keep me busy, keeping track of time and numbers has become a prime source of entertainment. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t even speak, and I know there’s going to be a puffy red handprint on my left cheek for a good long time. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But of course, like all rules, there was one time—and one time only—that I broke it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Other times, when she deemed it was safe enough, she lit the lantern inside their little crate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

By the time we left, I was so glad to see the outside world I thought I had been in prison for seventy-three years. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“One thing at a time now. Patience, patience. Let’s proceed methodically, lights or no lights. Mr. Hooks, will you redirect?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By die time he came trotting back, I'd gotten a name out of her, and a story. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But for the first time, being treated like the Greenie didn’t bother him that much. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

With all she had to do for the newspaper—not to mention her other schoolwork—Cara was barely able to find time each week to write her own editorial. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In fact the stadium did speak powerfully and at all times, including this moment. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me his name the first time I met him at a dance, and later he got up the courage to come and stand outside my house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are times you just want to sink through the floor,” she said, “but then you realize there’s no air out there.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was so funny was that, for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As she had done so many times before, Maria turned to her daughters for help. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Courses in nutrition and health had been added to her curriculum, and more time was spent on exercise in the outdoor air. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He described it several times in print, in Latin and in French, but never in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Have you,” he said, “really spent your time in studying such nonsense?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum and Rashid saw them out to their van and the police left at the same time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the piles on the floor had shifted around, but they were all still as haphazard and numerous as they had been last time. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And the whole time he was trying to rattle them loose, he was picking his nose. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bickel was by the time of the interview at the height of his reputation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At Virginia, Reggie had a good time, and was a decent student. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ll do that, Horace. I thought the ranch took all your time.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was just glancing at the paper it was written on but most of the time she was looking dead into Mack’s eyes. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cain had cracked one of her ribs, and it ached every time she breathed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But I have a really great idea. Next time why don’t you have your brother jump dead drunk off this cliff instead of mine?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

You said it would make sense once we found Kaori didn’t say anything for a long time—or at least what felt like a long time. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Every time he moved, he had a reason. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I know. You can make it time if you want.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tuttle hadn’t offered me a picking job since that time us boys pulled up an acre of his onion crop to dam the stream between his pasture and ours. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You could die at any time. A freak lightning strike could fry your heart, or you could drown in a molasses tsunami.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Which is to say that by the time I found him, he’d been briefed in detail on the graphic, horrid crime scene at Sandy Hook. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Three or four times a day she made up a poultice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel Martinson hoisted himself on top of the cabin, propped one foot against the cowling, and shone his flashlight upward one more time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was never a right time to say it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the last time we saw each other alone was when Sam came over to say good-bye. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my life, I was a free man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently he’s been planning this for some time—been waiting for the right moment to launch it.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Bones went back to the room and told the teacher he had really gotten it this time and he promised to be a good boy and not break any rules. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t come over until it was time to head to the center. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Holmes turned to him and smiled, and said, “Take your time, old man.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He lay on the brass bed and went back in time over his sullen and miserable childhood and his fretful and vicious growing up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so I have to have a pedigree going back to the time of George Washington.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although I hope to go on living in health for some time yet, the major portion of my own life is spent. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would be around the time you injured your hand, then, sir.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gracious to a fault, Fowler comforted Lawrence with the gratifying assertion, surely untrue, that “for a long time Rutherford and Chadwick were nearly convinced that your explanation was right.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This time I had the book open to the place. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the times when I got to go outside my neighborhood, outside the world where I spent most of my life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn't a bad person, Miss Samson, but her timing was off. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jackson and S.Q. had returned to the plaza, this time with Mr. Curtain, who like Jackson was clearly furious with S.Q. about something and kept shaking his finger in S.Q.’s face. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Portraits of all the mayors of the city since the beginning of time hung on the walls, staring solemnly from behind pieces of old window glass. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Salva said “Hello” and “Thank you” many times, for in his fatigue and confusion, these were the only words he felt sure about. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed more enthusiastic, more vital than his imperturbable adversary, who possessed a style that was obviously more professional, but at the same time less emotional for the large crowd that filled the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I tried to do the monologue by memory, I only messed up three times. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He glances down at the tan leather Indian khussa slippers he wears inside the house, like he’s measuring them up, as if he’s wearing them for the first, and not the millionth, time. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"I think he really did have a good time." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They pointed and laughed, and Tally kept moving, not giving them time to do anything else. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some tribes have rules against sex at certain times in the growing and shrinking of the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were more spectators than normal as they held the men’s and women’s finals at the same time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Nobody seemed impressed with his reasonable advice, given where he was now spending all his time. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Beastly rotten to surprise you like this. But one isn’t able to arrange such meetings ahead of time, you know.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was the first time Citra had ever called her by her first name. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

J.T. was still carrying on but he was slowing down and the growling noise was like him halfway crying at the same time he was talking. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I visited Bien and Alex at home, I was invited to sit down on a tattered sofa in the living room. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Please note that the garden is wet and so I cannot do the weeds at this time, but please be assured this task will be completed by the end of the weekend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Agreed,” said the bird, with a sharp click of his beak, “but neither is it left, although if I were you I would have left a long time ago.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

They flailed at their oars, digging them too deep in the water or too shallow, out of time with one another, angry and desperate to catch up, losing all semblance of form. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time, he was almost glad that Susan had given him up. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

You take a chance of being raked or bitten all the time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither have I. This was my great-grandfather’s time. Seventy years ago, we returned to Russia and were welcomed back by the tsar. My family has lived there ever since, but.. Yuri sighed. “ The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

By the time he had his seat belt on, Toby forced himself not to bring it up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Doc’s birthday party had barely time to get inside the laboratory and wedge the broken door closed and turn out the lights before the police car cruised up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time there was music in the street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

"Not if you don't want to," Viji Aunty says, and I see Rani's eyes light up for the first time since we arrived here. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“They are the days of a long time ago, Laura,” Pa said. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a slow march and as I looked back from time to time I could see young zoot-suiters, hep cats, and men in overalls and pool-hall gamblers stepping into the procession. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had warned his own family against doing that hundreds of times. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Last summer, before Luke had turned into Kronos and everything went sour, there had been a few times when I thought maybe ... well, that we might get past the strangle-each-other phase. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Every time they looked at me, they laughed harder. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the thousands of times the Doctorita called me a dirty bnga are being stirred up into a whirlwind of old, painful insults. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An explosion of caws and shrieks erupted around her as two dozen wings started flapping at the same time. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

By the time he published it, in 1693, he was well behind Leibniz, who had published his somewhat different version in 1684. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the same time his whole personality seemed to undergo a change. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only Tally had noticed at the time, maybe she could have talked Shay out of running away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He fights you with all four feet and every tooth in his head and enough courage for an animal five times his size. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some time passed before he spoke; he at last said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Belet joined us then, just in time to receive Ishtar's gaze. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Just hand it over to him. It'll save time, effort, and pain." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time, they look like brothers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was not merely a question of losing Central Africa; for the first time in the whole war, the territory of Oceania itself was menaced. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

By then the underlying structure of my face would be set and I’d have plenty of time to recover before school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But no matter how many times her husband lashed Sima with a belt, she believed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For the third time that afternoon, Scott Spencer had gotten the drop on Evan, dribbling around him and then hitting the easy lay-up. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was taking another stab at alkahest, using the Strange azoth this time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, he knew that Toby was somewhere cooling off. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Riddle had caught the wrong person, the Heir of Slytherin had got off, and no one could tell whether it was the same person, or a different one, who had opened the Chamber this time. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I envy this technique and at the same time do not trust it as a mirror of reality. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

You just have to try harder next time. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he let her breasts form; sometimes they felt hard, tempting him to bite into them, and other times they were so soft he was afraid his imaginary squeezing caused her pain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Years later, I would occasionally meet her at events in other states, and I ended up spending a little time with her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While 80 percent of Japan’s land area consists of mountains unsuitable for agriculture and only 14 percent is farmland, per square mile of that farmland Japan supports a population density eight times that of Britain’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of those twenty times and soon disputed that “fact.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She’d said there’s no bad time to fish, but the best time to catch a catfish was at sunset. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In every outward way, the time seemed inauspicious for negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I settle for reading over the paperwork from Quinton’s envelope one more time. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And at the same time something looks strikingly wrong to everyone who lays eyes on the surviving sister. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I check my phone for the fourth time since we got in the car. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then we came back in time for lunch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my sense of time and direction was scattered by the wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He jumped back just in time to avoid a quick, darting blow of the beak. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This village is called Anlungthmor and we will live here for the time being,” Pa informs us that night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the time she walked down to the shore through the roughest part of the city to get some driftwood. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the one my mom’s heavy crew used to pull sheet iron. Said he could lift four times what a man could.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Basically I was trying to buy us some time. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And there are much longer time scales still. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four days between the time I found her and the day we buried her. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

We always did, each time an employee from one of his factories brought a product sample for us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He refills my Sprite glass again, with two more cherries this time. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Let’s focus on the fact that we have no wands, no brooms, no means of returning to our time. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Ob kept running the car off the road as he tried to drive and look at the same time. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This time,” said Mack, “we got to be sure he gets to the party. If he don’t get there, we don’t give it.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A barge, right on time, swinging its back end wide, near enough to throw up waves, but too far to reach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sound was muffled, not loud and earth shattering like the bombs I had heard so many times when Klan members dynamited black homes and businesses throughout the city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t talk myself out of it this time. I’m sick of pretending everything. For once I’d like to have it real—just for once.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we sat at the kitchen table for a long time talking about everything, so Mom heard the whole story a couple of times. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’s returned from her lunch party, and it’s time for chai. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Any place seemed damp and sinister when it had been uninhabited for a certain time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

With obvious pleasure Rosy showed Francis her data, and for the first time he was able to see how foolproof was her assertion that the sugar- phosphate backbone was on the outside of the molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Whenever, man, just have a good time, all right?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got the impression that they’d been traveling for a long time and now were settling in for a rest. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

So anyway, we all chanted, "British Bulldogs one two THREE!" and charged like last time but this time I had no chance. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The science teacher laughed loudly, for a long time; he even had to wipe tears from his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

De Wet wasted no time in getting down to business. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burger saw Adolf Hitler a number of times and even shook hands with him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

No leftover style rice for us this time. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to my locker, Mama has written back. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Several times Nancy chided her husband, saying, “Jose, you got to give that poor boy back his guitar.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark swore that time slowed down when that thing was up there, beating down on them with its abnormally powerful rays. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Jack noticed that I. was holding the play book. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite time was just before sundown, when the dinner dishes were washed and the children ready for bed. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if that would have been Travis someday. A rich and famous writer, taking the time to meet with kids who were like him.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In normal times, scientists from around the world freely shared new ideas and theories. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was having the hardest time keeping a smile off my face, so I remained as silent as possible during the deliberations. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Sean was found and sanitized, the game was over. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had questioned her about this several times, but had never received a coherent answer. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so self-assured that I wasn't biding my time, waiting for boys to ask me out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At a time when nine out of ten students never even graduated from high school, she was aiming at college. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We had a swell time, just the three of us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Bailey has not considered this, as he has been taking this endeavor one step at a time, attempting not to worry about what might happen once they reach Boston. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soon it’s time to stack up the hurdles and put them off to the side of the track, and all the relay girls are laughing and joking with each other. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And I got up once to take Tilly outside and stood for a long time in my mother’s butterfly garden outside the back kitchen door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He shouted at her, irritable with fatigue, “So you have chosen this time to breed again, have you!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She never sold anything she wrote, but from time to time she received an encouraging rejection letter, and she thumbtacked those to the wall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It leaves us at the same time with a problem. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I realized for the second time that a woman stood beside me, and now she was holding out a cracker. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“So, we’ve known her forever, and I thought it would be cool to hang out with her. She used to hang out with us, a long time ago.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The metal purine and pyrimidine models, needed for systematically checking all the conceivable hydrogen-bonding possibilities, had not been finished on time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the phone as it rang a second time. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The more time I spent at Zanmi Lasante, talking with Farmer as well as staff and patients, the better I understood the challenge of treating the world’s poor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to keep the ravioli forever, keep it and cherish it and eat it all at the same time. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tanu and I even talked of a time when we might share a room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was so scared I was going to hurt him that he knocked me down fifty times if he did once. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They're supposed to be done and ready by the time she gets home to cook dinner. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every time I rush toward Junito to pull him away, a few people in the crowd pull me back and throw me to the ground. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The accused man himself was set free immediately and walked out of his cell without leg irons or handcuffs; standing just outside its door, he kissed his wife for a long time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“As...well, you know. If there is, I sure wish I’d heard about it in time for my weddin’!” And we both died laughing again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As the three of us approach the house I see it as if for the first time—the porch light shining, an evergreen wreath on the door, the black iron railing and neatly shoveled walkway. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up, my mom spent a lot of time trying to teach me about women. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even have time to block before he sucker-punched me in the gut. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And when people pick up a new word, they say it all the time. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remained knotted there in fetal position, paralyzed, his fists covering his eyes, for a long time. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in history a grand piano was carried up the Lincoln Memorial steps. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

From time to time in the decade since, he has thought about giving it another try. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was a human girl sent to them by the sea, who stayed among them for a time, became a woman, and went away again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since Mrs. Caruthers’s fit, Ophie had taken to leaving it open; the old woman couldn’t complain of an imaginary draft when she was sleeping most of the time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She did take up her pencil and pad one last time. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I didn’t come out here long time ago. I would have liked to meet her. She must have been a hundred years old when she died.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second time, Joseph beat him by three. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Their children quit school at sixteen and go into the army, the jails, the state hospitals; when troubled times come, they join the Klan and do the rabble-rousing for the middle class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times I tried to convince him I was fine, he continued to torment himself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had walked it so many times, and I knew that it was only like a fifteen-minute trek. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Those hard times when Chokecherry Middle School couldn’t sell enough raffle tickets to even pay for the prize might as well be a hundred years ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My initial instincts, conjured up by my visit, seemed to have been correct: Dean O’Neill had graciously made time for me and heard me out, and then common sense had prevailed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for the first time in my life, I knew that there was nothing they could do to help me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I noticed for the first time the pile of big croker sacks by his chair. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was a time—before Pila—when the coal shed was just a coal shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ninety percent of the time, they forget to tip me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But that wasn’t what made me bolt upright, but the sudden realization of what time it must be—nine-twenty, I saw, when I looked at my watch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He pushed the wheel back in, went too far this time, and the plane’s nose went below the horizon and the engine speed increased with the shallow dive. loo much. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Richard Parker stayed under the tarpaulin all the time, it was for a good reason. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the fullness of time—maybe a hundred years—this should be your grave.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a contestant reached the $8,000 plateau and failed to answer that question correctly, he or she was given a new Cadillac as a consolation prize, worth about $5,000 at that time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the first time in nearly five years that I would be free to leave Johannesburg, free to attend a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa didn’t tell me! I’m really glad to see you. I’ve listened to your tape a thousand times. I’ve read Endurance at least ten.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’d hid it in his pocket all this time so no one would steal it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It must've been his son Martin's room, once upon a time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This is how our free time goes, what little of it there is. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“No rush, I ain’t gunn be baking no more till middle of next week nohow, so take your time. Tell your ma I ax ’bout her.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“It took me a long time to decide which papers to use.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad is not a big drinker at all, but when he has to spend time with my mom’s family, he gets “loaded,” as my cousin Tommy says. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back quickly, determined to smile this time, to make some useful gesture, but she had turned her back to him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We best be getting them soon, so they can be broken in by planting time.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Harry, the time for Disarming is past! These people are trying to capture and kill you! At least Stun if you aren’t prepared to kill!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I almost did tell you a few times,” she went on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the time of this story—when I was about 14—I’d never come face-to-face with a lion, ever. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was raining by the time she came. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One last time, with no trace of love or tenderness remaining. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you have a gun in your pants?” he asked with what seemed like perfect timing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I mean, it’s not like we’ve got some dictator guy telling everybody they have to, I don’t know, like, wear polyester all the time or something grotesque like that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dwight had his hands around my neck, he was already squeezing, by the time a few concerned customers finally came rushing out of the pharmacy and dragged him off me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were at least a few times the family was all together. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We suspected that the good times were finally about to roll. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

You don't have much time, little Disaster, said Crocodile Guts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do this for a long time, and then he shows me how he makes a song out of the words. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Seems like every time I go to the library, I catch him squeezed into a corner like he’s got something to hide. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lessons were to stop at midday, giving all the students time to get down to the dragons’ enclosure — though of course, they didn’t yet know what they would find there. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, oh, I know, maybe make a time line? Like the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Louisiana Purchase, and Westward Expansion.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And he hit my aunt Rebecca all the time. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She twisted the hook a few times, then dangled it up in front of Genie and Ernie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And for the first time, Marigold felt like she was really seeing her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Welles had manipulated the audience’s perception of time by dragging out the carprogram’s beginning and then accelerating once the newsflashes started. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bees live lives of organisms, tissues, cells, organelles, all at the same time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he proceeded to bat the air three more times. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet at the same time he could not sit alone in the empty room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It smells heavenly, and for the first time since I got rushed into Mercy Hospital, I’m hungry. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

For a long time I would associate this smell with the homes of the demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dark by the time he emerged, rubbing his face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When it’s time for me to die that penny will be cold, of that I have no doubt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was just about time for the proceedings to begin. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is no written record that Lawrence replied to the overture, although around the same time, he registered a private opinion of the federation—and of scientific activism in general—in a letter to Weaver. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It tumbles and bangs down the sides of the chute, as if my words are shouting their truth one last time. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her mouth opened and closed a couple times. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Consider it payback.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I can see her, young and small and scared, coming into Saint Grace’s for the first time, clutching that ratty panda bear. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But, honestly, you don’t know how much time the ones you love have left either. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This 1940 photograph shows a woman using a portable typewriter of the time. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

This last phrase - 'no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time' - my father would repeat with a laugh and shake his head admiringly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I explain, it will seem strange that I did not choose to leave long before now, for my life during this time has been more miserable than I ever thought possible. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had been shot in the back three times. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van D.: “You always wind up answering. You let yourself get carried away, every single time.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After a while, Lola comes in and says, “Okay, anaks, time for everybody to get some rest now. Let’s go, let’s go...big day tomorrow! Barrio Fiesta!” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She herself had been hungry a few times, but she’d never been starving. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I take the pass all the time and the teachers never notice. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The discussions were quite heated at times, but they went on only among those students and teachers who favored a Jewish state. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was only one thing that could have made this night any worse—face time with My Favorite Martian. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I took the risk of using my mom's cell phone to call Annabeth for the second time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I know this might sound weird to people with, like, regular parents, but I'd only seen my dad four or five times in my life, and never for more than a few minutes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Just make the most epic road trip playlist of all time.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But at the time they were heartbroken; they had adored him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had made out a few more times, hiding in the shade of a tree, or up against the back wall of the science building. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

HARRY: The part of me that was Voldemort died a long time ago, but it wasn’t enough to be physically rid of him—I had to be mentally rid of him. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She half turned, ready to obey me for the first time in her life. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also impossible for her to take time off to accompany her son on the long trip to Oklahoma, and she worried about his going alone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"It's time I got to know my own son, who had his mind poisoned against me." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a long, long time, he said, “It was stupid of you to come.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you haven’t been standing out in the cold all this time,” Gogol says, and from his father’s lack of response he knows that this is exacdy what he has done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he began showing fairies one at a time. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I want to stop time, freeze myself at this level and never let go of her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the white places were always one hundred times nicer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Alcmaeon’s zest for the impure was not shared by most of his Pythagorean colleagues in later times. an imperfect reflection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a propitious time for zero to arrive in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This time the knock on the door was sharp and impatient. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Naomi did hear the truck pull into the driveway seven hours later, the second time Henry came home. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my life, I run. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t think your mother had even time to scream. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The eighties weren't the most ideal time to be a Persian in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I am. Do you know how hard it’s been to just believe that you want to spend time with me?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the time Dr Meredith arrived, he had revived considerably and the doctor soon left again, making only vague statements to the effect that my father had perhaps been 'over-working'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, “Sir Savien” was a ballad, and the vocal part was a counter melody that ran against the timing of the lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in a long time, I didn’t pray for Papá to come home. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After more time I meet Ben, who picks me up in the most ordinary way, in the supermarket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both had suffered injuries and needed time to recover. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At first there were only a handful of travelers and a wagon or two, but to me it seemed like a great crowd after such a long time alone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looks like he's both comforting her and holding her away from him at the same time. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had seen it all the other times there were protests in other parts of the country, other cities, other neighborhoods. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Edna, dear, are you not coming in soon?” he asked again, this time fondly, with a note of entreaty. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next time she called 911, she was going to request cops who wouldn't send her alone into an occupied building. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“And at the same time he’s watching us, too. Can’t you see?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve had a very bad time and my master’s ill. Can we get underground here?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a very long time since Conner had called me by my real name. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Preschoolers would then be brought into the room, two at a time, and told to watch the television show. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For old times' sake Grace Wexler catered the party herself and passed among the guests with a tray of appetizers. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he felt like I was a suck-up or something, because I was always on time and did everything Mr. Ray asked me to do. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had read “The Overcoat” too many times to count, certain sentences and phrases embedded in his memory. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first ten minutes I had to wipe my right hand on my fatigues at least a dozen times. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my time—eighth grade, captain of the football and soccer teams, Big Man on Campus. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The refugee village is so large that in these surprise raids, the Youns are not able to arrive in time to protect us until people have been killed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though she waited a long time. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She marveled that there had been a time when she had almost gladly given a perfect stranger everything she had, but now found it hard to send her own mother a dollar. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach my room, David’s standing in my doorway, his hands over his ears. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dark, thick eyebrows, which made him look serious at the best of times and, when he was anxious or angry, came together to form a straight line across his forehead. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stops searching his pockets for the third time and smiles at me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, Papa had answers that made me smile and think everything was going to be all right. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On January 30, only three weeks after they learned of Marina Raskova’s death, the 587th flew an independent combat mission for the first time. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When we hang out outside of school, they sing all the time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They ate sparely and they were hungry all the time. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My head pounded as I tried to recall the tiniest details about my time in their home nine years earlier. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any idea where our friends could be?” he asked, more calmly this time. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Now, Rémy will accompany you everywhere you need to go, and stand guard outside the Belle apartments at all times. Be sure to heed his instructions." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But Marc spent time watching the chimps, too. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once she was sure of her answer, she said, “I’m sure Mom and I will be spending a lot of time here. I bet we could give you a ride the next time we come.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remember feeling a little disgusted by him at the time. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Only the photographs on the mantelpiece really showed how much time had passed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to feel so distant and so familiar at the same time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman usually rents a white dress that's been worn hundreds of times. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next time it would be Mikken, and her father would listen to him go on about armor and swords and how hot a forge should be and the best way to temper steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

However, European writings from Roman and medieval times clearly describe the arrival of bubonic plague and possibly smallpox from the east, so these germs could be of Chinese or East Asian origin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I really think it’s time you two apologized and were on your way,” I hear from behind me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Three different times he’d gotten rear-ended by other cars while crossing one of the bridges. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Since we come here, that is. We’re like you, we come here before we was dead, by some chance or accident. We got to wait till our death tells us it’s time.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Sherrilyn spent most of the time watching Real Housewives of Atlanta. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I answered honestly, and then, for the first time since the beginning of the school year, my students came together as one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The nymph smiled one last time and vaporized. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grandma all the time said I was just like my dad, “bouncing off the walls twenty-four hours a day.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That happened all the time, until our adult caretakers showed us how to dig our latrines downstream from camp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One conductor says the officers, fifteen at a time, stop the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

During that time, she went into the city, hoping to get her travel permits arranged before she became visibly sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, at the same time, he was strangely calm—in the moment that his marriage was effectively severed he was on solid ground with her for the first time in months. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like Vincent, he has spent much of his free time taking long walks into the countryside outside the city, past fields of wheat, inhaling the familiar aromas of hay and potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She remembered the last time Johnny had sat at that table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were living at Providence, Rhode Island, at the time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and Mr. Marsh yell about it all the time. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time, before your mind can calculate the answer it will wander away down the street with the child, dancing to the African music that has gone away and come home changed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my Swiss army knife out of my pocket and must have opened and closed it a hundred times. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth didn’t know what to think, but the timing couldn’t have been better. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For Thanksgiving, Titi Magda always tells the family to show up at two knowing we won’t get there until four, which is the actual time the kitchen will be ready. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keaton stops me as I’m leaving English to let me know that my final timed essay has to be on The Tempest. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Almost pulverized at that time by the decrepitude of death, Prudencio Aguilar would come twice a day to chat with him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, child! It is not likely; and now it is time for you to come in; you’ll catch the fever if you stop out when the dew is falling.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had noticed the minute she entered the Council chambers that she had cut off her hair at chin-level since the last time he had seen her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She would plan that they were best friends and think about the time when Celeste could come home with her to eat supper and spend the night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated by it and I kept wondering what awful thing had happened that time when she had met a witch. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

By the time I joined the guard, Ruth and the others had already known for ages about the plot to kidnap Miss Geraldine. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have plenty of time to decide whether to go into the Corps or not when I’m in college, Dad.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Ann's biggest victory yet, but she had little time to savor it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And I must correct the ones I already sent. But there’s no time for that right now.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The whites were so used to taking the lead, this time it had really gotten them in the hole. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She coughs a couple of times as I start to reply to Darius’s last text. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I study the time on Mom’s old watch—she was wearing it when her car sailed off the cliff two years ago, killing her on impact—as it ticks around my wrist. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Other times they'd run an obstacle course, or go bungee jumping off a table, tied to broken rubber bands. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The next time the fish store called she did not call Mr. Sen at his office. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ah kinda thought—” The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Thinking that I could find a breadcrumb trail to follow back in time, to when I had only one color of skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Downstream from where they merge, they are both dead—I have looked many times, thinking that maybe, after all this time, the water in Burden Creek might be all right again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Me, too,” Zion and I both said at the same time. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“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

“Why will they be a long time? What are they going to do?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“This is our practice time! We got up specially! You can clear off now!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mary knew it was just a matter of time before she would become the target of questioning. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“But he may not have time. The summer solstice deadline—” “Will have to be resolved without him, Grover. Let him enjoy his ignorance while he still can.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It took most of the walk across campus before I understood what she’d said, then I checked my course schedule and, for the first time, noticed the numbers next to the course names. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The fetterlings could only come one, two at a time at most. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was not very suitable to a place which felt as if nothing had ever grown there since the beginning of time, but it was the one he could remember best. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s like ... a moment of frozen time. Marcus in the photograph is like the insect caught in amber. Frozen forever, just like that.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Khefts could take any shape they chose, any time they chose. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As the months went on, the Wide Patrols became systematic; during summer and early autumn there were usually two or three out at a time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time he was wondering what the new and violent outburst from the factory meant. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it blazed up, Meleager fell to the ground dying, and by the time it was consumed his spirit had slipped away from his body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I took my time and drew wide lines across it and between each line I printed out the bumper-sticker saying in big block letters. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had only minutes, perhaps less time than that. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I trained myself to limit my water intake, understanding there was rarely time for bathroom breaks on the road. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I knew what it was to be a natural at something. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It will be happy time of my life. I will not cry when you leave. I promise I will not cry again.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next time I used the subway I'd always be sure to enter with my hands grasping my lapels and I'd keep them there until I left the train. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Next time bombs start falling, have your sister wear this,” she called to Sam. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

How the house changes day to day, and how Frank and Byrd find time to talk, but Frank hasn’t come to him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As he got out of bed, Dewey promised his wife, “This time I’ll leave it off the hook.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is just like the time you left me at the bottom of that lake in Wales. I had to wait fifteen hundred years to be found! The humiliation." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At almost the same time the German physicist Werner Heisenberg came up with a competing theory called matrix mechanics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But it’s probably going to take Audrey a long time to forgive you.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then she fired again, this time blowing up her own car. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of 1937 there was a great catch of fish and the canneries were working full time and a housing shortage occurred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was pitiful to see them with their sunken stomachs and languid eyes, the children survived the journey better than their parents, and most of the time it was fun for them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

You were holding her in your arms all that time? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I was. It was more a passing hobby in middle school and high school. But I’m not going to have time for all that. I have a real career to focus on, you know?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Each time he found himself looking on the level, instead of downward, into a Delta’s face, he felt humiliated. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come with me. I want you to spend a little more time with Duke.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“She was ready for dying. She said so all the time.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers—typically, 10 to 100 times more—than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced quickly at the wall speaker terrified that the Committee might be listening as they could at any time. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was how Joseph heard for the first time that Madeleine, whom he loved, was gone. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“One time Mrs. Moss pulled me off my top bunk by the hair, and a bunch of it was yanked out by the roots! Then she kicked me while I was on the floor.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In a short time she could be helped to a sitting position. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But she stood for a long time in the doorway. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I was right about Sal—he was playing basketball every day, and a couple of times there were the voices of other boys, kids from school. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They celebrate first of all the inviolability of the earth, and they re-enact, each time, in stereotyped choreography, our long anxiety about the nature of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were times I couldn’t wait to fence just so I could hide behind my mask and blend in with the other athletes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I know! I’ve been thinking about that very fact for months. I’ve also been thinking about lunch for at least fifteen minutes. I thank you for your time and concern.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

"We like it ourselves, though I must say that Hubert finds so little time to enjoy it. He's much too busy." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wash and dry my dress in time for Sunday school. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few times I had ever seen him look angry. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I folded the tissue over on itself once, then twice, then three times. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I picked him up from school, his mood was dependent on how much time he'd spent with his grade school crush. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It took a long time for Riccio to come out again. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

About the same time, a strange traffic began at home: college football coaches, come to entice Jim to their schools. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. What? They have to eat too. This one time, we were stuck at the train station.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As the king comes down the gangplank the light breaks through a last time, and his white figure and the great arch stand out a moment vivid and splendid against the storm-darkened south. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He missed each time, which was not a relief. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mum rolled her eyes but smiled at the same time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, how are you so smart and so dumb at the same time?” she says, pulling a magazine out from underneath her underwear. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bernard was back among the miseries of space and time. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time it was much too late for Madame Curie, who died of leukemia in 1934. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Pajamas. So I won't have to bother getting in and out of them all the time." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I guess the promises made by Castro and Che of helping the less fortunate sounded so good at the time that losing some of your freedoms didn’t seem too high a price to pay. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

This time, like then, I wasn’t exactly charmed by the news. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Only the occasional bleat of the gull gave me a picture of that bird, for I had heard and seen them many times around the sea wall in Willemstad. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time I join him, and our voices drift together across the sleeping town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But as Ruth says, Madeline has some strange ways about her. From the time she was a child, she was timid as a church mouse.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward moment when she first saw Jeffrey, because it was her first time seeing him all bald and puffy, but she covered her shock well. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, there was little time for emotional farewells. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s so far away—on the other side of the world—that I have a hard time imagining it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he shown me, time and time again, that he was willing to be my friend if I was willing to let him? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I began to look forward to my times alone to get my fix. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marc’s father gets up to speak, and his body seems at war with his sentences—every time he tries to release one, his breath stops, his shoulders seize. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re my first friend in Pennsylvania. We do that all the time in North Dakota, have our friends over for dinner. Don’t you do that here?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time we’ve seen each other since we followed Maria into the Great Vault. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a long time before they dared trust the silence, such a very long time that once or twice Farid turned his head because he imagined that the skeleton had moved. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I jump a few hurdles, run a 50 and a 100—I don’t think I’m much of a sprinter—try to high-jump, and foul out a bunch of times on the long jump. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They happen in the summer, almost every night, sometimes three or four at a time. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He called me back, about a hundred times. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At this complicated moment the cloister door was opened for the second time, and the courteous page announced as impassively as ever: “IBs Majesty the King!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were so good that I nearly ended up walking into the pond on the wrong side of the common and got to school only just on time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes on about how she loves him and goes riding several times a week but how it’s a lot of work to take care of him. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

‘There is no time to be lost! What must I do, Fairy Wogdog?’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes closed the whole time with the last two. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe a new phone would have helped time pass quicker. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It's the first time I've heard her voice since everything happened. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"You Girl Scouts having a good time?" asked Mr. Sir. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He bowed low to his teacher for the last time, and then he walked out of the room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sabeen and me giggle that we asked at the same time. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wore it many times in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, and not for the first time that night. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He insisted he needed a little time alone and sat in a corner of the archive room with his head in his hands. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

An hour is barely enough time to walk there, sign up for a card and pick out books, and then walk back. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“At the time, I had no idea what he was talking about. Much later, when I became praetor of Camp Jupiter, I began to suspect.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever a King goes down, it shakes up the world a bit, but it being Tariq this time cuts a deeper kind of way. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I can picture Max with her head resting on her overlapping hands, staring upward at the night sky and seeing fireworks for the first time. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Alacran said they were all supposed to toast El Patron at the same time and then smash their glasses on his coffin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked as fast as they could, yanking pods off sometimes two at a time because they didn’t want to be out there all day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lesson on lesson they’ve suffered through, recognizing, more profoundly each time, their indignity, shame, triviality. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons she met the bus on time, some afternoons she was late. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It had been naked as an egg the first time Lazlo saw her—forcibly shaved, as his own had once been, and just as crudely—but her hair was growing in now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I knew I done wasted my time worryin’ ’bout Biddy and being scared of boys. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In tiny blue letters you wrote your address, the time, and your initials: C.C. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Are you this mouthy all the time or just with me?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stepping under the shower’s perfect warm spray was already surreal enough without having to hear the click-click-click-beep of Thurmond’s automatic timer to keep my wash time under three minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

By the end of the game, I’ve done the math problem a couple dozen times. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four boatloads soon became three, and by the end of the month Bolles sometimes had a hard time filling the third boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was going back to the White House, and this time the president of the United States greeted me—and I have the pictures to prove it! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I spend most of my time watching my parents. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She worked methodically, but her mind wandered to Sidhean, to Kaisa, to the last time she had seen her, the fairy gown on her skin like a live creature. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin saw a soccer ball for the first time when he was twenty-three, after fleeing to China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mark didn’t allow himself to have the same panic attack this time. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Every time they launch something down at Cape Canaveral, it’s like...I just want to help out somehow. But I can’t. If I build my own rockets—” I stopped, not certain I was making sense. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Shay’s tried hard to make up for chickening out that first time, and for giving you directions when she promised me she wouldn’t,” he said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Every time Dad said it, it was always the same. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This time, when Bridge had kicked her sheet and covers to the floor and taken her third deep breath, it was Jamie in the room with her, standing uncertainly near the door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

That Ray married my mom a third time—or that she married him because, according to my sister, she thinks I need a dad so badly. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We had such good times, the four of us. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He made it just in time for the baby’s birth.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Bri could be alive and well, better off there than at home, since the church still had some heat, or at least it had the last time Alex had been there, before the snowstorm. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The oars are a good trick; but it has reached the time to play for safety. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay? That sidewalk! I’ve called the city three times.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A coughing fit gripped Rahim Khan and went on for a long time. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had gotten divorced last year, and her dad had moved to Texas, so for the first time in three years, Jenna had spent the summer away from us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Both of us were by that time looking forward very eagerly to the quiet month of August when we would be together in the cottage near Peekskill. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My sisters, I repeat to myself, saying these two words together for the first time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had read the entire Bible many times. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At other times, he would chuckle as he spoke, making his words sing with laughter. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In talking about Reverend Harris, however, the regent, for the first time, gave me a lecture on how I was to conduct myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I’d hear myself addressed in Spanish, I would be unable to respond with any success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of microseconds the image would appear on the screen of Mrs. Jones’ computer in London along with the time and location from which it had been sent. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Last time we were here Fern was five and too scared to go to the outhouse. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It somehow startles me to see him without a monitor or a magazine cover obstructing the view, like he’s in focus for the first time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mission was to multiply twenty-four times nine. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the time went on I found that my reactions thickened. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We recite the Five Principles of Good Citizenship and the Four Attitudes Leading to Right-Mindfulness every time we want to eat,” explained Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know this seems terrible and I know how it hurts, but at one time or another, everyone suffers. Even the Good Lord suffered while He was here on earth.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean against one of the large spoked wheels and pass the time alternately picking slivers from beneath my nails and chewing long pieces of grass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not that his mother wouldn’t have taken the day off from the button factory where she worked to come down, but because it seemed true, that he was wasting his time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the mudflats, he had reached the point where he and his father were fighting on the mountaintop. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s all just a matter of time, and part of me wonders why I’m delaying the inevitable. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wrong about something happening at home,” you tell her, “but this time I’m right. I know. I just know.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was also just time for me to go. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I stood there for a long time looking down at him and then I climbed off the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean it’s been two to one all this time in favor of the staff?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

This time, though, Baba uses English with us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Disease-carrying insects become important where human beings are crowded together, especially under conditions where sanitation is poor, as in time of natural disaster or war or in situations of extreme poverty and deprivation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As it’s shutting, I stop one more time. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Shush! I dropped the film in at the chemist’s. By the time we get back it will be developed.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I hadn't seen him for a long time. Now I see him almost every week." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Lyra could feel his desire to be there among them, but all the time her nerves were screaming: On! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well. Next time we’ll know to check the weather before we come.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He walked for a long time before he found a subway station. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

James didn't know how to swim, and whenever he tumbled into the canal一more than a dozen times by his count—someone had to pull him out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her stick caught at roots knotted under the earth of the path, and she stumbled from time to time. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when you are working in the field you do not have time for train watching. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He waits for it to start and die one more time. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Progress takes time. We will succeed. But not if you keep trying to show up the other school. That’s not going to help our cause.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Looking as if they have been waiting for a long time, some fie so motionless I wonder if they are alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I left for college, Otto was a full-on adult bonobo, slender and elegant, with a part right along the center of his head, wiry hair flopping on either side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I almost fell three times sprinting down that trail when my feet shot out in front of me, rolling over loose rocks. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was familiar with fear, yet each time I felt it, it was never the same as the other times, as though it came in different flavors and colors. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I do, of course, but I can’t tell him that, so I tell him about that time with the golf club, when I attacked Tom after we’d had a fight. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We need, in effect, to be nearsighted and farsighted at the same time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

After that, Grandma arranged for a daily time when I had to come to her room, get down on my knees, and pray with her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This opportunity didn’t come for a long time. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think where Camilla would be, that time of night, unless she was on her way over to get him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached the children’s home, what had begun as a drizzle was a full-on downpour. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But he followed, asking with an air of sympathy, “Did you have a bad time?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm taking sack time while I can," he says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Troubled, I woke in the middle of the night and couldn’t sleep again for what seemed like a very long time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Just in case, I watched the way he put the car in gear so’s the next time something like this happened I’d know how to make a clean getaway. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I try to hold on to the sweetness for a long time, cuz it’ll probably be a while before I get ice cream again. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Huh. Been a long time. That was my favorite toy when I was a kid.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t help laughing, really laughing, for the first time in months. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scabbers had been looking ill before he met Crookshanks...ever since Ron’s return from Egypt...since the time when Black had escaped.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As I came to know Alexandria in my brief time there, I saw that something more important—the business of life—has not disappeared from the city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“That made three times she smack me ’cross the mouth.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine hopped a few times and flapped her good wing and then swiveled her feathered head around and blinked at us—but that was it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But there was the whole day to get through before it was time, again, for dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

During this time Robert's mother had settled an allowance on him, about three hundred dollars a month. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now, they said he wasn’t a particularly cruel man, if you can believe that, but he had just fallen on hard times and he had done what he had done and he wasn’t backing up. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or rather, that I was, but now I’m here in this new world, where nobody puts out ale or milk for an honest fellow, or a loaf of bread come harvest time.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

"Right. It felt normal, every time it went from my hand to yours, and from yours to mine." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I travel to the time of the rains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“She said she had a really good time,” I assured him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This would be a good time to tell her about what happened with Bo. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After a time the ground rose sharply, forcing him to clamber on hands and knees up a wooded slope. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It began not long after the dawn of time, in a war between the gods: the Aesir fought the Vanir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

By the time we walked out of the theater, I felt like a different Joy. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She kept them there for a long time but took them down one by one so that, as she promised, we ate like Americans when hunger cramped our bellies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The day before we left for Amsterdam, I went back to Support Group for the first time since meeting Augustus. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He needed time to sneak back into Honeydukes if he wanted to return to school tonight.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And he kisses me again, this time softer, but with the same hunger as before. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Each time, he'd cycle through feelings of anger, regret, longing, hope, despair, longing, anger, regret. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Since time before time our family has tilled this field,” he tells me proudly and many times over. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She blinked her eyes a few times and said, “Piddles.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Good material this time,” I heard him say as we got closer. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, he made his way back and forth between the cliff and the river, up and down over the rocks and sand. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He turned and raced for the gate in the green wall which, now for the first time, he remembered seeing. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“But,” Linda quickly added, “we’re fine with waiting if you need more time to think about it. We don’t want to pressure you at all, sweetheart.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"And Hodor too, I hope. The boy is simple, you know that. He does as he is told. How many times has he groomed your horse, soaped your saddle, scoured your mail?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not exactly the same circumstances, but...Miles had hurt him a long time before I’d met either of them. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The siren died and began again, on a high, shrill note this time. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Reverend Tweed and I are in agreement that it is time for a choir for the Vida church. He has asked me to direct.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He needs his rest. I’ll be gone only a short time.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it kind of clanged like an alarm clock somebody had knocked to the floor one too many times. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had to utilize all the commentaries this time and was able to finish explaining the thought unit a moment before the three o’clock bell sounded. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Following a procedure they had practiced hundreds of times, they efficiently assembled the pieces. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That frightened me, because for the first time I began to think about what God means. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had you mentioned magic or Faerie to any of them, they would have smiled at you disdainfully, except, perhaps for Mr. Dickens, at the time a young man, and beardless. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You poor boy, all the time in the world and no way to spend it. Hasn’t Lorren let you back in yet?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was practically a child at the time, but I remember when he used to come home on furlough and all, all he did was lie on his bed, practically. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As yet insufficient time has elapsed to reveal the full effect of the new chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides and of the modern herbicides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Toomer rose again to face Red his expression had changed and his eyes seemed akin to those of the pack for the first time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was having a hard time meeting his eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But I spoke the truth, I did, I—” Buttercup saw his hand rise a second time, so she stopped quickly, fell dead silent. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny White recorded the true time in his journal that night: 19:25. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many of us can remember the first time we became aware of our gender. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He even had the pumps repaired so that fresh water could be provided to patients for the first time. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should have been honest then, but it didn’t feel like the right time. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t known it at the time, but looking back on the encounter later he had suspected as much. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly he turned and prepared to go over the edge a second time. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Cora’s grandmother was sold a few times on the trek to the fort, passed between slavers for cowrie shells and glass beads. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at me and smiled a few times, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That goat hated to be milked and always found a way to run off right at milking time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the cemetery got cleaned out one time with a bulldozer, so that pretty much cleared those rocks on away.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell a lot of times, because the directions were confusing, but if I stared and stared at the pictures, usually I could figure it out in the end. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Not most of the time. I work graveyard shifts at the Showtime. You wouldn’t believe how late people come in to watch movies.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“But it’s time to move on,” puts in Caroline, the seventh-grade president. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z