He opened his trunk and took out a bottle. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Along walls and on top of tables, jade trees, whose trunks were as thick as ankles, stood stoutly, green now and without the pink skin the sun gave them in the spring. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite ready. I shall only take a hand-bag, and shall pack my trunk in the city.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

She said nothing about her trunk, which was still in Midlothian awaiting shipment to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Later that day, I examined this tree trunk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Harry took out the rolled-up socks at the bottom of his trunk and extracted the tiny, gleaming bottle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Weylin ordered the man stripped naked and tied to the trunk of a dead tree. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After that he carried the equipment back through the kitchen and utility room, placed everything in the trunk of his car, locked the trunk, and started the car, letting it idle as he returned inside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had stuffed it into her trunk some days before and couldn’t remember at first where it had come from. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He saw his face reflected, and spat at it; he took his arm away from the tree trunk and turned a little, so that he could fall headlong and finally go under. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grasped it hunched by body, placed my bare feet on the rough trunk, and began to climb. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up Evie’s toys, scattered around the living room floor, and return them to their trunk. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t see how eight people, six large trunks, two owls, and a rat were going to fit into one small Ford Anglia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take my arms off the trunk and fold them to my chest like a mummy, loosen my thighs from their grip, and fall in a backwards swan dive to the bottom. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“And she’s just gonna be sitting at the corner on the trunk of her car, chin in her hands, waiting for you?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They watched Max place a circle of yellow crime scene tape near my trunk, using metal stakes. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the end, I made no attempt to force the trunks or locate the play book. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite ready. I shall only take a handbag, and shall pack my trunk in the city.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amelia had a New Year’s gift from her mother—a pair of woolen gloves, which she wrapped again in the paper they had come in and hid in her trunk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The screaming was coming from inside the trunk. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cord on cord of oak and ash were stacked to make tall, crooked walls between the trunks of trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The day the trunks arrived was a harsh reminder to Ash of how much her life had changed since the summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eased down opposite him and leaned my head against the tree trunk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Harry made sure that Hedwig’s cage was safely wedged on top of his trunk and wheeled his trolley around to face the barrier. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Taryn and I walk past the Lake of Masks and through the far corner of the Milkwood, picking our way past the pale, silvery trunks and bleached leaves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But when we get there, Mom’s still on the phone, so Wells and I lean against the trunk, side by side. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The trunk pops open, and I drop the bomb inside. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One paten touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Seven trunks of clothes, all the way from Barbados just for a visit?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I glance back and see the silhouette of someone curled up against a tree trunk. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m still staring after him when the elephant’s trunk sweeps past my face, blowing warm air into my ear. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My mother was bent over a small trunk, packing hurriedly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped his bow and picked up a sword from a fallen...well, he actually wasn’t sure what it was—some sort of reptilian lady warrior with snake trunks instead of legs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then Mary saw one reach beneath a grazer and milk it with her trunk; and then the wheeled one rolled over to her and raised her trunk delicately to Mary’s mouth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Arthur tried to borrow Ministry cars for us,” Mrs. Weasley whispered to Harry as they stood in the rain-washed yard, watching the taxi drivers heaving six heavy Hogwarts trunks into their cars. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Roses, azaleas, and bougainvillea climbing the trunks of tall palms. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dalton wants you to pick up the trunk at the station. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wood looked different from here, the leaves seemed higher and much farther away, and the trunks were at an odd angle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At first, I would constantly ask when I could see the trunk and use the key. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Her entire baggage consisted of a small trunk, a little rocking chair with small hand-painted flowers, and a canvas sack which kept making a cloc-cloc-cloc sound, where she carried her parents' bones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now, as I think back on it, I wasn’t in a hollow tree trunk. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sawed circular tree trunks were stacked on their sides, creating a massive wall behind the chaha’oh. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They sprinkled in moth flakes and latched the trunk closed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put him in boxing trunks and the sight was almost obscene. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn opened the trunk and pulled out a waterlogged volume of Tales of the Peculiar. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Prickles rising on the nape of my neck, I bent to scrutinize the tree trunk more closely: silvery bark, cool to the touch, ants marching out of a fissure in a glittering black thread. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ground was uneven, with roots protruding from the forest floor, and when she reached out to steady herself on a nearby tree trunk she felt something move beneath her fingers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas put the papers in the trunk and closed it, hating the twinge of unease he felt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I peeked out of an old rusted spot in the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were sitting on a pair of tree trunks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton glanced at Red, and he unlocked the trunk without protest. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole hiked the shoreline a few days early and found a little scrubby pine tree barely three feet tall growing against the trunk of a larger tree. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The Murray twins lean against the massive trunk, sipping steaming cups of mulled cider. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was older than anyone she’d seen so far: at the base of his trunk was a scatter of white hairs, and he moved stiffly, as if he had arthritis. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Minho got up and walked over to the Section One trunk and opened it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It stared at her a moment longer with deep emerald-green eyes before slithering farther up the tree’s trunk and out of sight. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ron undid his trunk, pulled out his maroon dress robes, and flung them over Pigwidgeon’s cage to muffle his hooting. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He’s taken off his shirt and is only wearing swim trunks, so I can finally see the lean, smooth muscles of his shoulders and chest and stomach. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

These good souls worked with people whose legs were swollen to the size of tree trunks, whose numb limbs had become as twisted as jungle vines. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I let go of the trunk, TaShon will be unbalanced, unable to hold it. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Baba’s lips, formed from the tree trunk’s bark, were pressed tight, his ligneous face full of a quiet sadness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’s barking round the tree and the squirrel’s skittering back and forth on the tree trunk, taunting him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The trunk ? ” He waited for Peggy to answer his surprised question. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them through the rearview mirror until Mom opened the trunk. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jeremy circled over it one more time, looking at a certain mark three-fourths of the way up the towering main trunk. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all right. I wanted to ask you about last night. . . . Oh, you took the trunk to the station, didn’t you?” she asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Partway up the trunk, a branch had broken off, and the wound was leaking golden resin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Boo flew to the tip of the elephant’s trunk to address Aru’s mom. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He gritted his teeth and caught the trunk with both hands and pulled it to the door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, I pressed my cheek against the side of my steamer trunk and pushed the bowl away. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two more ancient bags and a small trunk were brought up and put beside him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to ruin our one and only chance to steal the dynamite back because I was too big of a coward to open a trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad pressed the button to close the trunk and got back in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He knocked his currycomb against the trunk of the tree. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed behind a group of trees—Mark heard a few hard thunks as darts buried themselves in the branches and trunks—then they were in the open again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When he reached it, he lifted it onto an edge with his trunk and rolled it over to his companions. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Within its trunk was a hollow holding a single white flower, its petals shining softly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But I remember it was a scorching summer day and I was driving up a rutted dirt road, nothing on either side but sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fine steam began to rise up from the sodden ground, and the tree trunks, and the smell of it came thickly into Kingshaw's nostrils. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When she shut the trunk, she slammed it hard. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But out of the bottom of her trunk she pulled up an old quilt. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We children would help Song Po-po polish the mahogany table and Grandma’s four prized red-and-gold dowry trunks until we could see our reflections in the wood and leather. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while he held on to his trophies, pictures, and trunk full of equipment and paraphernalia, he mentions wanting to “just forget about everything.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The trunk was large enough that four stacks of Maps could fit, and all four reached the top. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, are you? Because I swear I’m going to pull over and put you in the trunk if that’s the case.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I keep walking, snapping a few pictures of a madrone tree with its papery orange bark flaking away from the trunk, the new skin underneath yellow-green and satiny smooth. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He bent down to gather three stones and pile them near a tree trunk. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t blame him; Moody’s fear of attack was bound to have been increased by his ten-month imprisonment in his own trunk. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Lyddie shifted the heavy trunk under her left arm and pushed open the door. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They sit quietly sipping their cider for a bit, leaning against the trunk of the tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Darren got out, grinned a hello, opened the trunk, and stared blankly at it while the perception slowly spread through his brain that it was also packed solid. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When elephants walk through the cave at night, they navigate by their sense of touch, probing the floor ahead of them with the tips of their trunks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in the trunk of the cab now, cold again and stony, feigning innocence. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the tight trunks he seemed very naked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The removal of the trunk has displaced the weight, and the carriage is tipping a little on its axis, He reaches in the door and pulls her out. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First you gotta go in and lop off the branches. Then you chop down the trunk.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But when she came near, up behind a sheltering tree trunk, and peered around it, her mouth dropped open and all thought of running melted away. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they put the bags in the trunk, Mr. Sen announced that he was hungry, and Mrs. Sen agreed, so they crossed the street to a restaurant where the take-out window was still open. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A train whistle screeched and was echoed inside Bronwyn’s trunk, where Miss Peregrine was being tossed around like laundry in the wash. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The left wheel strikes a stone and he hears, or thinks he does, a bump that may be the dislocation of his trunk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were careful about their work, protecting Theresa’s shoes with lunch bags, folding her clothes so as to fill their father’s old black trunk with precision. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the gun from his hands and put it back in the trunk. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground until it reached a place where there were no wash lines above it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

HairySpiders dashed out of her hollow, scrambled down my trunk, and promptly fainted. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The trunk was packed with parts of human bodies—bloody arms, hands cut off at the wrist, severed heads with staring, sightless eyes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You could fit like four bodies in there,” I said, as Officer Parrelli hefted my bike into the trunk. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for folks to learn about the ugly word carved into my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She spent every morning weeding and watering the garden, and every afternoon chipping away at the mukwa trunk. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you weren’t expecting something better,” I said apologetically, moving my trunk against my bed to make the floor space seem larger. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I chase after the thing until it boinks against the scrawny tree trunk and I bring it back to him and he winds it up again and makes it fly. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Close up on the stalls he sees that the shapes are tubs, sacks, lumber, wheels, a broken plow, a butter press and a metal trunk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we twirl, I catch sight of Rosie’s raised trunk and smiling face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dribbling down some of the tree trunks were little runnels that looked like dried sap. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I said: “Mr. Loomis, the suit is in the wagon, in the trunk. You folded it up and put it there. Can’t you remember?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the midst of it all lay the demolished trunk, photographs scattered around it like confetti. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She took a few crunching hops and then clanged into a tree trunk. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were steps around the trunk, and Tristran and the star descended them slowly. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her trunk reaches out to us, moving like an independent creature. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Parry. A different parry for each part of the trunk.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“There is a dead old lady in the trunk!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Pedro Tercero was put in the trunk of the car, curled up like a package, and covered with market baskets full of fruit and vegetables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the trunk was finally stripped bare, I assumed it would have to stop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I gaze out at the sea, visible between the trunks of the trees. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hannibal wrapped the three questers with his trunk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Charlie’s a cop, remember? I was raised to abide by traffic laws. Besides, if you turn us into a Volvo pretzel around a tree trunk, you can probably just walk away.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Probably in the trunk, which was a place I never, ever, ever wanted to see. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Glowing silks and satins spilled out of an old trunk. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their trunks made patterns of alternating light and dark beneath the canopy of branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rosie wraps her trunk around some turnip greens and rips them from the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I press my forehead to the nearest tree trunk, though it scrapes my skin, and fight off tears, Later that morning I walk through light rain to the main greenhouse. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Close the trunk,” he said, “and bury it again, Crow.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But then we started going through a couple of old steamer trunks. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walter hauls the trunks away from the wall and retrieves Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“What’s this thing that’s on yore mind?” he asked, settling back comfortably against the tree trunk and looking up at small segments of sky that appeared here and there through the canopy of green leaves. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrapped their coats each in turn around the trunk of a small tree and twisted out the water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Taking their cue from the innocent Johnny, they sat down on the fallen palm trunks and waited. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the wife’s insistence Haldar even moved her camp cot up there, along with a tin trunk that contained her belongings. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She alighted close to the tree trunk, where her dark back feathers and striking black head would blend with the bark. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pulling herself back to her feet, she went over to the small, wooden trunk under the window, and opened it with her foot. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Clearly she had hoped something like this would happen, for she had packed the trunk already. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Elephants love alcohol. See? One whiff of this and she doesn’t care about cabbages anymore. Ah!” he says, batting the trunk away. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And then another fell, farther off; she saw the massive thing descend, and watched it crash into the buttress-like root of the nearest trunk and roll away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were boxlike in shape, with no courtyards inside them, as if the demons hated fresh air but liked being shut up in something like a trunk. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slammed the trunk of the birch with a big rotten stick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The bottom, thick, rough trunk, like an elephant’s leg pulled to the right of the driveway, the top, green and lush, rolled to the left. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the tree they were sitting beside had changed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school, wearing his elephant mask on the walk home, the trunk hanging down to his waist, Palmer was a sensation. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I flail around, trying to use vines and trunks to right myself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her arms around the trunk and pressed her face to die rough wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But where its neck should be was the upper body of my Latin teacher, smoothly grafted to the horse’s trunk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had to carry the stinking slippers back to our room, but Hattie had to wear them until she was able to get fresh ones from her trunk. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The harpy had made a nest for herself between two old steamer trunks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Down the road, just around the next bend, she could make out the trunk of what looked like an enormous tree. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were barefoot and wore singlets over trunks that dripped onto the floorboards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ash clambered down off the high driver’s seat and started to untie the trunks from the rear of the carriage as Lady Isobel greeted her sister. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assembling all her children beneath the branches of the tree, she sang out to the trunk and the leaves: A selfish man stands here. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He wriggled out, seized Hedwig’s empty cage, and dashed back downstairs to his trunk, just as Uncle Vernon burst out of the dining room, his trouser leg in bloody tatters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She sat at the base of my trunk on her blanket. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All of the jurors examined the purse, the blood-stained knife, the blackened hatchet blade, the Communist pamphlets, the rum bottle, the trunk, and the signed confession. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the trunk and eased the top down and dragged it over the rug to the middle of the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And for one strange moment it seemed as if it were Bran’s face carved into the pale trunk of the weirwood, staring down at him with eyes red and wise and sad. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When everything was loaded in the trunk of their car the FBI men sat down again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, Ash sat on the front steps and watched her father and his driver loading trunks onto the carriage. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nivea would take her daughter to the window and show her the dried-out trunk of the poplar tree. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a column of ants running up a tree trunk and picked a couple out of the lineup. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her windsail of an ear moves forward and then back, and the trunk returns. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Three years later, he discovered her birth certificate in a trunk and pitch-forked her to death. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

How many trunks have fallen or stand like an unlit match? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The large raptor had tiny brown speckles on its head and trunk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He could see a few yards into the wood, and between the trunks of the first trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She places an orange and a few coins by its trunk, and says a short prayer for her daughter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I drove him and Miss Dalton up here in the car. We went upstairs together to get the trunk.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He caressed the trunk of the baby tree. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pooched out her cheeks and inspected the trunk, parched and peeling from the drought. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We clustered around the trunk, speaking in whispers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dad and I had once gone hiking in the woods at midnight, and when we had to walk through the black space of a gnarled tree trunk, I’d nearly had a panic attack. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stephen stalked around the bottom of my trunk, where the yellow police tape encircled me. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the morning I’ll take the trunk to the station, like she told me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He began to undress, thinking, I’ll tell ’em I left her with Jan in the car after I took the trunk down in the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the trees are unfamiliar, with smooth trunks and few branches. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He reached up with one hand and, with a deafening crack, effortlessly ripped a two-foot-thick branch from the trunk of the spruce. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The reason he is coming so slowly is that he is pulling a wagon, a thing about the size of a big trunk mounted on two bicycle wheels. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now the room was practically empty; the wooden pallet on which she’d once slept was piled with trunks and old bedding. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Luke was so surprised, he lost his balance and almost fell backwards off the trunk. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was sculpted around the bark of the trunk, but unmistakable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Several cedar chests, so large that Molly wonders how they got up here in the first place, are lined up against a wall next to a stack of steamer trunks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ned hired an express company to collect her trunk and saw her to the station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The bell captain slammed the trunk door down, the word NOW in big, bowl-curved letters above the license plate. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Yes it is. Anyway, I find the biggest branch and tie myself to the trunk with a rope so I don't fall off. Up here, I'm safe from stray dogs and cats—and humans." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Camel calls from behind the row of trunks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I see her trunk, poking out from the blackness. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Amil rested on the ground, propped up against a narrow tree trunk. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The trunk is in a tent, surrounded by rack after rack of vibrant costumes, props, and vanities with mirrors. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I ran to the entryway, slid the bolt, and pushed open the door just in time for him to carry a long wooden crate from the trunk of the car to the front hall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear raced through him as he scrambled after the flashlight, which had rolled to the inner edge of the trunk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"That storm dragged it out to sea. It wasn't half dangerous with all them tree trunks falling. There must have been some kids still in it." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In some way he had turned around and reared up, placing his front feet against the trunk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits at the table on one chair, she sits on the other and Malachy and I sit on the trunk we brought from America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had a notebook filled with words and phrases I might need in Australia: chemist means “pharmacy,” boot means “trunk,” lift means “elevator,” and to come good means “to turn out okay.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I know every brick and every tree trunk and every crack in the sidewalk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I let go, and he falls on the grass, his trunks so far up his butt it looks like he’s wearing a thong. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He got to the trunk and started kicking it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Harry could hear the clunk of his trunk on the stairs, and knew that the sounds had scared Dudley out of the kitchen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Harry did as he was told; Dumbledore covered Moody in the cloak, tucked it around him, and clambered out of the trunk again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In front of the house he saw wagons and carts and men loading them with furniture, chests, trunks, boxes— even old portraits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottles rattled in the back of the trunk as my brother left without me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

An overstuffed sofa had become an elephant, trunk raised in trumpet song. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The imps sprang from the trunk and scurried out of sight. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the pod and touched it delicately with those powerful, flexible trunks, and she found herself interpreting the soft chirrups and clicks and hoots they were making as expressions of disapproval. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A second that felt like a century passed before it wrapped its trunk around the rest of the blade and turned away from them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They pack the trunk quickly, and climb in, but the car has not gone a foot before it lurches forward with a horrible hobble. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Try to knock the boat free with the trunk. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And so Estha was Returned in a train with his tin trunk and his beige and pointy shoes rolled into his khaki holdall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger crept on tiptoe toward the trunk with the skillet clutched stiffly in his hand, his eyes dancing and watching every inch of the wooden floor in front of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Good one, Ruby,” I say, watching Stella stroke Ruby’s back with her trunk. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The two oaks grew close together; there was a gap of only a few inches between the trunks at eye level, an ideal place to see but not be seen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He told you not to put the car away and to take the trunk?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each bed had a small wardrobe and desk in addition to a trunk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The girls napped on running boards, or dipped to get a tire iron out of the trunk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She lifts her trunk and trumpets, taking off at a thunderous run. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When we got back to Shady’s property, we saw that there was a note nailed to the trunk of Fort Treeconderoga. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The two girls rested their heads gratefully on twin tree trunks, but only for a short time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bark had rotted away and fallen off, leaving the trunk bare and slick as glass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The narrow path changed direction often, winding up the slope and down again; here and there, near it or away off among the massive trunks of the hemmens, stood the small, forest-colored houses. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Get ready for questions like, ‘How many bubbles in a bar of soap?’ or ‘How many wrinkles in an elephant’s trunk?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But even so, there was hardly any space to walk around the two double beds, the two tiny nightstands, and the various trunks and bandboxes of the inhabitants. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another series of pops sounded, and tiny puffs of white smoke burst from the tree’s trunk where it met the ground. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After school today, Mom says, “I’ve got a ton of clothes in my trunk that I want to drop off at Goodwill. I might even find a couple of surprises there as well!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I tried to wrap my arms about it, but the trunk was much bigger than it had seemed from my window. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dubonnet and Mr. Caton were loading my stuff in its trunk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the ground, his back up against the tree trunk, and the first thing I felt was, Great, he’s okay. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“This is a willow,” she said, running her hand along a thick, tall tree trunk, “the goddess tree. The bark has been used to heal for many, many years. It’s sometimes called ‘nature’s aspirin.’” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The two Elephants with their trunks and a few dwarfs with their little axes soon got it all undone. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Some two weeks after being stuffed into a trunk, Gabriel Witter sat on the edge of a mostly comfortable bed with a brown and orange quilt draped over his shoulders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The trunk was limber and when he reached the top it swayed down with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But it simply clamped its huge, flat mouth down on one end of the trunk and twisted its massive neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry had spent the morning completely emptying his school trunk for the first time since he had packed it six years ago. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Border-patrol cops leaned into every car, talked to every driver, scanned tires, backseats, popped open trunks, checked under hoods. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He therefore started taking the egg out of his trunk every time he went up to the dormitory, opening it, and listening intently, hoping that this time it would make some sense. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Seven times he returned, bending his tall frame to enter the doorway, and with wordless disapproval set down one after the other the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the searchers ransacking the trunks and drawers and drilling holes in the walls to look for hidden valuables. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them were the mighty water monsters, giant lizards whose toes were as thick as the trunks of fully grown pine trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was blackened, and one of the branches hung crooked and dead, split from the trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vines covered most of the tree trunks, but their colors were oversaturated, almost lurid in their brightness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Father puts the gifts in the trunk of the car. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I pull, steady myself, crawl to the roof edge, then lie on my belly, grabbing the end of the trunk. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then one of Rue's eyes edges around the trunk. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Wes’s chest collapsed against the trunk of the car, sending pain throughout his entire body. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A small wickerwork basket stood beside the heap of trunks, spitting loudly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Who would be stupid enough to jump into a trunk? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By deftly lifting and twisting the claw, they could slip it out of the hole, and then they used their trunks to examine the wheel all over, cleaning the rim, checking for cracks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her parents at first believed—hoped—she had sent the trunk home because now that she was marrying a wealthy man, she no longer needed such old and worn things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I want to dig through the dirt, climb through these tangled limbs, inspect this gnarled trunk. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Trembling, Matthias took refuge in an old beech trunk that had once been riven by lightning. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They coiled around his trunk, slicing through his Kevlar reinforced jacket like a razor through rice paper. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The trunk of a car would be better, or a thimble. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Fallen boulders and rotten trunks and the roots of gnarled trees left only a tight way to steer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There are old, broad fir trunks with knobby twists in their bark. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the dent in the trunk won’t let the latch catch. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I gasp as I fall back, seizing the tree trunk at the last second. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For his youngest daughter, he filled a trunk with gowns of many colors. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Deliberately turning away from the cloak, she laid the herbal in her trunk beside the broken mirror, and she did her best to ignore the phantom presence of the moonstone ring on her hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab as many of the trash bags as I can, and hurl them into the trunk of Connor’s car. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There will be a motor car to pick up our trunk and leave us at Kingsbridge Railway Station and,You’ll be in Limerick in three or four hours. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bell captain tapped the trunk and the Chevy drove away. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He saw large brown eyes, leathery gray ears that looked familiar but wrong, a trunk, and sharp ivory tusks longer than his arms. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The long streaks of yellow light lay between the shadows of the tree trunks, and the snow was colored faintly pink. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearer trees, or at least their trunks, had a human form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn picked up Miss Peregrine and set her gently inside the trunk. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The girl had to grab on to the spindly trunks and branches clinging to the slope to keep from falling backward. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A painted cart piled high with trunks rolled into the courtyard, pulled by a weary nag in bright trappings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Now he opens his own trunk and selects a white cotton shirt and flannel waistcoat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry extracted his Cloak from his trunk with some difficulty, trying not to show Dumbledore the mess within. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And there in the trunk in the cabin, beneath the picture of Sairy in New York City, was a photo of Tiller and Sairy on their wedding day. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Albert stands at the snack counter in his swim trunks, with his little towel draped over his wide back, and contemplates his selection of ice cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Get away from that tree trunk, you stupid boy!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The great, smooth trunks stood motionless in their green shade, the branches spreading flat, one above another in crisp, light-dappled tiers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d better!” snapped Boo from his place on the elephant’s trunk. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“TaShon, I’m going to let go one hand. Throw it around you and catch the trunk. You’ll need to keep still. Let me circle around you. ’ Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Cheers,” said Ron drowsily and, as he ripped off the paper, Harry got out of bed, opened his own trunk, and began rummaging in it for the Marauder’s Map, which he hid after every use. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Often they sat together in the evening on the tree trunk by the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she told you to take the trunk down?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"They say nobody's up there, just the corpse of old man Westing rotting away on an Oriental rug," Sandy reported as he hoisted a full briefcase from the trunk of the car. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I put each trunks worth in its own box, eight boxes total. They’re all in there.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice’s trunk was full of paper: yellowed Farm Journals and buttons on cardboard and a ton of dress patterns. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His trunk and a suitcase stood on the floor. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

No, Agatha Swanburne would sit calmly upon her trunk to wait for her ride to Ashton Place, and perhaps take out a favorite volume of poetry to pass the time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Without much hope, he stepped down from the trunk and went to the other end of the attic, the portion that faced the backyard. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged the trunk again, bracing himself against the wind. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I briefly wondered how he looked in swim trunks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Indeed, when police found the trunk they discovered a hole drilled through one side, covered with a makeshift patch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They packed the trunks that morning, first dragging them up from the cellar and then — loudly — back downstairs again. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very delicately their trunks moved, sorting through the stalks in the same counting movement she’d been making, or turning the pages of the book. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was passing through one of the trunks, not really minding where she was going, when she smacked her nose. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Can I stop by and put a cooler in your trunk? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Its wood was a deep, rich brown, with bulbous bumps on its trunk that reminded him of warts. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I break the acorns open and stuff the bitter nuts into nooks of the tree trunk so the squirrels won’t go hungry. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Osha gazed up at the weirwood, at the red face carved in the pale trunk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were some ten feet from the main trunk, and Mrs. Frisby could see, just above the place where the branch joined the tree, a dark round hole as large as a lunch plate. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just as Pax had done, she leaped up onto the slant of the trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t tell the boy to take the trunk down?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs and I found an old tree trunk to share, ignoring the small group of female spectators who had gathered to cheer the teams on. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her dad dropped the dressed skeleton back into the trunk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Finnick’s hand comes up and hits me so hard, so squarely in the chest that I go flying back into a nearby tree trunk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and began to run my hands over each palm trunk. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the car into the garage, set the trunk in the snow, locked the garage door, lifted the trunk to his back and carried it to the entrance of the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled as far up the young birch as he could go, and clung there, the slender trunk swaying under his weight. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see it in my head: a strong old oak tree with a wide scarred trunk and thousands of leaves reaching to the sun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I keep it and a charging cord hidden in Harold’s trunk next to the spare tire. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Ghost, I'm not gonna lie to you," Coach said, popping the trunk. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Rhiannon finds us a secluded picnic area, and surprises me by taking a feast from the trunk. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He put the leather trunk against the wall, walked over to the door in the far corner. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Ruby taps her trunk against the rusty iron bars of her door. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The journey was uncomfortable, owing to the fact that they were jammed in the back of the taxis with their trunks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“One good push —” Harry and George threw their shoulders against the trunk and it slid out of the window into the back seat of the car. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After securing their two trunks, we took the elevated train home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then after dinner she said, “You two are going to have to climb up to the attic and go through them trunks again.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I placed the guns carefully on the floor of the trunk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna need you to get back in the trunk now,” Cabot said with surprising calmness. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were not squirrels, nor the cubs of men, they could not wriggle up the trunks of trees, clinging with soft pink paws and clumsy feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Where the bark was peeling from die trunks it lifted in tiny tendrils, almost fluffs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He perched on top of the elephant’s trunk. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While Jonas carried the trunks back upstairs, Ash lit the fires and began to prepare supper. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lurch my way toward the riverbank, using tree trunks to keep me upright, till I make it to the dock. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His upper body slams onto the trunk with so much force, he bites the inside of his cheek, and his mouth fills with blood. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was a loud scraping and puffing from behind them, and Stan and Ern appeared, carrying Harry’s trunk and Hedwig’s cage and looking around excitedly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I watched her pop the trunk and start loading in the plastic bags. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley dashed across the road to get trolleys for their trunks and they all hurried into the station. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The trunk split into branches full of soft, feathery bright green leaves where he’d also hidden names. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The sea chest is a trunk filled with the stuff he picked up from all over the world. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Later, Ash could never remember if she had helped to clean her mother’s things out of her parents’ bedchamber, or if Anya had simply swept them all into a trunk and out of sight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to the room to get the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally reached the hidden grove, I tied Quinby’s rope around a blue willow trunk. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Five dollars gets you twenty quarters, which is a ton to put into swimsuit trunk pockets. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The sheriff’s officers dragged the bodies to a car, Fannie by her feet and Joseph Starzeleski by his collar, and stacked them into the trunk to haul them away. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He strapped the nest box to his back and, gripping the lowest limb of the hemlock, swung hand over hand to the tree trunk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

About a quarter mile away, a Hyperborean giant was sitting in the bog, peacefully picking mud from between his toes with a broken tree trunk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The only other items in the room were eight trunks, just like the one containing the knives in the weapons basement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I leaned back against the trunk of the nearest tree and shut my eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Place your clothes near the trunk to keep them dry,” he said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It had two arms high on the trunk. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while he stops and lets her slip her trunk into the bucket. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After writing up a series of stories, the staff locked the documents in the trunk of a car in an unlit parking lot. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Every fiber in the trunk, the bark, the roots seemed to cry out separately against this murder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It turns out he’s already outside in the parking lot, standing by the trunk of our car, one foot on the fender, smoking a cigarette and talking to Wimpy in a low, serious voice. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Rosie curls her trunk, lifts her right front foot, and sets it gently on her ball. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Often Maeve would sit at the base of my trunk and write in her journal. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He looked away at the trees that edged our clearing, their firelit trunks and the black ness beyond. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He could hear them babbling about a trunk. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The patches of mold disappeared from the tree trunks, and the drooping plants rose upright, their leaves turning bright emerald as they basked in the blossom's light. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Brooke had a bottle of wine in the trunk of her car. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I lean against the knobby tree trunk for support. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A wonderful old feather tick was rolled up and wrapped in canvas and put away in a huge trunk. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I sigh and lean back against the trunk. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The boy’s red swimming trunks are dripping wet, leaving a pool of water beneath him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But they were hidden from her sight by a thick knob on the trunk itself. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The trunk end misses the boat, falls forward into the water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

A good part of his head was on the trunk of the tree behind where he had been standing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His head was wrapped in a flour sack with a black hole for a mouth and a long trunk for a nose. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The problem was keeping the mask on, because first Beans, then everyone else had to yank on the trunk. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The tree trunks were painted with quicklime, but the ants continued to climb, sparing neither pears, oranges, nor apples. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho carefully returned the papers and closed the trunk, then stood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There’s something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard for Atal to imagine speech without the trunk movements that clarified and defined it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sigurd grunted, and then his axe came out of the tree’s trunk with a wet rip. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He had the Invisibility Cloak he had inherited from his father — what if he bewitched the trunk to make it feather-light, tied it to his broomstick, covered himself in the cloak, and flew to London? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As long as my sisters couldn’t climb its trunk to get to the cradle, I’d always have a place to go. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It grasped at the land with long yellow fingers and made the mottled trunks of sycamores look like people’s skin. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary watched one day as a zalif examined the hole in her front wheel, touching here and there, lifting her trunk up in the air and back again, as if sampling the scent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see him until I got out of the car and got my bags from the trunk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“In Arizona, trees are everywhere. Even ones with green trunks. Mesquite. There’re green cacti, too.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ernie popped the trunk and threw the suitcase in with all the other junk their father kept back there. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“No, he was really nice about it. But he yelled at me for hiding in the trunk of his taxi.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I dropped it like a hotcake and backed away, as far as the trunk would allow, which was only about an inch or two. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother long ago had shoved all the trunks and boxes as far as they could go under the eaves, leaving prime space for Luke’s brass bed and circular rag rug and books and toys. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a masquerade party; they are like oversize children, dressed up in togs they’ve rummaged from trunks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shot again and again, sending a series of arrows fleet and sure to the center of the trunk, just below a branching limb. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Its gnarled roots twisted in and out of the earth like a nest of slow brown serpents, and hundreds of old copper pennies had been nailed to its huge trunk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I'm afraid,” I said, clinging to the trunk as it trembled in the wind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When she came to the first trunk, she rested her hands on the deeply ridged red-gold bark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So, I loaded everyone’s gifts in my trunk, climbed in the car, and drove away. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stooped, waiting to hear the bottom of the trunk touch the concrete floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on his lap had been like sitting on a pair of tree trunks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The driver of the car behind us runs off to get some rope he has stored in his trunk. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“When you were little and you would ask about this trunk, I would tell you...do you remember?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Holding a cup of coffee in his fist, Gene grinned at the soldiers and rumbled, “Don’t touch my trunks.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My boots are in the trunk,” Joe said, and out he went. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But as reality crept back into her consciousness — the chill of the cellar, the smell of it — she felt her way back to the trunks against the far wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

People are beginning to shout at the squad cars, drum on the window glass and the trunks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Right. Flying elephants. Big flapping ears. Doing yo-yo’s with their trunks.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get Seven’s keys, and he grabs a gas can from the trunk. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Her trunk hovers over its top, sniffing and trying to squirm its way around his arms into the clear liquid. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The draccus crashed into the trunk, and though it didn’t snap, it fractured with a sound like a crack of lightning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Ash said as they struggled with the heavy trunk. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, panting, they reached the landing, then carried the trunk through Harry’s room to the open window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

James had reappeared; he had divested himself of his trunk, owl, and trolley, and was evidently bursting with news. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

Two of the three sailors had already started back along the road, but Nat still stood beside the trunks and looked down at her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"What I want with your stinking Polack trunks?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She curls her trunk inward and rubs the object on it, testing it for texture. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His hand, seared with fire, slipped from the strap and the trunk hit the floor with a loud clatter. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi closed her eyes and listened and felt the age of the tree trunk under her hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they just lean into each other, their trunks twirled together like jungle vines. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Crab set his mug on the hood of the car and popped the trunk. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He stood the trunk on end and carried his right hand over his left shoulder and stooped and caught the strap and lifted the trunk to his back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my purse, counted 2, 3, 5, then jumped out of the trunk and ran. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half a moon, they rode through the Forest of Qohor, where the leaves made a golden canopy high above them, and the trunks of the trees were as wide as city gates. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Its long beams pour, white and sharp, between the trunks of trees, their clarity fading as they recede into the powdery, misty distance of beech woods at night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, manatees. If you have a water hose, they come right up and drink from it. They have whiskers and a nose like an elephant whose trunk didn’t fully grow.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He pointed out a small dent in the side of the trunk. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Rule number one: See everything. Not just the blade, but the legs, trunk, arms, tilt of the head. Train the eye. Look for the subtle signs. The subtlest of intentions.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sickly gray skin resembles an elephant's trunk with thick hair poking out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I have a small locker trunk in my room,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then she realized the tree trunk was quivering. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even a man standing in front of a tree trunk would not be visible to her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I get out and check the whole car—check the doors, hood, bumpers, lights, front grille and trunk to make sure I didn’t get into an accident without noticing. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Each of them was pushing a trunk like Harry’s in front of him — and they had an owl. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Rachel Wood’s eyes focused for the first time on the three trunk bearers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I figured he would pick me up, press me against a tree trunk, and drive the spike through my forehead and leave me hanging there while he burned our house down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She broke her stick against a trunk and picked up another one. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cots, trunks, and rickety shelving occupied the space. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Holding on to the elm, he drew himself across the roof, then crawled down the trunk and onto Parker Head Road. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their bodies collided, his back slamming against the tree’s trunk to take the worst of the impact. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was so upset by that point that I wanted to grab my bike out of the trunk and pedal all the way home. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She put it in the trunk, where I saw more supplies. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I visited the temples: the Govindji, with its great hall and its row of columns like tree trunks and its high ceilings where neat rows of bats hung like small furry pennants. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stood still, close to the trunk of the nearest tree, as a truck came around the circle and swept its lights over him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could afford a proper trunk for her belongings even if she had no place to take them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the dwarf had done, she peered into the hollow trunk. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She continued forward, sidestepping open trunks that held plumed garments from every period, curled wigs, and ostentatious hats. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we were hiding, out of breath, in the rotten trunk of an immense black tree as security ghouls scutded past, yelling for backup from the Furies. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We passed enormous fallen trees, with trunks so large the truck could have driven inside them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I made myself comfortable on a sturdy branch, my back to the trunk of the tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like standing in the hollowed-out trunk of a massive tree, something long dead and howling with echoes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I let my eyes follow the smooth white trunk up to the huge spreading limbs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a two-week waiting list. I wish I hadn’t left my copy at home, but I couldn’t fit it in my trunk with all the Lockhart books.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Bessie opened the trunk at the foot of her bed and removed the blue dress she bought her second week in South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ahead, he could see the dark, blue-green line of oak trees, with the black spaces in between their trunks. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Through the dark trees, Henry saw taillights and heard the sound of a trunk slamming closed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the car into the station, presented the ticket, got the trunk, hoisted it to the running board, and headed again for the Dalton home. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the door and took the trunk inside; his back was bent beneath its weight and he walked slowly with his eyes on the wavering red shadows on the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And his gaze traveled upward from legs planted so firmly they might as well have been tree trunks to a torso carved of stone, immovable, ivory arms, up to a blanched face that— Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two men lugged a heavy trunk between them, staggering slightly with its weight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It felt rough like a tree trunk, but seemed to pulse with all that wild reptilian life. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They put the trunk down and stared at us and we stared back at them till Grandma said, Are ye goin’ to stand here all day lookin’ at flowers an’ gawkin’ at each other? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The trunk\\ His fingerprints had a right to be here. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sat alone on the marsh bank for a while, my back against the thick trunk of the old live oak we called the boar hog tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I think: Thank goodness, the tree trunk isn’t bigger. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The vertical piles are still standing, like the trunks of dead trees, and part of the cross-planking is attached to them, but the railings are gone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t; so that when Cammy left suddenly, in June, Ralph was stuck with a veritable stockpile to bury away in the darkness of his black trunk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked aimlessly, dragging my trunk behind me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Marcus spends his break in the parking lot as he travels from trunk to trunk with a paper Harpy’s bag. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A dwarflike being with legs as thick as tree trunks: knocker. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I take a few steps in a row, and when that works out all right I cross the floor to the trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She came out to see Jacques-Paul packing his tights, harnesses, and yo-yo into the trunk. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The policyholder, usually an illiterate black woman, would dig up her policy from the bottom of a trunk or a chest and hand it to the superintendent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw how he raked the trees with his forepaws—great deep gouges in the trunks, they were. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hairy knots on the sticky trunk scraped my thighs, sweat and skin holding me there. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He had brought them to the hospital in a steamer trunk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kind of figured that out when you threatened to lock me in the trunk,” Maya scoffed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Once familiar oaks and alders appeared strange to Taran; their dead leaves clung to the tangled branches and the black trunks jutted like charred bones. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Throw those bags in the trunk. I think you're done," Coach said, climbing into the cab. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi stepped off of the path, leaned against the smooth trunk of an ash tree, and slid down to sit at its base. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She turned into a Scotch pine and he kissed the trunk at top speed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His legs were like tree trunks, and nestled in the top of one of his long socks was a comb. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby wraps her trunk around one of the bars on her door. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Iole cried out what had happened and the two, rushing to the tree, embraced the still warm trunk and watered it with their tears. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grasses were tall near the marsh, even around tree trunks, and they grazed my knees. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I scrambled onto its roof just in time to see Tyler close his trunk and turn in a circle, as if he wanted to say goodbye but there was no one to say goodbye to. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Holmes asked him to pick up a box and a trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As honored as I am to have received Great-Grampy JonJon’s mitt, all I’ve been able to think about since Daddy closed the trunk is that little brown book I saw inside of it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Huts made of tree trunks and mud and bristles of pine needles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After fidgeting with his trunk he steps into the yard. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I heard the snap of branches and groan of falling trunks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Perched on a high branch, she would eat Mullah Faizullah’s chocolates and drop the foil wrappers until they lay scattered about the trunk of the tree like silver blossoms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn had set down her trunk and I was standing on it now, head above the crowd, casting my eyes over a shifting sea of faces. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His face pressed hard against the trunk of the sentinel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He found Alec in a different cabin, leaning over a personal trunk, cursing as he tried to break into it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Jack says you can count the rings on their shells to determine their age, the same way you would count the growth rings in a tree’s trunk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Giant tulip poplars grew in the coves and at the foot of the hills, some with trunks as wide as seven or eight feet in diameter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We both stand, the trunk in our hands, our feet angled on either side of the rooftop. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes followed the leather tree trunks up and the leather turnt to blue jeans, then the blue jeans turnt into a calico shirt stretched ’crost the wide back of a giant man. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In one spotlight, I saw Joey in his red robe and trunks. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister collected the scraps of bark and got some Elmer’s glue and pasted them back onto the tree trunk like a jigsaw puzzle. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Cabinets and trunks line the walls, boxes of files are stacked in tidy rows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I became more proficient, Mam went into the shabby trunk beside her bed and brought out a hardback book of poems, blue with gold trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“In the trunk of the Chevy,” the agent explains, “locked up in the garage.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When she opened her eyes again, she had to think for a moment before recalling how she had come to spend the night curled up in a toy trunk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They had to scramble up the sides of the bank here, and hold on to roots and trunks to keep balance, standing sideways and edging along. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My trunk had been sent on ahead labelled ‘Luggage in Advance’. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruthanne sat down, her back against a rotted tree trunk, and opened a knapsack. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He nodded toward a large wooden trunk in the corner, its top open and leaning against the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The bears slammed into Roz, knocking her against the trunk of a towering tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I plowed through the second trunk, I strained to hear the sound of approaching footsteps. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was only Mr. Lewis closing the trunk. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore had convinced Harry not to go looking for the Mirror of Erised again, and for the rest of the Christmas holidays the Invisibility Cloak stayed folded at the bottom of his trunk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The trunk was filled, the back seat seemed a glittering dump heap; unnoticed, unmentioned by even his grandson, the ailing old man was all but hidden under the shifting, dangerously chiming cargo. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d swear he told you to take that trunk down and leave the car out in the snow.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His trunk had been scissored open and emptied out, ice filling the cavity where his vitals had been. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Now I can remember putting it into the trunk, before I went to high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found Madame Hoo in their rear fourth-floor apartment kneeling before her bamboo trunk, fingering mementoes from her childhood in China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enormous it looked, its sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingered hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures that creaked faintly as the boughs moved. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We walked past the hill, crossed the stream, and headed toward the trees in the back, where a large boulder sat between several trunks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two large trunks stood open on the floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“You’d better get on, Harry, I want the trunks ready tonight, if possible, so we don’t have the usual last-minute scramble.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mother meant the other kind of chest, like a steamer trunk, in which a girl was supposed to put everything she hoped she’d get to use one day after she got married. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed there, exposed to the sun and the rain, as if the thongs were unnecessary, for a dominion superior to any visible bond kept him tied to the trunk of the chestnut tree. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She gazes upon his bent back with flattened ears and then seems to adjust her attitude, swinging her trunk and investigating the ground in front of her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ruby dips her trunk in her water bucket. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Gene loaded his trunks into the van by himself and set off for Reston. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the narrow bed had clean sheets, and there was a trunk with a lock where I could keep my meager possessions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She looked at the tree where she had tied it, and the rope was still knotted around the trunk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was trying to replay how he’d opened the trunk the day before, when the taxi bolted forward, tossing him against the back metal edge of the trunk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We walk around the twisting trunks, going off the beaten path toward the trilling croaks of more tree frogs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had spent an afternoon here, before Kingshaw had come, and found a trunk full of odd lumps of rock, of different textures and colours. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I saw the grocery bags in the trunk and I ditched my bike under the pine tree. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They cruised low to the ground, skimming over bushes, dodging tree trunks, and swishing past branches. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It has erased all but the great tree trunks, making my mountaintop home as simple as it was when I first came here more than two years ago. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Branches whipped at my face and cut it, and vines and tree trunks caught at my feet and tripped me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My statues are still packed in my trunk, Anu. I didn't set them up when I moved into your apartment." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had watched Hassan and Ali load their belongings into the trunk of my father’s car. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the car, out of breath, just as my father was loading the last of the luggage into the trunk. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy sat against the trunk of a nearby cottonwood. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I relate the way the poor Tree Man’s extremities hung from him like gnarled trunks, and with that disturbing image firmly planted in my head, I’m pumped, confident, and take a bigger bite. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Inside, the gold light from the candle illuminated old furniture, boxes, wrought iron signs, and empty trunks marked for Christmas. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then, heaving his trunk in one hand and holding Hedwig’s cage in the other, he made his way back downstairs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gallegos ran, but the bandits, cursing, caught up to him and beat him with a small tree trunk. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were solid black trunks and flimsy tan suitcases bound with thin rope and more laundry bags than she could count. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He watched Britten turn the trunk over and bend to it and try to work the lock. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen feet below, through a haze of dust and darkness, I saw what remained of the trunk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Britten could not unlock the trunk and he looked upward, at Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside there was an apartment of many rooms furnished with chairs carved out of polished tree trunks, with cushions of rose and gold and green silk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their eyes wrinkled, their trunks waved, they tossed their heads—and from their throats came the unmistakable sound of merriment. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But if we wait too long, the hurricane winds will come back, and the skinny tree trunks and boulders won’t be enough shelter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I only helped her when she was having trouble dragging him over to sit him up against the trunk of a mesquite tree. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes glanced up at the lid of the trunk, waiting for it to pop open so that he could scramble out. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"That is easy enough," he said, and he had the trunk brought into the house and returned in moments. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we got there, Michael changed from his suit to swim trunks and went sprinting into the ocean. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Their twisted, giant trunks were bunched together like some sort of crowd...or guards. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, she threw off the blankets and dressed in her warmest leggings and a thick woolen dress, and then opened the small trunk at the foot of her bed and pulled out the silvery cloak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Loomis, running in a groping kind of way, as if he could not see well, had not gone to the tent but to the trunk. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Bigger, he’s behind the trunk!” the girl whimpered. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He doubled her knees and pushed her completely into the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

During the first couple of days at Wal-Mart, the weather was cool and I kept it in the trunk of my car. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed a tree, dropped back to peer into my face, then climbed another tree, holding on to the trunk with his feet while his arms flailed in the air. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A ten-foot trunk remained upright, its ragged top charred where lightning had struck. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ralph looked at him doubtfully and laid the conch on the tree trunk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I got a .22 in my trunk. You just wait.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If I could find Grigori’s trunk, perhaps there would be a clue to where he intended to start the fire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t think so. At least not like any I've seen. Dracaenae have two serpent trunks for legs. These guys just have one.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, they were riding through a forest of trees with trunks wider than the length of the wagon they had left behind in Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At least football players wore uniforms, but boxers wore only the trunks. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand brushes past him, clutches the trunk. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sitting up in bed, my arms felt light, yet hard as tree trunks. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You did a nice job on the trunks,” Grandma said. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all seem to be a hundred feet tall, with no branches along their trunks except at the very top. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The trunk lay on a steep slant from the top of the bank to the water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped just before the tree, the tops of their heads not even reaching a third of the way up its trunk. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I dragged him to the trunk and rubbed his nose against it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She marched up the steep path to where the car was parked, and she wasn’t even breathing hard as she pulled a large inner tube from the trunk. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the hum has almost reached them; Zizmo is opening the trunk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I looked up at where her mouth must have touched the trunk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The bull man pushes her trunk away and turns to his boss. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washburn is still arguing with the remaining policeman about helping with the dented trunk. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“JT said he has the dynamite in the trunk of his car.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I took long strides to the nearest dead tree trunk, where the soil was firmer, and held onto it for balance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to have to rub and grease them at night, just like my dad used to, and it was like putting lotion on two tree trunks. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Harry started to pick up all his things and throw them into his trunk. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

For miles it was either entirely barren or covered in the spindly trunks of dead trees, a few still weakly standing but most toppled. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gently but firmly, using her trunk, she nudges Ruby into her domain. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He jumped from the trunk and scratched at the dirt beneath. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Off to the right there were short trees with wide trunks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went to track down my father, who had wandered a little distance from the fenced garden and was sitting against a tree trunk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned against the Bottle Tree, one hand clutching the backpack, the other pushed inside the trunk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Pirates Island had thickets of honeysuckle and tall trees with trunks gnarled from the yearly spring floods. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the cloudless sky, the old trees ahead cast deep, dark, cool shadows, and it was a few seconds before Harry’s eyes discerned the building half-hidden amongst the tangle of trunks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Crooked between the trunk and a branch, a sort of gray paper cyclone contained a circular hole about an inch in diameter. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He reached into the trunk, lifted it out by its neck, and rattled it back and forth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The house became a clutter of trunks, of animals in jars of formaldehyde, of Indian lances and sailor’s bundles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry turned and saw something monstrous cutting through the water toward them: a human body in swimming trunks with the head of a shark. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Headless trunks were tossed out of the vortex to linger a moment on the surface and sink out of sight.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The human trunk can be attacked front or back. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Harry opened his trunk again and pushed the contents aside, looking for the Invisibility Cloak — but before he had found it, he straightened up suddenly, looking around him once more. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She let her head tilt sideways, closed her eyes, and shook her massive trunk, letting the laughter fall like a wash of red leaves all around us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry rummaged once more in his trunk, extracted his money bag, and shoved some gold into Stan’s hand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The policemen shepherd the prisoner inside while the captain removes a handbag from the car’s trunk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quite a few single poles and blackened tree trunks stuck up from the ground, and here and there a skeleton of a building rose forlornly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He then bent down over his trunk and opened it again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We tied Mom’s art supplies to the roof and filled the trunk with pots and pans and blankets. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of Brave Orchid’s children brought the car from the parking lot, and the other heaved the luggage into the trunk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I won't really put you in the trunk," he said, smirking. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In the beam of my flashlight, the gnarled trunks looked like faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He rolled clumsily and pushed and squirmed backward, using the strength of his arms, until he was sitting with his back to the trunk of a tall ash. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some have trunks and capes, others carry birdcages or silver-topped canes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She lifts her trunk and opens her mouth in a smile. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She slid down off the saddle, landing with a splish in a dark puddle, and wrapped herself around one of his great big tree trunk legs. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Can you stand?” the man asked, pulling Gabriel from the trunk. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She pops open the trunk and takes out a blue rolling suitcase, the kind that fits into the overhead compartment on a plane. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Ruby pokes her trunk between the bars and makes a circle in the air. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I've rolled sideways off the fork and I'm facing the ground, held in place by the belt, one hand, and my feet straddling the pack inside my sleeping bag, braced against the trunk. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Papa got up, folded the blanket, and placed it back inside the trunk of the car. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Holt unloaded my trunk, then handed me Mr. Whiskers in his case. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now there were only trees, their gray-brown trunks scaled with lichen, and every so often the sound of a squirrel or rabbit bounding through the underbrush. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The nostrils open and close, snuffing and blowing, and then the trunk retreats. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Two big trunks sat in front of the fireplace. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They're even making a temporary exhibit about you, where some of the stuff from the attic and your trunk will be on display. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

From her aisle, Anna said, “Sure do! Especially when they spray water from their trunks. What about you, Petey?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Panicked, I picked up the letter opener handle and pounded at the lock, again and again, until finally, the trunk popped open. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took a bus to a place Rasheed called the Shar-e-Nau Park, where children pushed each other on swings and slapped volleyballs over ragged nets tied to tree trunks. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The preparations for the trip kept the family busy for two weeks, and the house became a clutter of trunks, steamer baskets, and valises. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chattering shrilly in alarm and excitement, the squirrel ran up the trunk of the tree and the whisky-jacks flew off. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings seemed to have been situated to make room for giant trunks and root systems, and in the wavering torchlight, they looked almost as if they had grown out of the trees themselves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Clumps of grass rose high among fallen tree trunks and withered branches. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

My trunk was broken open and the contents scattered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It explodes, and her trunk dives instantly into its red flesh. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Hello. I am Joey Pow. I am beating all my opponents in four and a half seconds. It is because I wear the red trunks my sponsor says are good luck. This is my sponsor.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Him and Mr. Lewis went around to the back and the trunk opened and I heard someone rumbling around in it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Rik arrived we threw the hash in the trunk and took off with Hamilton driving like a madman. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He’s stopped walking and is picking bark off an oak tree’s trunk. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I'll have to saw off the branch at the trunk and send the whole thing down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head sadly, closes her door a moment to search beneath a trunk where she hopes she's dropped a coin or two. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

By the third trunk, I was ready to give up. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, when his father had been taking his afternoon nap, Fadi had double-checked the trunk from the inside, making sure the safety release worked properly. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I must say, I didn’t approve at first, but they do seem to have a bit of a flair for business! Come on, dear, your trunk’s already up there.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Down below, about fifty of the Calormenes, dismounted, were steadily swinging a great tree trunk against the gate. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He patted the palm trunk softly, and, forced at last to believe in the reality of the island, laughed delightedly again and stood on his head. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The ground was covered with a thick carpet of pine needles and the charred trunks of pine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Rob’s dad, who was standing at the back of the car getting Robbie’s bag and lunch out of the trunk, glanced at Gerald with concern. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After offering his scent, Gray settled himself on the grass beside the fallen trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She puts her trunk between the bars and touches Julia’s shoulder. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Golden Gray examines the trunk fastenings before going to the rope-locked door of the little house. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each trunk had two sets of brass locks on its front and a round brass handle on each end. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, praying he didn’t have burial shrouds hidden at the bottom of that trunk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Two more days of filming,” he said as he pressed the button to close the trunk. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She rummaged in a trunk and brought out a long flannel shirt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon they seemed very approximate, like the idea of trees: a grayish-brown trunk below, a greenish splodge of something that might have been leaves above. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The trunk of this palm tree must have been about two feet in diameter because I could easily put my hands around to the back. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was on the very end of the line, next to Krum, who was wearing swimming trunks and was holding his wand ready. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was green and amber and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded ground, fanning into sturdy stripes between the tree trunks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives George a frustrated nudge with her trunk, and Julia giggles. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh; yes. Take the trunk on. I suppose Mary was up to some of her pranks.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tree was full of pecans and its trunk and branches were now good for climbing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

The elephant opens her shovel-shaped mouth in what can only be described as a smile and starts to sway, keeping time with the movement of her trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he went out to get the tin trunk and after a while I followed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they locked that trunk and put it in a corner of the attic. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He saw only rain bending the branches of the hemlocks and running in rivulets down their trunks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two dracaenae slithered in—snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He gathered his strength and then he managed to shinny up the trunk inch by inch. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually Dad’s painting improved, and the first trunk was finished. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were palm trees— real palm trees with sturdy trunks. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Packard’s trunk could fit four cases of liquor, its commodious, curtained backseat eight more. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He took the trunk to the corner in which he had placed it the night before. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you like them? I’ll give you some just like them if you like. I have several pairs in my trunk.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed hold of a skinny black-walnut tree trunk and wrapped Peach’s arms around it. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their trunks had been brought up for them and stood at the ends of their beds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph felt his knee against something hard and rocked a charred trunk that was edgy to the touch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had taken off her fine hunting clothes and folded them into the trunk at the foot of her bed with the fairy cloak, but the next morning the clothes were gone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benny told Alex to load his trunk first, and then the backseat. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Lita sits on a blanket, leaning against the trunk of a piñon tree in its shade. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Jim came for my trunk, he also brought my mail. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I saw an arm, a blur, and then—splat—something hit my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s remarkably easy to steal from; his trunk combination is the date he got his first broom. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I hold the trunk in my arms and pull it around like a lance. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the trunk into which he had stuffed Mary’s body, the trunk which he had lugged down the stairs and had carried to the station. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sense my family in a flurry behind me, Mom’s and Jack’s voices pitched in panic as I lift my foot and try to hop to the nearest tree trunk to support myself. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nivea took charge of Clara’s trousseau, since Clara did not show the slightest interest in the contents of the sandalwood trunks, and continued her experiments with the three-legged table and her divining cards. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fought my curiosity about the trunk and managed to remember my manners. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

So we all loaded our gear in the trunk and got in the car. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Saw boxes of our clothes, Ma’s trunk, her “Hope Chest” she calls it, broken in the street. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I'm fast, though, and by the time they've reached the base of my trunk, I'm twenty feet up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In addition, Anthony had an extensive collection of articles and memorabilia that she had collected over the years and stored in scrapbooks, trunks, and boxes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he look in this corner of the trunk much, she say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mercy had said no word, but now as she folded the blue shawl and laid it quietly on top of the trunk, Rachel found courage for her only protest. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They always see you first, and grow still as tree trunks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Connor exit the car in silence, and I avoid looking at everyone as we pull our bags out of the open trunk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He sprang lightly up from the ground and caught a branch that grew from the trunk high above his head. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shirtless and barefoot, he leaned casually against the trunk of a tall pine. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

For the next hour, we rummaged through Grandma’s trunks filled with fabrics she had collected over the years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better: Johnny found that the old violin hidden in a trunk in his attic wasn’t a real Stradivarius. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in the side mirror and watched his father place two heavy suitcases into the trunk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He stripped it of branches, broke the trunk into two pieces, and used them to haul himself upright. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Below that, where her legs should’ve been, were two massive snake trunks, mottled bronze and green. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“People are supposed to make their wishes on a rag or piece of paper, not carve it into the trunk,” Francesca said. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He has a trunk full of comics and cool posters. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I focus on a tree trunk across the stream, twirl the sling over my head, and let a stone fly. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My trunk is in the carriage that brought me from the station,” Penelope said. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I just couldn’t face the thought of leaving any loose ends, so I climbed into the trunk to reach the last two sticks of dynamite. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she frowned as she sat in the baggage car, rocking along with the boxes and trunks, unable to see the land she was traveling through. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day after school she would come home, hang her backpack from the stone elephant’s trunk, and creep toward the Hall of the Gods. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry....As long as he keeps wearing red trunks we’re bound to win.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I shrugged off my pack and took a run at the trunk. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The flaring light illuminated the books stacked around the trunk nearby, and as the shadows leapt over the bindings, she began to wonder what was in them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then, holding my breath, I gave the trunk a little tap with my foot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’m about to jet back to my room as fast as I can—before somebody wakes up and catches me—but something else in the trunk grabs my eye. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Sky lizards are already scurrying into holes inside the trunks, guided by some instinct they’ve known from a millennium of eight-hour wind cycles. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the coast had been clear, he’d snuck out of the apartment and hidden in the trunk of the taxi, which he’d unlocked earlier. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Pa had walked her suitcases down to the Wildcat and was putting them in the trunk. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the leg of my trunks. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You two stop that jawing and get on in the car,” Ob said cheerfully as he slammed the trunk. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stuffed the remainder of the chocolate-covered cotton ball into his shirt pocket and edged his way back gingerly along the branch to the smooth gray trunk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She carries Marlena on her head, her trunk curled in a salute and her mouth open in a smile. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Daddy places my suitcases in the trunk while Pop Pop, Tanisha, and I wait in the car. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Its soaring black trunk was set with rough wooden pegs leading up to a substantial limb which extended farther toward the water. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He simply sat and rocked the trunk gently. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Its reddish brown back, marked by pale stripes, lay toward her, and one of the large, cuplike ears was silhouetted against the pale trunk of the fig. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the danger of the enterprise, the young mouse actually enjoyed the ride across the river on the tree trunk. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The other lady had the dry face of an old tree trunk. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set her trunk down in the aisle and reached out a hand to help Olive on board. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He put in their mother’s old skin trunk, which had carried her meager trousseau to this mountain and most of the food she’d managed to preserve before she gave up trying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A book of photographs: a dragon dance at Tet, schoolgirls in white do dais, a temple built on a tree trunk. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Werner glances around: a trunk, a box of linens, the pale blue of the walls and the rich white of the wainscot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They carried shields made from flattened cars, and clubs that were tree trunks with rusty spikes bristling at the end. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I follow her, keys in hand, and open the trunk. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had not thought that the trunk was not fully packed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They love climbing up my trunk to my uppermost branches. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gray squirrels streaked down mottled trunks of rubber trees that slanted towards the sun. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great shadows fell across them; trunks and branches of trees hung dark and threatening over the path. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She whipped it back and forth past the dark columns of tree trunks, shooting through them at top speed, so fast that her hands and face collected dozens of scratches from the branches blurring by. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, nothing, suh. Miss Dalton told me to take the trunk down so I could take it to the station this morning; and I did.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi closed her eyes, letting her head tilt back against the tree trunk. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’d never be able to drag his trunk all the way to London. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The horse lines were to the north, and beyond them, two dozen elephants grazed beside the water, pulling up reeds with their trunks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We head through the Crooked Forest, with its bent trunks, since the Milkwood is dangerous at night. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Harry went to get the Invisibility Cloak out of his trunk right after dinner, and spent the evening sitting on it, waiting for the room to clear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Cabot tossed the flashlight back into the car, walked around to the back, and opened the trunk. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Can you and Mustafa grab the rest of the things from the trunk while I set up the kitchen? I’m not doing those stairs again.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain it, but I sensed that when I found the right trunk, I would just know. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inch by inch, the trunk slid through the window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Is that him?” croaks Camel from behind the trunks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I yanked off my ribbon tie and slung it over the trunk with my overcoat and waistcoat, too exhausted to bother hanging them up. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It's a teenager with arms as thick as tree trunks. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Silas closed the lid of the brown leather trunk, and began to do up the straps and the buckles. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He’s talking too fast, as if he’s the one who rammed into a car, his hand trying desperately to push down the trunk that has flown open. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I can still feel his grip on my arm, as if he’s still here, shackling me to the trunk with his hands and his weight, but he’s not. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their foliage was dense and dark green, their vast trunks gold-red in the heavy evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I could. But I’d rather wait. I still think Mary’s up to some of her foolish pranks. Bigger, you’d better get that trunk.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His legs hit his trunk and he tripped. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Wiping my eyes, I sat up and opened the trunk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I catch the warm little trunk like a worm, and it wraps around my finger. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Two of the men lowered over the side the seven small leather trunks that held all of Kit’s belongings and piled them, one beside the other, on the wet planking. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"We kept a trunk of some such things. Photographs, letters, school certificates. But nobody came for them." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I rose to my feet and wrestled my trunk onto its wooden wheels. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Shove a palm trunk under that and if an enemy came look!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the way I see it through my Adah eyes it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line shadows of tall palm trunks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A considerable amount of floor space was devoted to a vast number of unmarked, sealed cardboard boxes, amongst which stood Harry’s school trunk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We drove past a barbed-wire fence, through a gate, and into an open space where trunks and sacks and packages had been dumped from the baggage trucks that drove out ahead of us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paddled to it and tied the canoe to the trunk. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The trunks right themselves instantly, but Hector picks up the cage to inspect the damage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She called two boys who were hanging around the railway station and paid them to carry the trunk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Grace asks me as she walks around to the trunk. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at Taisin, pale-faced and stiff in her chair carved out of a tree trunk, and then at Kaede, who had dark shadows beneath her eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He returned the shovel the next morning and the following day removed the trunk from the house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I know he’s leaving after dinner. Bilal just loaded a pretty big suitcase into his trunk. It's got to be at least a week or two, but hopefully longer.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I heard the sudden crunch of footsteps on gravel and, hardly aware of what I was doing, turned away spasmodically and pretended to inspect the trunk of a nearby tree. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could see a sunlit river glittering through their trunks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When she opened her trunk, it smelled of the house at Rook Hill, and it all came back: the way her father smiled at her on her birthday. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still they came to trees across the road where they were forced to unload the cart and carry everything over the trunks and then repack it all on the far side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ma comes around to the trunk of the pine tree, unfastens the wire that holds the fencing closed, and lets herself in. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the other end from Tarik and looked around for a tree trunk to tie it to. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We put it in the trunk of your car hours ago—Ain’t nothin’ like some cool bottled sunshine in the moonlight after a hot game! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa unloaded the suitcase from the trunk, took out his wallet, and paid the woman. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before the clink there were just the beeches, but immediately afterward there was a knight in full armour, standing still and silent and unearthly, among the majestic trunks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree grew taller and thicker, until only the Titan’s face was visible in the middle of the trunk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And there was that trunk full of gold bars. They could hardly carry it.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around him were crates and trunks and bags neatly stacked on shelves and lined up on the floor. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Mitt pointing at the gnarled trunks of my father’s tanned bowlegs bared beneath his shorts and saying, “Grandpa’s a bulldog.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father opened our trunk and got out some clean, well-ironed shirts—some of White Deer’s masterpieces. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep among the trees she lay on a fallen log and gazed far up branchless trunks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kept his eye pressed against the sight as he tracked the deer between the crisscrossing tree trunks, and all I could think about was my twitching sphincter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as I get off the phone, I take a plastic bag out to the cab and unload the guilty party from the trunk. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“My son never stored dynamite in the trunk of his car,” said Mr. Dalton. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About 7 o’clock in the evening Holmes came out of his office and asked two men who were living in the building if they would not help him carry a trunk downstairs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I awake the next morning, I see a little trunk poking out between the bars of Stella’s domain. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Bod put a hand into the empty trunk, touched the silk lining, touched dried earth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As they ran past one of the black trees, he slashed his sword across the trunk. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The trunk is too wide and icy to shinny up, though, and there are no low branches. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up they came until they reached the first foot hole Nhamo had carved into the tree trunk, before she made the ladder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only as I brush my palm against the trunk of the sycamore tree, wanting to feel its smooth skin against my own, that I see it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was dark in the trunk, with only bits of light coming in. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could think of was how when Red came back and opened the trunk to put the fish he’d caught inside, he was going to kill me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its sinuous trunk it stroked the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of tom thick flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I dug out my keys, and with his back braced against the tree he lifted me up along the broad smooth trunk. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We had no medicine or speed balls, no proper boxing trunks or shoes, and no mouth guards. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore closed the trunk, placed a second key in the second lock, and opened the trunk again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sat down then, his back resting on the trunk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were white and narrow, and his trunks were royal blue. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I carried one end of the rope in one hand and the packet from Uncle Chester’s trunk in the other. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s a metal trunk!” shouted Kojo when its dusty top revealed itself. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

What excuse could she make to get into her trunks today? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

What I’d assumed was a boulder was really the giant folk hero sitting against a tree trunk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A landscaper found her in a tree trunk. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You ’ave this one,” Stan whispered, shoving Harry’s trunk under the bed right behind the driver, who was sitting in an armchair in front of the steering wheel. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fragments of timber and ivy whistled in all directions, clattering against the trunks of trees and slashing through the undergrowth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A trunk tumbled off a shelf and hit the scar-faced man on the head. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the southwest corner there were boxes and trunks with tarps pulled over them to protect them from uninitiated eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s in swimming trunks, she in a long blue coat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His voice was deep, the tones rich and varied, the gestures of his trunk low and graceful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked at the trunk, even made a dent in the metal, but it still didn’t open. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked for a few minutes to release my arms from the loops of rope around the palm trunk, and then slid out from under Timothy’s body. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

All round the place of assembly the grey trunks rose, straight or leaning, and supported the low roof of leaves. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fabian, sitting with his back against the oak’s trunk, put two fingers in his mouth and whistled, long and low. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It took less than a minute for them to pull the tree down so that its trunk lay blocking the road. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He dug into my trunk with the object in his hand. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Petey pulled more paper from the tree trunks, the bushes, the flowers, whatever wasn’t strung up too high. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

What elicits the gasp is the fact that they are standing in a forest, her back pressed up against a huge, ancient tree trunk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He not only did that, but he broke up the trunk with a hatchet and threw the pieces into the fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Right there by the trunk of the tree. I was looking up. It was almost sunset, and I remember the way the sun was shining in my eyes.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the darkness grew, the fire began throwing odd shadows on the tree trunks around him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, I sat down on a tree trunk, leaning forward because the backs of my thighs still stung. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He made Mark step back and hid the two of them behind the large trunk of an oak. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How could he explain that she had told him to take a half-packed trunk to the station? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hung my one extra shirt and my cloak in the wardrobe and put my travel- sack in the trunk at the foot of my bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His servants shrank from the sacrilege when he ordered them to fell it; whereupon he seized an ax himself and attacked the mighty trunk around which the dryads used to hold their dances. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These trees were beeches, whose trunks are always more beautiful in a pearly light, and among the beeches there was the smallest movement and a silvery dink. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I peeked through the crack, I saw her going through the trunk at the end of their bed, where she stores all our baby stuff. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tree hollows—holes in a trunk or branch—are not uncommon, especially in trees like me who’ve been around awhile. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She walked between fallen trees, and when there was no room between the trees, she climbed up and walked along their trunks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I left my trunk, grabbed my valise and Mr. Whiskers, and started off down the snow-lined street. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he stuck out his bare foot and pushed the trunk a few inches. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of which starts to make sense, because as my cramped body realizes my brain is open for business, it soon becomes clear I am stuffed into a trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On knees still shaking from the cow episode, I knelt by the trunk and ran my finger over the leather straps. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I pick one off the trunk and take a bite, the juice dribbling down my chin. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fadi curled up in a ball and pressed his back against the inner edge of the trunk just as light spilled inside and two faces peered down at him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I’m on my feet, moving back into the trees, resting my hand on the rough trunk of a maple where the birds perch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was pulling bag after bag of groceries out of the trunk and stacking them on the hood of the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed all the gym bags full of dirty sports gear in the trunk and slammed it shut. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Their shadows wave on the tree trunks and the forest floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mary had made a hoe to save having to bend down; Atal used her trunk, so their conversation was intermittent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I am like a severed branch flung by a storm from the trunk of a great, dying tree. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could use the letter opener like a prybar to force the trunk open. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo straightened the boy's blanket and leaned back against the tree trunk. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And beyond the dead trunks, maybe sixty yards away, was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drops my bag and dress on the trunk of my car. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I rested a hand on the trunk of a low-branching oak. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But none of that stuff compared to what I found when I removed a pile of framed pictures so I could see to the bottom of the trunk. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Sitting on a tack trunk with his friend Bill Buck during the match negotiations, he made an amazing statement. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furnishings were sparse: a narrow bed, a rickety nightstand, and a secondhand trunk for clothes and books. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Colin opened the trunk at the foot of his bed and pulled out dark blue breeches and a white waistcoat, a white shirt with unfolded cravat, and a dark blue overcoat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or in the trunk of some car, bound and gagged. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But suppose he told them that he had come to get the trunk? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The saw’s humming was almost a scream as it got near the center of the trunk. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Minho returned his gaze to the Maps in the trunk, much to Thomas’s relief. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My mother too views this as an adventure: she says she hasn’t looked into that trunk for years, she has no idea what’s in there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of fear made his heart thunder and slaver ran from his jaws, and he reached the falling tree in stride and threw himself up the trunk, claws scrabbling at the bark for purchase. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I search under the seats, between the seats—even the trunk is bursting with junk. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What happened was she hid some secret papers in the trunk of a car she borrowed, and she ran out of gas on the highway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightfoot, her toes curled tight around the branch, she walked a few feet, hopped down to a larger limb, then swung hand over hand through the tangle of leaves until she reached the trunk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they do their homework at the base of my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The trunk is maybe five feet long; it is bigger, heavier than TaShon. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I watched as he put my backpack and one meager garbage sack in the trunk. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I stayed inside while my dad made a big show of grabbing the bags from the trunk and my mom carried Jeffrey in. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You hold the trunk’s end, TaShon, and I’ll try to punch the boat. Make sure you don’t fall off the roof! Brace your feet strong.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a large, grainy image of a body of water and two shapes were at the surface: a long mass like the trunk of a tree, followed by a stubby triangle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

His chest was thick and his neck was die size of a small tree trunk. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stagger to the row of trunks against the back wall and lean over them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then the sunlight was fractured by thin trunks of tilting trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what made me look in the trunk before I closed it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweating in the equatorial sun, some of the researchers admiringly fingered the plump, pendulous green fruit, each the size of a baby’s head, wrapped in clusters around the trees’ sturdy trunks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The little girl leaped over a fallen tree trunk, her sneakers squelching through the forest muck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She drifted off to sleep, but when Tiller’s snoring woke her, she got up and went into the living room and opened the trunk in the corner. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

George and Aunt Daisy squeezed through the crowd, weaving around trunks and stepping over sleeping children. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sekani and Daniel run around in their trunks and push unsuspecting people in. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Not only was the current swift, but the waters were laden with all kinds of debris: tree trunks, brushwood, drowned animals, and once the bloated corpse of a man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The linden and the oak grew from one trunk. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be another twenty minutes before Mr. Wrigley returned from his truck, having rummaged in the toolbox in the trunk and finally, to his immense relief, found a second pair of tweezers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry pulled open his trunk and drew out his Triwizard winnings. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Branch had chased a small lizard to the base of a tree and was watching, frustrated, as it slithered up the trunk beyond his reach. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark saw a man bull-rushing a tree, slamming himself into the trunk over and over, as if he thought eventually he’d win some battle and knock the thing down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She took the limp form of Uncle Andrew gently in her trunk and set him up on end: upside down, unfortunately, so that two half-sovereigns, three half-crowns, and a sixpence fell out of his pocket. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

These they heaped against the trunk on the far side of the tree from the prisoners. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their great grey trunks were of mighty girth, but their height could not be guessed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the nearest tree, a tall, pale, birchlike tree trunk, and kicked it, hard. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The deep red eyes carved into the pale trunk still watched him, yet somehow he took comfort from that now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had a trunk, but it was rooted to the earth. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jack stores the new crutches in the trunk of our car. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The guard dragon Peleus was so big now I could see him from here—curled around the tree trunk, sending up smoke signals as he snored. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

This tree looked like an umbrella, held overhead by four trunks that spread out from their common source. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure my hands can fit around its trunk. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

On impulse, he searched through our trunk and took out a long red silk ribbon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Use the passages. I've left trunks for you that contain all you need." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I approach the door and glance nervously at the trunks laid end-to-end across the back wall. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Throw it in the trunk for now. But we’d better not forget about it, or we’ll be sorry next time we load up the groceries.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was still just in swim trunks, but they had blood on them now. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The coroner, unable to find any marks of violence, theorized that Holmes had locked the girls in the big trunk, then filled it with gas from a lamp valve. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And what force would be stronger than me and my admittedly underdeveloped upper- body muscles wailing on the trunk with random tools? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the grain bins were so full, in fact, that the tree trunks which served as their legs broke and tipped the bins to the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As he closed the trunk door on Gabriel for the second time, Cabot noticed the picture on his shirt. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then they stand on either side of the tree, passing the spool back and forth as they wrap the wire around and around the trunk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon was still running, still moving between the tree trunks, but it was too dark, too loud. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had she settled into the tree than a tall woman with long strawberry blond hair started knocking on the trunk. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, I pull my bow at the last second and it sticks in an oak trunk to his left. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled his head in between his shoulders like a baby chick and remained motionless with his forehead against the trunk of the chestnut tree. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That Holmes would use an alias seemed beyond doubt, so Geyer brought along his photographs, even a depiction of the children’s distinctive “flat-top” trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the corner Ash saw a pallet, a trunk, and another chair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took several quick steps up to the trunk of the maple, threw her arms around it, and kissed that tree soundly. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I put each trunk’s worth in its own box, eight boxes total. They’re all in there.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The velvet armchair slides forward from a corner packed with trunks and scarves while the tailcoat floats up from it like a shadow, obediently hanging itself in a wardrobe. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I swung the backpack in a circle and slammed it—and Gum Baby—against the trunk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I try to draw a branch coming out of a tree trunk for the 315th time. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’d be able to get Dad’s camera and sneak it back into Mom’s trunk. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest creature touched its own breast with its trunk and spoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After eating and drinking, he leaned his back against the tree trunk. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She sweeps her trunk along the ground and then pauses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The vein-trees, like the cushion, had a nap on their trunks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other branches twisted around one another, always creaking, always groaning, until they formed two long arms and a second leg to set down beside the main trunk. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What would he have the boy take the trunk down for and leave the car out? It was to throw us off the scent.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as he keeps wearing red trunks...” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

There were ladder slats nailed to the trunk of the tree. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he reached the end of the dirt road, Mr. Trepid got out of the car and retrieved his shovel, trowel, and sack from the trunk. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed in that grease-infested trunk for at least a day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cole crouched before the solid trunk and doubled his fists menacingly. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I hated to wake Rosaleen, so I pulled the wooden picture of Mary out of my bag and propped it against a tree trunk in order to study it properly. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fair boy reached out and touched the jagged end of a trunk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Otto hurtled down from the canopy, swinging around the fallen trunk and landing hard in my lap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And above, see the holes in that tree trunk?” asks Dylan. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

So she watched her roommates pack their trunks and listened as they chattered about whom they would see and what they would do, and tried not to mind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the way we pass through a devastated wood with the tree trunks shattered and the ground ploughed up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they are still here, Mabel and Ana with suitcases next to their feet and bags slung over their shoulders, Javier and the driver wrestling a giant cardboard box from the trunk. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The mesquite was a small one, and they nearly chewed the trunk of it in two trying to get to him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Take it from the trunk. It'll be kept in the property room." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He leans, grabs the handle of a trunk, and drags it across the floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the tree people put ropes around my trunk and consulted with one another. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But then in the light from the burning house she saw something nailed to the trunk of the huge magnolia tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taran was sure the angry dwarf would have climbed into the tree itself had the opening in the trunk been larger. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He yanks the emergency break and the lever that pops open the trunk before he hops out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In the center of the trunk, three feet from the ground, was a puncture mark the size of a bullet hole, oozing green sap. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He got off the trunk and led the way across the clinking cinders up into the dark, and the others followed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When the bus stops the trunk is lifted down and set on the floor of the bus station. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sat under it, leaning against the trunk. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jojo trailed not far behind, picking up rocks and pitching them at tree trunks. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Slipping out of bed, I retrieved my clothes from the steamer trunk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shouting advice, we ran around the trunks excitedly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll stop “desecrating” this sacred book and put it back in your trunk now. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I catch him by his trunks and pull them way up, almost to his neck, until he has the worst wedgie ever. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We walk along, and when I come to the patch of windfall apples, I kick one so hard it ricochets off the trunk of an elm tree. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She found them in the little group of trees, leaning against a tree trunk and talking softly and laughing; when she ran to them they turned, startled, and Theodora was almost angry. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I searched through the first trunk, rummaging through clothes and keepsakes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I then carried the box out to the car and loaded it in the trunk. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Lewis and Clark caught a glimpse of Bongo, and lunged for my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As if hands were inside the trunk, a force began to rattle Seven and literally push her off the branches. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sat on the lower bunk while Mom opened the trunk, grabbed a stack of the biographies my dad had agreed to part with, and placed them on the bookshelves. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Instantly their heads snapped around, trunks held out, glittering eyes facing forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She turned and stepped farther into the trunk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I worried that she had searched my trunk, where my tokens and letters from Hamlet were hidden. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The trees around are denuded, as if they’ve been burnt; webbing sheathes their trunks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By one wall were two mats and a trunk. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said it’s in the trunk of your car,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It lifted its trunk—the same trunk Aru had been using as a backpack hook for years—to its forehead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Neel crawled around the tree trunks and through the bushes, Rupa followed his movements with the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He walked drearily between the trunks, his face empty of expression, and the blood was dry round his mouth and chin. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had done wrong in taking that trunk? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They scurried tantalizingly up and down the trunk, heedless of any danger—so close, yet just out of reach— “Easy, children,” Penelope soothed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The trunk wants to tilt up; I push it down with all my might. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

There were six beds total, two against each wall, steamer trunks at their feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They moved quickly behind a wide oak trunk and peered out from either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Shadrack stood at the foot of the hospital steps watching the heads of trees tossing ruefully but harmlessly, since their trunks were rooted too deeply in the earth to threaten him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We threw in a bag of concrete, some broken pieces of cast-iron garden statuary, and a twenty-pound ingot of hard tar, then carried it to his trunk. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Merridew sat down on a trunk and looked round the circle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He went back to the basement, dragged the trunk to the door, lifted it to his back, carried it to the car and fastened it to the running board. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the oak was so wide, it held Peach and Dismay comfortably to its bosom and kept them momentarily from swirling downstream. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rushes to a trunk and fishes around inside. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Aron went back to the trunk of the willow tree and sat on the ground and leaned back against the bark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was sorry for them all, even the great trunk backs that were as long as the skiff and weighed a ton. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blindly felt with her hands and recognized the thick roots and trunk of a pine tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then it's too late to fight, because a jut-jawed brute with arms like tree trunks tackles me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Presently, the men began to wander aimlessly about the basement, looking into corners, examining the shovel, the garbage pail, and the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought back to finding that photo of my family in Uncle Chester's trunk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The roads are mostly empty, because it’s the war, though once in a while there’s a truck loaded with cut tree trunks or fresh lumber, trailing its perfume of sawdust. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was vomiting and the vomit ran down his chest and stomach and dirtied his swimming trunks. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what if she ran out of air, locked in that trunk? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her skin is mottled and cracked like a scorched riverbed from the tip of her trunk all the way down to her wide feet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“In fact, I’d be ready to think the Rattler has been long gone or buried if it wasn’t for the note we found on the tree trunk.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Far below, I saw his staggering, shaggy-headed figure, attempting to steady itself by clutching at the trunk of a small tree. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sat down with my back against the trunk of the tree. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger was pressed hard against a crooked tree trunk, and there, terrifyingly close, twenty paces at most away from the two of them, was Basta. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bullet looked over at the mullet, who was sitting up against a tree trunk, cleaning his nails with a sharp stick. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And up from the quiescent, waiting land a faint mist rose, silver as moonlight, and clung about the tree trunks. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then she went to the trunk against the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the bed was my flat trunk, and my winter boots, the leather shiny with oil, were on the trunk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Phil takes a plaid blanket and cooler out of the trunk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep biting a piece of shoelace, leaning against the pine trunk, wishing Mom would find me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Billy put on his groin protector and slipped into the green trunks he always wore. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sap oozes from the open sores on the trunk. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had made this trunk for her mother almost a century before, a bride-gift when they were wed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She smiled with her all-knowing expression, because she was fully aware of how much it delighted us to view and touch her trunk treasures. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was coming from Chicago, after all, where winter stretched through April, where it was normal to keep a snow shovel stashed in the trunk of your car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After we got out of the car, he opened the trunk and began carrying my suitcase to the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I searched within my trunk for something to conceal me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He picked up the remaining piece, lush with meat and fat that would nourish Gray for days, and carried it over the fallen trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She might have to make a large noose, he had told her, to whirl it over the crooked branches, then tighten it around the twisted trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fred and George came back into the room carrying Harry’s school trunk. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Trees store vast amounts of carbon in their trunks, branches, and leaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He rummaged around in his trunk and pulled out a very battered-looking wand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She went into her room and opened the trunk, and there at the bottom were her books of fairy tales, her mother's herbal, and the medallion — Sidhean's final gift to her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I was scared to actually get out of the car, but if you pulled down the center segment of Harold’s backseat, you could reach directly into the trunk. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In my room, I dig through my drawer for my swim trunks. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jolted from their sugar-cane sacking, barrels poking out, the ingredients of the picnic have spilled out across the floor of the trunk. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She hauled it back to the kitchen hut and poured the grains into a mortar made from a tree trunk. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gabe knotted the rope around the slender trunk of a nearby sapling and glanced back at the small, leaky failure of a boat that he had been so proud of a short time before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that somewhere down below the surface there had to be another hole in the trunk, as water had filled the hollow to the river level. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take these things down to the cellar and put them into the trunk, where old things go that are not thrown out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled as we began to slide around the wide circle of the trunk. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear’s gaze followed the sweep of the trunks and branches until he saw their outlines clean and pure against the sky. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“She told you to bring the trunk down last night?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A twelve-foot section of a spruce trunk is jammed into its open doorway, and across the log are draped two pairs of tom Levi’s, laid out as if to dry. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat back down on the bed beside him and wiped the shoes on the hem of the blue dress before she wrapped them up again and put them back in the trunk. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had to hold on to the trunk with everything I had; I knew that if I didn’t I’d fall and Mitch would be angry. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And when I did, the sharp edge of the pachyderm's trunk sliced right into my glabella. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It is a kind of tonic,” Mona said, pushing herself up from the trunk to set down two more vials on the table. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I smoothed out the letter from Mountford Prep, and folded it back along the creases, and put it in the bottom drawer of my dresser with my swim trunks. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the house there was a patriarchal elm tree, against the trunk of which Finny leaned and shouted at me as I ran a large circle around him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I told her I looked like I was wearing a big pillowcase with elephant trunks sticking out of the sides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma India asked as she lifted the lid of the first trunk. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care what she has in the trunk till I start a football team with Billy Campbell and Malachy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If Grace thought she was the first person who had threatened to put her in the trunk for being a brat on a car trip, she had another think coming. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A large wooden trunk stood open at the foot of his bed, revealing a cauldron, broomstick, black robes, and assorted spellbooks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He makes targets of leaves, and pins them to the trunk of the great mango at the edge of our yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But said uncle was as real as the dusty old trunk I didn’t think actually existed. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“All right, guys, load up,” my mother cheerily yelled as she threw in one final bag and slammed shut the trunk of our lime green Ford Maverick. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We left the trunk in a shop and set out to walk the two miles up the road to Grandpa McCourt’s house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He could hear tree limbs succumbing to the wind, great exhalations as their trunks fell on streets and roofs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They nodded, and another one said, “See there where it grows up out of the trunk? Sap running all over.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell that he missed the village, that he missed seeing those palm trees the men climbed, with a raffia belt encircling them and the tree trunk. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could, of course, set the trunk in the snow right now and take a street car and get the money from Bessie and leave town. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he handed the tools to her, she knew exactly where to put them in the trunk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The trees have slight bends in their trunks, careful angles of their palm leaves. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Flattered, she wrote home to request that her big trunk be shipped to the Wrightwood address. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On the top floor, in what we guessed was originally the nuns’ quarters, we found a trunk full of dolls, old, old dolls, with leathery skin that was broken and creased from wear or age. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Stuart planned to wear his swimming trunks under his clothes so that he could dive off the lily pad into the cool stream. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The car drove past the house for the third time, and I could see a dent in the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dominick popped the trunk and was already outside the car as another set of headlights came up the road. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dontos swayed as he spoke, one hand on the trunk of a chestnut tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Elephants, whose huge feet could crush the life out of a man, whose trunk could pick him up, raise him high, and dash him to the ground. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She’s made it halfway through that trunk and the tree’s starting to sway a little, drunk as my daddy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She slaps her trunk against rusty metal bars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They hefted the trunk and set it down in front of Kaz. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He pushed off his trunk and crossed his arms. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

With the trunk’s lid closed, her head didn’t hurt anymore. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Lolo holds the ladder steady against the trunk. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With every bit of strength in his body, he’d pulled himself out of the water and wrapped his arms and legs around the trunk. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s already three-fifteen and I want to be drinking the bottles in my trunk by four. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She skulked around bushes and hid behind the skinny trunk of a birch tree, which wouldn’t have actually disguised anything if Drew happened to turn around as he crossed the street. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I scream again, and it’s me, pushing the tree trunk into the boat. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a small bed against the other wall with a heavy blanket and a pillow, and a trunk at the foot. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He opened the trunk of his car, put the papers in a large black metal case of the kind carried by payroll guards, and closed the trunk. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But the Elephant walked quietly to the river, filled her trunk with water, and came back to attend to Uncle Andrew. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We made a quick survey of the trunk full of dress patterns and the one with the buffalo robe in it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked at the trunk again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later we found out that Don Bernardo’s old Plymouth had a flat near the Constanza turnoff, and when Blanco went to change it, there was no jack or spare in the trunk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could take the trunk to the basement and put the car into the garage and then go home. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid made his way to the last stone marked on the map, kicking dirt clogs ahead of him, and smashing his shovel into tree trunks. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor tried to lead the way, but many of the girls ran scattershot for the forbidding jungle, scrambling over brambles, scraping their tender flesh against the prickly trunks of the palms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The girl rested her head against the trunk of the tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checks each of his tires, then pulls out a cloth from the trunk and wipes down the big, shiny silver things along the insides of the tires. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She scrambled clumsily up the trunk and slung a leg over the branch below mine. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

A small shadow stepped from behind the trunk, and in the fiery glow of the sky, I saw a tiny, fairylike creature. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Crass was worn away in front of each trunk but grew tall and untrodden in tile center of the triangle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tyrion curled up in his fur with his back against the trunk, took a sip of the wine, and began to read about the properties of dragonbone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After we finish eating, we walk to the parking lot together, and Mustafa loads our bags into the trunk. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her attention had turned again to the row of trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The lid on her trunk dropped down on her head. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mona opened the trunk, and inside there were dozens of little boxes and vials stacked one upon the other. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She stood for a minute by the trunk of the tree. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He swings the door open and walks to the row of trunks that obscures Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At first Axel thinks it might be where the stick landed, or that something is crawling on the tree’s brown trunk, but that’s not it at all. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally I heard the sound of a horse and buggy rolling up to the house; I heard the scraping of a trunk being dragged across the floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Kit climbed to the attic and surveyed the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We stay close to the trees, believing their trunks can hide us from the world. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Halsey found a trunk of cool clothes in our room,” Two Step confided, finally back in his normal voice. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You make it sound so easy,” she said, catching an apricot-colored leaf in midair as Tony whacked the mottled white trunk of a birch tree. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tent, of course, was made of the same stuff as the suit, and so was the trunk itself. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be staying in my room,” the maid said to her, grasping one handle of Ana’s trunk and helping Ash to lift it off the footboard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk popped and they all grabbed bags of groceries. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The creatures wheeled around to talk together, their trunks moving elegantly in time with the sounds they made. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the last day of August, his grandmother packs his clothes: his bathing trunks with the elastic band broken at the waist, his buckled sandals, the round straw hat he’s taken to wearing indoors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Grandma pulled in front of our house, Trevor’s brother’s car was parked in the driveway, with the trunk still open. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know which one was for the trunk, so I decided to take both. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sap went down into the roots during the cold nights, came up strong when the sun warmed the trunks during the day. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Way high up there with the sunlight falling reddish-brown on the palm trunks and the boys’ narrow limbs, they look beautiful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few paces further on there was a little clearing, where Alice was sitting on a fallen tree trunk with Lyra, who was fast asleep on her lap. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He stabbed his sword through the trunk, then heaved the sword through one side. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a boy, almost a man. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue had leaned his head back against the tree trunk and closed his eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I climb up, sticking to the stronger branches close to the trunk, and find a sturdy fork for my bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I collapsed on the lid of a trunk, gasping for breath but feeling no real pain yet, only a kind of numb panic flooding through my body. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sink into a crouch and crawl toward one of the trees so that the trunk will hide me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We started to walk away when I realized we’d forgotten to close the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on a mossy and black tree trunk that had fallen down in some storm years before I’d ever entered Pine Mountain. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Minho pulled several sheets from the trunk, the Maps from the last few days. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I can feel the pulsing of its great taproot, the howling cello in its trunk. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hold!" he commanded, his voice as faint and rasping as the sound I had heard moments before—the sound of the trunk being forced open. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He bent over his trunk again, but almost immediately stood up once more, his hand clenched on his wand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She continued to step deliberately through the trees, and soon her brightness was striped by their thick black trunks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But once there she remembered that in the morning she would need a fresh gown from the trunks to replace the soot-stained calico. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled off the trunk and crouched behind it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could see it plainly between the gaunt trunks of the water oaks and across the stretch of yellow camomile. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never heard such roaring and teeth-popping, as they kept circling the tree and rearing up on its trunk, trying to get to me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had ever really locked her in the trunk before, and she didn’t quite know Grace’s limits well enough to push them yet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The remaining items were returned to the trunk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The size of the room had not been lost in the clutter of boxes and trunks stacked almost to the ceiling beams. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I went in after them. Then she told me to take the trunk down. That’s all happened.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He emptied it into the kitchen sink, then led me out to the shed and opened up a wooden trunk in the back marked toy box. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are cots arranged in two straight rows, with trunks beside them for what we brought with us, and large windows with elegant curtains on the opposite end of the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Old Dan reared up, placed his front paws on the trunk, and started bawling. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I heard him making small noises, as if it were painful to move, as we stood back from the palm trunk. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whirled and called softly to his brother, his eyes glued to the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, in the light of a candle, I could make out a figure crouched over one of the property trunks, lifting some object from it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I was sick with the mumps, once in the winter, my mother found one at the bottom of her steamer trunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it remained, he lunged forward, swinging his fists within inches of the trunk. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He closed the trunk, got into the car, and drove slowly back toward town. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Several identical red handkerchiefs are tied together around the trunk, midway up. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came a human trunk and a skull, which looked as if it had been beaten with a heavy metal object. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her body weight is centered in first position, her legs and feet shift, slide, independent of her trunk. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would mime the shooting of a bow and slip soundlessly away into the forest, and she would know he’d spotted quarry between the tree trunks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In return, they let her feel their trunks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d been walking toward Cootie’s car, carrying his best suit to put in the trunk so it wouldn’t get wrinkled on the way to Cootie’s mother’s funeral. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She lives on or near the ground, fluttering about among low vegetation or creeping up tree trunks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee had put two cases of pop and a gallon jug of water in the trunk to offer our audience. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was searching the ground for the lacy flowers of the wild carrot when I caught a shift in the shadows ahead of me, a flash of motion among the tree trunks. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of them wheeled to the edge of the road and raised its trunk to utter a trumpeting call. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every eight days, he goes, a huge pot stowed in his car trunk, to a local fish store. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The trunk lid was raised and they were standing around it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has no trunk, no cape, no birdcage or cane. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A third arrow struck a tree trunk near my head. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Elinor looked at him as if she didn't believe a word of it, but then quickly closed the trunk, braced her arms against the car, and began to push. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“They’re staring at you because you were at the Ministry too,” said Harry, as he hoisted his trunk into the luggage rack. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We can hardly see him, but the sound of his knife against the wooden trunk is crystal clear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she leapt out of the trunk, hobbled into the square, and with one loud squawk scattered the rest of the pigeons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He peeped around the big trunk and looked at me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She suggests we go back to the car and get the “make-out blanket” from the trunk. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“She said to drive her to the station and to take her trunk, mam.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All through the long walk, the pain had kept me thinking, and by the time I reached the tree trunk, I had made two decisions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve always felt that a special ring of hell should be reserved for kidnappers who place their victims in the trunks of cars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a trunk, Ivy adds a branch, I extend the branch, but it is too long and spindly. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the trunk of the car Wednesday brought out the metal case and a clipboard, and a pair of handcuffs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And like she was delivering the weather, Mother said, “Constantine is no longer employed here. Now let’s get all these trunks unpacked before you ruin your clothes.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s coming from your trunk, Harry,” said Ron, standing up and reaching into the luggage rack. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Through the window we could see him sag against the trunk of our big mahogany tree. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as his legs were free he tried to bolt, but one swift curl of the Elephant’s trunk round his waist soon put an end to that. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She fusses for a bit, but makes Antwan go back to the car to get the towels she has in the trunk. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“But as I said, I left the opener in the trunk, and I’d like it back.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mist seems to thicken in the canopy above us, like the tree trunks are growing directly into the clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I stood there in front of my house, wearing nothing but a pair of white swim trunks, and as soon as the smell hit me, I knew what was about to happen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

After the gorillas found no loot in my trunk, they dragged me back into their cramped security office, where I signed a release allowing the store to keep the stereo. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I try to clamp myself around the wide trunk and shinny up, using the rough bark as steps, but it doesn’t work. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I pulled, and she pushed, and then I was up in the tree, my arms wrapped around the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they stopped, the sun had already sunk between the tree trunks, casting slanted yellow beams and bands of shadow through the undergrowth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Before we left my aunt’s house, she put two boxes in the trunk of the car. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing his old brown huaraches and a pair of swim trunks with parrots on them, both arms extended to the sun, and June is summarily scooped up into them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Checking for her bow and quiver of red-fletched arrows, she scrambled down the tree trunk. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like the empty shells of locusts left on tree trunks, they were no longer needed. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So off we set, my mother and I and my trunk and my tuck-box, and we boarded the paddle-steamer and went swooshing across the Bristol Channel in a shower of spray. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work on the trunk’s completed just as we hear the wave begin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I retreated back along the bough to a fork in the trunk and waited till they'd gone. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I heard Goyle’s trunk hit you. And I thought I saw something white flash through the air after Zabini came back...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He wore those white Lastex kind of swimming trunks, and he was always going off the high dive. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A lone gust of wind from the west blows through the tree trunks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Bronwyn reached the bottom, she opened her trunk and handed out the peculiar sheep’s wool sweaters we’d been given in the menagerie. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"It will eat away at our minds. You'll become like tree trunks." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He unsnapped the plastic cover from one end of the trunk and pulled it open. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

When he points, I train my camera on the knotty dead trunks of Japanese maples and the cherry and ginkgo trees—gnarled limbs reaching toward blue sky. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Clay roared and slapped her so hard that her head bounced back against the tree trunk. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the big limbs are gone we shinny back down and set our machetes to biting into the trunk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their straight trunks and dark green canopy seemed to defy distance, being so clearly visible at what must have been many miles away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stuff it in the trunk, and away we go, all of us that much richer. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cut by fences and the white of the road showed through the trunks of a double line of trees that crossed the plain toward the north. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He let out a short, harsh laugh, and pointed to the large trunk under the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She dangled our swimming gear before our eyes: Kat’s bikini, two sets of goggles, my trunks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry watched, astounded, as Dumbledore placed the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth keys in their respective locks, reopening the trunk, and each time revealing different contents. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he slammed down the trunk lid and walked into the school building, silent and alone. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mama would sit with her back against the trunk, legs crossed at the ankles beneath her skirt. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I kept my gaze firmly on my teacher, and his eyes held mine securely, like a strong tree trunk one could clutch in a storm. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As in the memory of a dream she saw herself entering the house as a very small girl, with the trunk and the little rocker, and a bag whose contents she had never known. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As far as you could see, it was a graveyard of black, soaring trunks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Gene Johnson, the Ajax of this biological war, paced back and forth across the loading dock among a pile of camouflaged military trunks—his stockpile of gear from Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit, slowly inching our butts onto the roof, cradling the trunk against our chests and on our laps. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rosie curls her trunk and opens her mouth in a wide smile. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She rested her hand on the trunk of the nearest tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The nest rested near the trunk, protected from both the wind and the rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He felt the hot breath of the elephant as the trunk embraced his pumpkin and then he sensed the sides of the pumpkin squeezing as the vegetable passed down into the great creature’s throat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It bent trunks and shook branches and then—thunk thunk thunk!—pinecones began raining down. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His deck of cards rested on a dusty trunk in the middle of the room. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It hit the trunk of an alder tree and tumbled into the arms of a pine. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I dig the chisel into the block and push, trying to follow the line of a tree trunk. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He popped the hood of his car and pulled a pair of jumper cables out of his trunk, and after a bit of instruction on his part, he and Miles set to work. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Carefully he had cut the tree down and then shaped the paddle from its trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If I groped about in the dark long enough, I might manage eventually to break into the book keeper's trunk and liberate the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their great trunks ran like pillars down each side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kaede and the Huntsman passed through a forest of giant trees, their trunks black with age, the sun obscured by thick, tangled vines. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I headed to my bunk and retrieved my lute from the trunk at the foot of the bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She squinted down the length of her own trunk with pardonable pride. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their thin bare trunks reach up up up into the sky so that I must lean back to see them completely. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before sunrise the next day, Sam hurried down- mountain to the big sycamore, jumped for the lowest limb, and swung hand over hand to the trunk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he went to our trunk and eased the lid up, piling the things silently on the floor until he reached the very bottom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his car and popped the trunk again. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He waves the ever-present trunk away, wipes his right hand on his thigh, and offers it to me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Not the letter. An actual eye. And that’s a foot. Or maybe a tree. And a trunk. Dad, I think that’s a trunk!” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The trees at the jungle’s edge bend in the exact easterly direction of the wind, explaining their curved trunks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago, the woods must have extended further, because you could see here and there ghostly dead trunks poking out of the soil, most of them broken off only a few feet up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he harvested the lead from the old tree trunk. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re in the forest again, only now the trees are square, the branches growing out between windows in the trunks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I dream that I’ve found a red plastic purse, hidden in a drawer or trunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom opens the trunk to tuck the walking stick away. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And spread over much of it was the canopy of a tree that had a trunk the width of a minivan. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He tore at them with his paws; he scratched at the sites until they bled; he rubbed his head and cheek along the ground and against the trunk of a tree. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like a tree with only one trunk, our alley had only one exit to the busy street. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the ride. Pop the trunk, will you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just walking by a parked car, you couldn’t help wondering if there was a bomb hidden in its trunk. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were called liars and unbelievers, and while they were never physically harmed, even children laughed at them — at their strange crimson costumes and heavy, dusty books locked in huge, iron-bound trunks. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lopped the branches, split the trunks, and trimmed his puncheons true. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few moments of swearing and thumping as Rupert takes the trunk out, then silence settles back over the night. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then the owl came out to hunt, and foxes, weasels and strange wild cats stalked among the tree trunks. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She buys me treats at the tourist shop—chocolate bars with hazelnuts, German swimming trunks, and more underwear than I could possibly use. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mind movie flickers in my brain of an angry fish at the bottom of a tree, banging on the trunk with its fins and complaining that it can’t climb it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally all was quiet again; the curious squirrel leaped from his ringside seat and scrambled farther down the trunk of the tree. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shivered and leaned back against a tree trunk as if just talking had taken more strength than he had to spend. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

My old satchel was in the trunk too, but the sticks had fallen out of it and were now strewn all about the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour passed before we finally tied Mom’s paintings on the top of the car, shoved whatever would fit into the trunk, and piled the overflow on the backseat and the car floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Servants put up privacy screens and unpack trunks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but his trunk and the set of his jaw. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going into the trunks tonight. It’s time to make your selections.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I spot the tip of a child's boot just peeking out from behind the trunk of a tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They wanted to check my trunk and see if I had any more "loot." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Not all the expensive clothes in the three suitcases in the trunk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He reluctantly releases her, following as she walks through the trees, reading bits of verse on branches and trunks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All that Úrsula took along were a trunk with her bridal clothes, a few household utensils, and the small chest with the gold pieces that she had inherited from her father. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At first she only saw the trees: tall trunks edged with moonlight, fading into black-upon-black in the distance. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember trees with trunks bursting through the asphalt providing some shade from the sun. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a locked trunk in the attic that has Amanda’s stuff in it,” I said. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Other trunks were tucked away under the eaves, so it took us all morning to go through everything. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She continued on, and the trees began to grow more thickly, until all around her were slim white trunks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tottering high over the jungle floor, I braced against the trunk and got one branch into my hand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now Luke climbed on top of one of the largest trunks and looked down through the vent. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked round and saw her trunk on the other side of the bed, open, the top standing up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yours? Seven trunks? What can be in them?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie’s trunk wasn’t big enough for their haul, and they had to put some of the bags into the backseat. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stand for a long moment, looking down into the trunk of that car. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He had to touch her and lift her and put her in the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nope,” he said, swinging the back door of Mr. Ray’s trunk open. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He threw his wand back into his trunk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It contained half a dozen trunks, several of them secured with locks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I couldn’t hear them anymore, I made myself count to a hundred, then I tried to open the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excellent, Harry,” Lupin muttered as Harry climbed out of the trunk, grinning. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My mother gave quick instructions to our porter, pointed to our two small trunks and handed him money, as if she had done this every day of her life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can hear the faint static emanating from the trunk, and the spooky, distant voices speaking French and English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, while he sat in a heavy wooden dugout made from a huge, hollowed-out tree trunk on the headwaters of the River of Doubt, Roosevelt was worried. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a folded piece of paper that she held out to Ash, who was kneeling on the floor in front of the trunk. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s solution lay in the bottom of the trunk in our chamber. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arch was six-and-a-half-feet tall, broad of shoulder, huge of belly, with legs like tree trunks, hands the size of hams, and no neck to speak of. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Headmaster moved away to another group and I was left standing there beside my brand new trunk and my brand new tuck-box. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its trunk was bent almost double, and its gnarled boughs were pummeling every inch of the car it could reach. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

BigYou slipped under the police tape and licked one of the yolks sliding down my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

First, I had to buy all the newspapers at the puestecito and put them in the trunk of our car so nobody else would see them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sound caromed off the trunks of pine trees, carrying past the meager beach out over the water, where I floated on an inner tube, reading Love Story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She could not control the tree, or its blackened, split trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the railroad police came through the train, impaling the haystacks to flush out stowaways, the trainers packed the boys into tack trunks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully I replaced the contents in the trunk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s not wearing the trunks I sewed protective herbs into either. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Strapped to the back of the carriage is his trunk: large and crammed with beautiful shirts, linen, and embroidered sheets and pillow slips; a cigar case and silver toilet articles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would see the fauns arriving soundlessly, settling themselves in a graceful ring around the sycamore’s trunk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If it’s been rolling around in his trunk for a week now and hasn’t gone off yet, surely it’s okay to...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I go back to the jeep, ask Masjid to open the trunk, and take out the almost-empty urn. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The table and chairs and trunk are gone and the fire is dead in the grate. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He squirmed around, saw nothing in the back seat of the hovercar; he leaped out, hurried to the trunk compartment, unlocked and opened it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Some cars have one key for the door and ignition and another key for the trunk and glove compartment.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After hearing that for maybe the fiftieth time, and learning more about my family’s baseball legacy, it occurred to me that the trunk might not be real. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Mary, in turn, let Atal tidy her hair, enjoying how the soft trunk lifted it and let it fall, stroking and massaging her scalp. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he had stuffed it into an inside pocket of his jacket, Dumbledore waved his wand and the trunk, cage, and Hedwig vanished. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I pulled Ma's wheelchair out of Skunk's trunk. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They held their great shields above them like a roof, while in their midst they bore two trunks of mighty trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When August catches up, he whacks her again, this time hard enough that she raises her trunk, bellows, and scampers sideways. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The ship moored beside a dozen other, similar sky-ships, at the top of a huge tree, large enough to support hundreds of dwellings built into the trunk. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia opened it and crawled inside, closing the door behind her, shutting herself into a room barely bigger than a travel trunk. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Out pops a tiny teacup elephant, its trunk longer than half a peppermint stick. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When she opened them again, she was on a horse cart to Karaj with a small trunk of clothes, and nothing to help her remember her mother or father. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me a moment,” she said to the woman, and came over and took the trunk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When, they had left Boston, packing had taken weeks, with trunks and crates and loads of straw to cushion whatever might break. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He stood in the darkened basement with the trunk upon his back and listened to the roaring draft of the furnace and saw the coals burning red through the cracks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pops open the trunk, and I set my duffel bag next to her little rolling suitcase. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Its contents clearly were heavy and made the big trunk difficult to manage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He took the shell caressingly with both hands and knelt, leaning against the trunk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Omar and Small Boy hauled equipment from the trunk: four lamps, one flashlight, rope, shells, and a pint bottle of liquor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked our bikes to the house and propped them against the trunk of a gumbo-limbo. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun started the engine but then ran back inside, retrieved the box of photos, brought it down, and put it in the trunk. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, suh. I just took the trunk to the basement and left. Miss Dalton told me to leave the car out. She said Mr. Jan would take care of it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a camera on the front of his car that fed video to a VCR in the trunk. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I kept certain books hidden in my locked trunk, reading them late at night by the flame of a candle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, I poked into the soil at the base of a trunk. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then he spreads a tarpaulin out on the ground, underneath the chosen tree, wrapping it around the trunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rosie follows at a fast clip, her trunk curled high in the air. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sefia shouldered her pack and climbed down from her tree, alighting at the base of the trunk like a shadow. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now that was gone, too, and nothing was familiar anymore except the clothes in her traveling bag in the trunk of Elinor’s car. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the way home from Dad’s I take as many photos as I can: Naked branches and tree trunks. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Harry’s trunk was packed; Hedwig was back in her cage on top of it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin and bones, with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion, to fulfill the promise of dying beside his wife. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I headed for the house I saw another one under a tree, right next to the trunk. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself up to lean against the tree trunk. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’d tagged more than a dozen trunks, she doubled back, the spirits still storming along with her in long strides. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If I could find a way to break the trunk, I wouldn’t have to worry about the lock at all. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I climbed out of the car in front of Dorothy’s house, retrieving my sled from the trunk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll hang them together on the original tree, the one heaviest with shoes, which has been struck by lightning more than once-—I can tell because the trunk looks dead and black. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She popped the trunk and took Brooke’s phone out, as well as her own. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He followed the line of her finger, past the mottled, mossy tree trunks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rosie reaches over with her trunk, trying to pry her way between my fingers and the bottle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It will be good to feel warm again, if only for a little while, he told himself while he hacked bare branches from the trunk of a dead tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She blinks those outrageously long lashes and sighs, a great whooshing exhalation that rattles all through her trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My parents packed some stuff in a trunk and got rid of the rest. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not to mention throwing up on one of the women who was offering and then passing out and having somebody shave my balls and paint my face and stuff me into a trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I went back inside the house and slipped into some trunks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He swayed and nearly lost his grip on the trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the belt around the trunk and Rahim, and tightened it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“First of all, I want to have a look at that trunk,” Britten said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They gobble and fly off, miraculously missing limbs and trunks as they zip through the forest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretch my arms wide, clawing at the water, trying to move the trunk closer. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Sefia would stop in the middle of the path to look up and watch them flickering between the tree trunks, and the boy would pause by her side, looking too. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The chamber into which she had stepped was spacious—at that level, almost half of the huge trunk was hollow—and clean, but the floor was extremely rough. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I pop the trunk and throw my stuff inside, then bump Britt-Marie out of the way so I can, you know, actually get in the car. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Soon a man came in a motor car and took us back down the road to the shop which had our trunk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All his friends, woken up by this cry, leapt to their feet and ran towards the fence of tree trunks, beating drums and shouting threats at the lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Ann’s luggage—a small footlocker and a shopping bag filled with Lydia’s things—fit easily into the cab’s trunk. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She swings her trunk across the ground in front of her, fanning her ears like enormous leaves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It went wide, sinking into the trunk of the willow tree with a thump and a splash. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I watch the swaying trunk and wish it would come back. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they turned away, and a shadowy figure slipped round the trunk of the tree and vanished. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Now tell me what you were doing in the trunk of my taxi.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Will leapt over the last obstacle, a fallen tree trunk, and plunged the knife into the unresisting shimmer in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stella curls her own trunk around the baby’s. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“We made it. Everybody out,” Dad said, and by the time all the car doors had opened and Dad had popped the trunk, a light outside the house flickered on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After he has seen to the placement of his trunk, he goes back to the carriage to get the woman. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the first trunk, and light spills across the shimmering contents—piles of sequined, gold-threaded, and patterned fabric. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as Koffi moved forward, he rounded his side of the trunk, dagger raised—but someone screamed, stopping him short. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once the flat has been replaced with the spare, the two men lift the deflated tire into the trunk and put away the tools. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I make my way up the twisting boughs, staying as close to the trunk as possible. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their twisted trunks, roots, and vines wrapped themselves around the ruins like gigantic boa constrictors, crushing and swallowing the overturned stones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cool high shade of the woods was a relief, the sculpted intricacies of the tree trunks enchanting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Beaver plunked into the pond, and returned a while later rolling a large section of a tree trunk. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even in front of him, crushed against the trunk of the palm, I could feel the rain, which was now jabbing into me like the punches of a nail. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father sent for her trunk the following day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting against the trunk of a giant cottonwood tree, they listened to the creek gurgling and watched the horses munch on grass. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on those hot summer days, we wore swim trunks, at least if we thought any adults might be around. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I hunkered down behind the trunk and began pushing it toward the hall. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I thought of Grandma getting married so long ago, bringing the four beautiful trunks full of gifts her mother had sent from Tianjin to Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaranta, who was starting to put the clothes into the trunk, thought that she had been bitten by a scorpion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I think I saw it in the trunk,” Billy said. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I crawled out from behind the trunk and felt my way across the black room, banging painfully against racks of weapons and corners of trunks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that he got out and opened the trunk where he always kept a fresh sport coat and slacks, a white shirt and a tie, in case of emergency. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the trees were tall with sturdy trunks, packed tightly together, the canopy up above thick with leaves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I stopped a few blocks from our house to wake up my sister and put the blanket and pillow in the trunk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, right after Mong said it a big Mexican cop wearing sunglasses got out and leaned against his trunk, waiting for us to get up to him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jaja and Obiora were already at the tap in the tiny backyard; old car tires and bicycle parts and broken trunks were piled in a comer. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She rocks by the fire, sipping her sherry, counting the money in the purse on her lap, entering payments in her ledger before she locks everything in the trunk under her bed upstairs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"It's my job to collect evidence from the scene of the crime, and I store that evidence in the safety of my trunk." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The arrival of their trunks and their servants was advertised by the clamor of feet, heavy-laden, in the hall. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s cute, the play on shucks,” Libby says with some effort, clearly swinging her leg over the biggest trunk, climbing back down our tree. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I opened the trunk and when I lifted the lid I let out the most high-pitched girlie scream of my life. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He looks at her eyes, her feet, her trunk. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It scampered down the cherry’s trunk and ran between Grandfather and Eliza. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police never found the boy who carved “LEAVE” into my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lightning came, now, making the tree trunks white as it forked down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Public flogging? A night locked in a trunk with a hundred vipers?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I stopped to rest my aching legs and sat down on my trunk along the roadside. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A noise made him whirl; two green burning pools—pools of accusation and guilt—stared at him from a white blur that sat perched upon the edge of the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was Mr. Jan who told me to take the trunk down and not put the car away.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bow and quiver of arrows, stood near the dark trunk of an oak, and looked out across the moon-silvered meadow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The older shrew appeared out of a reed bed, balanced upon a large floating tree trunk which he propelled skillfully with a long pole into the side of the bank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Fruit and coins are strewn by its trunk and the ground around the tree bulges with buried offerings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press my back against a tree, wishing its trunk were a hollow I could hide in. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A face had been carved in the trunk of the great tree, its features long and melancholy, the deep-cut eyes red with dried sap and strangely watch-ful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He then nailed three in a row against the trunk. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dad yawned and swung around doing trunk twists. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was playing skins and had his shirt tied around his head; as he ran, the sleeves swung like elephant trunks. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Say,” one of the men asked, coming close to him and placing a foot upon the edge of the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cora thought he had a mean face, like a burl sprouting from a squat, sweaty trunk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Little prickly firs grow out of every crevice and yellow vines with thorns wrapping themselves around the firs’ trunks and you can see and hear yellow razor lizards hissing at us as we pass. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He held on and leapt on the trunk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Around the front, there are two black cloth hammocks between tree trunks tied low to the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen one before—I thought they no longer existed—and for a moment, as I lean against the trunk of the tree, clutching the stitch in my side, I examine it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

No more ragged blue jeans and hand-me-down flannel shirts for him—he had a whole suitcase in the trunk full of the same kind of fancy Baron clothes he’d laughed at all those months ago. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

On one wall was a fireplace in which the remains of a fire glowed; on the other wall was an iron-bound trunk surrounded by stacks of leather-bound books. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins French Lick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached, they suddenly saw Hawkbit sitting among the thorn trunks, cleaning his face with his paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an earsplitting bang of metal on wood, they hit the thick tree trunk and dropped to the ground with a heavy jolt. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After searching for a time they found a fallen tree trunk, from the underside of which the bark had pulled away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book that was the reason for their own journey was in the trunk, under the spare tire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The late-afternoon sunlight leaped lightly from leaf to leaf, slid along branches and down trunks, and dropped finally to the ground in warm, luminous patches. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you have a dressed skeleton in your trunk?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If the trunk were heavier, bigger, I wouldn’t be able to hold on. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Viserion’s tail lashed sideways, thumping the trunk of the tree so hard that a pear came tumbling down to land at Dany’s feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There, in the lee where a fallen tree rested against a standing trunk, lay two little black furry forms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then another creature moved forward and touched her hand with its trunk. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Which trunk did you steal those from? Cost more than a third class ticket, I’d say.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The porter will bring down his trunks, I shall catch a glimpse of them in the luggage lift, with new-plastered labels. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could make out the bulk of a large animal, crouched on a huge branch, dose to the trunk of the big tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding a hand over my mouth to muffle my frantic breathing, I gaped at the trunk as though the awful contents might crawl from it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even climb past the middle of the trunk. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had an earthy sound, not like the metal drum at home, of something burrowed out of a tree trunk with an animal skin stretched over the top. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And in the next moment, he was out in the dark, quiet street, heaving his heavy trunk behind him, Hedwig’s cage under his arm. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They passed a lady unloading grocery bags from the trunk of a car parked on the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ron fell asleep almost immediately, but Harry delved into his trunk and pulled out his copy of Advanced Potion-Making before getting into bed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he had arrived with little furniture—a mattress, an old bed, and an unusually large trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After laying my suitcase flat in the trunk, Mr. Byrne opens the rear door for me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She turned and put a key in the lock of the trunk, the wrong key, and she tried another one. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They heard him blunder against the trunk which rocked violently. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They ran straight to me, clambering up my trunk to join the gang. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You can put your bike in the trunk,” he said. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to say that every one of those trunks is full of dresses like the one you have on?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting second he thought of the knife Sirius had bought him for Christmas — locked in his trunk in the castle a quarter of a mile away, no use to him whatsoever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The telescope that fitted it was, I remembered, locked in the trunk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Janice appeared, kneeling in her skirt on the trunk of his sedan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run como Un chango, In my orange Swimming trunks, Jumping up and Down, pounding The mushy grass With my feet. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our silverware has descended to the steamer trunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I whispered, jerking forward, struggling to make my eyes sear through the dark trunks and vines. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk twisted like the arm of a dancer, and below, on the lip of dirt, the base widened. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The jaws of a drakon skull encircled the trunk, as if the oak tree were the dead monster’s tongue. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So we opened Bronwyn’s trunk, shoved the pigeon inside with Miss Peregrine, and slammed down the lid. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Momma swung the flashlight’s arc over the path and weeds and scary tree trunks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor gave him her darkest look and, without another word, went around to the back of her car to check inside the trunk. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I close the door and roll the wheelchair to the back of the car, where I fold it up and put it in the trunk. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sun was just beginning to drive its first splinters of light through the pines, bouncing against tree trunks and earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline stared at the leaves on the trees and at the patterns of light and shadow on the cracked bark of the trunk of the beech tree outside the window. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I packed my things in Uncle Chester’s trunk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She went to retrieve the dagger from the scarred tree trunk and went inside for breakfast. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bodyguard puts my stuff in the trunk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A mother tugging a toddler along the sidewalk froze in place when she saw my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hunkered down on my knees and brushed my hands against the trunk. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s leave our phones in the trunk,” she said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I noted that they had clean, smooth trunks, with none of the countless tiny marks on their bark made by climbing meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk was new and large, about four feet long. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Harry was several streets away before he collapsed onto a low wall in Magnolia Crescent, panting from the effort of dragging his trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That night, after our parents went to sleep, I went down to the car and got the pillow and blanket out of the trunk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed up onto the stool on top of a trunk that served as his perch for watching out the back vents. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the twins’ help, Harry’s trunk was at last tucked away in a corner of the compartment. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I aim one of my last two arrows at Cato's head, knowing it'll have no effect on his trunk or limbs, which I can now see are clothed in a skintight, flesh-colored mesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I laid out two suits of underwear, with socks, shirts, collars and ties, and packed my trunk. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she felt a sharp pain at the side of her head where the trunk of the tree had hit her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the trunk, and the smell of mothballs blossoms upward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the books she left in the trunk for the present, until they could find their permanent home in the nursery. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He’s pushing trunks against the wall, obscuring Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he, too, went to the trunk, standing discreetly to one side, away from the two white men, looking with surface eyes at what they were doing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Walter brings his fist down on the blanket beneath him and Queenie scurries behind the row of trunks that used to hide Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I take the key to the trunk upstairs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Last to join the group was the skunk family, who quickly scrambled up my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Polly looked into the distance and kicked at the tree trunk. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a trunk—or the edge of one, at least—poking out from under the second bed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The trunk was filled with a silver tea set, a small portrait of a yellow-haired man, something wrapped in velvet cloth, dusty sacks, small wooden boxes, and packets of letters tied in a ribbon. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All her possessions had been packed into the trunk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like whether a particular tree—the one whose roots grew up its trunk—was in bud two days ago or a week and exactly where it was. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am only taking one change of dress; Lucy will bring my trunk to London and keep it till I send for it, for it may be that ... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I brought out and stuffed into the car’s trunk what little stuff I cared to hang on to. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin unlocked the trunk and found a long, double-barreled shotgun with a stained wooden handle. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The trunk was at least twenty feet in diameter, with branches as tall as any in the park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fadi waited with his ear pressed against the floor of the trunk, trying to pick up sounds from outside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They watched Lupin seize a broken branch from the ground and prod the knot on the trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Claire tightened the noose, pulling it in close around the trunk by its base near the rock wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I think of the spile and wrest it from the tree trunk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I finally made it to the landing and, with one final indelicate grunt, pulled the trunk onto it after me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She brought out the shoes from a trunk under the bed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The vast trunk, supported in the grove by its torn-up roots and out on the grass by the mass of branches, was high above their heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For twenty minutes, the rails clacked beneath us, the posts holding up the rock roof blurring past like a subterranean forest of gray tree trunks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He puts the booze in the trunk and hops into the driver’s seat. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A stack of books was arranged near the simple cut-out window, and the few robes Brother Ugo owned were folded on his trunk. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had just closed and locked his own trunk when he heard angry voices through the wall, and went to see what was going on. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After we buried Mama, Daddy started selling off what little we had—the bureau, Mama’s trunk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

With a quick clasp of Kit’s hand she was gone and Nat, shouldering her trunk in one easy motion, followed her along the narrow dirt road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back against the trunk of my tree, one finger gingerly stroking the sandpaper surface of my tongue, as I assess my options. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Harry helped George carry the trunk forward into the flames and turn it onto its end so that he could hold it better. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One of the boys with the trunk said, God, are they Americans? and Mam said,They are.They were born in New York. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He carried no trunk, only a carpetbag that was fraying apart at the seams. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra climbed up once more, and the other creatures looked closely at their balance and checked the stirrups with their trunks, as if to make sure they were safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At six she had discovered the magic books in the enchanted trunks of her legendary Great-Uncle Marcos and had fully entered the world-without-return of the imagination. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start down the steep hillside, holding on to branches and tree trunks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She put her arm out and leaned against the trunk. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Florida trailed them, kicking at rocks and tree trunks as she went. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Abra parted the switches like a curtain and went into the house of leaves made against the willow trunk by the sweeping branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she did, details in the trunk became clearer, until she realized it wasn’t a single huge tree, but dozens of smaller trees that grew so close together, they acted as one. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

This was Sunday morning and he had to take the trunk to the station. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For our next meeting, a minivan taxi hauls my grandmother and five big trunks to Carver School. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hits the tree trunk with the back of his ax. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least a dozen mortal guards stood on the balcony, plus two monsters—reptilian women with doublesnake trunks instead of legs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He ripped up a shoot growing out of the rotting trunk and started peeling away its bark to get at the green pith inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Five four-poster beds with deep crimson hangings stood against the walls, each with its owner’s trunk at the foot. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In an old trunk we kept four mugs, small supplies of tea and cocoa, and a spoon. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tied Pax to its trunk once when the kit hadn’t liked their war play. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Two beds, a washstand, and a wooden trunk with frayed leather straps nearly filled it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Britten walked away from the trunk, running the fingers of his left hand nervously through his hair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny sat on a fallen tree trunk and told his squad what was required of them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I stared down at my college trunks, terrified by the thought of unpacking here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was quite dark now, but the fire lighted the trunks of the trees and the curving branches overhead. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all fit easily into the trunk of the cruiser. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The custodian and the taxi driver lug the trunks to Mrs. Johnson's office. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I soon had my ratty sneaker off and was banging it against a trunk, big fat ants raining down. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap further up, close to the gnarled trunk of an old crab-apple tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He folded the legs under the little table and slammed down the lid of the car’s trunk. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Together, me and TaShon inch the long, slim trunk out of the water, balancing it with our hands and bodies. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The stone elephant had once more knelt to the ground, lifted its trunk, and opened its mouth, offering Mini a way back home. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Knife cuts in a tree trunk, high above the forest floor: This is a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It had stopped snowing and the cedar trees lay about in hillocks of snow and broken limbs and a few standing trunks that stood stripped and burntlooking in that graying landscape. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The limbs are rotten and there is a hollow place in the trunk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Juno ran her hand along the olive tree’s trunk. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like it,” Pita scrunched her chubby face in disgust when they propped the dressed body up against the mesquite’s trunk. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Alexander loped across the nursery, fetched a ball out of the toy trunk, and brought it back to drop at Penelope’s feet. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But near Enugu, the civil defenders had blocked the road with tree trunks and old rusty drums. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Crookshanks darted up first; he had evidently pressed his paw to the knot on the trunk, because Lupin, Pettigrew, and Ron clambered upward without any sound of savaging branches. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

One hand holds on to the roof; the other holds the trunk, bobbing, sliding through my arm. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Humphrey did so, then walked back upstairs to retrieve the trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then she saw the dogs again and they were racing after the stag, his brown flanks flashing between the trunks. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember being thrown into a car trunk—my hands tied behind my back, an awful sock in my mouth, tape around my head. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our daughter was trapped in the trunk of your son’s car, while she was removing the dynamite Red had stored there.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembers hiding in a steamer trunk with a little white girl while Yankee soldiers stomped through the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t help it—I lean forward so that I can see around the trunk of the tree. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luma got out, opened the trunk, and took out a mesh bag full of soccer balls. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He climbed over a broken trunk and was out of the jungle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was drag the trunk down the hall and push it over. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At two thirty-five that afternoon, Ishmael Chambers put his can of kerosene, the heater wick, and two bags of groceries into the trunk of his DeSoto. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he’d use the safety toggle switch in the trunk to pop the lid. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Penelope was so surprised, she had to sit down on the toy trunk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At any rate the arms, at a short distance from the trunk, were not wrinkled, but covered with a brown smooth skin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Darting through the huge crowd, across the muddy lawn, past Dave and his crew, around the massive saw, beneath the stump grinder, and finally, triumphantly up my trunk, was none other than Flashlight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore walked over to the trunk with seven locks, fitted the first key in the lock, and opened it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So instead Otto and I climbed on top of the fallen trunk and sat there, where the sun’s warmth lingered in the wood beneath us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can put him in the trunk,” said the older boy. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She moved away from the door and felt her way across the cellar until she came to her father’s trunks pushed against the far wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles when I approach and then rubs her eye, curling the tip of her trunk like a fist. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The stone hit the tree trunk with a satisfying smack. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Harry poked a few Owl Treats through the bars of Pigwidgeon’s cage, then turned to his trunk. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the opener and, fumbling in the dark, placed it next to the trunk latch. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Together, we’ll push the trunk and I’ll leap at the end. Off the roof. Try to hit the rowboat. Use my body’s motion to set it free. “Let’s stand.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But he had put her in the trunk because of the fear of someone’s seeing her in his arms. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He edged up the trunk, to his favorite place in the crook of two branches, and looked down at the Potter’s Field below him, a brambly patch of weeds and unmown grass in the moonlight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The kid crossed the street with his bike, which fit easily inside the spacious trunk of the Crown Victoria. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his legs wrapped around the trunk of the top of a coconut tree. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn set down her trunk and lifted Miss Peregrine out, and she wobbled drunkenly across the cobblestones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The little fox bounded back to the fallen oak, then sprang onto its trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ron unlocked the cavernous trunk with a series of taps from his wand. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As for the trunk, Humphrey could not recall where he took it, but later evidence suggests he drove it to the home of Charles Chappell, near Cook County Hospital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We formed a ring around the base of the tree, and one by one deposited our combustibles at the trunk. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A solemn mouth, a broken branch for a nose, two eyes carved deep into the trunk, gazing north up the kingsroad, toward the castle and the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She unpacked the trunk — some housecoats, a framed portrait of her father, sewing supplies, and an assortment of fabrics — and arranged her things on a few empty shelves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dicey picked up a long stick and swung it at tree trunks, trying to work things out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They nodded and murmured and stroked her with their trunks as she stepped down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he finally returned, he threw some things into the trunk and got in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She takes my backpack out of the trunk and passes it to me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve read that newspaper clipping from the trunk more often that I can count, and spent time at the public library in the archive of “periodicals”—such a strange word. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“So — we’ll get your trunk — you grab anything you need from your room and hand it out to Ron,” whispered George. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Standing on end in the yard was a tall length cut from the trunk of a big hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I told you Miss Dalton told me to take the trunk. I said that ’cause she told me not to tell about me taking her to the Loop. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The leader moved ahead a little, trunk raised, and they could see how he propelled himself with powerful backward strokes of his lateral limbs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The policemen were shaking the trunk so hard, Mother could hear it crack. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every fifty yards there was another card sticking on a bush, or hanging from the branches of a madrone, or tacked to the trunk of a buckeye, and all of them said, “Welcome Home.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena let out a loud gasp to get Chaol's attention before she slowed to a stop, and braced her hands against a tree trunk. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I take forty of the hundred pounds in the trunk and the ledger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Get in the car, guys,” said Officer Parrelli, popping the trunk of the cruiser. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Harry stuffed the Sneakoscope back inside the socks and threw it back into his trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She begins to save cuttings from the fabric station in the store; every scrap goes into a steamer trunk with my name on it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Alys used the trunk only for treasures, and there were few enough of those in her life. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ron stuffed the Sneakoscope into a particularly horrible pair of Uncle Vernon’s old socks, which deadened the sound, then closed the lid of the trunk on it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But I’d already stolen some dynamite and jumped into a car trunk today—what was a little breaking and entering? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk was about the width of a man’s chest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After service, Momly is always waiting for us, and I go through the same process—getting Ma in the car, the wheelchair in the trunk. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The second it moves, we get up and drag the trunks from the wall. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Taking a flashlight from his trunk, he climbed instead down a steep, ladderlike stairway. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Elves sat round the fire upon the grass or upon the sawn rings of old trunks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

From a steamer trunk in the corner, Meir extracted a long white robe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z