And they also saw strewn about the heads of sundry birds, The heads of precious birds strung together, And some birds’ feet and bones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But,” he said, leaning closer to her, “if I don’t jess and leash you, you’re not a captive bird. “Will you stay anyway?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sarota wears her hair in a big bird nest on top of her head and today it’s lopsided. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The bird tapped, as if replying in pigeon code. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“That reporter was kind of a tough bird. Still, you did just fine, Cara honey. Now let’s get in out of this wind.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then there were more responsible councillors in extraordinary hats, some of which were like tea- cosies, some turbans, some bird wings, some muffs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Here's fifteen, and if that lazy son of mine gets a job soon, I'll come back and give you and your pretty bird more." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The birds wake him at three in the morning, and so he continues his journey. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Against regulations. These birds are protected by federal law.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I read only what the birds wanted to tell me. They wanted to save the oasis. Tomorrow all of you will die, because there are more men at the oasis than you have.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My scim slides into his neck like a bird through a clear sky. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was not that he had dirty fingernails, or anything like that but some large bird seemed to have been nesting in his hair. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment the marsh bird appeared, Taran led the companions swiftly, following without hesitation a path which now seemed clear. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Still, in the beginning the bigger birds would try the smaller cars, get trapped, and raise holy Hannah trying to get out before the tourists drove off with them trapped inside. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The death of 600 birds on a single estate in Norfolk was reported to the House of Lords, and 100 pheasants died on a farm in North Essex. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As for strawberries and raspberries, we had similar trouble competing with thrushes and other berry-loving birds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s important to save those birds,” Flip said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“How many twigs in a bird’s nest?” asked the enchantress suddenly. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The little bird was dead and lay stiff on the floor. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would simply smile, nod her head, and continue on with whatever she was doing, knowing that she had saved the bird in some small way. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Sweeps. Makes sure the ice machine isn’t clogged. Fills the bird feeders.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I also wondered how—or why—you would set a poor bird on fire. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Habib donated the leather headgear and goggles he had worn as a pilot in the war, to which was attached a red tie belonging to Mr. Lee to simulate the bird’s fleshy nose. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

If he were the mother bird, he would just leave the babies to fend for themselves. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Ahh, yes. The American holiday celebrating colonialism with a bland, dry bird.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A plan that will require the entire pack to rescue one very important bird. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I started wondering if the birds of sadness had built their nest in Mrs. Cadaver’s hair afterward, and if so, how she got rid of them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The birds, for example — where had they gone? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the table were what appeared to be the remains of an autopsy performed upon a large bird, possibly a crow. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped it beyond the edge of the tarpaulin for Richard Parker, who hadn’t seen the bird arrive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found them interesting—they flew, they moved—they were birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ranofer had seen the pair often hobbling about the streets of the City of the Dead, but their sudden appearance here sent his wits scattering like startled birds. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And perhaps some kind birds might cover us with leaves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No known bird can match the speed of a peregrine falcon in flight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tim pulls his fluttering windup bird out of my hair and sends it flying out over the auditorium. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The three of us sit like this for a while, listening to the birds chatter in the trees and watching the gentle waves lap against the shore. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even with them, I feel as exposed as a bird on a wire. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I do. I can see shadows in the grass...maybe birds,” Will said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A cluster of birds flew up from the nearby trees, hitting the sky at the same moment I began beating out a faster, more insistent rhythm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To this, she added a medal of the Blessed Mother, a small blue bird feather, a broken blade from a penknife and a sprig of some herb. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How long will he live?” she asked Einar one day when she was feeding the bird. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That cracker in your hand. With the bird. What’s that about?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to explain to the children that the birds have been killed off, when they have learned in school that a Federal law protects the birds from killing or capture. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His birds and Malthus’s theory had given him the mechanism for the transmutation of species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all she found, inside one of the pockets, was a small ceramic bird, its yellow beak wide open in a whistle. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She could see the empty pot by her fireplace and, low overhead, a few birds in the sky. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where are the men, where are the birds? On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unlocked a tall glass cabinet crammed with more books, preserved birds, bottled beasts, and other curios. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the edge and looked at the bird. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernabe ran to the edge and began pelting the bird with rocks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one shot a bird for the whole entire movie. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little flock of golden birds continued to twitter in circles around her head so that she looked like a strange, feathery model of the solar system. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They don’t push, they don’t pull, they only drop, and so does the baby bird between Dr. Martin’s hands and the ones she was trying to place him into. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

From being ordered often to bring some particular scroll to Pai, he had become superficially familiar with these drawings, which at first had looked like meaningless bird tracks to him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This crow was a friendly, intelligent bird that liked to perch on the roof of Monet’s bungalow and watch his comings and goings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the rubber rat and the tiny birds that had suddenly come alive when the wind blew. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“No need. I completely understand. She is a rare bird. And a bit of a puzzle. A fountain of sorrow.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A pair of these birds made a nest in a stunted tree near my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the crowd’s patience with stubborn birds was short. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The brambles would tear off my shoes and the rocks cut my feet and fingers, but I would keep climbing, eyes upward to follow the bird. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If it was a bird, it was one that I never heard in the Shire before.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I cannot see it, but I know it’s a bird because Frightful’s feathers tell me so. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never seen a worse performance; Darlene and the bird qualified as legitimate sabotage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to the birds in the garden, the chink of our trowels, the trickling of water from a nearby hose, and mostly to the voices in my own head. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A black bird the size of my forearm turns its head and focuses one beady eye on me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Take the second sentence in the preceding paragraph, in which I switched from herons to birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Male frigate birds with bright red balloonlike sacs under their chins cruised the shore. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When you don’t have a newspaper or radio to give you weather bulletins, watch the birds and animals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not see birds or seaweed, but she felt the mass of a continent. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The consequences of the sublethal poisoning of the woodcock are now seen in a marked decline in the proportion of young birds to adults, first observed in the season after fire ant treatments began. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With no trees, no birds nor other free critter, no water, just noise and buildings that made you feel you was this close to dying. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Inside, looking more like a starved bird than anything else, was El Viejo. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed at a bird in the middle of the street that was trying to fly. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He obeyed the bird, and soon he encountered a kudu. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said a cloud was a very big bird. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was glad that the ten-week contract was almost up, and that the next week, when his birds were to appear in New York, was the last. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And with a sound like a flapping of a bird’s wing, the clay figures moved — clearing a path for Minli. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Time for me to join the birds,” Dad said smoothly as he flapped his arms. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bird’s wings slowed as if it were flying through water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A pair of birds had built a small nest of mud and grass in the highest beams, had themselves a family. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was the white breast and head of a great bird, an osprey, a dæmon, and it was lying still. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care about the bird, or its life, but he knew what older people would say if they had seen him kill it; he was ashamed because of their potential opinion. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She say she takin her bird to the veterinarian firs, she think it losin some of its feather.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so whole towns lined their streets and dotted their parks with elms, and today the elms die and so do the birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And among the birds destined to leave were the geese. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they had already been restraining their curiosity, and they left, fearful that their glances, like a field of nesting birds, might be startled and caught. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These sounds were lanced by the hooting of the Devil’s own bird, an owl. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was painted like the sky—light blue, with clouds and birds and even a hot air balloon. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She listened, her ears learning how to work in this new world, and she could hear the sounds of birds chirping and trilling, and this was somehow comforting. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I didn’t respond, she made a sound like a bird chirping. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hunger was pecking inside my stomach like a bird. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I like the grilled chicken salad, but that’s because I eat like a bird.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Without access to coral reefs or productive shallow waters, and with their terrestrial birds quickly exterminated, Easter Islanders turned to constructing chicken houses for intensive poultry farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. Chris knew about flowers and birds and things, but Joe was the one who knew about bugs and the queer plants that grew on stumps and fallen trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing Petaluma wants is for these birds to go outside and catch a cold. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt as if the birds gave me angry looks for eating so much of their food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We need to go grease the baffles on the bird feeders.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I walk home after school, looking everywhere for a bird—any kind—but it’s like they’ve all left town. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had placed a bird feeder on our porch, and we would sit there together as the birds darted in, picking up seeds one at a time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I can do better for this bird, though.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But if they’d only looked up, they would have seen the sweeping dips and flutters of the dark birds. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But the birds would never leave Manhattan,” Ruth said. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The noise called Tu-Whit Tu-Whoo, which is wished by poets on the owl, fa really a family noise, made by separate birds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And inside that cage was a small bird, like none Hazel had ever seen, as gleaming white as the feathers of the swanskin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Thirty-four pounds,” shrieked the bird as he disappeared into the fog. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hat was the breast and wing of a red bird tormentingly pierced by two hatpins. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Safer is letting her lick his face all over, and I’m thinking that if he doesn’t get a bird disease, he’ll probably get a dog disease. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The next room is just sky, and birds. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was like a cold wind blowing through the firelit room, like a black bird carried by on a storm from foreign lands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once he killed a bird with a stone, and he still felt bad about that, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a caged bird here, Ghalib—this camp clipped your wings. You have much to offer the world. Go and fly.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls down one of my straps, slides his other hand in among the feathers, but it’s no good, I lie there like a dead bird. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big bird dog, bolder than the others, darted in. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the other birds were silent when they saw what had happened to their leader. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn lifted Miss Peregrine out of her coat and set the bird on the ground. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Xan’s black, beady bird eyes did not roll as well as her human eyes rolled, and alas, the gesture was lost on him. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

You drop bread on the ground and birds come out of nowhere. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"At once may be too late. I fear those birds have flown. But I shall do what I can, my lord. With your leave." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know we’d never see our birds again, or I would have said good-bye. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Every time Pinch slipped too far away the bird croaked, “Gaygo, Pinch!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I act casual, but cartoon birds tweet around our heads, encircling us with garlands of paper hearts. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

On one side of her, a torch-juggler has amassed a large crowd, and on the other, a Tribal Kehanni spins her tales, her voice rising and swooping like a bird in flight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And if you looked at Mr. Powell’s eyes, you would have thought what I thought: I am going to get the birds back. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The birds sang, the proles sang, the Party did not sing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There are moments it almost comes out, like a flock of fluttering birds in my throat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the old days, Pinch would have teased her and made her feel bad because her bird preferred him. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And James Wippleson, he standing there and he see all the living things—the birds and the trees and all the plants—and he’s joyful he alive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

One judge's name was Mr. Dove, which I thought was a good omen, because I kept thinking that I would soon be free as a bird. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Peninsula’s got some tall boys coming down here tonight. Built like Marsh birds,” Johnnie added. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman picked the bird out of Miss Mallory’s palm and, as she took it in, her face began to glow, just a titch. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Next morning, awakened by the dawn and the call of birds, they all arose. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got out of the car, a few birds rose up, disappearing into the bright sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When they were quite certain that the meal was finished the birds rose with one grand, fluttering movement and flew round the Bird Woman’s head, copying in their own language the words she said. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

At one stage Prosper thought he could hear footsteps behind them, but when he turned around it was just a bird, fluttering out of an overgrown hedge. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind came up, scattering October leaves which fluttered to the ground like doomed and crippled birds. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a stupid name. Piper. I guess it suits you. You definitely look like a bird. Who cuts your hair? The gardener?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Sun slanted through the clouds above, as if a spotlight were aimed on the bird. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Which was fine, except what if the bird got tired of waiting? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He reached into the cage and pulled out a single sodden bird. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The greener ones, the ones the birds picked off, didn’t last long enough to grow big. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He may not have been able to walk well, but he was a good shot, and he was smart—he knew where to find the birds. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ay! There’s some of the birds flown from the cages. The guns have been going since dark, about. You’ll hear one presently.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She knew? this bird well, for it hunted the shore and tundra of Nunivak Island. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which leads to thoughts of Maxwell, the golden eagle, his favorite bird to visit at the sanctuary until the eagle was set to the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If they were lucky, and the birds didn’t steal too many of them, the sunshine would shrink and sweeten the firm globes into rich bits of chewy deliciousness. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t a real bird, conductor sir. We’d never dream of breaking the rules like that. It’s my sister’s favorite toy, you see, and she thinks you mean to take it away from her.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Light shined down all day on the potted trees and the birds sang to each other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’ll smell the trees and know that a particular tree grows in that place, or he’ll hear a certain bird and know exactly where that bird lives. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s a pathetic one: “Here goes a good offer, Lord. If that bird on that tree over there flies away within ten seconds, Jeffrey is cured.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Behind my closed eyes thin white dancers flit gracefully among the trees, their legs fluttering like the wings of held birds. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government symbol, a black Zimbabwe bird on a green-and-red background, was clearly marked on the side. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel read over the newspaper his dad had left sitting there that morning, shaking his head at the long article about the bird and turning immediately to the classified ads. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I pictured an old church converted into a bed and breakfast—nothing fancy, just somewhere to sleep when we weren’t watching birds or chasing down leads. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A row of tiny wooden birds perched on the fireplace mantel, and a fleet of miniature boats rested on top of the bookcase. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lana had spotted each one as soon as he had entered, and with Darlene safely off the stools and practicing with her bird, the plainclothesmen had nothing to go on. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s causing such a lot of trouble. All right, but they would have to be birds of the same size, not a pound less. Bring him to me, and I’ll tell him.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the span of a breath, birds arrived, pouring through the window, jostling one another for a chance to get inside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The white bird flew up to her shoulder. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Clarisse has just pulled across the finish line, completely unopposed, and seemed to notice fbt the first time how serious the bird problem was. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of witches on brooms flew overhead and then landed as one like a flock of birds. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope that bird turns up soon too,” I said, not able to help myself. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Only the grasshoppers were chirping tirelessly, and a bird, startled, flew up from the charred wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The next day, I collared Travis after he fed his birds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At one point in the evening, each of those fans suddenly becomes a small bird, until flocks of them loop the theater to uproarious applause. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were the only birds which made a practice of slipping off height to land—except occasionally the oldest, gayest and most beautiful of all the conscious aeronauts, the raven. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a boy and his bird sister. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As the birds cooked, bits of steam broke through tiny cracks in the mud and scented the air with a delicious fragrance. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then velocity—wings and engines—a smiling stewardess—but it was more than a plane, it was a real bird, a big sleek silver bird with feathers and talons and high screeching. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark birds in a sweeping arc across a silver sky. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were playing outside and we thought it was birds,” he said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Two empty branches where the bird had been. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“And then I had to leave in a hurry, so I forgot your book. I don’t think that birds should be in cages, do you?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was a funny name for a bird. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shay and Jessica stare at us like two cats watching birds in a cage. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And if someone decided to turn her into a bird, there would be no one to look after her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were ravids, too—great cats with fangs like scythes—and birds that mimicked human voices, and scorpions whose sting imparted superhuman strength. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Exactly alike, except for the bird. This book is Mr. Griswold’s new game—I’m sure of it.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the bird found the window and flew away, Shadrack was grieved and actually waited and watched for its return. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Wren took her hands off the bird and sat back on her haunches. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I must be dreaming; they’re rare birds found only in New Zealand and practically extinct by now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ugwu looked up and saw the planes, gliding low beneath the blue sky like two birds of prey. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Under the sea, the birds have scales for feathers," he said, clang-a-langing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Holding her high, he talked about the important role of birds of prey in nature. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra could hear very faintly to the north the cry of some night bird. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This poem was accompanied by an illustration of a black bird almost exactly like the one used in place of the seagull in the Bayside Press symbol. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They will see the bird as a threat. Does this not make him a threat?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The ground now became damp, and in places boggy and here and there they came upon pools, and wide stretches of reeds and rushes filled with the warbling of little hidden birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ones at the bottom were for the rabbits, my mother said, and the ones at the top were for the 1 birds. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I felt the warmth of blood rush to your cheek, the fine structure of your jaw, like a bird's light bones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The little bird, the little fish, the little animal learn not by principle, but empirically; and when he learn to do, then there is to him the ground to start from to do more. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird was winking and holding an ancient gold coin in its great curved beak. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We girls stick together like birds of a feather, and thank goodness for that, because the men are always off on one kind of business or another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On occasion tremors shook his whole body — tremors of the sort now made all too familiar by the sight of birds poisoned by DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the bird must have swiveled its head just as Mullet Fingers snapped the picture. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened to the bird he was holding?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When a train heaved across it, the black steam engine swollen to bursting like the boiler at the laundry, the birds flew up like Halloween. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the bird didn’t deserve to get shot by some stupid kid whose idea of fun was shooting at things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Again the hunter sprinkled him with bird shot. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, only a few night birds and insects broke the silence—crickets, an owl, some other bird I had no name for. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat was light and fast as bird’s wings beating against a cage. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

ATP is the universal currency of energy, and the metabolic cycles that produce it turn to the same purpose in birds and bacteria, in men and mice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The amount of food the rabbits produced was not very large, but once inside the wood the bird clearly felt safer and was able to hobble about and do some foraging for itself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees wave their branches in the breeze, and a huge gray bird circles, calling out his objection to our presence. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was a big man, not tall, but puffed out like a bird. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the sun set and the birds flew away. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The poor bird had been picturing all the fights —almost certainly picturing them quite wrong: nourishing a starved heart on secondhand accounts in secret: wondering whose token was in the place of honour today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached up and stroked the bird slowly on his belly and under his wing. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Minerva pointed to the birds on the grill. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For the firemen had put firemen’s helmets on the penguins, which made the delighted birds look very silly and girlish. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So you can go back to bird hell, or wherever it is you came from.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The bird split the stick three ways in as many seconds and snapped up the few insects inside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds heard about this village and decided that it would be a good place for birds to live. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Most of the earthworks were shaped like big cones and stepped pyramids, but some were sculpted into enormous birds, lizards, bears, long-tailed “alligators,” and, in Peebles, Ohio, a 1,330-foot-long serpent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the ravens first came, it was one or two birds. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I just kept walking and flipped her a bird. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The air is filled with birds flying south for the winter, and it is easy to shoot enough for a meal. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He loves the bird in the air and the fish in the stream but he’s not a fool. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese is classic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten all about that bird, how she’d wake me every morning at dawn, when I was still curled safely in my mother’s nest. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn’t matter. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A crimson bird the size of a swan had appeared, piping its weird music to the vaulted ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined her as a lovely colorful bird that could fly if she chose when she played the piano, and her voice soared in the most hypnotic tones. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now, in her memory, she could see that blankness—how the word magic flew away, like a bird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A bird doesn’t sing because it’s happy, it sings because it’s not free. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe that today’s birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The bird feeder is empty; I fill it, letting a little bit drop on the ground near my feet, hoping it might get some bird to come and pick me up. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She guessed the bird wasn’t lonely because it was already sad when she bought it out of a flock of others. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were taller and darker than the Men of Bree and were believed to have strange powers of sight and hearing, and to understand the languages of beasts and birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hot Pie's bird calls were awfuL His dog was better, but not much. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The little bird in my heart stopped flapping its wings. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In the swirls he’d written names and painted what looked like animals: a large cat, tropical birds, an elephant. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He cuts and I watch, happy and sad, as flowers, butterflies, and birds fall to the floor. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now, of course, we couldn’t think of birds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the clear, lonely song of a spring bird in the darkness outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bird tilted its head and looked back at her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While they are largely omnivorous, anything as rich and full of energy as straight heart meat could not be ignored, and after a week the two birds left. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The flowers and birds and all, you mean to say that’s your Gospel.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said that for thousands of years birds had been tormenting the peasants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fish were caught and many birds were netted. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird calls in a nearby tree, and one in the distance answers it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Beside us, you think and act with the speed of a bird. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Angeline returned with the net, finally, and they tried to cast it over the birds. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Others cheered the bird, toasted it with bottles of soda pop hoisted high. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Do all the birds have singers in them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One such observer reported that in driving about southern Mississippi that fall she saw “no land birds at all for long distances.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her human nature seemed to be winning out over her bird nature. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The scream shook the birds from the trees and chased the scavengers from the sky. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Neel’s heart was still hammering from the shock of Headmaster’s appearance, but he corrected the mistake in his head: Kill two birds with one stone. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go in there. The birds—” I remember the birds must be gone, but I still don’t want anyone in there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the boxmaster could not catch the bird, the scorekeeper would cry, “Fire!” and the shooter would. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Do I pay half-fare for the birds, or do they go free?” asked Mr. Popper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

One story might serve as the tragic symbol of the fate of the birds — a fate that has already overtaken some species, and that threatens all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kid Comets was catching a pigeon, spilling gasoline over it, then lighting the bird with a match, just as you let it go. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be gone for five days. We have appointments to show our birds at seven elementary schools.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The toll of dead birds, as we shall see in Chapter 8, is distressing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“They probably care more about the nest than the bird inside.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Olive laughed, clapping as the bird shredded a pig knuckle with her talons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The bird, now gold so close to the sun, would come to rest on the thatch of a hut, which, until the bird’s two feet touched it, was camouflaged as part of the mountainside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two cardinals balance on the bird feeder behind him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wish I could fly like a bird up into a tree, where Dad will find me and take me home. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

One of them was watching a flock of birds gulls, lifting and eddying and landing on the bridge railing beyond. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hovered above, watching patiently, waiting for me I slept, and the great bird settled its burning wings around me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of wooden bleachers and a huge scoreboard, all I saw was a world of large paper birds hanging from the rafters and five- foot cardboard flowers lining the walls. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The emblem on the copyright page was nearly identical to the Bayside Press logo, but instead of a seagull there was a black bird. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

White birds scattered as they approached another gate, this one resembling a highway tollbooth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They walked under sculptures of open books dangling from wires like birds in flight and soon found themselves in front of City Lights. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the “Roosevelt Museum” displayed tadpoles, bugs, bird nests, and more animal skeletons. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The half block of Paris that she can see reminds her of the cities she drew as a girl: a hundred houses, a thousand windows, a wheeling flock of birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

God sees the little sparrow fall, It meets His tender view; If God so loves the little bird, I know He loves me too. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he grappled with the table, the brilliant red bird bobbled slightly and raised her wings for balance, chirping irritably. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The mews are all but emptied now, The great birds auctioned, one by one — One single sparrowhawk is left: The one tamed by the falconer’s son. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She would be glad to sit down with those old birds and rest her feet. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A blue heron stood perched on an old bleached tire, and when she saw us she spread her wings and flew away, more pterodactyl than bird. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Other times they would practice with their bows and arrows, shooting at small animals or birds. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So did the grasses, and the birds, and the rabbits. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yet when I tried to be gentle with the birds as I grabbed them, they flapped around even more violently, until I was forced to let go. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Kendra reached for the hen, but the flustered bird dodged her grasp. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Are there any birds in there with you? Have you seen any fly past?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hunger streaks appear in tail and wing feathers if a bird does not get the right food during the time the feathers are growing in. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird perched just a few feet from me alerts me that a new day is dawning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Madison flipped Lydia the bird over her shoulder. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I wandered the snowy crags, listening to the language of the birds by day and to the noises of the weather by night. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said the Wart, “I can see why the reptiles who had given up being fishes decided to become birds. It certainly is tun.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Animals and birds hightail it outta here every May first. Wishing Day, you know.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We carried slingshots that we used *Sneakers. to stone birds and chase the monkeys that tried to cross the main dirt road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bees began to light on my shoulders the ways birds sit on telephone wires. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, fly away, great bird so white,” said Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also the cage in which I had put two young birds. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he sat cracking marrowbones, neat, tough, durable, his sleek furlike hair shedding the water like a bird’s feathers: he dripped a little onto his shoulders, like house-eaves dripping, and never noticed it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this time it wasn't a bird they had startled from its sleep. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel did not know how long she crouched there, while the bird skittered about the cage and outside the boy chopped wood. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Henry began flapping his arms and swooping in circles, being a bird. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The tiny bird didn’t stir, except perhaps for a small rise and fall of its chest. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Flocks of birds, flying at great speed, were wheeling and circling, and traversing all the land as if they were searching for something; and they were steadily drawing nearer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What kind of a bird did you say it was?” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t expect the Villac Uma would forbid the bird from joining me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I never heard of crows nesting in a steeple before, but I suppose they change their habits when there are no other birds around. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A celebration that has been frozen in place, suspended the same way the paper birds had been in the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So they went back to feeding the birds on canned shrimps. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I open it, just so I can listen for the birds, even though they don’t want anything to do with me anymore. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Bast nearly wept as he sensed the silence scatter like a dark bird startled into flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some kind of bird started twittering in a tree farther down the road, otherwise all was silent. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a bird—what did you expect?” said Hanuman. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the death caw of the bird. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched him pause, unfold the bird, and stare at the drawings she had done. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

How many times had she felt a thought simply fly away, like a bird? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Vivi asks as I gulp down the meat like some kind of raptor bird. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I supposed there were birds at her feeder. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I was Ghost, I was on the edge of the mountain looking down an a frozen river, and something attacked me. A bird ... an eagle, I think . . Squire Dalbridge smiled. " A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He fired once more, hitting a tin can that ricocheted into the desperately flopping bird. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wordless words of the rosary continued like the heartbeats of birds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Off on another grand adventure, are you, Crow? Saving the bird keeper wasn’t enough for you?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The creatures returned to the attack: botched beasts, belonging to ages before bird or dragon or man, long since forgotten by the daylight but recalled by the ancient, malign, unforgetful power of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the bird is at least a quarter mile away, most of it uphill, and by the time I reach him, I'm winded. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We put everything in this bag. We did not drop a bird inside it.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up the bird with the shovel and carried it across the street, into Dante’s backyard. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The birds are waiting for me to continue. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She loved and hated the moment when they set birds free. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A small bird here, a skittish mouse—nothing more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pair of birds circle overhead as a light wind blows through the branches of the trees around them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I told you. I was the bird in the caravan," said the woman. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They did not see the birds sitting on the branches, watching the party. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

That cocky young seaman, striding back through the woods without even a proper goodbye, thinking about a bird! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And even then, in the quiet darkness inside the caravan, the pretty bird chuckled and twittered and trilled, and, once, it even hooted like a little owl. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

In my headlong rush I disturbed sleeping birds and their shrill cries and slapping wings hit at my face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bird with great wings, and for feathers they put a covering of leaves from the trees that grew there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He brought the bird to his chest, trying to warm it from the heat of his body. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The blind man’s bird was marvelously colored, as if it had flown through a rainbow and been stained by the colors. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

‘I hear them,’ said Éomer; ‘but they are only the scream of birds and the bellowing of beasts to my ears.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then all the sky was clean and blue and birds sang in every tree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tristran walked over to it and looked down; it was the skeleton of a bird, clean and white and dry. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I fly out of his office like a bird taking off from a tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds out her hand to befriend the dark bird. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One of the movies he had sneak-watched once was a movie about killer birds, and now he was regretting ever checking it out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I walk super-slow and think about all the cool things I could be doing instead of grocery shopping, like studying the bird’s nest outside my parents’ bedroom window. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the tree a long time, watching the leaves and the squirrels and listening to the birds. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Mr. Popper had abandoned his telephoning and was now busy shaving and making himself neat in honor of being the owner of such a splendid bird as Captain Cook. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was curved to fit the walls—the stove, the sink, and the cupboards—and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects, and birds in bright primary colors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A multicolored bird sat by the driver's seat at the front of the caravan, on a wooden perch. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dragonflies darted out of the door and skimmed over the ground and then shot up high, faster than birds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some birds sat on the barn door and watched him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened for birds, but there was only the light slap of water against the hull. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man's eyes twisted in his face like the mad eyes of a bird of prey. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mama bird doesn’t know all her work is a waste of time. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think so, but just like that the bird wasn’t there anymore. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The tor top was speckled with men and women who came to Hook Mountain in the autumn to count the birds of prey. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They wanted to hear more, and it was not long before he found himself taking them on early-morning bird walks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As the birds descended on the fields and began to eat the grain, four of the most important men from the village ran off to find the old man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even the birds have stopped singing,” Constance said quietly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It is only reasonable to suppose that all birds and mammals heavily dependent on earthworms or other soil organisms for food are threatened by the robins’ fate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He holds out a pile of seeds in the palm of his hand and makes a bird noise. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

What happens, instead, is a struggle for existence, with slight variations in the birds giving some advantages over others. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year she cooked the bird with the bag inside. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had never beheld a plover so closely and now understood why Kapugen had called them “the spirit of the birds.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gwythaint did not struggle when Taran applied the poultice; soaking a piece of cloth tom from his jacket in another healing brew, he squeezed the liquid drop by drop into the bird’s beak. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They seized two large sticks which were nearby and drove the other boys away, telling them that it was wrong to surround such a bird and torment it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Outside, the evening music of birds and crickets would commence. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And as they ate it, Harry, with some gentle prompting from Albert, talked about birds. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I saw no bird— only leaves waving in the breeze. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every day this aunt would shout at him, and make a great noise that would frighten the birds. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“In other words—” “You mean you have other words?” cried the bird happily. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his own mind, he was not altogether certain that daylight might not bring the white bird down upon them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brim of his hat was black and shiny like the boots; above it glistened a silver bird that I knew the boys in the stable would have loved to steal. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Perched on the edge of one rooftop is a row of black birds like the ones tattooed on Tris’s collarbone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I lay there unmoving, and she seemed to perch on the bed, a bright-eyed bird with her glossy head and ripe breasts, and I was in a wood afraid to frighten the bird away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Safer looks at me like I’m nuts, “You’re joking, right? I’m not talking about a robbery. I’m talking about falcons or hawks—don’t they teach you about birds of prey at school?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really feel anything for the bird. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Leave it to Daddy Cool to torture human kids at school all day long and never have his conscience bother him but to feel sorry for a stupid little grayish brown bird. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate the roasted birds, seasoning them with lemon juice, and then another witch brought some blueberries she’d found below the screen, and then the witches gathered around the fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light as a bird, she closed the book and peered down through the leafy branches. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were of birds, fountains, and— briefly—the hammer of the man fixing the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warming temperatures brought new life to Grand Island as everyone geared up for the large bird migration. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Does anyone know what sort of bird that is?” asked Horace. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The younger birds began crowding over to the edge of the roof and looking down at the great canyons beneath them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’re as happy as any bird family can be, as happy as Axel is here in this special place with his own family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His favorite poems were those that described the countryside, poems about being out early when the morning light is thin and pale, and about hearing the birds’ songs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Blocking the sun with his fist, Palmer watched the bird circle the field, as the others had done. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I observed her as if she were a bird in an aviary. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

"Do you know where every bird is on the face of the earth?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Although the road was full of mud, the fields were drying and the birds were singing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ducks his head like a baby bird. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We talk about the birds and fish we roasted on Nevis, and I tell him again about the mounds of peas, squash, and venison at the Werowocomoco feast. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Before long, a pair of the birds popped out of a neapby burrow. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsie never talked, she just cawed and chirped like a bird as she waved her hands inches from her face. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Seeds had drifted in from the sea, or birds had brought them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And meanwhile, all the little birds would find the luscious patch of berries she alone knew about. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If I’m on soak the bird for fourteen hours in the salt water, I’ll put it in the bucket around three this afternoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And if we can’t, we are trapped like birds in a net. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Flight is one of the modern miracles. Why, I tell you, there’s nothing like soaring high over the trees like a bird.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Gomez was impressed by the beauty of those wing-sails, by how they were flexed and trimmed so perfectly, and by the speed of the birds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Already bleeding, already missing his home and his family, the baby bird falls. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see it, but Lamar reported that Travis burst into tears when he saw the bird and tried to shoo him into the brush, but Reggie was determined to return to the soft life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When it was Nok's turn, the woman slid a bird off the roasting rack and started hacking it to pieces with a long butcher knife. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They counted because the birds of prey were losing ground in the fight for survival. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That night, I lay in the dark and drew the falling bird in the air: the wings, the tail feathers, the long beak. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s too steady. You shouldn’t be that tired after a windless night. What are birds coming to?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she regularly caught francolins and doves, and she was able to snare smaller birds in the lime traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He roared so loudly that the crystal in the chandeliers tinkled, and every bird in the great room shrieked, and Lyra’s ears rang. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘The birds and beasts do not tell tales of that sort.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could go with you. But I can’t leave her. She doesn’t really know how to be a bird. I’m sorry. Promise me you won’t mention us to anyone.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then, out of nowhere, a flock of birds flew by the window, extremely fast and incredibly close. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For Cherrie, that truth came to light one morning while he was hunting for birds in Peru. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But then a sound like a large flock of birds came from above them, and Seven nearly collapsed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The banner streamed from an iron mast, shivering and twisting as the wind gusted, like a bird struggling to take flight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was in fact in the rest areas in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico that I first saw the smaller birds make use of this intellect. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The whole structure seemed to occupy its own space, one of solitude and oblivion, protected from the vices of time and the habits of the birds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When another bird helped itself to my palm, the first bird got over not trusting me and got in there too. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I use the newspaper to scoop up the bird’s body and its severed head. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For whom, for what, was that bird singing? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That was nice, too, the quiet between us, disturbed only by birds singing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like these guys are a bird in the hand,” Jacqui says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t a bird in sight, and not a peep was to be heard. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A huge, black bird springs out; it perches on her bureau, looking just like the etching of the raven in Yo's first English poetry book. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mechanized steps swing out from a shining center, where a tiny golden bird rests. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The men were pounding on big loggedy-looking drums, and women were singing high, quavery tunes like birds gone crazy in the full moon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the birds fall silent and then one give the warning call, which means a hovercraft is about to appear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I sit next to Chou and Geak on our small piles of clothes, listening to the sound of shrieking birds while the others stretch their bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And so is a snake. And so is a bird.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He could outrun startled rabbits, outrun a bird in flight. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When a light snow covered the Schoharie River Valley, Frightful's bird sense urged her one last time to leave or die. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was as good as he with both slingshots and painstakingly constructed bows and arrows, with which I could drop birds in flight. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jason gets scared, thinking that it’s having an attack or something, but Mom explains that it’s just the bird’s heart beating. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"A little bird told me. It's been circling all morning; I knew something was up." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring, the little flowers came out obethently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Night of Joy had the bird trade in the bag, and Lana’s peculiar knowledge of one aspect of humanity told her that the bird trade might indeed be very large. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when a bird was seven or eight feet away the arrow would turn without feathers to stabilize it and hit brush or a twig. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sensation of such grace and power that Lyra, sharing it, felt like a young bird learning to fly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Around them animals were stirring: horses stamped, birds began, waking, to sing the dawn in, and here and there across the market meadow, those in the tents were beginning to rise and move. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A bird that lived in both my worlds. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Thief,” Jon said, as the I bird flapped up to the lintel above the door to devour its prize. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A flock of gray birds passes over us and settles in a giant tree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m still not scared of a big bird.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“By golly,” he said and picked up a casting from a bird of prey. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mormont gave a whistle, and the bird flew to him again and settled on his arm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m outlining a new bird book,” my dad said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Naturally, strawberry plants didn’t set out with a conscious intent of attracting birds when, and only when, their seeds were ready to be dispersed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was important to her, and I sat quietly as one sits before a bird that feeds from your palm. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dodo bird pecked affectionately at the god’s hooves, making a strange sound in the back of its bill. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now I can draw a bird that looks real. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire village had flowed into the street, talking and shouting like a flock of birds discovering a feast. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And the song of the bird made her sad, somehow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how far Emma would take this, but I had to step in before the birds went up in flames or were sent tumbling over the rail. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was used to pigeons, birds that matched the color of concrete. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

These pale petals were gathering in the wind like flocking birds— thousands of them, like a spring snowstorm. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“They’re big birds,” the scientist told the reporter, “just not quite as big as the Lazarus was.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It’s a wonder a bird didn’t land on my head for a rest. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dugout canoe seems such a fragile bird to carry that weight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why do you want a bird so particularly?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird lady was aptly nicknamed; she resembled a crane, with her long, skinny legs and pointy beak nose. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Although a few nests were found in the treated area, a few with eggs, none contained young birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She whistled and chirped back at the bird, who was excited at being outdoors. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like a single bird across a storm-cloud sky, a tiny peace winged its way through the chaos inside his body. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She sings like a bird, is cute, and, like Vonetta, cannot resist the lure of applause and attention. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wings of birds that had been sleeping flapped in surprise. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And a group of small birds chatted with some clipped formality in the pines on the other side of the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Besides remarking that “all the little tree birds” seemed to have disappeared after the land had been treated, most of these people reported losses of livestock, poultry, and household pets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were all dressed in gorgeous costumes, with Victorian-era thick, brocade dresses and fancy, elaborate hats with fake fruits and birds on them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Father says we’re not supposed to have it. Says we have to keep it hidden up there behind the basket because it’s American and was printed in Scotland. It’s just birds!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the Aurora’s light she saw a great bird, a beautiful gray goose whose head was crowned with a flash of pure white. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I took the basket with the still-sleeping bird in one hand and my sister’s palm in the other. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

To the public the choice may easily appear to be one of stark black-or-white simplicity: Shall we have birds or shall we have elms? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The water bird then flew away, cackling with pleasure at its freedom. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Gwin was eating a bird inside the walls of the burnt-out cottage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He woke only the birds, who shuddered off into the air. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world didn’t stop turning; birds didn’t suddenly start singing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Being a bird’s probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The morn was clear as glass, and I was happy as a singing bird. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the rickety, old-fashioned stained- glass door, with its motifs of exotic birds, there was a bronze knocker in the shape of a woman’s hand pressing on a ball. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re amazing creatures—the fastest birds on earth. They’re like shape- shifters, the way they streamline their bodies in the air.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I went past field after flat, featureless field, with virtually no change except when occasionally a flock of birds, hearing my engine, flew up out of the furrows. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached his trap, the young man saw that he had caught a small bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Their once rounded bodies were angular and bony now, sharp small bones like the bones of birds, except for their ponderous bellies. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“In a broad sense, lee means the sheltered side. A bird, flying over Mrs. Fitzgibbon’s garden, would notice something most of us would miss.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Pard’n me, sir,” Carlyle says, “but maybe the bird is right. A keelhauling will leave him useless, if not dead. And the cannon needs a good cleaning if we’re to battle the beasts ahead.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The guard surprised me by making the same gesture to the bird. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the walnut-sized birds flitting among the tree limbs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Their arrows made a sound like a flock of birds taking wing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The game disappeared, taking shelter from the rain, and the men began foraging for whatever they could find: blood-drop berries, hard-shelled nuts, flightless birds with white-and-gray wings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lest they be frightened out of their feathers, a garden separated the birds from the ogres. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That bird belongs back in the book it was stolen from.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On these trips they ate salmon berries, then lay in the sun watching the birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom’s camera was passed around the fringes of the crowd, and by the time it got back to Roy he knew that most people couldn’t really tell it was a bird in the photograph. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Bull Sparra was not a bird to be trifled with. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One of the birds dips in and pops up again with a fish in its bill. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

"Send a bird for him. I will gladly await his arrival." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Full-grown trees hunkered alongside the house, birds perching in the limbs as if posed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We can trade our three turkeys for someone else’s. That way, at least he won’t have to eat his own bird.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"Pretty bird," Jay says to himself, waddling into this cage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then one dawn the birds took off for the south, and Drum went with them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He lived in a tree and when other saints visited him for dinner they would sit around on branches like birds having a grand time with their water and dry bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then he was gone, but as she gathered herself to leave, she heard him whistle the song of the bird once again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My life was kind of like that children's book Are You My Mother?, where the lost baby bird tries to find its mom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jody brought up his knee and fell on the great bird. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly she picked up Tornait, put on her sealskin parka, and placed the little bird in her hood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re made of wide, rough boards with cracks in between, gray with plaster dust and scattered with white speckles, like bird droppings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I called out for my dad, and at the sound of my voice the bird launched itself off the dresser. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But you can draw in the patterning of the feathers so I can see how they are shaped and how they lie on the bird’s body. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were hungry for waterfowl or land birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“She is a survivor and she is alive. She wears burns that tell about the dangers of utility poles for our wild birds.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Polly’s a good boy,” said the bird in its disquieting nasal counterfeit of a human voice. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His pace quickened and he was in them in moments, scattering the birds, grabbing branches, stripping them to fill his mouth with berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had tricked us at first, more than once, sending us running to the windows to see what beautiful, exotic birds made such a strange call. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A robin—the little British bird with a red breast, not the big American robin—came to my windowsill one winter while I was sick in bed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She struck the bird a mortal blow and dropped with it to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The branches were empty of birds but still had many berries, and some of those that had been merely red yesterday were now a dark maroon to black. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she doubted the bird carried a wallet. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Everything we need in one place. Frank, why don’t you turn into a bird or something? Fly down and tell your girlfriend to meet us at the Great Salt Lake in Utah.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While passengers shouted encouragement from the rail, the men chased the birds across the roof, back to the dock, onto the rigging of the ship, and back to the warehouse again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she came to a photo of an ethereal-looking woman with a plump little bird perched on her hand, and said, “This is Miss Finch and her auntie, Miss Finch.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The runaway would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into his or her open wounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In the nights sometimes now he’d wake in the black and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

And 11 worms form a small part of a day’s rations to a bird that eats i o to 12 earthworms in as many minutes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He prints messages on bits of paper, slips them through metal rings on the pigeons’ legs, then kisses each bird on the head for good luck and lets it loose with a whoop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that my Lobot hearing aids actually made me hear better than most people, because I was usually the first person to hear a new bird call. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As the old woman approached in a rowboat, the birds swooped away in a billowing black curve and she saw that in the middle of the empty rock grew a strange tree. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This bird, thought Palmer, is either dumb, clumsy or a comedian. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The pack looked to him when the wind carried strange scents or the birds cried nervously. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A similarly enormous wooden table and chairs stood in front of the fire beneath the quantity of cured hams and dead birds hanging from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And so she barked with foxes and sang with birds and hissed with snakes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Millard set the falcon down and held the sheet in front, screening the bird from the audience. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then there were fewer birds; and after that there was grass of an unearthly green, so bright it glowed far into the twilight, like a luminescent clock dial. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see all the birds flying in the air and the creatures crawling on the ground. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He flips me the bird as he walks away. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

These birds were scraggly-looking black birds—we used to call them “grackles.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I see the bird pretty well and it puzzles me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a boy caught his first bird in Nunivak, he was supposed to fast for a day, then celebrate the Feast of the Bird. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their inherited memories covered one million years without people, and so the birds hopped close to tourists and fishermen. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I know Mrs. Grimaldi, the lady who’s always sitting by her window, and the old guy who walks up and down the street whistling like a bird. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sight of the baby birds irritated Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone in town raised a few chickens, but turkeys were less common, being bigger and having a more pronounced tendency toward meanness, except of course for Travis’s birds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The trash and garbage had been swept away; dead animals—cats, dogs, birds, and pigs—had been removed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Her voice rang out happily as she sang and followed the birds and her compass. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her breasts were small and pointed, hef hips narrow and girlish, her legs as skinny as a bird’s. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The word trilled and echoed like a small, annoying birds song. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was dark, and there were so many night sounds—of birds, animals, insects. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of birds that swim and fish that fly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if they did they would lose their physiological weatherproofing, like Arctic birds kept in warm tents, who being released get frostbitten feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Ignatius was about to dash from the club, the bird hopped from the stage to his shoulder. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the relative quiet, the birds take back the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His snarls and the wounded screams of the bird filled the stillness over the cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feathers flew as two of the larger birds fought over a choice piece. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I hadda take him to the vet’s this morning to get a vitamin shot. I don’t want that poor bird coughing all over my furniture.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There I could be with a group of people who were all really knowledgeable about African mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last, long after they had all grown weary, the bird stopped feeding and looked at Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along the path, there are screened-in enclosures—habitats for birds of prey, mostly. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It had carved wooden beams on the ceiling and wallpaper decorated with hundreds of birds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds are so tame we pluck them out of the bushes with our hands, the sea is teeming with fish, and the trees are full of fruit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a pied crow, a black-and-white bird that people in Africa sometimes make into a pet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember a time when a magnificent blue sky, chirping birds, moonlight and budding blossoms wouldn’t have captivated me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

An idea flitted in the back of her mind like a small bird, hopeful. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It is very exciting to watch a pair of birds as they go about making a nest. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —” To Harry’s astonishment, Dumbledore smiled. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She does not believe the local lore: that “summer birds,” or butterflies, creep out from under the earth. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Perry bellowed the falconer’s cry to encourage a bird to hunt. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought if the birds ate it and lived, maybe I could, too. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bird was so dry it near splintered the tongues of the officers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like a little bird,” Bigger breathed with childlike wonder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later I come across the source of the odor: a plastic garbage bag filled with feathers, down, and the severed wings of several birds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time it was a big round woman, done bas relief, like always, except she was halfway turned into a bird—so incredible it made my head vibrate. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The antelope were more wary, the birds readier to take flight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was good and soft, I rested a clump on my tongue and stuck this out for the hungry bird. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The other birds had stopped as soon as the first one fell, and stood watching it, and watching the man, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I am not a bird. I am an angel.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Genie took off after it—maybe the bird would land somewhere, leading him to a nest. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her scarf, a riot of colors, was a tropical bird slowly flapping toward me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A bird calling from a parasol tree sounded shockingly loud, and our footsteps echoed in the empty hallway. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The invisible bird chirped and footsteps clicked across the ceiling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The paper birds swirled upward in a massive formation overhead before alighting in a great circle on the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I can talk to the bird keeper,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the warm April breeze stirred his hair, and the smell of the earth and the cry of the birds in the trees above him were a part of reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowmane snorted and reared, eager to follow; but only a swift bird on the wing could have overtaken him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was while the man was gathering fruits that he saw a most unusual bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

All around them he carved tiny leaves, and flowers, and birds. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that word in her mind, echoing from one side of her skull to the other, Mama, mama, mama, over and over and over again, like the cry of a faraway bird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Levy looked at the two women, the bird, the grinning doorman. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the most intimate songs of Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn soften raw emotion with a poetic image - rejection being portrayed as an iced-up lake, or happiness as a bird singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The rest of the bird was skin, bone and feathers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, hunters in the countryside captured tens of thousands of pigeons in nets and sent the living birds to urban hunting clubs for target practice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a heard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an informed notion of their appearance. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help imagining, as I bit into my Lazarus Burger on the way home from work, what it might be like if the bird actually did exist and happened upon one of these sandwiches. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They are smart birds that can learn aerial tricks and navigate their way back home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I could hear the rustling of birds and insects and other creatures settling into the evening. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Its dappled, highcrowned roadways make safe homes for birds; quick squirrels run the veins of its treasure-giving hand; but the ground below is dead. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only response is the chatter of waking birds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I went inside, there was the new milliner, seated at a table littered with feathers, bird wings, satin bows, stiff tape, bolts of velvet, linen, silk, and so on, and several life-size dummy heads. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sailors all took the greatest delight in watching the curious little birds at their explorations. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, new ideas and images flew from the wood-and-iron presses like birds: a river filled with gold, fish with wings, a lizard as big as an elephant. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Out a nowhere, that old bird dog Aubie they don’t never pay no mind to come up and gobble it down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The robins and wood thrushes and other small birds that navigated by the stars at night fluttered down into the trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A safe place for injured birds to heal, then return to the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed being outside so early, because there were more birds on the grass to try to catch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sure move if a coyote killed one of my birds. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The populations of nesting birds in general have declined as much as 90 per cent in some of the sprayed towns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It hit the bird’s right wing, which Sumac lifted high in the air as he squawked in pain. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Angie does this thing I’ve seen her do when she smiles and looks just like a cat about to catch a big bird. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We zoom across the clear water, and overhead the birds fly, and there are sea turtles too, drifting through the clouds. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ahead of us is the Hancock building, and beyond it, Lake Shore Drive, the lazy strip of pavement that I once flew over like a bird. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Professor Maurice Brooks of the University of West Virginia, an authority on the birds of the Appalachian region, reported that the West Virginia bird population had undergone “an incredible reduction.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Outside, the birds were twittering loudly as if they'd been awake for hours. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He went back to rowing and to watching the long-winged black bird who was working, now, low over the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I knew, she only went to school and came straight home, which made her seem a little like a caged bird who no one trusted to fly. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He had to get the birds without the men seeing him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“And there is a man. And a lot of birds are gathered on the ground. I think they love Luna, too. They’re all staring at her. And Luna is wearing her let’s-make-trouble face.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Addison shook the glasses from his face and peered at the bird, his eyes wide with concern. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a little bird cutout on the front that says Sparrow on it, and a yellow cutout in the shape of a spike that says Spike on it in black marker. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

With his free hand, he’d squirt the bird’s chest with alcohol, and plunge a syringe needle into the chicken’s heart to draw blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He never caught any of the birds, yet he would keep trying until his tongue hung out of his mouth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a dome-shaped aviary full of black-and-white impundulus, barely mindful to cover their heads as the birds beat their massive wings and sent sparks of lightning into the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t stopped to consider why Mr. Griswold had chosen a black bird to replace the seagull, but now she realized it must be a nod to this poem. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it had been a lie to make the bird rally his energy. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he raised his head off the ground, trembling with the effort, and breathed into my ear: “Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They lay down in the soft sand at the foot of the dunes, and then they heard the first bird calling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of the wind, the sound of birds and the quiet afternoon, which was the world we were in. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one can talk to birds,” she said out loud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Treats over, she sliced her birds into delicate strips and simmered them slowly and not too long. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That old bird is clearly out of her head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The only person we’ve ever seen go up there is the bird lady who drops off groceries once a week.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear occupied his mind by identifying the birds he heard and the plants he saw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Brightbill led all the birds into the air, where they wheeled around the bonfire like a tornado of feathers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The two birds sat close, and in a moment they had changed their forms, becoming two doves. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They lived in a place called Michigan, where the birds seemed to come in only one color, and where no one knew them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were the swish of scythes, the shouts of men, and the cries of birds fighting for bits of grain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I tuned in to the creek’s gurgle, imagining a pristine river on a deserted island, its shore lined with orchids and gardenias, with birds warbling sweet melodies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Witnesses described huge bonfires on which the bodies of the birds were burned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Part of me hoped they would send me away, tell me that I didn’t belong, that I should run back to the forest and the birds. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

No one tended the garden, either to water it or to weed it, until it was swallowed up by oblivion, birds, and wild grasses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A loop,” I repeated, remembering my grandfather’s command: find the bird, in the loop. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Evening was advancing toward the island; the sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square rocks, were fainter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the first three corners of her sign he’d carved a tree, a bird, and some waves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Apparently when Mahmoud had gone up to the roof, the birds had flocked to him, alighting on his shoulders and arms, and he was so charmed that he couldn’t send them away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But I wasn't sure anyone could hear her over the screeching of the birds and the general chaos. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Come back here!” she shouted, furious, about to run after the birds when Bronwyn caught her by the arms. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Adah pulled her chair up next to him and opened one of the old musty bird books she’d found in this house, which she adores to carry around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to sit in a little rocking chair in her room upstairs and watch the birds. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once Ernie unlatched Michael Jackson’s cage door and saw the bird—a stiff hunk of feathers—he decided that his skin couldn’t touch a corpse. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then, starting with Jackie, he went from cage to cage, checking on the cheeping birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As the bird broke from its circle and began its long downward swing, the little kid beside Palmer pointed and screamed, “Look! It’s coming back! It’s coming back!” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a massive bird’s nest—a gryphon's nest—the bottom littered with old pieces of jewelry, an Imperial gold dagger, a dented centurion’s badge, and two pumpkin-sized eggs that looked like real gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rumor, that wingless bird, had shadowed over the town. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I let my head roll all the way back on my neck so all I see are clouds, birds, planes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

To be more specific: She was lost in a dream of long ago, a dream filled with laughter and Black Forest cake and sun-dappled meadows that rang with the singing of adorable birds— “Miss? Miss?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The memories of old Christmases winged through the room like richly plumed birds and rested on the pungent branches of the tinsel-heavy tree the family as a unit had decorated. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first link: Top ten common foods that can poison your bird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Janice, my oldest sister, had an allergy that made one nostril sing like a bird at night, so we called her Whistling Nose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A roar of voices and weird birds lombarded my ears and filled my head to the brink. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"May your voyage be attended by white birds," he said, tears trickling down his cheeks. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were everywhere, but he wasn’t actually Sure that birds ate plants. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A great black bird, a raven of Osskil, came walking over the stone terrace and the grass. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a high, undercut cliff there and some birds building their nests against the face of it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water, the birds, the sky excited her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Jess is wearing a dress with red flowers on it, she’s wearing little silver earrings with birds on them—I can see them moving back and forth as she talks. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the cages and plants and birds—it was, yeah, a little freaky. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He looked and looked, but all he saw were plump, pretty birds with shiny coats. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The birds would sing in the other room. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined his own body ripped by bullets like the bird’s, and he sobbed harder. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The splash of birds fishing in the water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was an old bird, reputed to be fifty years old, and he had lived a ribald life and acquired the vigorous speech of a ship’s fo’c’sle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the morning birds outside and the sounds of cars crossing the bridge over on Fulton Street, but no sounds from the kitchen. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, he is in a prison of his own creation, sworn to babysit these turkeys until the pardoning ceremony, and is just now realizing his deep-seated fear of large birds. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He started talking a lot about his hypothetical new bird book, and whenever the subject came up I did my best to encourage him and sound interested. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He pushed a pointed stick through the bird and held it over the fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere she heard the sound of a bird singing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I memorized the sight of the birds and Simon. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A coyote was always plotting the demise of a smirking long-necked bird. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A lot of the time, though, they stay home figuring things out, telling each other those little personal stories they like to hear again and again, or fussing with the bird Violet bought. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her seat at the table, she could reflect on her roses and bird feeders through the picture window the company carpenters had installed for her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers were gone; the birds flocked in great clouds, and among them were eider and old squaw ducks that kept to the rivers and beaches except when they migrated south. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds circled over Edward’s head, laughing at him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Gimpy holds his elbows out as he rolls the dough, like a bird’s wings, but Frank keeps his arms close to his sides. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clumps and clusters of birds in flight were questing back and forth, black dots against the blue sky, moving in some kind of desperate Brownian motion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The bird hit the porch, bounced, and went over the edge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Oh, how I liked that bird from that smelly minute. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the job was finished, it turned out to be a bird of prehistoric dimensions, with the face of a furious eagle, wings that moved, and a propeller on its back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to focus on the birds on the page again, but nothing seemed to interest me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A haze mutes not only the birds and beasts, but people, too. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was halfway across the street, I heard clapping behind me, almost like the birds’ wings outside Mr. Black’s window. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The white canopy ballooned on the night wind, flapping softly, tied by a thousand green ribbons to the birds. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The little bird's bleeding. Someone take her back to her cage and see to that cut." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In Australia, people have seen spiders eat birds, centipedes eat snakes, snakes eat crocodiles, crocodiles eat children. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Together they look like a bird and an onion. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He carried her to Alice’s tree house to recover out of sight of the birds of prey. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Focusing on one thing helps. Pretend Mr. Fabian’s words are birds to find.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The birds around her home had been thinned by hunting, and the survivors were wary. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No," he growled at her, "no, little bird, he was no true knight." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Beyond the birds was a small hunting cabin set back in a grove of young hemlocks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jane and Michael and Mary Poppins spread the crumbs in a circle on the ground, and presently, one by one at first, and then in twos and threes, the birds came down from St. Paul’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The bird let his rider step off, and then flew to the bracket by the door as the orderly announced the third of Lord Asriel’s high commanders, an angel by the name of Xaphania. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A .22 rifle leaned against the fence beside him and on the ground lay a little heap of fur and feathers—rabbits and small birds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he returned to feeding an orange bird. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A bird’s dropping fell on the floor of the veranda, and Richard picked up a cashew leaf and wiped it off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s the sound of insects, birds, the breeze in the foliage. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was no longer a nestling but a fledgling, a flying member of bird royalty—the family Falconidae. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some birds, like owls and woodpeckers, would spend the winter nesting and eating the island’s few remaining edibles. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard you talking about our birds and our boats,” Sairy said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They shouted at the trees and shook their fists, but the birds just sang and paid no attention to the people below them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“They said she’d run away. But I saw the bird and I knew....” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I put no weights on the line and had difficulty getting it close to the bird. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to focus on those unlucky people—and let’s not forget the bird—who’d had to say their final goodbyes to a really bad listener. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He ordered a regiment of young men to go to the place which the bird had mentioned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mo looked at him, unhappy and at a loss, like someone who has handled a young bird, knowing it can never return to the nest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The next moment you are startled by a furious outburst coming from a great troupe of monkeys, only outdone in volume by the shrill cries of strange birds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The birds loved the bright lights of the theater, and the great, laughing audiences, and all the traveling. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

With that, Jello went back to the puppies and the three sped away like dark birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see by the slight motion of her head that she’s counting the birds down by the water. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the woman with the shaved head and the paper birds roosting on her shoulders. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As I crossed the stones to my mountain trail, I said to that bird, “Sometimes I wonder if I will make it to spring.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she scurried forward and picked up the bird. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The children of these families wouldn’t look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then, as the sun itself rose over the fields, the great bird which they had made suddenly moved its wings and launched itself into the air. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In a dead tree, split in two by lightning, were perched three huge, black birds, too big for crows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All the big black birds had left them when the ranger did. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s pleasant enough, even cozy, with a firm bed and views of a tree-lined street—except for the bird. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a bird began a strange, whooping call, in the trees above them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When we make our announcement asking the mysterious author of this wonderful poem to please come forward, I wish for back when a pack of birds and fifteen minutes of recess would fix everything. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would be tragic to lose the elms, but it would be doubly tragic if, in vain efforts to save them, we plunge vast segments of our bird populations into the night of extinction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Flapping my arms to let the breeze tickle me, for a moment I felt free, like a bird, tasting the sky. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It would be like the baby birds, or like the worms, or the mouse. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Swiftly opening her pack, she took out some meat, chewed it to thaw it, and gave it to the bird. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Migrating birds rested and gathered strength for the long flight north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And there was life everywhere—zumming insects, squirrels scampering along boughs, birds twittering and hopping about, spider webs gleaming silver in the sun. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I rode horses and shot birds with slingshots and found boys to joust with, and some nights I danced the evening away to the beautiful singing and clapping of Thembu maidens. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he saw the blackened turkey smoldering in the oven, he grabbed two dish towels and hauled the bird into the backyard, where he unceremoniously lobbed it into the canal. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We picked our way down to the beach, where what seemed to be an entire civilization of birds were flapping and screeching and fishing in tide pools. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s a great bird out there, like nothing I’ve ever seen.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie felt kinda silly thinking about the feelings of a bird, especially since this was a serious situation, but he couldn’t shake it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I hear a bird sing and find it on a branch. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As he leaves, I resolve that, if and when I get out of here, I’m going to buy him an expensive silk tie covered with brightly colored birds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The jesses were held in the fingers or clipped to a leash to keep the birds from departing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The virus died with the bird, and she carried it back to Oksi. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bird hopped up onto the fawn’s rump, raised its head, ruffled its crown and neck feathers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Sunny made a noise that sounded like an angry bird, and Klaus picked her up and held her. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The air was less damp-smelling here, though, and there were more birds, moving about and calling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She lay in her bed for a long time, listening to the singing of the birds. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He generally made little sketches of birds and trees in the back of his notebook during chapel, so that he had probably not heard the announcement. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one they .opened the bird cages, and the sky filled with parakeets, canaries, lovebirds, and finches, which flew around in circles, blinded by their sudden freedom, and finally took off in every direction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you’re right, Aurora. A bird just flew by. One of those little chickadee birds.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Presently a grass blade trembled and Miyax saw a young bird fluttering its wings as it begged to be fed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the birds’ insignificant little existences have any meaning at all? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The robot was beginning to understand the birds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He whistled to birds, and they answered him and came and hopped along the bushes by the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Dallas heard the birds calling and knew it was first light, but he didn’t open his eyes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad were both out of medical school and had already moved to Isfahan, to the house I told you about with the jasmine garden and the birds in the walls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

No birds would go hungry on his watch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sitting down together around the fire, they ate roasted ears of corn, sweet blueberries, and picked the delicate meat off the tiny bird bones. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Each one of those little birds had their own distinctive chirp. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My hair looked like a bird’s nest; my shuffling gait like a dementia patient’s. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Without its silver rings and bracelets, the hand looked as weak as the leg of a dying bird. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were noisy in the dawn and the ranch cats came down from the hill like blunt snakes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree’s dry needles skitter in the hot breeze across the desert like a flock of birds. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once the chickens settled, the night birds got to talking. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had a boar slung over his shoulders, and she clutched three dead birds in her hamlike fist. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But I guess if a bird is going to eat up the dead children’s souls, that is a worry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various birds—pheasants, peacocks, macaws—lost feathers to people greedy for their beauty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That hadda happen to you, Ignatius. Nobody never gets attacked by a bird.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms are bird wings pinned down with rocks by mean boys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The lid is like a wing of a bird ready to fly, propped up to show the golden strings that create the sound. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

"It will not serve. By the time the birds reach—" "Send them!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Colonists grilled the birds, stewed them with salt pork, and baked them into pies; they plucked their feathers to stuff mattresses, pickled them in barrels as a winter treat, and fed them to livestock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time— then you might not be as ambitious as you are.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He arrives only in time to watch the last of a flock of candy pink birds, equipped with long, thin beaks, skewer her through the neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze the trigger, firing again and again into the sea of birds above me, watching their dark bodies drop to the grass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were many birds about the cliffs and the rock-chimneys, and all day high in the air flocks of birds had been circling, black against the pale sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He liked to watch as the birds swooped back and forth, scooping up crickets and dropping them into the gaping mouths of their chicks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

To see so beautiful a bird playing in such a silly manner made me laugh. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Later they spied the eagle soaring through the dusk on great blue-grey wings and Stonesnake unslung his bow, but the bird flew out of range before he could so much as string it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She saw crimson firelions and great yellow serpents and unicorns made of pale blue flame; she saw fish and foxes and monsters, wolves and bright birds and flowering trees, each more beautiful than the last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A sentry’s horn greeted them as they approached, sounding from on high like the cry of some huge, deep-throated bird, a single long blast that meant rangers returning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind was gone, the birds silent, the fields frozen in time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“By the way, do you ever see any birds at the tops of your poles?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The woman’s gaze drifted up to the birds in the branches. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sam took a bird from one of the cages, stroked its feathers, attached the message, and said, "Fly home now, brave one. Home." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I need my birds,” the madwoman said, turning her face to the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

ALBUS: Why would you want a tattoo of her bird, then? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Frightful let her feathers fall over Oksi while the little bird rested from her great struggle. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There the birds were plunged up and down in the hot water to loosen their feathers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There were rockets like a flight of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With both yellow-gloved hands on the door handle, she ripped the sliding door back with a sound loud enough to shake the birds from the nearby roofs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As the light filled out, the birds started chattering above their heads, and all round them, every bush was thick with birds. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

This was a mother bird feeding her young. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“And a good morning to you, little bird. The gods are kind today to bring us together.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A bird in flight reflected in an old dog’s balls. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at her. She has that southward concentration of migrating birds. I’ve seen it in robins and blackbirds.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sana pulls off her cloak, and her short, dark hair tufts out like a disgruntled bird's. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just the cicadas and the birds and the flitting of dragonfly wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And at home the golden bird was gone from the mantel. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon his wife appears, a tousled little woman with anxious, quick eyes like a bird, in a sort of black crinkly mantilla with ribbons; heaven knows where she inherited the thing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can you spot birds in fog this thick? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the bone of her arm exposed by the huge gash the bird had made when it tore at her with its beak. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And yet it wasn’t a bird: it was a daemon, though there was no one in sight but Lyra herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I think of biology class and Ms. Cantor teaching us about the peppered moths in England, their new color camouflaging them from birds among the soot. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They included giant elephant birds, primitive primates called lemurs as big as gorillas, and pygmy hippos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it swept over most of Detroit like a giant bird of prey. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

While her dog occupied himself by staring out the window at a bird, Hyacinth took out sewing supplies and sheets of red and green felt. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This hobby, Mahmoud insisted, was taking them away from their schoolwork, and if they forsook their education for pigeons, he would be stuck with not only the birds but two illiterate sons. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It is no longer necessary to guess about the storage of insecticides in the eggs of birds, which obviously lend themselves to this kind of observation more readily than the mammalian ovum. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Other than shifting from Great Blue Herons to herons, he doesn’t strain for new ways of referring to the birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Overhead, I hear the trilling of birds calling to one another as they roost for the night and see glowing lights kindle in hollow knotholes as sprites come awake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He seems content too, ignoring the fluttering birds and the occasional pedestrian. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Koalas far too big to be cuddly and cute rustled in the trees and flightless birds twice the size of ostriches sprinted on the plains. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the witch's bird would sit with her and then she would pet it and make a fuss of it, for it was good to have something about that acknowledged her existence. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A group of wheeling, excited black birds passed overhead. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He could remember the feeling of the hard claws as they dug into his flesh, the weight of the bird and the sound of its caawing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The arrow she had nocked slipped and fell, flailing like a downed bird, to the ground at her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling no end of a fine bird, he gave a sharp whistle that brought his two warriors on the double. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What is up with you birds? Peregrines in November. Something’s out of order.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Like the plant could come to life at any moment and wonder what he’s doing in a place like this, stuck to a wall, near a boy reading about birds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The jabberjays were muttations, genetically enhanced male birds created by the Capitol as weapons to spy on rebels in the districts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They found the Gray Women at last, looking in the wavering light like gray birds, for they had the shape of swans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blowing leaves, and missing birds, and Byrd at his school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Bring down every bird that leaves the castle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You and I have got to get these little birds in the sky. The rivers and valleys need them.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The exotic bird hopped up beside her and it chirruped, once, curiously. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She flicked a lock of hair out of her face and he wondered what it might feel like to touch it, gently, as you might stroke a bird. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Normally, the crickets and birds sang in the evening before the sun went down. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“That is not the true speech of a bird,” Adaon cried, springing to his feet, “The Huntsmen have found us.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bird swooped toward him and then rose up over the building, high, high into the air, over the alley and the train tracks and the dried-up creek. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not yours to spend,” the bird shrieked again, and followed it with the same horrible laugh. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew pushed his sunglasses to the top of his bird’s nest of hair. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The bird remained still against my chest, except for occasionally letting out a squawk and stretching out his right wing as though to see if it was still sore. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Tats 2: “No, make that two hundred percent, because any guy who shows a girl his nerdy side right away is, like, double sure she’s the one. I mean, birds?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He knew there was a falcon’s nest in the cliffs above the meadow, and he summoned the bird by its name. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

With the final ounce of strength she had, her mind already muddled from the cold, her fingers numb, Seven pulled the ceramic bird from her cloak pocket, brought it to her mouth, and blew. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why did you read the flight of the birds?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the El Nino rains changed the balance of nature and birds were scarce, he dined on mammals and iguanas. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And the boxmaster would attempt to scoop up the bird in a long-handled fishing net and toss it into the air and run. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her eyes on the paper birds. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And when he wasn’t hanging out at the scene of the crime, Genie was down at Tess’s, using her Internet, obsessively looking up other ways to capture birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

You might be in a forest and find yourself in a patch of silence, as if no birds dare sing there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As the habit of killing grows — the resort to “eradicating” any creature that may annoy or inconvenience us — birds are more and more finding themselves a direct target of poisons rather than an incidental one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was almost but not quite smiling, his eyes wide, unibrow raised in a capital M. “Where is your bird?” he asked calmly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Others would not come out and so they burned: small flame-feathered birds, the churning insects, and a few female baboons who had managed against all odds to carry their pregnancies through the drought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You haven't been birdwatching again, have you? There will be plenty of time for birds later; first you must catch up on your studies if you want to get into a good school." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There are the two mules who pull my caravan, myself, a maid-servant I keep in the form of a large bird, and a young man in the form of a dormouse." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

And all the while, as I ran, I tried to remember the song Teresita said we must sing if we came upon the warlock—the song of the birds and the rain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The pot looks entirely too fancy for a bird rescue, with its rolled copper edges and pristine silver handles. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Overhead, terns and Cape pigeons wheeled, and a giant snow petrel flew on snow-white wings; the birds were a sure sign that open water was near. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The guidepost of her ancestors, the North Star, would soon be visible and would point her way when the birds had all gone South. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

More listening to birds, the scampering of hidden animals, and inhaling clean air. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the light came up over the hills, it made the wax bird seem pink with fire. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“But you’re much too heavy for a bird to pull up there —” “Fawkes,” said Harry, “isn’t an ordinary bird.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

For an instant, the bird came back to life. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now Omakayas was afraid that he would be taken for a wild bird and shot or killed. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat madly inside her like a trapped bird, feathers flying, wings breaking against the bars, but inside the ring Archer was as still as he had ever been. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was awake so early the next morning that the birds had hardly beat her to it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A great black bird was flapping and hopping a little way behind the herd. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he worried about Finn, too, how easily a teenage boy could fall for a wounded bird, an absurdly beautiful wounded bird who didn’t speak much English. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The parrot and the mocking bird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sure never put pink goo and a dead bird in there. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

For one moment Ranofer felt that he could soar straight into the air like any bird, but only for one moment. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then, when the people had finished their work in the fields, the birds flew down and ate as much grain as they could manage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Tenderly, as they walked along, the bird plucked up a strand of hair that had fallen loose from Omakayas’s braid, and then he tucked it behind her ear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“If it’s only a bird, I suppose it will be O.K. if you keep him in a cage.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Iraq, the sounds of the national bird, the chucker partridge, play over the speakers discreetly hidden behind the merchant carts offering beautiful silk scarves and shirts. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She said, “I just love. That little. Yellow bird.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mom is reassuring, like a mama bird who knows we are ready to fly. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Think like this. Can’t you see yourself up there? Up in the clouds somewhere like some kind of bird?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She took out her sinew, held her arm under the bird, and singing aloud strode toward Point Hope. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But all birds don’t give a single note!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to kill birds out in the woods and have me film it?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He’s golden and he has long hair, his head is hanging and there’s a big bird perched on his shoulder. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture on another wall of a man with a brown robe and birds sitting all over him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bird was too big for her to take. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He looks like a bird on a basketball, definitely not normal. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All I saw were startled birds and campfire smoke. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boo acted quickly, and bird droppings rained across the demon’s eyes and forehead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This evening she wore a bird’s nest for a crown, and an elegant green bird was perched in it, singing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the birds he was aiming at this very moment were mothers with worms for their babies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The music went on and on, minute after minute, with astonishing variations, never once repeating itself, almost as though the bird were deliberately showing off its virtuosity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The birds were ready to move to the south. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He struck me,” Fitzsimmons said, “as a bird that could sing but wouldn’t unless we made him.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, that is, that their corner of paradise seemed after a few days to be carpeted not with plush grass, but birds. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds, the bird also emerged, its head struggling to hold onto a large fish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inmates would carry bread back from chow, stuff it into the chain-link fence along the gallery, and watch from their cells as the birds came to feed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady grabs a little yarn ball from a pile on a small table as she passes it and tosses it up to the bird, who grabs it in its beak. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sounded like a little cartoon bird when she talked, and this made everything that she said seem ridiculous but also possible—both things at the same time. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Two birds, one stone, Matt. He dies and we wouldn’t have blood on our hands. Idiot.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw plenty of birds, working up along the shore of the lake to the end, then down the other side, but he only saw them after they flew. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is surprisingly light, like his freckled body is made of bird parts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Well now, if the falling of this bird is a sign of a curse or bad luck, we are in both. So I am eating every bit of it. You can do as you please.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was a winter bird, one who cannot go south. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Swamp Noise, tho, swamp Noise is just the birds all thinking their worrisome little birdie thoughts. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“There was a bird on your shoulder,” Matt said. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child screamed with delighted laughter each time a bird flew away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing but mountains and mist and bird sounds echoing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine nudged the bird with her beak and it flew away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s like birds can swim and fish can fly. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, the deer walked with us, the foxes followed in our footsteps, the winter birds flew over our heads, but mostly we were alone in the white wilderness. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Leonard’s daughter will develop a phobia of birds being locked up in cages. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I shout, “Calvin! It is your dead man! Dead man with the bird head!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And the bird leaped into the sky and flew away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some he knew, some he didn’t He saw a robin, and some kind of sparrows, and a flock of reddish orange birds with thick beaks. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peered at me over her glasses; her eyes sharpened on me like a bird of prey spying a mouse. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I find the small bird in the tree overhead. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When she embroidered a tree, birds would try to land on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fireplace had been sealed off with a board, and where the fire would have been, there was a picture, woven like a tapestry, of a strange owl-like bird staring out at you. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were tiny hand-carved birds, painted black with small white polka dots. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

According to Arlie W. Schorger, author of a definitive study on the bird, in Audubon’s day at least one out of every four birds in North America was a passenger pigeon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Albert, whose hair reminds me of a bird’s nest, stands nearby. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the breath of the Black Tortoise of Winter was still shaking the bare tree branches, and the birds were still as asleep as mussels deep in the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird!” cried Polly, tumbling off the chair with a bounce, and running to peck the ‘rattlepated’ boy, who was shaking with laughter at the last speech. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such birds as there were flew too high. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wreckage of the flying chariot burned in the water, and Coach Hedge swung a mounted crossbow, taking potshots at the Roman birds as they flew overhead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each no was louder than the one before it, until the bird finally gave up and ran away. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But the night was not silent; the little tree frogs that lived near the stream twittered like birds, and the high metallic ringing of the cicadas filled the mountain cleft. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book went on to say that scientists had been arguing about whether or not the Jupiter bird had been able to fly for over fifty years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes feel as if I am a bird without wings and the door on my cage is not open. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The uncles laughed at this bird and told it to go away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In one quick, fluid movement, the bird lifted its head, turned it all the way around, spied Genie, and flew away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And sure, it’d be good to have some plans over the summer besides feeding Sacred or watching squirrels and birds’ nests. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the birds pauses and hovers over the painter, as though it were aiming. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or that plants spontaneously transformed into caterpillars, or moths into birds, simply because the climate was so hot and wild. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Goshawks are protected by law, too. Sean Conklin, the conservation officer, said all the birds of prey are protected under the International Migratory Bird Treaty. They belong to the world.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone startled like a flock of birds on a sidewalk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The day was lovely and hot and still, not a bird anywhere. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t look like much of a bird,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Definitely not a bird, and definitely a bit ahead and to his right. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I do not remember who it was among us that whispered, “Maybe it was the bird that we ate.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wants to make sure that you know he’s a bird, and a pretty one, too. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

One manual I had read said to watch what the birds and animals were eating in order to learn what is edible and nonedible in the forest. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me, too,” Luna said as she stared at the birds. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The birds swarmed around it, pecking and clawing at the fighter’s hands as he tried to hold up the net, but Clarisse just gritted her teeth and kept driving. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just about the owls, it was about everything—all the birds and animals, all the wild places that were in danger of being wiped out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next week, Frightful watched her offspring eagerly chase the migrating birds but could not share their excitement. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The archers from Apollo’s cabin brought out their bows and arrows, ready to slay the menace, but with so many campers mixed in with the birds, it wasn’t safe to shoot. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps her hands on the bird, all the while listening, watching, until the zipper closes in around her forearms. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It matures in the eyes of fish, but can only reproduce inside the stomach of a bird. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined my friends out hunting for small birds, drinking the sweet milk from the cow’s udder, cavorting in the pond at the end of the stream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We suddenly had thirty ravens, and they set out immediately to rearrange our situation so it would be their situation, much as the birds and bees had done in the highway rest areas. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The bird’s clawed feet contracted then released, the softest scratching noise ever, a stick-drawing scraping across cold concrete. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He chattered about everything he saw—the blue sky, the birds, the flies buzzing around the horse’s ears. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little bird needed food and needed it right away. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She quickly fetched a calabash and began to milk the bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“So is your oldest living bird still alive?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

To decorate the house she had made three flowers of bird feathers and stuck them in the top of the table. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he stopped there was a sudden silence, not just from him but the clicks and blurps and bird sounds of the forest as well. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to lean my head back against the headrest and close my eyes and smell the pine and listen to the birds. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I certainly do, and so do the birds,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s only the biggest chicken farm in the county with flocks of fifty thousand birds at a time. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Everything that comes of morning undoes itself before nightfall: rooster walks back into forest, fires die down, birds coo-coo-coo, sun sinks away, sky bleeds, passes out, goes dark, nothing exists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And please don’t tell anyone I said so, sirs and madams, but if I were you, I’d hide that bird out of sight. The conductors won’t like it, first-class tickets or not. ” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Surely are. Like birds flying south in the winter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of the long fjord their cove was on, icebergs calved off the ends of twelve or more glaciers with a roar throughout the days that sent birds screeching up into the air. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Her long pointed wings; wide shoulders; and strong, tapered body were sculpted by the wind, the open sky, and the nature of her ancestral prey—swift birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tendai thought about the baby birds waiting inside the nest for food that would never come. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And really, he is just another bird drinking from your misery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the procession became even grander as deer and raccoons and birds and all kinds of other animals joined in. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Think of St. Joseph, the Little Flower, the sweet and gentle St. Francis of Assisi, who loved the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The children couldn’t see it, but Tialys and Salmakia, flying above, watched the little pale figures all moving with an effect that looked like the migration of immense flocks of birds or herds of reindeer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked like an overgrown bird of prey. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were even more upstairs, with deer inside them drinking at water holes, and birds flying south for the winter. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And there it was: a bird, hovering on an updraft, as birds liked to do on this side of the ridge, hanging in place like tethered kites. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Brian only had two more arrows and he debated moving slowly to change the spear over to his right hand and use that to kill the bird. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as his daughters played with the bird and taught it how to sing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would hold out her hand and birds would fly out of the woods to settle on her arm—lorikeets, parrots, doves. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Benton’s suicide, the Book of Enoch, the Watchers, the vision of God, Gabriel, and the bird. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

After I had been quizzing them for years about names of hundreds of trees and birds, how could I insult them by assuming they didn’t have names for different mushrooms? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Little birds fly through many a dark tunnel. Careful, the steps are steep." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There would be just two black strokes —the bird. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take those creatures somewhere else,” Úrsula ordered him the first time she saw him come in with his fine fighting birds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, wondering what it was like having aunts who brought you bird feathers. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The world was a big place in which to go looking for a lost bird. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But leaving the Galapagos Islands, he uncharacteristically had thrown birds from different islands into one bag. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He considered the keeping of birds a terrible and unsanitary waste of time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Often he told me of the birds he had seen, the hawks and falcons and once an eagle. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His back ached from having been pressed so long against something solid, about the size and shape of a small ceramic bird. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was foolishness, certainly, but I even took some care with that bird’s nest on top of my head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The bird eagerly awaited any mouse who dared enter the house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Frightful looked down on black ducks, mallards, bluewinged teals, plovers, godwits, yellowlegs, sandpipers—all the migrating birds that loved wetlands. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He feeds the birds and they peck in his palm. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Deydey solemnly produced the pieces of shirt that his daughters had used to frighten off the birds that day. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They’re different sounds, different birds, but there’s a rhythm to them. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then I would be killing two birds with one stone, writing a novel and learning something practical as well. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was not ideal, but it was private and, except for birds and frogs, quiet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often wondered what that bird would do with Rosaleen’s brain. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remaining a bird for so long tends to cramp the muscles.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Beside the plain blue home- spun and white linen which modestly clothed Aunt Rachel and Judith, Kit’s flowered silk gave her the look of some vivid tropical bird lighted by mistake on a strange shore. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Second of all, there was no way her bird gullet would tolerate meat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“My belief is, doctor,” he said, “that he has eaten his birds, and that he just took and ate them raw!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Tonight the red bird perches in the willow tree. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Clouds of birds rose from the tree-tops, and something squealed and ran in the undergrowth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When Richard turned back to face Du Bois, he tucked his head into his shoulder like a bird wrapping itself in its own wing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The birds have more sense than the Irish. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I think as I roast the birds and Rue's roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his new glasses, Roosevelt could now identify birds by sight, and not just by hearing them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

We were, as she had said, birds of a feather, for I had never belonged anywhere, either. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her top is white and it’s a little off her shoulders, and then she has a bright skirt on that’s full of flowers and birds. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled it back and saw that it was white—bird droppings. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The monstrous creatures take on a more definite shape— they are birds, crows, with beaks as long as my forearm and wings so dark they seem to swallow all the light. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They heard from the secret gardens the singing of caged birds and heard the splash of cooling water on hot flagstones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ylla laid herself back in the canopy and, at a word from her husband, the birds leaped, burning, toward the dark sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rear garden was a tangled jungle in which every type of plant and flower had proliferated and where Clara’s birds kept up a steady din, along with many generations of cats and dogs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began by making a slow circle around the bird, studying her from every angle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

You see, he and his mother had started studying the flying techniques of other birds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Although all the men had seen emperor penguins before, none of them had ever heard the birds utter a sound. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Does Calliope say there’ll be a mutiny? Does she say the bird will prevail?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Stupid to be scared of a rotten bird. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Without being seen by the parents, he took the bird into the hut and exchanged it for the water bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Sheed said, “You were like a bird that flies into really clear glass?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The birds in the trees took flight, and Ajax hesitated. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I would have freaked out, but Ma just strokes the bird before gently pushing it off. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

A canopy of netting that, aside from discouraging birds, seems to be useless shelters the pyramid itself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The bird is pulsing—its neck is sort of vibrating. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With each sound she heard—a lorry rumbling past, a chirping bird, a child’s cry—she ran from the veranda bench to peer down the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I am out of the car and walking to the chapel, and I can hear my heart and, somewhere in the distance, the sounds of birds in the trees. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then we heard a noise, but not the kind we were expecting—not a wing-flap or the scratch of a bird’s feet—but something human. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the old bird keeper left and the one we met came out to take his place,” Osh said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The bird thought it was flying into the air and the trees, just like on any other day. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He tied the top section of his jerk in and made a small pouch, closing the bird safely inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some very recent work indicates that reproduction of birds may be adversely affected by these and certain other herbicides at levels far below those that cause death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Overhead, swallows flitted, free as birds ever are. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bird glared at him with a crazy light in its bright, mad eyes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘Whatever it may be,’ said Pippin, ‘they will be marvellous trees indeed if they can offer any rest at night, except to birds. I cannot sleep on a perch!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

“Montag, you shin that pole like a bird up a tree.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have a bird feeder out there that every squirrel in the forest is trying to infiltrate, which drives Dad crazy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tendai, somewhat regretfully, closed the bird cage and put it into a closet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked like a bird going down for prey or a big kite taking a nosedive. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But she kept going and when she was well gone from sight he went to the bank and found the bird, then waded out a bit to get his bow and spear. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw rabbits, beavers, toads, and all sorts of colorful birds. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Silver, as he started to move round the hollow, had come closer to the bird’s head. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany could hear the distant call of night birds, the hiss and crackle of the torches, the gentle lapping of water from the lake. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her mouth is open wide enough for a bird to build a nest in. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then he took the shovel, stood over the bird, swallowed hard, and scooped it up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A whole flock of birds; and not loopy-plumed songbirds, but scrappy, raucous brown birds with teeth. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet all around her, but the skeleton birds watched her from their perches, the trees pulled close like they were feeding off her fear. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if each site had produced its own variant—a bar-coded bird for each island. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of all the birds her song is sweetest because it is saddest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured this bird looking down from the branches to say, "You want me to do what?" before flying off, laughing at the foolish story he now had to tell his friends. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“My name is Margalo,” said the bird, softly, in a musical voice. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The bird, casting a quick look in his direction, flew at the window again, but this time it encountered no barrier. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bird looked like it was made out of the same colors as the flowers in front, with a rich purple body, a yellow mask, and a bright red belly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They both knew that the end was probably near as they sat and listened to the birds sing in the spring sunshine and admired the crocuses opening up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I stared at my bird, the beautiful details of the new feathers, the fernlike lashes along the lids, the saucy bristles at the base of the beak. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mortality is high during the first few days of a bird’s life,” said Flip. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rising to his feet, he fetched his pouch, took out the brightly colored bird, and gave it back to the blind man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Teresita never said anyone would help us. She just said we had to sing the song of the birds. I know. I was listening, and I have a photogenic memory.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

From Crazy in Birdland Dear Crazy: I think your bird is mad at you because you named him after an ugly Australian wild dog. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The bird had never said his lull name before, as best Jon could recall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She listened to the birds call to keep in touch with each other in the fog. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered a bird with a black head and mahogany-colored tail as long as my arm, curved like a bow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had three toes facing forward and one facing back, like a bird. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Undaunted by the night’s scare, Oksi stood up and watched the awakening birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the still morning, with only the sound of the river gurgling by, I heard a bird. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

At the top they put what they always do, a small plastic bird covered with turquoise velvet, with brown wire claws. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This bird, I was sure, was the peregrine falcon, the king’s hunting bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were a bird, you could imagine bowing down to him. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had spent almost my entire life misjudging birds. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I erased the three triangle lines I had used to guide where I put the birds. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The meaning of some bird showing up and some boy disappearing and you knowing all about it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She walked quietly and slowly so as not to disturb it, but the bird took no more notice of her than if she’d been a twig on the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another tried to push his brother—maybe they were brothers—out of the way so that he could have a bite of a dead bird that they were both competing with a hundred flies for. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Many birds were circling about it, but no sign of other living things could be seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They fly into the air, catching the sun like a flock of silver birds. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It had left him no time for birds’-nesting like other boys. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the reeds at the edge there was a tall, slender bird like a heron, standing perfectly still on one leg. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

More annoying than harmful, like a bird pecking on you. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But he said nothing of this to the bird who could not understand him anyway and who would learn about the hawks soon enough. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that space, she floated swiftly like a bird between the gas stoves and ovens and walk-in refrigerators. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All they encountered were nesting birds and a few cats, who flew or scrambled out of their way in surprise. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If this is his revenge, he wrongs me. It was Euron who in- j sisted he be taken, to keep him from making mischief with his birds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“During the spring and autumn bird-migration season, the lights that illuminate the tower are turned off on foggy nights so they won’t confuse birds, causing them to fly into the building.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A large black bird peered down at them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She watched every step he took down the river path, and saw quite clearly how he stepped onto the bird’s back and sat cross-legged as it turned to glide away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The requisition of his books made sudden sense, and he understood that Thyon would not have burned them or flown the pages off the widow’s walk like birds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If the man had not been looking in that direction, he would have missed him, but as it happened, his eyes alighted on the bird’s head and he drew in his breath in astonishment. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Dad ran around like a kid on Christmas, his eyes glued to the birds wheeling above us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There were dead birds all over the streets.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Singing, singing, the little birds told her something more. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The migratory birds had all left, the hibernators were asleep, and everyone else had begun their simple winter routines. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I overcook the birds hoping someone will show up to shoot, but no one does. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But these were seafaring birds that could span the Pacific with hardly a flutter of the wings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was cruel to keep birds in cages. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the hibiscus bush we discovered a fallen nest of baby birds, all drowned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Robb wrote to the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, the bird that came back brought word that Uncle Benjen was still missing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A hole was shaped in the creature’s middle, purposefully, all the way from the bird’s feet to its pointed yellow beak. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The emblem on the copyright page was nearly identical to the Bayside Press logo, but instead of a seagull there was a black bird. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, he had nestled his face into his shoulder like a bird, so that only one eye showed, giving her a cartoon wink. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keen decided it would be cute to review birds and bees in honor of Valentine’s Day. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the young birds and the old ones, the white gull and Rontu, who was always trotting at my heels, the yard seemed a happy place. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt happier, now, because there were some noises, birds mostly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The airship approached from the south, like some giant migratory bird. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I passed along the grounds, black-and-white magpies and longtailed red birds scattering as I went. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aru caught a glimpse of a chamber full of glass birds. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next morning the woman went into the hut, and after waiting a few moments for her eyes to become accustomed to the darkness, she sought out the bird and milked it again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Pseee,” Sam called, squeezing air between his teeth to make a bird sound. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They both turned their heads at once, because it was a bird that sounded like no creature that belonged to the world they were in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Newly woken birds call to one another beneath the brightening sky. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Then will you tell me please why you always glance about so nervously? You look like a dickey bird in a yard full of cats, as Mr. Pope would say." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turned—slowly—to find High John watching me from near the bird’s head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

This bird, a ground nester and forager, was all but eliminated on treated areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She watched the bird startle into the air, and something red flashed in her peripheral vision. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Like plumed vestments of the precious bird, That precious bird with the agile neck, We will come to an end. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My heart stops racing and the field, gun, and birds fade away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And after destroying the birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish of the Earth, the Nephilim began to eat one another’s flesh and drink one another’s blood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The sky's streaked with light, the birds already chattering. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The birds to my right squawked and pecked on the bars of their cages. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now and then a startled hotelkeeper would object to having the birds register there. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a mighty fine bird,” he whispered, and sighed a tender sigh. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You see? Again the bird is a teacher! Where is the spider? Has it disappeared?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He moved like a bird: flickering, darting, fluttering. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about a flock of birds flying day and night through the skies. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you tell them the birds were out here?” he asked. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was some one-inch-wide aluminum tubing under the back porch that Dad had brought home from the mine to make a stand for Mom’s bird feeders. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wondering what had caused the birds to attack me, I felt around in the sand. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mechanical bird chirped at her as she passed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their pages ruffled like birds settling back down to sleep. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Antelope would have young, and birds would build nests. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feathers from a bird such as that would make a fine present for his new wife, but the blind man had a wife too, and she would also want the feathers. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

All around was the silent forest, and she heard no birds. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The larger-than-usual animals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians scattered among the people in the stands were also grieving. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The birds are carrying on, and the streets smell like frying chorizo. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But when I jumped up to tell what miracle I saw, before I could get the words out I understood that the bird was insect-size because it was far away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the birds seldom flew more than shoulder-high to a man before a blast of pellets stopped them. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was a handsome bird and didn’t eat meat of any kind. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Then she lay awake for a while longer, thinking of a gray bird dancing in its blood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, she quickly dismissed Grandfather’s practice of setting the bird free during the cleaning and inviting it back inside with a mere whistle. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mind streamed, full of thoughts; I could feel the government people circling like carrion birds. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird tilted its head to one side, little eyes a-glitter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Leave it to Daddy Cool to kill a bird, then give it a funeral. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the birds gathered words, they'd fly back to centers to be recorded. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He looked down and felt like a bird, or a god, poised above them all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’d bind it to the bird and lather it with lye soap.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At last it occurred to Mrs. Popper to wonder what on earth the busy bird was up to. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore s pet bird to die while he was alone in,the office with it, when the bird burst into flames. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They were awake, for the bird’s eyes were bright and the moth’s feelers waved languidly, but they weren’t animated, as she would have expected them to be. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bird looked much smaller dead than it had alive. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds’ names come out true, I supposed mine did. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

"And I said, `A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, `Because when he sings . . . even the birds stop to listen.'" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was teaching himself how to identify African birds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mouzaive had invented an instrument he called a cryptochromometer that used a protein extracted from birds’ eyes to detect the presence of magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I got all my hope pin on that bird.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking for one of the foolish birds—he called them foolbirds—and there was a flock that lived near the end of the long part of die lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What, the rabbits? The birds? Wouldn’t that be against the rules?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The talons had tom a bloody path through fur and flesh, but the bird had not been able to snap his neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It exists in the mythology of Egypt, Greece, the Middle East, and Europe, and is the same as the vermilion bird of ancient China. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This bird was falling and there wasn’t a single thing in the world that cared at all. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cows mooed, the sheep maaed, the goat ehehed, the birds twittered in the trees, and the beep beep of a motor car cut through everything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She turned her head almost upside down to focus on a twisting leaf, a flying beetle, and a bird. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the beach the hungry dogs and the hungry pigs of the town searched endlessly for any dead fish or sea bird that might have floated in on a rising tide. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening she harvested small birds, which she gutted, wrapped in clay, and baked in coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird stands in the shallows, pecking at the water, then wades deeper and starts splashing around. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kapugen’s voice was resonant and warm and seemed to come from the seashore at Nunivak where the birds sang and the sea was framed with the fur of his parka. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air around us is so heavy, it wouldn’t surprise me if birds began to fall from the sky. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The birds kept planting weeds in our garden, Miss Maggie wanted fresh straw in her rabbit hutch, and I had yet to pick the blue mussels that we’d be steaming for our supper. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The coyote ignores him, then moving so effortlessly she seems to float, she stops directly under me and drops the bird she is carrying. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird’s head drooped backward and was rolling from side to side. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closer we got to the stands, the thicker the cloud of birds became. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am only telling you the beginnings of the language. Suppose you try to tell me the song of any single bird which I can’t attribute originally to imitation?' “The night-jar,” said the Wart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Señora set the bird on top of the piano. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stood up slowly, unfolding like some kind of long-legged bird, and danced away to the next group of villagers. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bird,” he announced, and slipped a parchment into Jon’s hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was certainly beautiful, but Tendai felt a pang of regret at not being able to hear the real birds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ate the bird’s heart, liver and lungs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It makes patterns of light shaped like birds. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Hi,” but did not get up, just lay still listening to the birds, the snips and sputs of insects moving in the dry leaves, and the air stirring the newly leafing trees. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon there were thirty or more birds living on their roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I know about the birds and the bees.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Allah created the armies, and he also created the hawks. Allah taught me the language of the birds. Everything has been written by the same hand,” the boy said, remembering the camel driver’s words. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds, once down to zero in the East, were gradually making a comeback, thanks largely to a falconer, Heinz Meng. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were screeching so loudly the campers in the stands were starting to take notice, glancing nervously at the trees, which shivered under the weight of the birds. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And to top it off, I have no birds and the world feels like a different kind of dark than it felt before. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They work—no ties, you got me there—and mate and nurture baby birds until they can fly. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Turns out that birds have a better sense of smell than most people thought.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I think now about how small birds often move in large flocks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The legs pushed out between my fingers, I gathered them up, together with the thrashing wings, and tucked the bird in one piece under my chin. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a popeyed bird who had just swallowed something large and sticky and triangular. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinging to one of the greasy rocks and blending almost perfectly with it was a large, unkempt, and exceedingly soiled bird who looked more like a dirty floor mop than anything else. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sheep became bumpily sheathed with the stuff so that they looked like big ambulating wasp nests; birds, having absorbed the zoquete in their feathers, labored erratically through the air, almost unable to fly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw three birds perched together up on the telephone line along the side of the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They were laughing and talking in that light, happy way that Malcolm had seen lovers doing, and their bird dæmons fluttered around or settled on their shoulders. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hours upon hours he had watched birds from his pen, quivering at the sight of them slicing the sky as recklessly as the lightning he often saw on summer evenings. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They ate fish, monkey, and a jacare-tinga bird, which is similar to a turkey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Her hair was an indiscriminate shade of brown that had been made and remade, it appeared, as a nest for birds. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, birds are chirping and cars are whooshing by. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Plants that dreamed they were birds,” that was his work. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It made birds fly out of the maples in front of the library. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After Gay read Horton Hatches the Egg, we both were quiet as we contemplated how the mother bird left the elephant to sit on her egg. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Olinka men make beautiful quilts which are hill of animals and birds and people. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would need to find someone to tend the birds until the Citadel sent a man to replace Pycelle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The curtain has big yellow check and birds painted on....” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pelted a doughnut hole at the bird. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As the birds began to sing I stopped and set down my bag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We can catch this bird in minutes,” Bate said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And there was this small bird, pretty young. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His knickers ballooned and his shrieks of frightened joy startled the birds and the fat grasshoppers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes studies the colors wrestling to unravel, flaring like certain male species of birds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This bird in the queue. That’s who I got the ticket from.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little birds called out repeatedly in the cold dawn air, and all of a sudden Omakayas heard something new in their voices. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yoshoto’s throat, take up her heart in my hand and warm it as I would a bird. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Michael was the smallest of all the birds, and he didn’t need a lot to eat, but he had to have more than one fly. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It is the fastest- growing chicken ever, turning corn into meat faster than any other bird. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As the bird roasted, Salva could hardly keep his eyes off it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A golden plover, the spirit of the birds? Where did you hear that?” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word, Gale settles beside me and begins to relieve a bird of its feathers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As had been true in 1954, no evidence of infectious disease could be discovered on examination of the dead birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A large bird began a song, drawing my eyes to the throbbing of its bright blue, red and yellow throat. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The myrtle was her tree; the dove her bird—sometimes, too, the sparrow and the swan. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds of prey were vital to the health of North America. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It's dawn and the birds have come alive, chasing each other from maple to pine and back to maple again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Harison had been collecting baby birds. aI couldn’t just leave ’em, sir.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only sounds I heard were those made by small birds or animals in the brush. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She went to the window and stared out, trying to spot the bird among bare oak branches that stood out black against a broken sky of gray and palest blue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Once inside, they looked about nervously, and it was a few minutes before they saw the bird sitting in his corner. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He is married to a woman who speaks mainly to her birds. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I hear birds beginning to chirp, I get so angry, I tug at the sheets and arrange the pillow over and over again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And so they spent hours there, watching the birds come and go, feeding them from their palms, exulting in the familiarity that allowed the birds to land on their arms and shoulders. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Florida was sitting in the rocker, gently rocking, and on her lap were two of the wooden bird carvings from the mantel. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was right; it isn’t about the birds. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It is the story of the robin, the bird known to everyone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We followed Uncle as he walked to the bird. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The swan had been no ordinary bird—the skin belonged to a creature bigger than Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Though the bugs swarmed around him, the poison didn’t seem to have any effect on the shadow bird—his black feathers just absorbed it like ink into the page. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tiny horned deer loped through the bushes and birds like jewels flitted through the air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

This answer doesn’t match with the other facts he knows about Dr. Martin: that she’s a birder, that she heals injured animals, that she returns birds to the sky, to their families. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sixth labor, was to drive away the Stymphalian birds, which were a plague to the people of Stymphalus because of their enormous numbers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if it wasn’t bad enough to be locked up in a tumbledown house far away from ordinary life, surrounded by black-clad men with faces like birds of prey and knives in their belts. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And across the room on a little silver perch was a mechanical bird. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s like pushing a bird out of its nest—maybe even shoving because it should’ve flown out years ago. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The place says, “Quiet, please,” But three birds Talk to us Loudly from the window. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird went higher in the air and circled again, his wings motionless. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seventy percent of all eastern bird species have seen population declines since the 1960s. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bird may have been a weaverbird—no one knows —and it may have died of a Level 4 virus—no one knows. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He longed suddenly to fly like a bird to rest in the green city. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Its twisting body looked like a bird in the sky for a moment before it smacked back down on the surface and was gone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt suggested it was probably some monkeys or big birds, but either would be a welcome meal. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Never you mind. Go take care of the bird feeders.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. At least I’m not seeing imaginary birds like everyone else,” I said, knowing that I’d had an imaginary conversation with the bird just six weeks before. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He stayed frozen, rooted to the spot as all grew silent, except for the whistling song of a few birds in the distance. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“What kind of bird are you anyway, Bird?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Here’s Mother, dear, and you shall have another bird tomorrow, if you want it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a bird pooped on a clean white sheet while flying over the clothesline, that meant bad luck. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This time there would be no bird to follow. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her plain black dress she sat there like a cuckoo that has forced its way into another bird's nest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We’re not like birds,” she said, her head sinking into the pillow. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He held a small cage in one hand, and inside were two flapping birds mashed so close together I could hardly tell one from the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the trees, the birds that had flown away now came back and settled down. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now there’s a bird with sense. How much do you want for him, Snow? I gave you a son, the least you could do is give me the bloody bird.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boy had a head of thick curly red hair and a nose that looked a whole lot like a bird’s beak. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Bird after bird swooped and splattered, and the RECO’s eyes were instantly caked in filth. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie wanted to call to Ernie but didn’t want to scare the bird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he arose he stretched, glanced at her, and suggested, yawning, “Lets take the flame birds to town tonight to see an entertainment.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped on the bird’s neck with his foot. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Genie had never seen the birds in Brooklyn pecking at plants, but that was probably because he never really saw plants in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was as a child in the Philippine Islands that I saw larger birds make use of thinking ability. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They took the birds to a commune kitchen to be shared. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt sorry for those trapped birds, whose skinny legs were plucked to reveal spurs sharpened into lethal spikes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if the birds had taken him right to die berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same multitude that had gathered to see him off the day he flew away in his bird paraded past his coffin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lengthening hours of daylight worked their spring magic on the birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It's impossible not to think of a bird. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There had been boar’s head and venison and pork and beef and mutton and capons—but no turkey, because this bird bad not yet been invented. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seems to have no opinion about the captain, but of the parrot he says, “That bird sees everything. I gave up keeping secrets from him long ago.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

From a nearby oak a raven quorked, and Bran heard the sound of wings as another of the big black birds flapped down to land beside it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The encouragement of birds is one of the first steps. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“They’re the most aggressive of all the birds of prey,” I say. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shuddered, feeling no better off than the chained monkey and the miserable birds. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the bird’s favorite words. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our country’s symbol is the eagle, and one night I traced a landing eagle out of a bird book, and sketched the moon underneath the bird, with the earth in the background. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up, stupid. You think you can get that bird to strip you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay listening to Rachel’s even breathing and heard in her memory the sounds of birds in the spring woods. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wakes in distant quarters of the night and sees Frederick in his bedroom in Berlin, wearing his eyeglasses and necktie, freeing trapped birds from the pages of a massive book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I would,” I said casually, “simply call the wind, and make it strike the bird from the sky.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don't care now that Peeta's footfalls send rodents scurrying, make birds take wing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The birds landed in some taller willow type of undergrowth with wide leaves and started jumping and making noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already there are disturbing records of heavy mortality among more than 20 other species of ground-feeding birds whose food — worms, ants, grubs, or other soil organisms — has been poisoned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A dark and restless sky still moved overhead, but where was the hard ground, the wet, the mud, the dead birds? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, bird. I don’t know what you’re supposed to be doing, though. Are you trying to eat the guy? Are you protecting your egg?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Later recoveries of banded birds showed that these Florida-born eagles range northward along the coast into Canada as far as Prince Edward Island, although they had previously been considered nonmigratory. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe Hazel was supposed to come here and find this couple in their cottage who only had a sad mechanical bird to keep them company. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Let me find you something for the bird,” he says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They reminded me of miniature cafeteria ladies who’d been crossbred with dodo birds. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She turned away as Angeline caught each struggling, flapping bird and broke its neck with one quick, strong twist. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t matter: Their good intentions fluttered like dark birds above the city streets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t catch this bird, you’re a dead man, and I’m just prayin’ that when you go to heaven you don’t bump into your long-lost feathered friend, Michael Jackson, up there. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bugs buzzed so loud it hurt your ears, and tiny red birds perched on the ends of long grass stalks beside the road, all swaying this way and that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may be skinny and named after a bird, but I don’t eat like one. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman talks about art galleries and I practice birds—little dashes of color on paper. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Be my good little baby bird,” she said quietly, and slipped the pill onto my tongue. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I placed each bird upside down into a cone. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“And there are no berry bushes here to bend under the polar wind and point to the south. Nor are there any birds I can follow.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know you are just a bird and you cannot possibly understand me, but I have never harmed a living creature before.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Since I’m hitting everything he throws up, he starts increasing the number of birds he sends airborne. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Paper birds, paper maps, paper people, dust and ink and pulped wood and time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Darlene’s orchid was hanging, and the bird’s few feathers were ruffled. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to kill the flies that always filled the house; she said they were nature’s food for the birds and lizards. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bird and the tree were both holograms, too. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I pulled one out and held the shriveled pale potato up to the bird’s beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The original range of the bird coincided with the range of the sage, and as the sagelands have been reduced, so the populations of grouse have dwindled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Overhead, a small dusky-colored bird was flying in marvelous daring corkscrews. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You do, strange as you seem; but you are swift and immediate, like birds, like butterflies. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was bright in the sky, and little birds clung to tall grass stems and chirped at Anya and Ivan’s passing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At Blue Island, Illinois, hundreds of dead and dying birds were picked up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to give them birds the biggest surprise they ever had in their lives. “I’m going to send Seabiscuit right out on the lead.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the house with the birds in the wall and the Ferris wheel in the desert. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Palmer swiped, and the bird flew to the foot of the bed. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The flame birds waited, like a bed of coals, glowing on the cool smooth sands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is unfair to compare them with eagles, for many of these birds are noble creatures, while Sir Turquine at any rate was not noble. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tests on birds indicate that the epoxide that results from this change is more toxic than the original chemical, which in turn is four times as toxic as chlordane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear shouted, flapping his arms in frustration like a giant bird. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She moved with quick, delicate motions like a bird or a dancer, shifting from foot to foot in a silent, complicated shuffle, as if she were practicing choreography. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Except for the odd ones about television and bravery, they had seemed easy, but perhaps he was such a strange bird that he had misunderstood everything. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He lets the book take his mind on an alphabetic ride through bird names, bird songs, and bird predictability. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wish it were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chattering and whistling birds were still at it Two young girls, the Farival twins, were playing a duet from “Zampa” upon the piano. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas leaned far out of the window, his eyes fixed on a bird flying lazily in the distance. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bo drew back with fright as one of the birds tried to hold on to his hair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I clapped my hands and the bird dove under water again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was nothing but a bird, a leaf, the wind, or a fish in the canal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, after we’ve dropped off the birds and volunteered to go back to the woods to gather kindling for the evening fire, I find myself wrapped in his arms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The purple blooms of thistles became black behind the people’s houses, and migrant birds moved through. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vetch had been three years at the School, and soon would be made sorcerer; he thought no more of performing the lesser arts of magic than a bird thinks of flying. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“When certain birds break out of the egg, they think the first thing they see is their mother. They follow it everywhere.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I saw birds aplenty, heard them too—wood pigeons, cuckoos, thrushes—I wondered if England had no human souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, her bird popped its head out, bright, and in the sound of everyone’s laughter it blinked with interest, cheerful, greedy, hungry, unafraid. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was a bird, or a night hawk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck my arm elbow-deep into the bird to excavate any meat clinging to the rib cage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look, confused, at the bird that has come for me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Charlise doesn't really like balling with me, but it's much better than just sitting around chatting and chirping like two birds, she says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was remarkable that the same species of bird was able to thrive in two places so far apart, and so completely different. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much she could do for this great hunter now; prepare caribou, catch rabbits, pluck birds, and even make tools with water and the freezing air. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing on that island but birds and birds.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I looked across to a lighted case of Chinese design which held delicate-looking statues of horses and birds, small vases and bowls, each set upon a carved wooden base. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down below, the crowd cackled like a gang of birds. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But I could see the bird on her nest of straw. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach—could not even see—but which filled the valleys of the mind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When my uncle was twelve he went totally bald after getting too close to an African lighting bird nest during his tour.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At that moment, one of the birds began chirping like crazy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She picked up one of Min's hands now, held it to her cheek like a broken bird. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She is like a sparrow, a small brown bird with sparking eyes always hopping hopping seeking crumbs. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Little came in, later, to tuck Stuart in for the night and hear his prayers, Stuart asked her if she thought the bird would be quite safe sleeping down in the living room. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Anna’s an early bird, so I can head straight to Starbucks after dropping Mom off at work. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

To leap off and sail through the air as those women had—like flying, like a bird, so free. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Not like observing birds soaring, or the creek rushing, or clouds chasing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jon reached to shoo the bird away but ended up stroking its feathers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even if I tell her the real beasts are the captain and the bird, her answer will be the same. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The wretched Tereus too was changed into a bird, an ugly bird with a huge beak, said sometimes to be a hawk. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, we decided, would be our secret hiding place for sweets and other small treasures such as conkers and monkey-nuts and birds’ eggs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

High up, not even where birds fly, there must be wind sounds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, who always became a bird once on the roof, flew round and round shrieking rook shrieks with her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Joe ignored that by remarking, “Look at all the birds 1 caught.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listen for the birds and feel my fear as a distant thing, a hammering heart and a squeezed chest, but not something that exists in my mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It is funny, but I think they are my favourite bird.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how long I crouched on that strip of sidewalk, freezing my sac off, waiting for that bird to croak. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe his guardian bird, the crow, would return and speak to him again. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His caged bird was set free—free to live in a place where loving “differently” is the norm, unshielded and unwavering. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sky was suddenly thick with birds of all sizes and descriptions. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Horace took his fingers out of his ears and tried to distract Esme by making shadow animals on the wall—a crocodile snapping its jaws, a bird flying—but she hardly noticed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Kapugen would whistle sandpiper songs and the birds would dip down to see which of their members had gotten lost in the grass. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost where my hand had been sat three fuzzy whitish gray birds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had told her to put out food, and the birds would come to the windows all winter long. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in a moment, there was silence, only silence, everywhere—the very birds had ceased to sing, and no dogs barked, and no rooster crowed for day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he let Nipper out in the morning, he would watch the bird eat breakfast out on the porch roof. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sean flipped the bird to some sophomores gawking from their seats. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

One or two birds returned, the ferns by the protected spring unrolled—very slowly, but they did. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi didn’t stop to think as she yanked the domed cage’s door open and let the birds soar up and into the night in a rainbow of feathers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I listened for sounds of birds or cicadas...or rattlers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Animals and birds don’t like all the noise. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Albert’s green eyes were flecked with gold from the firelight, and he unconsciously lifted the bird charm he wore around his neck, rubbing it between his finger and thumb. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My mother always loved anything that normally grows or lives out of doors— anything—lizards, trees, cows, caterpillars, birds, flowers, crickets, toads, ants, pigs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Study birds and fish and animals: then finish off with Man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the wire door popped open and the birds escaped. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a remarkable bird, as large as a pheasant, but with feathers of all colors, garish reds and yellows and vivid blues. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

This little brown bird was radiating an implacable ferocity as palpable as heat, and Serafina was afraid of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They ate the last peanut butter sandwiches sitting on a low stone wall, listening to a few birds and watching the sunlight fall in bright, moving patterns onto the leafy floor of the woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard none of the usual forest sounds—the chirps of birds and skittering of squirrels and chipmunks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm wandered about the grass, looking at the little trees with glowing blossoms and listening to the birds that flew and sang in the branches as prettily as nightingales. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Because what if dogs can’t eat birds? Just like birds can’t eat apple seeds? How would we explain a dead dog?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were couples who wanted to turn girls into pretty little birds. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The bird had a metal ring around its neck. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were submerged, their upper branches barely poking above the floodwaters, their lower branches swarming with fish instead of birds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They picked out the weak and slow from the flocks of migrating birds and moved south when their prey moved south. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The young mouse approached the sparrow with trepidation, not wanting to antagonize the moody, dangerous bird. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If he stretched himself up on his arms and legs, he was as tall as a bird’s nest in a tree, she realized. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve just cost us millions of dollars in advertising revenue, early bird.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Complaining loudly, me bird took to the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Next I turned my attention to the birds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Given that the bird or birds seen near my home and supposedly seen all around town were albino species, their bills were just about the color that the Lazarus’s would have been. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A bird flew among the branches suddenly, all white with a tail like a fall of snow, and the golden apples dimming turned to seeds, each one a drop of crystal. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were twittering and the breeze was blowing and you could smell the hay in the field next to us waving in the heat. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of Locke’s mother and the singing bird in the acorn, of Eldred on his throne, head bowed by his own crown. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then she realized it was much too big to be a bird. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The depth beneath would make a bird dizzy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were no birds to sing, no squirrels to chitter, no frogs to croak, no fish to play in the forest pool. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a bird with a pretzel in its beak. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see dozens of birds flitting and singing, careless of the dead one in my hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In one skeleton’s pelvic area mountain bluebirds had built a nest, and in it the female bird, surrounded by peeping young, stared beadily at the startled boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like even the birds knew they had to be quiet, because I guess no one was supposed to disturb the great Mrs. Windermere. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It had been chopped to pieces, but some of the branches still had golden birds in them, and they whirred around when Grover picked them up, trying to flap their wings. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Tragedy followed them as surely as their dogs and birds of prey. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Is it about my birds?” he said, excited. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words, but they accepted his explanation, and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Soaring over the city, heading in their direction, was a giant bald eagle, unlike the golden Roman birds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I could not eat the tart; and the plumage of the bird, the tints of the flowers, seemed strangely faded: I put both plate and tart away. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each time Poseidon changed her, now into a mare, now into a bird, and so on. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have seen butterflies and birds, but they have no sraf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was not a sound of the song of a bird. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The birds embroidered into the coverlet on my bed were safe in their world of cross-stitched leaves. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked the door to Miss Wren’s room and saw her rocking Miss Peregrine in her lap, gently kneading her fingers into the bird’s feathers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Flying on the backs of a flock of paper birds is less comfortable than you might imagine. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had owlets in the nest, for these little birds took almost six weeks to get on their wings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he walked out the front gate of the camp and said, shyly, “Hello? He is—your bird?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

All at once, hundreds of birds woke up and began to chirrup loudly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jagged chunks of metal whirled through the air like knife-winged birds. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Except for crows, birds did not come to the ghetto. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“It reminds me of a bird I saw,” Hazel said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So, as well as reading about those faraway animals, I also watched the wild creatures near my home—squirrels and birds and all kinds of insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He held it very carefully, like a bird with a broken wing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The odd thing about that is that Nikola Tesla actually did love birds, but not one-legged chickens. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The shadow of the King's Spider and his little birds had him fretting like a maiden on her wedding night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The temple wasn’t too dark inside, thanks to a hole in the top where a family of birds had built a nest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But there are many kinds of trees ... We must save our birds, too. Can anyone imagine anything so cheerless and dreary as a springtime without a robin’s song?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Other times it would raise itself, uncoiling to look into bushes for eggs and birds on the nest. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In twenty minutes the rain stops, though, the sun comes out, the birds start to sing again—all those worms oozing up through the wet mud. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we are little we imagine how it would be to have wings, but there is no reason to suppose it is the same feeling birds have. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The birds surged upward before slowly drifting down to the ground, carrying the madwoman with them, laying her down as gently as a mother lays a baby in a bed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They sold their Victorian house and moved, bringing their birds and animals with them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no one would seriously describe this evolutionary process as domestication, because birds and bats and other animal consumers don’t fulfill the other part of the definition: they don’t consciously grow plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Loads more use than the queen, who hasn't said a dickie bird since the war began. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to live out there? With the birds?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The flames hit the fat and the bird almost ignited. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Palmer saw it, the pigeon was a most agreeable bird. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I pick up a small roasted bird, bite into it, and my tongue floods with orange sauce. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between the birds that swoop from the trees. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But toward the end of his voyage, and now back in England, as he looked at bird specimens from the Galapagos Islands, Charles had the beginnings of a new theory to explain transmutation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the animals and birds stayed away that day to avoid curious hands and endless photographs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lyra was twisting and struggling, and Pantalaimon was chirruping like a frightened bird. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And it doesn’t hurt that her great-great-grandpa could fly like a bird,” Miss Trotter said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You just see a piece and you know it wants you to pick it up and you know there’s a bird inside, or maybe a boat.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we took the feathers off the bird, Moriba asked what day it was. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The blue of the bird came up over its head and eyes like a hood, but under the beak and all along the chest the feathers turned reddish-orange. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was a very good animal doctor, and though he had never taken care of a penguin before, he knew enough about birds to see at a glance that this one was seriously ill. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through the mist they spotted a cormorant, and the men swore those birds never went farther than fifteen miles from land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the birds directed their attention at the dragon, who shifted uncomfortably. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They were individually very pushy, almost cocky or snappy birds, seemingly quick to anger and push others around, much as the behavior they would use to keep someone from messing with their nest. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Pheasant sickness” became a well-known phenomenon: birds “seek water, become paralyzed, and are found on the ditch banks and rice checks quivering,” according to one observer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were birds flying and landing in low willow shrubs. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Charles had so many kinds of specimens; he was not an expert on every bird, bone, and bug. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he was shedding bronze feathers, which twirled away from him like a flock of frightened birds. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Animals and birds and more dang crickets all wanted a piece of this Chicago boy who was invading their turf. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Now it was morning, and the birds were awake and calling to one another over the lapping surf on the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hope, said the bird in the young man’s hand and the look in his eye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“A squirrel who writes poetry? Pah! Squirrels are nothing but thieving rodents. Rats with fluffy tails! They’re bullies who steal food from innocent birds.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It isn’t like the church’s courtyard, with ancient cobblestones and bird droppings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What did you think it would do? Turn into a bird and fly away?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Otherwise it was a lonely kingdom of rabbits, water birds and water rats. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wind played across his black ruff and his ears twitched from time to time as he listened to the birds and winds in his sleep. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exotic crimson flowers and birds poked their pistils and stamens and bills every which way up and down her torso. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Just before the boy opened his mouth to speak, a large bird flew overhead and landed on the angel’s shoulder. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any idea as to why birds existed. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And in her soul, the madwoman felt a thousand birds—birds of paper, birds of feathers, birds of hearts and minds and flesh—leap into the sky and soar over the dreaming trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He followed the movement of the birds, trying to read something into it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives us bits of cheese and ham and bananas but I can’t eat bananas anymore after the way the bird spat blood at Cuchulain. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I see a bright green-and-yellow bird fly from one treetop to another. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He stood with his arms out, like a challenged bird, and he kept moving around in jerky little circles, bent forward, peering at everything, at the tree, at the woods around, up into my eyes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was looking like maybe it wanted to swim where the other two birds were, but maybe not. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I said, “but none of you made pets out of your birds. It’s different for him, don’t you see?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I saw water birds, moorhens, kingfishers, and swans. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were singing again, and there were soft plopping and rustling sounds, as raindrops rolled off and dropped down through the trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was grating his beak comfortably and occasionally mumbling his bird version of Mama’s humming tune. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In just moments, it seemed, he saw three birds before they flew, saw them sitting and got close to one of them, moving slowly, got close enough to try a shot with his bow. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some three thousand carved pieces of sugar stood on that table, showing every step of her trip, down to carved sugar birds in sugar cages and sugar elephants on parade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair is fashioned into a bird's nest, complete with a pair of live blue jays in it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Well, not blank, but not exactly helpful, because most of the links were for buying birds and Genie didn’t have any money, besides the ten bucks Grandma had given him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A week later she died from poisons she had accumulated in South America from eating birds that had eaten DDT-sprayed insects. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, the old bird isn’t much moved by emotion, so I suppose I’ll try to appeal to her with political strategy.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was like asking a cat not to kill a bird. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

That day we got home and my mom was flying around the house like a bird in a panic. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a greasy black bird almost as large as an eagle, with a jagged beak like an obsidian knife. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

During migration season, when we hunt fowl, we’ve developed a system of dividing the birds so we don’t both target the same ones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He tried to pluck them out but the skin was so fragile that it pulled off as well, so he just pulled the skin off the bird. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird landed on Tyson’s shoulder and nipped his ear affectionately. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The teepee filled with the twitters of a bird and distant traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Elinor listened anxiously to the sounds of the morning for a moment, but there was nothing to be heard apart from the birds, greeting the day as exuberantly as if it were their last. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Most were universal, such as the sun or birds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I know all about those birds. Anything else?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A large bird started into the air as if it had been thrown, then stopped, spread its wings, and glided in a great arc to the west. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a fire’s a fire. Nothing so odd about that. It’s just the bird keeper. Or a camper. Or another idiot treasure hunter. Why do you care?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you ever run across a bird named Margalo,” said Stuart, “I’d appreciate it if you would drop me a line. Here’s my card.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop thinking about the tiny birds strewn in the grass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The birds must have been yesterday for a while, because I didn’t see them in any ads, and even Smell Factor was leaving his around and not clutching it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That or birds are swooping around above my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Is this about the man from Penikese, who pretended to be the bird keeper?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She eased the bird inside her warm sleeping skin, cut off a small piece of caribou meat, and held it out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird had been waiting at the window, as usual, when Palmer returned home. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

As the chemical penetrated the soil the poisoned beetle grubs crawled out on the surface of the ground, where they remained for some time before they died, attractive to insect-eating birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Men are good at stitching roosters,” she was pointing out bird embroidery. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bird dove under the water and disappeared. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was that bird sitting on that dog’s head?” she asked. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Game birds —wild duck and snipe—abounded in all of the coves and marshes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was steadily on the rise and the living birds were beginning to chirp in the distance. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Robin stopped to rest, watching the birds that darted about the garden. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They watered lawns or filled bird feeders; young kids chased butterflies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I am late for the geography lesson. I was trying to get a few small birds with my cross-bow. Look, I have killed a thrush.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A canary- colored goldfinch is perched on the railing, looking at the empty bird feeder dangling above it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Then the bird we rescued from the submarine,” I said, “that was .. .” “That was me,” Caul said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Chicken of the North,” Miyax gave a toast to the birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled bits from the pizza crust and chucked them to the birds. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When butterflies appeared in spring, people called them “summer birds,” assuming they had flown in from elsewhere. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The cabin that has water all around, so it has birds all around. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Barrow appeared below, its houses huddled against the ice-piled shore like a cluster of lonely birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The package is for Big Bird, and I’m a big bird. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On spring and summer days, she would sit on her perch outside and watch the birds, the butterflies, and busy Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After my arm quit hurting from his punch I went back to the alley behind Mitchell’s to take another look at the dead bird but it was gone. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I felt a beat of wing past my face, and an angry cry as the bird dived at me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could we bother about flying birds when so few of us own cars?” he had said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she heard nothing but distant birds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“About this white bird in the field this morning. You’re not afraid of these birds?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Questions like, why all the birds and the birdcages? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

That part about my father and the birds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We went in and sat at the breakfast bar, stared out the window at the bird feeder, and talked. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yeah, so did the dodo bird, the passenger pigeon, Vanilla Ice... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to get these birds to their new home before they die, too.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Howls and chirps and really loud bird calls. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Flocks of birds made their evening journeys home, twittering to one another. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In two or three days,” Burnham wrote, “all the birds will be in the water, which already commences to be still more beautiful than last year.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Falcons and most other birds come back to their old territories year after year,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this was one of the birds to be put at hack. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would it be all right if I mentioned the ten thousand birds in my future tours?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks put out plenty of crumbs for the small birds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were no birds to sing in the clearing. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it had only been a bird, a reflection on the snow, some trick of the moonlight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the height where the bird used to disappear, the clouds would gray the world like an ink wash. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I’m glad that girl gettin a chance. She been workin for that Lee mother a long time. She need a break. But I bet that bird be makin more money than me. Whoa!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there she was; she had caught herself a bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The bird. The one I was listening to. He led me right here.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed, and Beverly shone the light up in the trees, and there was the yellow bird. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The bird had recently finished building herself a new nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Because of getting on at the observation end of the train, Mr. Popper had to take the birds through the whole length of the train. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Picking up the wax, they went to a special place they knew and there Ngwabi’s eldest sister made the wax into a bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The trappings are very professional, the bird fat and in good health. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently, the boy lifted up the milk bird and carried it home. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The milk bird did not attempt to escape again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I already told you, Axel, when it comes to flight, the most important word that we can have, the one that bird moms know by heart.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He ran full speed downhill for the West Branch of the Delaware, looking at rocks and trees for white streaks of bird excrement that marked a peregrine falcon aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were homing birds, exclusively male, that were released into regions where the Capitol's enemies were known to be hiding. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We were heading for a rocky beach where my dad had spotted a bunch of birds from the ferry. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When she brought it out again she was holding a stone in it, a gray stone not much bigger than a bird’s egg. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Genie had never seen a bird like it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The birds, roosting on low branches, were too full and too stupid to flee. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The entire village had gathered to sing a farewell as he was laid to rest, but the only song that day was theirs; the birds had fallen silent, as if they mourned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The paper birds began to lift and swirl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Platters of duck and partridge, rabbit and bird eggs, and seasoned venison passed by in dizzying numbers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Tristran unwound the silver chain, unhooking it from the root, while stroking the bird's ruffled plumage with his left hand. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of miniature origami birds taking flight, the largest the size of an open palm, the smallest the size of a fingernail, all faintly striped with notepaper lines. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was floating in a fog of colors and smells and warbling birds and voices singing, “I like you, and you, and you, and no one else but you, and you, and you.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She turned the bright pink-and-blue bird over in her hand, and it came to life suddenly, shaking its feathers and chirping a beautiful song. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It also had something to do with birds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You watch them carefully now, Big Pinch. Keep the birds away. Listen, my son.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Skrymir, “I think a bit of bird’s nest just dropped on my head. Twigs. I don’t know.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Is there a bird somewhere around here? I keep hearing one.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sun crept down toward its setting place behind the Salinas River, and a bird began to sing wonderfully from the golden stubble of the field. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To wit: If they came back to their cars or trucks too soon, the birds at that particular radiator would miss out on some amount of food. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The falcons weren’t birds; they were F-16 Falcon Fighter Jets. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We climbed out of the rowboat, and Bronwyn raised her shirt to reveal the bird nuzzled there. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His gaze shifted from the massive bulldozer to the bird burrow, then back again. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frederick flutters his fingers and asks, “Do you like birds?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I, however, a tropical bird, was cold—cold one way outdoors and cold another way indoors, ceaselessly and more or less thoroughly cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I nudge Pollux with my elbow and point out a small black bird with a crown. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Like a bird has taken flight in my chest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From the moment Cherrie first set foot in Brazil, he had already added one thousand birds to the museum collection. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He saw the heads of animals— boars, crocodiles, elephants, oxen, birds. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the elephant, the bird had sounded like it could convince a mountain to turn into a volcano. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z