| 单词 | torn |
| 例句 | There's a tearing sound, and then a gasp as my garment is torn in half. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I had several painful ribs, although I couldn’t tell if they were broken or if the cartilage was torn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But she would sooner have her tongue torn out than confess how bad she felt; limping, tight-lipped, trembling, she kept pace with Will and said nothing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One, lined with fur torn from her own belly, contained Clover and the pile of grass and leaves, covered over with earth, in which her newborn litter were sleeping. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I could still feel the tape around my wrists, see the smooth patches where it had torn the hair from my arms, and my groin ached when I took a deep breath. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He sees Ali’s torn dressings on my feet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The blast had torn off the whole side of his head and shoulder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They must have looked very disreputable in their dirty clothes, drenched with sweat, and torn by all the thornbushes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In which I was torn away from the sureness of the game. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was tucked into a thorny hedge near Mrs. Sharpe’s house, and torn along the bottom. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Everything that is torn is exchanged for new. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A big heap lies on the floor: school clothes and dresses and torn blouses all thrown together with panties and shoes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I’ve been witness to more awfulness than wings being torn or my person insulted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was pleased to see that Roy wasn’t wearing a torn green T-shirt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He took a step toward me, then hesitated and glanced back at the cannon, obviously torn between apprehending me and being faithful to his cue. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I’m trying not to fidget because every time I shift in my seat the torn vinyl scratches the backs of my legs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z They did let Elinor into the bank, despite her torn stockings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His clothes were torn and his throat was gone and his eyes were wild and he probably would have yelled too if he’d been their age. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We were hurried into the bright lights and dry air of what a torn paper sign had labeled INFIRMARY. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Every master had a book of Quarter-Stars and a book of Stripes, and these had to be filled in and signed and torn out exactly like cheques from a cheque book. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z If I’d taken my glove off and popped one of the guys from Buffalo in the face, torn his mask off and given him a bloody nose, I’d have been a hero that day. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She’d tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her gray eyes flickered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was one thing to figure out a solution, though, and another to enter a place where she had just seen a buffalo torn apart. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But part of me is so torn up over the fact that I won’t be finishing. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Looking like a beggar evangelist in his torn black suit, he shuffled to an ash pile that had spilled from the cracked-open house and bent to gather a palm full of soot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The vest they’d left behind the night before was torn and dirty. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I was torn—I really liked Brennan, but he wasn't worth losing a best friend over. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the dirty twilight lies a leg torn clean off; the boot is quite whole, I take that all in at a glance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She picks up the torn pieces and tries to pat them back up, but they fall. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She walks back out, now holding a pair of blue jeans, knees stained with grass and dirt, blood caked around the ankles, pockets torn with holes and unraveling. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Matt pulled at the man’s shirt and showed Kira the hem, at the back, from which he had torn the piece of cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From inside the crate came ripping noises that sounded to Harry as though the teddy was having his head torn off. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It was evident that up to lately there had been a large notice-board in front of the balcony; it had, however, been roughly torn away, the uprights which had supported it still remaining. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A new eviction notice has gone up on my door, right where I’d torn the old one off. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Kuda rummaged through the rags until he found a man’s shirt with the sleeves torn off. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was forced to watch when a prisoner was beaten, whipped, shot, hanged, or torn apart by the dogs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Infants torn apart by a mob’s hateful hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I daresay that if it weren't for the aunties, even our happy community would be torn asunder. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He twisted around in his seat, and for the last time, Alex saw the hideous smile that the circus knife had torn through his cheeks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The gluttonous seagulls had brazenly eaten chunks torn from his chest and were now on to something else—a herring or a clam. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She hung there corpse-like; her hands turned outwards, as, in paintings of Christ, he stands when with gentility he reveals to Thomas the holes torn in his side and palms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Across the river were the broken walls of old houses that were being torn down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He was a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Anna’s alligator purse, which she had taken to Mollie’s luncheon, was now lying on the floor, the servant said, with “everything torn out of it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One leg was torn and a few drops of blood stained the front. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Some of the pages were typed, some torn out of a notebook. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The demons tumbled and poxies were sent into the air as trees were torn from the earth and the buildings around Central Park lost their windows in a single devastating sonic explosion. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Sodden fragments littered the school yard, with only a few torn and illegible remnants dangling on the ropes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z René Descartes was trained as a Jesuit, and he, too, was torn between the old and the new. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Okay, some wolves had torn me up the night before. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The cloth was torn and his uniform was streaked with blood, but he was breathing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw the soldier between us, writhing on the ground, a bullet torn through the shoulder of his coat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Then its claws were in me, tearing me open— No, it was just the pain of my torn ribs as someone rolled me onto my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kira remembered that spot, where just last year some threads had pulled and torn and her mother had carefully coaxed the broken threads free. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And even though Noah wouldn’t take off his armband, it ended up being torn off anyway and Principal Trask made him throw it away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The intolerable brightness faded, and slowly the torn edges of the world closed together. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t no time to stare into that hole in the sky like Captain Cat and her cannibal crew, or all our sails would be torn to shreds and the masts snapped in two. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Dogs with white men frightened me, or dogs in packs—Sarah had told me of runaways who had been torn to pieces by the packs of dogs used to hunt them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Any place that’s war- torn, by the way, is bound to be embattled or besieged. what makes him tick. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were five folders of faded cardboard, bent or torn at the corners, each one full of paper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When I sweep the color along the hem of the woman’s torn dress, I know I’m being too careful. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Serves him right,” said Ron, examining his torn jeans and the cuts to his legs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Oh my God, I’m sorry—I’m so sorry—I—” Liam sounded agonized, like his guts were being torn straight out of him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Families were being further torn asunder, and those left behind knew no more about their own fate than they did of the loved ones moving on. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I was torn between believing these rumors must be false and knowing the Nazis were capable of anything. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I said, thankful there were only a few sketches I hadn’t yet torn from the pad. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I stay where I am, torn, my throat dry. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His torn side throbbed and the pain in his leg seemed to have affected his senses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have rolled him in the dust and torn him there by his own steading if the swineherd had not sprung up and flung his leather down, making a beeline for the open. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her clothes were bloody and torn and her hair disheveled. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The rocks around the opening were rough and cracked; and a ripped piece of red fabric lay torn on one of the sharp stones. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Iofur’s armor was in a pitiful state by this time, the plates torn and distorted, the gold inlay torn out or smeared thickly with blood, and his helmet gone altogether. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Nattie walks over to the trash can and stares straight down into it, at the torn fragments, sadly. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The wire between the posts was rusted and torn, bowed up along the bottom by animals snuffling underneath it and down on the top by animals leaning or climbing over it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Only four lashes and I feel as if my skin has been torn open and drenched in salt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Most of them wore tattered Ancient Greek dresses, except for the one in the lead, Kelli, who wore a burned and torn blouse with a short pleated skirt...her cheerleader’s outfit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was hard to tell them apart, because they all wore blue jeans and torn T-shirts and had their heads shaved bald to keep away lice. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She was poising in her hand the iron bar that she had torn off the lamp-post, ready to throw it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “Good God,” he muttered, having torn open the latest arrival and scanned it with disgust. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The men torn apart by the blast were all his friends, his combat brothers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was moaning: “I can’t anymore . . . It’s over... I shall die right here . . .” He dragged me toward a pile of snow from which protruded human shapes, torn blankets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z How would I seal the bags if their necks were torn? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It started when she said we couldn’t live like this with the torn books and papers and records all over the floor and the place in such a mess. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Tree branches lashed the side of the building and torn leaves whirled away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My sleeve is torn away by a splinter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he looked at my torn, frayed jeans. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z We left our tent, as it was too torn from grapeshot for salvage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She was torn, she said, between wanting to protect Claire and her sense of duty to Miss Peregrine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It turned out that the bruises were from bullets that had merely torn my flesh as they missed killing me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The Cathay House had a sign that said “Chinese Food,” so only Americans went there before it was torn down. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin is cut deep in a few places, torn by the rusted fence. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Alas, my wretched brother, torn from me so quickly'. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After they’d dropped their bombs, those guns that were firing from the ground had torn through their fragile aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “So is that what you tell everyone? That your arms were torn off in a circus accident?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We had lived there in barracks eight months out of the year, from January through August, ever since Tent City, the farm labor camp, had been torn down. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The girl was still sitting on the piano stool, the torn sheet of music splayed at her feet like a dead bird. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Even John Henry held his right shoulder where his shirt had been torn away and a leafy bandage was wrapped in place. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They were heavy constructions of plywood, a sanded dowel for backstroke starts, puke-green carpet torn from somebody's basement stapled into the sloping tops for traction, and lane numbers spray-painted in orange on the backs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Her slip was torn and dragging the ground under her skirt; she had a dark bruise on her forehead. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mack was going to live, but two bullets had torn into his right ankle and just about taken his foot off. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was torn between his loyalty to his family and friends, and his sense of guilt and responsibility for what was happening to the eight of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the sort of thing she might have felt for a dog that had torn its paw, or a cat that had been gashed in a fight. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Right at that moment, as I looked at his unshaven face, his close-cropped hair, and his torn clothes, I thought of the police siren, and put two and two together. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In a democratic country you'd think there would be room for both of them, but computers won't rest until I'm making my ribbons from torn shirts and brewing Wite-Out in my bathtub. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The best part of me feels torn and sloppily stitched back together. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A pair of torn jeans, with both of my knees showing through. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She heard the shards of tile, torn branches, and slivers of wood pounding against the stone courtyard like the beating of drums, but nothing touched her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z An octopus, when you drag one from his chamber, comes up with suckers full of tiny stones: Odysseus left the skin of his great hands torn on that rock-ledge as the wave submerged him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, the men yanked our torn crapes off our feet, untied us, and chased us out of their village, waving their spears and machetes, and screaming after us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She was torn between wanting to hug Jesper tight and scream at him that she was trying. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Fragments of metal and clumps of leaves and torn branches rained into the water. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Its masts were shattered and its grimy gray sails hung limp and torn. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He picked up the stack of copies Maddie had turned in and dumped them and the torn pieces into his recycling bin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The labor had been long, grueling, and when the baby finally came the mother had torn, and badly. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Since we got into that boat, I have felt as if my heart had been torn out and thrown still beating on the shore,” he said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He lay on the cot and wrapped his arms about his head, torn with a nameless anxiety, hearing the man’s screams in spite of his need to escape them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The pigeon screeched like it was being torn apart. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z One woman, whose name was Mosi, screamed with desperation as her daughter, who was about four years old, was torn from her arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Then suddenly he’d torn off its wings with his fingertips and laughed when I started to cry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a little blood and the flesh was torn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All he could see of his forearm was ripped shirt and ragged torn flesh. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The briefcase was gone—torn off in the rapids—and with it the map. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Despite the lack of elbow room, they were busy tossing torn bits of paper over the side, creating a steady rain of confetti onto the "greatest and most significant" parade in New York City's history. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z His skin was so soft, his hands warm and wide, knuckles bruised and torn with brittle scabs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The crowd of women had torn the trousers from his body and all who could get near were grinding their heels into his flesh. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The parrot has rounded back and landed on me, digging his talons in to keep from being torn away by the wind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Bapi had gone missing, either torn apart in the storm or drowned, but gone nonetheless. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He brought it back to where she was sitting and showed her the wetness from the torn end, where the bark glistened. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I think of the dark shapes of the nixies in the water and the boy at the revel, howling over his torn wing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Harry had torn open the parcel to find a thick, hand-knitted sweater in emerald green and a large box of homemade fudge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Villagers had planted new mangrove plants to replace the bushes and trees torn away by the cyclone, and new roots were beginning to push through the salty soil. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z It's torn in half, but I remember what Rani said. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Then the Labrador walked up to the cat, who rose on his hind legs, placing black forepaws on the neck of the great dog who towered above him, gently questing at the torn ear. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It's torn and there's no way to fix it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I felt exhausted again, so I sat on the edge of the bed in nothing but clean boxers and looked at my clothes all ragged and torn. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z People pointed, laughed, and looked to see who would claim these sorry belongings, who could have thought the faded, torn clothes and stained shoes were still good enough for their new life in Brooklyn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Once again he found himself pulled like the tide, torn between leaving and staying. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He had used picture wire torn from the backs of the paintings Osh had given Miss Maggie, and their wrists were bleeding. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z His T-shirt was covered with dirt, and one sleeve was half torn off. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We watch as the claw dips down five different times to retrieve the pieces of one body, torn apart. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In winning another race, he rode with such supreme concentration that he didn’t notice that he had torn right out of his paper-thin pants. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew Mr. and Mrs. Allen; because they had all served together on the building committee when the old Lincoln School was torn down and the new one was built six years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The adjoining racetrack had been torn down, and now more than five hundred companies contracted by the Nazi state were at work preparing the site for the Olympic Games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His jacket sleeve was torn out of the shoulder seam, and his pants were filthy with horse droppings. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But wings don’t wear them, and all they really are good for is keeping your ears from getting torn off, so second-row guys like Chas had to wear them. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Of Africans who had been stolen, torn from their homes and families, and described the miseries of their bondage and then their hair-raising escapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was torn about explaining it to her. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Instead, there was a perfectly torn hole where the word magic had been. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I stood there, torn by his loud shrieking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Hands that were not soldier hands took hold of me, pulling my torn dress and my torn flesh together. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at his bare hairy chest and his new beard and his torn slippers, and suddenly his mortality—their mortality—struck her with a clutch at her throat, a squeeze of alarm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She gestured at his torn pants, the dirt and straw embedded in his sandy blond hair, the mud—or worse—that hadn’t been washed away by the rain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She could have thrown the weapon into the fire, never to see it again, but Taisin came to her side and held out a torn rag. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But I kept thinking of the torn scraps in the basket, and after a moment I had to get up and look in the basket once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His stockings were torn and dirty and his doublet unlaced. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z One long finger stabbed at the torn sheet, smearing the still-wet ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z American physicists emerged from the war torn between two contradictory sensations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His hair was longer than Harry had ever seen it: He appeared to have suffered several gashes to his face and his clothes were ripped and torn. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She aimed a finger at his torn sleeve, the slender scab beneath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Get up! Get up!” she yelled again, yanking the torn blanket covering Florah and me, and almost instantly I awoke and heard a door shut with a resounding slam. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It had passed through the animal and torn a ragged slot in the last rib, where it came to rest just beneath the hide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Doc’s shirt was torn off and his slight strong shoulder dripped blood from a scratch. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Food concessions were torn apart searching for that one thing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Little lines of ink could be seen at the torn top edge of the paper. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Carpets throughout the house had been flipped over and torn. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Once, he came home with deep bruises about his face, his nose and mouth bloody, his rough workshirt torn at the shoulder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The hem was torn and she folded it so the raggedy place wouldn’t show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Even the most devout intellectuals—the Jesuits—were torn between the old, Aristotelian ways and the new philosophies that included zero and the void, infinity and the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When I got home, this Weary Blues book had some pages torn out. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Only a very sharp-eyed observer would be able to tell that it had once been torn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Alex looked up and could see the fresh torn gap in the tree where the limb had fallen from. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z And when Minya wheeled on them, pointed at the door, and commanded, “You three. Get out!” they hesitated, torn, but not for long. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The boy froze, torn between his duty to follow orders and his loyalty to Hans and his unit. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If I could get some thread, maybe I could tighten the waist and make her torn dress into a blouse. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I saw his hands unclench, relax, and—torn between tears and a bellow of scorn—I crept back to my cave. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex felt himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the Jeep on the end of the cord. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He picked up his wife’s purse and took out the torn half of a Jell-O box. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jess was torn between two — one a long, strapless, basic black number, the other a knee-length electric blue with spaghetti straps. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Still with his black tuxedo—torn and old now—his cigar, and his cane. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She found herself torn between the hunting daggers and a lovely rapier with an ornate bell-guard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But your father was a man torn between two halves, Amir jan: you and Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The counters are avocado green, and most of the stools are torn. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Unlike her, his death was terrible: he was torn to pieces, in some stories by the Titans, in others by Hera’s orders. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They lashed together the remaining canvas from the tent they had torn up to create a sling, and tied it to the dogs’ harness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He ran out of the Cursed Forest and toward the gazebo quick as lightning, a bluebird brooch glittering from his torn cloaks. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Her cheeks were scratched and bleeding, her lips were swollen, her clothes were torn, her hair stuck out in all directions, and on top of this she was streaked with mud. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The woman’s hair was long and disheveled, and her long tunic dress was torn and frayed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Ged was richly and outlandishly dressed in fur and silk and silver, but the clothes were torn and stiff with sea-salt, and he stood gaunt and stooped, his hair lank about his scarred face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When the doctor opened the knee up he discovered that Boobie had torn the anterior cruciate ligament. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And with anger, too; she could have killed her father; if she could have torn out his heart, she would have done so there and then, for what he’d done to Roger. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They’re tearing down some of the developments that need to be torn down. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Can hear Shiloh howl like he’s being torn in two, and my breath comes shorter and shorter, trying to get there in time. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The laces of my bodice are torn, revealing far too much of me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t spill on anything, and he could keep it shelved in between the covers of a book that had no pages after an imam had torn them out for offending Allah. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The mother gazed at you as you wiped your runny nose on your torn sleeve. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The sails, while torn, had mostly survived and were definitely mendable. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I can tell from their clothes—torn shirts and trousers, mismatched shoes filled with holes—that almost all of them are from the poor sectors near the lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I looked at my hands, and some of the skin was torn, rubbed away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I recalled his leadership as we marched down the streets of Birmingham that May in 1963, when the pressure from the firefighters’ water hose had torn off part of my hair. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They are huddled in a corner under one torn blanket and they are gnawing at a loaf of bread. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I paused, torn: Head straight back to safety, or risk a detour to the nursery? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The eyes had been covered by a torn piece of cloth, like a blindfold, and the mouth was stuffed with a black stone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I push away a small section of the heap of surprisingly dirty red stones and then peel back a corner of the torn plastic liner. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” said Mrs. Weasley anxiously, clearly torn between a desire to finish the shopping quickly and the wish to stick together in a pack. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The gravitational tug is so strong that you ’d be torn apart in a fraction of a second. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She saw his sword fallen from his hand and beside it her cloak stained and torn. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they’d created. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Spare pieces of metal were propped up as roofs, and pieces of torn cloth were hung as curtains. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She shivered as a harried-looking white man boarded the trolley right through the closed door, his suit torn and bloody, his hat missing entirely. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Often he had felt torn by a tug-of-war between duty and honor—a tension, he thought, that might account for “a good portion of my psychic difficulties over the years.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Large chunks had been torn out of it; one of the legs had been ripped off entirely. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Liddy got a Social Security card with this name, club membership cards, and other “pocket litter”—ordinary things like torn train tickets and scribbled notes that make a wallet look real. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mom hurried into the garage, coming back with a long straw torn from an old broom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had learned to read his book with the torn cover better now. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt as if the Franz Ferdinandian hole in his gut had now torn, and the pain grew and grew from a bullet hole to a canyon until finally Colin himself was the hole. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The address is torn in half, and the last name’s completely illegible. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z As the new cathedral was to be much larger, many houses were removed and even part of the bishop’s palace was torn down. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z The bedroom door flew open, and their mom came in like Mr. Rochester's wife, in a long, torn, white nightgown. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z At the time it had still had a cardboard binding and a torn paper dust jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Anya hunched over her dress that Zvezda had torn the day before, drawing a needle and thread through the cloth to repair the tear. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He could see some sort of thick, gluey secretion from the spider’s pincers on his torn robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z One graying zombie, dressed for the best day of her life in a torn red gown. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Lanesha. I don’t want to see no more. It seems even worse outside. New Orleans is all torn apart.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The relatives of the family had torn the flesh of their arms, bodies, and faces, so that they were covered with clotted blood;... Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The palms were torn up from the descent down the glacier wall, the skin scabbed over where the ice had cut her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The thorns had torn a large hole in the grain bag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ama knew he wouldn’t stop till he’d torn it off, but Will leapt forward as he saw the pistol fall from Mrs. Coulter’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She winks and hands me a folded piece of paper that looks like it was torn from the edge of a legal pad. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The I must have gotten torn off with the tape on the return address label. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Each time she awoke feeling torn up with loss, the sight of Kaede departing as painful as a fresh wound. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He picked up the stack of copies Maddie had turned in and dumped them and the torn pieces into his recycling bin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Bulging tongues of ice had broken doors off their hinges, and through their splintered jambs I could see evidence of a raid: kicked- over furniture, drawers torn open, snows of paper on the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He had thought that it was healed, but the forced journey over the downs had evidently proved too much for the muscle torn by the shotgun pellets. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few more cycles of this, I had enough insulation torn out that the RTG could barely keep up with it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Before you know it, I’ve torn out the month of January, and then the month of February is so short it goes quickly. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I pretended to study a torn cuticle to miss his scrutiny. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But Trina was staring him down, obviously torn between stopping Mark and joining him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Jesper looked back at the rocking waves, at the broken bits of mast and torn sail where a ship had been only seconds before. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then Marco gripped my hand in such a way I had to choose between following him on to the floor or having my arm torn off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He looked between us once and retreated back into the tent, only to reemerge a second later looking torn between confusion and worry. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A heavy thing like a box, with dark damaged spaces along the edges that must have been for filigree and jeweled settings, though someone had torn most of that off a long time ago. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Their costumes had been torn off, and they were merely a group of foolish-looking men. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The man has a large dark mark on his forehead; the woman’s veil has been torn off, and her hair falls in strands over her face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Stars in the galaxy that come too near this black hole will be torn apart by the difference in the gravitational forces on their near and far sides. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside a mother and child, wrapped in the same torn shawl. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It was smeared with mud and the torn rag was dangling from the gap he had stuffed it into. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She used one of her few remaining pieces of paper—an old label, slightly torn, from a can of peas. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The narrow street was lined with four- and five-story brick tenement buildings, many of them in the process of being torn down and replaced. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I got down and climbed the bluff to keep my mind off how my darn leg had torn up my life and Johns. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “He has pledged his love to me in most honorable fashion,” I said, drawing my dignity about me like a torn cloak. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I was torn between protesting and pleading for fairness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Jagged torn place in their spirits that lets the small flying agonies pass in and out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When the woman had patched the torn place, she got the walnut basket, folded her apron in her lap, and began to pick out the golden-brown kernels. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The shoulder strap was torn from the back and hung limp and loose on the side, and there was an extra rip under the armpit. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Tess looked torn between going to be with Ernie and hot leaving Grandma alone to sit and stress herself to death. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Despite having been torn up by glass and nearly squeezed to death, he was smiling...until he saw the chariot. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The idea of it still had me laughing as I headed through the torn up corn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Their clothes were torn, and they were frightened; they came up the platform and stood near him, breathing hard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She was shocked to see his shirt was torn and his hands scratched. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a picture torn out of a magazine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One day I'll pull a fantastic prank like pretending my arms get torn off in an elevator door or something. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And next day had seen the effigies they had hung, the Tory fences they had torn down or windows broken, and heard that Royal Commissioner So-and-So had been frightened out of Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Little torn pieces of paper float through the air, scattering everywhere. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a very old man with a torn jacket and he walked very slowly to the stand. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse gasped at the sight of her former charge, but she said nothing, merely bent down, lifted her to her feet with surprising strength, and smacked her hard through her torn clothes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z While proud of Ishtar, who made it to the prom after all, Whitiker is torn between making a big deal of graduation and keeping it in perspective. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The torn edges of the artery's walls formed a bulging sac that held in blood flowing through the vessel. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I could imagine the splash and jar of angry steel, the leap and struggle until the torn heart failed, and then, not too long later, the shadow of a buzzard, and another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama seemed torn, but then she said, “We must respect your grandparents.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Its pits are filled in, the cages torn down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He peered closely up the length of the torn flank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I went across the room to a torn photograph tacked to the faded wall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull believed that when the flesh was torn away and the bones naked, the fighter would emerge in Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His clothes are torn and his nose is bleeding and one of his teeth is broken, and after Gus and Oscar go away he sits on the sidewalk and cries. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The stove and countertops have been scrubbed clean, and I wonder if it will all be torn away to make room for a bigger kitchen like the one at Darius’s house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z My red dress lies near him, torn to shreds. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I saw her grip relax ever so slightly on her handgun with her focus torn, and I took my chance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl’s lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They sponged off his face and neck, closing his eyes and covering them with a blindfold torn from Tali’s cloak. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Only a serrated knife could have torn my skin that way. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She’s still in that ratty blue nightgown that looks left over from her Tunica County days, the gingham ruffle torn at the neck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I hesitated, torn between running outside and staying with Lissa, who was already at the top of the steps. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z This whole past week has really torn me up inside because 15 years ago, I was one of those kids.. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He unrolled the blanket, fed Frolic a few pieces torn from the loaf of bread, nibbled at it himself, and then curled up with his puppy and drifted off. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Neither Mom nor Dad seemed especially torn up about it, to be honest. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I write three words on a torn piece of brown butcher paper. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A car has crashed into a corner of the gatehouse and torn the gate off its hinges. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He had replaced his torn, dirty clothes with some that, although worn, were clean and without gaping holes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They would have torn him to pieces, but he didn’t care. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I ask her, trying not to recoil from the torn and oozing flesh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Her husband, on the other hand, was like an oak: “He may be torn up by the roots. He may break. But he will never bend.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Their clothes were torn and snagged by briars, burrs were clinging to them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I have wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We had torn a square of fabric out of Cade's T-shirt, and I kept my hand pressed against it until the blood dried and the cloth bandage stuck to my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Her shoes were caked with spring mud, crusty and torn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The dry peanut butter had torn the flaky bread and the syrupy jam was spilling over. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The two challah loaves were passed around and pieces torn off. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The water looks odd under the beam, a colorless broth littered with a variety of objects: a bright orange; a man’s fedora with a brim of excrement; bits of paper like torn letters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And my football waiver is torn into a hundred pieces, scattered all over the living room like confetti. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Alvarez was torn by his loyalties to both men; he had received his doctorate at Chicago under Compton and then had become a trusted staff member at Lawrences Radiation Laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stumbling and torn and reaching out to stop his descent, but the ravine was too steep, and nothing could be done. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Caesar had ordered that he be sent unarmed into the arena to be torn to pieces by the other tiger, the terrible man-eater. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z When they leave me I pick up the torn pages but they turn into lace valentines with blood all over them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap of burlap and ripping it from the bag. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I let it lay there and its torn white tongues were laughing because I couldn’t understand what they were saying. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He ripped its innards out and stooped to lap blood straight from the bowl of the torn carcass, his crazed eyes peeping over the rim, glittering with rage and hate and mad fulfillment. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “A bunch of people were killed at a wedding. Everyone dead, torn apart like rag dolls. Blue fire.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Our main communications dish, which relayed signals from the Hab to Hermes, acted like a parachute, getting torn from its foundation and carried with the torrent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The skirt was torn, and her petticoats showed through. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I must have torn my shirt against the rocks in my rush to get the waterskin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For she was afraid, now: afraid of her son’s heart torn open too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Now, it was torn and dirty, but I kept patching it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall glass doors with shattered panes stood open into the garden, torn damask curtains flapping like a loose tongue in the wind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There were no paintings on the walls, but the Pastors had taped up pictures of smartly dressed women torn from Sears Roebuck catalogs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Each individual had to understand how to make a stone knife, how to mend a torn cloak, how to lay a rabbit trap, and how to face avalanches, snakebites or hungry lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been torn, he could see, and had been knit back together so tightly, most eyes would not have caught the change. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “I looked down at my feet, and then I saw that one big-toe nail had been torn clean off. I had been so scared that I had not felt it hurt until that minute.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Their clothes, what little that remained, were torn and barely covered their bodies. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy had once covered the walls, but it had been torn away, leaving long interlocking scars in the cracked paint. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The torn articles—the parchment wrapped around a fistful of rotting vegetables—splattered in his face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They would all be torn to shreds, everyone she loved. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I waste a second looking back at him, torn in that instant, wondering if I should chase after him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “I find myself quite torn by your offer. Stand you, boy, and let us better tell your stuffing.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The illustrations were gorgeous, even though the pages were faded and torn. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One day he’d walked by, and there they were — a girl, her parents, an assistant, looking disoriented and somehow ragged around the edges, as though they’d been torn out of a book. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z From where they stood there was no sign of blood or torn flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He felt its point penetrate the crook of his right arm and blood seeping down the sleeve of his torn robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Across part of the felted roof lay a torn piece of old blanket, wet with dew. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mack came back from the laboratory with his mouth torn and his teeth broken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This was probably a lament for the young son of Apollo and Psamathe—Linus, who was deserted by his mother, brought up by shepherds, and before he was full-grown torn to pieces by dogs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The peacock feathers on the side panels were torn and ragged. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Brum would have laughed in their faces, torn that pardon to pieces. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was wrinkle-soft and torn on the bottom right edge, but it was still intact. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was torn along its folds, right along the line of the way she wanted to take. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Papa would have torn it down by now. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, of course, you and I know, Mr. Dacus, that if I had gone wild, which I was about to do, I would have torn Red and his pals apart.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like someone had torn down some planks to access the niche. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then one afternoon Hughie came in with an army cot which had a torn canvas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry’s eyes dropped to the objects clutched in Ron and Hermione’s arms: great curved fangs, torn, he now realized, from the skull of a dead basilisk. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He had dirty reddish hair, a torn shirt, and wore no shoes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z On his way across town, with the helicopters fluttering like torn bits of paper in the sky, he phoned the alarm at a lonely phone booth outside a store that was closed for the night. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He could have ripped through the blanket and torn my flesh if he had so chosen, but the Handsome One was always gentle with me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She plays this over and over in her mind, from one angle and then another, in bits and pieces like a torn photograph. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z One stumbled, cursing the torn linoleum in the hall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna did not want Baby to touch those children in their torn clothes, milky mucus trailing from their noses, but she didn’t say so; it shamed her that she felt that way. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They passed on, Gollum in front and the hobbits now side by side, up the long ravine between the piers and columns of torn and weathered rock, standing like huge unshapen statues on either hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She is still torn about her decision to leave her children. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I could pull one on over my torn shirt; I could sit at the entrance and keep watch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A stained mattress topper, feathers spilling from its torn edge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She had torn it up into little tiny pieces and flushed it down the toilet, so she couldn’t change her mind and paste it back together. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They had all its leaves stripped off, and some of its branches torn off too, before you could say Jack Robinson. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Their clothes had been ripped and torn and stripped from them since they had been taken from their homes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground is littered with torn food packages, babies’ diapers, empty water bottles and spent cigarettes, dirty tissues, plastic bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He picked up the torn grass and pasted it on the gourds head, where it settled in tufty clumps, held tight by the sticky sap. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They had fought in the Panjsher Valley for two years until helicopter gunfire had torn the older man to pieces. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Is it not ever thus, the attempts to parley between master and slave, and perhaps between all men—is it not always words shouted across the shifting flood, torn away by wind? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His face startled me — his expression was torn, almost pained, and so fiercely beautiful that the ache to touch him flared as strong as before. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The leaves were soon torn from the date tree on the threshold and from the willow trees and the peach trees near the fields. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They cried out as if their skin had been torn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When he got home after dark, his clothes were torn. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaily's eyes raged with lunacy; his clothes were torn and filthy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z His leg was swollen to the point that the skin was about to split along the lines where he’d torn into it, up the length of his shin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She dragged a torn handkerchief from a pocket and mopped her eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Her legs flew into the air, torn out from under her. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Your heart will need to trust itself and to pour forth—you’ll be torn between the two.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When I’m finally back in my bed the navigator drops down a torn piece of paper with lines and arrows curving this way and that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She pulled out several torn and faded sheets and a whole bunch of safety pins. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace Wexler raised her hand, lowered it, raised it halfway, then lowered it again, torn between her claim as Sam Westing's relative and being accused of murder. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Pages of tables and designs for instruments were probably often torn out for ready reference, leaving mutilated copies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His gray suit was torn, and his bare feet were deformed, the long toes capped with talon-curved nails. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Petunia advanced, evidently torn between curiosity and disapproval. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her scalp was ripped and torn and her forehead laid open to the skull. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Diminished, like something vital has been torn out of him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Mars Bar handed back the torn page, but not before he crumpled it into a ball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The familiar sign had been torn down, stamped to kindling. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You will be torn to pieces, trampled flat, disembowelled, very likely eaten. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “The holographic librarian from when the old library was torn down?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z They were careless of me, leaving me to roam freely like a pet goat I had no one to mend my torn clothes or to lengthen my skirts as I grew. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z So they raced each other all the way, and in the last block they tried to pass each other, and one of the fenders got torn off. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z My clothes are torn by the yanking claws of the trees. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z A whole sleeve had been torn off and his arm, streaked with blood and oil, hung limply by his side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Even a victim’s torn fingernail can speak of a fateful struggle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When Mr. Kennedy sees it, a sharp gasp is torn from him. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The police officer had lost her hat; her pants leg was dusty and torn. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z With the oars damaged and the foresail torn, Leo could barely manage a controlled descent. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Gregor was torn between being very proud and wanting to laugh his head off. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He leaned over to study the torn news clipping. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Reluctantly I sat, torn between anger and fascination, hating myself for obeying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A tubby, mild-mannered recruit named Emminger, harshly flipped onto the mat, suffered torn ligaments in his shoulder and was sent off to the emergency room of a local hospital. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness behind their shut lids they all saw the same thing: no color at all, only loss like a hole torn in the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z To grieve, to ache, to be torn apart, and then...to hear his voice call your name again, feel the touch of his hand once more... You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The toddlers had already torn open the box. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The tip of one horn had torn me to the knee. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Lorne contributed bound copies of sermons to be torn up for paper, but this paper was too tough. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a black eyepatch; his eye had been torn out in battle with a pike. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then came the chains and ships, and pain and whips, and the people’s wings fell or were torn off. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There was a red mark that ran around it as if a necklace had been torn from her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt as though he’d torn me open with his words alone, exposing me to the world in all my ugliness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Lurz began reciting: “I, Deborah Lacks ...” Within moments she had an official medical record request on a torn piece of paper. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Although the body was never recovered, all the evidence points to the defendant: the trunk of his car was filled with twine, bloodstained hammers, torn items of his wife’s clothing, and such like. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Madame Semele felt the words being torn from her mouth, whether she would say them or no. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The wind had torn away the grass shelter, and she was exposed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The tents we'd seen previously had been torn apart, and their ragged canvas flapped limply in the fetid breeze. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “The woman was mad as a bat, screechin’ and flappin’ about, her black petticoats all torn and flutterin’ around her ankles as she dashed through that big lonely house of hers.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The mummy jar had been unscrewed, the tape stripped off, the crayoned picture of the Jackson Five torn. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z They were a ragged-looking lot of men, their clothing dirty and torn and most of them not even having proper uniforms. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin on both hands was torn and bleeding from smashing them into something solid. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I felt such pain, literally a physical pain, as if someone had torn off both my arms without anesthesia, without sewing me back up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Sookie started to jog ahead and I felt torn between wanting to get inside the arc right away and not wanting to leave Dad and Mr. Patterson behind. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z At the end of the dream, he was forced to flee the scene with “my clothes torn from my back and my skin lacerated from head to foot.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The limp body, with not a torn spot or a tooth puncture in the skin, would be laid at his master’s feet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The torn white lumber from concrete forms was piled beside gray walls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When he left, he felt that something had been torn out of him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked down at his hands, which were covered in scratches and blood, his fingernails torn and ragged, aching from the labor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z We approach the closest one; I can see that it’s torn to shreds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She studied his old coat with the padding hanging out of the torn sleeve seam. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I was torn between catching up with Falconer and hearing more about the play. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For so long now, I’d felt torn between their worlds—so different, and yet so much the same. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Soon the road behind him was dotted with spectators following him to the useless gates holding nothing from a broken system, torn down by the words of a dreaming old lady. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Just hours ago, we had all been drifting off to sleep, and now our lives, our families, our people, were torn apart. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And just like that we’re rummaging through a box filled with newspaper clippings about Chuck “Da Man” Bell and torn ticket stubs and old flyers and . The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Yatzkov then gave Gold the name and address of the second source, $500 for the man, a password, and the torn half of a Jell-O box. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “You can trust me now. You’ll either go into the river or be torn to pieces here—the whole lot of you. There’s nowhere left to run.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Our shifts, which had been torn, were removed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The poor woman had lost her mind and soon afterward Trueba lost his patience, fed up with finding in his food the hairs she had torn from her head in her unending grief. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The less she went to work, the more bottles started showing up around our apartment, like long-lost cousins who never leave, all of ’em with the labels torn off. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The straps had broken loose and the saddle had torn away in the whirlpool. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Lying on the mattress next to Mom was one of those huge family-sized Hershey chocolate bars, the shiny silver wrapper pulled back and torn away. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally he pulled out a brown spiral notebook with a torn cover; he thumbed through the pages slowly, moving his lips slightly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z While we ate, she gathered all of the boxes and the torn wrapping paper and took them to the trash bin outside. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Most days Frau Elena works close by, wearing a torn ski jacket she has found, mumbling to herself in French or singing songs from childhood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z More precisely: a former mosque, with minaret torn down and Koranic inscriptions plastered over to provide a fresh canvas for the Christian saints that are, even now, being painted on the interior. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She set to work gathering a huge load of dry sticks, dead branches torn off during the winter by heavy snow and ice. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He jerked his head toward the torn image of a clipper ship that Nailer had tacked to the wall of their shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The hedge is destroyed, the rails of the light railway are torn up and rise stiffly in the air in great arches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The gurgle of blood on a man’s breath when his lung is torn by the jagged end of a broken rib. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His torn, blood stained clothes had been taken from him and replaced. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z No animal caught in the garden that day is likely to escape alive, and all the winter homes, all the tunnels and holes and nests and cocoons, are torn up. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Now...can you make good on those bold words? Can you control what you ask for, or will you be torn apart?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Neither the torn face nor the destroyed voice could carry expression but there was anxiety in the clear eyes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A breaking and entering when even the senses are torn apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He too is in a Guardian’s uniform, but he has no hat on and the uniform is dirty and torn. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A few showed January, as if the months on the underlying pages had no longer been turned or torn away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Stanley leaned back against the torn vinyl upholstery. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I watched as it was torn apart and rebuilt into all the different foods and products listed on all those labels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The outside’s getting torn apart by a storm,” I said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A looking glass had been dashed to thousands of pieces, and the gilt frame torn apart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The war had torn every last love from her life. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z "We shall correct that, and leave him tattered and torn!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It looked as if a hurricane had torn the house apart. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Dicey examined the places in the barn wall where the wood had been torn away, or fallen awry. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He recognized one as himself, backpack on his back; he could even see, amazingly, the torn place on the sleeve of his jacket. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z In his arms, he carries a very old Torah scroll, the simple fabric of its cover threadbare and torn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The shopping bags were torn, and the weeds and twigs stuck out of rips in the brown paper. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I could have torn the metal cover off with my bare hands, the lock was so feeble, but I wanted to do things in a calm, orderly way. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Then we ran beside the wall, our shadows running along the wall, and after a while we passed a piece of torn newspaper lying beside the road and I began to laugh again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z So these now fell upon the suitors in that hall, turning, turning to strike and strike again, while torn men moaned at death, and blood ran smoking over the whole floor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the girls clutched a doll wearing a stained and torn hot pink burka. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Some was lost in gambling, some chipped off for taxes, and some acres torn off like coupons to buy luxuries—a horse, a diamond, or a pretty woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The taxi sped off, churning up some pebbles in die gutter that stung Mrs. Reilly’s legs through the torn rayon gown. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All the buildings on my left are empty, their signs torn down and their windows closed, but it is a clean kind of emptiness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He burst through, blew past the race leader, and, with his shoe torn open, shins streaming blood, and chest aching, won easily. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He fills his hat with the Limerick Leader torn into little bits. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The walls were covered with pictures Celia had torn out of magazines: movie stars, animals, babies—Matt wasn’t thrilled by the babies, but Celia found them irresistible—flowers, news stories. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the cramped back yards were rotted privies and lines of torn, smoky rags hung out to dry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I crossed my arms and shivered at the memory of Hamlet’s book, with its drawings of the corpse laid open, the vital parts within revealed like a pirate’s booty in a torn sack. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Hot springs could ease the pain of aching joints or torn muscles. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z No more torn trousers or muddy boots; no dirt on her face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The lifeboat, the raft until it was lost, the tarpaulin, the stills, the rain catchers, the plastic bags, the lines, the blankets, the net—all became worn, stretched, slack, cracked, dried, rotted, torn, discoloured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Before the match burned down into James' fingertips, Alfred saw the dark, widening stain on his torn coat sleeve, and the blood running off his hand. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She even comes up to my room to give me a stack of pages torn out of a fashion magazine. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The women listened to the wind as it roared in the chimneys, to the ripping sounds of torn thatch, and to the whimpering of frightened children. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z More and more land was zoned for industrial use, which meant more houses torn down. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Her neck was dirty and her dress was torn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister handles them gently, marks the pages with torn brown pieces of paper bag, wipes her hands before going beyond the hardbound covers. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z It was a squat, two-story structure that was begging to be torn down. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I was torn between following him and staying where I was, watching Lissa and her father. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z They stripped the Suli and Kaelish girls down to their underclothes, then bound all the girls’ wrists and ankles with cords from the curtains and gagged them with torn pieces of their prison clothes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then I sat down on a fold-up chair with the plastic torn off the seat part, so the yellow foam stuffing was out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z There was a worn clipping in the purse, a poem she had torn out of an Oklahoma newspaper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her head scarf snagged on a wire and was torn away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Think back, recall our little nation fringing the oceans, torn with complexities, too big for its britches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Turning and looking down from this camp one sees the glacier-flow split, divided, torn and churned by the black steaming peaks that thwart it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a long torn welt on his forehead from hairline to a point between his eyebrows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Clancy had been perfectly still the entire time Chubs had torn into him, but now that Chubs was finished, Clancy leaned in close, as if he were about to whisper a secret to him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Alex has never been so torn between two equally innocuous blazers in his entire life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The edge of the glacier was jagged, a series of huge steps torn from the earth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If it weren’t for the little fact they were torn apart from friends and families and trapped in a Maze with a bunch of monsters, it could be paradise. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z "Have you gone mad? That is her speech for tomorrow you have torn up!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The wireless operator could see, through the shattered Plexiglas of the cockpit, the young pilot desperately trying to free his dead navigator from a torn and bloody helmet. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z My skirt was torn and my hair unkempt. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The golden skin of the peach had been torn open, and where a chunk of flesh was now missing, a sweet, sticky juice was dripping like crystal beads gliding off a string. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been subjected to unusual abuse during someone’s attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t have managed it, to be torn away from the family. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The facade had been torn down, revealing the inner rooms like a dollhouse. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He walked heavily out of the room, his shoulders stooped, his face old and torn with pain. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mom’s eyes trailed down to my torn jeans and beat-up, duct-taped sneakers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Nailer waited, thinking he would see her torn apart, but then she curled her legs under her and she was suddenly aboard, clambering up the side of the train car. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of tubing were torn from the wall, and two water wheels and all the wind chimes were missing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A medical orderly had been summoned, but it was clear that there was little hope for the angel: he was wounded sorely, his wings torn and his eyes dimmed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The manure was scraped out, the old floors torn up, neck-rubbed window casings ripped away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then a streak of darkness shot into the air like black lightning—as if pure night had torn through the daytime. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had first fingered then torn some of his mother’s clothes and sat in the grass looking at the things scattered on the lawn as well as in his mind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, they also discovered that if you placed a map of Europe’s magnetic patterns alongside an American one from the same period, they fit together as neatly as two halves of a torn letter. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the garden the next day, I found the book of sonnets, torn in half, its damp pages scattered among the herb beds. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Most images were of my favorite bands, stuff I’d torn out of magazines or printed from the Internet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The covering of them was torn and filthy and the wadding stuck out of the holes, grey and sodden. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Washington was thrown into the swift-moving water and saved himself by grabbing a log torn from the raft. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z To Adam who was an instrument, who saw not the future farms but only the torn bellies of fine humans, it was revolting and useless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bedraggled, dirty, torn uniforms, torn flesh, lost equipment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And yet the only place I really want to be in is here. I am that torn in two.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A torn sheet offers privacy in the bathroom, which has no door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I shook myself off, clutching my limp and torn garments, and headed for Perilee’s to bring in the dry laundry and start supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Ron was sitting up in bed, the hangings torn from one side, a look of utmost terror on his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The papers were falling out everywhere, ripped and torn. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He lay across the wire, torn and bloody, with closed eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have torn the mango flowers from the tree.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It was as if someone had snapped the land off, jagged and uneven like torn bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Werner looks at him a last time: his torn jacket and shovel jaw. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Despite the run-down condition of the few pieces of furniture and the torn curtains on the window, there were touches of pride all around. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s been trembling, torn between the terror that I’ll screw it up and glee that I actually like men. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The torn book bag in which he had enjoyed such comfortable naps was gone, but he found a fresh bag, gnawed a hole in the brown paper, and crawled into the soft, ready-chewed stuffing. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z She’s ashamed of the way we look with the dirty old torn shirts, raggedy ganseys, broken shoes, holes in our stockings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Refusing Methuselah’s help, the young mouse left the old one gazing at the torn tapestry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She worked the thread through the flowered cloth as if she were sewing the torn ends of her life together. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On the ride back to school the rubbings made by the other children are torn up, crumpled, tossed at one another’s heads, abandoned below the dark green seats. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She made the torn edges kiss and held them together with the closures, then put a wide bandage over all of it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Many of your families have been torn asunder. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Three of them had their heads broken by blows from Boxers hoofs; another was gored in the belly by a cow’s horn; another had his trousers nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure’s heels are bleeding and her stockings are torn and every hundred steps she stumbles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She might have to take them on a train, and she couldn’t ride on a train with her clothing torn, it was one of the earmarks of the fugitive. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They noticed for the first time that the grass in front of it was torn and scored with lines. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached under the kitchen table and grabbed the torn blanket and draped it in place of the shawl and took the shawl and spread it over the newspapers and cardboard covering Florah. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Waiting for the closet doors to be torn open. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The curvature goes off to infinity because the black hole takes up zero space; the star has torn a hole in space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What was left was strong, and they couldn't stop the me I would and could become—how I'd poke up from what they'd torn down, rise from it all, and bloom again, wild and free. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I popped the top off and started digging through the hundreds of pieces of torn newspaper. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The glass shattered, and the security gates were torn clean out of their frames. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He handed me a page, torn out of his notebook, that listed all my work. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They scratch at their bodies through torn clothing, pick at scabs on their scalps. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z At last, lying facedown on the floor, he spotted what looked like a torn piece of paper under the chest of drawers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He screamed like it’d torn his leg off, but I didn’t have time to check. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Gently she unfolded the cloth and showed her bits of torn brown shreds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They were simply scraps of paper torn from a notebook, with random words scribbled in pencil and crossed out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I hesitated, torn, but then the first bell sent me hurrying out the door — with a last glance confirming that he hadn’t moved a centimeter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her handwritten letters are freed from torn envelopes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It had been torn out of her notebook. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Corporal’s green jacket, which had begun the day before in poor-enough condition, was now torn about the shoulder, exposing tattered lining. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z It's a little stiff, but otherwise pretty painless—no torn muscles, no serious swelling. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z "Invitation, mention of mutual friends—I fell for it all right. I've torn up the letter." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z "He would have torn off your arms, and you know it." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I’m still torn with guilt about the mean letter I wrote him when I was so upset. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I felt she had torn me from one world, one life, where I was happy, and dragged me back into another. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She wore a torn white gown that resembled a bridal costume in an old horror movie or heavy-metal video. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She looked strange, as if she were torn between hysterical laughter and fear. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z His clothes were torn, burned, and splattered with monster slime. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She felt torn between living up to the expectations of her father and her fiancé, both important men in her life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was so torn and dirty and full of holes that it barely resembled a dress anymore. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z When it happened, I was down the creek a ways, splitting rails to fix up the yard fence where the bulls had torn it down. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z A hole is torn up in front of me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s a banknote, paper money, and it’s torn. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is a splash in the galactic pond, a temporary configuration of disrupted stars, a galaxy with a central piece torn out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lucky Girl scrambled ahead of them, loud in the vegetation, unused to climbing, breathing heavily, her clothes torn. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And somewhere along the way he’d torn his pants and one of the straps on the backpack. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z How would we have survived being torn apart? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His shirt was torn down the middle, as was what lay beneath the shirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Behind us, my tutor lay against a birch, his jaw torn asunder and hanging. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I feel like my arm will be torn loose. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It took us a while to locate the other bundle of treasure, since the storm had dragged it some distance and torn away the buoy that had marked where we’d left it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z For centuries men had dived down and torn the oysters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time Ash thought she saw the air split apart as if torn by an unseen hand, and within that secret space was the oldest land of all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In a blaze of smoke and bullets, Safaa’s bag bursts into a million shreds of carpet and torn clothing and scraps of cloth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It was torn and greasy and caked with mud, but it was still plastic. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Up in the branches of the trees, too, I could see, flapping about, torn plastic sheeting and bits of old carrier bags. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They were torn apart by disease, drugs and alcohol, pride, fear, and anger. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It feels like getting to the end of a book only to discover that the last page has been torn in half. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I’d forgotten how they looked—torn by brambles, stained and faded to the color of earth and moss, fluttering in rags and tatters. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z There were more than a hundred pages, many of them crumpled, folded, or torn, all of them out of order. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Most items are torn or smudged in some way, but some are not. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He was bent in two, like he was being torn right through his middle. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Everyone we knew had a tale of homes destroyed, families torn apart, and heartbreaking loss. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He kept imagining himself tripping and falling under the wheels, torn apart by the train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z That moment when Tsalig was torn away from us haunts me every day. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I leap from the dinghy as it is torn away from the pole, and I cling to the scarecrow’s legs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He tried to sit up and fell back at the wrench of the torn muscles over his stomach. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew without looking that a sheep had just been torn apart. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a crumpled magazine. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He hadn’t torn down the poster or removed the sneakers, letting them remain there as symbols. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Visitors who drive to this tiny town wonder why it has not been torn down, while pedestrians, who are residents of the neighborhood, simply look away when they pass it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The boy ran for his blanket, stopping to pick up the torn fabric from his pants, and brought it to her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z "But if it had come to a fight, he would have torn me apart." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He rushed out of the house as Stella watched, torn between following him back to Tony and making sure Jojo was taken care of. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His torn sleeves were stained with seepage from his wounds. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I pulled off my torn boots with the toe of the other stepping on the heel. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The last, the under, page of the four-year-old letter was stained a sort of off-cordovan color, and it was torn in two places along the folds. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Integration has torn down some barriers,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One was torn, and the feathers were singed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Towards the evening of that day, he was sitting outside the nest, repairing his torn haversack and taking stock of his personal effects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His brown shirt hangs in pieces on his body, torn to shreds by the cactus. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When he brought it up, Naomi had felt torn between her desire to stay away from Henry and her interest in seeing the film that, according to Tommie, would make anybody with a heart cry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel torn in two, as you might say.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The coyotes nuzzled along the slopes and, torn with sorrow-joy, raised their heads and shouted their feeling, half keen, half laughter, at their goddess moon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She rose from the rubble, bleeding, her clothes torn. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The first butterfly lady wears white gloves as she puts the injured one in a box, saying, “At least its wings aren’t torn.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Dirty, clothes torn, hair matted, he’s been tested. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z A man with a scratched-up face and a swollen lower lip and bloody bald spots across his skull where his hair had been torn out in clumps met them at the door. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I could have kept windows shut tight so that his ghost couldn't get in and torn through all of my mother's things. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Then they left her torn by doubt and distracted what to do. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He comes to me in his uniform with the letter I'd torn up. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The prisoner had folded and torn and twisted and fringed paper into thousands and thousands of paper birds, of all shapes and sizes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He saw the gwythaint was wounded by more than thorns; perhaps an eagle had challenged it, for blood flecked its back and a number of feathers had been torn out. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He had torn the fence out of the ground. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He was torn and jolted, found fingers in his mouth ana bit them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A balloon would start up jerkily, on a great bias, and be torn by the wind or blown against the houses of the square. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I looked down, and my sweatshirt was completely torn down the middle. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The young man stuck a dilapidated hat with a broken feather on his head and his wife picked up a bottle of rum and poured it over the front of his torn jacket. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She frowned at the many holes torn out by Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The wooden footbridge over the ravine is torn down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If he wins, I think he’s going to fight to have La Cocina torn down. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z For two hours, Harriet recounted the story of how she was torn from her family and sold “for her beauty” in the New Orleans market when she was fourteen years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z His trousers were splattered with holes and his collar was almost ripped off but the half of a yellow sun still clung to his torn sleeve. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He wears tattered clothes in different colors—a black T-shirt with a torn Abnegation jacket over it, blue jeans mended with red thread, brown boots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The letter was in his big sprawling hand on a long ruled sheet torn out of the store’s ledger book. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It did not help my state of mind when Father came home that evening with a black eye and his right sleeve torn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His clothing was torn, his hair and beard were tangled, and he was barefoot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z An old Paravan, who had seen the Walking Backwards days, torn between Loyalty and Love. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The thorns had torn a sizable rip in her, too. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I reach Boggs first, try to make sense of the torn flesh, missing limbs, to find something to stem the red flow from his body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Sweat poured down her back, and she was glad she’d worn a T-shirt with the sleeves torn off and shoulders open. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Harry showed them both the place where his robes were torn and the cut beneath them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The path toward Pol was clear at last, and Kaede saw that the guard’s neck was bent at an unnatural angle, and his left thigh had been torn into a mass of bloody flesh. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Hal arrives with an overstuffed portfolio of maps torn from atlases and pilfered from AAA. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Old pencils, a couple of stories I’d written that were too embarrassing for anybody to read, a torn pair of shorts, a comb with most of its teeth missing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed her the torn photograph, and Hermione smiled at the baby zooming in and out of sight on the toy broom. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He’d heard about blood pooled on the floors of classrooms and the bodies of twenty first graders and six educators torn apart by a semiautomatic rifle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They found carved furniture, sitting rooms, lounges, a bar with shattered liquor bottles, staterooms, art on the walls mangled and torn, oil paintings tossed about and punctured. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There’d been a sudden onslaught of light, and then a roar had torn through the air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She revised it constantly, torn forever between love and duty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandfather sends a two-word note, inked with such force that the parchment is torn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her bed would be littered with the separated sheets of the daily papers folded anyhow, while French novels with curling edges and the covers torn kept company with American magazines. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z From the bluff, I could see our place, a field of corn torn up, the hay rising up, fields of corn growing green in the sun. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Their houses had been torn down to make room for high-priced hotels and the A-frame cottages that now rented in season for a thousand dollars a week. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z After the meal, little Siegfried Fischer, no older than five, walks around the table and tugs Werner’s sleeve and hands him a photograph he has torn from a newspaper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Their clothing was wet, torn, pink with blood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Whitworth begins to vomit on the grass, which stinks in the heat and has been torn to bits by cleats and the crash of helmets and the endless screams of the fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Cats scrambled through the garbage cans that stood in front of some of the houses, and the sidewalks were strewn with old newspapers, ice cream and candy wrappers, worn cardboard cartons, and torn paper bags. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There were black circles under his eyes and his uniform was torn in about six places. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the torn shreds of a canopy proclaim a brasserie. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Just to the West of the southernmost slope there was a great ring, where the turf had been torn and beaten by many trampling feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But once we'd torn open the boxes, my sisters and I gave each other baffled looks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to patch it, and she was trying to make her stitches as invisible as possible so no one would be able to tell it had been torn in the first place. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The picture of the Little white boy with the girl's hairdo and the dog was torn right in half. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She put a hand down to her thigh where a dog had literally torn away a mouthful. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He was about thirty feet from the back of the truck when a family in stained, torn clothes tumbled out from the warehouse next to them and pushed ahead. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It would not have been so bad if the average individual were not torn between the enormity of the charge, if true, and its sensational folly, if false. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z An avowed critic of his government’s policies of apartheid, especially in sports, he was typical of South African liberals, who from time to time found themselves torn between conscience and patriotism. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As Bigwig stared back at her, he suddenly recalled Holly’s description of the great yellow hrududu that had torn open the earth above the destroyed warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked all day now and the child lay on an old torn quilt on the ground, asleep. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z One entire wall is covered in pictures and Post-it notes and napkins and torn pieces of paper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z One of Jonas’s arms was immobilized with pain, and he could see through his own torn sleeve something that looked like ragged flesh and splintery bone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I imagine a giant spotlight on me as I enter, emphasizing my ancient jeans, torn sneakers, and greasy hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a back pocket, torn from a pair of jeans. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The noble killed him then, with no warning; a flash of the nobleman’s sword and Domingo’s heart was torn to pieces. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing the same torn and oily smock, had the same rusty bike leaning against a tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She was bound to a chair, her hair disheveled, her clothing torn, her eyes wild; and her monkey dæmon thrashed and struggled on the floor in the coils of a silver chain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I’m too focused on the agony of being torn in half, like something inside of me is being savagely ripped out. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A big sheet of metal was torn off the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z All of them put on clothing from Alfhercht’s tree so they weren’t traveling in torn or bloody clothes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Look at you. You're bleeding and all torn up. For what?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She placed the torn end in her mouth and blew. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma gave Carrie to Pa and came quickly to look at the torn place. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His shirt was torn and covered with dried blood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her gauzy curtains were torn, wrapped around twigs and green-leafed branches. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She had left the town far behind by now, and was going past dirty, closed lunch stands and torn signs. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The shield, whose cover the hone’s hoof had torn, bare, or, a dragon rampant gules. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The cage was too far away—we’d be torn to pieces before we could reach it—but I could see that Emma was about to try anyway. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It would be a poor sort of immortality, however, because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A torn yellow streamer tied to one of the iron bars wafted up in the breeze, waving the word caution. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But he was also a man torn between deeply conflicting ideals, who harbored a profound resentment against many things that had been embedded in him during the early years of a puritan New England upbringing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The .38 slug had splashed off one side of Joe’s heart and had flattened against the ribs and torn out a section as big as a fist. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was an old theatre programme, creased and torn around the edges. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He thought of that blue smock his mother had made him, now torn by bullets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The whip grew taut as human flesh and bone could bear and I felt that my arm was being torn from its socket. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In Pakistan I saw enough kids in tattered clothes with their hands outstretched to finally understand why my parents always insist that Mustafa and I don’t leave the house in anything torn or dirty. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Her house was crushed in and her sleeping skins were torn and strewn over the grass. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mind!” said my convict, wiping blood from his face with his ragged sleeves, and shaking torn hair from his fingers: “I took him! I give him up to you! Mind that!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But I was so torn about it, Mal, ’cause first of all he was so gentle and so sweet to me....He said it twice, that I was beautiful. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Fleur had many cuts on her face and arms and her robes were torn, but she didn’t seem to care, nor would she allow Madam Pomfrey to clean them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z From a pocket of his torn jeans the boy produced a crumpled piece of paper. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She scoffed and threw the torn magazine to the ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The black sleeve of her blouse was torn. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Or his cries of terror as he was torn to pieces by wolves. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The crystal beads looked like paste now, and where Ana had torn the bodice, ordinary threads hung loose. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Screams and shrieks arose, and in the white foam appeared reddened arms and legs and wrenched and torn bodies,” a reporter said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were strange and shaggy affairs, woven out of stolen things—dropped ribbons and hanks of hair, fringe torn off shawls and even shed feathers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She knew how torn up his parents were; she knew how miserable their last twenty-four hours had been. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The dead baby was torn from its mother’s arms and cast behind a horse’s watering trough. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Amil held out the torn edge of a newspaper in his palm. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I washed my bleeding shoulder in the creek, tucked the torn threads of my sweater back into the hole they had come out of, and set out for my tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the lamassus, Shere Khan and Simba, had been torn free of the harness and were lying on the floor, mewling pitifully as they shrank back into their cat forms. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z They say “Aiken” and you see a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Half torn away, the gash in his cheek showing his teeth, the hole where his nose used to be open and gaping, making him look barely human. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z "I'm drifting toward it. I think I can get my hand on some of the torn canvas. . . ." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Her thoughts were like torn bits of paper blowing around. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I dig my fingers in the pocket and pull out a torn scrap of brown paper. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The black shirts had torn down another hut to make way for a sound booth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Abby’s shorts were spattered with paint stains, and the pocket of her T-shirt was half torn off. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It was then that I noticed one of the pages in the journal had been torn, just a little. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “That dead man. Lying on the ground. His stomach was torn open and steam was coming out of it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I am torn between sympathy and a desire for his life to have been as miserable as possible. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve made you unhappy. It’s the same as making you angry. You’re all wounded and hurt and torn inside. I can’t bear to see you like this. I love you so much.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Jason, Leo, and she had had an encounter with the maenads a few months ago and almost gotten torn to pieces. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And I don’t know if it was him reaching or me pulling back, but whatever it was, the whole stupid gym shirt got torn right down, the whole way. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He seemed to be wavering, torn by some internal dilemma. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I fumbled with it until I had torn open the hidden pocket. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I can feel my arms being torn off at the sockets right now as we speak! Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Cole realized the gulls were fighting over bits of his own torn flesh. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Now, Reuven, listen very carefully to what I am going to tell you. Reb Saunders’ son is a terribly torn and lonely boy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z All the doors were broken and the house was torn apart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Your father was a man torn between two halves, Rahim Khan had said in his letter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One leg dangled, torn away from the body, held there only by an oozing bit of ragged tissue. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Many of the scenes were torn out as I reworked the book. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone in a red hoodie and blue jeans torn at the knees almost bumps into me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Oh, my God! Have they broken your legs? At least say something. They haven’t torn out your tongue?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a man wearing a torn fur coat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There were piles of paper everywhere, printouts, torn maps, boxes...and then there was Clancy himself, his hair falling into his face, wearing the same rumpled white shirt I had seen the day before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Although Charles felt torn about leaving, because he was not one to shirk his duties, he just could not remain in Malvern. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper was thick; at each torn edge was a fringe of tangled fibers. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her skin was bloody and her clothes were torn and sopping, but she was alive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Stray dogs pawed at overturned trash cans and torn garbage bags, scrounging for leftovers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “My old white one again, if I can mend it fit to be seen, it got sadly torn last night,” said Meg, trying to speak quite easily, but feeling very uncomfortable. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the table lay the sheets of paper he had crumpled up or torn. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In my nightmare, I’m dressed in the silk bridal gown, but it’s torn and muddy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s torn between having an operation and letting matters take their course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I remember how the lady said its wings weren’t torn. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z But by the dme he sails his boat to safety, there is nothing left of his prize fish; the sharks have torn it to pieces. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Two bats required stitches on torn wings and, though they made a great effort to remain still while Solovet slid the needle in and out of their skin, the process was clearly agonizing for them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It might be so bad that every one of our atoms would be torn apart during the apocalypse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But they could hear the wild battles as one dog after another succumbed and was torn to pieces. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z In the growing light he saw that his clothes had been torn in a dozen places during his journey through the pit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gally’s eyes raged with lunacy; his clothes were torn and filthy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Her short brown hair was tangled, her dress so torn it was barely decent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z One morning one of the boys who looked after the plants saw that a great hole had been torn through the fence of thorns. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The old man held in one hand the end of a loop of cloth which O-lan had torn from her girdle, and within this loop the girl child staggered to and fro without falling. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z A door, torn from its hinges, lay splintered. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Alfred ripped off the torn coat sleeve and tied his handkerchief around the cut. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, for all this rare color, his clothing was ragged, torn, and patched in many parts, enough so that I could see his dirty, hairy skin in several spots. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It fell back with its stomach torn in two and one leg completely severed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where’s the sign?” he says, his torn expression changing real quick and looking around in a sudden panic. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It was a crushing day for Nguyen: they were alive, but torn from the other half of her family, and from their homeland. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z By sunrise, the girls had built a stretcher by tying old pieces of wood and broken branches with torn strips of cloth from a pair of Juanita’s old shorts. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I am torn between happiness and sadness, like something has got a hold of my heart and is pulling it in two different directions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Headmaster’s eyes raked Baba’s muddy sandals and torn shirt. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z As he spoke he took from his pocket-book the memorandum which had been in Lucy’s breast, and which she had torn in her sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Judy always wears blue jeans, torn up into shorts once summer comes, and a necklace of small seashells around her throat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The kind of yelling that was coming from outside didn’t sound human; more like live animals having their skin torn clear off the bone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I remember watching him pop his head up from a different torn comic-book page, and his notepad, to watch the kids play in the hydrant. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The bullets have torn into Baxter’s chest, spraying red mist everywhere and knocking him onto his back with a hard thud. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A boy with lime-colored hair who looks like he’s channeling for an alien species dozes; two Goths in black velvet dresses and artfully torn pantyhose trade Mona Lisa smiles. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z At the camp they found the sheep dog dead, killed and torn to pieces by the wild animals that had killed thirty head of sheep. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't just a present, but a present she received because she'd torn her other coat beyond repair, mangling her knee, leaving a permanent scar. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then I treat her torn flesh with oil. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The street was torn up and men were working on the car-tracks by the light of acetylene flares. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I pinned it down, but only after it was nearly torn in two. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Let me be torn away, then” I cried. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “A man torn apart. An adolescent boy with serious issues. Let me show you, again, the last known photo of this troubled young fugitive, taken a week ago in Denver.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Back in August the Patriots had torn it down to use the wood for the barricades. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked very quickly across the carpeted lobby, looking at nothing, and pausing only to see his ticket torn, half of it thrown into a silver box and half returned to him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Pippin was bruised and torn, his aching head was grated by the filthy jowl and hairy ear of the Orc that held him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As she confided in her diary, the breakup of her previous engagement had left her “mangled and torn and castigated and macerated in soul.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The beast’s leg was torn clean off its body. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z With my eyes on Mr. Krispin, I nod, like I can’t bear to be torn away from his riveting roll call. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “These pages look like they were torn out carefully, not ripped apart. So I think whoever did this was after what was on those pages.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As for Carla’s letters to me, a messy censor must read them because the envelopes come torn and taped, with whole sentences sometimes blocked out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z However, a web gets torn every day by the insects that kick around in it, and a spider must rebuild it when it gets full of holes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He was angry, and I could see he was torn between ending the fight and trying once more to beat me down. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Half of us, Paul with them, were torn to bits on the bridge. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Nothing stirred there on the hillside where the stuff of the world had been torn open. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The main force of the flood was broken up here and baffled by the trees, which was why the canoe hadn’t been torn loose and swept away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Her torn dress and undergarments, her shoes and her little red socks were thrown on an ash heap. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Weird Sisters now trooped up onto the stage to wildly enthusiastic applause; they were all extremely hairy and dressed in black robes that had been artfully ripped and torn. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Her face trembles, torn, I think, between terror and self-pity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suppose she gets torn up by dogs or something.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Here, the current was slow and the water clogged with trash of all sorts: fruit rinds, broken boxes, torn fishing nets, empty rice sacks, nine-year-old prison escapees. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Losing Thomas and almost losing Fig had torn me in two. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Repacking it into the torn haversack, she returned it to her mouse friend, eyeing him in an apprehensive manner. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan, and the sea itself was torn apart by the two armies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Men in straw hats and ragged pants and shirts, with torn sneakers or flip-flops or leather shoes without laces, were gathered around a cockfighting pit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The boys took turns refereeing, winning, losing, being beaten, twisted and torn, from dropkicks, the flying clothesline, and the ever-impressive flapjack spine crusher. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The dream continued as the egg was ripped from my grasp, and I felt myself being torn to shreds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She looked at the book, at the torn page. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even our school uniforms, which we had to buy each year, were secondhand, and often thin or torn in spots. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Is it a message someone gave you? That got torn up?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Furniture was overturned, statuary broken, walls stained; the pages of torn hymn books lay about everywhere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I sat up and drew away from him, suddenly conscious of my dirty hair, soiled hands, and torn clothing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Hopefully the soldiers were far enough away so they wouldn’t notice the coat’s torn bottom and how it sagged off Nate’s shoulders. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He was angular, gaunt almost, and not at all dressed for the season in a dirty, torn rubakha and leg wraps. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z So when Papá found out that a rancher was looking for sharecroppers, he felt torn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “So, I think this paper, which the Old Man of the Moon said he borrowed,” the king said, “this written line torn from the Book of Fortune is ‘the borrowed line’ you seek.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Only a day or two before, he would rather have had his right arm torn off than cry in front of Alice. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “She must have torn it out of a book.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Almost a century of family love and dedication had been poured into the place, and now it was gone, just like that, torn down by a city's rage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z My Sunday school dress was torn in three places, and Peach’s white shirt and blue suit pants were brown, heavy and sticky with mud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His fine leather jacket would be torn more than he had torn his father’s overalls. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A torn yellow streamer tied to one of the iron bars wafted up in the breeze, waving the word caution. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Some have built fortresses; others have torn them down and destroyed them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z There were no torn scraps of cloth clinging to branches, no deep bootprints or abandoned campsites. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was torn between resenting that she had taken my place and worrying that my mother might neglect her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Charley was torn three ways—with anger at me for leaving him, with gladness at the sight of Rocinante, and with pure pride in his appearance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheet music was torn from someone’s hands to streak around us like strange lightning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And within all that rubble was a goose nest that had been torn to shreds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Chavez loaned her the striped shirt that had had the buttons torn off at Lake Mag. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She’s drawn her costume ideas on a torn sheet of pattern paper and taped it to the wall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Even after his stunning triumph in Cajamarca he remained torn between fear and ambition. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I’ve torn off January, February, March, and April—the month the accident happened. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z They are not so well cared for, they are badly thumbed, and pages have been torn out for certain purposes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The many unmade bunks with torn, faded blankets hanging limply from the sides suggested that a great number of men lived there. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose it would be interesting to say that at this point I felt torn in some way, grappled with the moral implications of each of the courses available to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z ‘If the goddess of victory is running rampant, torn between Greek and Roman, she might make it impossible to bring the two camps together.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It sat down carefully in front of her, avoiding its own torn canvas in the middle of the floor, folding its great muscular legs and draping its arms in loose lines. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Combat medicine was torn flesh, gaping belly wounds, splintered bones, burns, blood, and agony. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A hole had been cut in the side and the barbed rope torn away. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She had dainty habits which matched her torn and filthy clothes in precisely the way her strong young cultivated voice matched her wizened face. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the skirt, the blouse I’d taken was several sizes too big, but at least both things were clean and neither was torn or stained. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was the one who had torn these families apart, who had ruined all these lives. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Ahead 1 saw a place where the rails were torn up. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They gather these pieces in peach baskets that they pass from hand to hand, not minding their torn gloves, torn skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s the first time he’s heard the gun at such close range, and it sounds as if the top half of the hotel has torn off. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He ran past where the crew had sealed off a part of the cargo hold, headed deeper into the belly of the torn ship, searching desperately through cabins and storerooms. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Soon I would have torn the flesh from his face just to see if I was right about the gold and nobody would have understood that kind of curiosity. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The face was torn in a dozen places. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles knew that Emma was torn about leaving Maer, and leaving her sister Elizabeth alone to care for her sick parents. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have no name. I didn’t know I was born until I was torn away from his heart.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “So, you walked into a big thorn tree and got two black eyes, a torn ear and your whole hide covered in long scratches?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I remember wanting to take the torn pieces of newspaper out of the garbage, put all of the letters back together to make words again. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “He en’t here, but I don’t feel torn apart, I feel safe, and I know he is.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z My jacket, the one my brother gave me, now torn. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She placed the key on the table, beside the torn painting and shattered glass. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I could see myself battered and torn, lying in the valley below, and I said to myself, “Sam Gribley, you had better get down from here like a rabbit.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The bone in Shae’s shin was exposed where the wolves had torn out her flesh, and Con had to hold her down while Taisin and Kaede wrapped her leg with a clean cloth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Zeitoun was proud to get the job, as he always is with buildings of significance; he hates to see them torn down. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He knew, but she said, “It was torn up and the floor dug—even the baby’s box turned out, and as I looked they put the fire to the outside.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, many years before, Katrina had been asked to replace a few threads that had torn loose. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They woke with a start, torn from their dreams. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The dog’s teeth had not broken the boy’s skin, but his pant leg was torn, and he was trembling as if he had palsy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked torn between shoving her off the bed and pulling her close, and then he got up abruptly and left the room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was terrified that Poppy would slam into the metal bench, or be torn from her arms and tossed into the river. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One of the knees in his jeans was torn, and the hand he had thrown out to break his fall was bleeding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a page torn from a very old library book. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Samuel knelt in the sandy soil, looking at the torn and broken edges of his bit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We got there and it had been torn down. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The light grows brighter still to reveal his face, the gaping eye sockets, the beard torn out in bloody patches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was bruised and bleeding, his clothing was torn to shreds, and he felt that death was near. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees were torn from their roots as it crashed through the forest. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “To complicate matters, Aurora has a torn wing that must soon be mended if we are to continue,” Ares added. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, it was in our closet. Poppy was chewing on it, that’s why it’s torn up. But look at the writing on it. Isn’t it strange?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In eighth grade he had torn ligaments in his thumb. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess was torn between wanting to smooth her hair down himself and wanting to snarl at Natalie, Don't you dare say anything about Emma’s hair being a mess! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But still, anything was better than being torn apart. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Smiling, Capricorn put his hand into it and held something up: a piece of fabric from a shirt or dress, torn and bloodstained. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Boxes filled with fruit and vegetables had torn, and their contents had spilled and broken into slippery messes on the floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I looked down, and the skin on my arms was scraped and torn. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And since he deeply loved Catherine and love requires trust, he was torn to quivering fragments by his emotion. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The bottle had broken and glass had torn through the bag and cut his hand. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Panting heavily, his jaw bruised and his leg bleeding, the agent crawled toward the beauty queen and smeared her mouth with the Mind’s Flower fruit, torn from a neighboring plant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The AT&T thing really crushed him, the wound torn open again. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Things can change so quickly, buildings can be torn down or turned into something else, it’s hard to keep them straight in your mind the way they used to be. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z As I listened I had been so torn between humiliation and fascination that to lessen my sense of shame I had kept my attention riveted upon his intense face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The old purse is torn and wet, and I don't want to touch it unless I have gloves on. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He leaned over to study the torn news clipping. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Only the high wailing continued, and then both Will and Lyra saw what it was: a tabby cat, cowering against the wall of the tower, its ear torn and its tail bent. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One day it might be the man next to you at roll call who is torn apart by dogs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Checking that no one was watching, Sir Will crawled inside, curling himself into a tight little ball against the torn inner lining. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She pushed uselessly at her disheveled hair in vague imitation of one of her mother’s gestures and twisted to see if her dress were torn. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z His armor was gone and his shirt was nearly torn off. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z On the side of a ground swell lay Jello, his body torn in bloody shreds, his face contorted. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We shall leave them ruined and wasted, broken and shattered, torn in a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Zoology Building has been torn down, it must have been years ago. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s got her nightie on again, torn, and she has her head in her hands. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I felt torn between wanting to bolt out the door and a vague curiosity about Fred’s last book. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It roves over a pair of metal cabinets that have been warped and mauled as if a giant hand has reached down and torn each in half. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As we travel this expansive concrete channel, it feels to me like the world has torn in two, and we’re traveling the seam of that tear. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He was clearly torn, but chiefly because Michael was supposed to be solo that night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Only the tips of her tail-feathers were caught between the rocks as they rolled back together; and those were torn away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Any old color is fine; just don’t wear a wedding dress or your torn shorts. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They would have killed me, thought Montag, swaying, the air still torn and stirring about him in dust, touching his bruised cheek. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z And maybe he was all torn up about it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z One of them was torn off at the corner. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Every day Wilbur would stand and look at the torn, empty web, and a lump would come to his throat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z My scheme was torn to shreds by the following noon. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z All you need are a few Cheerios or even a little piece of bread all torn up. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z No one else in the school could have done so without some risk of having it torn from his back. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She showed Laura that the dress was not torn at all, nor the pocket. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Spring came with blustering winds and torn clouds of rain and for Wang Lung the half-idle days of winter were plunged into long days of desperate labor over his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He picked up a quill from a packed table at his elbow, and pulled a torn piece of parchment from between more books. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Water dotted the scarf on her head and the white armband on her coat, and she was barefoot, her round, muddy toes sticking out from torn and filthy stockings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Red twisted and fought but every time he moved meat was torn from his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t know our names anymore, but we still had our Jewish stars on our uniforms, ragged and torn though they were, and we were all in the Jewish car. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a ratty black trench coat over his Westover Hall uniform, which was torn and stained. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Her gray tunic was torn and smeared with blood and filth, and her head had been crudely shaved. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Everything is torn, shirt, gansey, short pants, stockings, and my shoes are ready to fall off my feet entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I found Raizel waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs, her expression torn between concern and annoyance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And then a realization swept through my body as if I had been torn apart by bullets myself: My mother was not with Deborah. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Luke sat in a chair by the window; his face was bruised and his shirt was torn, and he was still drinking brandy. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z She thought, If only she had been wearing fine clothes, silk or satin instead of the torn shabby suit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d lost the distiller setup, the tarp, jugs, paddles, tools, rags, everything but the bloodstained sail, which was too worn and torn to hold water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosetta is so quiet, always glancing down shyly, her hand clutching a torn piece of cloth which she occasionally rubs against her cheek. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z We’re ashamed of the way we look and if boys from the rich schools pass remarks we’ll get into a fight and wind up with bloody noses or torn clothes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Hours and hours passed like this, until there were only three sheets of paper he hadn't torn up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Up ahead, the ancient Wonder Wheel hung over the sprawl of carnival that hadn’t been torn down or converted into fancy shops. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Will she always be torn between hope and fear? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes he felt he was being torn in two by the hoping and the not hoping. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Yellow dog eyes stared dead at Pima and Nailer, gleaming dully in the tropical sunbeams that penetrated the torn room. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Chess was torn between being proud of her courage and wanting to beg the leader, Please don’t hurt my little sister. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The decoration in the hall was torn down and the house seemed very empty because everyone had gone outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Rusted pieces of machinery and torn inner tubes still littered the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was still too torn on the edges to file away. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z His brown jacket was torn at the shoulder. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Labels got torn off and mixed, and quarrels broke out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Only Gitl, her dark green dress crumpled, the white collar torn, held her head high. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't understand how a piece of paper can mean the difference between us being together and us being torn apart. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Obviously we could not sleep in our torn and burned tents that night. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She bumped the old photographs hanging crooked on the walls, brushed the strips of torn paper aside, and came to a stop at the bottom. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war- torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I hunted for and found several stalks of motherleaf and spread the sap onto my fingers where they were bloody and torn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He stumbled, breathless and torn, into the kitchen of the house on Westward Meadows. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Magdalys felt like her heart was being torn to pieces each time the moan sounded. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She pulled a torn sleeping shift from the ragbag and, using her teeth to start, she ripped it into several strips. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The barracks are gone, torn down right after the war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Again our household was torn apart; belongings were sold, given away, or simply left behind, and we were off for another long train ride. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the skin of my knuckles is torn where my fist connected with his broken teeth. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z There’s a photo on my wall of a woman I’ve never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I’m torn between making a beeline for the next intersection and trying to get to the doors that line the street and break my way into a building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Some of the pages were typed, some torn out of a notebook. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The heirs watched helplessly as the invalid's thin frame was suddenly torn and twisted by convulsions. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m still torn between wanting my colors back and feeling like it’s an appropriate punishment that they’re gone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The three Hessians were upon the ground, their bodies twisted, their torn uniforms filthy with earth and blood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z They lived rough, their families torn apart by the events of the past ten years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I recognized it by its right ear, which was badly torn, its healed jagged edge testimony to old violence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Her shelter was already torn down, taken away in pieces by others in the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Grandma’s German clock lay upside down on the floor with the little door on its back torn off. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The glossy pictures had all been torn from magazines, a collection of pale, blond, hipless women with aquiline noses, bony legs, blank eyes, and thin, wan smiles. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Some pictures were slightly torn around the edges, and others were taken in a time when cars looked like round, colorful toasters. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She adjusted her torn and filthy tunic with her free hand and held in her sigh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was but a quarter of a body torn from the rest: unseeing, gaping head and lolling arm with shoulder and ribs to join them, impaled upon a stake, and much busied with flies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If I was larger, at that moment, I would have torn him apart. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With the one tipping out of alignment, the whole elegant scheme had torn, frayed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Muddy waves crested, dragging along branches torn from trees upstream. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Often it must have been damaged, torn, or either left as a loose page or omitted altogether. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It must have been torn down when he and Celia moved. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A w'hole waterlogged world of optimism, torn down by the patient work of changing nature. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you need fresh clothes—those you have on are filthy and torn. Put these on.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His jackets been cast aside on the ground, his shirt torn away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When I explained to Mami why I came home with a torn uniform and bruises, she made it clear that I was forbidden to fight in school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I began ransacking the house and while overturning the torn straw mattress I found a pair of old, rusted keys in one of the holes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his sleeves was torn and there was a cut over his eye, but otherwise he was as unchanged as the building. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he looks at the big, ugly wound on Shiloh’s hurt leg, torn open right to the bone, the bites around Shiloh’s neck, and the ripped ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But something had torn in his heart at the sight of these kids, and it physically hurt. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Kaz felt the cane torn from his hands by someone on his right. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Looking down, Harry saw Grawp the giant meandering past, swinging what looked like a stone gargoyle torn from the roof and roaring his displeasure. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Instead he held up the newspaper and pointed to the torn page where the Mother Paula’s advertisement had been. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a pause in which Hermione beamed at the pair of them, and Harry sat, torn between exasperation at Hermione and amusement at the look on Ron’s face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I dreaded what she would do when she woke up to find her arm torn open and turning gray. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was given a new dress-cloth because the old one was torn and foul with dog blood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nanny’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z And what had happened to the one that was torn up? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Had Calliope still been there, she would have been torn in half. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The curtains were torn from the windows, and a door was nearly ripped off its hinges. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fat Lady had vanished from her portrait, which had been slashed so viciously that strips of canvas littered the floor; great chunks of it had been torn away completely. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "Happy the Horse who knows that while he is still young. Or the Human either. Draw near, Aravis my daughter. See! My paws are velveted. You will not be torn this time." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the torn sweatshirt and the bloody elbow. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z They are worn and torn; he is too tattered to be in this neighborhood. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Koffi stared at her hands, still loosely wrapped in the bloodied strips of cloth Mama had torn from her own tunic to help her climb the vines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Another has the lower part of his body and his legs torn off. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A torn painting hung on one wall: a clipper ship, maybe even this one, painted from high up, looking down on the deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z After a moment or two I heard shrill screams coming from the rear room of the store; later the woman stumbled out, bleeding, crying, holding her stomach, her clothing torn. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It occurred to me that I might be able to push the cat through the torn window screen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Discarded pieces of zinc, chicken wire, cardboard, torn sheets that Mami had given us, and dried palm fronds formed the walls of our very own barrio under the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a small rip around the pinhole, like it’d been torn off the wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He has torn off my arm at the shoulder! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to cover herself with the torn fabric of her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I figured Pa hated seeing me torn up. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Our attitudes were made, defined, set, or corrected; our ideas were discovered, discarded, enlarged, torn apart, and accepted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On a second try three hundred yards away the wand seemed nearly torn downward out of his hands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Hands shaking, he tried to maneuver the gun upright while still holding the torn cartridge so it wouldn’t spill. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z For three weeks, Anthony wrestled with the issue, torn between loyalty to her closest friend and devotion to the organization she had worked for all her adult life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Though Bigwig did not know it, his earlier blows had torn Woundwort across the nose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dress was torn at the bottom and at both of her elbows. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z No one had noticed the small torn piece of paper at first; then Mrs. Fitzgibbon had absently picked it up and tossed it into the wastebasket. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z His shirt was torn open and his clothes half pulled off. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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