I’d heard the band play and practice a thousand times and still had to just about sit on my hands when they were finished so I wouldn’t bust out clapping. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many times in my life I have felt them around me, observing, witnessing, when no one in the living world knew or cared what happened. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then she added, “Jamie said my heart stopped three times that night.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She had visited the College three times before; she knew that the ridges and gables and chimneys of the roof concealed plenty of hiding places, even for something as large as the intention craft. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their place was only six blocks from where I worked as a copywriter for a small ad agency, so two or three times a week I would drop by after work. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that my mother was worried at times. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Three doggone times I walked through the library, upstairs and down, and couldn’t find her. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

How many times a day did ravens bring food to Elijah? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At times like these, Father, Mother and Margot don’t matter to me in the least. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath, then fell silent, nodding his head a couple of times. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had a look on her face that I knew well, a look that said she’d heard this a million times. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Ben shook his head, because he had seen me see her a thousand times, and he was used to it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You are a father five times over now.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In those peaceful times, such a comment wasn't meant in a hostile way, but as an affirmation of how strange we seemed to those whose religious practices differed from ours. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A church bell struck ten times and I shivered. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After it happened I had to see him home a couple of times because he thought the kids were going to jump on him because of what his brother did. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Dad rehearsed together three times over the weekend. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

We went back to the creek behind Howard’s house three times, calling and whistling. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I could track down whatever shards he’s collected from all the times he’s destroyed her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he waits tables, other times he oversees the orders in the kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The young soldier closed two of his jacket buttons and touched his thin mustache as if to straighten it, an imitation of the gesture Jonathan had seen the old soldier make many times. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The sap oozes out and hardens overnight. In the morning the workers scrape it off.They can collect from the same plant four or five times.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times a week different doctors came in to examine their patients. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walked once around the perimeter of the blacktop, nibbling the chips off the cookie, counting the length and width by the number of times my sneakers touched the asphalt. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the times she missed—not the days of hunger or rats or sickness, but the warmth of the fire when her family laughed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Falcons go in to score a few times and spring to a good lead. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Like my own, similarly beaked nose at those times, my grandfather’s nose went on alert. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But he was a serious young man, perhaps too serious at times. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some brat yanked once too many times on his tail, and Grandpa Kenneth spun around and punted him halfway down Main Street USA. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He blinks several times, as though trying to focus on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Willis could hit a pitch thrown honestly, and tossed another rock, more fiercely, that skipped five times. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had brought wounded sheep in from the field this way many times, holding them against his chest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My mom had complained to the school a million times that they weren’t doing enough to help him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The voice on the radio said it many times. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It told of Personal Legend, and of the many men who had wandered in search of distant lands or beautiful women, confronting the people of their times with their preconceived notions. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa’s nose had got broke three times, and it showed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Those times were as perfect as any I ever had; but the good times never lasted. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would weep half a dozen times in a single session. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

He thought of times in the past when he and Antonapoulos had been unhappy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few times his dad was going to be around on his actual birthday, and besides, hitting that two-digit number was a big deal, wasn’t it? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Jomo takes care of the compound. He comes in three times a week. Funny man, I’ve seen him talking to the croton plant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He honked a couple of times and a lot of faces looked out from Louie’s back window and then a lot of people came out—Louie, Marin and all the little sisters. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, it was just cleaning out the stables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the movie a bunch of times when I was little. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered all the times she, Luke, and Thalia had relied on highway rest stops when they were homeless demigods, trying to survive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” the sergeant said, “he’s been around the block a few times.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t possibly take down all six weapons before the attack began, even if he found the strength to shadow-travel that many times. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His chin begins to descend to his chest, one, two, three times. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Then nothing. Happened three times. Sent a chill roight down the middle of my back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"A southern poultice,” the physician says, "of my own making. I've used it many times, I confess, but with you, I've gotten the formula perfect.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At these times she began to shape the antler-weapon into a more elaborate design. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times the machine threatened to tip over, but it ground on relentlessly and righted itself. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smells of me, in former times, when I was a mother. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s read each of the short stories and poems and articles a dozen times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harsh with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In good times females reach puberty earlier, and their chances of getting pregnant are a bit higher. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitting my head would’ve been a billion times better than dropping my phone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ophelia worked on gathering data, which meant walking from village to village, sometimes with Farmer, other times with local youths he’d recruited. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Thus unburdened we made our way, asking directions a couple of times, not into the town but to an outlying farm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times he rationalized it, explained that he didn’t mind the discipline. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Several times he was in churches when shooting started, and he often took refuge behind a pillar. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I told her I can write the alphabet backward a hundred times in my sleep. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Twenty-two lines per block, twenty times five blocks is one hundred, and two times five is ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Truman accelerated the development of the "superbomb," or hydrogen bomb, a weapon that would be one thousand times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled it out three times to get it right, but then she worried that it was worse to keep pulling it out than for it to grow slightly crooked. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had heard her say that phrase at least a million times. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They had been moving in a group, or trying to: actually, they had straggled widely at times. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, gang. Dad gets excited at times like this.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd been there quite a few times, because after I left Elkton Hills Mr. Antoilni came up to our house for dinner quite frequently to find out how I was getting along. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Larry Dunn didn’t say anything so Byron grabbed his hair and jerked his head up and down a couple of times. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Incubation times are crucial for potency,” I say. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Perry is no Angel he has done wrong many times same as so many other kids. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been to a fair number of Barack’s political events by now and had seen him interact many times with big groups of constituents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, back in slavery times, our people told stories and sang songs to pass on information when it was dangerous to say things out loud.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

But whenever they weren’t under direct orders to do something, the children sank heavily into chairs, stared listlessly out locked windows, paged through dog-eared books they’d read a hundred times before, or slept. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They stood in a vast courtyard several times the size of a football field, surrounded by four enormous walls made of gray stone and covered in spots with thick ivy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

That was the way it had been since ancient times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As much as I hated seeing that video, I’ve watched a bunch of times. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Supposedly the ancient king of Pylos had stashed his treasure there in times of crisis. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had to be more than eight because she was two times four plus something else. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow was aware at all times of Wednesday’s eyes upon him, of Wednesday’s humorless grin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

"I have seen the Year of the Monkey five times!" the lord said with pride. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth recited this “a thousand times” when the kids were small. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jason had killed so many monsters and saved the world so many times that the idea of him sweating a driving test seemed ridiculous. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To be sure, Bessie had benefited from her advice many times. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She did this several times until she stood in front of me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Usually, I did not pray “on time,” which means praying five times a day, our religious duty. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first times that I saw that it was foolhardy to go against the masses of people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since they had run away from their grandfather's house, Prosper had asked himself at least three times a day whether he had been right to take his little brother with him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had rehearsed many times every word he was going to say. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone over this scene in my head,” he finally says to me in a soft voice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But even in that group there are people whose social circle is four or five times the size of other people’s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put both of his hands over his face and shook his head back and forth a couple of times. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was at such times when I perceived the beauty of even this small, closed-in corner of the world, that I knew that someday my people and I would be free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many times she started to write to him, she crafted e-mails, and then stopped and discarded them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rather than ring the bell right away, Werner laps the block three times. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But they were demands that had to be met if men were to be the masters and not the victims of their times. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if he didn’t want to believe me, he should have trusted the teachers who called the hotline so many times. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Several times he started to ask, “How old do I have to be before people can see me?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was sorry for the times in the past when I had been mischievous. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of this chapter, I mentioned the failure of some food-producing societies with complex political organization to develop or adopt writing before modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His arms stretched into wings, and his sight became a thousand times sharper. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Every time Grandma S. read Jude’s and my palms, she’d tell us that we have enough jealousy in our lines to ruin our lives ten times over. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The lack of an absolute standard of rest meant that one could not determine whether two events that took place at different times occurred in the same position in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"My first term I was in there six times," Hortensia said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I curse you. Three times, I curse you. As you’ve murdered me, may your hands always be stained with blood. May death be your only companion. May you—” He breaks off abruptly, coughing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He read and reread her letters, three, four, five times. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spit into the can a few times. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The extended black family was Mommy’s hole card, and she played it as often as the times demanded because her family was not available to her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the ball eight more times in the second half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t bring the water-jug till Uncle Henry shouted at him three or four times, and then he was sullen. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, to fuel his artistic euphoria, Dr. Lange would open a crate to admire a panel from the precious Amber Room, savoring the experience as others would enjoy a vintage bottle of brandy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"But you did bounce off that a couple of times on the way down." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nine times out of ten, it wasn’t good. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I punched Adam Dupane in the head three times,” she told him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

So now, at the age of sixteen, my name will be in the reaping twenty times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I paid half price, because I was under eighteen, but half price in those times was more than full price when everything was peaceful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our father would be home soon, but she knew Omar didn’t chime his bicycle bell three times unless it was important. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I am sure that is why so many Marines drank heavily when they were in the midst of those quiet times. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse times are yet to come, my love. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd started to write him a letter—she'd started it a million times—but that seemed like such a seventh grade thing to do. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They would sail around the Greek mainland, following the routes that Greek heroes had taken in the ancient times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I may have thought about you a few times today.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The broom bumped against the bar several more times. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three different times he’d gotten rear-ended by other cars while crossing one of the bridges. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Only after Corliss had glanced past him toward the door a few times did Sticky realize he was not entirely recovered from his visit to the Waiting Room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stella had heard sermons about Moses so many times before that she thought she could give a Moses sermon. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have remade his bed fourteen times in one morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m Abilene. I’m twelve years old and a hard worker,” I said, like I had a hundred other times in as many towns. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have my computer with me, and after I ask three times, the woman at the front desk gives me the wireless password. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

One of the Bree-landers, who seemed to have been in the Shire several times, wanted to know where the Underhills lived and who they were related to. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At times past, just after the war, his missing arm had caused him a great deal of pain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We had to go out at all times, even when bombs were falling,” said Uwe Koster, who was thirteen at the time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I call to him several times, but he refuses to walk any closer, so I’m forced to follow Commander Jameson and leave him behind. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“There are buildings in Chicago more than ten times higher,” said Lynn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The young ladies put it off at first; but their mother grew so restless, and said, ‘Jane, Jane,’ so many times, that at last they consented. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, nice seeing you again, whoever you are. The photos of you are brilliant. I stopped by the church a few times looking for you. Thought you might want to see them.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A number twenty times that size still would have been woefully insufficient. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There had been times before they ran away when they had acted like a team, but those were very different from feeling like a team. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times the role of the voice is akin to the modern technique of rapping. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

California challenged several times but Washington repeatedly moved back in front, still holding at thirty-two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yet die drunk times were becoming deeper but more seldom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Of all the times for her to disappear! And why aren’t the Sisters nipping this in the bud?!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We even went all the way down to Coney Island a few times. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

After he’d made Johnny understand, Nat didn’t have to go over things so many times to make the men in the fo’c’sle understand. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parker had wanted to contact her so many times over the past twenty-nine years. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I want one gun on her at all times,” says Eric. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Penelope had reread it more times than she could count. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I imagined him saying the same thing a hundred times a day to a hundred guys. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Depression-era Europe, The Threepenny Opera clearly struck a chord: by the time Weill left Germany for the USA in 1933 it had been translated into eighteen languages and performed several thousand times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Charlemagne is a dumb name for a girl and I have told my mama that about a gazillion times. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The completed material was folded four times and glued together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that rarely happened; the fine for counterfeiting would be enormous: two and a half times the full market value of the genuine animal. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Other times, my dad would take over, laying out the pros and cons. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t unusual for us to be awakened several times each night by the sounds of gunfire. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At these times, he concentrated on funny and happy things. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Keep the gun with you at all times. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Boy, how many times have I said that? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rage mingled with the general melancholy that had been growing in her steadily since the bombing of Pearl Harbor; it was one of the rare times in Fujiko’s adult life when she felt inconsolable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple times of hanging out like that I ask her would she wanna be my girl and she says she totally would, so then we’re officially together. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s times like these I miss our massive backyard in Alabama and how easy it was to just go out and tumble until I’d flipped so many times, it felt like my brain had realigned. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He remembers pulling his eyes off a teammate in the locker room a couple times, but that was, like, an objective thing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were times when it stunned them both how beautiful Lillian could be. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did look, at times, both shabby and desperate; in other words, a potential criminal. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

On top of the ice field stood a legion camp—ramparts, moats, towers, barracks, just like Camp Jupiter except three times as large. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This ecological tragedy was restaged in miniature countless times after the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the demon boys threw stones, and other times it was a group of restless adult demons who were out for a little “sport.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Randomness is not easy to obtain when playing cards, either, since shuffling a deck two or three times is not enough to destroy whatever order it might have. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think in times like these the less said the better. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Nor did anyone notice that she was almost choking with fear, for Elinor had put on her armor, the impenetrable and extremely useful armor behind which she had always hidden at times of need. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ceceil George remembered that she “come up in hard times—slavery times.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I nod about a hundred times because she is a little slow Getting It today. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I planned and changed outfits at least a dozen times. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It's something she's said to her students a hundred times—when we were exhausted from back-to-back training battles or we hadn’t slept in days. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I have pictured it many times—Hope!—wondering how I would catch such a thing one-handed, if it did come floating down to me from the sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see how many times it would go around.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The commuter shuttles ran only a few times a day, so the residents lucky enough to have a job would already be waiting at the bus stop by the highway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing how much a guy can appreciate a non-bunk-bed bed and a bathroom that doesn’t have at least two other guys in it at all times. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And maybe if she could hear it four more times, just four more times, she would know it all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We don’t do this too often, and always at different times of day. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once free, she took the oar, as she had seen Crocodile Guts do many times, and pushed herself away from shore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now bounce the ball three times. Don’t dribble it. Bounce it slowly. You wanna get that blood moving through your hands and arms. Now, what do you do with your legs?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Rafael had to rev the engine a few times to get it to start in the cold, and just after it did, someone called from the balcony. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“U-g-g-g-h-h-h,” gasped the bug, suddenly realizing that he was twenty-three times hungrier than when he started, “I think I’m starving.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

And since your head’s the thickest part of you and most times leads the way down, it’s always first to bust the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help thinking about all those times “you’ve got a live one on the rail.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Did people back in 1919 think the issues of their times would be so relevant one hundred years later? 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She has read it a lot of times since, and she said she wanted me to have my own copy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Father replied, “How many times do I have to tell you, Christopher?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was known, by the time he was fourteen, to have run away from home no less than twenty-seven times. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen Indians several times in the ’Glades, in twos and threes, but this was a large party. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

At times like this Mam tells us to stay inside. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I've pictured my father a million times but never like this. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was the third week of June and the field had already been occupied several times. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Padva, who hits him with her cane when he asks her multiple times if she is in need of any assistance, belongs only to Celia. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our moms would usually bring us over to Auggie’s house, since there were a lot of times when he couldn’t go out because he was sick. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“We have asked for help, Sara. We’ve been to that food pantry more times than I care to admit. But in the end, this is my—our—problem to solve,” my dad shouted. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To destroy you a thousand times in the name of Mother Night! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’s only summing up what we’re all thinking at times like this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I knew she had to leave, she had to flee from the police and leave us children alone as she had done so many times before. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came Percy, who was infuriating but sweet, yet he had seemed to be falling for another girl named Rachel, and then he almost died, several times. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’d thought so many times what I’d say when I finally saw her again, but now I was tongue-tied and embarrassed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I lost my footing and rolled a few times before I landed on my stomach. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week it was erupting magma, albeit in modest amounts, up to a hundred times a day, and being constantly shaken with earthquakes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“All those times your father treated you mean, Our Lady was the voice in you that said, ‘No, I will not bow down to this. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Dan bawled treed a few more times and then stopped. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got to admit it, folks, it was a dang sight more fun with Miss Love than them times I went by myself.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They had been behind German lines before many times—living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember that many times, classroom teachers pitch the song in their own range, not thinking about where the song would work best for the children, and children struggle to sing well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She obviously read this book many, many times. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

All day long there were times when I forgot, when it all seemed regular. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The water in the pool flickered a few more times. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He’d been out of the Academy only a few months, it turned out, but had already been assigned several times to the State Shop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried with the ocean a few more times, but after a couple seconds I’d be right back to peeping Mong again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Within a week, I’ve watched those boys fight at least a dozen times, until one night, the Tuesday, they have the worst one yet. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ten times Baby Girl ask when little Heather gone come play in the plastic pool again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My dad must have told me that a thousand times, but I guess it didn’t take. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita had told it many times to her little sisters and brothers, but watching it now made her forget her aches and pains. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I've asked my mom a million times to tell me stories about Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Other times it was real sentences, but they didn’t make sense. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A few times a week, they force him to work the night shift, too. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think you hate the Marine Corps, Mom. Then other times I think you love it. Which is it?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said bad times had come in the fifties. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Luke thought he was repeating everything he said two or three times, but that was okay, because Luke’s brain was functioning so slowly, he needed the extra help. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had tuberculosis of the lungs, and he measured his temperature four times a day and had an X-ray once a month. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Because they are so closely related, they sound particularly good together, a fact that has been noticed since at least the times of classical Greece, and probably even longer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Wet with dew, straggly branches slapped and scratched at my legs and hid uneven ground so that several times I tripped, tumbling and sliding downward. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

At those times, the rest of us smiled and let him know that we were doing okay. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And how many times have you—” “A few.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Guenever saw it, however, or felt it in her heart She turned her thumb down, over the edge of the box, and secretly jabbed it downward several times. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armpit showered again in the morning, dried off, then ran a stick of deodorant three times under each armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve been called a lot of things many times—but nobody has ever told me it’s an honor to know me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Cullen is a brilliant surgeon who could probably work in any hospital in the world, make ten times the salary he gets here,” he continued, getting louder. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m relieved when the mysterious box jumps a couple of times. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had seen it happen many times after a rainstorm. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“At times we had to help him pretty substantially,” says Athans, “but really, he moved surprisingly well.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them had talked a couple of times since it happened. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Oh, there was a caretaker-gardener who came three times a week, and once in a while he would check the house in a cursory sort of way. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And crack was a sound that most times waren’t too good. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you weren’t looking carefully other times you threw stuff over,” Thomas said. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Grandpop played and played, his cheeks inflating and deflating, his head rocking side to side, the sound sometimes really, really quiet, and other times piercingly loud. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But there were these times when Needles would sort of spaz out, but not like Noodles, who would just trip over any little thing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“We don’t need a car. We could go to Panamá ten times with that money.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We called these times without food our “black days.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet those were the best times, for when she dreamed, she dreamed of Father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We walk past things I’ve seen a million times in my years at Saint Grace’s. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I visit the Dark World often enough, but no matter how many times I go, I’ll never get used to the suffocating black that descends over my eyes before I can enter. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The reason why we can be certain is that the arrivals took place in modern times and involved literate Europeans, who described in innumerable books what happened. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even if farmers face hard times, the seed companies continue to make money year after year, selling farmers something they used to grow themselves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help myself, I sat on the curb and sniffled a couple of times, and finally cried. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though folks around here was cool with Needles, the freak-outs were the only times people really looked at him like he was, well, crazy. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

At times, ships were warned to change their courses. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mama bathed Torito in cold water several times a day, trying to bring his fever down, but it did not do any good. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were scared and went home empty-handed that night, but we went back several more times until we got enough lumber to complete Mama’s floor. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they hit without warning, and other times you knew one was coming when you saw batches of dust devils swirling and dancing their way across the desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was crisscrossing North America sometimes as often as four times a week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had glanced around the crowded cathedral many times the night prior, wondering if she was right. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stop brushing and multiply twenty-four times six in my head using the process Samantha taught me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At times I thought I saw tiny faint lights in the distance, but the waves had carried us too far to tell. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Blackcliff’s rules are so numerous that it’s impossible not to break them at least a few times. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Such spreads of technology and agriculture, arising ultimately from competition between human groups, must have happened at innumerable other times and places over the past 10,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were times when he visited taverns near campus and allowed himself to act gregarious and animated in the manner of younger students. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He can remember all the times he and Manny waited for it to rise before pulling inside, and his stomach crawls up into his throat. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “No need for no apologies, Leroy. These is trying times for you.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I say the name in my head one thousand times so that it remains stained in my memory. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone listens to news broadcasts five or six times every day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face had been badly beaten and his body stabbed multiple times. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

These were not her mother’s and grandmother’s times. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The few times I’d wished I could walk in one direction for as long as I wanted, the threat of those rattlesnakes deterred me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to the center tip-off circle and dribbled the ball four times. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The number of dead floating cells had increased twenty times! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had eaten chicken hundreds of times, but she had never witnessed this scene before. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

With no other food coming into the city, the price offish was ten times what it had been before the war, and still rising. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They’d touched on this conversation so many times over the past month, and every time, Rishi had put a stop to it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was very quiet, though she nodded a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She decided neither to make nothing of it nor much of it; to proceed as though drinking was no more or less than something to be moderately indulged in at seasonal times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How many times do I have to tell you I'm not afraid?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I never really saw the point to it, though, ’cause most times somebody was bound to insist they wasn’t shot even when it was clear as day that they was. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore now took out his wand and tapped three times upon the top of the casket. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Other times one of the teachers would give me a quarter to buy a Coca-Cola. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"The important books used to be copied over when they needed them. Some of the oldest have been copied half a hundred times, probably." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Passacaglia structure involves a short sequence of four or eight chords repeated many times, which act as the springboard for a series of unfolding melodic explorations or improvisations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What sounds would dominate in each of those times? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

On my way home, I thought about how I’d made my wish so many times and it hadn’t come true. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They were almost brand-new; he’d only worn them a couple of times. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute the kids would turn on one another; other times we would rally because each knew what it felt like to be the victim of the day. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Fangburn struggled like a landed fish as the big badger picked up the net and swung it several times against the gatehouse wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most times I don’t say anything back, though. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Working in a rice field is ten to twenty times more labor-intensive than working on an equivalent-size corn or wheat field. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ernest had provided Mollie support during these terrible times, and they had recently had a third child, a girl whom they had named Anna. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He gazes at the man-made pond, which, his father had told Gogol during a phone conversation, he walked around twenty times each evening before eating his dinner, that it equaled a distance of two miles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would say often, “I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small dogs are adopted almost 2 times as fast as big dogs, at least in my sample. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was one tree that seemed to be twenty times taller than she was. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ms. Jen would check in on her a couple of times. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Grout and Sauceda have lost and found the tracks several times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’d heard it a dozen times, but I still liked the way Dad told it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could remember times that had been nice there, and happy, before Daddy ever went away. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘The lack of ghosts is eerie. Back in ancient times, Delos was sacred ground. No mortal was allowed to be born here or die here. There are literally no mortal spirits on this whole island.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The process repeated itself half a dozen times. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Four, five, six times I pulled the rope with the same depressing result. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cramp just sat there, taking it all in, stopping me a couple times to clarify. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But those adults a lot of times have no clue about the answer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was more like this: Every half-hour when the shows switched, my mother walked over to the television and tried the on-off button several times. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Good,” said the judge, rapping his gavel three times. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times did we battle the Romans in my day?” the woman asked. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before we got to the first store, I had muddied my shoes three times stepping off the curb to let white people pass. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It was a bad year. Nobody’s fault. Next year we’ll shake these hard times.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was one recollection, far in the past, that came back to him several times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d been to the Bronx Zoo before, about five times probably, so Calista said I could pick where to go first. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But none of the times were recognized by the International Swimming Federation because the pool was six metres too long. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was at all times cheerful, energetic, helpful, and as competent as a new hire can be expected to be. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harvard ordered, as an experiment, one of the first to come out of Pocock’s shop and promptly reported back that the boat had taken several full seconds off its crew’s best times. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The car backfired several times without ignition because it was overheated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There had been times when I didn’t honestly know how I felt about him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was one of the rare times he was able to talk about his brother even though he was still paralyzed by the grief of losing him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I see Dee a few times—out in the kitchen from a distance. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Weak as they were, they would have taken three times their j own number with them if Lord Ramsay had stormed the ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of times today I thought I saw something black run behind a junk pile really fast. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

Few of the ancient sources are very specific about these matters, as we would expect when speaking of one of the most visible and famous institutions of their times. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Other names prominent in that battle were, true to the temper of the times, disgraced and dragged through the mud. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any Hindu god can do a hundred times better. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She washed her face, ears, and hair four more times with wipes, wishing she’d remembered to bring a compact mirror. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I loved my times with Papa more than I loved the stories he told. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And just in case all that slipped my mind, two, three times a week Pastor Ted was there, on the other end of the line, going on about Stan’s one-way trip to paradise. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Both times I was scared so witless that the guards had to carry me along by the arms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He easily got rattled, particularly when things weren’t going well, and there were times on the field when he seemed as frazzled as a child. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was in now, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I have been down a few times—they try to give me a meal in the farmhouse each day to warm me up and break the monotony. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was one of the many times he looked at my mom and spontaneously declared how much he loved her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I stood with my heel like that, and swung my arm a couple of times like that. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Of course there were times when a child would initial the charts without actually having fulfilled the requirements. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will not follow them into Zimmerman’s Pet Store no matter how many times they try to drag me there. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

He shook it a few times and finally the bulb flickered on faintly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several more times before Edwin's next visit, Cole tried being invisible, but had no luck. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Say it seven times and your whole town is safe. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So many times, I thought, I’d tried to draw a line in the sand, and I was never strong enough to keep it there. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay, more than a few times,” he admitted. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, I sat down to plan my week, scheduling massage appointments, booking sessions with my trainer, arranging lesson times with my coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That night, I read Treasure Island again, and I don’t want to brag, but I’ve read Treasure Island four times and Kidnapped twice and The Black Arrow twice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s been warned many times, and it’s only now that he believes we mean business. Smart guy, heh.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma knowed most times Cooter’s ma didn’t come out of their home. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When they had just bread and potatoes too many times at home, Francie’s thoughts went to dripping sour pickles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the north the Rhoyne was a broad black ribbon bright with stars, five times as wide as the Blackwater Rush at King’s Landing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of times the plans about the things that were going to happen to her were mixed up with ice and snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tapped a few more times, and Moss saw something flash open on it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My fingers are a wreck; I shred them quietly, out of sight beneath the tabletop, as I do in times of stress; an old bad habit I cannot seem to break. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of times her mother had tried to teach her about herbs and roots and teas, but she had been too full of herself to pay much attention. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juvenile behavior can be his specialty at times. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Had Jupiter been several dozen times more massive, the matter in its interior would have undergone thermonuclear reactions, and Jupiter would have begun to shine by its own light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, the buoys broke away altogether, leaving us to dive for the pots on the ocean floor. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Carmen sat really close to me, and a couple of times our hands touched, which made me eat my sandwich really, really fast. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

Bell is a step behind at all times, pleading forgiveness and politely asking that Powell tread more softly so as not to wake the residents. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kabuo, moving into the tidal drift, had signaled his position a half-dozen times when an air horn replied off his port bow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Three times she miscarried while trying to give me an heir. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We know that in Jomon times it supported great regional diversity of subsistence techniques and of pottery styles and was never unified politically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby was decorated with World War II posters reminding citizens of the importance of secrecy in times of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mister Singer was different from any other man, and at times like this it would be better if other people would let him manage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I read the letter over three times to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved this one. Read it so many times, my father replaced my worn copy with a new one. He didn’t realize I liked the feel of the old one.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Later Maddie made that run several times, ferrying damaged or mended aircraft in and out of the bigger aerodrome that surrounds them and hides them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At other times there were merely lots of people eating and drinking — continuously from elevenses until six-thirty, when the fireworks started. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

A lot of times in these later years since I became a Muslim, I’ve thought back to that fight and reflected that it was Allah’s work to stop me: I might have wound up punchy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that his parents had neither asked him about honey badgers, or even knew why he cared about them in the first place, never stopped him from offering up random info at random times. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I shouted “Hep! Hep! Hep!”—my tiger-language command to say “Do!”—thousands of times. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"What about something much harder, like two times four hundred and eighty-seven? Could you tell me that?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

We got into our uniforms and threw the ball around the stage a few times and each player was introduced and got a cheer. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mom looks down, ceiling to floor, the same dance I’ve done a million times in this room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

That same message, three times, before it clicked again and switched back to the frequency we had heard before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were times, however, when her mother’s loyalty to Kathy trumped her issues with Islam. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The tables made it possible to calculate the positions of the planets to an accuracy thirty times better than the tables Copernicus had compiled, and remained the standard used for generations. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She knew with so much certainty the location of everything that she herself forgot that she was blind at times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Brian had taken to carrying a pocketknife with him at all times, and he often whittled pieces of scrap wood when he was working something out in his head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat, who had crept into the Metropolitan Opera House a few times and knew how people acted there, shouted, “Bravo, Chester! Bravo!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison is like those indoor exhibits at the zoo, with long walls of glass cages, only a thousand times scarier. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Henry lets Alex take him apart with painstaking patience and precision, moans the name of God so many times that the room feels consecrated. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My grandfather says that it’s something Koreans have had to do historically, because Korea was invaded so many times. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I stroked her fleece and felt her chest a hundred times, to see if she was breathing. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I know you were getting a bit troubled when we first started off and I couldn’t get the hang of this paddle thing and nearly tipped us over a hundred times.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It found me, actually, about eight years ago. Been around the world a couple times before we met, I believe.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She herself had been hungry a few times, but she’d never been starving. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She said it like she had said it a million times already, and she was sick of saying it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mighty clap of thunder foretold the end of the dry times as the skies opened and gave the earth its water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Other times, he had to be at Goddard’s side, loading or switching out his weapons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I’d read the lyrics so many times, I could almost see them pass before my eyes like they were on a digital news ticker. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

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

At times, she seemed happier to see the Madonna than she was to see me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad had never been able to buy the class pictures for us, though a couple of times, Mom secretly snipped a snapshot out of the packet before returning it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first two times I crash to the ground, I manage to make it back on my feet, but the third time, I cannot get my leg to cooperate. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were, a couple of times, reduced to eating from dumps and garbage cans. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Other times I was so hungry and tired that I didn’t care. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You have said that a dozen times within the last three weeks.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times he refused to run without a workmate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feels that things might have gone along well enough if I’d just done something about a fifteen- or twenty-minute scene in which she blows her nose several times—snipped it out, I gather. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Three times in my life,” her husband said, his voice low. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His voice is light, but I’ve heard him enough times now to detect a deep sadness running underneath it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There were times when we were pretty abusive, getting right in their faces and yelling at them,” one guard remembers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Principal Cody laughed a little under his breath, said: “Many times.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a pillow and hit him several times before collapsing on the bed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all that changed after my mom died and my dad hit the bad times. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A girl with a bucket, a ladle, and water comes five times a day. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I know he and I only talked a couple of times, but as I stood there, I started to cry. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Not only people but traffic—bullock carts, jutkas, cars and bicycles, more than we had ever seen, many times thicker than in the town around the tannery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Obinze called many times but she did not pick up her phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

They had worked with her many times before, so they knew just how good she was. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Word was that underneath the good times and the easy money something evil ran the streets and nothing was safe—not even the dead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A more helpful measurement perhaps is that it was four times the salary of the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge: so let’s say £400,000. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They have three times as many people as even live in Farbranch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He picked it up and threw it again, threw it several times. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

At one meeting, Kennedy scrawled “coup” four times on a sheet of paper. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It had been violently bent back, and the combatants had been in and out so many times, they’d beaten a muddy trail. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

So to achieve the game’s maximum possible score, I had to find and eat each of those dots five more times, once with each of my five remaining lives. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We paraded around the room a couple of times in lockstep, like a chain gang, with Frank first, Ernestine next, and the children following by ages. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been to the Big House attic three times before, which was three times more than I wanted to. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The woman returned several times, perching on our sofa again and again, describing the uncomplicated births of her other children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If you don’t want to talk to Mom and Dad, you can let the phone ring two times and then hang up. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The mother cat walked around her babies a few times, rounding them up in a tight writhing ball of fur. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They move southward in the breeding season and at such times a wounded one is only too likely to find itself deserted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This opinion has been held all the more in our own times because of the enormous upheavals that have been observed and are being observed every day—events beyond human conjecture. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He unrolled the prophecy and read it so many times, he memorized it without trying. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In normal times, this is enough to feed the band. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson noted that the boys in Joe’s boat would get going, then lose their swing, then regain it, then lose it again, as many as three times in a single race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He pressed the fingers of his hands together, the same gesture she had seen her father use a thousand times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Do you remember-?" Consciousness of the bad times in between came to them both. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One hundred and twenty sunrises, one hundred and twenty more times he has to drag his corrupted body out of a bed and button it into a uniform. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Miig's hair was tucked up into a grey woolen toque, and with the wide grey scarf wrapped around his neck several times so that his entire mouth was obscured, he looked much older. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Because for all the times I stand here with these guys, I don't really know them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It seems like a miracle, but it’s just what happens a lot of times when you let go. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Curiosity overtook her, and she did something she would never have considered in ordinary times. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Three or four times a week after dinner, the new people sit through an hour or more of meetings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chris leaned back in the chair like a proud father who just watched his child figure out how times tables work. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knew he was up to something Mom wouldn’t like, but he knew I could mostly keep a secret except for the times my nose would betray me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

“The machine is splendid! What a speed! A few times I fell into a spin, but in the end I learned how to turn.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She swipes a few times and then decides on one. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I blinked a few times and added, “They both work.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was a gentle, kindly person, with brown eyes, an oval face, and a soft voice, which at times was almost inaudible. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Long after he was a man, he remembered the good times they had had. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did. You were later. You have to get right in their faces and give it back to them, Jay. I told you how many times, you can’t just roll over.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At other times, when the afternoon was almost over and disturbing shadows crept across the storage yard, a different kind of theory went the rounds. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, they just paraded Diko around the stage a few times, so this was a break from the routine. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times my mother told him before a dinner party, “No butter pagoda,” it made no difference. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I made her read me the Frog and Toad books a million and one times, but she never got tired of the same stories. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He was always charming and cordial, but there were times when even these traits failed to put his business associates at ease. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“It was very hot, Mai. I dozed off myself several times.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our room was ten times as big as many of my classmates’ homes, and a hundred times brighter. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skipped between the wet and the dry side of the yard a few times, calling for Mrs. Potts. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Other than the Halloween party, we didn't really do anything besides talk on the phone a few times—and even then, I did all the talking. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had described it a hundred times, but in his stories the house was always a bright, happy place—big and rambling, yes, but full of light and laughter. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I dare say the best of us can often profit by a little professional discussion at such times.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, I’d have a memory so real it was like reliving the moment altogether. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then I underlined it a couple of times. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I think it can be comforting at times.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, call me Denny. Even though I’ve told you that lots of times and you never do. And it’s no inconvenience whatsoever.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The other two times were from my mom. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In 1971, Uhuru discovered a remarkably bright X-ray source in the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan, flickering on and off a thousand times a second. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rocks a couple times in the seat, then pushes up to her full stature. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry,” she said, repeating it three times, her voice raw, a fraying rope. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In recent times the hotel had acquired a certain prestige among tourists, and people traveled from the provinces to the capital just to see it and go back and tell their friends about it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except the times when she wears one of Grandma’s Floating Dresses, she usually dresses like a black-and-white movie, not a circus. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean we weren’t still having some good times up in his room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Release is always like that? For people who break the rules three times? For the Old? Do they kill the Old, too?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my fist at it three times and made my wish. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then she turned her round three or four times and pointed her at Coraline. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The young women of the 586th all sang together, as they’d done so many times before over the past four years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was apologizing as fast as I could and as many times as I could for breaking through the window and collapsing one end of the Drinkers’ Ping-Pong table. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was a little ritual the Richardson kids had developed over the past few years, one of the few times they agreed on anything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I have to write I won’t be rude to my teachers one hundred times.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, this highly productive system of intensive agriculture triggered an immediate population explosion in Kyushu, where archaeologists have identified far more Yayoi sites than Jomon sites, even though the Jomon period lasted 14 times longer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt twice as strong, three times as tall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’d seen enough cartoons to know that when your head goes down three times it doesn’t ever come up again! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have gone to that window about a dozen times that morning and watched the wounded kitten make a broken progress across the lawn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She was bathing four or five times a day, scrubbing herself with horsehair brushes and strong lye soap, as if she meant to scrape her skin off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As much as she refused to admit it, Mr. Miller, Clayton’s father, was right: at times Clayton Byrd could be a handful. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He slowed down and blew the horn a few times in solidarity; they waved and he picked up speed again. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since their school didn’t offer band or lessons on musical instruments, Ms. Treadwell let Clayton accompany the class on his blues harp a few times—something he’d never told his mother. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t my idea to be a debutante escort three times. It was hers,” he said, still referring to his mother. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

By now Myron had hung up and tried to call me several more times. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

Small bites that she chewed about a hundred times before swallowing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

By Renaissance times, rhetoric had become so centrally embedded in the culture as a habit of mind that it shaped the way all knowledge was approached. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"You want me to come down there and mind the place until Doris gets home, because you want to run around all times of the night." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A backlash against blacks was clearly in force, but no consensus had yet been reached regarding what racial and social order would ultimately emerge from these turbulent times. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It isn’t for lack of want—I’ve tried several times to look for him—but it seems my best friend has turned into a shadow, impossible to find. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s told me that a hundred times. I was so hoping you’d tell me something interesting, Lady Kaltain. Like if he’s found a young woman he favors.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The fear was a little less with her at those times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Forgive me, but I don’t like crossing things out, and in these times of scarcity, tossing away a piece of paper is clearly taboo. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He’s been to the park so many times. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I tell myself this ten times a day. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A few times I play it over in the morning to find out what I lerned before I fell asleep and while I was sleeping and I dont even know the words. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The lifetime of a human being is measured in decades; the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The van then rolled violently, flipping numerous times across both westbound lanes before coming to a stop, upside down, on the grassy shoulder. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Like I gave it out a hundred times a day. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen you come in here two or three times now. What are you up to?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean the Kembles? The daughters played here many times.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Forget this Edward, curly top. My name is Mat and I am six times the man he is. Climb up here on this hay bale and give me a warm, sticky kiss.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like any good father, I thought, he would have died for them, a thousand times. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faramir was retreating to the wall of the Pelennor, rallying his men to the Causeway Forts; but he was ten times outnumbered. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, I’d moved enough times now to know that time was a fleeting, exhaustible thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking of how many times she stopped to adjust Regina's blanket on the walk here. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The truth was, he liked it when she kissed him, even if she kissed Furball sixty times as often. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun,” recalled General Farrell. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had, naturally, been called to the drawing room several times already that night to replenish refreshments, and had observed on these occasions the gentlemen deep in conversation over weighty issues. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only times she did get angry enough to put her foot down were the times I mentioned McCoy to her. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I can save them for special times.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a weirwood ancient and colossal, ten times the size of die one in the Stone Garden at easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The CO had drawn his gun but Larson had shot him first—“too many times,” he said—and Larson had been sent back to prison, with a sentence of eight years to life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Harbottle homed in on my distracted state and called on me an inordinate number of times with questions on Texas history, which I could not answer, much to the class’s amusement. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

The best times were when he had to make change. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he told his story and showed his photographs a hundred times, he never tired and was always patient and polite. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Yet even in times of catastrophe we people it with tricks. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not like first times very much. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His breathing is shallow and fast, coming twenty-four to twenty-seven times a minute. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors resorted to giving him nourishment with enemas several times a day. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’d be sitting there bubbling away at recess, and it would be almost like the old times; then without warning, she’d say, “Bill thinks so and so.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She retraced her steps around the perimeter of the camp three times, grinding the remaining powders into the forest floor. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The noise was constantly distracting, at times suffocating. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In fact the stadium did speak powerfully and at all times, including this moment. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, you ain’t a man ’less you done had it three times,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked two more times what she wanted and she repeated, “To see my father.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d done that a few times after a fight with Father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kept asking him about what happened. Lots of times. But he wouldn’t say. Not a word. Anyway...I buried them. Thought it was right....” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was to look at the islands dappled across the horizon; other times to talk about the jetty and how boats might have used it in days gone by. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Or maybe you’re only asked it once, and the other times are just echoes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Which means there are times we must throw wads of paper at the back of my mother’s head. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Although he didn’t know it then, George’s adventures as a surveyor would prepare him for the rugged times to come in war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped into the air several times, arms held high with fists clenched. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You told me about a million times. It’s named after Eleanor Roosevelt.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

Mabel and I have boarded buses together thousands of times, but when the bus appears in the distance it's entirely unfamiliar. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Harfoots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, and long lived in the foothills of the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Besides, I knew nothing about electricity and nearly electrocuted myself several times. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve only seen the lobby a few times, when somebody else would get off on this floor, but I’ve got a favorite cover that I look for every time. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I feel like I have done this a thousand times before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Other times Jason found himself at the crest of Half-Blood Hill. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had dreamed that same dream many times over the course of the winter, but in recent days, it had become more insistent. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In later times each had her own special field. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would lead the bear cubs around the fire four times before she presented one of them to Angeline, who would look at her with new respect. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Lots of times. Nothing to worry about. You just duck under a desk or stand in a doorway until the shaking stops.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

All the times that they had been unhappy were forgotten. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt gone to get her hair done, else I ask her again will she set the example even though that woman’s already said no five times. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That was his second joke in recent times. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He did try, two or three times, to get his daughters interested in the canoe. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d kick him a few times to get him back on his feet, then they’d yank on his neck rope and start running again. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At times the spell would be broken suddenly: on shelves or in hallways of my mother’s cave, large old shapes with smouldering eyes sat watching me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter turned down Main Street, the car lights still on, honking the horn a double toot, six times at one corner, six times at another. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by imitating such sound, the poem helps me recall the intimate times of my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have talked to her a million times. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They live in evil times and their nature too has much of evil, so that they never have rest from toil and sorrow. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had read the book about a hundred times. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They had conclaves three times a year and must befriend one another. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a single black rubber band around his wrist and he pulls at it a few times before continuing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fought with her hair, pulling it into a ponytail and letting it go countless times. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Though I embraced my simultaneous roles as athlete and activist, there were times at the games when I craved time outside of the spotlight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I cross my middle finger over my index finger—the sign for R—and tap it three times lightly against my lips. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The weather was so foul that in the whole journey he managed to take a sight of the sun only four times. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Gerald rode around the block fourteen times, came in for a glass of Kool-aid, and persuaded Aunt Queen to let him explore a little further. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the third day of wandering, somebody shot at the four from far away—shot four times as they crossed a narrow brick road. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knocked her staff against the ground three times, until it produced enough light to illuminate the dark. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For the next several days, Deborah and I talked many times as we both struggled to make sense of the attacks, and Deborah tried to accept the idea that the conference had been canceled. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The task that faced me was to push it down the rocky shore and into the water, a distance four or five times its length. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had I heard those three little words from my mother? Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was a gesture I had repeated countless times in the past, but ever since Sumac had chosen my right shoulder as his constant perch, I hadn’t needed it. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And there were times, I never wanted to mention them to anyone else, that I heard the sounds at night when it was very quiet, and no one else heard them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In former times they would send you a little package, of the belongings: what he had with him when he died. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it true, what someone said, that it’s a million times easier to tell a stranger your deepest secret than a person who cares for you? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Other times, when she deemed it was safe enough, she lit the lantern inside their little crate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Benji had already asked him three times if he was okay, and Felix had insisted—three times—that he was fine. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several times dogs rushed to the front gates and barked as he passed. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times it just came on its own. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And how many times could a person say good-bye? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had done his test twice, he said, and both times the samples were positive to the Mayinga strain of Ebola Zaire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In good times, when wages were up, the family might enjoy a little extra mutton on the table or a new pair of shoes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In between times they told stories, laughed and told more stories and sung songs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I put myself at the courtyard well, where I was sent many times each day to get water. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The story had been picked over so many times, and had been embroidered in so many places, that nobody was quite sure what the truth was anymore. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So we skip the pancakes with all the cooking and measuring, and jump to the eating—by the way, sausage sandwiches are always a quadrillion times better than TV dinners, that's for sure. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was an ordinary day, if at least ten times longer than it ought to have been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tupac had probably said Mama made miracles every Thanksgiving at least a hundred times, and my father was just getting home. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Chester ran over the scales a few times and started to play. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex opens his mouth and closes it a couple of times. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They saw nothing wrong with him and they had been fooled so many times that they went on with their work. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attention women: You will stay inside your homes at all times. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d lost count of how many times he’d had an iteration of this same dream, and while some of the details changed, the effect was the same. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Once in a long while, four times so far for me, my mother brings out the metal tube that holds her medical diploma. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper jumps up and blows Maniac away, killing him at least fifteen times. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in retrospect, I realize that there were signs pointing to troubled times ahead. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

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 read it five times, so I guess I can wait.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lately, I have begun to wonder how the famEy wiE gather even three times a year when she is not there with her phone to unite us. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have sharpened his pencil fifteen times during that test. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My mom entered the enclosure multiple times a day to feed milk to the infant. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nowadays I’m in here two, three times a week. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she nonetheless felt “very, very fortunate” to have lucked into a job that paid her three times her salary as a teacher. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A dozen times a day they had to stop to free a wheel that had stuck in a rut, or double up the teams to climb a muddy slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"What type of disposition should I choose for him? Definitely get rid of the ego. The arrogance—though cute at times—must be lessened." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Three times I stop paddling when Virginia fusses to be fed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They approach the gate of the largest house in the colony, a house he has seen a thousand times but never so close. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The water not deep, Donay. And anyway, we don’t have to stay always in the ditch. Is just to get past guards. Other times we can walk along, you know.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hands trembling, he made scratches on the wall again and recounted, once, twice, three times. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Halliday referred to this show several times in Anorak's Almanac, citing it as one of his childhood favorites. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The nurses brought me delicious meals three times a day, with fruit cocktail or Jell-O for dessert, and changed the sheets even if they still looked clean. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Shinalator never did much good after those first few times. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At times he already feels like an artist and has even begun to sign some of his works—just his first name, “Vincent,” often in bright red letters. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For generations, while his people were preparing to go to university, my people were crowded into thatched huts singing, “Two times two is four. Three times two is six. La la la la la.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Emily was about to tell him it wasn’t impossible and in fact had happened many times over in the book she was reading when her dad said, “Thought you’d be interested in this.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some days I felt as if I had been born into their family; other times I felt like a guest who had stayed too long. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

How many times did I hear that growing up? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As the first-stage fuel tanks emptied, the G forces increased and pushed us back into our contoured seats at five times our normal weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad has texted me, like, four million times. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She began to circle the funeral pyre three times clockwise, trying to quell the apprehension bubbling inside her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I could have killed you twenty times by now,’ the giant said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I hated him at such times, with a hatred that rose straight up out of the death that lay within my spirit. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then he keeps walking, which makes me feel ten million times worse for everything I did to the kid. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I know you fellows are having hard times,” my father said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Thorn’s mouth twisted with distaste when I said the name of my old enemy—a former friend who’d tried to kill me several times. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They heard the Howler go off in the entrance hall — Neville’s grandmother’s voice, magically magnified to a hundred times its usual volume, shrieking about how he had brought shame on the whole family. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After Mom died, he came over a few times, tried to get me back on my board, but the ocean had dried up as far as I was concerned. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Altogether in the last 100 million years it has reversed itself about two hundred times, and we don’t have any real idea why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

“You...how many times was it you standing beside me on the deck at night when I thought it was Kuwei?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

During some of the darkest times, when William could barely function, she quietly “took him to work every morning and put his pen in his hand to get him started.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Adam was saying, “The times are changed. A boy must be a specialist or he will get nowhere. I guess that’s why I’m so glad you’re going to college.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As for the Ancient, though his one bright eye rested searchingly on Ranofer several times he asked no questions. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She could count the number of times she had been down the mountain on her hand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A couple times I ate something and threw it right back up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I tried many times to explain what it felt like. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She knew people and times unknown to him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gasped several times and shook her head in disbelief as my mother told her about our trials and tribulations in attempting to obtain my birth certificate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mya had to dismount a half-dozen times to move fallen rocks from their path. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But they exerted their right to come, and I have many, many times reflected upon how, talking to us children, they began to plant the seeds of division in our minds. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that half a hundred times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had to promise to play it only three times, though. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is why the brain library is some ten thousand times larger than the gene library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must ring longer than two times because it takes a while for Suesetta to say, “Hi, may I speak to Phyllis?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were many times when I could not be there and later, when I was underground, Walter would take Thembi with him along with his own son. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been other times, of course, when Johnny stopped drinking but that was when he was working. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had already checked five different times that my passport was in the front pocket of the Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At five I also know I am a pretty child, for I have heard adults say to Ma many times how ugly I am. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t usually let myself think about those times. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the painting came to life: The dragon stretched its long neck as if waking from a thousand-year sleep, blinked a few times in the glare of the streetlight, and then looked directly at Sierra. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The words repeated themselves a thousand times in his head. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The look on his mother’s face told me they’d had this discussion more than a few times. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His measurements indicated that he had accelerated ions to 80,000 volts by spiraling them around the vacuum chamber forty-one times, thereby delivering eighty-two resonant jolts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“How many times do you want me to tell you?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His phone rang five times and then went to voice mail. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Know where the drug dealers and smokers are at all times. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

When I sat in the pews, I remembered the times that Mom and I came here together, but I bet Dad mostly thought about her funeral. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

On signal, they performed military-style parade maneuvers, which they had practiced in their home districts as often as four times a week for more than a year. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times do I have to remind you?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s my soul, and it feels like it’s been shattered to pieces so many times I don’t know how to fix it anymore. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t buy flour, white flour, any more without taking four times the quantity of brown flour. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Melanie’s mouth opened and closed a few times before anything came out. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of times I eat things I don’t really favor,” she told him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many times she must have written to him thus, in how many varied moods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It almost did a few times, but it always managed to pull through due to strict sharing of resources, strenuous discipline, and constant vigilance against any further attacks from the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“How many times do I have to tell you to stay in one place when you get lost, Willard Asher?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I fell so many times that I stopped counting. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He also met several times with another States’ Rights leader and ardent white supremacist, Dr. Edward Fields. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I started thinking about all the great times we’d had— Dad, Abbey, and me—on our sunset trips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Ten—I mean, twenty boys, all ten times taller than me.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the laugh track on all those teen TV shows Nicole had seen a million times. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All working with a precision saying they’ve done this thousands and thousands of times. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It can be like watching Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band close a show with “Born To Run” and belt the final chorus out four times in a row. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He has murdered many times, but there are no corpses. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watched this happen a couple of times, and it was pretty scary. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Mellower had—many times—described the exact way a stranger entered a village. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dropping to his knee, he struck her several times in the face, and she might have succumbed early had he not hit his hand against the metal bed frame when his wife ducked. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw her entering the room, Ben realized how very few times he and Karen had ever spoken to each other without another member of the family being present. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you cannot, Luxa. This is why he times it so,” said Henry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had been left back so many times that at fourteen she was still in the sixth grade. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before any more could be said, Mr. Benedict opened his eyes, blinked a few times, and ran his fingers through his tousled white hair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

"The peanut bag. Hit it a few times." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, she’d told us there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in a single human body, enough to circle Earth two and a half times. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few times, I watch her house at night. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She folded the shirt in so many intricate ways and stashed it inside the pants, they too having been folded several times at the waist. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he opened the door he felt the pestilential attack of the chamberpots, which were placed on the floor and all of which had been used several times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This shall be a work for times of peace, when I have had more opportunity to study and learn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It made us a target in these difficult times. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“With respect, we been on the wrong sides too many times to be friends. Seems a shame to go and change all that now.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say she’s been on the porch here quite a few times.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There was a vigorous trade in appointment times after the lottery was held. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

George picked up an issue from last April that she had looked through countless times before. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We had the hatch covers over their bay pulled open when the weather was good, but at all times the animals were kept confined to their cages. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The teyolia, though, the spiritual force of the heart, must remain within the body at all times, or the person will die. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had a shaved head that looked like it had been used as a stickball one too many times. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about the photograph I’d stood next to in the basement hallway of the Academy countless times as we waited for chow, entitled something like Smoldering Ruins of Auburn Prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these were extraordinary times, and they were apparently willing to make an exception for their leader. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At times he has to stop and force a door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At these times I feel blurred, as if there are two of me, one superimposed on the other, but imperfectly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several times they hid as trucks and North Korean soldiers marched by them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I been round the block a few times. Not like either one of you.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

These good times were courtesy of the U.S. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My face appears in it three times as it circles the room. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She pictured her little sister and the kitten she made Cas admire a dozen times, and the bubble of amusement popped. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His legs began to ache halfway there, but his father marched ahead, stopping at times to lend Gogol an arm, his body slightly tilted when he rested on a rock. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thieves shoot Uncle Marco three times in the chest and once in the leg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Members of a coalition spend more time together, share food, and help one another in times of trouble. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl has been thoughtless and headstrong at times. But her upbringing has been such as to encourage that.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

Piper wondered what it would be like if they didn’t have to worry about dying a dozen times every day. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grandmère paused and blinked a few times, and then she took a deep breath. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, most times it wasn’t funny at all. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The community theater downtown was designed with the pageant in mind, which means the women’s dressing room is four times the size of the men’s. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh it’s just the same thing you’ve heard before a hundred times before,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After doing that a couple of times, she told him, he should take the shot himself. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We had fenced many times before, both in individual and in team matches, at World Cups and at World Championships. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In feudal times an ineptness with sword and spear headed a young man for the church: in the Hamilton family Joe’s inability properly to function at farm and forge headed him for a higher education. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Otherwise, he will have no support in times of adversity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he hadn’t recalled those times, because the memories made him hungry.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My punishment, on this occasion, was to write five hundred times, “I will never, never hit any student in Public School 125.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I catch Jamie rolling her eyes about Meme a couple of times, though. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At times I wonder if there is really land on the other side of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But we would not expect such an event to have happened in historical times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero times anything must be zero; it’s a property of our number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"I told you a dozen times now," said Ralph, "we saw it." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, Khouy never just walked from one place to another, he sauntered and glided, stopping many times along the way to greet friends and pretty young women. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to look at that note on the fridge because I have memorized Mom’s number at the hospital from all the times I decided not to call it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There are times when it is best to say plenty and times to leave well enough alone. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'll be within a short walk of home at all times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty paces, he hit a telephone pole with a stone sixty-one times in a row. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How many times must I swear to that? Lady Stark, whatever you may believe of me, I am not a stupid man. Only a fool would arm a common footpad with his own blade." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I crossed myself about a hundred times, and was about to go tell the world the miracle I just witnessed, when Theresa grabbed my wrist. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“How many times have you told this story?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

At other times, for instance, I would make up new laws. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,” my sister Jack told me several times. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times those eagles don’t come inland far as Buxton so we all looked over at the poplars. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

All night they had raced the Iowa Chevrolet through thick rain, stopping twice to siphon gas, both times from vehicles parked on the empty streets of small sleeping towns. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He writes to Jo that at times he loves everybody and at other times everything seems stupid, petty, superficial. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Claude’s a nice man. All he done is hold my hand a few times.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Books, I reply, and we both laugh just like the good ol’ times. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

It was a shame, the way they paid three and four times what the furniture had cost, because they could get credit from those Jews. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of times he caught me when I thought I had the step on him but I was going up stronger than he was. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

At times, descending, it appeared Snuffy would slip and fall, sailing out between silent echoing walls, floating like a romantic, suicidal dreamer toward the green ribbon far below. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And never was he happier than when he had someone cornered and at his mercy; it seemed that the deepest meaning of his squalid life was in him at such times. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the Communists catch us fleeing, it’s a million times worse than staying at home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They asked me three more times, had me write every single thing down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But then, hard times are a penny for plenty. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The barons came for the auction of Osage leases, an event that was held about four times a year and that was overseen by the Department of the Interior. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But no matter how many times you study it, the numbers still grab you. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I had seen it thousands of times, but suddenly what I had considered an empty imitation of a Hollywood fad was flooded with personal significance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was poked more times that she could count, and the X-rays soon numbered about a hundred. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, she even sat with me, Red, and Dre, and told us every story about times she cut things, just because she was feeling a little guilty. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Poe coughed several times into his handkerchief before continuing. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the only times she whipped him were for swimming off the pier in Turner Station. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Now that’s an odd thing. When I was a youth, friends laughed together and spoke in peaceable voices. Only enemies stood glaring and yelling, with their fists doubled. But then, times change.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The Community House was too out of the way and even though I had gone back to the English class there only a few times, now I stopped going altogether. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Aunt Marge, on the other hand, wanted Harry under her eye at all times, so that she could boom out suggestions for his improvement. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Several times the beam of the headlights fell on ruined houses, but Elinor didn't know stories about any of them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We can go to the washroom if we put our hands up, though there’s a limit to how many times a day, they mark it down on a chart. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except I’ve read ’em so many times, I’m not really seeing the page, I’m seeing the Mary Rose and worrying she’ll leak as bad as she did before, and sink again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

As I close this installment, let me say this: for all the times my aunt admonished me that a lady never goes out without at least one petticoat under her skirt, I am most thankful. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

To prevent them from reading his mind, he wore a tinfoil hat at all times. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The cows on these “farms” spend their time in a fenced lot eating organic grain except for the three times a day they are hooked up to milking machines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The few times she’d actually spotted other users, she didn’t have the nerve to approach them and say anything. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The escaped word ricocheted around the ward and seemed to repeat itself several times. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Pa was still humming and Ma and Mrs. Holton were starting in on something the growned folks don’t like talking ’bout much in front of us, ’bout the times they were slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s all the other times people have used this loop,” she explained. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At times they could see stretches of the interstate highway below them through the bare stands of secondgrowth timber. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The man clears his throat a few times. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It brung back memories of them times when I was a baby and sleeping would sometimes jus’ come up real sneaky and quick and ease all the wakefulness clean outta me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There is a Russian saying that people use with resignation at times like this: Life is life. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The families of graduates were spread out across the bleachers, and I ran back and forth across the basketball court a couple times before I spotted Mom and Dad about halfway up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

More than once I reminded myself of the times when my mother and I had gone without sustenance. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s toast, too, which softens up when I dunk it a few times. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Being with her at such times was like being alone. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe if you fill this paper with it a few times, you’ll figure it out,” Oberman said, dropping a piece of lined paper and a pencil on Bill’s desk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard, exhaling three times for every breath he took. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

While Esteban continued screaming and Nicolas went to get the car to return her to her husband,' the two women whispered just like in old times. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Now you look, I was good to Constantine. Oh, she talked back plenty of times and I put up with it. But Skeeter, she didn’t give me a choice this time.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Me, I had my own stubborn streak, still going strong no matter how many times Aunt Ivy had tried to switch it out of me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But even in that short amount of time, I did count the phrase “You know better than that, Ryan Dean” forty-seven times. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had been pleased at first, watching Moody and her lonely daughter, who had been uprooted so many times, who had never really been close to anyone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Guards announced marriages three or four times a year, usually on propitious dates, such as New Year’s or Kim Jong Il’s birthday. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I carefully write in Sundays date and underline it three times. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I’d watched the video of that press conference many, many times. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The wall will fall to the wind as the windy hill will fall, and all things thought in former times: Nothing made remains, nor man remembers. And these towns shall be called the shining towns!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days I wouldn’t eat, but back in Biblical times people did that all the time—fasting was a big part of religion, Mom told me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Likewise, Pangaea may have split and reformed not three times but a dozen times, or perhaps a score of times. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “It makes good times even better ms when you know they’re going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times a day, the guerrillas would stop to rest, and dip into a dirty cloth bag holding cooked rice mixed with some kind of fish or meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There are some fruits and leaves that they can eat out in the forest, but we have to provide most of their food—three times a day. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Tirza’s mother had threatened several times to make stew of the hardheaded animal. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only the pain that made me move slowly, carefully, like a woman three times my age. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The genome was an active blueprint—capable of deploying selected parts of its code at different times and in different circumstances. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“What’s it going to take for you to start trusting me, Seven? How many times do I have to prove myself?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Even in times of crisis, Reggie, Mama Bear takes the time to comment on her son’s hygiene.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And we pray the same way at the same times, waking to the sound of the call for prayer floating in from the nearby mosque. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“If our theory is right and a witch is helping the Nightbeast, this is all gonna be twenty times harder,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I grab an orange marker and uncap and recap it a few times while I think. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I know where Charleston Grove is—I’d been there a few times as a kid. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Slim. Slim comes in sometimes two, three times a night. Slim’s a real skinner. He looks out for his team.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, after a dozen or so times, it was sucked into the dark recess, and when it came out, it was torn and lifeless. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were other times when I’d be awestruck by the white magnolias blooming outside, the everyday bustle of government business, the majesty of a military welcome. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Tyrion, my sweet brother," he said darkly, "there are times when you give me cause to wonder whose side you are on." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they’re a little off, but for the most part they know exactly where they rank at all times. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t her friend, exactly, but we were friendly—we’d chatted a couple of times about our shared love of Harry Potter and Warcross and League of Legends and computers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was times like these that he appreciated how gracious she could be. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shanti had told her story so many times, she had even started to believe it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Why waste both our times? You haven't got it in you to be a hero. Believe me, I've taught the best. The very best." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My brother, who was driving, was shot four times. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered all the times I had wakened up years ago. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there were times when she, too, needed physical comfort and release. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He sniffed several times, sighed again, and grudgingly beckoned Doli to enter. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stood watching her, thinking of the many times he had watched her before, when her walk had been so different and her laughter had come ringing back to mock him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I want you to get down off that bag, now. How many times do you want me to tell you?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"This resistor is way outside its parameters. It's letting about six times too much power through!" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d stood in front of those shelves so many times before. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I have been here—three times before. This is a place of good people.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was an astounding discovery; the universe was millions of times bigger than previously suspected. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She dials the number, listens as it rings four times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom took a bite of salmon and chewed it about a bazillion times. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The boogeyperson sniffs the air a few times and then looks to me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the piano played countless times before, to accompany hymns, but when Mary played it, the sound was nothing like that formless clunking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I pull his hand close and rub my finger over the mark like I have a thousand times before. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But on rainy days, the three of us had some of our best times down in J.T.’s basement. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every refugee had a war story; this was the one my parents must have told me a thousand times over. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We’d fought together so many times we knew each other’s moves. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Toward evening the father wiped the steam away from the glass and looked out a couple of times. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An acquaintance at the Early Childhood Center told Camilla that one day at work Marion had called Bunny six times, and the last time he had hung up on her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As though she’d forgotten about all the times I’d hit her and refused to share fruit and yelled at her in a jealous rage over who would get the biggest potato. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed many times before, but only during the last two days had this impulse assumed the form of actual killing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes wide, I fling my right arm over my shoulder, forcing a searing pain through my body, and fire three times behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As usual in times of military crisis, the public rallied around the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Nearly four times as many Hispanic drivers as non-Hispanic drivers in North Carolina have been charged with driving while impaired. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Three times each day, people trudged up to the palm-studded ridge of the hill to bring them food and water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the PA announcer call out the thousand-meter-split times. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She stretched out the piece of white cloth she was carrying, held it by two corners, flipped it front to back a couple of times before I even recognized my shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Three times around the wall of Troy pursued and pursuer ran with flying feet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, as has happened many times before, the king proved himself wiser than me. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Around those times, I would call Nia to tell her I was feeling better and she would tell me she was feeling good too; maybe we were in synch. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

He had questioned it a hundred times and found no answer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He blinked a few times and passed his hand across his face, repeating, “I’m in the book. Can you show me?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Over the course of twenty-five such trials, the subject correctly identifies the symbol ten times. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had flown into Guam airport from Kimpo eight times previously, most recently a month ago, and he knew the airport and the surrounding terrain well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She then rapped three times on the thick black door, which was studded with iron nails and bore a knocker shaped like an eagle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he shook his head, other times a leg, and sometimes he even shook his hands quickly in the air. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Three grades times two classes times twenty kids is one hundred and twenty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had thought of it many times, often bringing out her phone to scroll to his number, and yet she had not called. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It should have sickened me, but I had seen corpses so many times, I took in the sight of gore like a distant memory. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You think those are the only two times?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Three times by helping her out of the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lotus complained many times to Wang Lung that his children were a plague to her and she wished there were a way to lock them out so that she need not be plagued with them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Several times before noon I had to stop and rake my chips out of the way. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid these out and began serving the rice and dhal, generous portions such as we ate at harvest times and ours larger than theirs. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scorpions and giant poisonous centipedes sometimes appeared in the tent—even, a few times, a snake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why were they bothering him now of all times? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three times now they have gone out into the snow to track down Volkheimers transmitter, and each time they have found him more directly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is scarcely worthwhile to attempt remembering how many times the sun has looked down on the slaughter of the innocents. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Whenever times were really tough we’d fall back on dog bones. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At such times it’s hard to imagine it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

It is a different sensation than watching the stars while lying in a field, something Bailey has done many times. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I had tried often to repeat my magical flight with him, and it is true I had joined the Handsome One many times as he soared through the air. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Not that I identified with the newcomers, nor with the rare Black descendants of native San Franciscans, nor with the whites or even the Asians, but rather with the times and the city. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were to be obeyed at all times. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen the man on the news a few times, but it was only now that he felt like a real person, not just a figure or an idea. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As had been the case many other times in her life, Katherine Goble was the right person in the right place at the right moment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about how my guts told me a million times to help Charlie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"The boy is Lord of the Eyrie and Defender of the Vale," Catelyn reminded her, "and these are not times for delicacy. Ned thinks it may come to war." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To the boys, he seemed at times almost devoid of emotion, yet year after year he somehow managed to stir the deepest and most affirmative emotions many of them had ever known. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Several times a week, they got a little bread. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was easily twice the size of the El Camino and probably weighed ten times as much. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were times during athletic contests when two of the athletes became aware that the true contest was between them and that their team would win or lose according to the quality of their performance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to tell her I felt fine at least thirty times before she would calm down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I caught one final blurry glimpse of Hassan slumped in the back­seat before Baba turned left at the street corner where we’d played marbles so many times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching up for the tall Dumpster, I try flipping the lid one, two, three times. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence for large-scale cultivation of apples even in the Fertile Crescent and in Europe until classical Greek times, 8,000 years after the rise of Eurasian food production began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This greenhouse is one of his rooms, perhaps his favorite; perhaps in better times he tended the plants himself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know how many times Dylan and I circle the pit. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“By order of the fire department, this door must remain closed at all times.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It rings three times before he picks up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder how many more times it would take for me to actually believe it. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were the same words that Ben had used a hundred times as he drilled me endlessly in argument. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘They is going two times as fast as me and they is finishing their guzzle before we is halfway.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I met him, I could count on one hand the times I’d had a drink; he likes a cocktail every night, says it relaxes him and will relax me, too. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Several times he fell but was on his feet again in the next breath, stumbling, tripping, skidding in a headlong descent. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ivy had branded that message on my bare legs countless times. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We circle the perimeter of the projects five times. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His cousin owned a fuel truck and had smuggled people with it a couple of times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Bella,” my mom said to me — the last of a thousand times — before I got on the plane. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The old man coughed a few times as he entered. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The results of this were inconclusive, beyond the extraordinary discomfort it apparently occasioned the subject, who protested weakly as we placed her in the steam chamber the first several times; eventually falling silent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s a whole lot more to it than Jesse Tuck’s good times, you know.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have tried to explain this to you many times. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He does work for the government, Lester. I’ve bragged on him a million times. This is my sister’s boy. He works in the governor’s office...the assistant to the assistant.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

You could tell all three of them had made this walk hundreds of times before. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m very sad, disappointed and, at certain times, frustrated by this decision. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’d read how in historic times they killed the bearer of bad news. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ollie, who has been kind to me a dozen times in the past week—I just betrayed that kindness by trying to kiss him, and he's in love with someone else. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The front porch was for warm days and sunsets, she said, and the glassed-in porch was for rainy times. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved around a few times and settled himself comfortably. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Mike proposed to her three times and in each case she refused, waiting for someone better to come along. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It felt like my fingers suddenly swelled to three times their size, like cooked sausages splitting their skin, as I tried to flip through them all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times I stood about nervously while Herman went through the motions of a biochemist, and on several days I even understood what he said. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Both Mom and Dad tried a few times to knock on the door or whatever, but I just told them I was doing something important. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

That was the best I could sum up the sensation of anguish that his words triggered in me at times. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We’d talked about it plenty of times, so it wasn’t like either of us had forgotten the mysterious midnight date we’d arranged. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

At times he feels as if he’s cast himself in a play, acting the part of twins, indistinguishable to the naked eye yet fundamentally different. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else,” said Alec thoughtfully, “and I’ve heard that they walk among the stars.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several times Hall announced he was preparing to descend, and at one point we were sure he’d finally left the South Summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I came out, he forced his finger in my mouth much deeper than the times before, so I bit him. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I hear she looks like a young girl sometimes and an old woman sometimes and a grown lady other times. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You look...” he says, and then trails off, blinking a few times, not seeming able to finish. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The stone under their feet began to feel slick with slime and mold, and Anya almost lost her footing several times. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Emily was about to tell him it wasn’t impossible and in fact had happened many times over in the book she was reading when her dad said, “Thought you’d be interested in this.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She burned herself a dozen times as she worked with Umma in the kitchens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of the times was last year and the other was the period before that. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, Rasheed greeted a shopkeeper he knew, sometimes in Farsi, other times in Pashto. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

From the tent that we had used to camp in dozens of times, from the sled I’d almost broken my arm on. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Several times he tried to find a grip and at last sat back on his haunches, at a loss. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not strike up an acquaintance or have a real conversation at any of these halts, though I tried several times. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

At other times we either missed it altogether or used up too much fuel reaching it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve reread it several times since then, but I doubt Gat has. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Two or three times an hour I would sight him just ahead, fifty or sixty yards away, vanishing into the trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At times like that, I love the hell out of that dog. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, her name was Pecola too. She was so pretty. When it comes back, I’m going to see it again. My mother has seen it four times.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing Calypso had had a crush on Percy had made the feeling ten times worse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She looked frail and weak, tired, one of the few times in my life I’d ever seen her look that way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had seen white men and women upon the streets a thousand times, but they had never looked particularly “white.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen times a day he seized a paper or a book and stared at it and put it down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night,” Kenny said, “and my mother has already told me thirty-seven times to make myself useful, stay out of trouble and stop dribbling the ball in the house.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last few times he did not bring anywhere near his proper share of wood.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Also, even though Ellie and Maya never patched things up, Ellie and I have hung out after school a couple of times. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And every fan couldn’t help but believe that the following week’s game would be little more than a continuation of the Cooper obliteration, only a thousand times more sweet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their second trip, they played 92 times. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He said he’d asked his mom a thousand times what she’d said to me that day but that she refused to answer any of his questions, that she’d shut him out completely. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

During the coach-ride back to Canaan, he several times moaned; but gave up even this paltry attempt at protest, and has since remained almost inert. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I only think about my online math chat 3 times. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had I seen her punch the code in after entering? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When we got to the house, which we’d already seen a few times, we sat on the love seat in the quiet room because it was closest to the door. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He saw it the first time when she had said, “I’ve seen you before many times, and I always remembered you.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Claire could remember how troubling her own homework had been at times. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the time, he was earning about nine times more than the average American industrial worker’s wages, but he was ready to devote his life to battling sin and alcohol. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Free Time—Write in diary, talk with Mami about happy times in past. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I followed it to the spiral staircase and walked down, remembering the times Mother and I had slid down the banister. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were warheads loaded with eight to fourteen nuclear payloads, each one up to twenty-five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The engineer sounds the horn five times, warning the twenty-odd people who have come out with food, drink, and clothing to be very careful. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

At other times he would respond to a question by staring straight at a reporter with a blank expression for as long as three minutes, saying nothing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw him several more times, always on his bicycle, alone, after school hours. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

So many times in the past week, I’ve nearly walked to her quarters to see how she is. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They also tell me they pray at least five times each day, which is a whole lot more praying than all the women in jail put together. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I was over there looking six, seven times. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six times a day, like every other prisoner, I was counted at my bed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Will heads to the vending machine about a dozen times, his replies coming with every new bag of chips or candy bar. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Dunse’s heard it. We all done heard it. A million times.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He found that the moat and the bridge had grown hundreds of times bigger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, we’ve walked this route a thousand times. I know that.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He tried crossing the border several times before he gave up and stayed in Tijuana. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Think ... rebirth. Try for three times. Isles of the Blest” Annabeth sniffled. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I must have heard him say it a dozen times, and I never knew what to say either. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us had heard a version of the address too many times before, and he droned on, killing time with his well-rehearsed nod toward earnestness. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would rise at 6:00 a.m. to catch a bus to the subway, change trains three times, and arrive at work by 8:00 a.m. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I do not look forward to this event, as I have told Addie a whole handful of times. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly, I do not know the names of most of the villages that sheltered and provided me food during those times. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We walked back toward the dining pavilion together, just the three of us, like old times. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He surprised me by playing the hardest track on the album, the raging “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” aka “Rat in a Cage,” about twenty times in a row one day. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

By late medieval or Renaissance times, most of Eurasia had come under the rule of organized states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, many times I knew who was on the other line even before Pa picked up the phone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than half a dozen times he’d resolved to tell her that it wasn’t her fault Mariam had been left behind. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Kate read it three times, looked back at the date, studied the cook’s signature. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We passed roadside restaurants advertising breakfast specials and movie theaters with the show times listed on towering signs near the edge of the highway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times when he and Aaron got to talking, I just stayed quiet. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

We made solid eye contact at least four times throughout the weekend, so I think it's pretty on point to say that he was in love with me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was times like this that Grace wished she had grown up with a sibling, someone to balance the scales a bit. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She has seen them hundreds of times, the querents who could not see things for what they were. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The missiles sped upwards, two or three times higher than the wall, almost out of sight; then they would plummet downwards, whistling viciously, to burst on the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She said, “Ashley is a good student, but she does five times as many papers as the others.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I think she’s said it about eight million times in the last twelve hours. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She asks the tree permission before crossing its shadow, then circles it three times and makes a wish for Felicia. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their picture had been in the Logan County Gazette a bunch of times, and Sheed always looked like he was trying to suck broccoli from his teeth. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Other times I would have a feeling that she might want fresh air, so I would open the window over her desk. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had left her to work as a dishwasher and to have good times with fellows his own age. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Many times I grew weary of the secret burden I carried and longed to cast it down, either in action or in resignation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked it four times and the door gave way, falling flat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Shanti's in the kitchen, eating a giant bowl of cookies 'n' cream ice cream—her go-to substance in times of stress. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would let the Thunderhead help her, other times she enjoyed searching alone. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

The image in the mirror was Jack, but ten times worse—dark blue and seemingly made out of cracked ice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or there, almost invisible against a leaf, is the lacewing, with green gauze wings and golden eyes, shy and secretive, descendant of an ancient race that lived in Permian times. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We spoke on the phone a few times; he told me his brother was sick again and might have to spend some time in a hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

B-block was refurbished and reopened as a “transit block,” supposedly holding inmates for limited times. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way he spoke gave her the impression that he had said those words many times before. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me she had been to Wimbledon several times, that she was an above-average club player and that all her family was involved with tennis back in England. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Will remembered how many times he had thought about spending time with her. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Several times I've looked up to find one fixated on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were many times when she’d tricked Seven or another one of their classmates into believing something that wasn’t true for a prank. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And many times each day she prayed to the gods for him, to Juno most of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly spat three times at the old man’s feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bus pulled up in front of the museum, and the students were reminded to stay with their partners at all times. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But an even greater advantage is that you get nearly three times as much as when you eat just the peas. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Once, because I had to, and three times for tesserae for grain and oil for myself, Prim, and my mother. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not hypersensitive. But we’ve already discussed this, so many times.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even as in biblical times, there were miracles on the earth in those days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several times I thought, This is wrong—this is a big mistake, and maybe I should go back. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At times, though, I feared the visits from any other adults who would come to talk to Mother, Papa, and Grandma about what was going on outside our community. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d peeked in the windows many times before, often with pranks in mind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

However, halting our investigation without discussion and keeping everything bottled up is taking its toll: my always-happy face has begun to falter at inopportune times. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But in between all the good times, both April and Melanie were spending some bad moments worrying about the beginning of school. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the nearby Normal School, for example, the number of women applying to become teacher trainees was said to be many times the usual. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He’d met Lily’s grandma loads of times, and she was how grandmas were supposed to be: crinkly and smiley, with white hair and the whole lot. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many also stopped to talk to me, as it was one of the few times during the shift when they had unfettered access. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard the story dozens of times, but it didn’t matter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me that my mother has come to visit a few times. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I held my life in my mind, in my consciousness each day, feeling at times that I would stumble and drop it, spill it forever. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A certain prince of the present times, whom it is best not to name, preaches nothing but peace and faith, and to both one and the other he is extremely hostile. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

He knew the building well—he’d been to functions there a few times over the years—and he knew how to get there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She read the text a few times, her eyes filling with tears. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes. Several times. Last time I tried to take a shower, in fact. You could hear her screaming about blasphemers all the way down the street.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There’s a difference between a slap and a punch. 4TH JUROR: After being hit several times by his father. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I know I told you this a lot of times," Ty'ree said. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

How many times had he walked away or ignored things the team was doing because he didn’t want them to turn on him? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And in part I shall offer for consideration those things that are worthy of note for anyone who reads the history of those times. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She opens and closes her mouth a couple of times. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At Kitum Cave, while wearing a space suit and dissecting animals, he had been nicked three times with bloody tools. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times when you’re doing something important you’re supposed to use your right hand, but we ask ’em to use their left hand ’cause it’s closest to their hearts. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He’d ridden a million times before, but not a horse this big, not a horse this strong and fast and fierce, and never at night. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun, but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d scare witnesses away with the limo. Report to me six times a day. Good luck.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of times he hung them from the window frames. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Several times I bumped into Mami as I walked backwards, unwilling to face the metal bird that would whisk us to our new life. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It snaps its beak a few times like a man might smack his lips after he ate something. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Poe was a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire’s whom the children had met many times at dinner parties. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

And women, he said, should stay at home in purdah quarters at all times: They should go out only in emergencies and only wearing a burqa and only with a male relative. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At times, I wish I were back home, in that simple schoolroom with no computers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Close to, he recognized her as a ghost he had passed several times in the corridor, but to whom he had never spoken. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were times when I wanted badly to tell her, when I wanted us to reminisce about Hailsham with the tape playing in the background. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in prehistoric times often hunted the big herbivores that dined on grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I jiggled it up and down in my hand a couple of times and it felt like none of the rocks was missing but I opened it to count them anyway. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fire ran ahead at times, and sometimes flagged, as if growing tired like the rest of us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had hidden her face with a heart-shaped betel leaf, kept her head bent low until she had circled him seven times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have met a couple of times at official functions, including, of course, the last few parties. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His student body, from the eldest to the youngest, responded in kind: Mr. Tuffett was tolerated at all times, but ignored most of the time. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He really had asked me to do some typing for him three times. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We went to Walmart a few more times with John, and the trips remained uneasy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For the Imuget ceremony, each new warrior selects another warrior who he feels will be a trusted friend forever, one he can confide in during times of hardship and times of happiness. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were more than twenty of the big imps, and ten times that many small ones. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It took him three times to hear me over the jackhammer, but when he finally did he yelled back: “I’m gonna be a fisherman!” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She and my dad went out on dates, like, two or three times a week now. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At such times, a chance acquaintance or even a stranger was easily able to lose his ‘real’ meaning and assume an identity in the unconscious traumatic configuration. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are ten times more astrologers in the United States than astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of thirty-eight was nineteen, the square of nineteen was 361, and sixteen times that was...“Five thousand seven hundred and seventy-six feet!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched the elaborate movements of her hands, the tide of my thoughts took me to a particular telling of a story I had heard many times as a boy. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I counted a couple of times on my fingers, my mouth moving silently with the words. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By this point I'd seen him lose control tons of times, but it had never been as bad as it was that day. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There are times I want them both dead. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Think of that distance: fourteen billion times all those hundreds of millions of miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Jack shook his head and then smacked it three times with his palm. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But it was an old tradition that away over there stood the Grey Havens, from which at times elven-ships set sail, never to return. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She has to say no several times before I hear it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Among the facts: According to phone records, Reggie texted Briana Bishop five times on his drive and received six text messages from her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At times, she moves to take it further, but I don’t need that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For walking in the bush, he wears a baseball cap, a black T-shirt, shorts, a curved African knife at his belt, and scorched, melted green sneakers— dried too many times over campfires. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So many times I tried to walk to my father’s palace ” She pointed to a large black castle in the distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I climb the ladder like I have a thousand times before and swing myself onto the octagonal deck that’s covered in a mix of old, crackling autumn leaves and a layer of spring-green pollen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once a day, twice a day, and sometimes three times in one day, Dove would sneak over to the Observer’s office. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d read all their books dozens of times, even the ones with titles like Diseases of the Porcine Species and Common Grasses of Our Countryside. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

In fairness to journalists and other synonymomaniacs, there are times when a writer really does need to avoid repeating words in close succession. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

June frowned and Ivy knew she was acting weird, so she swallowed a few times and looked down at the stone floor. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I caught a glimpse of my father opening a closet that he kept locked at all times, and for a good reason—there were several guns in there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In my life, I’d heard plenty of empty words coming from important people, lip service paid during times of crisis with no action to follow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over, and the Days of the Rings were passed, and an end was come of the story and song of those times. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s an amazing achievement, but we're still five times that many away from reaching our goal. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the house a clock chimed seven times. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Other times, it makes you look like a pig. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

How many times did I hear that come out of your mouths? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At all times, Philip was impeccably groomed, his shock of rich brown hair combed neatly, his demeanor serious and forthright. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of times he would call her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I had it four times before we ran out of it.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She taps me three times on the forehead with her fingers, like it’s some kind of Morse code message. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then you would hope harder, and the engine would turn over a couple more times. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At times I thought she understood where I was coming from, and would give me another chance. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No fewer than three pots simmered on the stove at all times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the nucleus is a hundred thousand times smaller still, which is part of the reason it took so long to be discovered.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend it alone on the roof, hoping that Erin will crawl through my bedroom window and snuggle up to me, like she did so many times before. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first few times she called Kainene that evening, there was no answer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He felt twice as large, twice as heavy, and a thousand times stronger, but he knew he was defeated from the start because of the tenderness he felt and his desire to protect her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the goddess, in older times darajas had begun their formal training with the splendor around age ten, and spent an additional decade learning its nuances under the tutelage of several masters. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But as I was instructed in my journalism correspondence course through Harper’s Magazine, a good reporter must continue to do her job, even in the most trying of times. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their African equivalents—such as the African buffalo, zebra, bush pig, rhino, and hippopotamus—have never been domesticated, not even in modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve woken up in this building thousands of times—in my old place or Sneaky’s. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But there are times when my temper overwhelms my desire to go unnoticed. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thinking of those times as he passed the cemetery on his way to the evening’s festivities, Gabe recalled the day Matty's body had been found and carried home. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Cap, I’m sorry! It was an accident! Both times!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At certain times—meaning at uncertain times, for they depended on our humour—I would say to Herbert, as if it were a remarkable discovery,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We try to go as fast as we can but most times that ain’t much more than a walk. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But he saw nothing of the great Odysseus, who sat apart, as a thousand times before, and racked his own heart groaning, with eyes wet scanning the bare horizon of the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bad times are coming, my love,” he explained. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is my season to read this book. I know this story well. I’ve read it many times. But it is my season to reflect on certain passages.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It was one of the only times in my life that I’ve cried.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His short beard scratched at her cheek as his arms hugged her, round and strong, for the briefest of times. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong had thought about his teacher many times in the past weeks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And the driver was trying to tell me something about the book I'd read so many times. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

There had been times in the past when I’d been in some kind of mild trouble with him and, uncomfortable as those times had been, they had always passed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She guessed she was hearing hundreds of years of parties and celebrations that had been held at this shrine in ancient times, as if the memories had been freed along with the spirits. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

These rooms are like karaoke rooms except some are twice, even three times as big. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I prayed with my family at times of illness and when my father was temporarily ouLof a job. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to stop and think, it’s one thing to lie to a grown-up, most times adults want to hear something that lets them take their attention off you and put it on something else. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure I picked my nose a few times at my table by the window. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The driver asks Charlie to repeat himself a few more times. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The times we stop, we smile at each other. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If someone spun me around a hundred times and drove me all over Brooklyn, then walked me blindfolded back into Holly’s house, I would know it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Twelve times two is twenty-four steps to safety. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I've cleaned the bedroom we share about twenty times and straightened the pillows on the couch so many times they look scared to move. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They lived in houses ten times larger and grander than Mr. Cheyney's and consorted with ladies of elegance and beauty. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Pefta, no matter what you do to my husband, he will always be ten times the man you are!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Reynie had repeated this several times, Sticky gave a dull nod and reached for the soap. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, Grampa and I went out to check his fields. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She scratched the plate with her talons several times, then lowered herself to her breast. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some buildings still smoke, and though von Rumpel keeps a damp handkerchief pressed over his mouth and nose, he has to stop several times to gather his breath. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jane and Michael kept out of her way as much as possible, for they knew that there were times when it was better not to be seen or heard by Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Behind him, Jenny Flick raced her old Nova so fast, she wobbled a few times and nearly hit the concrete barrier. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of times I even spied him wearing earbuds, which was probably illegal. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This holds good even when, as often happens, the same event has to be altered out of recognition several times in the course of a year. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Other times his anger messed up his aim and he shot wild or hit game in messy inefficient places. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The place was packed. He’s a very famous technology prophet. His TED Talk, ‘Our Brilliant Tomorrow,’ has been watched nearly two million times online.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

His conscience bridged him to his brother and did his pain for him the way at other times he had done his homework. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had missed the morning Bulletin on my set at home, and half-listened now, my mind elsewhere, until the repetition of the name several times caught my ear at last and stopped my pacing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Good times,” Mark mused as he got more comfortable. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

So far that day, he told her, he had looked at it ten times. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Now, what do you make of four times five?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But at other times, I think that’s wrong—that it was just to do with me and Ruth, and the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, by Roman times, almost all of today’s leading crops were being cultivated somewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

All those times she’d considered giving up but hadn’t because maybe one day Jenny Lindt might tell her she had what it took—that day was here. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had heard it a thousand times, of course, but she always wanted it told again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“With you how? Off camera? By your side at all times? Do you want him presented as your new lover?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I open and close my mouth a few times, unsure where to begin. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Israel Israel could be an important part of the power structure during times of distress, the voters seemed to be saying, but he was not welcome there when things returned to normal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A few times I’m forced to aim the launcher lower than the roof, and then shimmy my way to the top once I get to that side. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’m pulled back into this game, to my friends, and to Kasim when he says, “How many times I gotta tell you not to worry about them? They’re doing their thing.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It is one of Cupid’s many treasures, a reminder of better times. If you want it...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was so cold that if you were stupid enough to go outside your eyes would automatically blink a thousand times all by themselves, probably so the juice inside of them wouldn’t freeze up. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hang up the first couple of times, but on my third try I leave a message. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He invited King Joffrey to send an envoy to the Iron Islands to fix the borders between their realms and discuss a possible alliance. lyrion read the letter three times and set it aside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When before he would sit her down at marked, though irregular, times, now he tests her constantly, but never in public. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At such times he would shake off sleep and creep through the chill to the flap of the tent, where he would stand and listen to the sound of his master’s breathing. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, staring at the baby, she sees pieces of her family in his face—her mother’s glossy eyes, her father’s slim lips, her brother’s lopsided smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sits up and blinks his eyes hard a few times and stretches. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had to sigh seven times and roll her eyes thirteen different directions just to get me to ask the right question about it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Because of the weather, Avianca was held up by Air Traffic Control three times on its way to New York. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need to tell you where I’ll be at all times, Drew.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Mom seems to blink a few times and comes back to herself, her eyes focusing on me again. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were times when it was stupid to expect reason from Alice, times when it did no good to point out the obvious. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve times he clicked the Put-Outer, until the only lights left on the whole street were two tiny pinpricks in the distance, which were the eyes of the cat watching him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

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

“Six feet at all times! You both know the rules!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Several times she thought she saw something the color of bone in the undergrowth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Marigold picked her way down the stairs, her arms piled so high with shirts and pants and things for her father that she practically tumbled to her death three times. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Many times I had said to my own assistants that anyone in a position to discipline others must be able to take disciplining himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only room that was always locked—Alex had only been in there three or four times, and never on his own. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wish I could have talked to her twenty times a day. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Both times she spent hours traveling into Manhattan to the hospital’s business office to ask why she had been billed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The few times she’d actually spotted other users, she didn’t have the nerve to approach them and say anything. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The autopilot landing is even rougher than my first few times landing a hovercar on my own. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every other coven held meetings four times a year to discuss secret coven things in their grand houses. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even if God’s need for him was the greater in normal times, now it was obvious that his first love’s need was pressing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he had heard the whistle many times, he had not answered it since his first day in town. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can go outside for exercise and sunlight, but only at very specific times in your schedule. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I pedaled around the block a couple of times and came back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then he commenced retracing Reggie’s drive, matching times with texts, which had commenced with the one sent at 6:17. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I ain’t never called her house except two times cause I had no choice, when I told her I’d work on the stories, and then to tell her Minny would too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The punishment consisted in being thrown into the water three times from the mainmast tree, and his comrades used to acclaim each belly-flopper with a cheer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read that line at least three times, certain she was joking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were many times finer than the white church I had attended back in Mason, Michigan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later he actually became captain of a ship and traveled to North America several times. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Several times I had fits of fearful trembling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the faucet on and washed my hands a few times, staring at the sink until I heard Sheila step out into the hall. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both times, nobody acts like there’s anything weird about it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We love you, Ibtihaj,” I heard more times than I could keep count. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He walked just ahead of us, backwards, so that he could see us at all times. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama waved her open hands over the candles three times, as if sweeping the candlelight toward herself. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Too many times, Allen had seen up close how racism worked in the army. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I wish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, they did. And both of them remarked about how sometimes it was darker than other times.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ob lifted me up and carried me through the door Cletus held open and he took me to my room as he had done so many times when I was a little girl. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

You pick the one you want, punch in the number, then punch in your own number so your account will be debited, and punch in the number of times you want the prayer repeated. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone rang so many times, Aimee was amazed her call hadn’t gone to voice mail yet. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Being a Navajo and keeping to our Navajo Way helped me survive not just the war, but all those times of quiet and anxious waiting that were not yet peace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subject of the turkey was brought up many more times by the end of the day and not in a friendly fashion. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reread that first paragraph like three times. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I blinked a couple times, because I didn’t want Sohrab to notice my mood was performing a severe Slingshot Maneuver. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’ve had them in here a dozen times in the last few weeks. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Not now, of all times! We must fish that vile pot out of the river!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve finished a dozen times already, but I’m not happy with it.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t even realize she was talking to him until she said his name and snapped a few times in his face. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

How many times had she hurt his feelings? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So we had to shift within London three times. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At times, she would break into tears at moments she seemed most in control. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks over at us a few times and nods. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Now, you keep a sharp eye on Ginny at all times.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He flung himself down after her, and they rolled over each other on the floor several times before he could tear the potato peeler away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They let my sister pierce her ear a million times.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

So we’ve walked around the block I don’t know how many times, past the house where a cute boy in Carla’s class lives. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It sucks, the way that her power is at times not enough and too much at others. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“More contempt. We’ve barely started and we’ve seen him be defensive for almost the whole time, and she has rolled her eyes several times.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

But there were other times when that emotion made him spellbinding and untouchable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven and twenty-one, and seven goes into twenty-one three times. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times in various disguises. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid not. Anne insists that you be returned to her household as soon as you are able. The law supports her position, I fear, and in these unsettled times, there is little remedy.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re going to pay for that, boy, the man yells as he loosens his belt and wraps it a couple times around his hand to get a tight grip. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I'd heard most of them a million times, but it was nice to watch Jazz take them all in for the first time. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling at times that our home, Miss Whitlaw, and Robin would all be gone the next morning when I woke up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the times we fell into each other’s arms. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The superintendent ordered that rations for the three remaining men be cut in half for two weeks, and he clubbed them on the head a few more times. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Boys who are two to three times my size. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But at times like this she wished she could be at the church, sending her prayers to heaven in hopes that someone would hear her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

If he had observed both peace and faith, he would have had either his reputation or his state taken away from him many times over. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Several times he slipped on icy rocks and sprawled flat in the shallow water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He thought she would pile up strong walls of objection, and for one of the few times in his life he would disobey her wish no matter how strong her objection. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked his way through the cramped room with an air that showed he had visited many times before and bowed low over Hepzibah’s fat little hand, brushing it with his lips. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of times, the drivers came back to the church saying that they were cut off and there was no alternate route to the site.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they walked, and other times she rowed him in her shallow-bottom boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The young teacher has seen this a hundred times before. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But tonight I forgot about all the bad times and I felt close to them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He brought Hugo back to the museum a few more times and explained how the mechanisms operated. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But in later times other customs prevailed; peace and justice fled before the greed for gold and the frenzy for war. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, there was nothing she did that pleased him. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve apologized to Tyler more times than I can count for what I’ve cost him, but the words are awkwardly placed and I stumble over them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He has been wrong at times & he realizes this but whatever he had and wherever he went he shared his life & belongings with you when he wouldn't do this for anyone else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen that nasty film on menstruation four times and that disgusting film on birth at least three.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many times have I told Rosa about facing into the wind; cutting into the wind; feeling the wind run cool fingers through your hair? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He just threw in a map and a set of appointment times. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks were different; they embraced the abstract and the philosophical, and brought mathematics to its highest point in ancient times. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I had sketched her a few times in the first week she was living with us, and the third week, I used those sketches to paint a whole scene with her in it. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After bailing him out a few times, Deborah started leaving him in jail to teach him a lesson, saying, “You just stay there till your bail come down to where you can afford it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. So I get to hear that at least six times a day.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter how many times we look both ways. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The few times he dared to look up, she looked up, too; her eyes drifting coolly, calmly, collectedly across his face, probing with a vapory lack of concern. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us had won it at least once—even Hugo, who was six years younger than Harry and L He’d won it three times already. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to admit how many times I’d dreamed of getting my own parents back together. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the times I had stuck my hand in to pull something out. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

After lunch, I won the ring toss game three times in a row, but the guy behind the booth only gave me a prize once. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Brother Louis, after trying two or three times to make conversation, gave up and led her in silence to the President’s rooms in the tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I swiped the back of the label and watched August fix it on the jar, then fasten the second label beneath it, as if she’d done this ten thousand times. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been three years, Jackson. A cat can do a lot of learning in that time. I read the dictionary four times last month.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They asked two or three times before they discovered that the poor fellow was either deaf or mad, or both. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, he’d managed the courage to pass by the accident site a few times. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were times at the end of the day, especially, when Tree-ear thought he could not gather a single head more. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I believe in bold and shattering commitment to the problems of our times. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were not many times I’d stop and think, I wish Mom were here. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I thought it circular at first, but it proved to be eight-sided, a good thirty feet in height, and three times that in breadth. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As mentioned above, Pythagorean tuning made sense in medieval times, when music was dominated by fifths. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Josh Raymond sits at my father’s elbow staring at the game and chewing each mouthful forty-five times. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His silence is an awkward one, like those times in history class when we reviewed monumental events from the BDC days. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tally watched the fireworks, feeling a thousand times worse than she had before Shay had appeared at the window. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, nobody minds them, so lark away, but don’t get wild, will you? Or there will be an end of all our good times.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times I thought that it was because I looked better. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s happened a couple of times since the hack. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times he stopped by my father's workstation and put his hand on my father's shoulder. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Ha! Have I been to Europe? Ask me how many times I’ve been to Europe,” Sammy said, lighting a cigar from a dashboard lighter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times INS helicopters fly too low, whip up waves, and swamp inner tubes, riders and all. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ahmad, who was the most religious member of the family, sang the azan in his baby sister’s ear and blew in her face three times. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“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

Not only was the furniture bought for sturdiness, chairs were made into trains; the children ran in and out of the house, taxing Parslow’s patience at times. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the times Sass had sent me to do the laundry at the river, and how much happier I was now. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other two times, his nose got busted in fistfights. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She got arrested three times during college for protesting foreign policy in El Salvador. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She suffered like the martyrs in olden times and God knows that’s penance enough.You can be sure the sisters in the hospital didn’t let her die without a priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I got a hay fever attack and sneezed ten or twenty times into a nuggety hanky. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Never had he seen a man change so many times in twelve days. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I will pour the water at sunrise, turning the sacrifice seven times.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I prayed God would hurt ten times as much as He hurt me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It really felt like old times again—except for the fact that Auggie wasn’t there with us. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was learning what I already knew: Most times you can’t. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja walked past the study a few times, but when I looked at him, he shook his head—he could hear nothing through the closed door, either. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

This great feast would be interrupted by a small speech of welcome from my grandfather, and the grown-ups would raise their long-stemmed wine glasses and say ‘skaal’ many times throughout the meal. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alaric blinked a bunch of times, twisting his mouth to the side in a poor attempt at being discreet. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

It is still difficult at times, but I don’t get that knot in my stomach when I read out loud. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She gripped her cell phone in her hand; Mamma and Papa had already called three times just today to find out the results. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If the spinner is spun one hundred times and the letters recorded, the probability that the word cat or warm will appear is very small, but the probability of some word’s appearing is high. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes El Patron seems definitely senile. He won’t talk for days and stares out the window. Other times he’s as sharp as the old bandido he once was.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn’t behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date you know for sure she’s behind the times. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

At times shaking my head no is more self-assertion than I can manage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They give different answers at different times, or they have answers that simply are not meaningful.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As Smith had foreseen, since his stellar performance in the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap Seabiscuit had been assigned the highest weight in virtually every race, at times carrying over twenty pounds more than his rivals. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But we better be extra careful about the watches. I dozed off a few times." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It could have been you, Mom,” Aimee whispered, because how many times had she wondered why and why not? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Lose enough times, and you just might see yourself listed at the top of the lottery. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just as had been the case so many times before, our naval bombardment and air assaults hadn’t been very effective in knocking out the coastal defenses. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cigar maker gave him a fresh coat of paint four times a year and carried him inside when it rained. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are times when I stare at my brother from across the room and search for the martial artist who jumped in the air and made me laugh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Sirius, he reasoned, must be 28,000 times farther from us than the Sun, or about half a light-year away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times I would have been happier to be picked last—it would have been honest, at least. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“And I tried to tell you a million times, but I couldn’t.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“We do not name it! I never even told Hagrid the name of that dread creature, though he asked me, many times.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At times, he even wondered whether Snape was following him, trying to catch him on his own. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I swallowed a few times when I felt sad. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Antoine Thomas was the whole show last year. He was the go-to guy on every play. He ran for over a hundred yards eight times.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While chomping on an apple, I looked down at the snail and drew a large circle around and around until I made the circuit five times with my pen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I know why Muslims do things. Like why we pray five times a day.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Hearts aren't meant to be broken an infinite amount of times. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Vacations from school have always been needle times for me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the shovel handle with both hands, then closed my eyes and imagined merry-olde-England in medieval times. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"And there will be times when you or I will need a lift between switches." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

His right thigh jogs up and down several times a second. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His immediate superior, the foreman who had been patient with Shin as he learned the ropes in the factory, slapped Shin a few times when he saw the ruined machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dimple quietly thunked her forehead on the screen a few times and then typed, Pick me up at 6:50. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She saw to it that she had a good pair of shoes for street wear, that she always had clothing, even during the times when the raffles were working only through some miracle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and turned the stone over in his hand three times. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She’s called three more times while Daniel and I were on the roof. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling shook, and the giant’s voice echoed through the room, magnified a hundred times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I throw up several times, until nothing but a little green juice comes out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most times, he stares out the window past the safety bars to his own world. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma sounded so casual, as if it were completely normal to have us visit, as if we had visited so many times in the past. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He holds his left hand up and opens and closes it several times back to me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have seen him hit you at least three times.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it met, he tugged the line two times to make a tight seal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was written that some of the original black people should be brought as slaves to North America—to leam to better understand, at first hand, the white devil’s true nature, in modem times. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell he had done this tons of times. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

He’d wake up shouting three or four times a night, once so bad his grandma knocked on his door to see if he was all right. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve told myself a hundred times—oh, a thousand times!—I ought to buy a revolver!” she muttered, pressing her ear to the wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he popped right out of the woodwork after only a second, and other times it might take all day to find him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His father had remarried numerous times, so he had half siblings and stepsiblings in multiple states and one in the Philippines. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the regional academic decathlon, a contest pitting teams of students from various local schools against each other, Odessa High had won four straight times. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plucked a stray shirt off the floor and, holding it by the shoulders, flipped it front to back a couple times. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He is shot seventeen times in the back by his captors, dying ingloriously but not unlawfully. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“So, that’s why you asked me to take you outside all those times?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I've now grown accustomed to hearing the alarms blare at all times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ashima still dreams of the letter at times, discovering it after all these years in the mailbox on Pemberton Road, opening it up only to find it blank. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, an octopus can change colors ten times in a matter of seconds, so all sorts of ridiculous things are possible. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He smacked his lips a couple times and closed his eyes halfway, making me think he was still asleep. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Put another way, if you double the distance between two objects, the attraction between them becomes four times weaker. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But,” someone will object, “I have used dieldrin sprays on the lawn many times but I have never had convulsions like the World Health Organization spraymen — so it hasn’t harmed me.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Six and seven times a night it ’as me out of bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She survived the relocation times, when the whites rounded up all us Navajo and took us to Hwééldi. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And there was enough of it to go around several times, so even if the blade broke away completely, it would still be held in a cage of wire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d met Pearl a few times, at the Richardsons’, but hadn’t yet heard her say a word. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lenny flies Hector up into the air to make him cackle a few times, and then hands him back to me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But because lead is forever, those of us alive today have about 625 times more lead in our blood than people did a century ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Almost felt like old times, except they were missing Freebie. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And other times, when he’d felt like someone just out of sight was watching him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And best of all, though he had examined the piece closely a dozen times, he could not tell which it was. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was very much like the main town: shabby little huts, repaired a dozen times, patched with scraps of plastic or corrugated iron, leaning crazily against each other over muddy alleyways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t count the times I’ve wondered if there have ever been any instances of condemned men escaping the relentless machinery, disappearing before the execution or breaking through the cordon of police. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He discovered it was ten times as high as it was in the open air: apparently the metal body, reflecting the radioactivity inward from six directions, concentrated the rays more than anyone had anticipated. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

How many times had she dreamed them uttered? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As I pour a bowl of corn flakes, I count how many times someone in this house apologized to me for flushing while I was in the shower. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

Else why would so many men stay in it, times like these?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you three hundred thousand, four hundred and twelve times, girl: you must stop keeping the splendor within you for so long!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

That is because people who break codes can sometimes do so by hearing or seeing the same sound or symbol appearing many times. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mole heard “good dog” many times and then his new name, General. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I swear—and I’m sure you can back me up on this from previous actions—I’m definitely like a kid at times. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mama listens intently, interrupting a few times to ask questions or to slow me down. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the past five years, Percy had been a pawn too many times. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How many times, Edward wondered, would he have to leave without getting the chance to say goodbye? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was among Congo’s most dangerous cities even in times of peace, and the UN had no contact whatsoever with the entire city of almost a million people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I read it, like, four times in a row! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was because he was interested in becoming a couple with you; other times it was just for a one-nighter. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what is a man, if he cannot change to meet changed times? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She listens to it three times in a row. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

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 times he had to use the side of the rut for support, in order to make it to the next ledge. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever times got the tiniest bit complicated, we did one thing. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mom signed me up for lessons and I played with Dad a few times before they figured the monthly dues were too expensive. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had done this many times—just reached out and grabbed something— in the hope that by accident he might come upon the very piece of information he needed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This happened maybe four or five times a day for the first few weeks: on the stairs, in front of the lockers, in the library. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Chiron had decided we needed to guard the Labyrinth exit at all times, just in case. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were communities of artists, people who didn’t want to work for the big corporations, people who were willing to help a girl like me, and many times they worked for free. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At times my mind wandered off as I worried about Papá. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Other times she would simply vanish altogether—for hours, for days. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knows who took that picture, but it’s appeared hundreds of times in magazines and science textbooks, on blogs and laboratory walls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At times like these I wish I was a passenger. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I really don’t know. I’ve gone back and forth like a thousand times about it all. Each time I reread it, I think something different, you know?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond their farm were monsters and giants and wolves, and many times Thialfi walked into trouble and had to outrun it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I judge now that I carried about four times too much of everything. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried flapping them a few times, but he still was not strong enough to lift off. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mamá had sung that to us so many times I couldn’t count. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

By my best guess, it had eaten six times a lethal dose. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His brachet, on a long string, was wound round him several times. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson teased, poking his sister where she’d already told him a thousand times it hurt to be poked. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times their numbers swelled, and I’d see men hanging out of the windows, relaxing on the roof, urinating against the nursery’s mural wall. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

With respect and obvious affection, Hall referred to him as “my main man” and mentioned several times that he considered Ang Dorje’s role crucial to the success of our expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some- times it started in the pulpit and sometimes with a new ambitious president of the Women’s Civic Club. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Electric light and a lavatory but no grand times. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The proverb has come down to us from medieval times. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

At times her pupils were dilated and she moved slowly, but she continued working in the hospital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say it a few more times, louder and with more and more gusto, then realize I’m talking with an English accent to a bunch of trees and go back to my spot. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, David had made the journey to and from Tally’s city dozens of times, alone and with inexperienced uglies in tow. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Plenty times, plenty times I have carried the welts given me by a two-tone peckerwood because I was late in the field row the next morning. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’ve read it twenty times. I bring it back to the bookshop, read other books, and then take it again. I like the stories.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It did not satisfy desire, and at times Sam’s mind was filled with the memories of food, and the longing for simple bread and meats. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dad used to say that sometimes you have to put your fears in order, and that was one of those times. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This and his need, which seems to me at times helpless and beyond his control. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m with Ben I eat at regular times because he does, I eat regular things, but when I’m alone I indulge In junk food and scavenging, my old, singular ways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of my favorite times in the classroom. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

But lunch and tea were marked chiefly by the fact that at those times all the guests were sitting down and eating together. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My father must have said “I’ll be jiggered” three thousand times. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A frog poked its head up, blinked a few times, and disappeared. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There are times when married life is not what I expected” Lady Constance finally remarked, after three quarters of an hour had passed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“How many times have you had contact with either of these boys in the past two months?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At times like this I remembered a story Maman used to tell me about my father. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Other times I cannot, and she clings, to my arms, my waist. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the words “five times five” all stand in place and layer hands in the center of the circle to the beat of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And now, of all times, he could not cross that “line.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The truck lurches forward and back a few times before plowing ahead. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Those were unusual times,” she said, lowering her voice and raising her eyebrows. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fifty cases represented about 10 percent of all active TB cases in the slum, about ten times more than might have been expected. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After I’d watched the video so many times I knew it by heart, I decided to try another approach. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The proportional burden on South Korea, some studies have found, would be two and a half times greater than on West Germany after it absorbed the former East Germany. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot of shouting, and the pirogues nearly capsize multiple times in the process. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"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

I slipped a few times but finally scaled it and plummeted into bushy undergrowth on the other side. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And this was three times farther from the basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t slept well all night, waking up several times to see if the electricity had come back on or if Mami had returned. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Two notes whose frequencies are almost the same — say, the frequency of one is 1.005 times the other — sound bad together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I can count on one hand how many times we’ve been to Times Square. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the cloth is soothing at times too. I was fearful here at first, the same as you, when everything was so new. But when I held the scrap, I felt reassured.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this the only true history of the times, a mood blared by trumpets, trombones, saxophones and drums, a song with turgid, inadequate words? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did that several times, and not once did he move so much as an inch. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The logging village was ’bout five or six times as big as the square in Buxton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“My daddy would tan me if he knew—it’s a good piece from my house—but lots of times I just come to sit and think.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other times I know I’m as ridiculous as everyone else my age. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Seven linked her pinkie with Poppy’s, and they swayed their arms to and fro three times. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then it came to her—the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

More times than not, he carried her on his back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Never stopped. I never saw a sociable look from him, not once in all the times I saw him. Always narrowin’ his eyes at me, giving me his mean face.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Five hundred times have the red leaves fallen in Mirkwood in my home since then,’ said Legolas, ‘and but a little while does that seem to us.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A small town in Minnesota that I’ve passed through countless times en route to family reunions has a prison with a massive brick wall and turretlike guard towers, which I have spent hours thinking about. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words you use a million times without thinking. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He suffered from stomach problems, fatigue, and at times, nervousness, as well as headaches. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Best thing is when I catch Mr. Keillor two times in one day. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We began by talking of old times, but when we were alone, the first subject he raised was the leadership of the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These are trying times. They seem to bring out the best and worst in the people around us.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Yi grabbed her arm and patted it three times. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane hit the ground hard, bounced several times, and rattled to a stop. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a voice Sophie had heard many times on radio and television, especially on Christmas Day. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was surprised to see Darcy in town last month. We passed each other several times. I wonder what he can be doing there.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

He had waited so long for his breakthrough, despaired so many times, and he just wanted to be alone for a little while with a pencil and some paper and a calculator and no talking. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

That was part of the excitement, but at times, a big gaming night could bring in a different crowd. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, I open my mouth at least twelve times to tell my mom that I’m entering the pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Already he had passed them six times, forty-two miles, nearly three hours without stop. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At other times, it told the boy that it was satisfied: it had found love and riches. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, no matter how many times they asked us the same questions, we always stuck to the same story; we found a body and went to Mexico to deliver it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mark washed his hands at least three times during the packing frenzy. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I may have busted my head a few times, but I’m not that stupid.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times you have to admit this, it’s always embarrassing, it always makes you cringe. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times have you been to this house?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ivy had warned me a hundred times about the “wild men out West.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Not very like. He's a bit prickly at times, but not mean-spirited. Best go fetch your brush." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the soldiers took her away, Davi turned around many times to see both her parents still on the ground, palms together, praying for her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the times when she got mad at me, was she really thinking about them? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen him with his skateboard in the park a few times, and he always let me have a turn on it, but that was all. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Only this anger was not loud like the other two times. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“For you a thousand times over!” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Looked like Mr. Ray hadn’t lost all his cool yet, and that lady was getting a healthy dose three times a week. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I kick Sneaky, like, three times, and it doesn’t work! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The third harmonic has a third the wavelength and three times the frequency of the first. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“And in those seven years, how many times have we had a conversation about girls that didn’t come back around to Jupiter?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were all upbeat, and, luckily, it was one of the few times a funeral actually had a good choir. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’s replaying all the moments with Ainsley in her mind—what he said to her just now, but also the other times, how he made her feel, how he touched and kissed her. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I carried a tin bucket of water to a shaded area in the five acres of scrub and dumped it on the ground in the same place a couple of times a day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At the battle of Cajamarca recounted above, 168 Spaniards crushed a Native American army 500 times more numerous, killing thousands of natives while not losing a single Spaniard. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “But it ain’t! Five times twenty equals one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They walked three times around the lake, trying all the way to think of a simple spell that would subdue a dragon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One of the times I fell asleep, I started dreaming. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There had been times — oh, such long ago times — when people’s lives had been golden and green. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years of trying, she had been pregnant five times, and there was still no baby. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Twenty times more Neolithic sites have thereby been discovered in Japan than in the whole of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now his exhausted brain slipped into its accustomed circles: the withered paths, like those of the donkey in the treadmill, round which he had plodded many thousand times in vain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, I heard the old-timers reminisce about all those great times. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing to note with Marv is that he’s problematic at the best of times. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

I’d hardly finished before Ruth said in a whisper: “Why do you have to be difficult? Now of all times! I don’t get it. Why do you want to make trouble?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I copied down all the passages about ghosts I could find and spread them over the coffee table, sorted them, and read them each dozens of times. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over—very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’ve spoken to her a number of times,” his mother acknowledged. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked a few times and stared at the ceiling. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

African elephants were tamed in Roman times despite the obvious danger, and Asian elephants are still being tamed today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Klan portrayed itself as the patriotic defender of law and morality in turbulent times, but the group actually caused much of the lawlessness and terror that gripped the region during those postbellum years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

As I signed my name on the paper they passed around, I thought about all those times I’d gone past Central High, wanting to see inside. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d tried to help them countless times, but Dad would insist they didn’t need anything, and Mom would ask for something silly, like a perfume atomizer or a membership in a health club. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias presses the screen a few more times, typing in letters that make no sense to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At other times I thought it was because girls liked the fact that I was going through as much pain as they did to look good. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve smoked weed a total of five times now, and every single time, I start worrying about the stupidest things. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And when Joaquin got the email, he read it three times before filing it away, then read it twice more and put it away again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Several times his body moved nervously, as though he were about to go to Bigger; but he stood still. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was shaky, particularly in these times. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, I can feel the breath going out of me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In better times, fishing vessels trawled the river, but now there was little to catch, and what could be caught was better left uneaten. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sequoyah’s example can serve as a model for how idea diffusion probably led to many writing systems of ancient times as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her words still lingered in his mind: “I’ll get twenty times the scavenge he does. ” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several times I stop in an alley to gather my thoughts. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It's been folded many times over, carried in so many pockets, that the creases are soft and tattered. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had to read those lines a number of times before I understood them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stood up and swallowed a few times. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She recalled all the times she had tagged along after Dr. Westminster, the Swanburne veterinarian. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Before. From Druid times. Before the Romans came. It’s called a snake-stone. Seen ’em in museums. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And I remember everything that happened that day because it has happened many times in my life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron stood perfectly still while Momma walked around him a couple of times taking a better look at his hair. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the occupation of her terrace, she stayed inside, turning five times oftener in her pacing than she had out on the hand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The owner of a black baseball team remembered that he “moved four times...seeking desirable living quarters.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She came into the house and kow-towed three times before the fisherman and the old man and his wife. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of times he even made approving comments like, “Hey! Weird!” or, “Holy cow.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to CAFOs, meat is now so cheap that many of us eat it three times a day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She ran a few steps ahead of him, caught up her left foot in her left hand, and hopped two or three times. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The Hadamar townspeople were frightened into silence, but as children played, they saw the hospital buses arrive with patients as frequently as twice a day, several times a week. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Manchee barks at it a few more times but I’m already crossing the creek and on we go, on we go, on we go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stand to see the hatrack in the front hall and the long flight of stairs he had climbed so many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were times when I imagined myself, like Prince, tracked through many jurisdictions by a man in a criminal’s costume. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had picked up and dropped off friends and relatives at the station a handful of times over the years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This was one of the times: this was it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I’d been through it on the train a few times but that I didn’t really know it. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Three times, she hires storefront immigration counselors who promise help. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were times when Briony, called on again to give her account, or some detail of it, saw her sister approach within earshot and look on with a smoldering impenetrable gaze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But at other times, she would gyrate and make grunting sounds and spasmodically sweep her books and pens to the floor. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She nods a few times, taking it all in. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We’ve gone up to visit them two or three times, but they refuse to come down to the Keys. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We could go months without even looking at the dolls, then other times we played with them for hours. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Matthew Brady, who had photographed Lincoln many times, now photographed the scene of his murder. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the ball from them and bounced it a couple of times, dribbling it back and forth between my legs. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Ah, I cut my fingers many times learning to clean a sword. Let me see it,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He thrust it back, and it was driven to him again, and so up and down, to and fro, at least twenty times together, till Mr Mompesson forbad his Servant such familiarities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When Bryce was a tantrumming toddler and Aurora was a baby, we moved four times over the course of that year. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

One of the first times I visited Mr. Muhammad there, I stepped off a plane into flashing and whirring cameras until I wondered who was behind me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He already comes round for dinner about four times a week,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until waterwheels and windmills began to replace Eurasia’s mammals in medieval times, they were also the major source of its “industrial” power beyond human muscle power—for example, for turning grindstones and operating water lifts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Emilika knocks at the door three more times in the next two days, asking if her advice has solved Danuta’s problem. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve replayed the day over and over in my head so many times and have written down every single detail, but I still can’t find the foreshadowing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z