I had two cavities that were rotten to the gums. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

With luck I might catch a bass or two to have for dinner with the salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was an intolerable state of things to both mother and son, and yet they were helpless, only two and one of them a woman against a great company. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it’s such a good idea to speak up, why don’t you two ever go to council meetings?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

With just two weeks left to the school year, I wonder if we’ll be going back at all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t give R.C. and those two other men the right to murder him.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, the question has never been raised; yet surely the differences between the two paintings cannot be accidental. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s getting drunker by the minute, talking with two tongues now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The waitress brings me a bonus: two silver- dollar patties of beef and pork, dipped in egg and fried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On day two, I switched over from having my entire forearm wrapped in white gauze to what’s basically a giant Band-Aid. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Kim catches the two chickens and locks their wings behind their backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two roads in and out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She stood in the doorway in flannel pajamas, a toddler on her hip and two small girls clinging to her leg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I moved into the street, listening to the distant sounds of the riot and seeing in my mind the image of two eyes in the bottom of a shattered glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped a piece of raw meat in the mud between two men and told them to fight for it, and they did. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of the two boys, Johnny was supposed to be the really bad one—a menace that ran wild through the streets of the Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When their marshmallows were burned the right degree of delicious, Petey gave Finn two crackers and a piece of chocolate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And you not going to have no breakfast tray brought in to you early in the morning with a red rose on it and two warm croissants and a cup of hot chocolate. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody in the back of the group said, “No detours, you two.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He called back into the chamber with the two inert bodies, “I understand, sir,” and shut the door behind him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Viking mission, which had been informally scheduled to set one of its two descent craft gently down on the Martian surface on the Bicentennial of the United States, July 4, 1976. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, this did not bring the two men closer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bomb crater, wide enough to swallow a lorry, had split the road at the school entrance in two. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Both of the car’s other passengers gasped as their seat belts locked over their chests, but I had nothing holding me back from flying between the two middle seats. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Felicia bought the maximum amount allowed, eight gallons, and spent two Sundays painting the house with borrowed brushes and ladders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poured them out two full bowls from a stone jar; but from a different jar. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If Clayton’s mother had any idea what the two had been up to, she’d let her father have it, but good—and probably kick him out of his own house. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We loaded the sick onto the wagon, along with some bedding, some clothes, a frying pan or two, and other things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “impossible” is now happening on two broad fronts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Through the French windows I saw Squelch playing Twister with two younger kids and a man I guessed was their dad. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

By half past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby's house. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, it looks like a two, which would be really bad news, but maybe it means four?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This entryway consisted of two massive black wooden doors, each one studded with iron bolts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the map back up, took a piece of chalk, and made two horizontal lines on the board. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He looks very authoritative—even more so now in his uniform of brass buttons and blue wool—but authority and reason are two different things. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And then as I get into the middle, my eyes scanning faces looking for Will Graysony ones, I see two older faces staring back at me on the aisle. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The man said he knew that some people at the church came from Kakuma, and he thought they might have heard something about two little girls on their own. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to bed at seven and would get up to begin a new day in the morning at two. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at a house where two months earlier they’d installed a sprinkler system. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A few of them glanced up, and one or two actually made a lame grab for my shirt. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The black man lay in the shadow between two round rocks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma homed and waved at two balding men in tie- dye shirts standing at a comer as she turned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A ways off the path, two enormous oaks grew close together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the point, he picked a natural saddle between two rocks and sat down. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Could be the intersection of two streets,” said Emma, and she pulled back the tent flap to ask the boy if this was what he meant— but he was already gone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She said, “They’s that one pass out yon and one what they calls Prayder and his two boys. And a ornery dog.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

To prove my point, I grabbed two handfuls of red velvet and anchored myself to a bed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I suppose I could stop you with a Bradley tank, armor two inches thick, three mounted machine guns, and a grenade launcher. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He comes down Jonagold Path dragging the two buckets on the road. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Goodness gracious, two weeks from now I may be too tired to go!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

From his own Secret Service, Gage sent two officers disguised as “countrymen” to find out about a store of guns and gunpowder that the Patriots reportedly had in Worchester, Massachusetts. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton’s party arrived shortly thereafter, and the two seconds, Van Ness for Burr and Pendleton for Hamilton, conferred to review the agreed-upon rules of the interview. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was a checkerboard-sized table against the wall with two seats. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They had come from the mountains, maybe, or pine woods that were now two or three levels of suburb, but the hawks sat in our cities like kings. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole of human civilization as we know it,” Chacko told the twins, “began only two hours ago in the Earth Woman’s life. As long as it takes us to drive from Ayemenem to Cochin.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Thupa Inka may have married two of his sisters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Right now, probably closer to two hundred—why?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The chief did not have any work for me to do so he tells me to work for his boys. The chief’s two boys are my age and they like me,” Kim answers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny lived with her two children, Uncle Piet, thirteen, and Aunt Bush, fifteen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was locked, but with two thudding kicks Bronwyn flung it in. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He stands it because it’s the way to feed his mother and two younger brothers and sister. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On May 22 he tested both boats again, rowing two miles at a racing beat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One or two of them asked Shin where he was from. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Joe said one of the posters was the one he’d read to them before and the reward for him had been increased to two thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two reasons that this Sunday was ’bout halfway tolerable. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Kainene is not just like a son, she is like two,” her father said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you two can get together on this,” Riddick told them in his best basso profundo, "it would change this community forever." The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a full minute or two, I stared dumbfounded at the ring on my finger. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Okay! Time to go, folks! Three, two, and one!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Who can look past the radiant faces of two people for whom this day was once a virtual impossibility? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He decided it was an excellent time to go find a Coke machine, even though he only had two dimes in his pocket. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time and paused before I entered the kitchen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to be told who the two gods were that were sitting there, waiting for me to approach. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The train made only two stops the entire time. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never thought of the two men outside their duties as music teacher and bodyguard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her in the park on 121th one day while I had my kids out and she had her two kids with her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you look at this ?” he murmured, waggling two of his stubby fingers playfully into Yossarian’s face through the hole in one of his maps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even the two daughters left their grouchy mother and sat mesmerized by the fantastic tales. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Harry paused for a fraction of a second and then wrote two letters. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the dim room, lit by two dusty windows, shelves lined the walls, and on those shelves were all the things a person might need on an island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were a mutual admiration society of two, and Glerk could not bear it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to play it safe and go read—and, hey, there’s Ruby! You two can enjoy the degeneration of human decency without me.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we bought her smoked corn on the cob sprinkled with lemon juice, or two paisa caramels. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Turtle checked her pockets: two sandwiches, Sandy's flask filled with orange pop, a flashlight, her mother's silver cross to ward off vampires. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why have two sets of schools when one would do? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had read the runes of this Spell of Summoning in Ogion’s book, two years and more ago, and never since had seen them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

An entire family—a mother, father, and two sons—were taken in for giving three migrants a place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I am hungrier than usual and devour three pieces of toast and drink two cups of tea without sitting down, wandering around the room. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Used to be one generation, now it’s two, three generations a year. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Now, this pair,” he waved the shoes he held, “are new. They haven’t been walked a mile, and for new shoes like these I charge a talent, maybe a talent and two.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had two reasons for coming to the newly unified kingdom of Great Britain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was a low-slung steel car with two hard metal benches inside that faced each other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of my friends live in crowded homes with only two or three rooms for a family of ten. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two teams traded punts back and forth to begin the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image shows the two of us talking in the courtyard about some matter that I can no longer remember. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of joke that makes you laugh the same way two years later, just thinking of it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This was the first new ceremony to be made up since the coming of the two new Egyptians, and the first real ceremony they’d actually taken part in. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two things together made no sense, which made it kind of cool. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Prayers were offered by two ministers and a rabbi. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men created a tele-pal relationship, forming a bond that would last for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see how the twins had grown in the two days he had been gone—he wanted to see the twins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the first two months of the case, the Crown entered some two thousand documents into the record and called two hundred ten witnesses, two hundred of whom were members of the Special Branch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each year, one field was allowed to lie fallow, and the other two would be planted with a crop different from the one planted there the year before. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Those boys were older and bigger than he was, and anyway, he wanted to play with the boys he’d become close to over the past two years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She’d asked a wolf and two ravens about the woman in white. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I watch as he stretches from a little boy into the broom-size of a man, his height mounting the innocent fabric that splits our one-room house into two spaces, two mats, two worlds. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And they stood there for a moment, facing each other—though they weren’t looking at each other, but down at the pebbled stretch of riverbank between their two pairs of feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But then Milton twirled Tessie around and the two rivals came face-to-face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By college, I finally decided to give Accutane a shot, but it took two rounds to alleviate most of my skin problems. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They stay a steady two inches to the right of my face. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The mission was well funded with a total of $172,200 divided between the two teams. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Down the way, there were two other prisoners, each alone in their own enclosure. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The following night I rounded up two boys whom I knew to be ready for adventure. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got mayonnaise. You got two of them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the evening, the boys spill out of the hall, some met by proud- looking parents with automobiles, others vanishing purposefully in twos and threes into the streets: all seem to know where they’re going. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a powerboat tied up at the base of the steps, and Alice was right: there were two men. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It took two nights and two days for the Hartshorn to sail from Newport to the city of New York. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew well that every hotel within two hundred miles would be booked already. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I guess he was trying to protect me from those two pitiful dead creatures. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I bit and clawed every hand that grabbed me, and howled protestations against going to school; however, I was no match for the two determined matriarchs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number two is the Holocaust Torah that Mr. Friedrich drove down from Canada. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I stay downstairs with Serena, Shoji, and my two sisters, who seem to be growing at an impossibly fast rate. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There are two interesting results of this study. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is laughing at the two of us and shaking her head. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pascal has gone farthest—for two years he’s been in Luanda, where he studies petroleum engineering and, I sincerely believe, chases girls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or again the harm may be done by two or more different carcinogens acting together, so that there is a summation of their effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The two had only gone two blocks when they found themselves exhausted and thirsty. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Really difficult to get in. But you two have it. Natural ability and you already know so much.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Someone would only have to make two or three well-placed phone calls.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He lived two and a half hours in that condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall argue that the psychological arrow is determined by the thermodynamic arrow, and that these two arrows necessarily always point in the same direction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boxes were maybe eight inches long and had two compartments. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We stayed with them for two weeks, two weeks that felt like months. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The supper was baked beans and broccoli and two slices of ham and they were laid out on the plate so that they were not touching. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No-no,” the old woman took the salve from me, took some of it on two bony fingers, and started rubbing it in my hair. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad just turned off the TV in the bedroom, which means he’s finished getting dressed, and he’ll be in here in three, two, one... A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In the ’tween-decks of the Narwhal, Buck and Curly joined two other dogs. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he’d make a halfhearted attempt to bond with the kid, but the two had little in common. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for you, to come share it with you and Aileen. Heard you two were together.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fie picks up two of the children and jumps out of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But put aside two broadswords and two spears for our own use, two oxhide shields nearby when we go into action. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put in two more quarters and got chocolate bars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ji-yun had two dimples, which gave her an especially sweet smile. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We always took two cars because Deborah didn’t trust me enough to ride with me yet. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The other two kids were all stick- ered up and waiting to go back to class. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

His early arrival was clearly something of an inconvenience to his lordship and his colleagues who had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy for their preparations. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We had dug a pit more than two feet deep when a truck brought a small bucket of water. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But we did have some happy times, and some pieces of great good luck, two in particular, that help to explain how we got here and what our plans are now. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In desperation, the two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Still unopened since his mother had given it to me after the funeral two weeks ago. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We waited on a long line to light two candles, and though we both were crying—everyone was crying—we kept holding each other’s hands, and we said the same prayer. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Having been told by one clockmaker he would not suit, Johnny walked in on two more and got the same answer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At each stop, I sounded the buzzer, but the driver continued through the next two stops. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick picked it up and tossed it back to a small boy with two missing front teeth. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He convinced two of his coworkers to quit their jobs and form a design firm with him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I open it and look at the thing I’ve spent two weeks trying to forget, I put my head on my sister’s shoulder. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When she was far enough away not to be noticed, she sat on a patch of grass under a tree and began to draw their two faces in the dust. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In two months—or three—just as soon as he knew enough bookkeeping—he’d leave home and go to live with Mr. Ropes or Mr. Hodges. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was skinny as a coyote, with not even two pesos to rub together, but he was filled with a burning desire to survive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now...if they could discuss such a huge problem so calmly—the ultimate source of Greek/Roman hatred—maybe there was hope for the two camps, after all. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sorts did not love each other, he soon gathered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, when describing the texture of a piece of music, two of the most important questions that need to be addressed are: is there counterpoint, and how important is it? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days’ journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was our shepherd's cottage, until he died, two years ago last lammas-tide, and my parents gave it to me." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The enemies’ horses would thunder up into the clearing, leaping the pig-fences, sending the cows and the pigs away mooing and squealing, and the two bands of men would charge. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But as far as the food in the room and your two visitors last night are concerned,” Farrow said, “I think I’m going to have to put you on in-room detention.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Being with Ophelia after her two years away also deepened his feelings for her, and hers for him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Now she watched in horror as the two boys fought to pull the plant off them, but the more they strained against it, the tighter and faster the plant wound around them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Miss Garcia claps her hands—one, two, three—amazing, kids quiet and sit in their seats, hands folded on their desk. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The answer, then, to the salient question—What were these two prominent American statesmen doing on that ledge beneath the plains of Weehawken?—is reasonably clear. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

At noon one of old Grandma’s grand- nieces brought Ku’oosh two lard pails. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they waited for Richard’s lawyer to give them an update, they talked about what they were cooking for Thanksgiving, just two days away. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the boys were finally asleep and Joseph was resting comfortably, Eliza set two chairs by an open window, handed me a mug of lemonade, and motioned for me to sit down. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique has seen him take a number of men and boys across the river, always at night, usually one or two at a time, paddling furiously in their inner tubes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Donovan’s eyes were opening into two large popping bowls of glazed blue. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She sat next to him on the front seat—with two of the babies on her lap—and alternated between clutching Dad’s arm and closing her eyes in supplication. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living room has two big windows with heavy curtains that shut out the spring sunshine. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed somehow important to keep the two worlds separate. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Cabineers roamed through the South, stopping at towns for either prearranged or hastily organized matches, Whitaker as best player would invariably play board one, and Bobby board two. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa walked over to a hoop of cheese and cut off two chunks about the size of my fist. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was bound to come eventually, anyway. You see, you two have lost your function.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

With all the hard feelings between the two boats, Joe had never had much to do with McMillin, but now, watching him at work, he felt a surge of affinity for the boy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But now I see this is also said for the benefit of Auntie An-mei, whose own youngest son was arrested two years ago for selling stolen car stereos. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rushmore, the Badlands—the only card that is still hard for me to read is the one from Coeur d’Alene, the one that I received two days after she died. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

According to Gallup, the First Folio had two—and only two—distinct typefaces: Type “a” and Type “b.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It is one of the town’s two “apartment houses,” the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made him feel as if he were eavesdropping on the story of two lovers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Doherty brought David Herold to the porch, bound his hands, and tied him to a tree about two yards from where Booth lay. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We run before the other two recover. I got in some hits and slowed them down, but they’re coming,” said Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I know where I stand. I’ve been out long enough to know. I’m like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he’s no better.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had to leave his family, a wife and two kids. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Their new home was a small frame house in a tiny hilltop neighborhood sandwiched between two white subdivisions on Montgomery’s northeast side. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

One night two Indwellers danced, men so old that their hair had whitened, and their limbs were skinny, and the downward folds at the outer eye-corners half hid their dark eyes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, obviously. And it needs to be in the next day or two, Merci. These things take time.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Kelly grabbed two of her jackets, handed one to Melissa, and skipped down the cracked pavement to Uncle Bill’s car. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Within two weeks they know they want to marry. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When the elf and the goblin looked up again, all that was left of the summit where the two kings had met was a spherical hole, smoking. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“What are you two doing here? This is adult talk. Go upstairs,” Salma Auntie scolds as she peers behind the sofa at us. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A huge man, taller than Ser Jorah and wide enough to make two of him, the priest wore scarlet robes embroidered at sleeve and hem and collar with orange satin flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He died while I was stopping up the two holes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Why two people as opposite as my father and my mother had married I do not know. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Times like these, I think we both realize that the house is too big for just the two of us. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t like you could read to all of them at once, or even three of them, or two. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I did pray, two more prayers, as I had told my notebook. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I said, interrupting the two of them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As you all know,” Jenny continued, “the cast of Washington! needs two more dogs.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The money saved bought a pouch of toasted coconut, one sugary fried dough, two crunchy mung bean cookies. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He pulled two birthday candles out of his pocket and stood them up on the cake, side-by-side. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The white bollards near the water’s edge glimmered in the light of two lamps on high posts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the garments of these two evil men—time-stamped, yes, with the fashions of the Prophet’s time—encased hardened hearts. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Chapman never informed us directly about the new investigation, even though for over two years we'd sought just such a re-examination of the evidence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In this room are two trip doors: One leads up to the balcony and one leads down to the room below. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

They had not, in life and in death, been married for over two hundred and fifty years for nothing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The two of them walked on, Reyna’s gold and silver dogs roaming nearby. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like many birds, the birds of prey mate for life, but Frightful had two forces keeping her where she was—Sam and the iron plate under the arc of the bowstring bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The print next went into the fixer for two minutes, which would make it light safe. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The section had outgrown its original room in the Warehouse Building, and in 1945, the group moved into “two spacious offices” on the first floor of the West Side’s newly built Aircraft Loads Division Building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The two of them had stayed to set up camp while the others went to gather more wood and refill their water skins. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The two of us were talking and giggling. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Until the boss tells us to stop. One or two o’clock.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

From the historian's point of view, the difference between the two models is unimportant. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The South’s schizophrenia over how to deal with the North is occasionally acted out in a kind of Kabuki theater on the border between the two Koreas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Neumann Two wakes and urinates out the door and takes the pillbox from his coat and swallows two or three more tablets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“OK. Now. We’ll have eliminations like always. Count off by fours. Then we’ll run all the ones together, then the twos—” • “We know. We know.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the mirror I noticed that the side of my face that had somehow been firmly planted into the wooden floor was solid red and had two creases running horizontally across it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“No. One of them, number two, is Hera’s,” he said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are two immense words from Indo-European, gene and bbeu, each a virtual anthill in itself, from which we have constructed the notion of Everything. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the gatehouse study the two companions were once more at work, trying to break the code of the Great Hall rhyme. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she was in a freak accident: a teenager on the bus attacked her, throwing himself on top of her, biting and scratching until two men ran onto the bus and pulled him off. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pushes himself to his own two feet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Since Sabena Airlines was one of the show’s sponsors, it was agreed that two round-trip tickets would be given to Bobby as a promotional gift. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she was right: two classes weren’t anything. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing as strange, however, as the day that two visitors from Asgard, Loki and Thor, arrived at their farm in a chariot pulled by two huge goats, whom Thor called Snarler and Grinder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the glow of the ball, Aru could make out the shapes of two giant dogs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Those two in furs were Homfoot men, as savage as they were scrawny, barefoot even in the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not worried about that. I think between the two of us we can have it fixed up pretty quickly.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Practice every day for close to two weeks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Dewey lights two cigarettes, one for himself, one for the prisoner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had tried two or three, but none of them proved to be any good. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, these two wounds—here and here,”—he pointed. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last, the two of them were laughing so loudly they were almost paralyzed by their own silliness. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distrustful but aggressive, he was a bundle of the weaknesses and virtues of a man struggling blindly between two societies, of a man living on the margin of a culture. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the further evidence that I’ll now present can help us answer two more questions: What advantages enabled the Bantu to displace the Pygmies and Khoisan? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m only two steps out of the building before I dial the number. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us owned two “racing” snails with numbers painted on their shells. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t watch a creature frantically trying to live, knowing it only had a short while—an hour or two, maybe. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two children squatted down and let Matt’s weight rest on the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they went foraging in the woods, Powhatans often harassed them, and coexistence between the two groups was uneasy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the ticket-booths out in the square there were two lines of people waiting. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He put two of the coats over the boy’s shoulders, swallowing him up parka and all. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But the two men who’d been looking strangely at the man I thought was familiar cornered him once the kapo was gone. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let Elinor take my daughter home with her,” said Mo. “Let them go and I’ll try to read you back again. I'll read you anything you like, but let the two of them go first.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

These two did not like to accept the advantage of armour, and, finding the satin cooler to wear, they were determined to be ordinary and brave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a building that looks like a meeting hall, another with a doctor’s snakes carved into the front, and two barnlike buildings that look like storage. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The two of them wade into the sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He pulled four shotguns from the backseat and held two out to me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The two swords flashed from the sheath as one. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She spoke with her hands, entertaining her two youngest children with fluid movements of such consummate grace that it seemed as though light music should be filtering from somewhere in the dizzying late afternoon heat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We suffered together for two or three miserable, feverish, itchy days, while Mother applied cocoa butter and ice packs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two sets were still in the ignitions, but the first two were missing. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Six were shot, but the remainder burst out, killing two hobbits, and then scattering across country in the direction of the Woody End. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I have improved, baby. You do not know. But there are only the two things and my work.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The food was scattered by two elderly sisters, who argued every day about which pigeon liked which sister the best. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m not crying. Maybe you’ll be all right you two. But watch out you don’t get her in trouble. You get her in trouble and I’ll kill you.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

You may think the animals were very stupid not to see at once that Uncle Andrew was the same kind of creature as the two children and the Cabby. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed to two huge balls of fondant—one was gold, and the other was silver. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She said she wasn’t tired a bit, but she must of been about to break half in two. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think their readership is much more than fifteen hundred, maybe two thousand, and half that is from out of state—you probably know that as well as we do.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It moved its tail without lifting it, two inthes sideways in the grass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She imagined the two of them living out their days in a tree house on the island or setting sail through the Caribbean. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Do you two know what Grover is talking about—this wild blessing?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But me, I get not one, not two, not three, but four grown-ups showing up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There were two categories of friends in my life: those with whom I played ball and everyone else. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was forced to leave the room because of my behavior, and when I did I was taken to a different room, full of chairs, with two huge glass windows. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Gallup tried to divide these variations into only two groups, she was seeing patterns that didn’t exist. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I forgot to put Vaseline around my face and I ended up with black dye stains dripping down my face for about two weeks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

There were two small beds in it with wooden chests at the foot of each, and a large standing wardrobe. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. You two need a break from each other. He seems like a decent kid, but together you’re trouble.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“As for me, I would like to see the flying bird with my own two eyes before I die. They say it flies, it’s huge. I don’t believe it.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had now been two days since Jawad Sahib visited our home and my parents began arguing without end. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, I had to send out the grain teams short two buckers. Won’t do any good to go out now till after dinner.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the obvious fact that it is relatively insensitive to them, there seem to be two other reasons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was going to be interesting to see what happened when two crews playing the same game met on the Langer See. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for the old woman but am fascinated at the prospect of being caught between the two worlds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us together would call more attention. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Driven by the desire for gold, Columbus would make two more trips. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I left them there in that room sitting next to each other like two birds on a branch. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was at least two years older than me and drove a new Chevy and looked sort of like a caramel-colored James Darren. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls came from very good families, the regent said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freas denied the allegations, and while the case awaited trial, these two powerful lawmen were pitted against each other. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I hope you are not tired of diving into other people’s memories, for they are curious recollections, these two,” he said. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sam had fallen to his knees by Frodo’s head, his senses reeling in the foul stench, his two hands still gripping the hilt of the sword. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Courtney’s parents split up when she was four years old, and her father moved with his mother to a town two hours away, in the Pocono Mountains. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wish I had gotten rid of her two years ago when we were considering splitting up. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is two in the morning in Isfahan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It might be fun having them two boys for friends.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of two hours, we added a full foot to the summit of her polychrome candle volcano. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But only, I suspected, for a minute or two. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Because I had pants and a coat and even gloves with only two fingers worn to skin, all clothes we found were passed on to the others. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It is only four and a half miles long and two and a half miles wide. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furrows that came up to the two lane road looked like giant legs running alongside us. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He played intelligently, keeping the ball low, out of the reach of Rosalie’s always-ready hand in the outfield, gaining two bases like lightning before Emmett could get the ball back in play. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Later in the evening, the two men learned about the radio program and finally understood the source of the rumor. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A strong wind whooshed around them and pushed the two cucos nearest them back. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That is, how many people would there have to be in a group in order for the probability to be half that at least two people in it have the same birthday? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought an extra alarm clock, which she set to go off two minutes after her original one; then a third clock, to go off after the second. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She barricaded the door with a wooden chair, secured it with a chain and two types of key locks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But two angry red splotches glow on his cheeks. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Alex was about to read it when the door suddenly opened and two men walked in. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Voices or the tolling of bells or glaciers cleaving in two or cliffs crumbling to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

During one 1920s season at the old Tijuana track, former rider Bill Buck remembered, the two oldest riders were just sixteen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before this, he had assigned me maybe two pages in each of three different exercise books every week. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing Lefty knows, he’s sharing a sofa with three Greek soldiers, looking across at seven plump, perfumed women sharing two sofas opposite. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Salvador remained in the room with the two men, standing against the wall as the guests and Mamá took the only three chairs. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I remembered two Russian soldiers who had looted a clock factory. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has a drink or two, when my Uncle Brian visits.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I think I must be dreaming; he has two loaves of bread under his arm and a bloodstained sandbag full of horse-flesh in his hand. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Maniac and the man from the funeral home and the six pallbearers and two men off to the side, smoking cigarettes and leaning on a little hole-digging tractor that made Maniac think of something. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company required the dead miner’s family to move within two weeks of the accident that killed him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hair in two braids, just like always, but not for much longer. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t spoken or moved since the two women had appeared, and that scared him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Most workboats get named for mothers or grandmothers, but my sister was the first girl born to the Parks family in two generations. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m worried, in any case, because it’s two days since I left him that note and he hasn’t got back to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nate hadn’t heard a peep from Paul in two years, and he had no idea why. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In June two businessmen committed suicide on the same day in the same Chicago hotel, the Metropole. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He chugged two cans at once, lifted his head like a wolf baying at the moon and let loose with a burp so loud it must have deafened house pets three houses over. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it was one or two nights a week, then three or four. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’s marching up the tracks carting another two buckets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One key left, maybe two if the golden key also opened something. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They pooled their resources and purchased two very expensive, very powerful antimatter bombs on eBay. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So each liter of hydrazine has enough hydrogen for two liters of water. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not see anything ahead, for this new passage twisted and turned constantly; but he thought he was catching the two Orcs up: their voices were growing nearer again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They were in the Maycomb Hotel dining room sitting on chromium chairs at a table for two. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ronan pulling two clams out of the sand is like a pirate discovering a chest full of gold coins. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Back at our space, I open one of the packs to find a thin mattress, bedding, two sets of gray clothing, a toothbrush, a comb, and a flashlight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He showed his mother the first two books as she dished up the lamb stew that was his supper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Looking for anything that might be empty, where I could put thirteen people for a day, for two days. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Until recent centuries, these areas were still occupied by hunter-gatherers—Native Americans in the first three cases and Aboriginal Australians or Native Siberians in the last two. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The staff had been handling the first fifty-three patients for the better part of two years, with astonishing results. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He had a long sausage, a jar of something and two bottles of wine under his arm. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The King went forth with two great dogs following him, his sole retinue and bodyguard. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she drinks two more glasses of sugary banana milk and eats three sweet rolls, her chin jiggling as she chews. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squint for two seconds and channel Anthony—“16, the quintessential jock”—basically he is Michael. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The two Indian rhinos were great attractions at the zoo because of the goats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had more children on his farm than he could count on two hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at least two inches long, which was his way of showing that he didn’t have to use his hands for rough or dirty work. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat squeezes shut, as if two hands of black fingernails are clamped on my windpipe. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,’ answered Éowyn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And where is your sister? I so rarely see the two of you apart.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One Esme won fair and square, two Rowan let her win, and one Rowan won, so it wouldn’t be as obvious that he had thrown the others. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

‘Well,” he said slowly, taking his glasses off, “looks like they’ve got two bus stations. There’s the one on Heather Avenue. And there’s the one on LaSalle.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the time, they were just two guys I'd never laid eyes on before. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was really only two, but I did not want to explain after I had made the mistake. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In recent years, there have been two noteworthy trends in the overall payment rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Malcolm had seen a movement at the end of the street, and then it became clearer: a dinghy, with two men in it, neither of them Bonneville. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The trip, which usually took a few hours, took two days. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Since these two plants were among the first eight crops of the Fertile Crescent, they were presumably among the most readily domesticated of all wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Police tracked them down in Florida and determined that the two men could not have committed the murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a long two and a half hours. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon after Thanksgiving, we deployed two reporters to go prospecting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He struggled to get up and, as he did, Sullivan discovered that his wooden leg had gotten stuck between two boards and come off. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls were up at dawn each morning to prepare a hot breakfast for the men who had lain out in the yard on guard during the night. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to get two and one-half dollars for finding a cache of liquor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got me up too early and said we were going to IHOP, just the two of us like we used to do before Sekani came along and ruined everything. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I see you two have made each other’s acquaintance,” Humble says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes two letters arrive in a single week. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doing two heads in one place was lucky and Violet looked forward to the eleven-o’clock appointment. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed Frankie a little farther down the aisle, past a few teenage boys who had taken over the first two rows. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We heard that almost two hundred hard-core segregationist students protested our presence by being absent from school on the day of that rally. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bought two tickets, one for him and one for the boxes, and flew home with the Pentagon Papers on the seat beside him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock in the morning, most likely thanks to a combination of rainy weather and people getting tired, the city was quieting down. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As we travel this expansive concrete channel, it feels to me like the world has torn in two, and we’re traveling the seam of that tear. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lil chinged open the register and slid them into the drawer, and I went over to the refrigerator in back and got two bottles of Coke, took their caps off, and brought them up front. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mother’s been chasing me with the Magic Soft & Silky Shinalator for two days now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mary sat on the outdoor concrete steps with the officer standing over her, the two mirroring each other’s despair and frustration. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But Baby came trotting on over, and the two of them had a warm reunion. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she can, then I’m not crazy—unless it’s just the two of us together that are. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then screaming a mighty scream and swinging two swords over my head, I charged the leaders; I released my bloodthirsty army and my straining war-horse. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two parts I remember best: One, the moveable bookcase that hid the stairs up to the secret attic where the Frank family stayed. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ever since they were the only two girls in the sixth grade who were afraid of gymnastics, they’d always been there for each other. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We do know a thing or two about the physical organization of the city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The two of them are in charge of keeping her busy while we prepare the surprise. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The two sisters bend over, trying to contain their hilarity. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Still in possession of Alice, he persuaded Carrie to let him pick up two more of her children, explaining that their father, in hiding, was desperate to see them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But she had two companions on her side, and so far, aside from lighting the lamp, she hadn’t made anything worse. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Celia passes by a theater in Old Havana and recognizes two of her half brothers standing by the entrance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across from us, against the far wall, the blue uniforms of the band members filled two sections from top to bottom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blizzard continued for two days, and no one dared crawl from the protection of his sleeping bag or blanket. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

These are mere shelters for the pups and are open at two ends. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were ghosts themselves, caught between two worlds: the reality of their crimes, and the hereafter denied them for those crimes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Circling above the palmetto trees were two large eagles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Light Hair stayed in the camp for two days. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps bigger than this, with two, three, or half a dozen people still alive. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Your father was a man torn between two halves, Rahim Khan had said in his letter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I take back what I thought about Nuru being the nicer one of the two. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

By 1588 astronomy had become concerned with the organization of the heavens in three dimensions, not just in two. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Percy joined them with his two new friends, Frank and Hazel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Fine, okay, I do think you two make a cute couple,” I say, sighing. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was seeing Schmidt too, about this messed-up thing that happened not quite two years earlier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He would never forget those two; no one on the faculty ever would. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother died when I was a baby, and my father ran away and left me when I was two.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At a White House meeting two weeks before Stassen’s departure, Strauss had reminded Eisenhower that his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission was to expire on June 30. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“All right, then. I’ll take eight quarterlies. That makes two days.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needs company, and so the two spend a lot of time together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Deciding that his wife had found the perfect partner, the podiatrist moved on to the two women standing in silence at the front window. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fairly easy to follow the trail he had made two days earlier. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard for J.T. because he’s shy and the only two people he knew were Digger and me and we weren’t in any of his classes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Whites outnumbered slaves two to one in North Carolina, but in Louisiana and Georgia the populations neared parity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Especially considering that our first section tournament game is in two days. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

In addition to himself there were five other employees at the show—two men to operate the swings and take tickets and three girls to manage the booths. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As he continued east on F, he approached two of Washington’s greatest landmarks: to the left, the huge marble Patent Office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far down the block, two patrolmen, one black, one white, walked lightly, looking over each other's shoulders, glancing up at the rooftops. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The home is two kilometers from the village. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“The girl has one head, too, she does not have two. So why did you let her come first?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He says something to the boy, and two gold fangs glisten in his mouth. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After a moment, she decided to stick out her own little hand alongside the other two, as though this was the way people greeted each other on the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Warrant Officer Swart prepared a final meal for all of us, and I thanked him not only for the food he had provided for the last two years but the companionship. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo got the feeling that the two of them had had private conversations about the House of Hades, and they weren’t sharing all the details. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to him that all the world might not desire such delicacies as two pounds of pork and six ounces of beef and a small pond fish. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Citra arrived on the main floor ready to assess the contents of the pantry and refrigerator, but to her surprise she found the dinner table set for two, and steaming plates of food already there. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She buried her head in her dad’s shoulder and the two of us were crying like babies. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the center of the table were two massive, carved oak chairs, and the King and Queen were seated there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often the “no” word was linked to one of the two names he knew: his own and his boy’s. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Paul senior, her husband, looked intimidating at six foot two and over 210 pounds. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There are twelve beds total: a row of eight crammed together along the far wall, and two pressed together on each side, leaving a huge space in the middle of the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They creep out the door, one dribble, two dribble, slinking along the side of the building. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She pulls two feet of tape from the roll, the screech cutting through the dusty silence. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

On the blanket between them were the two pistols and the box of flares. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the time, the ice pack extended two thousand miles south of the Bering Strait and was almost devoid of life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, two blocks away, there was Muffy, up a tree. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Option two was to climb down the gorge, cross the river, and come up at the plant from below. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paid attention only to the first two. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The parking lot was nearly empty; only two cars besides theirs remained. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d shoved two sticks into the sand and rigged a piece of metal plane wreckage between them so that it caught the sun’s light. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t there used to be two of these?” he says, frowning at the chair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I can understand the first two,” he said thoughtfully, “but the third escapes me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drew the two of them, dividing countries like children dividing toys. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He took two steps, fell, and didn’t get back up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The two men shook and tugged and pulled while the children jumped up and down on my father’s chest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

About two hours after Prosper and Riccio's return the bell at the entrance rang and the Thief Lord was at the front door, just as he had promised. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t be stealing. She said her elixir has to oxidize for two weeks. We’d just borrow some of hers now and replace it with some of yours later.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He also works at some pizza restaurant most nights after practice. He said he was working last night. But again, I don’t really know what transpired between you two after you left here.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He pulled Devin out of line in the north and brought him in alongside Gamble: two thousand men facing west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert urged his brother to enlist in the army for three years, rather than be drafted for two. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A healthy monkey’s eyes would be like two bright circles in the monkey’s face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life imitating art, art imitating life; I really get those two confused, sort of like I can never remember if claret is Bordeaux wine or Burgundy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Another slithered up and I snapped two quick jabs and a hook. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Together, the two foxes looked expectantly at Pax, and then they melted into the underbrush. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It took me another two minutes to open the book and look over the table of contents. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I saw two more bandana-clad intruders; these two held crossbows at waist height, not really aiming them anywhere, though they were loaded. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, the Gestapo grilled Hans and Sophie for seventeen hours. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she says, Á bu, and to come here with her carvings to sell she must walk all the way, more than two hundred kilometers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle’s got you doing two chores—babysitting and lawn mowing—and he’s got you thinking it’s a good deal,” I said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He led us around to the front, where there were two rows of jail cells, all of them empty. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Irene pretended to study the label of an Idaho Spud candy bar, taking her time, I grabbed two packs of the Bubblicious and tucked them just inside the band of my shorts. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Underneath it were seven gifts, six of which Naomi had wrapped herself—two presents for Cari, two presents for Beto, and two presents for Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one in the audience perceived a link between the two subjects being discussed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And judging from the color of their skin and the smell, all of them had been dead for a day or two. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The man held what looked like two huge rifles with grappling hooks on the ends attached to big coils of rope. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were one, two, three smaller holes bordering the top of the hole where Seven stood. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow looked out of the window: it was a little airport in the middle of nowhere, and there were still two little airports to go before Eagle Point. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The group went back to Maer Hall, where Emma quickly changed out of her fancy clothes, and the two newlyweds said their farewells. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up two hours away, in the body of a girl named Katie. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I whispered the two things I knew would get her going. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then bam...their two most important members fell into Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Three teachers had perished—two beloved, the third not so much, but everyone cried for him, even so. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Its only inn is a single room, divided by a woolen blanket to separate where the innkeeper sleeps and where he keeps his one table and two benches. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sidney Goldberg nodded to me, and the two of us went over to them. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Why? I thought you were excited. ‘I get to be with my two best friends.’ A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then they take away my bundle and examine it, shaking out the two shirts and the two sets of curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A second piece of bacon was mutilated and consumed in two carnivorous gulps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was just room between the sofa and the curtained wall and the two girls got down. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing more came out of my mouth, so he said, “Why don’t you two go on back to Mrs. Hoffman’s class.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcos sank into a deep depression that lasted two or three days, at the end of which he announced that he would never marry and that he was embarking on a trip around the world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I already went to school. I have two PhDs, in case you’ve forgotten.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He was recruited into the Bowibu at nineteen, after two years of military service. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We were going to survive, the two of us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think that would add up to two whole actual jobs, but it didn’t seem to. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They made good speed for two hours and then reached the loose belt of ice they had seen from the lookout. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The two lived with their three young daughters in a penthouse. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The card is now the two of hearts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By mid-1912 the two of them— just twenty and twenty-one—were beginning to feel that they had their feet under them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As he got closer, he noticed that the engine was running, and that the two cops inside were murmuring into their walkie-talkies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hale, who had an owlish face, stiff black hair, and small, alert eyes set in shaded hollows, had settled on the reservation nearly two decades earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They hurried along with all the speed they could make, and after a mile or two they saw the Last Bridge ahead, at the bottom of a short steep slope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They watched the van headlights emerge on the slope of the next hill: two fingers of light groping their way along an invisible road in the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had done this for only two and a half months and had not learned much. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I held up one finger, then two, and on three we ran for her. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The heart of Lawrence’s pitch, however, involved two other demands. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With two fingers, he pointed to his eyes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The happy thought of time with Lumpy and a sleepover at Audrey’s carried me through my next two classes. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, but you made two hundred and eight dollars! You see? You're my little sister, and you're twice as smart as me." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

With only two weeks’ rent money in their pockets, they tried their hands at whatever they could find. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Your father has two jobs here, Moose. Electrician and guard.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mums went off for coffee, just as we'd planned, and Salim and the two Sparks cousins joined the ticket queue. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having served two tours in Vietnam at the height of the war, he found himself woefully unprepared for the flat pitch of life out of uniform. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were three of us preschoolers, but the other two were younger than me, so I played by myself. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

From what I can see, it's two women and a man. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman rocked on her heels and the dogs ran off in a row, the other two chasing the one carrying the whip. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are the mom-and-pop theaters, willing to proceed with the two o'clock showing of The Honeymoon Killers even if I'm the only one in the house. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’d given his life for us, and all I could think about were the times I’d felt embarrassed by him and had denied that the two of us were related. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Having in the preceding two chapters discussed why so many wild plant species seemingly suitable for domestication were never domesticated, we shall now tackle the corresponding question for domestic mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With Irene nothing we were doing or feeling was named as part of anything bigger than just the two of us. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was two days later before the skies cleared and Nat could check their position and set his course once more for Sumatra. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes had passed it over two or three times before he saw what was written in tiny letters on top of the panel. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, the club would be packed with celebrities—movie stars, musicians, and at least two members of the High Five. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If he really focused, he could read about two sentences well, but by the time he got to the third or fourth, he’d have forgotten the first. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

As though they are the only two people in the world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Gideon knew those two boys? Did he have many friends when he was here? Did he ever go fishing with anyone or swimming in the creek?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But suddenly two large ladies stepped out of a cafe, laughing and arguing. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Oxyrhynchus hymn, written in Ancient Greek, dates from the late third century, making it nearly two thousand years old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Later, when I could speak and understand English well, I learned that Mama had said to Uncle Ali, “I’ve raised five sons. I can certainly manage these two children.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ball sails into the net, but before I can throw my arms up, I see Papi and Manny crash like two Mack trucks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And there were seven fifth-grade teachers: two math, two science, two social studies, but only one language arts teacher. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These two companies guide corn’s path every step of the way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And there we are, jumping like two little schoolgirls who just got a sticker on a spelling test. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At the gates of Daznak’s Pit two towering bronze warriors stood locked in mortal combat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boys said they would help build the house from the planks and two- by-fours Dad brought up here for that purpose. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed two fingers in the center of Liyana’s forehead and closed her eyes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just another year or two and she could go home—home free. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The real card is supposed to come in two weeks. The woman said it’s bright green with a red stripe.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Hazarding a guess as to the number of lashes, he was off by two. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as they stepped inside they could tell there was nobody in the two rooms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My bans were due to expire two days after the adjournment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the waiters carried over two Prestige beers with napkins wrapped around the gold, sweating bottle. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mama took two fingers and tucked wayward strands of my hair under the brim of my baseball cap. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

None of them got more than two stars. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife was initially unable to sleep, wondering, “How do you raise two young boys in this kind of environment?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then afterward I'd have to “there, there” her for the next two weeks. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, I’m the warrior and Boots is a princess. And you two are going to get pretty hungry if you’re waiting for me to serve you,” said Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he came in, and we bought a pretty good rod cheap, and two landing-nets. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She came back after a few minutes with two beers pressed against her chest and a bowl of tortilla chips in her free hand. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had two, one on each butt cheek. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A call goes up through the congregation and two of the brothers do a shuffling dance down the center aisle, a wooden box containing a snake in each of their hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“She’s going to be in a bad mood tomorrow, though. Thanks to you two.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

We’re standing just in front of the store when two black teenage girls walk out laughing with each other. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, the boy saw two horsemen waiting ahead of them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Art saw the two of them come through the door, he dropped his pen at the edge of his desk blotter and stood and covered his eyes with his hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked around the room, and had to wait all of two milliseconds for hands to shoot up. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One put her arm around her waist and two others kissed her cheek. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s still two foot, three foot of snow on the ground. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is still easy to tell the two notes apart, because an oboe sounds different from a flute. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony—sticks, droppings, feathers, a broken egg and a dead nestling or two. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two feed bins in the barn built to keep out mice and I’d already stacked one with potatoes and the other halfway with nuts and com and cabbages. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two wide windows with sheer curtains, a closet with an ironing board tucked inside, a mini fridge, a mini wastebasket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s supposed to be two single-file lines, but Mr. Garfield is never very good at insisting, and we take full advantage. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He shone his own flashlight upward then, so that two beams shone against the mast now. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fact: Walking in the narrow glow from a flashlight—or even two flashlights—had the effect of making everything outside that glow seem eerie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His mother had a soup they could eat, she said: five kinds of beans, onions and celery, a ham shank, two small turnips. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moon came out above the two scholars. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Within two years, the burgeoning lab had outgrown its drafty quarters. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Before the lady can object, I take two more. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her teacher ushered her into a beautifully appointed room lit with two globe-shaped oil lamps, one on the desk, one resting on a dark wooden stand carved with lotus flowers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That means, ‘In this cave, you will find two stone pillars.’ The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had seen Mike’s expression drop the entire time we’d been with him, which was close to two hours. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It fell and broke neatly into two pieces, stem severed from body. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There could be no more photos of the two of us together. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nor do they notice when it snaps in two within his fist, black ink seeping down his wrist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was surprised at two things: one, that he would take me there; two, that I felt a little sorry because I wouldn’t be going alone. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Adam spoke so explosively that the two looked at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Minli remembered the two children fighting over their piles of mud as she had left her village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I catch Webb’s throw with two hands against my chest and hold it there. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, a year earlier, Naheed and her sister had walked home together—nearly two full miles. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

With his right arm around Miss Love and his left arm stub laid across my shoulder and me facing the two of them, Grandpa prayed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In two days we would celebrate the mass of the dead, and after mass we would take her body to the cemetery in Las Pasturas for burial. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to her little two- burner stove and put water on to boil. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Come on,” took two wide steps, and we came. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two bad friends were now too ashamed to go before the chief to ask him to change their names. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I expected more from the daughter of two PhDs.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

On the wall behind him were photographs of his two heroes, Tomkins and Charles Darwin. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Not always. There’s usually a bed or two empty, in case any new kids arrive.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The two pieces stay standing, separate, for a moment before they fall, the patterned back facing up. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it was large and long enough to seat two hundred, and half again that many if they crowded close. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His hair was like two black ropes, and round his arm was a lovely silver bracelet with blue stones in it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We,” said the bigger of the two mice, “will escort you to the dungeon. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Our camaraderie has more than just two sides, and I feel really fortunate to be a part of this new movement that’s not just black and white. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He enlisted five Haitians who were his age—he required that each had at least one year of junior high school—to go from hut to hut in Cange and two neighboring villages. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There was a second or two when he could have turned back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For the past two weeks I’ve had all kinds of unexpected visitors. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m ’a leave you two young ladies to do your little girly makeover while I go on in the kitchen to make y’all some food. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This horrific nationwide cleanup, which went on for two years, is now known as the “Great Terror” or the “Great Purge.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It almost looked like the arrows had intercepted the thorns in midair and sliced them in two, but my eyes must’ve been playing tricks on me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Yamma, someone is stealing Basel,” I said, pointing to where the two boys were about to disappear. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

With his father temporarily away from the farm on business, it fell to son John to decide whether to take in not one but two men. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made it to the kitchen and grabbed a quick breakfast, taking two empty seats at the big table inside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then he saw two dark figures, Frodo and a man, framed against the archway, which was now filled with a pale white light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I drank my water in two long gulps. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was close to two o’clock, and there was no way of knowing when his sisters might get back. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Alex had invited James and Tony not merely because they were two of the guys he was most friendly with but because they were two of the better-looking guys left in his school. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

To something too small or sluggish to duplicate this experience–a snail, say–the idea that a boom box could seem to two observers to produce two different volumes of music simultaneously might seem incredible. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sass paused only to buy two palm leaf fans, giving me one. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If originality distinguishes art from craft, tradition serves as the common meeting ground of the two. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all wearing shades of green and brown, and two of them had leafy branches stuck through their hats. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She grabs me, but Marcus’s face emerges at the bottom of the stairwell, and, spotting me, he bounds up, reaching me in two strides. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Director marches into the kitchen with two of his private security detail. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He went below in the darkness, drank two glasses of water to celebrate finding land, then went back up to the cockpit to sit and wait for dawn. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rebecca slashing at her horse; Rebecca seizing life with her two hands; Rebecca, triumphant, leaning down from the minstrels’ gallery with a smile on her lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The treatment could take up to two years—much longer than the treatment for regular TB—and the side effects were often painful for patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The best thing for him is to be with his mother. Not around two newborns and a father he barely sees,” she says testily. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It had about two hundred and fifty pupils aged from five to just under twelve years old. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I rowed on the lightweight crew for two years.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the doorway was one of those doctor’s symbols, a winged pole with two snakes wrapped around it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I signaled to Chester and the two of us casually moseyed over to a corner of the room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grace saw her dad glance between Maya and Lauren, and she wondered if he was thinking what Grace was thinking: that those two were one dessert course away from a full-fledged cage match. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was only the bartender and the two men who followed him into the street that prevented them from killing each other. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is now fully two days since my meeting with Miss Kenton in the tea lounge of the Rose Garden Hotel in Little Compton. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of fourteen children, my grandfather served as pastor of two churches south of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Seattle, two bunk cars and a bona fide freak—a bearded lady—and this made him happy, for what Uncle Al craves above all else, what Uncle Al dreams of at night, are freaks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The two of us often walk up to the cemetery on the hill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The two youngest Garfield boys, ages ten and eight, were traveling by train from New Jersey to Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be able to eat. Don’t worry. And in the meantime, think of this as a science experiment. So it’s two of your most favorite things, Albert.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was the talk of the Talmud Department by the end of two weeks and the accepted referee of all Talmudic arguments among the students. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We had two bunks, a toilet, a galley, no radio, plenty of books, a deck of cards, a chess set, and two thousand pounds of hash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“What do you two know about my jelly beans?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Would I test myself, or my two daughters? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at Hana’s poster of two track runners from the Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, with their fists raised on the winners’ platform. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Yet as the words became audible, the procession reached the steepest part of the mountain, and in a minute or two the chant had died away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Of the three, two drove directly for the companions; the third turned his mount’s head and galloped to the flank of the defenders. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“More than we have room for. About two hundred and fifty,” Zaman said over his shoulder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You two should’ve been in the underground auditorium five minutes ago. I suggest you change into your uniforms, make those beds, and hightail it down there.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I gave him a two on the delusion detector. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes. There can be no mistake. They were a family heirloom. There are no two others like them. My grandmother had them designed and made to order.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We traveled in two Land Rovers, Carrie driving one and Robin driving the other. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Mark never fully understood what kind of relationship the two veterans had shared, it had been deep and full of history. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Certainly, madam," he said, and he put two fingers into his mouth and blew a long shrill whistle. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

From here, I can barely make out the inch or two of new blond hair on his head, but I know it’s there. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he served two years moving between different military bases. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bringing the two ghosts together had helped them pass on, but not at all like Ophie had thought. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying. Can you two forget about the bubbling purple goop for a nanosecond? I’m trying to reveal our big family secret!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If two washings get done each day, I suggest, including mine and Helena’s, then everyone’s will get done in a week, and then the cycle can start all over again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

New recruits, S.Q. had called them, and indeed, these were the two whose dazed expressions had caught Reynie’s attention the first day—the bell-shaped girl and the wiry boy he’d suspected of being kidnapped. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And below there are two domes. Huge domes. And the garden and the mosque.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Dobby, is this Shell Cottage?” he whispered, clutching the two wands he had brought from the Malfoys’, ready to fight if he needed to. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And that's what worries me—if he cares so much about a car, deep down inside the two of us must be fundamentally different. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She went to see him every day for two weeks, bringing him scraps she saved for him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

What were the chances that three Jewish immigrants would disappear in just two months, and then a fourth would end up dead? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Almost two thousand five hundred miles away in Brisbane, my chance to be a school hero had crashed and burned as well. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There weren’t really that many names on it: two sheets, single spaced, three columns across, alphabetical order. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Except for the colors of their hair, it was hard to tell the two of them apart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his early years in the country, while still enrolled at Harvard Medical School, Farmer himself had wondered about this, and devised a study that followed two groups of TB patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I crossed the porch in two steps and ran across the warm earth toward the gate. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her two sisters—the other Furies—swooped down and settled next to her in the branches of the poplar. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“This is loaded for now, and it will stay that way until we get past these two and back out on our own.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I was pure liquid loss, then, for an hour or two. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In his hand were two brown paper bags. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Minerva is only a little bit older than me but already she has two kids and a husband who left. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her prince—no, her king now!— took the steps of the Iron Throne two at a time, while his mother was seated with the council. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It took the rat sentries a moment or two to recover from their surprise. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I looked for the two trusties, but they seemed to have disappeared. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two cards, one a familiar playing card and the other a tarot card emblazoned with an angel, are amongst the papers on the desk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She blew it out, the smoke rose and dispersed, and Father Stylianopoulos broke the candle in two. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mack and two men climb into the black cave of the truck. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I pick up two bags and carry one under each arm. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after a week or two the women usually begin to talk, very softly but without cease, until they’ve finished the accounting of places and people they’ve lost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corpse was mummified by the cold, and this time the lawmen had no trouble identifying the victim: Henry Roan, a forty-year-old Osage Indian who was married with two children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Almost as the two animals reached midstream the dam broke altogether. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was convinced that if anyone tried to assassinate him, these two stocky morons would be powerless to prevent it, but he trusted that their presence would at least scare off spontaneous detraaors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love anticipating a teammate’s cut and then throwing a bounce pass between two defenders. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Landry News used to be something Cara did completely on her own, something with a single voice and a single vision, an extension of her own thinking and her own two hands. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

This feeling in my gut, that there was something more at work here than just the two of us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looks up at me thoughtfully, his left hand balancing two plates and his right hand holding the tub of butter. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he felt he was being torn in two by the hoping and the not hoping. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song makes me think of Greenville and Brooklyn the two worlds my heart lives in now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

For two hours, I am a driving, knocking, smiling, changemaking machine. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

If she stopped for longer than a minute or two, Kekrops and his guards started hissing and looking angry. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Brandy’s looking at Tressa’s phone, and the two of them are laughing at some video. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Then that he had two sisters, that he liked the cats that roamed through the garden, and that he worked very well with his hands. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them had ever been radical—even at a time of protests, sit-ins, marches, riots—but now they owned two houses, four cars, a small boat they docked at the marina downtown. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You dig one plant, leave two plant; dig one, leave two. So plant come back next season. And ask plant permission.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But two trespassers are easier to catch than one. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They had only two cups and he drank his coffee from the bowl he’d eaten from, his thumbs hooked over the rim. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In two seconds, Candy is in front of us. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The ice has been out of Charisune Gulf for a month or two, one might stay alive awhile in the water. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I came home from school to find our queen-size bed had been replaced with two twin beds. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That evening, I climbed the stairs and walked into Baba’s smoking room, in my hands the two sheets of paper on which I had scribbled the story. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All the while the whistles, two now, blew into the yard. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For after another second or two of awkward silence, his lordship seemed to come to a decision. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“By this means I will test the mettle of Cristiana and her two suitors,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Justyce is still in a daze when he gets to Societal Evolution two periods later. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then he slung his backpack over his shoulder and nodded down the road and we set off, two miles, and it wasn’t any twenty-one degrees. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Over the next two weeks, I spent many hours in court arranging bail for the women. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the official procession is approaching the stage, mounting the steps at the right: three women, one Aunt in front, two Salvagers in their black hoods and cloaks a pace behind her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Mom always get shrimp fried rice, Aunt Sophie gets crab sticks, which I always thought was a weird choice, and King nine times out of ten orders a cheeseburger with two egg rolls. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The two began shouting at each other again, over the sound of bombs exploding in Frank’s skull. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This means that on each I would replace the fifth note, first with a seventh then with a sixth, making two different chords, one after another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He’s pouring water from the kettle through two filters poised over mugs and has begun singing to himself in Spanish. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You can trust my man, I think. I sent him into Gettysburg last uight. He said he saw two brigades of Union cavalry there.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will make room for you right away,” he said, “and I will need only two years with you. After that, you will be able to go anywhere and sing for anybody.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in his own time, Kepler was more famous as an astrologer than as an astronomer, although the distinction between the two was rather blurred. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But much and more can change in two days. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!” returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we start having children, one after the other, every two years, and they work with us in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ooh,” a couple of the guys say, and one or two give me dap as they crack up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“But are you sure you can manage two kids right now? Are you sure you can handle something else to worry about?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He filched an old kettle and two lumps of sugar, just in case. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he produces a term that denotes a coming together of both of those two things—to be countrymen is to experience romanitas as fellowship—and a fraternity between speaker and audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“At least one new family has built a hedge to avoid people seeing them as they pass by,” said Wade Green, seventy- two, who has summered here for years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They just moved down two years ago from somewhere in Alaska.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Paul Ellis toiled on the night shift at the mill and painted houses during the day in a vain effort to raise his family a notch or two. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I also didn’t know what “it” was, but sort of put two and two together and guessed it had something to do with whatever a pallbearer was. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The ground between the two armies grew less every moment. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Assume further that .5 percent— one out of two hundred people—actually have cancer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And over the next two days, while I helped Miss Maggie nurse him back to health, I told Quinn some of my story, and why I’d thought he might be my brother. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We had two days to finish it up, she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the two of them—just slightly— melt together. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Imagine that you are a government official charged with procuring the funds to fight one of two proven killers: terrorist attacks and heart disease. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Another donor regularly brings two or three large gunnysacks of sugar. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A Red Cross van arrived at the refugee camp and two women handed out cups of milk. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The client clicked his heels together, bowed stiffly and walked out between the two men. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two dogs were calm as pets one moment. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But there were two wolves growling in the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There, outside in the Lane, stood a tiny form and two gigantic figures. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then he asked when the northbound train ran, and the man told him at two thirty. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the country barely had time to catch its breath when, less than two weeks later, the largest strike that had ever taken place in the United States began. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Beneath it were two crudely drawn stick figures holding hands. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I pour for him, again with two hands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the two mods approached, I knew they wouldn't go into single file to let me by. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Sell the colt, then. Having two animals is more immoral than not having any.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was during an obliterating drought, and amid the dust and heat Dudley and his partner searched a clapboard house where the two wanted men were believed to be hiding out. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Because not one but two of us are standing there, waiting to be announced as the new winner. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She thought there were one or two she might be able to repair. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

At our usual table, Daisy and I shocked Holly by ordering two sodas. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A gun barrel pressed to my spine urges me forward, through the front doors of Abnegation headquarters, a plain gray building, two stories high. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She never lost the weight from her last pregnancy, and now she has two fleshy chins. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two spent time together at conventions, but Stone remained unconvinced of a future together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We had lived in Warner Robins, Georgia, for only two years when Jerome received a notice that his com-pany planned to relocate him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The two rocks then slid back to their original bases. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I got up first and started to help him up just as two more bodies landed on top of us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One — two — three —” Both of them swung their wands above their heads and pointed them at their opponent; Snape cried: “Expelliarmus!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Underwater surveys of the area northeast of the island clearly show remnants of the tower toppled in that direction, with more than two thousand of its blocks Uttering the harbor bed. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I was out of the water, if only by a fluctuating two, three feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kappe told him he was crazy and wouldn't last two weeks in the military because he was too used to having his freedom. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The pilot made an emergency landing in a grassy area covered with two feet of water. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Yes, we did. We really did. I was in his office for around two hours, I guess." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He took two pork chops out of the freezer and thawed them in the microwave. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was the boy who intimately knew what it had been like to lose two parents, because he’d lost them too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It hasn’t been two days, but I didn’t know about the typhus, then. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A little over two minutes after the beginning of the flash, the shock wave hit us. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It was only two fans—” He jumped straight into his pulpit voice. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There will be a hundred babies, too—two babies for each pair of “parents.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I was pretty sure I recognized two of them: Leo and Callum. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, to the spinners. We must persuade two to join us on the quest,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But why had the hummingbears chosen the same two trees for nesting? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

By closing off the rest of the house I kept those two rooms warm enough—really warm, except for a couple of very cold days. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were two such places on the island—one on the headland and the other less than a league to the west. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She complimented me on my dress and got her date to snap a picture of the two of us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Meggie whispered back, never taking her eyes off the two men. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On some days he wore two watches: he wore two this day, an ancient watch and chain his children had cut their teeth on, and a wristwatch. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A molecule is simply two or more atoms working together in a more or less stable arrangement: add two atoms of hydrogen to one of oxygen and you have a molecule of water. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Would be those two who found him,” said another. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Patterns. But looking at two days’ worth isn’t gonna tell you jack. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She carried the bottle to the round table in the middle of the room and filled the two small glasses with rum. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that I could react in one of two ways: I could scold them for their impertinence or I could listen to what they were saying. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were mirrors of each other now, two identical pairs of dark eyes level with each other. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s white cloth cap bobbed away in the distance as I looked for a path out of the crowd, but bodies pushed in from all sides to watch the two men arguing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if you look at the arrangement of the two constellations a little differently, it’s almost like Mama Bear sent Baby Bear spinning with a good swift head butt. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The Congress of the People took place at Kliptown, a multiracial village on a scrap of veld a few miles soudiwest of Johannesburg, on two clear, sunny days, June 25 and 26, 1955. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So there’s only two nuns looking after the kids?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We went to school together, two years ago. You’re Clay, right?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The two of them will fight for ever. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I said no to the assignment only because I thought it would be unbearably frustrating to spend two months in the shadow of Everest without ascending higher than Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the large garden in back, kicking a ball and watching two dogs chase it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tenement had been destroyed in a fire two months before, and our friend from Piatra Neamt had been taken with it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Soon Tehlu was a span of days behind the demon, then two days, then half a day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Son, a bunch of terrorists just flew two planes into the World Trade Center.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have that much, but I knew even if he were next to me, he wouldn’t mind if I tried on a jacket or two. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The tinker dealt with everyone in turn, sometimes two or three at a time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He saw two littluns and, not having any idea of his own appearance, wondered why they screamed and ran. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He held up a clear plastic binder maybe two inches thick. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It’s basically a wooden basket, open at the back, mounted on an axle between two wheels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I rule that out. We are not electrocuting two million dollars worth of robots to locate Nestor 10. There are other ways.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Her only outings were her weekly trips to Sunday mass at the Church of Saint Sebastian, which was two blocks from her house, whence she was conveyed in a wheelchair by Ferula and the maid. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this block, only two stores remain open: Blue Spot Liquor and Restless Video across the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

One was stooping, and the other two stood staring at him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They kill one another readily by ones and twos; seldom by tens or twenties; never by hundreds or thousands. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t recognize the two mousy white women who stood there. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t come in here in two weeks asking for a transfer” to an engineering group, the human resources director said to Katherine Goble on her first day of work, a comment she didn’t appreciate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s easier to remember and appreciate something, after all, if you discuss it for two hours with your best friends. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One guy was a merman with two fish tails instead of one. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She seemed so stunned that Percy figured he ought to know these two. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The average smartphone only uses two to seven watts to fully charge. These lenses need less than one watt.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As happens sometimes between two people speaking different languages, the demon had begun to shout at Father as if Father were deaf and the demon could make his words better understood by being loud. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think this tub’s going to carry only two thousand people? Who told you that?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Let's call the volume of the airlock two cubic meters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was particularly enthusiastic about a papier-mache model of Big Brother’s head, two meters wide, which was being made for the occasion by his daughter’s troop of Spies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually, there were only two left: Captain Cat and her man Harye. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he says, the cocktail party effect shows the limitations of attention; after all, you can’t pay attention to two conversations at once. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He not only recognized me as a tree Muslim, but he gave me two books, one in English, the other in Arabic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa generally wore just two shirts a week, and Saturday wasn’t his day to change. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“She’s lovely, she’s engaged, she uses Pond’s” the advertisement read, showing two exquisitely white hands with perfectly formed and manicured nails, long nails, and a diamond ring sparkling on the gracefully curved left hand. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two dogs who came up to him, telling him they had not been fed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A final-day match between two 7—7 wrestlers isn’t likely to be fixed, since both fighters badly need the victory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was not, under any condition, to let more than two Malays on board ship at one time. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came around the corner of a building and startled two Norwegian boys, who took one look at them and bolted. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But even as he moved his tools, trudging back and forth to store them in the primitive litde structure he had built between two trees, he found himself thinking again of the old woman. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On May 23 Conant summoned to Washington all the program chiefs— Lawrence, Briggs, Compton, Murphree, and Urey—in the hope of settling on one or two separation methods and scrapping the others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sam cut two thin pieces of deer hide, made three holes in each, and, tucking ends inside holes, he fastened jesses to her legs with the falconer’s knot, the knot that never binds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But these two mothers don’t understand the first thing about us! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This is what you might expect because one could think of the new body A as being made of two bodies with the original mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fun hanging out with Via all day, just the two of us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When we came to the road which led back toward the main highway I pointed down it to the two girls. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After a minute or two, Viju pulled away from the scuffle. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They lined up two deep for a photo that ran later in the camp paper. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl who hired him had two rows of holes in each ear. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Two days later Lazear felt ill; two days after this he was confined to bed as yellow fever wracked his body. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Partly because of these two thugs trailing me now, but more because I knew Jermaine wouldn’t be here to protect my neck this time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

On Friday nights there were always only two things on my mind: getting the hell out of the house and finding the party. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A fake got him up in the air and I was around him and laid it up for two. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And here was my mother, his tribal enemy, a Xhosa woman alone with two small children—one of them a mixed child, no less. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Laila could make out two men sitting inside, one behind the wheel, the other in the back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was assigned a corner consisting of two boys in their teens. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had two choices — try and move, or send up red sparks, and get rescued and disqualified from the task. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then Adah would fly home, and Leah and I would drive as far as Brazzaville together for safety’s sake, although if you ask me two women traveling alone are twice as much trouble as one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were mortal again, two people playing on a beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The noble and This 1501 print shows two kinds of computation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They ordered two steaks medium rare, baked potatoes, French fries, fried onions, succotash, side dishes of macaroni and hominy, salad with Thousand Island dressing, cinnamon rolls, apple pie and ice cream, and coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and saw the Station Inspector coming closer, with the two policemen right behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Diego puts two fingers in his mouth trying to whistle, but when he does he just sinks underwater and no sound comes out. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow Tyson, who was so clumsy he knocked over lab equipment and broke playground structures on a regular basis, had caught two fiery metal balls speeding toward him at a zillion miles an hour. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two things I loved most were fire and knives. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I thought I would burst with excitement when the knock came and two men rolled a piano in through the front door. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was just the two of us that year; we were the only ones of our friends together in the same class. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

‘It is kingsfoil, Sir,’ he said; ‘but not fresh, I fear. It must have been culled two weeks ago at the least. I hope it will serve, Sir?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, Xan did her best to conclude her work in the Free Cities as quickly as she could. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When Rabscuttle came back, he helped El-ahrairah to disguise his horrible, maimed head with two dock leaves in place of ears, and after a while they slept. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bastian is maybe two hundred yards away, he turns and raises his left hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Isa recorded her fourth take, she watched Jessie prop two pillows against the wall and sprawl against them with her National Geographic magazine. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

His two children had grown tall and confident, vibrant advertisements for what the next generation could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He looks at the two prongs attached to the car battery. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes. A long time ago. She wasn’t even two.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The two started talking on a regular basis. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Get two rods, then, and Bill won't have to buy one." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I open the door, and there’s Lubek, three girls I don’t know but recognize from the factory floor, and two more couples I’ve never seen in my life. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were the two wings of the building; there was the garden; there were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You two carry on. Don’t let me spoil your fun.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“And two half sisters, but they’re only a few months old.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You really shouldn’t eat that, Ben. Fried foods aren’t good for you. First of all, there’s the cholesterol—” Phoebe removed two pieces of chicken from Ben’s plate and put them back on the serving platter. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Devan set the tray on the table and filled two clay cups. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No one’s here—it’s just the two of us, and hasn’t Jasmine always been my best friend? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The two Virginias inside me argue—the brave one and the scared one, the one who wants to leave the Doctorita and the one who wants to stay. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

New England has had two quakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater in the last two hundred years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I look hard at everything, and blink, as if my two eyes were a Brownie camera taking photographs to carry back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In play, when just the two of them were together, she gave her little brother names. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

After sliding one on my back and getting a grip on the other two with my hands, I turn to find a group rapidly forming behind me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If you want to sound a proper peasant, say it as if you had mud in your mouth, or were too stupid to realize it was two words, not just one.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She took out two, then counted the rest. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Nhamo waited two days longer to be sure the weather had calmed down. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead of them Bod saw a statue swing up, and another two creatures came catapulting out into this crimson-skied world, just like the ones that carried Bod. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of silence as the two of them sipped their drinks, not looking at anything in particular. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I press two beauty tokens into their hands and thank them as they whiz away, full of laughter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When the two of them were alone, he confided in her about his life, replaying things that had happened and explaining how he’d do them differently now. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After the candles were lit, Rachel and the two girls picked up skeins of yarn and began to knit as Matthew drew the great Bible toward him across the table. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew what opportunities might present themselves in the next two months? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon the two figures merge with the haziness, and I can see them under the kitchen-light whiteness. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then, after a minute or two that seemed to last for hours, the mine whistle blew. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Another time I’d stayed too late, I had had to walk around two Negro kids who were bonking each other’s head on the concrete. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilots and navigators of the 587th kept a long-running volleyball competition going whenever they got a free moment, with the two flight squadrons making up their opposing teams. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For five or six strokes, the bows of the two boats contested for the lead, back and forth like the heads of racehorses coming down the stretch. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I will. But now we still have to win two of the last three games.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

One was only a meter or two from him; the other was further away, near the door. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He sat alone for more than two hours. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Only two months after Sputnik, the US Navy ordered the construction of the USS George Washington, the world's first nuclear-armed submarine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Declaration took two steps away from me and asked her daddy something I couldn’t hear. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So Luma tried to get the two boys to work together. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mr. Crawley, do be on my side,” she persisted, and one or two of the others joined in. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At about six Fm supposed to call two motels charging only $40 a day, where something may have opened up, but I realize I’ve left the phone numbers in the car. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two hundred just wasn't the...main event. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Usually when two people go for a walk together, Mrs. Brook says, they actually walk together. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two o’clock in the afternoon, too early for the school bus or Mother or Dad. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A purple chair was placed next to one of the two windows. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house may be two hundred years old or it may be older, built of brick, with a stone-faced front looking south toward the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I sent in my application, I had to practice every spare moment with Professor Christie to fme-tune the Shostakovich concerto and the two Bach suites. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men dashed to the Maxima, jumped in, and screeched away. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He turned to the man beside him and he said, “Do you know a character or two so that you may tell me the meaning of this dreadful thing?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

For Cleopatra, luck came in the form of the civil war being waged between Caesar and Pompey, the two generals who now ruled Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But when the auction finally ended, the tablet wound up selling to the Sixers for almost two million credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But the two faces he was looking for were not among them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one that does people’s hairdos is old Mama Lo, who’s only just got the two teeth, one upstairs and one down, so she chews crossways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had talked about it a few times before, but after Eddie’s death, and my third school fight in the final two weeks before summer break, well, I guess the time was right. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His entire body shook as he found the aspirin bottle and swallowed two more. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, child, I am so sorry to hear that. Your mama said the two of you had grown close.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nigro explained that there were ten stops on the circuit, and we had to complete all of them within two minutes and fifteen seconds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Arable gave Fern two quarters and two dimes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has taken Voyager to travel from Earth to Jupiter.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the door slid open, and the two friends stepped aboard. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I want to lay the past two days in front of her to see how she reacts, to see if she understands what they mean to me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He gave two short, creaky little barks and ran to me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hazel whirled around to see a slim, slight man in a long black coat with two rows of shiny buttons down the front. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It coughs and rumbles and spits out two old women in front of the grocery store. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The two composers did meet once, an encounter brokered by the kindly Antonio Salieri, and we have it word for word since Beethoven, being deaf, had to have the conversation written down. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He said it a third time when they landed back in England two hours later. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Tanin dropped lumps of sugar in two of the cups and turned around. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The reading made Katie very drowsy but doggedly she finished the two pages. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two of the Freys had stirred, Tyrion noted, and they'd sat back down quick enough when their captain failed to move. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’s very angry with two of the girls somewhere behind me, about something that must have happened before, and she’s standing there glaring at them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was filled with animals and machines and piles of straw, and two robots. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The two men stood together silently in the quiet autumn afternoon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Roughly two thousand years ago. The nomadic folk who roamed the foothills around the Shalda Mountains were brought together under one chieftain.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It split light rays in two, so that when you looked through it you saw double. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he repeated the facts that Rogers had given him about the disappearance of the two little china figures. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was a smell that pulled him downriver, up a mountain, and back through time to almost two weeks ago. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But it could not explain the copying of genes themselves: How are genes replicated when a cell divides into two cells, or when a sperm or egg is generated? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I get up in the morning and make coffee for him, I set two places at the table, with my newly acquired ovenproof earthenware in off-white, with speckles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself facing two huge cauldrons which bubbled and simmered ominously over twin fires. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We find that the inner two, Io and Europa, have a density as high as rock. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman stared at them with eyes of thunder for a moment or two, then she sat down heavily on the ground and doubled over with gales of laughter. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then their hands flew, throwing cards on top of cards until Bridge yelled “Out!” and banged her hand down on the smaller of the two spit piles. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Still, on the principle of not making enemies, he let the boy guide him back to the cave and exchanged a question or two. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Both of her parents snored, but the two noises had always seemed to fit together. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A third one is short, only a paragraph long, and complains about working two night shifts in a row. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It took Colton and two of his brothers to unload it and carry it into our house. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After two days of hunting, no one in the class had come up with anything worth sharing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She left behind two little girls, ages four and eleven. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed for a minute or two, trying to collect my thoughts; then I got up, found my clothes, dressed as best as I could in the dark, and left. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I caught my breath with a tiny cry and tumbled to the ground, breaking the pot in two. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I took two or three rights, whatever lefts came along—and in a few minutes I was completely lost. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw a switch on my instrument panel, and our two spacecraft were separated. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon slipped sideways between two sharpened stakes while Ghost slid beneath them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I drafted the piece in a week or two, fiddled with it for another week, then published it as a separate short story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At the very bottom of J. T.’s organization were as many as two hundred members known as the rank and file. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She would have never done such a thing nine times, nor my mother two times. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But two sentences later we’re told that the instinct to hunt and kill is directed by the intellect. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He set his two wax models in wet sand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He managed to escape with two of my men, thank God. We lost three fine animals today, but no people.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When the next bull came out, all three, the two bulls and the steer, stood together, their heads side by side, their horns against the newcomer. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My eyes crossed from picking out stitches when I tried to pair up two acrimonious fabrics. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In two days when they came out upon a road he set the bag down and sat bent over with his arms crossed at his chest and coughed till he could cough no more. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Understanding each other perfectly, the two clasp hands. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Lourdes caught her pocketing fifty cents from the sale of two crullers, and threw her out. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the two of us went about the large yard, I raked leaves and watered the flowers; Granny weeded the lawn. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About you and Gat. I heard you two come downstairs last night.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He took two long steps, almost lost his balance, but somehow stayed on his feet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Farmer owned two but had lent one to a friend. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

These two methods are when one becomes prince through some wicked and nefarious means; or when a private citizen becomes prince of his native city through the favour of his fellow citizens. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The two boys sauntered over to the porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computer keeps humming and the two of us sit there, silently thinking. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

On the seat of the hatrack beside her were a jar of candy and two handkerchiefs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If they were ordinary foes, it might have been possible to defend against them with great broad slashes that gutted two or three at a time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A two- alarm blaze at the main offices of City Councilman John Kwang, and the building next door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joshua Carter and Robert Caston were the first two cases we decided to litigate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And when the doctor sewed the two flaps of skin together with needle and thread, Alex flinched but never looked away. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t connect the two— the dead Mr. Hamilton and the live father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are two of you, he had said; that might be a big advantage over a single mother. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time, the angry suffragists burned not only Wilson’s words but also a straw-stuffed figure about two feet tall meant to represent the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, Jule acquired a new laptop and put the two old ones in the incinerator. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was an uncomfortable silence between the two girls. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I looked back to see Deidre Baker, her two sisters, and another girl I didn’t recognize. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“She was saying she and her dad got invited to dinner at a coworker’s house, and when I asked where her dad worked, and she named your mom’s hospital, we put two and two together.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The hills of Andalusia were only two hours away, but there was an entire desert between him and the Pyramids. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started the Fulton Firebirds two years ago at the suggestion of her mentor, a Black businesswoman we call Ms. Monica, who is the head lawyer at Coke, and who also is a former softballer. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Both Sloan and Zuckerman were intensely interested in chess, Bobby, and women—interests that Bobby resoundingly shared in the first two cases and peripherally in the third. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other two seemed to have experienced the same unpleasant sensation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She saw the eerie image of her business manager/stepfather split into two people, each holding a baseball bat high above his head. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

With two colas, all we have to do is compare two first impressions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The drum, which Gey called the “whirligig,” turned like a cement mixer twenty-four hours a day, rotating so slowly it made only two full turns an hour, sometimes less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The two of them would trade stories in voices that grew louder with each pint of beer they hoisted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to squeeze all my gratitude into those two small words. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The riots continued for two days, leaving a bloody toll. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next two weeks passed more busily than any time of Lyra’s life so far. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My house was narrowly fitted between two mountains and a creek, but there was a small clearing behind Mom’s rose garden. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bell rang, and the two fell in step. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle stage of a grueling distance race, Seabiscuit had broken the half-mile world record by two seconds, the equivalent of more than thirteen lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two hunters never emerged from the cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear!” exclaimed the Wart, feeling ashamed that his blood-thirstiness had been responsible for making these two knights joust before him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, at once excited, and anxious, and confused, and certain, the two scholars planned out the images Spurge would send back to the Order of the Clean Hand. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Was this time in Denver he snapped a man’s back with two fingers,” said Dusty, the town drunk. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people file in—two Candor with guns; a dark-skinned, older Candor man; a Dauntless woman I don’t recognize. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I took two little girls with me, my daughter, Nanny, and her best friend, Allison Mitchell. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two pages, Denis and Lionel, carried the food from the table, then took the table boards from the trestles and transferred everything to the hall of the keep. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

For two hours the day had stood still; for two hours it had been anchored in a sea of molten lead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

According to the original D&D module, the entrance to the Tomb of Horrors was hidden near “a low, flat-topped hill, about two hundred yards wide and three hundred yards long.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He knew to the fraction of a moment how long it would take the two other boys to get into their clothes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now listen to me, you two. We have a good excuse,” I reminded them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dress rehearsal began with less than two hours to go. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The iron gates opened, and she glimpsed the wicked name of the mine before it split in two and swung wide. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When the sun went over it at about two o’clock a whispering shade came to the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe how in just a few blocks, it can feel like two different worlds. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two young men stood in each of the first two cages. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My two sisters shared one bedroom, while I alternated between sharing a room with my two older brothers and sleeping in a single bed in my parents’ room. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In August, less than two months after the student revolt, Winnie was detained under the Internal Security Act and imprisoned without charge in the Fort in Johannesburg, where she was held for five months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t have been two minutes if you had called me soon’s you got there. Sooner. Should have called me soon’s they picked you up.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had run two seconds faster than the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And far from agreeing, the two sets of laws clash at the center of a black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There are two pairs of old batters’ gloves and a slightly dried-out glove for fielding—the type of glove people think about when they hear the word “baseball”—and there’s a deliciously worn catcher’s mitt. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She wrote two words on a piece of paper and turned it toward me so I could read them. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had six copper pennies, five rocks, the geography book, and two spools of black thread—heavyweight No. 30. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Empire throws Scholar children into these wagons, some as young as two or three, ripped screaming from their parents. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was carrying the extra flashlight and two tiger masks. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the boys completed their Reich Labor Service, they reported for two years of military service, either with the Wehrmacht, as the regular German army was called, or with the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So quiet that in the previous year’s race against California he’d rowed the whole two miles with his thumb cut to the bone and never mentioned it to anyone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was never late or absent and she asked nothing more than to pass at least two of her courses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elephant seal or two increased their food supply. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He curls his lips so tight that only his two front teeth are showing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He wondered how he would ever be able to sleep when he was this worried and hopeless and then, almost to his surprise, for two or three hours, he slept. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

These two paradigmatic examples are the subjects I turn to now. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In an hour or two my mother comes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men pick up their machetes and raise them to their shoulders like soldiers their guns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So there she was, in the library on her knees in the narrow fiction stacks, with three copies of the novel, two paperbacks and one hardcover, on the shelf in front of her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Winnie had been no more than two slow minutes walking timidly under the interlacing branches when she wondered why she had never come here before. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I removed two clamps on the undercarriage and it dropped right out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two days afterward, there was so much fine dust in the atmosphere that one could read a newspaper at night by scattered light in the streets of London, 10,000 kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two days I slogged steadily up the valley of ice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four other men, including two of the Algerians, sustained contusions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What are two cows? I’d give those cows and more to see my sister with all her greats.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Although separated in age by almost four decades, the two players became relatively close and remained so for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It took Shin two months before he found one. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I saw Nathan get out of his car to help his mother with two of her bags and a box. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The men were tossing two little white square boxes with dots all over ’em up ’gainst a wall. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Just for a day or two, until things start to seem all right again,” says Gat, seeing my hesitation. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Elaine and the domestics sat in these galleries to watch, and the two knights fought beneath them for a long time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We landed in a sandy area about two kilometers from the sea. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My God!” he said again, “between the two of you, you did more damage than the criminal.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You okay with the other two conditions?” he asked, trailing her to the kitchen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My birthday is in the summer, so my bat mitzvah is practically two years away. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They had never seen even two houses standing together. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked behind him at the two policemen. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had listened to his brother Tom and their cousin Eb, the two younger of the grown boys in the household, and their excitement had found its way into his blood. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them went to work immediately in the supply closet, trying to figure out how much food we could carry with us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Broadening my horizons. So, back to Tina—are you two friends?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would leave now, but the two of them were right in the middle of the room, blocking access to the door. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Grandpa and his two brothers walked ahead, and their father and mother walked behind them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I thought there weren’t any cuts after stage two,” I hiss. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Paul ain’t brought me none yet A peck ain’t enough to can. He say he got two bushels for me.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A long valley lay below them winding away northwards, until it came to an opening between two steep shoulders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"So here I am between these two drunk beasts who look crazy enough to head-butt me, or bite me, or something wild like that. The kinda dudes who don't play by no rules." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Baker showed his drawing to a few colleagues, including two of the doctors who attended Garfield at the train station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their eyes swept across the platform, then to the group of two standing under the eave. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

We had to first climb Water Tank Mountain, so called because of the two cylindrical steel water tanks on top that held Coalwood’s drinking water. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She demanded that someone give us the correct change to call Mississippi, which two boys did in such a hurry you would think Mother was their commanding officer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sealed the deal while pointing out a few freshman rules. "... and you have to dorm on campus for the first two years, and during that time you cannot have a car." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The two surviving dogs lay licking their wounds. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As we walked towards the tube station, Dad asked, ‘Where do you two want to go?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sat quiet for a moment, hating Bulling. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The dogs had two whole floors, connected by a steep staircase that Fred couldn’t wait to race up and down. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beside the windows, two simple, elegant armchairs faced each other across a low round table on which a tea tray rested. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Powell and Herold, Booth’s two most loyal pals, agreed to the plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But three days before I started ninth grade, I went to juvenile court to testify against my two best friends, who had been charged with second-degree murder. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had gone to bed hoping that Blanca would call, but after two hours of tossing and turning I gave up hope. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The two horses tore across the packed earth of the drill ground, and for the first time in his life Johnny heard that wonderful music— galloping hoofs on hard earth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s just the two of us—Amelia and me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

More than one thought, like Holly, that the two does were likely to give rise to trouble. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting atop one of the shop’s heavy worktables was a massive cylindrical container about four feet high and two feet across. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sculpture I’m seeing is two round bubble bodies, shoulder to shoulder, every part of the figures, spherical and full, curved bulging chests pregnant with the same breath, heads tilting upward, gazes sky-bound. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We sit in his study, just the two of us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Most of them thought my presence was a good opportunity to try out their one or two English phrases: What is your name? and Where are you from? are the favorites. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dursley came into the living room carrying two cups of tea. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Turkey’s closer to Greece, two countries away from Saudi Arabia. A separate country.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

One thing I’ve learned after being a middle-school director for twenty years: there are almost always more than two sides to every story. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mabel keeps losing track of whose turn it is, even though there are only two of us, but in the end she calls gin and wins the game. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The outer walls of the fortress glittered black, and the two- story-tall bronze gates stood wide open. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, in almost all cases of the meeting of the two worlds—wild and so-called civilized—there rarely seems to be much difficulty. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For two more weeks, she did nothing but study the clients’ cards which were more detailed than the file box headings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fintan’s flat is like a chapel.There are two pictures, the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Toby scrambled between the two seats and spent a solid two minutes trying to find and buckle the seat belt before Lily reached across him to help. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Rubin was two years older than I, big and husky for his age. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would go to the store after dark with a basket and fetch back enough food to last for a day or two. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching them play one-on-one was like watching two dance partners perform their greatest hits. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take the left side of the road. You two take the right. Tell them we gotta meet. Our house. A half hour. Shake a leg, now.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Uniforms, posters warning against fifth columnists, two big air-raid shelters dug into the park lawns, and everywhere, surly officialdom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I find myself trying to send an eyeroll Viola’s way about these two but Viola ain’t looking at me and I stop myself from trying again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Frank was holding something Percy hadn’t noticed before—two small clay flasks with cork stoppers, like potions, one in each hand. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On dreary summer evenings, Roz and Brightbill would curl up together, just the two of them, and listen to the rain pattering on the roof of the Nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ten robot carts—staggered so no two were directly across from each other—were lined up on either side. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The two indisputably independent inventions of writing were achieved by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia somewhat before 3000 B.C. and by Mexican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness deepened around us, and a star or two came out. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Consider now the answer strings from the students in two sixth-grade Chicago classrooms who took the identical math test. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A film crew from Ireland came to Alabama to make a short documentary about the death penalty that would feature Walter's case and the cases of two other Alabama death row prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The compass was my most valued possession and I’d lost it twice in two days! Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In moonlight, two acres of coarse bent grass, undulant and ankle deep, tumbled and rough as a horse’s mane, appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troughs and hollows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could the Maze really be so massively huge that even after two years they still hadn’t found a way out? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Now I would always have two pairs of Special Sticks. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As befit his rank and station, Quentyn Martell had been given quarters within the Great Pyramid, two levels down—a handsome suite of rooms with its own privy and walled terrace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the bedroom, thinking about Jennifer’s call an hour or two after the pool party incident. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For example, if you run across two sticks in the shape of an X you have to hop over it backwards on your left foot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like humans, but winged, and much taller, and, as they were naked, the witch could see that three of them were male, two female. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert was first and came back bragging, “Beat that, number two!” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Behind Atahuallpa came two other litters and two hammocks, in which were some high chiefs, then several squadrons of Indians with crowns of gold and silver. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lights dim, and two big fans spin to a stop, so everyone can hear grace. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They wave up at me all at once, as if someone in the crowd said, “One, two, three.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he said, considering the doorways opposite, two smaller doors flanking the great central double door; “Now,” he said, and selected the nearest. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

For Marfa’s mother It’s the music, The mariachis With their Guitar, trumpets, And the romance Of two violins. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they came out from the Crixa, two or three of the Efrafan officers checked at the sight of the murky light and increasing rain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who isn’t in the equipment room but on the stairwell landing, with two other guys, just sitting there. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Well ol’ Red cut a boy’s face real bad at this school two years ago. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Logan dropped his shovel and made two or three clumsy steps towards the house, then stopped abruptly. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that you’re one of two people ever to get an Abnegation result and switch to Dauntless?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had a dirty freckled face and his two front teeth were missing. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two cows were standing in front of the barn blinking, and we could see two more behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos made answer: “No two ways about it. Will I pry you from our gunnel when you are desperate to get to sea? Come aboard; share what we have, and welcome.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Cerwyn was a captive of the Lannisters, but his son, a lad of fourteen, arrived one bright, blustery morning at the head of two dozen lances. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By mid-November he figured he was two weeks behind schedule. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The black boy is born in Daytona Beach, Florida, and his mother abandons him at the age of two. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It rained for almost two hours, and Timothy was quite angry with himself for not making a second catchment because the keg was soon filled and overflowing. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave two more prim rings of his handbell. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Those first two lines sound as if they could only be solved in the darkness. ‘Look for the sword in moonlight streaming forth.’” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When two words are combined to describe a noun, sometimes you use a hyphen between them and sometimes you don’t. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two that afternoon an informal meeting convened in Rael’s General Store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must think of something serious. Something sad, very sad. And then we shall be able to get down. Now—one, two, three! Something very sad, mind you!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

What’s more, they’d keep it low no matter what the other boats were doing, so long as they stayed within roughly two lengths of the field. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Business was carried out at one end of the shop, which was long and had benches against two walls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to take her niece to local benefits and community events, where Marian would be asked to sing a song or two and would earn twenty-five or even fifty cents. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But who was to say that at that moment we wouldn’t collide against the underside of the barrier, and thus be horribly squashed between two surfaces of ice? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sasha’s eyes were on the screen where their two cars were racing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had been a problem because the two of them together couldn’t so much as budge the heavy cans. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s less than two weeks away! My heart is beating so fast....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She ducked behind me and started squeezing between the two boulders. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Our host has graciously provided two more heaps of moldy straw.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Alex has never been so torn between two equally innocuous blazers in his entire life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Are you two okay? Do you need anything?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s two o’clock in the morning, and your mother’s painting is standing here in our bedroom.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He knew what game this was, the same game that had consumed Tony and put a bullet or two in him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a baby! He’s almost two! What about me?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The contrast between the two towering figures of Berkeley science was striking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To Dr. Treisman, there were two basic conclusions: first, “the attention filter is very effective,” but second, “our filter is not a total block.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Were passing through the prison gate. We made it past the first two checkpoints.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So there were two sick monkeys in Room F. Both monkeys died during the night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the night, two black men were dead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She found him in the second room, along with two of his brothers, all piled on the bed with feet and heads sticking out at odd places. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Paid fireworks cash for our two gallons and bought three bottles of strawberry milk while we were at it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ashley will head home now, to her mother and father, or just a mother, or just a father, or a grandma, or two mothers, or some configuration of family. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Every night he was busy, working on a large piece of board and two small pieces. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two windows topping each sidewall, narrow rectangles of pebbled blue plastic that gave a bit of a death-glow pallor to the faces around me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the table he placed three special plates of the last evening meal, two bowls of soup, coffee, and dessert. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shadows shifted across the ground as two figures appeared around the side of the cabin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And he was in front of me again, standing two feet away, still as a stone. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He swore I wouldn’t be disturbing him, and said that where there was room for one, there was room for two. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She wants the fattest chicken they can find, a sack of rice, two onions, six brown eggs, and a refill of lard. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blocked out two overwhelming thoughts in my head—twelve-year-old Vera talking about the suffering animals and Charlie saying, “I’m going to leave you something”—and I tried to think about something positive. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next day the committee revoked it—second thoughts, after a night spent dreaming of freak winds and shrieking steel and two thousand lives gone in a wink. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, I prefer spiders,” she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie and the two wardresses were about the same age and got on well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last two months, Lewis and Clark have been rescued twice by the fire department and three times by the police. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Sit down, you two; it’s been a long drive!” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And there weren’t that many kids at the Open Arms, just Dunlap and Stevie Dewberry, two brothers who weren’t twins but looked like they were. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

One bank of cages contained two isolated monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said I should have been kept behind and given extra help, but no teacher wanted to risk getting me two years in a row. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole scanned the ground once more and caught two more worms that surfaced with the new rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“All right, ladies. We shall try it again. Scythes up, and on my count. One, two, three—SLASH! One, two, three, SLASH!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At two, they went into the teachers’ lunch room where there was a gas plate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harrison looked at the narrow spring bed in the corner, the table and chair, the shirts hanging on nails stuck to the wall, the two pairs of shoes arranged carefully on the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she was holding two old-fashioned reed torches, guttering with fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Tara managed to land a small role or two in New York before they left, didn't she?" she asks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were large, lidless, and pure black, with two smaller eyes sticking out of her temples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From the very first time she performed the ritual, she had known that the connection between the two of them was different than what she felt with the others. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cholla and juniper shivered in the wind, and the rumps of the two gray mules were twin moons in front of him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, one of the four teams with a single medal could dazzle us all and sweep the final two competitions. It’s still possible that this thing could end in a three-way tie.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stopped reading, looked up at the two of them marching forward, and smiled. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three days and two nights we ride the ocean waves in the Gulf of Thailand, swaying and rocking as if in a wooden coffin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being afraid of those two bone- heads seemed so ridiculous, I’d rather have taken another punch in the eye than run away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We packed up and joined the ever growing path of people going in two directions, with a big dip in the middle of paths set about fifty feet apart. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

George Naylor works his fields maybe fifty days a year; Joel and Daniel and two interns are out there sunrise to sunset almost every day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings in the neighborhood were only one or two stories high, so from where she stood she could get a pretty good idea of the lay of the land. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked to me like somebody had cut the black Mary’s picture from a book, glued it onto a sanded piece of wood about two inches across, and varnished it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just picks the scissors back up, holds a section of my hair between two of her fingers and starts cutting. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hailey had conducted two expeditions to make the measurements on which the map was based, and the hope was that this would open the way to using magnetic variation to measure longitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was nothing more important to him now than the two ideas around which his life revolved: the education of American Jewry and a Jewish state in Palestine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

There were a demon and a demoness and two frightened demon children clinging to it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“And death. I have been alive for two millennia, my dear, hiding from death.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

After watch, he’d try to sleep for two hours, then it was time to be back on watch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Most impressive to Penelope was the fact that each room had its very own Christmas tree, except for the ballroom, which had two—one on either end. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t, either, but two people this morning asked me how I was feeling, and one of ’em wants to tell me what to take for headaches. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With our free hands we gripped each other’s fingers like we’d known each other a lot longer than two days. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We hunt some more, and the other two boys also get rabbits. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mom chirps, and the two of them go upstairs in a fit of adolescent bliss. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

There were two bedrooms, the larger of which Dad claimed, and a room that tripled as a kitchen, dining room, and living room, meaning that it contained one table, one moth-eaten sofa, and one hotplate. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The big ship is not ready. Leo says tomorrow, maybe two days. Then they will come.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It had been two years since we left our home on the west coast of Ireland. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people in my neighborhood make huddles like this around two rappers when they’re battling it out. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

James looked back and forth between the two emblems. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I poured two cups and carried them back over to the diamond. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I put two stones in my right hand and three in my left. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to let the protesters pass, just like they did two years ago.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, William used two exclamation points to make the grid come out right. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He hitched himself along the floor, but the sound of his moving over the boards alarmed the two who were talking below. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I was sure they had performed the maneuver before for a lady or two. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mare stopped, letting them survey the stones, the willow tree dangling its fingers over the rooftops of the two small mausoleums, the dusky grove of poplars beyond. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lewis had two marriages that ended in divorce, and in 1918, in her mid-fifties, she was raising a ten-year-old adopted child. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As she had two days ago, when she first met Pegasus, she knelt before the horse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The two women are talking: one in English, another in Turkish. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And here is one with two teenage girls with their arms around each other. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper appeared with five bowls of stew and two warm, round loaves of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the first orphans were found huddled near a blacksmith’s forge, Israel and two others were given the task of finding shelter, care, and support for them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We had not heard from my father for two days when I drew the picture. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t even imagine what two years away from Dad would feel like. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They looked nice but they were good for only a day or two. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I lead us up the two sets of escalators. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Just a bit,” she said, and held her ground as he gathered their knives from the two targets and handed hers back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t played, or even thought about playing, anything but goal for the past two years. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the two were united against him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She read the message aloud: “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He graduated valedictorian from Jefferson Academy and got full scholarship offers from two Ivy League schools. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And then she watched, her heart rate increasing, as her two kids got out of the dirty Ford and rushed toward the salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I opened two cans of dog food and left them as a votive. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d taken two young girls who hadn’t chosen this life, and without thinking it through, we’d fed them into the maw. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In my account I have followed the stories given by the two tragic poets and by Theocritus, rather than Pindar, one of the most difficult of poets to translate or even to paraphrase. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood between the two of us, looking from one to the other. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon arrival at the Gardens of Glenwood, the two men carry everything up the flight of stairs to Dell's apartment without even breaking a sweat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Duke did something stupid. He’ll be in a cast for two weeks.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Henri Bonnet said, “All that fighting we did twenty-five years ago. All those dead. Now the Germans back in France. In two days they’ll be here, taking everything we have. Who would have believed it?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The two of them together would make one of the best farms in this section. Say! You thinking of getting married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I did. You think I wanted two months with my grandma? She’s always crabby and everything she eats is boiled. Boiled cabbage. Boiled turnips. She even boils hamburger.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then something else caught his eye: across the crowds, two half-men hurrying to intercept Tool. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time the elephant had two wives,” she began. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have two beds, one sideboard with a mirror, a table and two chairs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His motorcycle was broken in two pieces, the muffler dangled, the spring forks were bent, the handlebars twisted. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

But my dad has been in a coma for two weeks and will probably wake up after I'm gone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We had a dilapidated blue home with two stories, four bedrooms, and creaky stairs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The children, two boys, were entered on the books at Groton when they were infants. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed since 1964 was estimated to be at least two million. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It gave Permian a regular season record of eight and two, and both losses had been by a single point each. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One was an East Side tailor near me, who made only to order, while the other two turned out an expensive product with which I had no desire at all to compete. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We made the trip to the capital in two cars. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the end for Hulbert came on a night when, three hours before a scheduled 5 A.M. execution, two inmates es-caped from another part of the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was playing with two teddy bears from the Hineses’ toy chest. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His black eyes, as large and round as two marbles, glared down at the policemen and the firemen below. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mama then cooked the tortilla on a comal on one of the two burners of our small kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In my busiest year, eighth grade, I served at over two hundred masses. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He visits once every month or two. He brings cash with him, not a lot, but better than nothing at all.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

According to Newton’s second law, these two effects will exactly cancel each other, so the acceleration will be the same in all cases. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was dark because its two windows were covered with faded paper shades. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He walks over to what I thought was an enormous closet, grips the two handles near the top and pulls to reveal a bed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had slept soundly, curled up on two seats, his book unread, using his overcoat as a blanket, pulled up to his chin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So the room that was to be mine was mine for two nights only. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Deirdre looks down, ready to fly, when two boys on a bike turn the corner—they resemble the boys from earlier. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Those two people in that picture had been holding Cletus between them, frail as they were, ever since Cletus took his first breath. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He held out two of the black, bearded mollusks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d unlock the door, and the two of us would fall into the shade, scrambling over each other to get to the TV remote first. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

After Martin parks the shiny Porsche in the garage of their building, his father sometimes comes down and the two of them look it over. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remember the two of us walking through Lake Elizabeth Park in Fremont, a few streets down from our apartment, and watching boys at batting practice, little girls giggling on the swings in the playground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The two sat looking at the twin boys in their strange bright-colored clothes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew everything about each member of his flock: he knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth two months from now, and which were the laziest. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady eased in after him and the two hunkered down like soldiers in the trenches, their backs up against the wall. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fadi stared down at the two plump dumplings smothered in a meat sauce, and his hunger vanished. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The rules of the race allowed each rider to start with two horses and required that he stop at various checkpoints along the way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“And I’m getting another idea that maybe those two shouldn’t be out there all by themselves, hiking up those hills, you know what I mean?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Stromford Village you could not pass anyone without knowing them and receiving some nod of greeting, perhaps a grunted word or two. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The union leadership had repeatedly pressed the Chamber of Mines for a minimum wage of ten shillings a day, as well as family housing and two weeks’ paid leave. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Any two pups so close to adulthood could maybe be left to their own apologies, I reckon.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When the stick broke in two, he yelled in sheer joy and continued beating the rock with the short end of it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When Kate thought they’d put enough distance between themselves and the gym, and was convinced they hadn’t been followed, the two children hunkered beneath a scraggly copse of stunted cedar trees to rest. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sat between the two boys at the table and helped them with their food, smiling when they talked but rarely answering. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only this year, with two victors who share both an escort and a mentor, the whole thing has had to be rethought. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They also had concerns that Paul’s new group was overshadowing the parent organization, and that the two groups were competing for volunteers and for funds. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And soak them with gasoline until it’s seeping out,” he told Cockerell, who was standing at the foot of the steps with two other men. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then two things struck me at once. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Doherty did not recognize two of them, but the third man was John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d once worn his hair in two long braids before being forced to cut them off at boarding school, just as he’d been made to change his name from Roan Horse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They all had approximately the same color of light brown hair, but Verusha wore hers in two braids, while Olya wore hers in one. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now, there were two churches in Prairie Lea: the Baptist church, which was acceptable, and the Independent Church of Prairie Lea, which was not. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The bus let off two men, who frowned at the collection of tramps in their suburb. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Franklin was himself within a day or two of expiring when he and the other survivors were rescued by a band of m6tis. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the second day, the number of arrests had increased and nearly two thousand women were incarcerated, many of them remanded to the Fort to await trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest sits at the end of a sofa which they call a couch and two women talk to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After two hours of brutal labor, during which I whined a lot, I got it all loaded in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just as I thought. Its two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There are several actresses, two dancers, three painters besides me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of other kids in the freshman crew that looked real good too—a big, muscular, quiet boy named Gordy Adam in the number five seat, and Johnny White in number two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Any boy who had worked his way into the top two varsity boats was entitled to sit down with his crewmates for a free dinner at Stephens Union on the Berkeley campus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He needs only to take the bearings of two more. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Wash followed her gaze and saw two pale kids, about seven or eight, running up the path. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was with us for two years without being wounded, so that something had to happen in the end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Rather," as Timothy Ferris explains, "the negatively charged fields of the two balls repel each other...were it not for their electrical charges they could, like galaxies, pass right through each other unscathed." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When winter came, she went back to a far-off town where she lived, leaving two of her sons to keep the cow and the little house they had all built together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead there was a polished table on which a single wooden bowl sat between two ornate silver candlesticks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew a story or two about them, and every child at one point has sung the silly rhyme about their signs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My breasts have swollen into two small buds that hurt if anyone bumps into me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He had just challenged twenty-six men, a lieutenant, and two detectives to a duel. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photo of the two—the lifeless boy in the hands of a youth whose face blazed with anger, hate and defiance—made headlines around the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two hours I listen to giggling and flapping as they entertain themselves with the skittish creatures. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Beatrice came forward without a word and led two of the men and their haunch of venison into the kitchen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rizzo tried to keep things interesting, but there were at least one or two kids every semester who fell asleep in that room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I put the bar back up on the rests after only two reps and sat up. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The analogy is illusory in two ways: the original buildings were not ghostly white as moderns seem to prefer them, but as garishly painted as a Hindu shrine. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Preheat the oven to 275°F. Line two cookie sheets with aluminum foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I’d wrapped Declaration’s sandwich in two pieces of waxed paper so it wouldn’t go stale; the paper made a crinkling sound as I set the sandwich in the best flat spot. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not as wrong as hiding from my crimes for two thousand years. Genius does not excuse evil, Percy. My time-has come. I must face my punishment.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the sky cleared of kites and only the final two remained, every kite run­ner readied himself for the chance to land this prize. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hagar stuffed two hundred dollars and seventy-five cents into her purse and headed downtown, still whispering to herself every now and then, “No wonder.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited a moment or two longer in the dark, and then went back to my own room and to bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, she reappeared in a few moments with two young children and an old man. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Under flickering light, the two men pored through centuries-old ledgers, the pages beautifully preserved by the dry desert air. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even though Christmas was only two weeks away, Monique had not bothered with a tree or with lights or decorations of any sort for the apartment. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t coax her out for two hours, until the Colonel unscrewed a bottle of wine. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had lived there for almost two decades and while it was never a home — my home was in Johannesburg — it had become a place where I felt comfortable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here Sam and Eric were waiting, and Bill Jack, concealed from the sun, knelt by the pool and opened the two large leaves that he carried. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The walls would each be over two hundred feet long, and come together at a slight angle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tessie who for almost two years now had taken care of an old lady who wouldn’t get out of bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We opened our mouths and made those two sounds. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart feels like it’s cracking in two. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d passed them further back: two lovers strolling hand in hand, their dæmons, two small birds, flying ahead a little way, pausing to whisper together, and flying on again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The girl was immaculate—not a blue thread out of place, her chignon of long fair hair coiled in regulation neatness two inches above her uniform collar. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were hot, so I tossed two in the air and caught them in my skirt, pulling it out to make a basket. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stood for a whole minute like that, in silence, like two strangers waiting for a bus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whisper as I go up to answer a question on the whiteboard: “Look at that. I can’t believe they let the only two girls in school without any booty into this class.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I sat on a couch and looked out at the nearly two dozen family members who were staring at me as Armelia spoke. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As he continued to prepare for upcoming tournaments, Bobby was also being drawn closer to the Worldwide Church of God, and he began to face a time conflict between his two commitments: religion and chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In 2 BC he turns two years old. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was stuck in traffic two blocks from the party where I was heading. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two plain ones were smiling, but the beautiful one was rapturous. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After two weeks, Smith was ready to send him to the races. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mathematics in the Renaissance looked in two directions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“That averages out to almost one combat mission every two months. And I’ll bet your total doesn’t include the time you bombed us.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Lost them,” he said, thinking about the two boys who had offered to “watch” his and Sairy’s gear. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure glad you two had the genius idea to make this trial run,” Sairy added. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hilda glances around the parking lot as if looking for something to throw at the two of us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a eulogy two friends said Ferris had “miscalculated his powers of endurance, and he died a martyr to his ambition for fame and prominence.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I positioned him in between two tiles of the linoleum floor. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

So far his social life had been neatly divided into two separate relationships: one with Dorothy, one with the guys. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He seldom lasted more than two weeks before running away or being expelled. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone will be asking me why I’ve been absent for over two weeks. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I get back to the crumbledown with Moonie and don’t you know it, Grandma has made two chicken dinners. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

One or two cried out sharply in their sleep. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the four sides of the square surrounding the jail, there were two feed stores, a harness shop, two general stores, a newspaper office, and three saloons. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not given 19 hie mistress because be was afraid of being punished by some sort of Holy Bogy, but he had been confronted by two people whom he loved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind our barrack was the outhouse that we shared with two other families. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The walking candy store helps out by handing me two Wint O Green Life Savers from her bulging laptop case as she opens it to set up her equipment. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Carmencita's quip in English is the product of her two or three years away in boarding school in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Poseidon must’ve known Tyson was one of the passengers, because one hippocampus was much larger than the other two—just right for carrying a Cyclops. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of this indoor forest, smack in the center of it all, were two rocking chairs and a small table between them with a small cassette player on it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A cleverly built home, with one wall, a sloping roof, and two entrances. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not upset. I just don’t want to talk about this two minutes before we have to swim.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Anya spotted Mama’s cart wedged between two fish stalls by the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Calder pulled two packages of peanut M&M’s out of his coat and passed one to Petra. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the dreams this city holds right outside—just step through the door and walk two doors down to where my new best friend, Maria, lives. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The two of them almost crashed into each other directly under the Berg, and Mark immediately leaned in to try to protect both of them with his shield. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“There are one or two interesting things but mostly it’s Marie Corelli and old Rover Boys.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stopped two feet in front of him, totally unafraid, and said, “You’re a real funny guy.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Titid turned to me, he took my uniform collar in his two hands. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stripped back the beds and came away with two good woolen blankets and went back down the stairs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Still, his dad’s been in the Residence for three days without incident, and one day Alex catches him in the kitchens with two of the cooks, laughing and dumping peppers into a pot. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Queenie, from now on if you fry a pullet this small, fry two.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The man stopped two strides ahead of them and turned to look at them all. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I took two big slices of bread, stuck my steak in between them, wrapped it up, and stashed it in my combat pack. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

With another groan and a crack it broke in two. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate it. Not history—history’s pretty cool—just the way they cram two thousand years of human civilization into a five-month class.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Surrounding them in a hushed, solemn circle were reporters from television stations and radio stations and the two local papers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black girl, her braids immaculate, two people cowering behind her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Selvam hands us the two or three bundles we are taking with us which we hold on our laps until the carter tells us to stow them on top of the bales. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven't been able to stand the taste of anise milk for two and a half years. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So I had done battle with the prince who had mixed the blood of his two sons with the metal he had used for casting his swords. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

More commonly, two states joined when their rulers married. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

About two hundred neuroscientists gathered with support from the National Academy of Sciences to confront a new question: What is technology doing to our brains? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every trait, Mendel noted, came in at least two different variants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We continued across the foyer to a dreamlike bank of windows, turned left up a pale flight of marble steps, left again, through two doorways, and into the Assembly Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in front of him and saw two men running under the tank. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly, two months after the Lincoln assassination, Seward’s wife died. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cruising in circles were dozens of huge fish, including two spotted sharks, each twice Percy’s size. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For two months, merchants from cold northern Europe came to trade with businessmen from warm Italy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The first one or two made me a little uncomfortable,” Lincoln has admitted to an artist who came to paint his portrait, “but they have ceased to give me any apprehension.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He collected two of the books but left the others. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was considered one of the top girls—and the principal’s daughter—and some girls thought maybe there was a connection between the two. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The cheesy bread is awesome ’cause it comes with two dipping sauces. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There were hoots of approval, so the two of them nodded at each other and began to draw. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One could, for example, argue that far from there being one earthly sphere floating in the ocean it was now apparent that there were two. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his leathery palm, which now held two shiny quarters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I told him about Abe Black in Coney Island, and Ada Black with the two Picasso paintings, and the birds that flew by Mr. Black’s window. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us fell to the ground, fists flailing and legs thrashing, every kid in Euclid Parkway instantly clustered in a tight knot around us, their hollers fueled by excitement and grade school bloodlust. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed almost too much to bear—three in two days. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

We moored the Queen Anne’s Revenge on the back side of the island where the cliffs rose straight up a good two hundred feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby had two adjournments to play and analyze by himself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I went over and there were two colonels there. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see Stuart and his two brothers as babies, Stuart holding a red ball. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then, with two of us at a time sharing the weight of the bucket, we started back to Shady’s place, looking hither and yon for any ghostly movement. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he gazed, two flying figures in the sky caught his eye. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When it won first prize, one of Dad’s other teachers wondered aloud if the son of two lowlife alcoholics like Ted and Erma Walls could have written it himself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brook smiles so wide she has two rows of dimples. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Greeks, we had our own Easter, which was usually observed anywhere from two to four weeks after what was known in our circle as "the American version." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It took me a minute to understand what I saw: two arrows in his flank. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought his cleaver down, slicing the mutton leg on his table into two pieces. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been plain, wearing her hair in two braids all through high school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder if, unlike Thoreau, two hundred years from now I might still be able to visit my pond and forest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They were apart from one another, but as I watched two more sprang up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not yet twenty and her daughter was not yet two when the love of her life collapsed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But why did Mom bother having three bookcases in here for just—Chess looked around—two books? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Henry says the same two words from the secret room at Wimbledon, this time dressed up in, “Please, I need you to.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The two of us were compass needles, pointing straight at Mom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t been with the Romans when they had attacked, but he saw it all clearly: a Titan in armor, Annabeth and two other girls fighting at Percy’s side. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only had to kill two of ’em in the process. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When, in Messiah’s famous ‘Hallelujah’ chorus, the choir sing '. . . and He shall reign for ever and ever’, two kings are being celebrated: one in heaven, the other at St James’s Palace. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He’s got two knuckles stuck up his nostrils looking for a lamb’s tail.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there are two kinds of powerful beings in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look up front, nobody’s there but two kids drawing on the board. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Among the figurines were two dogs and a jaguar, each of which had thin tubes joining its two front feet and its two back feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tucker Mouse cleared his throat and began wringing his two front feet. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds, the two just stared at each other as the shadows danced around them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No, he sees me, jumps up, and gets me the ball with like two seconds to go.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he says something to my daughter that really displeases her: “It’s uncanny how much you two look alike!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were two blocks away from my building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

This one was particularly impressive, over two hundred feet long and wide enough for two wagons to pass each other, it stretched over the canyon the Omethi had carved into the rock. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He told wild lies of taking the two of them, Miss Dalton and her friend, to her room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today she has two schools, both in Manhattan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1884, two years after his first wife died, abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass married a white woman, Helen Pitts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She dressed like most Oakland High students, in a hoodie and sweats, but she wore her long black hair in two girlish braids. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Not that the Cliffs were impossible to scale; two men were known to have climbed them in the last century alone. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were two narrow beds, a very small table that fit into a corner, and a four-legged stool to sit on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know George’s mother is coming back in two hours, so we don’t have much time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘A healthy lot, really. Let’s just slip in quietly and see whether we can find one or two of the Owsla captains underground. We don’t want a lot of fuss.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headland seemed to be the more favorable of the two, but since I had not been to the other for a long time I decided to go there and make certain. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a china plate on the kitchen table was a spool of black cotton, and a long silver needle, and, beside them, two large black buttons. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

New Age was banned at the end of 1962, and possession of a banned publication became a criminal offense, punishable by up to two years in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the past two hours she had helped two other nurses lift him onto a bedpan and he had screamed at the first touch of their hands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The human societies of those two formerly joined landmasses were in modern times very different from each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, a glinting white truck rolled by, two dark figures in the front seats. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The door to the office swung open, and the two men stepped out. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She read six books a day and could do two crossword puzzles at once—with a ballpoint pen. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

First, we went behind the house and between two banks of azaleas we found Rattling Brook, gurgling and bouncing topsy-turvy over stones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the car, George and Emmett sing show tunes along with channel 72, which, as Aunt Nancy likes to put it, is just another reason the two of them were destined to fall in love. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For the two calls, he needs two telephone cards: fifty pesos apiece. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“In this bathroom? I don’t think so. It’s kind of small. I would probably see him if he was. I think Duke’s still in the other room with the mean dogs. There’s two of them.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The tiny box has silver antenna rods, and its curved screen is framed by a wood-grain border, with two chrome dials and a teeny-tiny built-in speaker. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He walked silently up the ramp with the two men and out into the open field, where, obeying no human master, silent robots were building a ship. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And now two months had passed since Charlie stepped on that train. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then two of the men hoisted her up by knees and shoulders and carried her out of the room like a sack. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When he saw the two men scowl, he added, “Just be glad I didn’t take the boat while you were gone.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When I completed the two and a half circles of my wolf turn cleanly, I knew I was in the zone. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If the two areas were exactly equal, we would have a cylinder, not a cone. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the boys; one tapped another on the knee, and I saw him remove three rolled magazines from an inner pocket, passing two around and keeping one for himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning while Lyddie was churning, just as the cream was breaking into curdles, the cook told Lyddie about the two frogs who fell into the pail of milk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But this morning there were two eggs in one nest box: one glass one and one light-brown one. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

For a block or two, my brain played with that: What were they selling in there? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The brand wasn’t like American brands, which were initials or letters or even numbers; it looked like a big butterfly with its wings outstretched, or two loops of rope tied together in the center. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy put two fingers in his mouth and made a shrill whistle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In and out, one punch at a time, two jabs, and Rivera was grunting, uh . . . uh, as he tried to find Alfred in the dazzling light and the flying sweat. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes and saw Haiyi, the servant, cringing in the corner, and two richly dressed figures standing over her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We talk about how his life is more hectic than ever—he now receives two hundred emails a day—yet he insists he can juggle the ever-expanding load and that he isn’t burned out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The river is two miles wide at this point and patrolled by Union warships. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We slept on five-foot-deep shelves all around the walls of the room in, two tiers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So mole and blind are two words more beautiful than have ever yet been written?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Newt had said they were supposed to have come back by noon, just enough time for them to get to the dead Griever, explore for an hour or two, then return. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I had missed my appointment that morning, as well as two days ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went over by the German and bought him two dozen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines two observers in a field pacing out the distance between them, then leveling their eyes on a far-off landmark: a sailing ship or a smokestack. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"See you in a few, Commander," Watney radioed back. . . four . . . three . . . two . The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You two having a worldwin courtship if I ever seen one. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Campers yelled and cheered as Annabeth and two of her siblings ran into the pavilion carrying a silk banner. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He mixed flies from two “races” in the same cage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At the end are two big windows and a collection of couches. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two white men in two days had their hands around her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After two minutes, he takes a closer look at my head and says, “Get your coat on. I’m taking you to the hospital.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It would be low-pressure, just an opportunity for the two of them to talk a bit and for Kathy, who had yet to even see Zeitoun, to meet this man who had inquired about her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One or two sleepers were beginning to stir as the light grew stronger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He pulled off the road while my two friends were yelling in the backseat, “I’m shot! I’m shot!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“In addition, two members of the custodial staff and one of the kitchen workers will not be returning,” Father Mul- rooney said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Besides, it was now almost two months later, and the boy’s mother had said he might be back in a week. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the girl who, knowing nothing beyond her junkyard and her mountain, had stared at a screen, watching as two planes sailed into strange white pillars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A second or two later, the deafening moaning ceased. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“But there is too much work even for two,” Ash objected. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scar,” he barked out, “the noble Yezzan has need of fresh, clean water. Take two men and bring back as many pails as you can carry. And be quick about it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four letters to Harry found their way into the house, rolled up and hidden inside each of the two dozen eggs that their very confused milkman had handed Aunt Petunia through the living room window. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Well, we had two weeks of study in the Olinka dialect, which the people in this region speak. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

B is two dots in a vertical line. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I handed it to her—at the same moment that the classroom door opened and Mr. Guareschi walked in, accompanied by Mr. Bradbrook and two other members of the school board. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe not covered, exacdy, but there were a lot of them—the two of them in pajamas, or in the park, or standing together all dressed up outside some theater. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m making two quick trips if the weather stays good. I’m taking in bottles of cow smell to be analyzed.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a window seat, two rows behind the driver, who was encased in a bulletproof Plexiglas box. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘They is going two times as fast as me and they is finishing their guzzle before we is halfway.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer and two soldiers later removed the children’s mother from the ship and killed her. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Why don't the two of you snuggle into the back?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Tins hole commanded the outer doors of the tower, of which there were two, and people could drop stones through it when they were besieged. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever you are tempted to use dashes, remember this: • Use no more than two per sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The discomfort between the two friends has fallen away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I count them down, “Three, two, one...go!” and they all sip as fast as they can until Jack drains his glass first. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Vince telephoned. He’s asked me if you could go with him to church tomorrow, then out for a bite. I said yes, provided the two of you come home to have dinner with us.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In New Orleans the boys bought a pistol and carved two notches in the handle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the two young women in their Yak fighters, rapidly firing their guns, dived straight into the middle of the first group of German bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But about two weeks after her second radium treatment, Henrietta got her period—the flow was heavy and it didn’t stop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The two of us just sat and cried. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For half a second, the two demons were a blur of slashing claws and fangs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the next two groups, the Pygmies and Khoisan, include hunter-gatherers without crops or livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His ill humor, I figured, was perhaps due to the abscessed tooth that had been causing him pain for the previous two weeks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says don’t be too worried between noon and two because so many telegram boys go for their dinner and there will surely be a big rush between two and the Angelus. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly the best two days of your life, eh, Ryan Dean?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During the second half of the season, Ruth could bat .400 and Gehrig only .390, but Ruth could come to bat only a hundred times to Gehrig’s two hundred times at bat. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, arriving back in Boston exhausted, he confided to Ophelia that he heard two sets of voices. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

An inmate I couldn’t see from two cells down was listening and chimed in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next race Achilles does the first two parts—first running 1 foot, and then a half foot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the center of the movement were the two children who were not ghosts, moving steadily on; not leading, and not following, but somehow focusing the movement into an intention of all the dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She and a few of her undead sailors uncovered one of the two emergency rowboats while Scylla’s heads rained from the sky like a meteor shower with teeth, picking off Confederate sailors one after another. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three of them listened patiently as she read her two paragraphs explaining the situation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would tend to Chiron until his leg was fully recovered, and keep studying Daedalus’s laptop, which had engrossed her for the last two months. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The next day in the West Indian store I heard two teenagers saying that the kid had died. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cheating practice” occupied the Mysterious Benedict Society for two full hours that night. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’d just stepped up to the porch of the next house when two small children came running out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I argued two cases at the Mississippi Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the convictions and sentences of young children were illegal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dicey wanted to get off this road for two reasons. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re either for us or against us. There’s no two ways about it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, sir, it was about two hours after feedin’ yesterday when I first hear my disturbance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The bartender and the two other white men just grabbed me and threw me out into the street. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And He said, ‘I am The One the world has been looking for to come for the past two thousand years. ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then this one great step forward was pushed two steps back. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“So at two am. things would be pretty dark out there?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dylan and I walk the entire first two aisles before we spot an empty cubicle with a little sign that says Reserved for Junior Agent Trainees attached to the phone. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The green numbers on the stove say it’s now two in the morning. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You two here will be litter team A.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her intelligent comment caused the two men to ask if she was a pilot. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me get two chicken and mambo sauce, with extra salt on the fries.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had two kinds of sorrow: the death of Papá and the trouble with Captain Ortega. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We smiled and waved back, happy day, two guys on a ride—then drove for a block or two in grim, superstitious silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And cutting up vegetables are two sunken-cheeked humans, a boy and a girl, both of them with small, stupid smiles on their faces and glazed-over looks in their eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On her ninth birthday, when she wakes, she finds two gifts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thus we shall have two more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker; either or both may possibly throw more light on what is happening. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were two doors, with a wide space between them so that not too much warm air escaped. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning, someone arrived at school with a story about another killing, sometimes two, sometimes three a night. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Headmistresses are always so cooperative. They’d rather expel a bad apple or two than risk their school getting into the newspapers for the wrong reasons. Who can blame them?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t think there were two people here. We thought there was only one.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock in the morning, the Colonel took his sixth shot of vodka, grimaced, then frantically motioned with his hand toward the bottle of Mountain Dew I was drinking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Fair knight,” he said, “put down that wounded man and 353 let him test a little. Then we two can prove our strengths.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe two in one day would do the trick. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Some migrants slide into a small spot between the two containers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Broadside on, the punt struck gently against two of the piers and stopped, pinned squarely across the mouth of one of the central culverts. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s halfway between two of the red stars: Tyler’s house and Courtney’s. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He walked lazily over to stand next to Harry, so that the eyes of the whole circle were upon the two of them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Neither one of you got a thing to say? Fighting in here while I’m busting my hump at that market. And you two are eleven years old!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then there would be two people I could trust—Sammy was the other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped, and looked at the two men carefully, and then decided to tell them the whole truth about the Retiring Room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At its termination, Colonel Dent and his party consulted in whispers for two minutes, then the Colonel called out— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dimple put two fingers to the bridge of her nose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My mother did not let it be known that she had already had two children and that some of these girls were young enough to be her daughters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, the planet you are going to will have a sun or two also.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The two men were breathing hard, their feet and the bottom of their trousers were soaking wet. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He was slender, with two long braids that were dark brown, not black like coal, like the hair of the other Lakota boys. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I touch her number in my pocket, next to her two notes that I saved. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The last hurrah for the two aging warriors was sounded during a marathon session of the National Security Council on January 6, 1958, when Stassen proposed a new framework for talks with the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Cement buildings with two stories rather than wooden barracks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The museum is one place to search. But, uh, Jason, you said there were two?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Chino, I’m sorry about Blanca, okay. You two will patch it up.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was with a small curly-haired girl in purple overalls who looked like she was about two years old, and he was holding her hand. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Herschel was particularly interested in the creation of biological organisms—and his methodical mind broke the problem down to its two basic components. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

From those two spots, the cases radiate outward along the two central roadways that happen to cut through both neighborhoods. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was on a plantation down near Montgomery. She had two children and she had a man she loved, but they weren’t married because the slaves couldn’t get married like the white folks could.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ixtali rowed on, we passed a fisherman pulling up a turtle in his net and two women picking fresh vegetables from a floating garden. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Three thousand have arrived this week in National Homeland One, with another two thousand in transit.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But things come full circle, baby, and two months later I was back in my bathroom, bowing to the toilet in the dark. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mother had twisted off one of the two gold bangles she always wore on her wrist. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Feathers flew as two of the larger birds fought over a choice piece. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The two of them, side by side, commanded an undeniable gravity that could silence three hundred scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But pretty soon, he and G’ma are stopping to refuel the RV and to go number two—nobody wants to empty that from the tank—in Birmingham, Alabama. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered for a second whether kids in grade two would be tested on how to spell the plural of “potato.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At last, on the rocky shingle at the edge of the sea, they found two logs, sea-tossed, that had floated there on the tides and been cast ashore. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is remarkable how much truth there is in the two expressions “struck dumb” and “love at first sight.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the shore was at least two miles away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn on Tuesday, April 16, after resting for two U days at Base Camp, we headed up into the Icefall to begin our second acclimatization excursion. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We might go a day or two without any food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here” He held out two small rubber plugs. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my sandals and grabbed two books, hair ribbons and my hairbrush. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The two cars missed each other by an inch, and the Jaguar wedged itself between the school bus and the principal's 1970s Cadillac, tires smoking. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Poppet hands one to Bailey and takes the other two herself, and Bailey notices that the vendor waves them off with no money having changed hands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One night, across the street from their apartment, Bernard was brutally assaulted and beaten by two white men. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The political dynamic between these two groups was very complicated, but the simplest way to understand it is as a proxy war between Zulu and Xhosa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If I bring ’em out three at a time I can be fishing all two hundred traps in a couple of weeks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on, Chip. And pack a bag. Enough clothes for a day or two.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pleased to have lifted Perilee’s spirits, I shaped the dough into two loaves and a dozen rolls. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Logically, he knew the two events weren’t related, but worrying didn’t require logic. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had to go to the dentist and have two of my molars out. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear, whenever you two talk, I just tune it right out. I have no idea what you’re saying.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Who in their right mind would pass up two million dollars? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At this embarrassing moment, Bai Shan had caught the eye of his two best friends. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wondered what you two had been up to today.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The Nazis are taking the house in two hours. Stay where you are. I’m going to find a place for us to go.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z