| 单词 | valley |
| 例句 | She moves my hand up and down, over her strange and wonderful valleys. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain title to building lots. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Here farmland gave way to forest, the villages and holdfasts were smaller and farther apart, the hills higher and the valleys deeper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The falls to our left, spray and rainbows in the sky, the sun rising ahead of us, the valley below. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He came across the gym like a thunderhead bearing down across the valley and grabbed the clipboard out of my hands. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then without warning as the road enters a valley the rain stops and there is a white grease pat of a sun cooking up there in its sky. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They had drunk again from the pools in the valley, but they were very thirsty again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the escarpment stretched a valley almost obscured by industrial haze. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z While I wait for him, I will finish my account of what happened to me in this valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The two of them whirled upward in the icy currents, took a few moments to get their bearings, and set their course for the valley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Already he’d borrowed heavily to redo their house, to buy into the west side subdivision and golf course, and to wheedle a position on the proposed ski valley’s board of directors. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Half an hour later they were making a long traverse across a deeper slope that edged further to the north and delivered them at last to another valley, another little stream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To the north we could look across a valley and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the river. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The summer of 2010 brought torrential rains—a monsoon that flooded the valley, sweeping away everything in its wake. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There are quite a few in the valley; also squirrels, and a few crows who seem to have had the sense to stay around. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She was flying cautiously, making her way along the coast and up the straths, the wide valleys of Scotland, because the cloud was low. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The valley had never recovered from the recession; people needed work. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When I got to one of the high ridges I looked down into the valley. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When a Sapiens band first entered a valley inhabited by Neanderthals, the following years might have witnessed a breathtaking historical drama. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I stumbled to the edge of the cliff overlooking the deep valley that was shrouded in darkness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sun was beginning to flood the little valley as he unpacked Tam Lin’s books and maps. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The clearing was in a little valley between two midsized hills. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Then Hermes carried it to be cared for by the nymphs of Nysa—the loveliest of earth’s valleys, but no man has ever looked upon Nysa or knows where it lies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The older children adore him, and, as for the valley people, it doesn’t matter how often I explain that we named the baby for my father, they are all sure that Truitt is their namesake. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Endive and spinach escaped from colonial gardens and grew into impassable, six-foot thickets on the Peruvian coast; thousands of feet higher, mint overwhelmed Andean valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A thick fog lay in the valley below, a smoldering cauldron of white from which only the treetops protruded, stark and Dantesque. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Across the valley were his sister and the phone on which they occasionally talked to their mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Everybody who had made money during the war moved as close as they could to the valley, and the white people were buying down river, cross river, stretching Medallion like two strings on the banks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In their settlements of the Tigris and Euphrates valley, they also invented the city-state, formal religion, writing, mathematics, law, and, to a large extent, architecture. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Located at the end of a winding road overlooking a verdant valley, Healdtown was far more beautiful and impressive than Clarkebury. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was a valley of mere earth, rock and water; there was not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass to be seen. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The most distressing change here at Rose Hill is that, due to the undead plague, most of the people in the valley have abandoned their farms for easier living out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A bird’s-eye view of ten or a dozen of the principal pueblos, then a landing for lunch in the valley of Malpais. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was quite unlike the brutal, rational way roads in Will’s world sliced through hillsides and leapt across valleys on bridges of concrete. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There might be, for all I know, another valley only a few miles away, or even several. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Stumps and dead boughs were rotting in the shallows, the remains it seemed of old thickets, or of a hedge that had once lined the road across the drowned valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Others join, their voices carrying across the desert and resounding through the valley. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z There were green meadows on either side of the valley, and along the bottom of it there flowed a great brown river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The light climbed on out of the valley, and as it went, the tops of the mountains seemed to blaze with increasing brightness. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight we are back down at the foot of it in the moraine, the valley of stones. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It spread through hills and valleys, jumped over the Tiber with dozens of bridges, and just kept sprawling to the horizon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Already you are studying the foreground for a way down to the stream over the steep rocks and wondering if that notch ahead will get you through to the neighboring valley. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Wiglaf told his king how black the burnt - out valley looked below. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Thick ribbons of smoke stripe the valley; occasional flares of ordnance fly like shuttlecocks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I look out the window, and out in the distance is the valley beneath us, a sprinkling of thousands of lights shimmering in the summer fog. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center of the valley, nestled by the lake, was a small city of white marble buildings with red-tiled roofs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z First, though, she took out the alethiometer and asked if there was still any danger in the valley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The moon rose over the wall of Resthaven, painting the quiet msasa trees with silver and trailing a bright shimmer on the stream at the valley’s heart. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z This is the principle for which our ancestors fought in the valleys of Pennsylvania. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We saw waterfalls, too, streams jumping off cliffs into the valley of the Delaware. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Each night it filled the valley with her soft light and lighted a way for the solitary man standing in his field, listening to the plants sleep, listening to the resting earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were growing out of the ground along a little stream that was flooding down the valley just over Maple Hill behind the house. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z And you came out of the valley, heady and rather dazed, to the hard white shingle of the beach and the still water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Because extensive fields of maize, beans, and squash surrounded every home, these settlements sprawled along the Connecticut, Charles, and other river valleys for miles, one town bumping up against the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The air was full of sound, and from out the valley’s chimneys a white and pungent smoke arose. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to, but if I had waited until he came over the ridge, and then over Burden Hill where I could see him—where my valley begins—it would have been too late. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In the deepening dusk they came down into the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They had been using those freaky necklaces they’d worn during the battle in the valley to not only absorb power from other witches but to influence the Grans through powerful and corrupted magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was an astonishing sight, for the whole valley for 15 or 20 miles was completely filled with Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the part where Soledad’s mother dies and I have to cry, I draw on the valley of tears inside me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It leapt with savage energy from the pad, zinged up the guide pole, and split the valley with its thunder. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It's much gentler terrain than the rest of Arabia Terra, and the far end looks like a smooth ascent out of the valley. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if he spoke from the heavens, casting a c^rk cloud of fear over our valley. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But Galileo was familiar with Plutarch, who had claimed that the moon had a landscape of mountains and valleys. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Masses of Lithuanians with tattered suitcases and bulging bags poured out into the valley, dirty and gray with soiled clothing, as if they had lived in a gutter for years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The government harassed civilians until they fled the fertile valleys—land the government began distributing to its cronies. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Across the creek, the road heads up the far hill of the valley. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z ‘I wonder if I shall ever look down into that valley again,’ he said quietly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It didn’t run anywhere useful, so he had drawn up a plan to plunder it for metal and build more hoverpaths in and around the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Yes, he was in that valley where his mother had told him he would find himself, where there was no human help, no hand outstretched to protect or save. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The tower still grinned across the valley, but the light was fading in it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z After a good hour they turned off the coast road and followed a narrow, winding lane through a valley gray with buildings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z That is one of the reasons I remain in the valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was a nice house in the valley, a clear blue swimming pool and a back wall of solid glass. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As closely as Taran observed each step of the way, he knew the path to Medwyn’s valley would be lost to him as soon as the ancient man left. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The captain shouted an order, and the vessel began to turn ponderously against the current, maneuvering out into midstream and giving a blast on the whistle that echoed for a long time around the valley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And suddenly I thought of that valley of the turkeys and wondered how I could have the gall to think turkeys stupid. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I cannot just walk away from him, from this valley, from all that I had hoped for, without a word. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They crossed one deep valley, then another, before Gurgi halted on a ridge. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I willfear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After I’d finished I climbed the railway car and looked out over the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That fertile valley is cooled by sea breezes, making it an ideal spot for growing lettuces nine months of the year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Main Street, as it was called, ran down a valley so narrow in places that a boy with a good arm could throw a rock from one side of it to the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He walked away from the bear and stood on a rock from which he could see across the whole valley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The hills of the Bottom, as always, protected die valley part of town where the white people lived, and the next morning all the people were grateful because there was a dryer heat. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I came to wonder if every disease of man and beast had simply waited for my arrival to invade the valley. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But something felt wrong about the night—the sickness of Thalia’s tree, spreading across the valley. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She swallowed, realizing that the sparkler would have been seen from anywhere in the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z All night the three companions scrambled in this bony land, climbing to the crest of the first and tallest ridge, and down again into the darkness of a deep winding valley on the other side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We skied through small frosty woods and over the hillocks and fields of the disputed valley. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally the mountains around the valley reached out and swallowed the sun. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Spread out at his feet was a bowl-shaped valley several miles wide. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z From both sides of the valley little streams slipped out of the hill canyons and fell into the bed of the Salinas River. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It hit that little valley like a tidal wave, and whole houses broke in pieces. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z As the evening deepened, I walked with Charley among his mountains of delight to the brow of the hill and looked down on the little valley below. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Black smoke rose for miles across the valley. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The sun is rising at the end of the valley. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The valley was deep and there was a stream at the bottom that flowed down into the lake and when the wind blew across the valley you could hear the stream in the rocks. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He pointed across the valley, to the pine tree where I’d fought the minotaur. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the floor of the valley the wind grew stronger as it funneled through the rocks, and directly ahead a bright-colored speck grew larger and larger. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Hazel himself paused in the mouth of the hole, as he always had behind the bramble curtain at home, and looked out across the valley. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was down in the first cove by the valley when they fired the rockets,” said Frank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was a kind of beauty that was strange to me, and although I was still in the valley, I began to feel that my journey had begun. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When I was in a valley I could see nothing and when the canoe rose out of it, only the ocean stretching away and away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the river the tormented cry of a lonely goddess filled the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The chief climbed up to the top of a small hill at the entrance to this valley and looked down onto the place where he thought the tree might grow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z But the shelter itself—which was like a lovingly constructed wooden hut with one side open to the fields going down the valley side—was still standing, and even had its bench intact. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest ends, and we are on a steep hillside looking across a valley at the famous profile of White Man Mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I found him sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking across the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z With Burden Hill on the other end, the result is that the valley is completely closed in. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A whisper of rain was beginning through a sunny sky, distant black clouds not close enough to throw the valley into darkness. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “We’ll go over a ridge, then back down into a valley,” I tell him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And that right has always given them meaning, has always meant that there was someone down in the valley because a mountain is not a mountain if there is nothing below.* Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In this way they covered almost twenty miles before nightfall, and came to a point where the Road bent right and ran down towards the bottom of the valley, now making straight for the Bruinen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When it was light enough to use the binoculars he glassed the valley below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z To their surprise they came upon dark pools fed by threads of water trickling down from some source higher up the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They rode on, and evening deepened in the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was a deep little valley of snow between us. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “That things have a way of working themselves out. That there’s reasons for our valleys and for our peaks.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They are as awesome and beautiful as the open water, but the valley people do not seem to notice. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Polybotes ripped an oak tree out of the ground and threw it into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described—and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo’s imaginary crater. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were driving through a valley jam-packed with rows of houses wrapped around hillsides like serpentine belts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z His warm hand has found its way inside my sweater, running up along my bare back, tracing the valley of my spine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As maize swept in, Indians burned and cleared thousands of acres of land, mainly in river valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There are many valleys in the mountains of the mind, convolutions that greatly increase the surface area available in the cerebral cortex for information storage in a skull of limited size. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A loud peal of laughter boomed and rang out in the valley of flames. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a steep footpath I’d discovered leading up along the edge of the valley and just where it came out onto the road was an old bus shelter. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley was filling up with green shadows. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the valley, Faye tried to stop her ears against the constant gossip of a small town, whose opinions pushed in through the windows and crept under the doors. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then the elephant taxi service headed back into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “It faces the valley, not the hill. I always liked that,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We drove to the bridge that divided the east bank of the Jordan River from its west bank, where hills and valleys curved like the laps of a thousand mothers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Huge live oaks shaded the valley, and the earth had a richness and a greenness foreign to this part of the country. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The cliffs were a lot taller than they had appeared from across the valley. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Through the valley flowed a Mississippi of humiliated Americans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo, even in that fair house, looking out upon a sunlit valley filled with the noise of clear waters, felt a dead darkness in his heart. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We went out on some deserted farm road in the upper valley. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It fills the room, creating landscapes of mountains and valleys and lakes with its wind notes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Polybotes spread his hands in front of him, taking in the valley like a panoramic picture. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the valley below, the orchids glowed with pale malevolence in the moonlight, a frozen sea against the dark shore of the forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The low valley fog of late winter would slowly yield to the coming of Easter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Swinging down the valley on long pointed wings was a large bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Nile River, flowing slowly through a shallow valley, is the only thing that interrupts thousands of miles of empty sand. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The entrance to the valley is wide enough that I couldn't see the canyon walls in either direction. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In their back pockets, they had the arteries of the state, the rivers and streams, the creeks, and the ponds and the reservoirs that created its valleys of life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked almost green with infection, and Seven tried hard not to gag from the smell that had overtaken the valley as they transformed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It lit up the valley around them, the rushing river gurgled and splashed, the giant trees swayed in the frigid breeze, the grass looked touched with silver. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was better down in the valley, since, as always, the hills protected it, but up in the Bottom black folks suffered heavily in their thin houses and thinner clothes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She wears it in a ponytail with small white cloth lilies of the valley wired around the elastic band. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Once you got up into them, he had assured us, it was nearly all level walking, with sumptuous views over the broad valley of the Shenandoah River. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She stood facing me, the valley between us, radiating permanence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The valleys, far beneath them, were so green, and all the streams which tumbled down from the glaciers into the main river were so blue, that it was like flying over gigantic pieces of jewelry. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z His neighbors drove up into his little valley, and every one of them would have understood anger or sorrow—and so helped him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Father put his arm around Mother’s shoulders, and we all walked to the backyard overlooking the valley. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z They straddled the river and tucked into the foothills on both sides, for at this point the valley narrows and then opens out again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It roared so loudly, the entire valley shook around them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z First, it wasn’t like the entire valley was vaulting toward the sky because of an earthquake or massive shifting of the earth’s crust. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The Skirling Pass was really a series of passes, a long twisting course that went up around a succession of icy wind-carved peaks and down through hidden valleys that seldom saw the sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Perchance was tucked in a valley surrounded by wooded hills like a baby in a green cradle. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Only a glimpse, as through a tall window, could be seen of the great valley in the gloaming below. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Kitum Cave opens in a forested valley at an altitude of eight thousand feet on the eastern slope of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a lot hotter, Dad pointed out, down in the valley along Stewart Street, which was lined with those cute brick houses that had their neat, square lawns and corrugated aluminum breezeways. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The enemy before them seemed to have grown rather than diminished, and still more were pressing up from the valley through the breach. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Four pairs of eyes were looking out eagerly for any sign of the valley that Sallowpad the Raven had spoken about. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z First we choppered into a hot LZ and the pilots jerked us out and took us out of there and into the valley itself, which didn’t seem hot. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley floor spreads out in a rainbow of greens below. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Built of adobe, it stood in a tiny opening in the foothills, a miniature valley fed by a precious ever-running spring of sweet water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On a sunny day Lady flew far down the river valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Moonlight winked on the tumbling waters of the stream below as it wound its rocky way along the floor of the valley. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When he read a little later, in Psalm 23:4, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,” he knew he would be safe. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The boys had to walk around the mountain to get to the west side valley. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The mountain birds are sweeter But the valley birds are fatter, And so we deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadow in the valley was bluer, and the evening came fast. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Their backs were to the swords and spears of the Riders, and their faces to the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His ancestors had walked in just such a valley. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d never seen him before, so she knew immediately that he wasn’t from town and must have come from the mountains surrounding the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He looked out over a valley blanketed in snow, distant church bells chiming through the glittering silence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She proposed to Ngima Kale Sherpa, Fischer’s Base Camp sirdar, that they assemble a team of Sherpas to take Ngawang down the valley on foot. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z River valleys of the southwestern United States eventually came to support irrigation agriculture and complex societies, but only after many of the developments on which those societies rested had been imported from Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And, as the companions wrestled their burden over the hill and descended into a deep valley, Taran nearly sank to the ground in despair. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Unless they unleashed Death and made it back to camp, the giant’s army would flood into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The shadow in the valley was blue and soft. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She and 426 perched nearby, looking at it and feeling new interest in the bridge and the river valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We walked down the valley through the center of town and around a mountainside, past the small, tidy brick houses put up after the mines were unionized. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s no sign of he valley with a Lake in it, like what Aslan said What about coming down and looking out for a decent spot to spend the night in? The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The route led down into a wooded valley with a chuckling stream edged with brittle ice, which the path followed for perhaps half a mile before taking us steeply up into denser woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He hurtled himself into the air, bulleted down the river valley, made a two-circle loop, climbed, and sped back to the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The bluebells had not faded yet, they made a solid carpet in the woods above the valley, and the young bracken was shooting up, curling and green. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z So we made a show of good spirits, and after carefully observing the town and the tents, we descended into the valley and entered Cajamarca. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From that point on the path led through a wood and downward toward the valley of a stream which joined the one surrounding the castle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z There is no one else to care for the valley. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I look up the valley hill next to us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z My father used to say, “In a valley the real sunset is in the east,” and that is how it was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z My mountain was still snow-capped, so I walked into the valleys almost every day to scout them for edible plants. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have to drink sparingly; the water would have to last until I came to another stream or creek outside the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Just like that, they had changed their minds and instead of keeping the valley floor to themselves, now they wanted a hilltop house with a river view and a ring of elms. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The castle stood on a hill to one side of the valley, and there was a handsome pele tower on the bill of the other side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to lie down and cry, but there was Grover, needing my help, so I managed to haul him up and stagger down into the valley, toward the lights of the farmhouse. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Dicey studied her map while her tongue made valleys in the ice cream and then smoothed them out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They were looking down upon a lovely valley. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z They wandered in the valley forever; and they smote the rock, forever; and the waters sprang, perpetually, in the perpetual desert. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The rest of us stepped out gingerly, watching the black clouds crest the mountain and drop into the valley. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “The Horned King will have outriders on both sides of the valley.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “But there’s no radiation in the valley,” I said. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z North of here the kingsroad ran along the Green Fork of the Trident, through fertile valleys and green woodlands, past thriving towns and stout holdfasts and the castles of the river lords. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z South, in the distance, he could see one big cottonwood tree, the only bright green in that valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They smoked in silence for a while, and the sun shone on them; slanting into the valley from among white clouds high in the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes later I saw branches moving; they were still a quarter-mile down the valley, still on my trail. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There was a fold or channel where the mist was broken into many plumes and billows; the valley of the Withywindle. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Well before other crops began to arrive from elsewhere, Native Americans settled in eastern U.S. river valleys and developed intensified food production based on local crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were driving through a valley jam-packed with rows of houses wrapped around hillsides like serpentine belts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There is a flat place where the road first reaches the top of the hill—a stretch of about a hundred yards or so before it starts descending again, into the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Medwyn passed through a cut in a bare shoulder of the cliff, and the next thing Taran knew, they suddenly emerged into a green, sunlit valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The road on this side of the valley is wider and we’re doing our best to keep to the darker side of it as it twists and turns up the hill. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I watched the peaks and valleys of the big waves, waiting for something large to be revealed in the ups and downs, like a whale or a shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He spoke of valleys and hills, of the tree line and the tundra, of star sightings. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the valley that first snow would melt but on the mountain it would linger, burying the Princess until spring, when she would reappear, watchful. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All my father’s stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Bernabe knew the valley, he understood the people, and in the end he liked his life here, maybe he even had an embarrassing love for it all. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams, which keep the landscape green even in winter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then warmth flooded the valley and the earth burst into bloom—yellow and blue and gold. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At the upper end of the little valley was the grapevine sprawled over its man-made arbor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The same quiet hills lay below him, with hawks patrolling wooded valleys between shoulders of rock. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The light, though no more than a grey dusk, was now enough for them to see that they were deep in the valley between the mountains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were coming near to the entrance to the little side valley in which was the Sanchez house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For much of the year the ocean air is cold enough on winter mornings to make fog roll into the valleys a hundred feet deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The small tribe of Iks, formerly nomadic hunters and gatherers in the mountain valleys of northern Uganda, have become celebrities, literary symbols for the ultimate fate of disheartened, heartless mankind at large. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley had darkened, grown gray and momentarily still; almost icy cold. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No one, riot even Violet, knew what it was that permitted him to leave his fields and woods and secret lonely valleys. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Most recently, when the Somali civil war began in 1991, the warring factions forced the Somali Bantu off their land in the fertile Juba River valley. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They were moving like water, downhill all the time, and they flowed at last to a main highway on a valley’s floor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Our home was in a beautiful valley far back in the rugged Ozarks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the mountain, the road dropped precipitously and swung back and forth until it bottomed out into a long, narrow valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After they had ridden for several hours down the valley, it widened out and they could see what was ahead of them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But all he saw was a straight pencil line of canal going violet through a wide shallow valley penned by low, eroded hills, and on until it fell over the sky’s edge. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only hills and valleys of water around me now. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant that if I took my usual route, he would see me approaching the store from the pond, and would know at least which side of the valley I was living on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When they got to the valley that leads to the cave, they cleared away some underbrush and put up blue tarpaulins. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The great multiple glacier we are on feeds down into the valley from the west, and we are on its extreme eastern edge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For an hour now, the plane had been flying at just three hundred feet, following the Welsh valleys, dipping and swerving to avoid the mountain peaks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z "When he saw that he was lost, he rallied his retain-ers and fought his way up the valley, hoping to reach Lord Robb and cut him down. And almost did." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Thirty minutes later we were standing around the landing zone, discussing how to get Beck down, when a faint thwock- thwock-thwock-thwock sounded from the valley below. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Oh, fleet rocket, your thunder wanders down the valleys, startling deer and mountaineer alike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She wanted a priest to watch over the farmers of the valley; he wanted a son to travel with him to the vineyards of California. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t really understand that. Except that people always used to say the valley had its own weather.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The black people, for all their new look, seemed awfully anxious to get to the valley, or leave town, and abandon the hills to whoever was interested. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She raised her hunting horn to her lips, and its clear sound echoed down the valleys of Marin. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I could see the sea beyond the dip in the valley like a black lake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She flew past a valley of boulders and stumpy trees and found a stream flowing from the mouth of a cave. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Alyssa had been dead six thousand years now, and still no drop of the torrent had ever reached the valley floor far below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Next evening she hurried to the valley as soon as she could, carrying some sweet rice wrapped in a heart-fruit leaf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The houses up here were shabbier than the brick houses lower down in the valley. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We came around a curve into a town, and on both sides opened out a sudden green valley. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It’s easy to see where it collapsed, a valley betwixt two hills. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Beowulf looked about him as he marched, taking everything in, tall cliffs and deep valleys, each tumbling stream and pebble winking brightly in the sun. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He would later recall the lesson he had learned in that bloody valley: “There is nothing more necessary than good Intelligence to frustrate a designing enemy, & nothing that requires greater pains to obtain.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be the best moment, before the full flush of summer, and in the valley the azaleas would be prodigal of scent, and the blood-red rhododendrons in bloom. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The few rain clouds I’d seen had skirted right around the edges of the valley. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “I said it was a strange valley, but maybe that’s because I was born in a green place. Do you find it strange, Louis?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan Mountains, and the hilltops were rosy in the sun. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Other groups were purchased, loaded into wagons, and driven off through the valley to disappear through the V at the base of the hills. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The travellers came into a long valley; narrow, deeply cloven, dark and silent. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Sirannon had been dammed and had filled all the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At the end of the fifth day the ground began once more to rise slowly out of the wide shallow valley into which they had descended. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was too early to think of bones, even old gray mule bones, but he realized that all along the valley the cliffs were full of shallow caves and overhangs with springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Turner held on to the sides of the dory and rolled side to side with it with this great vastness that had swum past the mountains and valleys of the sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z As soon as the falls start falling, the valley opens up, wide as the sky itself, taking the river that starts again at the base of the falls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Over the hill and into the next valley.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The plateau narrowed gradually to a valley and the valley to a pass between long ridges. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Adam had seen and studied a fine color broadside which set forth the valley as that region which heaven unsuccessfully imitated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was as if someone had ironed out all the rest of South Dakota and smooshed all the hills and valleys and rocks into this spot. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Last night I slept in the valley for the last time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z One of their roommates, Bobby, gave them a ride to the border of the valley on Hannibal the elephant. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Amish farms were just south of our valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Pax galloped down the cliff, tore across the valley bottom, and strained up the final long rise to the meadow. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t stop until he reached the crest of his imaginary Montana mountain and coasted downhill into the coolness of the valley. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was already high, although the valley was still in shadow. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the old legend, she lurked in the dark forests that covered the slopes of St. Helens, the mountain that rose up over this whole valley. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z It covered the valley every morning, like a large, gray sheet. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Far away was a mountain in the shape of a saddle, with valleys plunging into it: three square-shaped valleys, the last one going deepest of all. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The air was thick with them, fluttering yellow from the branches; for there was a warm and gentle breeze blowing softly in the valley, and the reeds were rustling, and the willow-boughs were creaking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The valley, which has been home and shelter for my whole life, seems now to threaten me wherever I go, whatever I do. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They were thugs and riffraff, deputized at the whim of industrial corporations in the valley. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Down in the valley was the Long Knife stronghold. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I felt and smelled and heard the wind blow up from the long valley. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time it reached the house, which was atop the last hill before the valley, it’d be big as Grandpa’s bam and people on the highway would stare up at it, amazed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Chup led her out over the valley, saw a duck, and plunged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The desire that had awakened within her was like a fog descending on a mountain valley, filling every hollow, slipping between tree limbs, tickling every leaf with its seductive breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “If I hold the valley, can you hold the hill?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z By spring the valley had begun to warm, the poplar trees had burst into bloom, and a tiny miracle in the campaign for education had taken place right in my own home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But mostly I loved sitting among them, hypnotized by this talk of the big world beyond our valley. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Now it's a valley that juts into the brutal terrain of Arabia, almost directly toward Schiaparelli. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The impact would have knocked down every structure in the city and collapsed the underground waterways, damming the Uzumark that flows under our feet, and flooding the whole valley. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the distance they glimpsed yet another river in a stony valley half-veiled in mist. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She took such good care of the little girl—making her a spot to sleep, helping her wash up in the stream, telling her a story as darkness settled on the wooded valley. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A long canter later I came up over a hill and looked down onto a crossroads at the bottom of a small grassy valley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The lower valley of the glaciers behind us is white with steam: lava touches ice, down there. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, finding life in Antarctic dry valleys would correspondingly improve, he thought, the chances of life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved more and more slowly as they climbed, and when the sun touched the mountain rims and they saw a little valley open below them, they decided to go no farther. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They would not want to go hiking, as he and Maxine and Gerald and Lydia do almost every day, up the rocky mountain trails, to watch the sun set over the valley. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt so hopeful about the future of my valley that I planted a mango seed outside our house. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They reached the top of the hill, where a terrace overlooked the entire valley. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They topped the rise above the little valley of the old Hamilton place and Tom pulled up to let her enjoy the view. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Aye, the valleys and trenches. And one in particular. The Marianas Trench...and that place in its icy depths called Challenger Deep.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Still, coal miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas river valleys, a region rich with natural resources, seemed stuck in poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z They had come out of the forest at last, many miles to the west, had found a thinly populated valley, had started their farm. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As they topped the brow of the highest hill, a deep valley appeared ahead. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, when the Firedrake flapped back to its den, the valley looked like a basin of white ashes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Down in the valley the fields were open and still, the breeze had slowed, there was no movement of smoke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Regiment had not stopped, was chasing the Rebs down die long valley between the hills. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Staying up on the hillside, near the top of the ridge, I worked my way to the far end of the valley, almost to the gap and the steep cliff on the far side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was late morning, after they’d passed two more checkpoints, when they entered a valley. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z One night Mr. Chris told them a story of two little boys who were the very first white people to spend a whole winter in this very valley. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The river in the valley was wide and green. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain could begin to see out across the valley: mass of milky smoke below, yellow flashes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My brothers took great pleasure in pointing out the wreckage of vehicles that had fallen into the valley below. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Tremonton lay on the valley floor, making it good for farming. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A half mile farther on, the trail descended very steeply, almost perpendicularly, more than 600 feet to a high, nameless valley. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The light of the clear autumn morning was now glowing in the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Nana was dead, and she was here, in a strange city, separated from the life she’d known by valleys and chains of snow-capped mountains and entire deserts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It flows more or less parallel to the road, and out of the valley through the gap at the south. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Huge tapestries depicting landscapes hung on three walls: green farming valleys, the wild coast of the sea, and the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, Inka roads eschewed valley bottoms and used long stone stairways to climb up steep hills directly—brutal on horses’ hooves, as the conquistadors often complained. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Outside the shed, he also found a road, and he followed it down into a village at the bottom of the valley. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Since then I have climbed the hills on all sides of this valley, and at the top I have climbed a tree. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It stood in the hills above the valley town of Medallion and spread all the way to the river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “That is the perfect ending,” he says and, sitting down, looks out across the beautiful valley and mountains. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought how we might have wandered in the valley before lunch, and then sat out afterwards under the chestnut tree with books and papers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Having seen nothing there, he turned slowly in a full circle, inspecting all of the valley that he could see. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In my room, I open my notebook and read, This world is a valley of tears. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They inched over to the craggy overhang and, standing side by side, with Babi in the middle, gazed down on the valley. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His methods were subtler and more economical with direct force than one might expect, as exemplified by the slow takeover of the coastal valley of Chincha. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From this place, we are invisible but have a clear view of the valley, which is teeming with summer life, greens to gather, roots to dig, fish iridescent in the sunlight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The sheriff parked the car and led me up a path toward the river, and there, on a little hill overlooking the river and the valley, was my mothers grave. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Upon the east too sheer and stony was the valley’s side; upon the left, from the west, their final doom approached. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The Cauldron warriors, explained the bard, had forced the companions too deeply into the Ystrad valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z If he came over the ridge, as he had to do, he must have seen the valley and the green trees, because the ridge is higher than Burden Hill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Imagine a Sapiens band reaching a Balkan valley where Neanderthals had lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mama. Papa,” I called, but they were in the valley and could not hear me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They led their ponies down the hill; and then mounting they trotted quickly along the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Every day we explore the hills, the valley in between, the ravine, the woods. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Was nature somehow perturbed less by a vacuum on top of a mountain than by a vacuum in the valley? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The sun is high over the east ridge now and the valley is beautiful in the morning light. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Huge herds of reindeer and other large herbivores roamed the plains and valleys, preyed upon by the ferocious ancestors of today’s lions and tigers, as well as by our own ancestors. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z An enormous sycamore tree stands higher than all the rest, dappling the valley floor with the shade of its leaves and making the whole glade feel like a secret, round room. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The rain has been dreadful, with cloud at 1000 feet and visibility next to nothing in the river valleys where the mist hangs—no one could land here anyway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It rises from a spring up the hill, inside the valley, and it must come from deep underground. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Another rumble of thunder echoed across the valley below us. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Tom Bombadil’s house and the valley, and the Forest were lost to view. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z After molding the bricks, my father spent days in the valley hacking the long-stemmed grasses to be used for roofing, then tied them into round bales. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They stood on the edge of a valley filled with the most beautiful buildings he’d ever seen. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, a giant cylindrical boulder was gleaming as brightly as the towers in the valley. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Soon ladies in their backyards were repeating that remark, fence by fence, from one end of the valley to the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nali had said that these seeds were from her own childhood, when the entire Church Rock valley was carpeted in grass that grew as high as her knees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I imagine from there they could look down into the valley and see Fort Robinson. That moment, when they were looking down, was a critical time.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We flew higher and higher, over green valleys and dark, ridged mountains, and then over the coast, waves breaking on the white sands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She walked to the window, leaving the periphescence behind, and the breeze from the valley cooled her down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When they reached the top of the valley, where the trees thinned out and the rainbow-waterfalls began, they stopped to drink deeply of the ice-cold water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Snow-fields stretched down from the pass into the valleys of moraine. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The rest of us seldom leave the valley. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He must come to El Puerto and rule over the Lunas of the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nali, his grandma, rushed out of her mobile home, which sat in the middle of a wide, dry valley, waving her arms in large circles at him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She set the cup on the terrace railing and gazed over the valley as if imagining battle lines. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And farmholds spread over the land, first in the valleys and then up the foothill slopes, small wooden houses roofed with redwood shakes, corrals of split poles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It took a while to get to it: first they had to scramble down into a deep river valley and then up again through the pines. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z A long-tilted valley, a deep gulf of shadow, ran back far into the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And from below, the faint sound of water tumbling through the valley. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There are many valleys to the south and west, all with farms, a store, a school. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I spent three days in that valley and I saw a lot of chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When my grandfather came into the valley the mustard was so tall that a man on horseback showed only his head above the yellow flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her fingers danced over valleys, rivers, the peaks of mountains, the contours of a new nation hidden beneath the old. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Dad admitted he was as green as any valley when it came to music, but he had a good ear and he liked symphonies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Cow paths had been transformed into paved thoroughfares, railroad tracks crisscrossed the valley floor, and electric lines snaked over the ridges and connected up to a vast switchyard hulking with transformers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The rain was lashing the valley, and thunder and lightning crashed across the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A cool breeze rustled in the brandies and rippled through the grass, all the way into the valley. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Her board started to lighten, and soon she and Shay had hopped on again, coasting over a ridge and down into a dark valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But he was up there right now, with his glasses trained on the valley, on the town, a radio by his side, searching for Joe Mondragon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarai floated it softly into the dark valley of his shoulder blades and as soon as it touched skin, she slipped into his dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Daylight crept into every valley, beneath every tree, and suddenly Meggie wished for the night again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And so I have decided to leave the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When I said I was a traveler they gave me a million ideas of where to go, though I don’t think any of them had been far from those close-by valleys themselves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadows had fallen in the valley below, but there was still a light on the faces of the mountains far above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They marched north, skirting the edge of the city, and headed to the Field of Mars—the largest, flattest part of the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The fall colors were soothing and we stayed for hours, gazing down at the quiet valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I reached a valley with a rise to the west. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The mountain was surrounded by forests, with just a few towns dotting the valley. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Now there are two of us in the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was warmer outside now, and the wind in this valley was minimal. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They even saw a little goblin village in one valley, with lumberjacks hauling huge trees through on wagons. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Then, high above the waterfall, the woods, and the great wide valley, I nestle her among her siblings. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, a valley is filled with fields of corn, radishes, and lettuce, each a different hue of green. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I wanted to smell the lily of the valley on the breeze beneath my window. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The stream merges with the other one, the pond stream, farther down the valley, and they flow out the gap as one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Down in the deepest curve of the road in the deepest part of the valley, in farthest shadow against the rising sun, there they are. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They migrated down from the north in huge flocks, confusing the skies and crowding the clouds before landing on the blue willows in our valley. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The mighty voice rolled out upon the valley, each flutelike bark echoing from slope to slope. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty miles from Boxton was Ruby Holler, a lush, green hidden valley with only two cabins nestled in its depths. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The farms of the rich little valley back up to the river and take its water for the orchards and the vegetables. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the king’s men went on ahead, riding swiftly, and passed soon out of sight down into the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sea briefly imitated every land feature— every hill, every valley, every plain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Should he turn and bear the fallen soldier down the cold and alien mountain to this valley home? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The breeze dropped and the little valley lay completely still, held in long beams of light and enclosed on either side by the lines of the woods. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned over the desk, my trembling finger finding Coalwood and then moving down the valley toward the river at Big Branch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Locked in a deep valley, I feel sorry that Leo and I didn’t explore this terrain. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The fort was situated on the highest point in the valley, so they could see pretty much everything. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Most of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people who were here had villages in that valley.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z And almost before she had finished, they had said good-by and left the valley behind them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Before long the Elves came down the lane towards the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I could see myself battered and torn, lying in the valley below, and I said to myself, “Sam Gribley, you had better get down from here like a rabbit.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of the valley liked him and were glad he had come to live there, for they recognized a man of substance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It led to wooden steps built up to a lookout tower that gave a view of the deep valley and the surrounding hillsides. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Once they reached the valley floor, the going was faster and they made good time, cantering through verdant green-woods and sleepy little hamlets, past orchards and golden wheat fields, splashing across a dozen sunlit streams. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Down lower, where an Indian Creek feeder streamlet crossed under the road and the valley floor’s marshy fields began, at least a dozen bats in the air actually frightened him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke lay in the valley, and roofs, a spire or two above trees. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone walked into the valley, and now gathered in its shadow. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I won’t be able to build a fire after he reaches the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We must’ve been on the north shore of Long Island, because on this side of the house, the valley inarched all the way up to the water, which glittered about a mile in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z All the other visible hills, including those facing me across the narrow valley, looked to be in good health, except where they had been scarred and gouged by quarrying or strip mining, which was regularly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A long valley lay below them winding away northwards, until it came to an opening between two steep shoulders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Sometime in the night a thirty-foot wall of water came roaring through the valley and swept the house away. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “But weren’t there other people living in the valley?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Everybody in the whole valley would pick acorns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘We are not in that valley now, and if we came on a spring it would be flowing into it and not out of it.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was my whole life for you, socks stretching all the way to the infinite horizon, a yawning valley of knitting tedium. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Thupa Inka closeted himself with the local leadership and laid out many inspired ideas for the valley’s betterment, all of which were gratefully endorsed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The land dried up and the grasses headed out miserably a few inches high and great bare scabby places appeared in the valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He said that he was the son of the Sun,” according to the report of two Spanish priests who investigated the valley's history in the 1550s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I remembered it as a little white town with a campanile in a valley. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I wish now Mr. Loomis had never come to the valley at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He that said “I bleed,” he reached up to the sun and pulled out handfuls of excrement from the bowels of the sun, and with that dung made the hills and valleys of the earth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The eruption had shattered the mountain, and now a fifty-mile-wide avalanche of rock and mud and melted ice was taking aim at the valley below. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Faeries live in hills and valleys and barrows, in alleys and abandoned mortal buildings. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Yet: “I was down in the valley,” he dared, “I was by myself down there. I won’t never forget. May God forget me if I forget.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Then came a difficult and unnerving descent down a rocky cliff face on the other side, a short walk through a dark, waterless valley, and delivery to the foot of another wall of rock. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I willfear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He walked to the road and turned left, headed for the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Its shell was more like a landmass—hills of bone, shiny pearl valleys, kelp and moss forests, rivers of seawater trickling down the grooves of its carapace. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then from out in the cave came the shuffle of feet down the corridor and voices getting louder into the valley. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Dogs up and down the valley barked and house lights came on, one by one. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The valleys were white with fog and the top of Mount Cataract was entirely obscured, invisible in the cold haze. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Far down in the valley scattered fires still burned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We will be so happy when I come back to the valley, healthy and strong and not a ghost. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, in this weird valley hidden by stone hills? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Pinkie pounded on the hood of the car, and the metallic booming echoed against the sandstone across the narrow valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z From the bergschrund at 23,000 feet that marked its upper end, this great river of ice flowed two and a half miles down a relatively gentle valley called the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And as he walked and sang the valley grew green with grass. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z At times the road cut into the cliffs made by the mesas that rose from the river valley, then the river was far below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood at the western end of the valley, where the high road crested the last pass and began its winding descent to the bottomlands two miles below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Yet the bottom of the valley is level and broad and nearly a mile long; steep cliffs wall it in all around. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z We rounded the bend and found ourselves in a deep valley. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A hot wind rises out of the valley, rustling the leaves and making me sleepy at last. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “This isn’t my idea of a thing to joke about. She’s been in town three days now, talking with people down in the valley, asking them about the beanfield.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The cave opened at the head of the valley, and the stream cascaded over its mouth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would have said you’d be the last man in the valley to get a car,” he observed and watched through half-closed eyes for Adam’s reaction. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We were in a wide, deep valley, surrounded by forested hills. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Borne on the wind, the cloudburst drummed hollowly on the fat wet hills across the valley and moved out over the flat lands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Doha wondered if they might have been the ones who’d killed Gunwoo’s father and all the rest of the people in the mountain valley. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z So on November 8, 1973, Vishniac, his new microbiology equipment and a geologist companion were transported by helicopter from McMurdo Station to an area near Mount Balder, a dry valley in the Asgard range. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed a valley filled with the wreckage of thousands of yellow bulldozers, tractors and Caterpillars. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The road was dark, but a distant light rose over the familiar cliffs of the river valley. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z New England’s major river valleys, by contrast, held large, permanent villages, many nestled in constellations of suburban hamlets and hunting camps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All night they struggled through the forest, which grew denser the closer they approached the Ystrad valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z There had been balloons, and I had made a wish for peace in our valley. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Portuguese dammed up the river and flooded the whole valley. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We were descending into a valley, in the middle of which was a town that, from here, looked no bigger than a postage stamp, overwhelmed by green on all sides. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A visitor staying in Fairfax later recalled that people were overcome by “paralyzing fear,” and a reporter observed that a “dark cloak of mystery and dread...covered the oil-bespattered valleys of the Osage hills.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Near the top he saw Frightful and 426 drop out of sight in the river valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He stopped and pointed across a valley to another mountain. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It seemed to him a very strange location to choose for a house, or else an odd decision to leave the trees growing nearby, blocking all light and the view of the valley below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A little further north they came to a fold in which a tiny stream, falling and winding, had cut a stony path down into the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There are a few trucks, freely loaned about in good weather to any valley farmer who must take his pigs or calves to market. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the other side I could see a valley, just as my mother had said, and the lights of a farmhouse glowing yellow through the rain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “That song was about green pastures and restful waters. The preacher talked about walking in the valley of the shadow of death and not being afraid.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I was keen to visit the countryside again, to be in the open veld and rolling valleys of my childhood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth was eroded to gray clay, and deep arroyos cut through the length of the valley between the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Before I left the valley, I would set eyes on my home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Could it be that somewhere beyond there are more valleys like this, other places that have been spared? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The little hairy man had taken Tristran's ripped coat and trousers and waistcoat and, leaving him covered by a blanket, had walked into the village which nestled in the valley between three heather-covered hills. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In the spring the aromatic scent of wild flowers, redbuds, papaws, and dogwoods, drifting on the wind currents, spread over the valley and around our home. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the one not fabulous section in Brandywine, a narrow valley of older apartment houses between the dumps and the highway that bordered the next school district. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z She gave her father an awkward hug and looked back at the valley one last time. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I see the lights scattered all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and sometimes singly; they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Gleaming in the brilliant midday sun, they appeared no different from the harmless puffs of convection condensation that rose from the valley almost every afternoon. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the valley, thousands of monsters wailed and roared, clashing their weapons and bellowing in triumph. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Many more hosts march in the valley with sharp spears—oh, many more. Gurgi watches so quietly and cleverly, he does not ask them for help. No, they would only give harmful hurtings.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z They left through the gap in the wall and flew to the outskirts of the ruins, then followed the vein of iron up out of the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The fetterlings clawed their way to the top of the hill and flooded the valley. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The terrain is prettier here than in Bartlett—hills and valleys and miles of trees, everything snow covered, like something out of Norman Rockwell. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In the valley far below was Lewiston, with the Snake River winding through it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The state had also bulldozed some lakes in the valley and stocked them with rainbow and cutthroat trout, and there were half a dozen manicured campgrounds along the route. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A river, so quick and cold it would sweep you away in mere moments if you fell in, ran through the center of the valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z They still followed the hills along the Ystrad valley, but at midday the dwarf turned west and once more began to descend toward the plains. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He was linked to them by the same grief, and he knew he would be welcomed in this valley if he chose to stay. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z From all over the valley it seemed to Taran there came voices urging him to remain. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He saw puffs of white smoke start up down in the valley, like vents in the earth, blow slowly lazily to his left, to the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’d be able to walk where dinosaurs did. Apparently they were all over this whole valley.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Enchanted Mesa was a dark silvered shadow rising up from the valley into the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Once they exited the southern end of the valley, she’d be more open to stopping. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They pass through forest and valley in columns a hundred meters across and many miles long, eating their way across Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were steering, as well as they could guess, for the gate-like opening at the far northward end of the long valley which they had seen in the morning. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Mountain streams, whose water ran cold and clear, made winding lines of sparkling silver as they danced down the slopes into the distant valley lands. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The lady on the blue hawk skimmed low and called: “Straight ahead now! Among the trees in the valley!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There was no breath of wind; everything was quiet; it was the time of the long twilight that valleys have while the sun is still setting outside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He could see the peaks of Mount Taylor high above everything, high above the valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence the package that worked well in the latter valleys also worked well enough in the Nile Valley to trigger the spectacular rise of indigenous Egyptian civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Haas was standing midway up a sixty-foot hummock in a valley along the central coast of Peru, about 130 miles north of Lima. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They crossed the marshy seam of the valley and climbed the rocky cliffs, shoulder to shoulder this time. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the central river valleys of North America, people had a way of life without known analogue. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My mother had lived in the llano many years when she married my father, but the valley and the river were too ingrained in her for her to change. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Bailey looks out across the field to where the circus tents sit like mountains in the middle of the valley. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Lily of the valley bore clusters of brightest red; but the false lily of the valley in the woods had berries that were speckled with brown. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We walked down into the valley and found the summer session in full swing. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Once we left the industrial precincts of Durban, we moved through hills that offered majestic views of the surrounding valleys and the blue-black waters of the Indian Ocean. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However long he’d worked in the junkyard, he was never too tired to drive across the valley to hear me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She sprang to her feet and searched the valley. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The river valleys of southeastern Australia remained occupied by tribal societies without agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The stupidity of this sent Mr. Jacket right out of my mind, and I bolted down the valley to my mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I open my notebook and, by the glow of our neighbors’ yellow living room, write: This world is a valley * of tears. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring, the rains came, drenching the valley for days in sheets of falling water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the end they were forced to go back down the ravine that they had climbed and seek for a way along the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Another zeppelin, meanwhile, had found a clear space farther down the valley, and the crossbow men who disembarked from it were now running up the path to reinforce those already in action. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There’s not a hint of rain in the air, and someone in the valley must have their fireplace going, because I can smell it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Below him spread the city of Bologna—a jigsaw puzzle of red-tiled buildings in a valley hemmed by green hills. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The black clouds raced across the valley, but where she was standing, it was still bright. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I run my fingertips over the smooth hard muscles of his chest, dip them into the valleys between them. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I choose a dusty brown and draw a valley by a high hill. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z After breakfast, I’m in the valley pasturing sheep under a sky the dull gray of cow intestines, when Hermelinda appears on the hill. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was this valley I was looking for the day I set out with Jenner. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z When I was told the village was in a valley completely surrounded by mountains, the nearest hospital a two-hour drive over terrible roads, I was delighted. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And as he had seen horses work, so he was set to work, hauling François on a sled to the forest that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of firewood. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z “This brings us to the valley I told you about,” said Maxim,“and you shall smell the azaleas. Never mind the rain, it will bring out the scent.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But, looking down at the Roman forces arrayed outside the valley, his spirits wavered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z No more would he scream his challenge from the rimrocks to the valley below. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew then that I could not stay in the valley any longer. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z This stream flows into the valley out of a sort of cleft in the rock ridge to the left of Burden Hill—the water comes from outside, and it was poisoned. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There are no hills or mountains or valleys. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The valley all around him, what he could see of it, was dark and secretive, beautiful and serene. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When he finished, and the travelers’ gear and weapons were secured on Melyngar’s back, Medwyn led the group from the valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Down they went, and farther down, and still the sunlight followed them, deep into the valley, while overhead the branches tossed unceasingly in the bright sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On the far side of the valley there were high and even rocky hills, but they were lower than the mountains he had seen yesterday. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I had made my hemlock bed right in the stream valley where the wind drained down from the cold mountaintop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow clouds hung over the river and valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Steadily it had plodded, through valleys without trails, through streams without bridges or ferries for crossing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Giant-plated armadillos once roamed in the very valley where small armadillos were now moving through the brush. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Samuel was silent for quite a long time while the buggy lurched down the wheel track toward the dusty valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, plans for Y-12 kept expanding even as the plant rose from the valley floor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And this Light Brigade poem started the same way—charging into the valley of death. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z They walked out and sat on a bench and looked out over the valley where the land rolled away into the gritty fog. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z To the east was the Rio Puerco Valley, where the river had cut a deep narrow arroyo that now carried the water too low to benefit the valley land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see the ridge they’d been on, or the valley between. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I run my fingers over the tiny valleys made by the pen that pressed against these pages so long ago, and I remember the only thing Gram ever told me about her childhood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Tall pine trees loomed over the valley, casting pitch-black shadows, though the morning was sunny. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “There are valleys north of here. Rivers with lots of fish. Maybe I’ll take you someday.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 Could it be possible that there were quail still in the valley? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z While my father and I were busy crisscrossing Swat, speaking out on behalf of the girls of our valley, my mother had started working with one of the teachers at the Khushal primary school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was to hear the confessions of the silent people of the valley, and I was to administer the holy Sacrament to them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Round every bend of the valley—and it had many bends—they looked eagerly for water. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The road left the green valley at once, and we were up in the hills again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Possible,” he said, “but we’ll have to go into the valley. We’ll be in the middle of the Horned King’s vanguard if we do.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z From the other side of the valley we could watch chimps arriving at the tree, feeding, then climbing down and vanishing into the forest. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if I was just a pebble in the valley. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When I last visited my parents, I had trouble falling asleep, too big for the hills and valleys scooped in the mattress by child-bodies. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them the road dropped down the gray shale hill to the clay flats of the valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We halted in a valley very like the one we had left that morning, a dell among white-humped hills. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, it has not rained, I told myself, for almost three weeks, and the fire planes have been circling the mountains and valleys, patrolling the mountains. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The castle dominated the broad fertile valley that maps and men alike called Blackwood Vale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Behind them in the valley, the highway was a faint dark vein through the yellow sand and red rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The water forms a small pool at the center of the valley, like it’s stopping to take a breath before rushing on to meet the river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The road passed slowly, winding down the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Then go, return to your cell and read the Psalms. Let them do the work of searching your heart, scaling its mountains and descending its dark valleys. Commit them to your memory.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The fire makes the room warm and with the flames dancing in the coal you can see faces and mountains and valleys and animals leaping. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Frodo stood near the open door and watched the white chalky path turn into a little river of milk and go bubbling away down into the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Six of them took their boards up and out the other side of the valley, down a stream churning with white water, and along a razor- sharp ridge filled with iron ore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Tayo looked down at the valley, at the lights of the town and the headlights and taillights strung along Highway 66. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When he reached the end of the valley, he was confronted by a high granite cliff. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z King George II, ignoring French claims to the Ohio River valley, had given permission for colonizing the area to the Ohio Company, a group of Virginia landowners and London merchants. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For last year’s experiment, he had compared the background radiation around the mobile home with the background radiation in the Phoenix valley. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z All of the other boys looked up the valley, and so did our audience. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In fact, unless you know, it is hard to believe that there is any way out of the valley at the south end. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The Nile River valley, with its plentiful stands of papyrus plant, was long the primary source of this material in antiquity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Finally Arion zoomed between two mountains into a valley of ice and rocks, like a massive bowl of frozen milk with bits of Cocoa Puffs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The woods in the valley were still leafy and full of colour, and seemed peaceful and wholesome. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Halfway up War Mountain, the wind started to blow and the snow pelted down so thick I couldn’t see the lights of the houses in the valley below. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The others looked in the direction that Merry pointed out, but they could see little but mists over the damp and deep-cut valley; and beyond it the southern half of the Forest faded from view. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was a wide valley through which the road passed, as if the road itself had once been a river that now ran dry. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Looking through an opening on the south side of the flet Frodo saw all the valley of the Silverlode lying like a sea of fallow gold tossing gently in the breeze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At the turn of the nineteenth century, men and women like him carried progress on their backs, laying tracks across America, around valleys and lakes and through mountains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The two figures on the hill opposite stopped dead in their tracks, listening to the unbelievable sound as it echoed around the quiet valley. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same instant this thought hit him, he realized the odds were much better than even that the gunman across the valley was not alone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley was surrounded by rolling hills, and the tallest one, directly in front of us, was the one with the huge pine tree on top. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The Santa Lucias stood up against the sky to the west and kept the valley from the open sea, and they were dark and brooding—unfriendly and dangerous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And then, like a gust of wind, the music picks us up and we are flying in hang gliders like birds over the mountains, swooping in valleys and rising over peaks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Because for my father, that was the day he began his wanderings in the valley of the shadow of death. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Their account would claim my brothers first, then it would spread to my aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The captain found a tattered old map and jabbed at it with his pipe, saying, “This valley here, we now. You take, go on.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So I just sat there, looking way off, and tried to think who lived in that little white farmhouse with green shutters down in the valley. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z With their valley and crops flooded, the farmers instantly became “the water refugees,” forced to give up their land with little or no compensation from the government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “He knows more about water than anybody around here. He’s a water witch and a well-digger too. He’ll tell you. He’s put down half the wells in this part of the valley.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It shone brilliantly in the dark valley, so distant that she could blot it out with one hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I was right on the main highway of the cold winds as they tore down upon the valley below. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the lane curved to the left and fell away, sloping steeply down a hillside, so that they had a sudden, unexpected view of a whole valley laid out in front of them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z All around were the green hills with the stream chattering below in the valley. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet it is—what is the word I—companionable to know there is someone else in the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He imagined it flying on until it spied a narrow green valley, a scooped-out basin with a creek looping and winding its way through the center. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘But I will give to Ents all this valley to do with as they will so long as they keep a watch upon Orthanc and see that none enter it without my leave.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He flew, hopped, climbed to its crown, and looked down on the vast valley the river had carved. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In a valley between the mountains lay a massive field of ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I should be tan, sporty, blond — a volleyball player, or a cheerleader, perhaps — all the things that go with living in the valley of the sun. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It runs downhill, so, in fact, continuing down into this valley isn't a bad thing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Sitti waved her arm at the expansive view across the valleys and hills. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She skimmed down the mountain and followed the river valley to Main Street. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I did that I actually felt like I was flying, soaring into the night sky over Coalwood and through the dark valleys and mountain hollows that marched away in the moonlight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was harder than he had imagined to find the special tree but eventually they came to a valley where the conditions seemed right for the growth of such a tree. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Up the sides of the valley grew thick stands of thatching grass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But shining under the sun as far as he could see down the valley, many more puddles remained, full of red muddy water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the smoke there was a morning mist in the air, a white finger creeping down into the valley from a bank of clouds nestled against the mountain higher up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We get to the top of the far hill of the valley just as another rattle of gunfire echoes across it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Now they were over the t p of the cliffs and in a few minutes the valley land of Narnia had sunk out of sight behind them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Never once did I witness any disharmony between one of my uncles and the earth and work of the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is a story,” Ash said, “of a stag that runs into a valley, and of the huntress who followed it.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In a short time, Doli led the little band into the valley, where they found concealment in the wooded groves. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The caravan descended the trail into the valley, and Lazlo looked about himself, amazed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Years of wind and no rain had finally stripped the valley down to dark gray clay, where only the bluish salt bush could grow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “This. Fresh eggs. Toast. Coffee. This valley. You, all by yourself. You are all by yourself?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Will grumblingly accepted the southern half of the valley as his exclusive area, and within fifteen years the valley was two-deep in Fords and Will was a rich man driving a Marmon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They left the city and came into the open country where the houses were far apart and the hills and gentle valleys began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment a movement in the valley caught Chup’s attention, and, good provider that he was, he left the aerie to catch a pigeon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When evening twilight came they dropped by steep tracks into a valley and found a village. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The answer came to him as they flew over a valley that held thousands of roaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He could not remember having seen any sign of these in the valley, when he looked out from the hill in the morning. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then heavy breathing like the howl of the wind rushed toward them, and then a paw the size of a small car emerged from the foggy darkness of the valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes, if we’d spent the whole day flying about the valley, delivering herbs and doing prenatal exams, Mother would use that money to take me and Audrey out to eat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The room looked westward over the mist-clouded valley, and the window was open. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Don’t you believe me? When I walk through the valley of the shadow the Lord is supposed to be with me, and he’s not! Do you see him here in this boat?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet when she looked across the valley to the far ridge, she saw the Greatjon's riders emerge from the darkness beneath the trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, the valley west of Tam Ky, I think. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley was desert, withered and yellow-gray except for the crooked band of green that marked the course of the Fortaleza River. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Besides, Frank had already flown over the whole valley as an eagle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The land is divided between bare mountain slopes and fertile valleys that support both grazing and farming. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He also managed to ask about the valley with the rainbows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Under the light of the two moons, the whole valley kinda shines, across the Farbranch buildings and back up into the hills where the orchards are. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He imagined hordes of monsters descending into this valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “See, my darling, how the house lies—windows looking down the valley?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You can see the whole valley from here.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I followed the trail two miles through the valley and up on to the summit of a high pinnacle called Fourth Mountain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Farming is difficult in the high, cold, steep-walled valleys, so the traditional Sherpa economy revolved around trading between Tibet and India, and herding yaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Eagles nested in the heights and came down to hunt the valleys, circling effortlessly on great blue-grey wings that seemed almost part of the sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At night, as the stars unfurled, cool air cascaded off the hills into the valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z No one was in sight; and he led the way quickly down towards the wooded valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From what I’d heard, my parents were powerful people in the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It is the land grant to all of the territory from the silver mountains to the blue hills, from the dead salt sea there to the distant valleys of moonstone and emerald,” said the Leader. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the West Virginia history books, no one had ever lived in the valleys and hills of McDowell County before we came to dig out the coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Just don’t make him angry, or he’ll force you to measure every blade of grass in the valley.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s pleasant to imagine the brothers becoming reacquainted, hunting, sleeping, and playing together as they roamed free across those stony, broken hills and warm, sheltered valleys. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z By around 5,000 years ago, pollen analyses testify to widespread deforestation of highland valleys, suggesting forest clearance for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Open fires dotted the valley, surrounded by small groups of people. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They could see far down into the valley now; the mists were lifting and floating away upon the breeze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I have picked mushrooms and blackberries on the ridge; for anything else, I have had to sneak into the valley at night. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z So they drew up to the edge of the valley, where an outcrop of rock formed a sort of jetty, and disembarked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Robb came back to her on a different horse, riding a piebald gelding in the place of the grey stallion he had taken down into the valley. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And the afternoon winds blowing inevitably down the valley started a dust that was like fog and raised it into the sky almost as high as the mountaintops. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The clouds were breaking, and moonlight shot through them to fall across the floor of the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And they killed a man in the valley because he refused to wear his pants short the way the Taliban did. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At that moment a low, throbbing noise began which gradually swelled louder and louder till the whole valley seemed to be swaying with it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Soon the vlei looked as deserted as a valley on the moon. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They hear a humming sound, the drone of a small plane, and they turn as the plane enters the valley between the mountains. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The road dipped now into a broad green valley and stretched toward the horizon. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time we crossed over into the valley of the seventies, Lefty was back in the fifties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When I looked down the valley, there was a light on every porch, and I could see the dark shapes of people walking up the street toward the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They went on to a little valley, then, and followed a brook that made one huge curve after another, doubling itself over like a coiled rope. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z As he reached the clump of thistles where he had spoken to Kehaar that morning, a long roll of thunder sounded from across the valley beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Please, God, I prayed, help us to protect our valley and to stop this violence. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In that valley of shadow and cold deathly light it seemed unbearably violent and fierce. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Patches of rougher and mare bristling green appeared in the valley. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The low-slung clouds threw the valley into twilight, and we had to keep the quinqués lit all day so we could find our way in the shuttered house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In the west they could not make out either the line of the Hedge or the valley of the Brandywine beyond it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Across the narrow valley, now almost on a level with his eyes, the walls of the evil city stood, and its cavernous gate, shaped like an open mouth with gleaming teeth, was gaping wide. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z With the tree and grass cover removed, erosion proceeded and valleys silted up, while irrigation agriculture in the low-rainfall environment led to salt accumulation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Another hour, and most of the valley was in shadow, and Will was wondering whether they would find any shelter before night fell; but then Lyra gave a cry of relief and joy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He decided instead that he could best serve the search for life on Mars by voyaging to the most Mars-like environment on Earth— the dry valleys of Antarctica. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the top, they looked down into a small valley that was mostly clear of forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z From somewhere in the valley below comes the sound of drums. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Finally, she drops down into a valley where there are houses on large parcels of land. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then a few rich people of the valley bought automobiles, and his mechanic worked on them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From there the valley below was green and peaceful. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It has lots of woods but also castles and farms and steepled villages and winding river valleys—the whole, as it were, European package. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A moment earlier Fd noticed that wispy clouds now filled the valleys to the south, obscuring all but the highest peaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z This one led down toward a small valley surrounded by walls—a gated community, which seemed to be the only happy part of the Underworld. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Once, fifty miles down the valley, my father bored a well. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even if a particularly fertile valley could feed 500 archaic Sapiens, there was no way that so many strangers could live together. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The white people in the valley weren’t rich enough then to want maids; they were small farmers and tradesmen and wanted hard-labor help if anything. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Almost certain this valley is where that Berg returned after every trip.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Six days later the valley received ten inches in less than twenty-four hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Soon it began to descend rapidly and they guessed that it must actually be heading towards the Withywindle valley: not at all the direction they wished to take. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Broad valleys were completely deforested and dotted with villages, and drained and fenced fields for intensive food production covered entire valley floors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a pleasant park in a wooded valley, quite empty on this fine morning. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But the valley and the morning were green. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I dreamed that it would be a man, for then, some time in the future—it is a dream, I know—there might be children in the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z This time Tayo could see something different, although they walked up the valley together as they had when Robert came before, looking at the spotted cattle, examining the calves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The land was gentle enough, rolling hills and terraced fields interspersed with meadows and woodlands and little valleys where willows crowded close to slow shallow streams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He thrust his sword in the sky and thunder shook the valley. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Next day around noon he reached the high open valleys around the Little Baldy Bear Lakes, which were invisible under ten to fifteen feet of snow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were rolling straight over our valley, sealing us in like a coffin lid. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the valleys of the Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers, other peasants monitored, with no less trepidation, the height of the water. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The same white-columned Greek buildings were scattered around the valley—the amphitheater, the combat arena, the dining pavilion overlooking Long Island Sound. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z To my oxygen-depleted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm looked innocuous, wispy, insubstantial. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Just before sundown he spread his wings and soared out over the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “The point is, the borders are sealed to keep mortals and monsters out. From the outside, mortals look into the valley and see nothing unusual, just a strawberry form.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Looking across the valley, they watched for elephants, and they saw rock hyraxes—furry animals the size of groundhogs—running up and down the boulders near the mouth of the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Partially hidden in a valley on the outskirts of the Golden Crescent, near the intimidating mountain cliffs of what Chestnutt called Isihlangu, it was surrounded by seven spiraling towers made of ivory and gold. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Then in the Clarkston area of Washington the insects became refractory — they were harder to kill than in the orchards of the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys and elsewhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A large farm lies in the valley below. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z California Native American hunter-gatherers traded with Native American farmers in the Colorado River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From my meadow I could see the valleys turning green. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, when I got tired from a long trek to another valley, I could make a drink in the middle of the day. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But Isengard is a circle of sheer rocks that enclose a valley as with a wall, and in the midst of that valley is a tower of stone called Orthanc. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Stretched out in the valley below was the biggest person Thor had ever seen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A quiet, remote, very beautiful farming valley that had not changed a great deal in 200 years was lost forever. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z To their left, the Olympic valley shimmered in the afternoon heat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was cloudy outside and the wind was blowing hard down the valley. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “With your help, I can bring rain back to this valley, and all the animals will return!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The valley floor was carpeted with turkeys, it seemed like millions of them, so densely packed that they covered the earth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much to guide us but the trees themselves and a view I remembered of the blunt, bulky Inyo Range that bounds the eastern limit of the valley. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And I walked near that valley every day! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The river and the road have straightened out as the valley gets steeper and closer on both sides. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s three, maybe four miles away down the farther valley. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Her lips didn’t move, but her voice echoed across the valley. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Down in the valley, the Cyclopes work crew cheered as the temple roof was set in place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We were high up in the foothills, at least five hundred feet, and down below a valley spread out, filled with a tumbled collection of red mesas and boulders and spires of stone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a valley through which a broad, swift river wound its way, flowing eastward toward the sun. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Their route swung to the west as they rose out of the valley, still between the ancient walls. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And once the ski valley was completed there would be pressure to raise taxes for a better road up to it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had grown up in the greenest, most beautiful valley on the island. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a short fuse, that was just fact and anybody in the valley could have told you as much. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The road dropped into the flat valley and revealed the adobe houses of the peaceful village. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley was green, from the yellow sandstone mesas in the northwest to the black lava hills to the south. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the sky felt deep and dark as if a large soft blanket had been thrown over the hills and valleys. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her beauty was the talk of the valley. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Right now they’re talking to Mrs. Roth, whose family lives on the other side of the valley. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I learned much from those men who were as dark and quiet as the earth of the valley, and what I learned made me stronger inside. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Down their slopes the flame ran to the low-lying valleys and the dark forest lands, until all things everywhere were ablaze. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The flame of the sunset lifted from the mountaintops and dusk came into the valley, and a half darkness came in among the willows and the sycamores. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cumberland Plateau is a wild and mountainous region of flat-topped ridges, mountain walls five hundred to a thousand feet high, and narrow valleys, some wide enough only for a one-lane road and a creek. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Yet that was not true, for as we descended into the valley, a deer suddenly appeared in the trees ahead and went bounding off down the slope. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And I am not a pebble in the valley. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Soon, Howard had a little track of three eighths of a mile cut out of the flat valley land. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran into him just as he turned up the valley to follow the stream bed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They tramped up a hill and down into a heavily wooded valley, careful to avoid the black-and-red-striped snakes sunning themselves on the rocks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The absence of wind today means we’re spared the smell of manure from the Roth’s farm across the valley. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The bakers were already at work, and carts rolled quietly toward the market square, bringing their daily burdens of produce from the valley farms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s at the bottom of a small valley, so I’m relieved it’s a downhill run. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z White Bear and the other boys rode hesitantly down into the valley. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But the Islamist regime that came to power in Sudan in a 1989 coup wanted access to the vital soil of the Nuba valleys. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It continued on down the valley, all the way to the Big Store. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z While I tried to think of a response to that, she pointed down into the valley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I can feel the muscles in my face relaxing, my pace quickening as I climb the hills to our place, a rock ledge overlooking a valley. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Her large, black-brown eyes observed the forest, the cascading stream, a town tucked into a steep valley, and rolling mountains as far as she could see. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Looming over them all was the jagged peak called the Giant's Lance, a mountain that even mountains looked up to, its head lost in icy mists three and a half miles above the valley floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Other clouds cast broad shadows across the valley. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There is, for example, the red planet Mars, with soaring volcanoes, great riff valleys, enormous planet-wide sandstorms, and, just possibly, some simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to shake the words away with “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for behold, thou art with me...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The center of the valley was covered with a fine black fuzz of peppery dots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The rich citrus orchards of the Rio Grande valley do not relate to the sagebrush grazing of South Texas. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet she could hear, and the valley rang with echoes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “We were supposed to start at dawn today, head out to the southern valley and scout for another branch location. A few more weeks of this overcrowding and I might get snippy.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It took up at least a quarter of the valley, with trees so tall and thick, you could imagine nobody had been in there since the Native Americans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The plane soars to the end of the valley, rises and turns elegantly, heading back toward the local airport to the west. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z By the time they got to the southern end of the valley and found a cave that would fit all three of them, the tips of her ears throbbed and her nose was numb. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I sat down and we watched the draccus make its plodding way to the middle of the valley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Our house, Mother adjusting Papa’s tie in the kitchen, the lily of the valley, Grandma...Her face soothed me somehow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In fact, it was Pacheco’s wife who taught him for free back when she gave piano lessons to any kid in the valley eager to learn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In a hundred valley houses fires started burning in combination wood and gas stoves, and men, dressed already in irrigation boots, quietly ate breakfast with their wives and children. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Oxygen, fresh, pure, green, cold oxygen turning the valley into a river delta. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I find myself standing on one of what seems like a million floating islands, staring down into the most beautiful valley I’ve ever seen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As for the valley, I had wondered enough about it, especially in the first few months when I was still expecting the deadness to creep in from outside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The valley behind them slept in darkness, but an unwelcome glow was descending. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The sky remained gray, threatening, the valley dark, their ridge and part of the meadow around the ninth Little Baldy Bear Lake a sheer, dully gleaming white. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Without realizing it, Anya glanced their way as the sun crested the hills and splashed its first waves over the valley. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Animules,” he had said, “idgits who live in the valley of the shadow of death. Be attuned to your environment. Know what is going on about you. Make yourself aware.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Reyna watched in horror as the earthen tide reached the edge of the valley. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death . While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He obviously had plans and I soon learned what they were: he wanted to explore the length of the valley and take a look beyond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They stayed until the sun had gone to the end of the valley and the she-elk was a dark blue shadow on the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We’d heard rumors of rain in the river valleys west of us, and those tales aroused the deepest thirst you can imagine—the thirst of dying crops and animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley lies deep in the forest, beyond the big tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z For example, in the Fertile Crescent food production and village life originated in hills and mountains, not in lowland river valleys. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No fox from our valley would venture past the territory boundary. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The talks continued for more than two years, in peaks and valleys of hope and gloom, while the test ranges remained silent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But she had no idea where the valley was, and it would be, in any case, too long a journey for her and the children. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They were at the head of a large valley, fed into by the foothills of the mountain forests that had burned in the recent fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Provided with a single motorcycle, its bin full of rich seeds and sprouts, he had parked his vehicle in the valley wilderness and struck out on foot over the land. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful tipped one wing steeply, turned, and glided with the flow out over the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be long before the large circle rested flat on the valley floor, facing the sky and waiting for something to land on it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Winnie examined the painted roses and lilies of the valley, and smiled in spite of herself. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Below in the little valley the still gray serpentine of a river. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “This one is in my valley, too,” I told one of the nurses. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And when we find ourselves In the place just right ’Twill be in the valley Of love and delight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Liyana realized she was staring at the subtle valley above his upper lip, the small elegant dip under his nose. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t forget, maps can have streams, valleys, mountains,” calls the driver. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He swung down a valley and up again. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z "In the valley on the other side of the hill. I had my men pick a sackful as we marched past." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to jump out of the truck and run, run down the hills dipping into sandy valleys in front of familiar houses bordered with passion fruit and morning glory. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Beyond the Rio Puerco, to the southeast, he could see the blue mountains east of the Rio Grande, where the rich valley was full of their cities. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She leaned forward and kissed him one time on the mouth, then they both looked out the window into the valley, side by side. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He heard singing: “Walked in the valley, it looked so fine, I asked my Lord was all this mine.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Not till the first stripes of dawn start appearing down the valley in front of us do we stop to take on more water. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The mists were rolling back from the valley, and a pale sun was lighting the sky when the old dog came through the windbreak of tall Norway pines and down outside the farmhouse door. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The two foxes had been traveling for hours, but Gray was slow and rested often, so they had only just reached the valley basin. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Unusually for a dragon, it dwells in valleys rather than mountains. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided that somehow or other we would have to work out a compromise, a way that we could both live in the valley even though not as friends. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When the storm passed and the sun came out, Chup set out over the valley, not to hunt, not to check on populations of doves and ducks, but simply to fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Harry gazed down toward the pond and over the green valley with fields of cabbages blue in squares and meadows going brown here and there. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the hills,’ he said, ‘and then let all the foes of Gondor flee!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z This time of year, the valley shimmers with clumps of orange jewelweed and sapphire bellflowers that shoot up from a blanket of moss so soft you could lie down and sleep for a thousand years. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I have hoped and prayed for someone to come, someone to talk to, to work with and plan for the future of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Then she stood and took from the washstand beside the bed a little square-shaped object, a music box painted with roses and lilies of the valley. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s nearly quarter to four when we walk into the valley where the Grounds are, and I remember Sophie and me here, over at the athletic track. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Then an announcement echoes through the valley: “Return to your Mercury Homes immediately. Await instructions via your media units.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z In that direction the land rose in wooded ridges, green, yellow, russet under the sun, beyond which lay hidden the valley of the Brandywine. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Early in the new year, we journeyed to two grass huts in a secluded valley on the banks of the Mbashe River, known as Tyhalarha, the traditional place of circumcision for Thembu kings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A mountain-locked valley is more like an island than anything else I know. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulldozers had flattened millions of tons of coal tailings to create a black desert that stretched far down the narrow valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To our right, way in the distance, is a snowy valley. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As they began to climb its first slopes they looked back and saw the lamps in Hobbiton far off twinkling in the gentle valley of the Water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There was a valley leading down on the other side, and it was thick with bushes, so they guessed there might be a stream as well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The three of us maneuver down into a valley of snow-covered stone, then weave up to avoid a sharp outcropping of rock. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The floor of the Salinas Valley, between the ranges and below the foothills, is level because this valley used to be the bottom of a hundred- mile inlet from the sea. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And then at last she saw him . . . only for an instant, framed between the branches of the trees as she looked down at the valley floor, yet she knew it was him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He told how he had first come to the valley fresh from Ireland, but within a few words neither Cathy nor Adam was listening to him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Below them to the east was the broad valley on either side of the White River. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z And Faber was out; there in the deep valleys of the country somewhere the five a. m. bus was on its way from one desolation to another. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The first settlers kept pigs and herded sheep on the hillsides, scratching out a living on small farms in the valleys. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Get over that hill and you’ll see a big farmhouse down in the valley. Run and don’t look back. Yell for help. Don’t stop until you reach the door.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Return to the warm valley, to the green grounds he could no longer light with his mortal vision? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A curious mixture: the white-columned houses high on the green hills, the shacks down in the dark valleys. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple years after I was born, my family left the mountains amid one of the many conflicts in the region and moved to a city in the valley below, Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It had knocked softly on the door of my uncles’ valley, and they had smiled and admitted her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I gazed across the valley and tried to remember how Camp Half-Blood looked the first time I ever saw it That seemed like a bajillion years ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z We walked up the beach towards the valley once again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Contentment would flood raging down the valley like the Salinas River in March of a thirty-inch year. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z No sign of Haven ahead neither but we’re at the flattest point of the valley and can’t see much past the twists in the road either before us or back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Evening sunshine flooded the valley floor between our garden and the Malverns. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Frodo could see it from his window, deep in the heavens, burning like a watchful eye that glared above the trees on the brink of the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the minister recited the psalm about lying down in green pastures and walking through the shadow of the valley of death and fearing no evil. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The big car was obedient under her one-hand driving, and she pulled on her Lucky Strike so hard that her cheeks were sucked in to make valleys in her face. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was true, the priest that came with the first colonizers to the valley of El Puerto had raised a family, and it was the branches of this family that now ruled the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a cold wind coming down the valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I say valley, but in truth it was more like a gigantic step among the foothills. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Aztecs extended their influence in the valley and eventually consolidated their power. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As they hiked down into the next valley, Piper wondered what was happening back on the Argo II. She was tempted to send an Iris-message, but Hercules had warned them not to contact their friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They lived in a fertile valley, the kind the government in Khartoum craved. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z That changed as the ground shook and rolled, and the tall palm trees in the valley began to whip back and forth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The scene disappeared in the fog, but when the mountain god bellowed again, other numina answered in the distance, their voices echoing through the valleys. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Three days’ walk north of this valley brought him to Songdo. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “He’s going to wander in the valley of the shadow of death all by himself.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He sighed as he looked at the gloomy ridges across the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil for we are always with you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I do not wish him dead, but I wish that by luck, by chance, he might have taken some other road and found some other valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I could’ve spent twenty minutes staring at the contours and valleys of his chest. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She had her hands on her knees and I touched my fingers to her knuckles, tracing the peaks and valleys, staring at her skin. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The valley’s first domesticated cereals were barley and emmer wheat, which are still among the world’s most productive crops today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The river cut through the valley below the town of Cold River. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z In the valley you’d find an injured animal; on the mountain, a dead one. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sarai looked down: at the gleam of the Cusp, beyond which the sun was soon to sink, and at the fine thread winding down the valley toward Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Down in the valley, the coyotes were howling at the moon. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The slave blinked and said he thought valley land was bottom land. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The night grew on, and the lights in the valley went out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It looked down at the lights in the valley, the houses of the peaceful country-folk. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because of the Taliban, the whole world is claiming we are terrorists. This is not the case. We are peace-loving. Our mountains, our trees, our flowers—everything in our valley is about peace.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If they suddenly rose up into a terrain full of valleys and peaks, she would be able to travel them blindfolded. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z There are no mountains, valleys, volcanoes, rivers; no boundaries between land and air; just a vast ocean of dense gas and floating clouds—a world without a surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That was a sheltered valley, open only to the South. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The other ran off across the valley and disappeared. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Looking down the broad valley, he saw a moving dust cloud. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z From the top of the high ridge at last we looked down, and the valley lay before us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dôme overlooked the valley. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds did not sing here as they did in the valley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Creosote bushes and paloverde trees framed a small, narrow valley, and in the center of this was a pool of water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “This kid was on an LDS mission, and that is highly regarded in this valley. We knew we’d have to pull him off the mission,” he recalls. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In tandem they flew down the river valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A slender speck came from the valley and glided above the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Entire valleys have been denuded of trees to meet the increased demand for firewood. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He came out on the crest of a hill forming one side of a valley, where a small stream meandered between alder-grown banks. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Edwin stopped beside a long rocky slope that rose several hundred feet to their right above the shallow valley. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I’d listened to Shawn’s shallow breathing as I raced through the valley, along Fivemile Creek, then shot up the Bear River Hill. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He looked across the lawns to the clearing in the woods where the valley sloped to the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew down the valley, picking up dust and straws, and grew stronger and harsher as it went south. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She flew up the river valley, spotted a rat moving along the side of a farm silo, and took it. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We’re deep in the valley, across the river, where the southernmost mountain mirrors the mountain to the north, across the water. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Her sisters braided up her pretty hair, and the only ornaments she wore were the lilies of the valley, which ‘her John’ liked best of all the flowers that grew. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed Parnassos’ rugged flank mantled in forest, entering amid high windy folds at noon when Helios beat upon the valley floor and on the winding Ocean whence he came. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On the far side of the river valley the road passed through a stark black burn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z One road, shaded by beeches, oaks, maples and chestnuts, connected it to die valley. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And I pictured him running down that pathway in the valley with his own hound of heaven at his heels. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He stood on the edge of the rimrock and looked down below: the canyons and valleys were thick powdery black; their variations of height and depth were marked by a thinner black color. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Great mountains. A cave near a valley full of rainbows...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was easy to pretend the car was moving, speeding away, that any moment the valley might disappear behind me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And so he considered the valley as much his as mine. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She emerged each year when the snows began to melt, facing south, watching the buffalo return to the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yes. Yes. A cave...her mother...valley full of winds and rainbows...tattered flags on the shrine...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s a telling me something else. In the next valley there’s a village by a lake where the folk are troubled by a ghost.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘Down into the valley quick, and then turn northward, as soon as ever we can.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A small rude table was set under a window that looked down into the valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “They would for prizes. A prize for everyone and a big prize for the winner—maybe a hundred-dollar prize. They’d sweep the valley clean. Will you let me try?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z South of Rivendell they rose ever higher, and bent westwards; and about the feet of the main range there was tumbled an ever wider land of bleak hills, and deep valleys filled with turbulent waters. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Yedsha leaned closer, and in a conspiratorial whisper, he said, “This river valley has more magical creatures in it than anywhere else I’ve been.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Although the valley people are slow to accept outsiders, they did not hesitate to come to me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked down the valley, and in the dim light could see the open earth on the land below. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the Ring that called to the Wraith-lord, and for a moment he was troubled, sensing some other power within his valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then she heard a train whistle from down in the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Kettles of northern peregrine falcons arrived in the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The road now led eastward straight across the valley, which was at that point little more than half a mile in width. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z My mother referred to it as a deep valley accent since you only found them in towns that didn’t have much contact with the outside world. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was homesick for the lush green hillsides of my valley, so Yma, who worked at the hospital, had arranged a trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The road went up the valley a long way and then we turned off and commenced to climb into the hills again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The valleys we found ourselves in were so deep they were gloomy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The nearest peaks rose ten thousand feet higher than the valley floor, with Whitney, the highest, just off to the south. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It was there I planned to go next, but before leaving the valley, I wrote my mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They traversed the slope of the ridge till it dipped into the head of the valley, and there, sure enough, among ferns and reeds, a spring bubbled out of the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z From the top of the hill, Annabeth could see the camp in the valley below—the warm lights of the cabins, the possibility of sanctuary. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The valley in which the;, had come down was in the heart of the mountains; snowy heights, one of them looking rose-red in the reflections of the sunset, towered above them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The abode of Sleep is near the black country of the Cimmerians, in a deep valley where the sun never shines and dusky twilight wraps all things in shadows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Instantly gold light rippled across the ground, into the valley of Camp Half-Blood and down the opposite side through the Roman ranks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Away south upon the Hornburg, in the middle night men heard a great noise, as a wind in the valley, and the ground trembled; and all were afraid and no one ventured to go forth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The three gods looked all around them, but there was no one else in the valley, only themselves and the cattle. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It beat like a fist against the travelers’ shelter, then pried with searching fingers, as if to seize and dash them into the valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Yet the air of the valley was heavy with fear and enmity. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Down in the valley, the legion reinforcements were halfway to the city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was far better and helped me a lot, showing me the trails through the forests and the best ways to move from one valley to the next. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yedsha and I have been all over this valley, between the two of us,” he said. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They bushwhacked up the valley, following elephant trails that meandered beside a little stream that ran through stands of olive trees and grassy meadows. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘One of the main gates into the Olympic valley.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Dawn is just reaching out to it across the valley below. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When he was done, the rain had stopped, and the thunder rumbled down the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “The river valley filled with cattle as I headed for the bridge. Thought they’d run me down.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z In daylight I can not go anywhere without the fear of being seen and shot at, so mostly I have stayed hidden at this end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Chiseled into a sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There was a valley, just below, and in it a little village. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Disruption rolled across the valley—grass turning to sand, forest crumbling to dust. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When the moon rose I left the cave and went off through the valley and over the three hills to my home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The darkness in the canyons and valleys below was rich and soft. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A movement halfway down the valley caught his eye. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She stared at the limpid, naked sky looking for traces of a cloud, hoping that sooner or later a drop of rain would fall to break the unbearable harshness of that lunar valley. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Passing through the towering ice pinnacles of Phantom Alley we entered the rock-strewn valley floor at the bottom of a huge amphitheater. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The entire Hephaestus cabin scoured the valley, finding bits and pieces of the Argo ITs broken hull, but no sign of Festus the dragon or his master. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was spring when I arrived in the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We could buy a valley farm with your promises.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Other times the mountains and valleys and forest were as still and as quiet as hawks in the air, a mile high, drifting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Darrell was the biggest kid in the whole school, towering over everyone with a greasy, meaty face full of hills, valleys, and potholes. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He gazed across the valley, where construction crews were working in the Field of Mars, building fortifications for tonight’s games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z ‘There was a darkness over the valleys of the Emyn Muil, and I did not know of their captivity, until the eagle told me.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was a storm coming, set to lay three feet of snow over Sardine Canyon, which guarded the entrance to our valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yesterday’s meal had cleared his senses and fueled his muscles, but now the eggs were gone from his belly and the smells of the warming valley brought on a powerful hunger. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His skin was a volcano, with sweat running down every valley. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We round a bend in the road and, in the distance, the Syrian flag flaps and fights in a warm breeze curving down the valley. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The electromagnetic separation plant was the largest and most complicated installation in the valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A low voice that echoed through the valley, a voice like she had never heard before. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And I'm still heading downhill, deeper and deeper into a valley that seems endless. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I have made a plan: I will steal the safe-suit and leave the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Rays of sun dance through the valley, painting light on the plains even as the floating isles cast patches of shadows; flocks of white birds cry out in formation below us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I think,” said Taran longingly, “that if I knew I were not to see my own home again, I would be happy to stay in this valley.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Before he could say anything, a voice echoed across the valley: You haven't won. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Wandering in the valley of the shadow of death. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They rested once more at the head of a rocky valley, because even Will could tell that Lyra was nearly finished: she was limping badly and her face was gray. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I can see how mountains create valleys, how the hills make depressions and rises. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It's amazing; this valley wasn't made by a river slowly carving it away. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I clambered back over the pinnacle of Fourth Mountain—much harder with a pack—and into another wooded valley beyond. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We set off together down the valley to the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The bullet had been accompanied by the sound of screeching tires, so apparently whoever had shot at us had taken off down the valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I slung my rifle forward as we made our way down the hall and into the valley. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Cottages clustered in the valleys below, and clear streams ran golden in the sunlight. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Apparently they stamp out yards in the valleys where they feed during the dawn and dusk, but many of them climb back to the hemlock grove to hide and sleep for the day. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z To feed Norte Chico’s burgeoning population, Shady discovered, the valley folk learned how to irrigate the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were numbers of these families and they got the good land of the valley and cleared the yellow mustard away and planted wheat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In a massive valley between two of the largest peaks, a ragged wall of ice rose out of the sea, filling the entire gorge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Riders were still in the low valley before the mouth of the Coomb, when cries and hornblasts were heard from their scouts that went in front. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The Regiment was driving a line, swinging to the fight, into the dark valley. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It stayed that way till the next morning, when we cleared a pass and came to a town that covered parts of both sides of the valley. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A smoky light out there in the valley. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green—the river and its fields. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It arose, clumsy and big—carrying food—and winged back to the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa Nyles pointed at the river in the valley below them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Fourteen of us packed into the minivan and started on the long descent to Franklin, in a snowless valley far below. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Upon the further side, some way within the valley’s arms, high on a rocky seat upon the black knees of the Ephel Dúath, stood the walls and tower of Minas Morgul. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was a secluded valley tucked into the bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A heavy mist hung over the valley so thick it was like a white blanket which parted only enough for the next step to be seen, then closed in again. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z For two days I slogged steadily up the valley of ice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked over the flat dry dusty valley and the ugly mushroom towns and they saw a loveliness—who knows? maybe in our lifetime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Shorty drove; slowly they swung away from the house, heading down through the canyon into the valley. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well”—he flung her hand away stiffly—“it’s good you’re truthful! I heard every word you said in your sleep. You mentioned the valley and the time.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there are some trees in the valleys under the mountains, sound as a bell, and bad right through. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The chilled wind blew around the corners of the houses nestled in the dark valley, brooding, singing of the old blood which was mine. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few miles up the valley the river cuts in under a high cliff from which vines and ferns hang down. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a high snowy mountain and it dominated the valley but it was so far away that it did not make a shadow. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s a relief to reach the edge of the valley and see Boomer down below, lapping water from the stream. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Ringed by the Oakland Hills, the valley was at least twice the size of Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then they came out of the narrow valley and at once she saw the reason. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z At times he thinks Edward is here in the valley, in the house; at other times Air. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He is calmed by the valley opening before him—the one it should take an hour to get through before he reaches the house a mile or two this side of Vienna. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "We have to follow this road along the ridge, cross these hills, go through the woods on the far hills, and come down to the Irati valley," I pointed out to Bill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley and dropped behind the peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We run deeper into the wood, until the ground rolls like a gentle wave down into a little valley, where there’s a green glade cut cleanly in half by a diamond-bright stream. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He ran past the glass ruins and called, “Magister Spurge!” out to the mountains and valleys. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Perhaps two hundred yards across the small valley, Antelope Peak and Cabresto Mountain were still brightly lit and summery. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They can’t follow when the chimps cross a narrow, steep-sided valley by swinging from tree to tree, or when they climb the slender vines that often hang down a sheer cliff face. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Other wanderers were rare, and of evil sort: trolls might stray down at times out of the northern valleys of the Misty Mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z With each step I seemed to move further away from my own life, as it had been; yet everything I saw tied me closer to the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Today is Sunday and throughout the valley the church bells are pealing dong dong la-dong, that most warming of sounds ringing in the air, dong dong la- dong. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “Fellow in the army told me there’s valleys in California—miles and miles—and you can’t find a stone, not even a little one.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She could see the village, nestled in the valley. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Then the road would round a corner and there would be a small, perfect field of golden wheat tucked among the trees, or nestled into a valley surrounded by dark stone bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he soared up into the cold air and glided out over the valley as Will began to search for a world where Lyra would be safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Only the tops of the Gabilan Mountains flamed with the light of the sun that had gone from the valley. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole valley, the whole West was that way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, by Tisquantum’s time defensive palisades were increasingly common, especially in the river valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Across the valley, clearly discernible among the bare trees on the opposite slope, he saw two familiar and beloved golden and white figures. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat crosslegged in the leaves at the crest of a ridge and glassed the valley below them with the binoculars. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Could he have been living in another valley? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “It’s coming from that valley with the lake in it,” said Fledge. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z A long sloping valley marched inland, dotted with scraggly olive trees and limestone boulders. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The moon was now high enough to peep down into the valley. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z To the west, passing a lumber mill teepee burner whose tip glowed red, was an orchard valley along the Rio Grande. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The camp is set low in a valley, a vast spread of tents in endless rows and clusters. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The Uzumark wasn’t a single, massive subterranean channel, but an intricate network of waterways that carved their way through the valley bedrock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even from the edge of the valley, Annabeth could feel its power tugging at her soul. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Day and night the wind roared across the valley, knocking over old cottonwood trees and driving people crazy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s late Sunday morning, and everyone has gone to Otavalo except me and the other maids, who are pasturing the cows in the valley. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s still dream Noise I’m hearing but the word repeats thru the sleeping men like echoes down a valley. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z On a warm afternoon I had grown bored and decided, against my better judgment, to go to the east ridge of the valley to gather berries. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Their path joined a track which ran between two stone walls and dropped down into a valley that had not been visible from the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I can’t say how long we were there before the song interrupted us, but when I caught my breath and came out into the bowl of the valley, it was full dark. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “We can’t see the chicks, we can’t follow the falcon—” “There are some transformers up the valley, where our falcon went,” said Molly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z On the ridge south of Engine Rock, he stopped to look down at the Acoma valley and the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a book of philosophy at least ten thousand years old he had found in one of the villas of a Martian valley town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Right, a dove and a lily of the valley. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I suppose he went out of the valley, looking for David, and died. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z If he was right, the valley where Lyra was captive, according to the shaman, lay some way to the east and the south, and the best way there led through a pass called Sungchen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Someone—I think it was Mr. Bradbrook—had knocked the globe of the world off Mrs. Baker’s desk, and there was now a deep valley where the Himalaya Mountains had once been. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z This made it quite easy to move around, except that the slopes above the valley were very steep in places, and I slipped several times on the loose, gravelly soil. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Some made their homes in the river world of the Amazon basin, others struck roots in Andean mountain valleys or the open pampas of Argentina. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun shone, rain fell, winds blew, currents flowed, the sea built up hills, the sea dug up valleys—the Tsimtsum did not care. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I mean papá’s dream about moving to California, and mama wanting us to settle along the valley—” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the fort gates, Percy stopped and gazed across the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Although El Puerto was only ten miles down the valley, this trip was the only one we ever took and it meant a great deal to her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z While the congregation recited the Twenty-third Psalm—“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for thou art with me...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And when we arrived at the village we saw the homed day-moon fixed exactly between the two dark mesas at the southern end of the valley! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A low range of mountains made a bowl of a valley cut through by a beautiful river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The valley was enclosing this totality, like the mind holding all thoughts together in a single moment. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Rows of blue runway lights stretched out along the valley floor behind us, delineating Og’s private landing strip. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was an open valley below him, partly cultivated, then a long bare rise to the Union line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 Here there were wooded valleys, streams, sunlight on the poplars which they could not take away unless they killed him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump with panting vitality as we went by. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or with complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It had been built into the side of a mountain, overlooking granite peaks and a valley carved by ancient glaciers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We started picking our way through the hills and valleys of junk. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Ahead of us, cleared and revealed by the same vast sweep of the wind, lay twisted valleys, hundreds of feet below, full of ice and boulders. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Before long she was delivering so many babies that Audrey and I spent our days driving around the valley with her, watching her conduct prenatal exams and prescribe herbs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I’ve seen many other places, but my valley remains to me the most beautiful place in the world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the midst of the valley stood the black foundations of the western watch-tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Spender saw the thin dust rising in several places in the valley and he knew the pursuit was organized and ready. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to remember exactly what he had seen in the dream, but all that came back was a mountainous horizon and the outline of the little village cradled in a deep valley. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They are still considered outsiders by the tough Scotch-Irish who have farmed the rocks of the valley floor for nearly two hundred years. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She went as often as she could to the little valley, to run errands for the woman or simply to chatter and listen, for the woman had wonderful tales to tell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The whole valley floor, and the foothills too, would be carpeted with lupins and poppies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The sound seemed to rumble through the hills and flatten out over the valley. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the four of us soared across the valley, over a road, and landed on the terrace of the visitor center. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I came to a clear space: the floor of the valley was thick with darkness, but the pond shone as round and clear as a mirror. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The sun would glance off the white snow, the birds would fly through the trees, and I would come home with a fresh meal from the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly there was a loud popping bang, and then a heavier but also sharper explosion that ricocheted across the valley. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dogs were barking up and down the valley, a battery of yips and yelps and howls. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I look back over my shoulder at the valley still erupting behind us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I was on a little hill in the jungle with several other Marines looking down on the valley below, which was still in Japanese hands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They burned the king’s palace to the ground and emptied the rest of Tilcajete, leaving Monte Alban firmly in control of the entire valley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Matt settled on another rock, not too near.The sun was sliding behind the hills and shadows crept into the little valley. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Often she had no money to pay assistants and worked alone in the nearly empty valley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The strangest part of the valley was right below him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I was in a field that sloped down steeply not far in front of me, and I could see the lights of some village way below in the valley. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I am hiding now in thick woods high up on the west ridge near the gap at the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A wide valley is opening up around us, flat at the bottom where the river is but distant hills beginning to climb up on either side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Beyond that, the Little Tiber curved gently around the valley, tracing the edge of the Berkeley Hills, hazy and golden in the summer light. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As he came to the valley’s brink, he set to his lips a great black horn and blew a ringing blast. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The valley itself, with its brown, cool river, and grass and moss and wild flowers and rhododendrons, was such a pleasant place that it made you want to ride slowly. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z On the wide level acres of the valley the topsoil lay deep and fertile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They spent the rest of the day exploring the burrows, the crevices, the hidden lairs of the secret valley. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to jump up and down and pump my fist and let out a cheer that would echo across the valley below us. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Later, as the other children came along and grew, Samuel belonged to the valley, and it was proud of him in the way a man who owns a peacock is proud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I looked back down the valley at all the houses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hazel, however, returned and sat pensive at the lip of the hole, looking out at the silent, rippling veils of rain that drifted across and across the little valley between the two copses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I know there’s water below, twisting through the valley. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z ‘The time, Faramir, the time? When did you part with them? When would they reach that accursed valley?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And when they came out of the woods at the top they could see thousands of lights in the valley down below them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z In another fifteen minutes he was approaching the end of the valley, and the beginning of the deadness beyond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She walked under it and looked out on the river and the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At the same time, the master quarryman was sent to supervise fifty apprentice stone cutters and two hundred and fifty laborers who would work in the Somme valley, an area known for its limestone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Down the middle of the valley ran a stream with marshy paddocks on either side. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Before them stretched a valley big enough to fit the San Francisco Bay. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Evergreen trees grew along the sides of the surrounding mountains, but the forest of the valley below appeared no larger than bits of lichen and twigs. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The weather lifted and the cold and they came at last into the broad lowland river valley, the pieced farmland still visible, everything dead to the root along the barren bottomlands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Before the inland sea the valley must have been a forest. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z South is Eagle’s Ridge, and below it, a valley and a stream flowing east.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Nobody in town can see or hear you. You’ve got the entire valley.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Although we had been told that the Taliban had fled, there was still violence in the valley. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The two men stopped in the road and looked out at the valley, green tinged from the early rains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The interior of Svalbard was mountainous, with jumbled peaks and sharp ridges deeply cut by ravines and steep-sided valleys, and the cold was intense. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Our fight back in the valley had dissolved in the thick brew of tragedy, no more than a seasoning that we might pull out later on. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z So he told the slave that he was very sorry that he had to give him valley land. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We stood on a slope of a wooded hill, and the path wound away before us to a valley, by the side of a running stream. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z All through the day, the heavy thump of the locomotives’ steam pistons thundered down our narrow valleys, the town shaking to the crescendo of grinding steel as the great trains accelerated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He kept his eyes only ahead of him, going on down this wide shallow valley under the sun, away from First Town, waiting for the rains to come. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a bird of the cliffs, open river valleys, and the bottoms of clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The mill, a little ways down the valley, was up and running again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They left the valley road and drove into the worn and rutted hills over a set of wheel tracks gulleyed by the winter rains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This is because their house sat higher up in the valley. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I peer at the valleys and pastures and red tile roofs spread out below us, dissolving into fog, and then up at the Imbabura mountain disappearing into a stony white sky. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought, not knowing the geography of the valley very well, that it was all the same stream. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And so, very silently, I moved away and looked for chimps in another valley. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z And the Amazon basin, essentially an astoundingly large river valley made of deposited mud, has almost no stone, so archaeologists wouldn’t even find that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Smokies usually only cut down trees from the valley, not the rest of the mountain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The valley roiled with warriors wherever he turned his eyes. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z White water pours between the black wet boulders and cascades into the valley below. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There are great mesas here, twice as high as the Tibetan plateau, an immense rift valley, possibly giant volcanoes and a mountain as high as Everest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I could smell the lily of the valley that Mother and I had planted two years ago. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When Lawrence visited Y-12 in May 1943, less than three months after ground had been broken, the sight of the transformed valley left him spellbound. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I thought, nature certainly works differently on mountains than in valleys. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Robbie was looking away across the park and the cows toward the oak wood that lined the river valley, the wood she had run through that morning. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Its head was high above the few trees scattered throughout the valley clearing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z They’re the only Jewish family I know, and every year, they invite the other families in the valley over to light the Hanukkah candles with them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It is surrounded by a stone wall and covered with lilies of the valley. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z An odd effect of the light, the ice, and the vapor enveloped the head of the valley in perpetual rainbows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he stood up, stretched, yawned, and listened to the peaceful wonder of the valley around him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But would they be dangerous to bring into the valley? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It began as a soft growl, like distant thunder, and finished as a roar that shook the trees and the rocks of the valley and the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A thousand feet below lay the old Ottoman capital of Bursa, like a backgammon board spread out across the valley’s green felt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her darker cheekbones arch too high on her face, leaving a shadowed valley to her jawline. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Judging from the size of the weapons, Reyna calculated that Octavian had enough firepower to destroy every living thing in the valley. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Under his deep brow they sparkled like frost in a valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z And where was Lupito’s soul winging to, or was it washing down the river to the fertile valley of my uncles’ farms? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nel and Sula walked through this valley of eyes chilled by the wind and heated by the embarrassment of appraising stares. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Through the window of the train he watched the passing landscape of the central valley. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon a thunderstorm darkened the river valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Looking down at the valley, Percy understood why she cared so much. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the middle of that valley was a glittering blue lake, with three small islands like a vacation resort in the Bahamas. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z That approach had raised Oak Ridge from an unpopulated valley in remote Tennessee; when national security hung in the balance, as it did now, who would begrudge a few hundred thousand kilowatts? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This road would take them all the way back to the Phoenix valley. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Down the valley a couple of crows were calling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Across the valley, set on the opposite hillside, was a handsome manor house surrounded by a wide expanse of velvety green lawn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We emerged, into a valley, surrounded on all sides by high walls of smooth rock. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Only in this valley. It seems weird at first, but it’s the way the pre-Rusties lived too, you know? And we’re planting more on the other side of the mountain, pushing into the orchids.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Beneath the walls of Isengard there still were acres tilled by the slaves of Saruman; but most of the valley had become a wilderness of weeds and thorns. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Elsewhere across the spacious valley far below, where once had proudly stood the Fabyan, the Mount Pleasant, the Crawford House, and many others, today there were only forest, highways, and motels. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Everyone Milo had met during his journey had come to help—the men of the market place, the miners of Digitopolis, and all the good people from the valley and the forest. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Adam waited out the winter, wandering up the river to Sacramento, ranging in the valley of the San Joaquin, and when the spring came Adam had no money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The dusk was settling deeply on the valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The valley was the most beautiful he had ever seen. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z There were clouds over the lake and over the valley. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I followed them across two hills and a small valley to a third hill whose face was a ledge of rock. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Melanie was soon as fascinated by the valley of the Nile as April had been. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z After crossing the valley, Tree-ear stopped on a peak at the far side and looked back. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The guards then loaded us into the back of two trucks and drove us across the valley beyond the notch in the hills where a road began. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I was only aware of the sense that I had been walking in a strange place, and of a feeling of disappointment when I awoke, at finding myself still in the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z With him in the valley—in the house—I decided I should cook better meals than I did when I was by myself. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z |
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