It was as if a black-waved, frozen sea had been sliced by a scythe, forming black, solid walls along a jelled path. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Em closed her eyes and leaned her head back against the wall. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the vast collage of documents pinned to the walls around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Rain sprays against the side of the building and streams down the walls. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Stassen saw the handwriting on the wall: his tenure as Eisenhower’s “secretary of peace” effectively had come to an end. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Next to them, along the back wall, sat the chaperones ... all keeping a watchful eye on the dancing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The windows of the room looked out on a wet garden with a wall topped by an iron fence. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

About the lowest tier, two hundred feet below where Sam now stood, there was a battlemented wall enclosing a narrow court. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He moved away from the door and resumed his position next to the opposite wall, hand pressed against it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With or without the walls that he built. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then the Palace was only a long bare room, lit dimly by two small windows, walled with unpainted wood smelling strongly of fish meal. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holes in the walls were plugged up and the shelves of books dusted off. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You, get on the wall,” he grunted at me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He backs up against the wall of the elevator car and gestures for her to enter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the plastic flowers near the sink, the faded wallpaper that Tía keeps telling her to take down, the wall clock shaped like a stopwatch, the teeny ants zigzagging near the leaky faucet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The first was it would involve pulling nails out of a wall so they could fold back a section of the blanket that covered the window. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The home-house stood on a hillside where wind whipped through cracks in the walls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She led them down the main street, and then down a side street, to a long, low building that had windows over most of its walls. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loma said the board walls in there were painted a bright yellow, and everything else was white: mantelpiece, door and window frames, iron bed, night stand, dresser, wardrobe, wicker chair—all white. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And the girl grabbed her mother’s hand and pulled her through the wall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stones where they stood were no different from any other part of the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A blue light pierced through a wall of brambles ahead and pulled Seven from her thoughts. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Stairs and dark rooms. There were swords hung on the wall, and spears and shields, like a museum. And I saw the young man. He was...dancing.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see a faint light gleaming on the wet walls; he could smell fresh air; he could hear the lapping of water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A Japanese scroll hung on a wall; it was a picture of Mount Fuji. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And by the looks of it, countless others who’d been infected had joined him—there were hundreds scaling the broken wall. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mouldering cardboard boxes were stacked along the walls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The walls of the Hall had all been covered in sparkling silver frost, with hundreds of garlands of mistletoe and ivy crossing the starry black ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the barn, another cow and the horse were tied to the wall, straining to get loose. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The astronauts’ offices were being moved into a brand-new building and I was assigned my own small office, with a big gray metal desk, several large bookcases, and a small blackboard on one wall. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the walls and floors were too thick for him to hear me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the new drapes covering the holographic walls, the mess hall was darker and gloomier than it should’ve been, but that couldn’t be helped. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The world had tightened around them, but beyond the walled wood still stood the great grey caves of manrock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sayle was staring at him, his damaged arm tucked into his side, supporting himself against one wall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The house's wooden walls and floor were as dark and slick as the inside of a turtle's den. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then the trampoline broke, but I didn’t go back to the old routine because Mum said it would damage the walls and furniture now that I was bigger. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she just ran a few feet before she stopped and slumped against the wall. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A flat-screen TV takes up a whole wall, and tropical fish swim around in a tank on another wall. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was cool and dark in there, with lit windows all along the walls. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The weighted head of Kaz’s walking stick whooshed through nothing and cracked against the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as I was through it, I turned around just in time to see the Crystal Gate transform into a large wooden door set into the castle wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As I crouched inside my bivouac sack under the lip of the bergschrund, spindrift avalanches hissed down from the wall above and washed over me like surf, slowly burying my ledge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three men came inside the low stone wall the boys had built. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a straw and leaned against the wall picking his teeth. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The council finally saw the handwriting on the wall and killed the project. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was scrubbing the house, the brick wall, scrubbing furiously at the chalk, grunting with the effort, her cheeks wet. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trash can whistled past them and crashed into a wall with a shockingly loud sound. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

These burros were not wild ones, but had saddles on them, and we rode them back up the Canyon wall after spending the night in an inn at the bottom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a long white wall, the backside of a row of shops. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Four wall frames stand vertically from the base of the trailer bed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Bigger paused, bewildered; then he saw coming slowly toward him a tall, thin, white woman, walking silently, her hands lifted delicately in the air and touching the walls to either side of her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Emily and James pressed against the wall to let them run by. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was leaning against the wall in a robe, talking on a cell phone, even though you weren’t supposed to use cell phones in the hospital. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slammed into the wall and felt bones crack. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was reported around the world, and it was said at one point that President Bush had a copy of it installed on the wall of the Oval Office. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Balls to the wall, man! Show them what you got!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A long workbench dominated one side of the room, the wall above it covered with tools supported on pegs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself off the wall and stood up straight. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Following the winding way up the green shoulders of the hills, they came at last to the wide wind-swept walls and the gates of Edoras. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A small town in Minnesota that I’ve passed through countless times en route to family reunions has a prison with a massive brick wall and turretlike guard towers, which I have spent hours thinking about. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the tenets of our instruction here at Miss Preston's is to attain enrichment beyond the schoolhouse walls, an endeavor that often takes us into nearby Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But it was late now: time to crawl back to his comfortable niche in the wall and go to sleep. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even within the stout walls of Maegor's Holdfast, with her door closed and barred, it was hard not to be terrified when the killing began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mark’s head slammed against a step, then the wall, then the floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had just hung them on the guest room walls. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The gods of Asgard came out to watch the builder as he hauled the rocks toward the wall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Page after page of Negroes in bridles, strapped to walls, advertisements for shackles, reports of hangings of slaves for theft or insubordination. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a Smartboard against one wall and a row of computers against another, but the center of the room felt old. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

What with the excitement and the thin walls, it’s easy to mistake the sounds. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come off it,” he told the wall irritably. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Round windows scattered high in the walls revealed the blue sky, and sunlight streamed in over a sight that caused Kaede to catch her breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I might as well be stuffed and hung on the wall like a stag's head—for all he notices me." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure imagines him hunched on the davenport, mumbling children’s rhymes and watching ghosts shuttle through the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a shadow from his hand on the wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was like talking to the wall of the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Little poufs and tables of knickknacks spring up like mushrooms, and the walls are lined with Stratocasters and Flying Vs, violins, an assortment of harps, one stout cello propped up in the corner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The slushed walls gradually peeled, inviting bats, rats and other nightly creatures to come live with us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was no use, and now she could not sleep, and the wind was buffeting the walls of their tent, keening like an army of ghosts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sirius lapsed into silence, still staring at the cave wall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Over the wall and under the wall the last assault came sweeping like a dark wave upon a hill of sand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It causes giddiness, elation, a tickling on the chest wall, the urge to climb a balcony on the rope of the beloved’s hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Through the loosely placed boards in the wall floated the bark and jabber of a talk-radio show about the latest soccer perfidy from Argentina, Brazil’s hated rival. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Celaena stumbled back from the woman and slammed into the wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At most other facilities these questions would never arise; the wall- posts would be situated where they would do the most good. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After splashing across the stream in the shallows, I stood at the bottom of the cliff and wondered how on earth I was going to climb the sheer wall. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were really closing—trapping him inside the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The drilling next door reverberated dully through the shared wall. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We took refuge in a nearby nurses’ dormitory, where we heard bullets smashing into the wall of the building. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall separating the two had been impregnable. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tristran had stood his first watch on the wall when he was sixteen years old. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She only caught glimpses of what passed: walls of white, glacial floors, and every once in a while, a torch burning with a cold blue flame. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The massive gate set into the ring wall was already being lowered closed, and it struck the stones with an ominous series of clanks and groans. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Requests and repeated requests, reporters at the basement door posing as utility men, utility women, they’re at the point where they simply want to get inside the walls. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pinned to the wall by itself. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t exactly sure which way to go, so my eyes darted to the various signs on the walls. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

On entering, they found index cards with each student’s name pinned up on the walls around the classroom, with clips fastened below them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Magdalys noticed newspapers scattered around on the tabletops and a bookshelf along one wall, overflowing with hardcover novels. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He ran back the way they’d come, sprinting along the low wall. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Two bunk beds are pushed against the walls in our bedroom, and Janae’s single bed is right beneath the front window. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were round, and stuck out from the wall into the moat, so that the archers could shoot in all directions and command every part of the wall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls are pinned countless pictures that I once used to cut out of the newspapers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are happy and sweet, funny and warm. —and stick them on the wall, where they overlap with others, a combination of colors and shapes and moods. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He started forward in a straight line, and the wall of officers before him parted like the Red Sea. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I rest my arms on the concrete wall and look down through the bare branches that are like dry coral. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But the wall where you suggest is the highest wall surrounding all of Florin Castle—it is fifty feet high at that point—so that would seem the least likely point of attack.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Conversat is less interesting, with too much writing, and some of it is only charts on the wall or looking through microscopes, which we can do whenever we want to anyway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Science posters were taped to every wall, including one of the periodic table that glowed in the dark. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind the light purple walls, but the flowy, white fabric tied in bows is too much. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Where once a mighty curtain wall had stood, only scattered stones remained, blocks of black basalt so large it must once have taken a hundred men to hoist them into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth stared at the wall of blackness in front of them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tonight we would have thick walls, a warm fire, and a solid roof to shield us from the snow. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She could hear Laxmi clearly, her sentences peppered every now and then with an Indian word, through the laminated wall between their desks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The passage down which he led them was softly carpeted, with cream-papered walls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see the ceilings dusty with flies, the ugly maroon walls, the bottles and sticky spoons. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, the wagon door swings open, and the forbidding walls of Blackcliff are before me, their oppressive weight driving the hallucination from my mind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The great accumulation of things almost hid the cracks in the walls and the stains on the floor and the scratches that clouded the windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The walls were perforated with holes like buckshot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After their meal, Garvey showed Cole how to lay out wall panels on the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

On the other side was a brick wall and buildings. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sheriff gestures toward a patch of wall in the distance with a group of Negroes and drovers patrolling it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She made her way through the trash heaps and then caught her breath when she reached the Tower wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Young boys began picking up stones and hurling them at the wall. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the old man by the blazer and shoved him against the wall. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

From a flat upstairs, an adult yelled, “Nee any a, if you children make patches on the garage walls with that ball, I will cut off your ears!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She watched her mother walk around their flat, collecting all the Catholic objects, the crucifixes hung on walls, the rosaries nested in drawers, the missals propped on shelves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the walls hung dozens of clocks, their stilled hands pointed every which way. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even though he knew the blind man wouldn’t see his gesture, he pointed to the nearby wall, which was decorated by a colorful wall hanging, a gift from the blind man’s talented daughter. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There, on the front wall of the room that served as NASA’s nerve center, was a huge lighted map of the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, we’re upstairs, tucked in some dark corner of the balcony overlooking the space, and he has me pushed against the wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The glass ceiling and boarded-up walls ended, and whatever lay ahead was covered in silence and blackness. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He tells her he sees a wall of fire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunch against the wall with the others as the explosion rocks the platform and bits of mutt and human flesh shoot out of the pipe and shower us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was what looked like a broad stone buttress there, running the full height of the wall, and at the top it continued into a stack of chimneys, with the moon shining brightly on them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Well, almost—a small video camera is attached to one of the concrete walls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The knife sliced the water, and grew, and kept rising, until it was a great wall, a jagged cliff, a triangle of what looked like stone above her head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The crows had been at them, but their crimson cloaks still showed bright against the sandstone walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

August tore the page for July from the wall calendar that hung by her desk in the honey house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned, looking around the room; he touched one finger gingerly to the letters on the wall and moved Theodora’s yellow shirt with his foot. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She headed up the sloping ramp that curled around Isihlangu’s walls. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I stare at the walls, at all of the drawings and doodles. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Matthias sat with his back against the Abbey wall, his mind in a turmoil. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“A twenty-two! Mom dug it out of the wall.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of Craster's women was backed up against the mud- spattered wall of the keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He clutches his gut, his shoulders hitting the wall, and fires again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He lunged at Trip and slammed him into the wall, his fingers locked around the god’s throat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It rose up here from the edge of the water as abruptly as a high wall. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook and Henry both erupted into motion, Henry heading upstairs toward the bedrooms, Cook to the black telephone mounted on the wall near the back door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He thought of Bran, clambering up a tower wall, agile as a monkey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From outside, only the tops of five -immense towers could be seen beyond the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It looked like something had blown a chunk of the wall apart. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The last time this young man had seen her outside the Night Zoo’s walls, she’d been a runaway. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Set into the wall by these stairs was an old, rusted gate, and an inmate would later ask me if that was where the Death House used to be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles holds on to the edge of my cart with one hand and on to the wall with the other. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Lay the stones level, that’s the first principle in keeping a wall from shifting and falling down. “The second is to lay the stones one on two, two on one. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead the water-course came to an end in broken steps of rock; for out from the main range there sprang a high barren spur, thrusting eastward like a wall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She set her hand on the wall and pressed against a tiny fissure, which began to glow blue. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I rest the back of my head against the wall, listening. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But mostly there was a rush to form a long line by one of the wooden walls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

These roughhewn logs were filled with sap, and as they dried out, the wood contracting and expanding with changes in temperature, the roofs sagged, the walls buckled. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls enclosing the place were painted with stiff figures of ancient gods. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palm caught hold of the bin’s side wall, which was now nearly vertical. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nathan squinted and could barely see a tiny white flame inside its clear angular walls. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Every inch of wall was hidden by cages. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was standing in a ruined village, among the remains of houses and a central tower and a wall that perhaps was a place of worship. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I shouted after a quake sent me staggering into the wall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He reached up and pulled a rapier from the fourth wall—the one with the older-looking weapons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I lunged for it, tugging away blocks so hard, the small section of wall tumbled to the floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now creatures on the wall stood up in full view as they retaliated by firing down on the ram-carriers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his world was very small and very simple: a brick wall behind him, a row of scowling faces in front of him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children lean against a wooden wall in the last light of sunset. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the top of the tower is an open balcony with a low wall all around and a tile roofling overhead. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed off into the distance, where houses were clinging to the far wall of a crater. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The close walls around her seemed to press in all the excitement. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The most enduring mark, however, lay outside the walls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The wall of molasses crashed into the firehouse, knocking it completely off its foundation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I pull away from the wall and watch the boys disappear into the crowd across the street. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I screamed at the top of my lungs and began to cry as loudly as I could, punching and kicking with all my might into the weak walls that continued to burn. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At length they were once more aware of a wall looming up, and once more a stairway opened before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But instead his walls were this pale blue, and his bedspread was white-and-yellow striped. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just as I was taking the shears down from the wall, a noise came from outside the window. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The place was dismal; plaster was falling from the walls; the wooden stairs sagged. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, I see the flag drawn in graffiti on walls. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sleep near the wall because that thought has occurred to me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room lacked furniture, but countless paintings hung on the walls. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He edged his way from cage to cage, looking into each one, trying to see through it toward the shadowy wall behind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently lost in memories, he gazed at the opposite wall, turning idly on the spot to ensure an even heat on his backside. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On that first awful, awkward visit, a uniformed guard stood leaning against the wall, watching us. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sounds as if she’s speaking behind a wall of water. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about two feet below the top of the wall, and one reached it by climbing down a sort of rough stairway of broken brick ends. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It slid down that wall,” Tee said, nodding to the far end of the room. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe the merchant wives came here to scrub the floors and walls and windows, to honor Ghezen, the god of industry and commerce, with soap and water and the chafing of their hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once the last three, up against the forward wall of the box, got none, the jug being dry when it came to them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, a mouse climbs up the gray walls. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After test assembling every part the truss was dismantled and hoisted piece by piece to the top of the walls. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They circled slowly, hemming him in; bars of light forming a prison, a wall between him and the rest of the world; bars weaving a shifting wall of light into which he dared not go. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dog kennels lay beyond the wall, too, but when Dustfinger swung himself up and over they were empty. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

To the left of the desk, along the bookcase wall, was a window that looked out onto the alleyway and back yard beyond. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Outside Lucky Press, Comrade K. N. M. Pillai was standing at his boundary wall talking to a man on the other side. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gaze up at the blank wall, and for the first time in forever, I don’t see the swastika I put there. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

One low counter—Jonathan thought it a bed—was against the wall. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now the wall she'd built to hide behind was crumbling and all her pain was pouring out. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The stars had come out over the silent courtyard, revealing the rubbish-strewn pavement and peeling walls in all their ugly reality. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He struck the middle of the north wall He took a piece of flint and he struck the middle of the north wall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man puts his hand on the stone wall above her head. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards dragged Inej through the courtyard, past gaping onlookers, and out the ring wall gate as the bells continued to toll. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The candle in the cresset still burned dimly, but the lack of windows in the stone walls made it impossible to tell whether it was dawn or the middle of the night. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Retrieval had jimmied a hologram lead into the existing electricity sockets and were projecting an unbattered wall over the hole. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When Luke went into the hallway, Toby was still leaning up against the wall. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Seems these days you could paint the walls with the secrets we have. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A hasty mural on a wall in Mexico City of Alex’s face in blue, purple, and pink, a crown on his head. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few steps in, I remember I’m supposed to look like I’m cowering, so I slow my pace and hug the wall, keeping my head down. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had a mouth full of the thatching she had carefully woven out of branches for one wall. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Genie crept super slow down the dark steps, trailing his hand on the wall. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One hit the doorpost of the hall, another stuck in the door’s thick timbering, still others rang on the stone wall, shivering hafts of ash. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just woken up, the first traces of dawn leaking through the cracks of the stacked logs that made up the wall of his small hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now and then, I see a person inside one of the glass- paneled rooms, cuffed to a wall and screaming. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He moves away from the wall, bends his knees, angles the camera. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Black, oily matter spouts like a geyser from the street, billowing between the buildings, creating an impenetrable wall of darkness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with Black Power posters, pictures of Malcolm X, and green, red, and black maps of Africa. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The open side faced the black tarpaper wall of the shed where the feast had taken place. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was so narrow I could touch both walls if I stretched out my hands. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the white women cried and stood around her like a protecting wall and the Negroes, with heads hung down, shuffled out and away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then the entire eastern wall shuddered as the explosion backed up through the pipelines. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had to catch up with the others before they climbed over the wall, before they broke into the house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman had caught sight of us, sitting on our wall, staring. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not move from his place beside the wall; he watched Peggy walk back up the stairs and close the door behind her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall reads 11:20, but I don’t tell my grandmother that. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Giver rose from his chair, went to the speaker on the wall, and clicked the switch from OFF to ON. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was Bernie Black, who had a view of Gramercy Park, but not a key to it, which he said was worse than looking at a brick wall. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are paneled with paper screens lighted from behind. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes mistakes left and right, but nobody notices because they’re caught up in the Holy Spirit, and the walls also vibrate with the exalted and chaotic glossolalia of tongue speaking. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

With clothes so dated, these three New York teenagers would probably have a poster of me on their apartment walls, as a model of what not to wear. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hidden by a pressure wave, it lay sideways out and to the left, halfway to the left wall. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

West Virginia’s Governor Homer Holt saw the writing on the wall: the choice was to integrate or, like its neighbor to the east, dig in and contest the ruling. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The log walls are chinked with bark and clay to keep out the cold, but they don’t do the job when the wind blows hard. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water wall had long stopped singing, and the sky had darkened to an endless black by the time the kids were finished bouncing ideas back and forth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She sang with those inside the castle walls and those without, sang with all the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He lifted the hangings from the wall, uncovering the second door: this, too, he opened. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sun has gone down over the rampart walls, and the guards manning them turn into silhouettes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s my best guess,” said Mr. Taphouse, putting a chisel back into its rack on the wall. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When at last he came to the bottom of the last flight of steps, he found himself all but alone amongst the torchlit corridors inside the pyramid’s massive brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And on the wall above the keyboard was a picture of a man and woman floating over a city. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, it just seemed all the energy drained out of me and the yellow walls were so bright I closed my eyes and fell asleep. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the cocoon on the wall again and shook my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They stepped out into the immense courtyard with red walls and columns, carved green and gold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With every word, I feel the prison walls closing tighter around us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smell Factor ran into the family room and took off his sneakers one at a time and threw them at the wall. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered Nicolas to help him with her until the effects of the ether had worn off, but when he looked up, he saw that his brother was slumped against the wall, retching violently. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had built round turrets all along the walls. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My family’s oranges and sugarcane were packed along the back wall. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The streets were tangles of abandoned cars and the sidewalks narrow paths between high shoveled walls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned against the wall until it passed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Most of the pictures she’d Scotch-taped to the walls were of TV stars, good-looking guys that Alex was pretty sure wouldn’t be welcomed at a convent, no matter how open-minded the sisters might be. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now he was looking through the tiny crack between crate and wall, watching a foot in a black boot trembling on the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The museum was actually more like a room—just one room with picture-covered walls and a few “artifacts” in glass cases. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I exhaled a long, shaky breath and looked up at the wall. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Penelope was rubbing at the tortoiseshell comb, and Ophie leaned the mop against the wall and came over to see what she’d found. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stare at the light purple walls and remember the happy times I had with my sister, before we started to flutter away from each other. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Look at those shrubs tumbling over his wall. They ought to have been pruned right back.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a chalk-white piano and a refrigerator, a bulk of rust, against the far wall. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in silence and stared at the taxidermed school of fish the doctor had mounted all around the walls. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When they finally left, the flowers were destroyed, the furniture broken, and the walls covered with drawings and writing, but Fernanda pardoned them for all of the damage because of her relief at their leaving. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Sit here,” she said, gesturing to an open spot on a plain brown bench against the wall. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the gates swept out of sight and were replaced by the beige brick walls of our school. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Smooth, uniform stone walls, a lack of furniture or decoration, and only a single window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep your voice down! Like you said, walls have ears and all. I already figured we’d take whoever wanted to go with us. That’s the best I can offer.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When we finished, and listened again, we understood that someone was throwing rocks against the outside of the church, against the walls of the church. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They've got walls of vinyl LPs and the old 78 rpm records, even wax cylinders from the first Edison talking machines. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m kind of like...all around me. I’m in the computer. I’m in the walls.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The candlelight was like pure gold, and his teacher’s shadow against the wall was like a picture. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You saw what he wrote on the wall! He found — in my office — he knows I’m a — I’m a —” Filch’s face worked horribly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

On the wall is a track winding through candy-colored hills, populated by giant mushrooms. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Similar scenes were played out along the coasts of western Europe and northern Africa, with Galway City’s walls partially swept away and a tidal wave reaching as far west as Barbados. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

You can’t say, “Your mother lives on the street, in a hole in the wall, sleeping on park benches next to winos.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Filch had stopped shouting, they could hear Myrtle’s wails echoing off the bathroom walls. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When he got on the bus, she was already sitting in their seat—but sitting in his spot, against the wall. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was true—the walls were made of salt! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful of all?” he says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

August would calmly send May out back to the stone wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked out of the bookstore and sat on a low brick wall, where Lydia snapped a selfie of the two of them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She points over to the wall, where my art hangs. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered then the way they’d slipped from the cracks in my walls and flown for the sheer joy of it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this room’s walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And when you do give it up, he’s gonna be hitting all the walls!” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The stands were scarred, the walls needed paint, the naked light bulbs seemed ugly, their bare, black wires like the dead branches of a stunted tree. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It had formed a massed wall that wove around itself and clung to itself with tiny tendrils. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She traced the moonlight to where it lapped upon the tapestry-covered wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Stone bridges spanned swift, narrow rivers, while small farms spread in rings around holdfasts walled in wood and stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rope swung out to hang over a mile of empty space as the wall and dock retreated out of range. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What appeared to be a mirror hung opposite Harry on the wall, but it was not reflecting the room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then the troll broke through the wall and a child’s voice split the night. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I picked up the bottle and hurled it at the wall above her bed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can build you a wall,” said the stranger. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He crawls through his cell and knocks on the wall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Both the yard and the house were smaller than the wall might suggest. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We arrived at Big Creek High at lunchtime, leaned our sleds against the wall just inside the main door, and walked in as if we were kings of the earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she has all these pictures of bright pink and yellow and green flowers on the wall. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I turn and walk back to the wall, climbing it easily this time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He lifted the candle to the wall, and there I saw that he had tacked sheets of music all over the plaster, high and low, affixing other pages with paste. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He goes to the schedule on the wall. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As we descend, blue and green and purple and red lights dance over the walls, shifting between colors with each second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ruth and I stood with our backs against the wall as Mr. Robert and the Locktons ate and drank. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why bash your head, said Aunt Lydia, against a wall? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead of the cart, emerging from the gray mist, were walls as gray and imposing as Notre Dame herself. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She remembered the sensation of falling after she’d leaped from the Night Zoo’s wall, the impact as she’d landed feetfirst in the dirt and stumbled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My coat and shirt were pinned to the wall by some kind of spike—a black daggerlike projectile about a foot long. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They fled in confusion to the ships, and the wall they had built to defend them went down like a sand wall children heap up on the shore and then scatter in their play. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women sat on chairs with four legs and stared at their walls without the benefit of sunglasses. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It climbed the opposite wall, then leaped at the thick-glassed window with a loud thump. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It's the least I can do after slamming her into the wall. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donna leans against the wall, still playing with Dray’s phone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He did not want her to notice the bins full of yellowed towels waiting to be washed on Monday, the graffiti on the walls, the loose tiles, and the rusty pipes that dripped continuously. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they widened the hole in the wall of stone and she squeezed through to the other side. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every building sported jagged spurs of metal sticking from its broken walls, like bones jutting from a long-dead animal. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At first it was worse in there than it had been out in the open desert, for there was a breathless stuffiness between the rocky walls and less moonlight. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He envisioned a room next to his office fitted with a large walk-in vault, with airtight seams and asbestos-coated iron walls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mounted behind me was a large needlepoint map of Norvelt which spread across the entire wall. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Standing with their backs against the wall waiting. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

We reach a spacious bedroom, its glass walls leading out into a serene Zen garden adorned with golden dangling lights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sohrab’s new room had cream-colored walls, chipped, dark gray moldings, and glazed tiles that might have once been white. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tris comes closer, but not that close—the space, and her folded arms, form a barrier between us that may as well be a wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Someone had taken the carts from the store and tried stuffing them in the lanes, as if to create a kind of fortified wall against any unwanted visitors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The flames flicker, making the deep shadows on the stone walls dance drunkenly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I start another subject thread on the wall: Guys to Stay Away Front. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We start up the left side of the U, keeping close to the wall to stay out of everyone’s way. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the storm still raged within Elsinore’s walls, as Laertes’ hot anger confronted the cold might of Claudius. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You’ll get the trophy, Karen. Just like a hunter who kills a deer, you’ll be able to hang Dad’s toe on your wall.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This building happened to be a famous factory where they made chocolate, and almost at once a great river of warm melted chocolate came pouring out of the holes in the factory wall. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We shuffled to our narrow slats along the wall and leaned against the cracked and taped vinyl panels. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We move together, staying in a group, to the safer wall, out of reach of bullets that might come through the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the barrio’s women had put in some time dusting, washing the floors and walls, sprinkling agua florida all over, positioning wreaths, bathing Don Berto and laying him out in his box. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His voice began to fade away, and I stopped myself from dashing to the wall to beg him to stay and help me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Chip shouted again, his voice echoing off the concrete walls of the stairwell. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He went without reply then to the wall and felt for the roughness which was the mark of the hiding place and he removed the clod of earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Thank God I’m not part of this stupid club, I think as I stretch out my legs on the floor and lean against the wall. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted pale cream, the carpet is light blue, and sitting in the middle is a black Steinway baby grand piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

From my desk within the walls of Sing Sing, I see daily the constantly increasing numbers of boys and young men who are committed to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, however, there were black drapes on the wall behind the teachers’ table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The switchback stair was buried almost to the first landing, Jon saw, and the wooden doors of the ice cells and storerooms had vanished behind a wall of white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sea of humanity behind me provided a wall. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Soon they could no longer see the walls of the cavern; they might have been at sea except that there were no waves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The prison is like those indoor exhibits at the zoo, with long walls of glass cages, only a thousand times scarier. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Giant glass walls separated a wilderness area from the walkways, which had glass floors over the water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sat atop a rolled-up wrestling mat, kicking a volleyball against the opposite wall. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The Giant took off his black cloak and hung it against the wall. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Impatiently, Prosper dragged him along through the throngs of people, waiting eagerly at the entrance to the huge church, to see the gilded walls and ceilings. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would be inside those walls like a fox among day-old chickens. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I turned a corner and staggered against a wall as pain stars blinded me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Photographs of her covered the expanse of one wall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I climb down fast, drop to the crate by the wall, race across the mulch, through the doors opened by the janitor, who lets them slam behind me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Barry hardly looked at the book before hurling it to the corner, where it rebounded off the wall and slid behind a trash can. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

From the top of the wall I peered down into a small garden of flowers and herbs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They rode knee to knee, following the line of the looming walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He realized that one wall of the pit was convex and made of some hard substance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around to the back of the TV to find that it was merely plugged into the wall. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The walls are moving parts. They gotta be mechanical. Give me a second.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon they came to a place where the Road went suddenly under the dark shadow of tall pine-trees, and then plunged into a deep cutting with steep moist walls of red stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He turned and opened a cabinet that stood against one of the walls, “Give me just a moment and I will numb the burning that must be all across your back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another wave hits the wall and the spray coats her body. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She went up the wide marble steps at the end of the hall and passed a set of huge mirrors hanging on the wall that reflected the burning light of the chandeliers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have got a good hiding for painting a pirate's flag on the wall when I was a kid, Victor thought. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth was dry with terror as he ducked behind the nearest wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The wife continues to stand by the wall, her eyes locked on the red number, her lips moving silently as though praying for a quick turnover. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then the rains came, black and blinding, and forecastle and stemcastle both vanished behind a wall of water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could fly through the air or even knock down walls, like the superheroes Matt saw on TV—only She wouldn’t do that, of course, because She was Jesus’ mother. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What ghosts sidle along the walls right now, trying to overhear? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was the same smell they couldn’t get out of their basement after a rat died inside one of the walls. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I need to see them up on the wall for a while, before I know whether I’ve got something. Before I know which ones I like.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Was it worth it to mess up your whole life for the sake of a few dozen lines scrawled on walls and lockers and garbage dumpsters? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I knew any plan, any power, I’d believed I had, had been given over to God, gravity and the boy on the wall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was also dimly aware of an ominous muttering all around the walls. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Celia leaned her back against the wall, one knee bent, her foot pressed against the wall. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One wall was lined with shelves and on the shelves were boxes and boxes of letters. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At first they lived in a Beacon Hill boardinghouse where the walls were plastered with pictures from magazines and where the white people on the streets outside treated them with humiliating disdain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I look back at the wall of fog extending in a straight line as far as I can see in either direction. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he heard them screaming, even through the thick stone walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was standing in a little ante-room, a dressing-room I judged, with big wardrobes round the wall, and at the end of this room was another door, open, leading to a larger room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The metal walls were heating up as Phraner felt his way to the ladder leading up to the deck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the big heating vent on the wall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But now Jermaine’s face was glowing too, the blocks turning from brown to glowing red and then growing out of a brick wall, like flowers budding in fast motion. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Vikus gestured to a small oil lamp that illuminated a panel of the wall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Hungry for death, I call it. He throws my pardon in my face. Aye, and throws his life away in tire bargain, and the lives of every man inside those walls. Single combat!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But he judged, from the dull and muffled sound, that the walls were too thick for his feeble tapping to penetrate. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And here’s something you learn when you live in a sarcophagus: sound travels through walls. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As I seated myself in the captain’s chair, I spotted a silver control bracelet in a clear case on the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I glanced at one of the plaques hanging above him on the wall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A door next to the sink led to the toilet, which was flushed by pulling a chain attached to a wooden box on the wall above the seat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We load our bags against the wall and are about to sit down when someone shouts. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Huge windows line one wall, revealing the cheesemaking process, massive machines stirring and churning the creamy cheddar. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lacking men, Theon had been forced to abandon the outer defenses and post his guards along the higher inner walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They Were all leaning against the wall, shivering and looking depressed. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gripped a canvas lunch bag and moved along the wall, as if trying hard not to be noticed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I need to be an expressionless wall that things just bounce off of, like Silas. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Day after day, the winter sun had melted the snow on the eastward-facing slope, and the night frosts had hardened it, until it was a solid, frozen, glittering wall. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He eyed the man reclining on the bench near Ford’s back wall and commanded, “Give me my horse, boy!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And not into the attic. They’re going through the wall downstairs right below you. No noise!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Upstairs in his office there is a brass Ganesha sitting cross-legged next to the computer, a wooden Christ on the Cross from Brazil on a wall, and a green prayer rug in a comer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The school was built on posts, and a stovepipe came through the wall and stuck up above the rafters. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should you maintain open communication between your groups, or erect walls of secrecy between them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the castle walls streaking past him, and the ground and the moat swimming up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the tunnel began to close in on either side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When he thought of that his mind closed down like a blank gray wall, not letting him see. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses, all of whom were snoozing gently in their frames. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Serenity is hanging upside down over the edge of my bed with her feet propped up against the wall. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Matt heard him outside in the walled garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall of fire disappeared, revealing a most magnificent hall. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Straining every bit of the way, I could climb the walls like a spider. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The yard and house haven’t changed except for the walls, which are now made of cement block instead of earth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there was a mouse caught in our walls. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She thought it must be ten times as large as Pentos, a vastness without walls or limits, its broad windswept streets paved in grass and mud and carpeted with Wildfiowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was a great believer in maps, and his offices always contained many maps hung on the walls, showing locations of outbreaks of virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medieval painting, for instance, is to a large extent “applied,” in the sense that it embellishes surfaces which serve other, practical purposes as well—walls, book pages, windows, furniture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora ran her hand along the wall of the tunnel, the ridges and pockets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He sits with his back straight to the wall as if afraid to lean on it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the father brimmed with contradictory feelings as he crept along the wall—humiliation, anger, and a grudging feeling of pride in his son—so the son felt his own contradictions. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got Uncle Drum’s flashlight propped in a recess on the back wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I press against the wall of lockers and catch my breath. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Gogol and Sonia are woken by these deaths in the early mornings, their parents screaming on the other side of thin bedroom walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four rats lay dead near the wall, and Killconey’s drum stood unattended in the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Erik and Vincent Castor had found a can of white spray paint, and they had painted something on that gray wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ronan stands on the side wall of Henry’s boat, looking out at me as I tread water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The wall on Kyle’s right swung open, revealing six swiveling sections, each pivoting panel maybe twenty feet long, all skittering sideways and gliding backward to create new walls and reconfigured pathways. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Miles of rope crisscrossed the space, running up towards the ceiling, turning on pulleys, and coming down the walls, where weights and other mechanisms held the rigging in place. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Suddenly from under the bed a pug-faced twin popped up between John’s chair and the wall, and began peering into Linda’s sleeping face. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not notice that the walls of his house were eager for a coat of paint, that the furniture was falling apart, and that the kitchen had turned into a pigsty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam picked the blue china snuff jar off the desk and flung it against the wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear them in the parlor and I clawed my hands against the wall. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are twenty-six players sitting against the wall, which means eight players will not make the team. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only decoration on the plain white walls was a small, sketchy illustration in a black wooden frame. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some people put flowers by the sink, or framed pictures on the walls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Things out of place, especially — a canister swivelled out from the wall, an umbrella come partly open in the closet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stethoscope coiled like a snake inside a slotted Plexiglas wall bracket. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The storm howled, the black walls of the funnel cloud swirling faster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The walls are adorned with prints of roosters and herbs and an arrangement of copper skillets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After several hours, the white trees began to thin, and then they were through the serewood and walking between two low rough-stone walls, along a high bank. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

With all the windows blocked, it’s dark inside, but enough light comes through the open door to show a second door in the back wall. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It feels too important for me to even touch, but I can’t leave it here, so I grab it and wedge it between the dresser and the wall. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember too much: my gram’s ample bosom, her small dry hands, the dark cottage with a crumbling stone wall flanking its narrow garden. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should not have sur-prised you by just sticking it up on the wall like that for everyone else to read. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

A slant of orange light stretches across one of the rock walls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dicey sat on a bench near her family’s hiding place and looked across the park to a long wall of college dormitories. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she lowered herself and sat on a thick pile of rope, leaning back against the cabin wall, and took a few deep breaths. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She jumped when she saw something move on the wall. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an economic or technological standard emerged and proved itself on the world stage, it was much more quickly adopted after the wall was out of the way. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rotunda was dotted in red—trophies, pictures, whole pieces of wall dripped with red paint. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Do they even have a life beyond the classroom walls? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The reason why we didn’t have no juice—along with half of our floor—was because of a short circuit in the walls. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I'm so in love with Jamie Merrick I want to run straight into a wall and squash into a flat pancake because loving him feels like a cartoon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The smell of burned rubber and smoke curled my stomach as we crouched down, and I was concerned the trail of sparks in front of us would turn into a wall of flame. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Are we going to the wall of graves?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The cat leaped smoothly from the wall to the grass near Coraline’s feet. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Beyond the main boulevard, the city was a hodgepodge of medieval castle towers, Roman walls, limestone town houses with red-tiled roofs, and modern office buildings all crammed together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tino and Victor were in there, sitting in black chairs against the white wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You even held it for a few seconds. Pretty soon you won’t need the wall at all.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped out from the protection of the wall and headed for the front door—only to run straight into a man standing in front of the entrance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We were concentrating on our dinner, and everybody jumped when the door slammed open and banged against the wall, making the plates rattle in their racks. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the lights out, they ran their hands along square wall panels in lecture rooms, tapping softly and looking for hidden compartments. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The armory adjoined the castle smithy, a long high-roofed tunnel of a building with twenty forges built into its walls and long stone water troughs for tempering the steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She reached a glowing arm through the window and slapped the wall at the top of the dragon’s head. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They are each so busy with their cell phones that I think they'll probably walk into a wall. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like a wall, extending to either side of me and over my head, and there's no way to climb over it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In front of them, across the meadow, on the other side of the gap in the wall, now guardless, was the town of Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The skulls of dead dragons looked down from its walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Josh’s eyes fixed on the wall for a moment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because the words on the walls had always been there. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Wind constantly found its way through the chinks in the rocks walls forcing in snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Isaac kicked the chair again, until it bounced against Gus’s bed, and then he grabbed one of the pillows and started slamming it against the wall between the bed and the trophy shelf above. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Streamers of colored paper are taped to the walls, with arrows of construction paper at intervals, along the halls and up and down the stairs and into the different rooms, to show the way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His figure stood out grotesquely and his face, deformed by the light from below, floated halfway to the ceiling, while his giant shadow danced against the walls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d pin her perfect test up on the wall with all the others. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Looking at the graph paper on my wall. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The stove had come loose from its mount and been flung across the cabin and was jammed against the wall on the opposite side. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

David slowed as they came into a clearing, and Tally saw that they had reached a wall of solid rock. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It is life near the bone where it is sweetest,” I say to the walls. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Sitting in our hut, he slouches into the bamboo walls and his breath sounds labored and exhausted with each word. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just the way I’d taken that cookie, without understanding why, without thinking about the consequences, without any reason, I grabbed my mug and hurled it against the wall. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Ah, Robert," he mur-mured as his groping hand touched a cold stone wall, his leg throbbing with every motion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lewis Powell continues to pound on Frederick’s head without mercy, blood spattering the walls and his An illustration showing Frederick Seward fightingfor his life against Lewis Powell. own hands and face. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The servants’ steps were the quickest way down—not grand, but steep and straight and narrow, hidden in the walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I slid down the wall, settled myself on the thick green carpet, kept my eyes on the screen. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Neat rows of family snapshots were taped to the wall. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ll go out to the wall for a little while,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I grow frustrated and take the pillow from my face and fling it against the opposite wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Piper clawed at the walls, trying to escape, but there was nowhere to go. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I look around and see the open window at the top of the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The last thing I remember was dying, so why am I on this wall? Are we enemies? Have you got names? I’m the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me ‘Westley.’” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Huge windows along the back wall let in the moonlight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Pong felt trapped—squeezed by the walls of the temple, by the walls around his heart. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But now without the cover of mist, Bailey can see the white walls of the tent and all the creatures within it, but none of them are moving. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it had been a bad idea for her to bring up the wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Along the walls of the room were long charts with zigzagging red and black lines that traced the success or failure of some experiment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the high narrow windows of the Red Keep's cavernous throne room, the light of sunset spilled across the floor, laying dark red stripes upon the walls where the heads of dragons had once hung. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the wind blew hard, smoke came down the chimney, into the room, in puffs, so that the walls were smoke-darkened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And the Berlin Wall. Did you learn about that in history? Some people made it over in a hot-air balloon, or by digging a tunnel under the wall.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

So many postcards—from Disneyland, Tijuana, the Golden Gate Bridge—perched among the saints over the fireplaces, in wall crannies, but the boys and the girl were gone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gas pushes harder on the walls: the pressure goes up. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He looked out over the wall into the orchard, squinting. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the wall above the bed, and on the ceiling beams: wings softly stirring. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He steered Covadonga through an unfamiliar section of the city, down dark back streets in which garbage was piled against the walls of factories, in a forest of smokestacks that shut out the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan was sitting with his back against the wall at the end of the bench. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju did, pressing the speaker button, and then leaned against the wall. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Zuri. You’re also hardheaded. You have all these walls around you that it's like your heart is locked up in some room.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I joined Mom and Dad at the dining room table, the second hand of the wall clock chiming in with their conversation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She touched the wall, and her hand came back covered in cobwebs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Wyman looks mildly annoyed to have her morning yoga breaths interrupted, but she smiles indulgently at the box on the wall and says, “Boys and girls, please rise.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone’s elbow presses me to a wall, and I just stand and watch the pandemonium intensify. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and turned back to the wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I stood up and shuffled over to one of the molded plastic chairs against the wall, tucking my tank beneath the chair. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"You are a walking germ-factory! I don't wish to see any more of you today! Go and stand in the corner on one leg with your face to the wall!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were whitewashed, like the walls in the upper stories of the house, and there were just as many doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With no other choice, she went forward and followed the path until it ended in a door in a wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I didn’t. Just chucked some pliers at the wall. Not mad at them, more mad at myself, but...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A raised circular stage thrust out from the wall opposite the curving mahogany bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It appeared spray-painted on subway cars, on walls, and on the sides of buildings in New York City, in Chicago, in Tokyo, in Amsterdam. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A walled city for the king of Bright Moonlight, the Vast Wall for the emperor,” Yishan said in a mocking tone. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the wall he closed his eyes and listened for the feelings that rumbled through his silence. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point to the chest of drawers by the wall. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

On one wall was a large painting of a Seine river scene which Bull had bought while drunk in Paris. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan rebuilt the wall with his own hands, brick by brick, until it stood whole again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

From wall to wall, Bamberger’s is decked out for the holiday season. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He took the long way out, his steps ringing loud against the floor and echoing off the bare stone walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Stretching to the four walls of the room was a solid sheet of white faces. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I feel around the dark wall and find a switch for turning on an unattached irrigation tube. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to punch a hole in the wall. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the throng haint gave way around her, splattered back across Wick and the far wall in a thick coat of nastiness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There is still an angry hole in the middle where the rest of the wall used to be, and someone has placed a cross beside it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And Anthony leapt up and pushed me into the wall and told me I wasn’t being a very good soldier of Christ. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The women then unfolded blankets that were stacked against the shelter wall like giant wafers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They stayed off the roads and followed the city wall south and then east. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lining the walls were different shrines and statues and tombs and stuff. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Sorenson and Lena were each shackled spread-eagle to the wall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Jude?” he asks, up against the wall, pronouncing my name carefully, as though to avoid slurring. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The mouth of the trumpet was against the wall, and Lombard, pushing it aside indicated where two or three small holes had been unobtrusively bored through the wall. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But when we got there, they’d vanished back into the wall like they knew he was coming, like they didn’t want to waste their flying stunts on him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side was the wall of a building and he slumped against it, panting, the corded vein in his forehead inflamed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like a criminal pardoned at the gallows, she ran from the scene, hand over hand, along the walls, up the stairwell. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its warm lucence promised a poultice against illness and a wall against insult. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there were curved corners and curved walls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Life Is Life meeting takes place in a large room with wood paneling and radiators that jut out from the walls. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No one has seen what I’m about to show you. Not even my brothers,” he said, running his hand along the wall, trying to find the light switch. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the stairwell, Pop stops, holding on to the handrail, leaning into the wall. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Words and stuff can pass through it, but the wall renders every word meaningless. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I picked up a flat stone and sailed it across the gorge where it hit the far wall and plummeted down, down, careening off the jagged outcrop-pings. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Miles drove through the streets of Crane, memories of the cross-burning and the colored pool and the wall that the whites built bubbled to the surface. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long-haired girl returned, walking slowly toward us, dragging her hands along the tunnel walls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I took my ball into the hallway outside our apartment and practiced kicking it against the wall until mean old Mrs. Immerglick across the hall came out and yelled at me to stop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we had not built on high ground the very walls would have melted in that moisture. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever upwards, sometimes stopping spreadeagled against the surface as he figured out his next movement, taking full advantage of every crack and joint in the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, I backed away and scurried down the narrowest of alleys, the walls so close I could have touched either side by stretching out both arms. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A whole wall swung open, and behind it was a room where he could hide fugitives. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voices were coming from two girls who were sitting on the same stone wall Aimee had found. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The few who were listening lined up shoulder-to-shoulder, locking their shields to form an ox-hide—and-bronze wall, their spears bristling over the top like porcupine quills. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But all I do is look over at the two papers I have tacked up on the wall here in the upstairs room. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I hope she’ll feel the same way about pretend walls on imaginary stages, I thought as I tucked her hall pass into my pocket. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But everything we owned was packed and stacked against the yellow walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I heard him but I was in shock like I had walked into a glass wall. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He stopped by a stone wall, looked down across flat open ground, lovely clear field of fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank my cold tea, still blurred and stupid from my short heavy sleep, and stared at the blank wall in front of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A gigantic metal Bayside Press emblem hung behind the stark wall of a receptionist’s desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The living room was airy, the walls free of photographs except for a turquoise painting of a long-necked woman in a turban. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ducking through a low doorway, we entered a narrow, slope- walled attic. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The drakon tugged its head from the brick wall and screamed in rage. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was something up on the back wall behind the ruined stage. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t notice when I first got here, but one entire wall of the living room is covered with bookshelves. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I turned down it, out of Charles’s view, to the pay phone on the wall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere on the other side of this rocky wall there would be a dark circle, a glowing fire, and meat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, she swung her lasso round and round, eyeing the flagpole that jutted out from the tower wall high above them, the Institute’s red flag rippling gently beneath it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was uninviting and creepy once you were past the ivy-tangle that marked the end of the Egyptian Walk and the black doors in the mock-Egyptian walls that led to people’s final resting places. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The guards dragged the men to a solid wall that stood next to the gate. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our front wall someone had written in Afrikaans, “Heks”—“Witch.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Milgrom was lying on the mattress as usual, facing the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Flora wanted to object, but she could read the writing on the wall, or rather she could read the words that hovered above her and her father and the squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

There is a corridor that leads right through my one wall and then out the other wall. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She felt smothered by the church walls, and as soon as she could escape outside she did, taking deep breaths of the muggy air. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the gap in the wall can be seen a large green meadow; beyond the meadow, a stream; and beyond the stream there are trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Trunks, chairs, a small end table, and a cardboard “wardrobe” closet were placed around the walls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she did, a secret panel in the wall slid open. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The children laughed as the football hit the garage walls; the dust-covered ball left the walls polka-dotted brown. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He scraped at the dirt wall, until he exposed one entire side of the box-like object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Thomas realized that only that wall was moving, heading for its neighbor to the left, ready to seal shut with its protruding rods slipping into the drilled holes across from it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Stepping away from the door, I studied the rest of the wall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was metal, of course, but like the relief on the walls of Sarai’s rooms—the songbirds and lilies so real they mocked the master carvers of Weep—it was utterly true to life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Warm air started to flow out of the wall vent. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Liston finally had managed to rent a big, fine house over in a rich, wall- to-wall white section. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Pippin, staring uneasily about him, saw that he was in a wide vaulted chamber, draped as it were with the great shadows that the little lantern threw upon its shrouded walls. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tabitha treasured that spoon and always hid it inside the luak, the cattle shed, under a log that supported the wall. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others are alone, leaning against walls or sitting in corners, their eyes hollow or staring at something that is far away. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The room appeared to be in the process of being disassembled: Two long tables had been folded up and leaned vertically against one wall; several empty wooden crates were stacked against the other. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang to his feet, and pressed himself against the wall beside the road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It had been hanging there on the wall when they moved in, and, although Coraline’s mother had spoken occasionally of replacing it with something newer, she never had. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

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

I spread the blankets close to the wall and near the stove while Ultima prepared the atole. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she gazed, her wonder grew, because there in the sky was the unmistakable outline of a city: towers, domes, walls...Buildings and streets, suspended in the air! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a ripped one in New York that, judging from the location of the hole in the wall, was one of the five boroughs of New York City. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It chimed, and the door slid into the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her closet, full of clothes, was built into the wall, and the top of her dresser was covered with small perfume bottles, lipsticks, and miniature dolls. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After some time, Roza broke through the wall of trees into a grassy meadow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His fireplace is crackling and bright, casting light across the ceiling and the walls. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I knew there would be an explosion of tears coming, and I stood along the back wall with everyone else, waiting for it, watching her tremble and struggle to keep the pain down. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They went in through a hole in the wall, and picked their way through the gloom, across rubble and fallen timbers, and found a staircase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump talked about building walls and deporting the eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mom also suggests that I take pictures of the wall that kids drew and wrote on in the original Hideout. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Looking like victims of a war, the dwellings had broken windows, parts of walls missing, and large holes in the roofs. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I turned against the walls, pounding the flimsy wooden planks until my knuckles bled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scans the rough floors and cement walls. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Portia sat motionless in the chair, her eyes moving slowly from one corner of the wall to the other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Agent Fiona gives the transparent wall three knocks and Bigfoot is led away grumbling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She looked like a wall spider with a burr stuck to its head. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the breast pocket of a dark coat hanging on a wall peg, they discover a ledger book from a bank in Montreal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling, he searched through the straw with his hands to see if anything had been concealed beneath, then made a round of the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To hear those cries now: the scene a stand of oranges, a wall of canned ham. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bullet wound has begun to throb, and I lean against the wall for support. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Inside, the walls were lined with portraits and stained glass. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now, there is only silence from the remaining walls and dangling roof. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it didn’t last long.They sidled along the wall until they reached the back. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

On the walls of his room are a few random video game posters, but one in particular sticks out to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Right under that wall you built on top of it. I can see it clear as day.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We feel them in the walls, in every room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bookshelves lined the far wall, filled with role-playing game supplements and back issues of Dragon magazine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Just some faceless guy, a row of cigarettes, a gun, a bang, a searing pain, a wall of blackness. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she thought they were all mice within those thick walls, even the knights and the great lords. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So for diversion he acquired the habit of crawling back and forth across the walls and ceiling. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Kyle squinted at the wide swath of shiny white, he noticed a series of evenly spaced glowing green LEDs at eye level on the wall. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everything sloped away before him, flat roofs below flat roofs, down to the towers and battlements of the city's northern wall. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The room filled with a warm golden glow, and huge shadows rose against the walls. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The Empire Tern had vanished in a wall of red flames, and blade smoke was beginning to boil into the sky. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he could see the camp directly above him, he chose his old route—up the gorge and across the ridge—because the guards on the wall were facing the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe then he’d hire somebody to keep it clean, or an armed guard to stop people from plugging up the toilet, smoking, or writing on the walls. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the panel clicked into place, the massive storage locker was completely hidden behind a seamless wall featuring a framed print of two bluebirds. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

You could tell because the white wall had turned gray right where he had just tapped his head. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As he brushed the dust of ages from each letter on the wall, he filled it in with ink. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There's a green line on the wall from when I tripped holding an open green marker. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Storms rage within the walls as well as without. More ffeedmen died last night, or so I have been told.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the walls they could see, like little white dots, the faces of the defenders. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He smoked a cigar and watched the patterns the sunlight made on the wall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stand, leaning against a wall, and breathe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The louvers, too, had been slipped off and the windows were gaping holes and the dry harmattan winds had blown in so much dust that the walls were now an even brown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He keeps them hidden in a hole in the wall of his bedroom closet. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine walls with nothing on them but mirrors. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth wall is a curtain of wooden slats strung together. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Lucky you pay attention in Herbology, Hermione,” said Harry as he joined her by the wall, wiping sweat off his face. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I run over to it, climb up, and look over the playground wall. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He looks like one of the portraits of the pioneers on the walls of the Delhi library. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood with my back to the wall, remembering too much of another time, as I watched her rub carefully under the chin and in the folds at the backs of the elbows and knees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken the Owner over half a century, but at last every St. Anthony’s suitcase ever made was inside the walls of his store. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t paint it, but I enjoy the way the shapes flow across my wall, even if it isn’t much of a jungle. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He lifted his fingers up, and the tools shuddered on the walls. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Gradually, things began to resolve around her: There was the large empty room, the demon-painted wall, and Robbie standing nearby, looking shocked. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The voice was somewhere at the back of the shed, detached and peculiarly muffled behind the tin walls. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Even if there are like five kids, each one gets their own four walls. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The palace was made of the same clean,white, unadorned stone as the Ice Court walls, and the whole place felt as if it had been hollowed out of a glacier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The classy fellow and his death bride spun wild circles from one wall to the next. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t put it past Grave or Verin to shove her off the wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I rounded the corner, I nearly tripped over a boy sitting on the sidewalk up against the wall. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fire stretched in an unbroken wall across the opposite shore, a roaring wind pressing at its back and sending embers flying across to alight on the near side. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At the end of the street, dozens of men were building another big dirt wall. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Going up, the stairs didn’t creak and the walls were freshly painted. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Tyrion halted his followers out of range and rode to the wall alone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were dead bodies and wounded bodies all down the wall and all down through the trees and blood was streaked on the trees and rocks and rich wet wood splinters were everywhere. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found the spear and bow where they were hanging on the pegs of the shelter wall and brought his weapons to the bed he had made of pine boughs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small wonder that they had to hold Joff's tournament behind the thick stone walls of the Red Keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The walls of these houses were patchworks of wood or aluminum or metal or whatever scraps were lying around. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Behind the three empty judges’ chairs, a great round-faced clock with Roman numerals was embedded into the wall. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There’s a chart on the wall showing the points where the needles go in. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were discussing his childhood with Tex John, and suddenly Perry, who had too much drink inside him, pushed her against a wall and held her there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door is vacuum sealed, and hazard suits hang on the walls. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cohn looked at the bottles in bins around the wall. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I fairly hung out the window, so eager was I to see the world that passed outside our walls; 03-01 indulgently did not scold my curiosity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I walk the wall with Ida, who tries her damnedest to draw me into conversation, to no avail. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I started toward the tree, but I stopped short as soon as I came around the corner of the barn, and flattened myself to the wall. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

One boy was throwing a button against the wall, playing some kind of game. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The force of his movement shook the rat loose and it sailed through the air and struck a wall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His sister was leaning against the wall, her arms folded. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I volunteered. The Tiger Emperor took all the men to work on the wall,” Yanna said, “so that left only old women and girls here at the palace.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Every Therblig had its own symbol, and once they were painted on the wall Dad had us apply them to our household chores—bedmaking, dishwashing, sweeping, and dusting. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted Robin to his back and they went, down the green, to the brook outside the walls. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Barracks and stables lined the walls, and there were troughs and a fountain—the first unrationed water they had seen for two months. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

What is a man doing within these walls? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He closed the door, and they could hear his hand rubbing along the wall to guide him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I was doing this, the Copper Gate reappeared, embedded in a nearby wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Four solid walls, a big-screen TV, and food on the table. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One minute he was pressed against the wall, and the next he had jumped forward and thrust his torch into Fangor’s face. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He jerked awake when the final blast of water jets hit him, and he found himself slumped against the wall of the air lock, his hands still gripped around the pipes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ease myself along, intrigued by the smooth, waterworn walls. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next he turned around the desk in his office so that he was sitting at it with his back to the wall instead of to the window. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through the riots people had tried to break in, but the concrete walls and thick iron doors had refused to yield. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the near wall was a small iron stove that supplied heat by burning dried yak dung. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet bent toward Prosper who was leaning against the wall and staring up at the moon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The nearby pond was bathed in a silver sheen, parts of the sandstone wall reflecting back a wavery bluish light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Joel-and-Peter stood at the base of the wall and pointed to a pinpoint of daylight overhead. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The outside is brown brick, and the inside has light brown cement floors, white walls, and white sheets on the beds. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Far away to the east, perhaps a mile distant, there was an unbroken wall of sound. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ducked behind the nearest wall and ran to the left. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He slunk swiftly across the grounds to one of the small doors in the massive outer wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Without the moonlight, we would have stumbled over the man who lay moaning against the wall. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't like having my back against the wall. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I slumped against the wall below the window, my muscles jittering and finally catching up with the adrenaline that had gotten me there. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a dark night he climbed the wall with Odysseus’ help, found the Palladium and took it to the camp. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the far wall were a dozen stricken-faced boys, from probably ages three to nine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pet nodded at her and crouched against the wall next to the shower, its body aggressively eclipsing the rest of the bathroom. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A man who walks into a room and all the walls fall down? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When she lets go of Charlie, he goes to the corner and stands against the wall frightened and shivering. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of looking for a key, he grows impatient and returns to his study to retrieve the silver knife that is embedded in the dartboard on the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, Palmer looked about for signs of primitive living—mud, piles of rubbish—but saw nothing but clean furniture, carpets, pictures on the walls. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the fitting room, which was just one big room with mirrors on the walls, she found a spot next to an older woman with a shiny face and coarse frosted hair. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We played in a dusty alleyway, with brick walls on either side, where there wasn't much parental traffic. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising over the wooden walls of Barrowton when they stepped outside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Petey left his bench and tore one of his strange schematics off the corkboard wall. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Our sixteens were at our side, too jammed between us and the walls of the hole to use. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with a scorched roof and filthy walls and a weed-choked, yellow lawn, it looked ancient. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Someone stands, moves to the wall, the light in the room fades to twilight, our voices dwindle to a chorus of creaks, of husky whispers, like grasshoppers in a field at night. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I notice a crate, a stepping stone to the top of the wall. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dad told me to put the cone-on-a-string part up to my ear and just talk really loudly at the cone part stuck onto the phone on the wall. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for approval, Diana grabbed a poster off the wall, found a black marker in the teacher’s desk, and handed it to Cas. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a small, windowless room attached to the stables, fragrant with leather polish and stained wood from floor to ceiling, the walls lined with heavy saddles, riding crops, bridles, and reins. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instantly, green and blue light rippled across the walls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was so quiet that the ticking of a clock on the wall could be heard. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then I looked over at my bunk, and I saw my old shield hanging on the wall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, like you to have that, put it on your wall,” Deborah said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his bed, back to the wall, his thick, long legs splayed on the mattress. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Its blue walls clashed with the yellow curtains. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air inside the packing plant was several degrees cooler than outside, on account of the brick walls, but it reeked of the same slaughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were posters of various Hindu gods on the wall, many in states of meditation. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She stands up on her tiptoes, her hands resting atop the makeshift cubicle’s walls. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

What did you and Hassan call it, “the Wall of Ailing Corn”? A rocket destroyed a whole section of that wall in the middle of the night early that fall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next to it, his pride and joy hung framed on the wall: a signed Missy Elliott poster that he’d gotten for Christmas the previous year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alfred looked over Barnes' shoulder at the clock on the far wall. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were covered with photographs in gold frames, photographs of houses and people crammed close together on the walls like a crowd in a space too small for it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

From my seat in the tree, I can see beyond the wall. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He looked over the two cages, peered into the Coat Room, and then put his ear to the walls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I jump off the sink and lean close to the mirror on the wall, and think of Daddy. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There is little, I think, that engages my imagination like a wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our old cat, Boo, despised it, she was always nervous, riding the walls. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a set of bunk beds against the far wall, comic-book posters everywhere, and a huge bookshelf filled with books. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My answer was a gunshot ricocheting off a wall nearby, followed by another that slammed into the floor at my feet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As noiselessly as he could, he secured another section of rope to the roof and slowly began to rappel down the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Any crack in the wall was enough for his fingers; the least imperfection was all he needed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is three stories tall, with beige stucco walls and wide fieldstone panels flanking a varnished oak front door with leaded glass. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Newt stood just a couple of feet in front of the thick curtain of ivy on the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As she got closer to the thing on the wall, she saw that it was some kind of a sac, like a spider’s egg case. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I walk back to the bed and he down with my face to the wall and pull my knees up into my chest. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Alby stopped walking, and Thomas was surprised to see they’d reached the South Door; the two walls bracketing the exit towered above them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Chiron flew into the side of the building with such force the wall crumbled and collapsed on top of him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was still sitting there on the wall, legs drawn up, when the other two came back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s probably cracked, possibly ruined, but I can’t tear my gaze from the symbol on the wall. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I also thought that if I could get the wall finished, I could build a fire after dark and cook a hot meal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was those same accursed walls that were ruining all his plans. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The walls around them were covered in solid ice, and his footsteps crunched into the packed snow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In one corner the walls don’t completely meet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I turned a corner and I beheld an astonishingly huge machine, spotlights bolted to its side, tearing at a wall of coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance downstream it plunged into the dark mouth in the wall and disappeared. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty other Americans in there, sitting on the floor with their backs to the wall, staring into the flames—thinking whatever there was to think, which was zero. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed between the trellis and the wall. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he went to a box by the wall, and from it he brought a piece of rag. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along one wall was the office of the division chief, Henry Pearson, with a station for his secretary just in front. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed gray today, even the houses with their bright color-washed walls and the flowering shrubs in the streets. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I got closer, I spotted an open patch of ground directly in front of the castle’s entrance, just outside the shield wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The compound walls would crumble, I was sure, and squash the frangipani trees. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only shelter was provided by the suits of medieval armor punctuating the walls. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Faces hovered above me like inscrutable fish peering myopically through a glass aquarium wall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large room, twice as big as Miss Mary’s house, with two wide fireplaces, one on each of the far walls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began to swing back away from the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was straight, the walls, solid, with no hallways branching off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The wall was built in such a brain-frenzied hurry that it cut right through some commoners’ houses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So destiny and me lean against the wall and wait. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He presses a hand to the wall next to my head and leans into it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I put a blanket around my shoulders and sat in the entrance, in my usual place, where I could lean back against the rock wall and look down on the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only light came through narrow slanting windows high in the wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The thatching was evenly trimmed, the walls freshly plastered, the ground smooth without the print of a foot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if walls had shifted slightly, and furniture moved to new places. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are things in the woods, Glerk. I found a chimney. And a wall. And a small house. Or it was a house, but now it has a tree in it.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The inn beneath the sign of the broken anvil stood within sight of those walls, near the Gate of the Gods where they had entered that morning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The walls and floors are lined with old-time gleaming wood, and the sound is amazing. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I walk out of the pantry beaming, hang the phone up on the wall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On the top of the wooden platform was a metal shack with three walls, open on the fourth side. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes follow the chain link all the way up to where it hits the cement yard wall. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since this part of our property adjoined the palacio of the dictator's daughter and son-in-law, my grandfather had been reluctant to erect a high wall lest it be considered a snub. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was a courtyard that lay deep under snow, surrounded by a low wall, and as Iorek pushed open the gate they heard a bell ring somewhere in the building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I know the facts are there, but they’re behind a murky wall. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The wall has various names: Wall of Thoughts, Wall of Ideas, Wall of My Mind, or just The Wall, not to be confused with Pink Floyd. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Edward and I drew back against the wall to give them room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shelves lined the walls, and there were several blocky wooden tables; everything in sight was covered with all manner of junk that gave him the creeps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It gives way, tearing down off the hospital wall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Once his will was captured by the power of the Stone, then they would let the shadow into the walls, for a gebbeth was a better slave even than a man. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we’re going to have anything to match that outfit,” Selena said as we walked to a wall of cubbies full of shoes that reminded me of a bowling alley. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Our bug-out is a small A-frame structure—the mirrored side walls slope so that they reflect the higher reaches of trees, instead of reflecting people who might be approaching. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One whole wall is lined with big power tools. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get be-hind the wheel and eat up the space, drink it in, make his own choices in that great land without walls. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wall of hostility had fallen down and vanished. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sefia and Archer crept around the edge of the pit to the tunnel, where she took a lantern from the wall. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Percy peeked around the corner of the wall. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Dost remember, too, the wall about the Tower or any other wall?” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then he kick me again, head hit hard against wall and I go to sleep. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drifts grew so deep that they covered the entrance to the caves, leaving a white wall that Summer had to dig through whenever he went outside to join his pack and hunt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A small red button was set into the wall only a few inches above the floor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The shadows from the walls had lengthened considerably, already creeping up the sides of the ivy-covered stone faces on the other side. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

From here, the top of the gatehouse wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He hurried upstairs to the door and thrust the torch into the wall bracket beside it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was no brick wall on the other side of the door: only darkness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She pointed at a sign up on the wall that listed the prices for rooms in red ink. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He found himself alone in a white wilderness, walls of snow looming up to either side of him chest high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When it seemed as if the walls themselves would start to crumble, the tension eased. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The two of us turned in to a side street, and we stiffened against a wall in the shadows. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When the tide is high, you believe in the walls of this place. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The bartender howled and began beating at the wall of fire with his towel. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They were wearing pretty dresses and sitting together on one of the low brick walls that ran all around the property. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The first night they woke up the prisoners at two in the morning and made them do pushups, line up against the wall, and perform other arbitrary tasks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hears his mother’s rhythmic prayers from behind her closed door, and he loses himself in her voice and the soft thud of the rubber ball against the wall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Our parents are sleeping in, so it’s just my sisters and me, and were wedged against the wall waiting for a table. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The V.C.’s walls were not very high; I could see the big duplex that nestled behind a canopy of trees with greenish-yellow leaves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had him nailed to the wall with one finger. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Every time I brought to mind a memory or thought and tried to put an invisible wall around it, my defenses crumbled, as flimsy as waxed paper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The portrait swung forward to reveal a hole in the wall through which they all climbed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I've never felt the carpet on the soles of my feet before, never felt the cold air rolling down off the windows along the north wall, never been even half this alert. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the wall and walked slowly to the door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How could a wall spanning the kingdom be defended? There would never be enough soldiers to guard something so vast! What does this Tiger Emperor want?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Above them a few stars still glimmered faintly; but on either side there arose walls of impenetrable gloom; they were in a narrow lane between moving towers of shadow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That’s how it had sounded, exactly how, and the walls and chairs and the lamp had all heard it and they could prove it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sounds echoed off the walls of our empty apartment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, Colonel, we looked around, and there was this here stone wall, and it was comfortin’, you know?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a pin, Grandpa hung a small mirror on the tent wall. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we caught one wave at just the right point and it car­ried us a great distance, past the high, collapsing walls of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned my lute case against a wall and fell into a chair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother was always afraid I’d fall off the sea wall, or tumble out of a tree, or cut myself with a pocketknife. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Dad was always dropping by to visit Mom, but then they got into such screeching arguments that the neighbors banged on the walls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walked to the barn and sat a few minutes, leaning my back against the rear wall, looking out into the pasture and thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It sounds like a giant wall has cracked, and soon it will come tumbling down. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to hit the left wall,” he said, crossing his arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then she made her way over to a metal box fixed to the wall near the front door and hidden behind a thick, dusty curtain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ton-Ton had a face that looked like it had been slammed into a wall.You could see right up his nostrils and maybe, Matt thought, get a peek at his brain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I settled myself into her and her into the wall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I slam the door behind her, and the bedroom walls vibrate. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The keystone of the arch crashed almost on their heels, and the wall above crumbled, and fell in ruin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The thick wall of his coat sleeve warmed my ears. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I bring my hand back down, my elbow hits a wall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Between the two walls was the moat, deep and wide ... and frozen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I find a chair near the back wall. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I prop my bike against the wall as he motions Mr. Barry over. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She shoves the box through a small opening in the wall. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We weren’t quite halfway up the wall when it reached the ground below us, looked up, and squatted like a spring about to uncoil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She patted the wall just inside the door, from the floor to as high as she could reach, but found nothing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The air was dank and cool, the walls scored with alarming cracks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was a new entry in his repertoire of poses: back to the wall, arms crossed, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, his good leg casually bent. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

So instead I turn and look casually at this big bookshelf against the wall. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One of the men walking sentry on the walls spied her making her descent and lifted his spear to her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I post the poems on the wall like freedom graffiti or tuck them in “her journal,” a journal that I keep only for my mother. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then his father raised his belt, and it fell with a whistling sound on Roy, who shivered, and fell back, his face to the wall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The whole area was coated in black soot and it looked like a pack of feral ceratopses had barged through, but at least the walls were still standing. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A line of arched windows ran along the south wall, but they had been closed off with heavy draperies. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon, Cole had finished covering the roof rafters with plywood and began nailing plywood to the wall panels. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The creatures were surrounding something that lay glittering in the mud: something slightly taller than they were, which lay on its side, a large cage, perhaps, with walls of crystal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He took apart light bulbs; he took apart the electric outlets on the wall to see how the wires inside wound together and, in the process, got a painful, vibrating jolt all through his body. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once they had passed a certain point it created a difficult angle for the defenders on the wall to fire at them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He nodded, obviously happy but not wanting to show it as he kicked his heel against the wall. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Axel asks, bringing Byrd from his four walls to face him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There’s my father’s soga hanging on the wall, his farm tools, my mother’s broom, the eucalyptus stick she smacked me with when I misbehaved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood next to the main doors with our backs pressed to the wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The two pupils they passed in the corridor backed up against the wall to let him go by. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Polished marble floors reflected the golden plaques hanging from the walls. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’d made her squat down with her back to us and her face mashed into the alley’s wall. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He caught her in the dorm hallway, backed her against the wall. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We nailed them on the wall above our beds, and that was where I kept my geode. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In cross-section it consisted of two concen­tric walls: the wet, slightly rough outer wall, so vibrantly green, and an inner wall midway between the outer wall and the core of the algae. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tall stone wall rose up on the other side of a brown river about half as wide as the Sogozha River was at home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Witnesses say the car, driven by Andrew Jackson, 17, also of the Hazelwood team, had been noticeably weaving across the lanes of the expressway just before it hit a retaining wall and burst into flames. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our school yard is nothing but concrete with an old handball wall and fading basketball lines. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon there was great peril of fire behind the wall, and all who could be spared were busy quelling the flames that sprang up in many places. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Ron shouted angrily as he and Harry backed into the wall of Hagrid’s cabin, still holding the skrewt off with their sparks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There it stayed while the rain beat on the walls and the fire sank down and the night wearing slowly along left the old woman nodding beside the hearthpit. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of a hawk on one wall reminds me of Tori’s tattoo. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I hurl myself through a gaping hole punched in the wall of what used to be the central library. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She crept to the edge of the hallway and pressed herself against the wall. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He scraped his hand along the wall and his palm came away white. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The tide had begun to turn and was swirling slowly round the arm of the harbour wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A blast of violet light shot through the end of the stick, but the Sleeper, now fully emerged from the wall, merely batted the beam of light aside. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ringleader had made a dash for it and was trying to climb over a wall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Worst of all are the walls, once creamy white, now covered with black spray paint. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He keeps to the walls, and I follow behind, holding tightly to Izzi and hoping it’s not too late for us to escape. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It took but moments for me to slip the wall board out as he had instructed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Czernobog sat on a bench in the wall facing the Mikado machine, tapping out the time with his fingers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I looked out too, hoping I hadn’t thrown the burning cloth onto a porch roof or too near a wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kate said, pointing to a piece of paper stuck to the wall above the door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At intervals, a cold green light shone from a panel in the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The back wall is wobbly, so Michael Clark and Rachel have to pretend to be royal guards and hold it steady with their backs. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I looked at the wall and saw that today he had picked to sit by the third fall of Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since World War II, one brick after another had been pried from the walls of segregation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Four leads the group of initiates across the Pit toward a gaping hole in the wall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The breath of man and horse mingled, steaming, in the cold morning air as his lord father had the man cut down from the wall and dragged before them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Max says his footsteps go back and forth on the other side of the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Outside in the hall, he leaned against the wall, breathing deeply. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Hugo darted through the crowd, his vision blurry from tears, and made his way into the walls of the station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The water was full of short-circuiting spiders, some of them smashing against the pool’s concrete wall with such force they burst. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The door slams, and we are left in this room of unspoken words, surrounded by the gray concrete walls. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Emily, James, and Matthew hugged the wall next to the restrooms to stay out of view of anyone on the lower level until footsteps thundered beneath them and then faded. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hurl it against the wall and the screen is totaled. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I promise myself to hang Caleb’s poem on the wall with Daddy’s and the one from the library. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The deck came up under his feet and sent him stumbling into a wall. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s body turned into a gray wall and then he was gone in a cloud of mist that washed over Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked at the paintings of flowers and mountain scenes already hanging on the walls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On one side was a high cliff wall of dark rock, and on the other was a sheer drop-off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pressed myself against the wall so she could rush by me, then followed her down the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he struck at Asmodeus, he would be crushed to death against the walls by the powerful lashing coils of the adder in its death throes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

An unlit oil lamp hung on the wall beside the door, the patch of will behind it was singed soot black. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came to a stop, then rolled once more, right up to the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

I feel the wall of her self-defense begin to crumble. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The lighter flame flickered magically, making golden the purple shadows on the wall. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my attention back to my task and lunge upward along the wall, grabbing for each brick. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even I knew that the wall did not run between St. Paul's and the Thames. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small rip around the pinhole, like it’d been torn off the wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a while they came to another wall blocking the way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down from the wall, he sits cross-legged and leans his back against it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

While he wouldn’t admit it, Dragon thought just standing by the walled city might make him feel just a bit less lonely. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to eat, munching on the apples as he studied the huge breaks in the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Teddy leaned against the wall with a sigh. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leafy plants lined the walls, and the skylight bathed the table in the center of the room in morning sun. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The creature angled its face at her, horns dark against the slate-gray walls. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Harry started and looked around at Hermione, who was sitting at the table right behind them and clearing a space in the wall of books that had been hiding her. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Some-one in the gym fell against the wall and shouted an obscenity. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the hill, they climbed over an old retaining wall and down into an excavated trench. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ghosts screamed and ran, but they couldn’t seem to pass through the walls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ivory floors and walls of the great banqueting hall were dripping with blood. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he found a new route and started to jog along it, his wandlight waving, making his shadow flicker and distort on the hedge walls. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She moved into a small house on Fowler Avenue in the Hayti area, full of rotting floorboards and holes in the walls big enough to allow birds in. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Hand's private audience chamber was not so large as the kinjg's, nor a patch on the vastness of the throne room, but Tyrion liked its Myrish rugs, wall hangings, and sense of intimacy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She would soon be all alone with nothing but the windowless walls and a locked door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

However, the unbearable urge to splatter someone across a wall lessened when they brought her a piebald mare to ride. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had read the name Dr. Lister off a pigeonhole on the wall behind him, because if you pretend you know someone, they’re more likely to let you in. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wiggle my body inside and sit against the wall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bike leaned against the wall, its chrome handlebars bright in the moonlight. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The house on my land has a foundation and walls filled in now. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The best thing in the whole room was one wall that was covered with pictures of some horses cut out of a bunch of magazines and stuck on the wall with thumbtacks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A cot was pushed up against the other wall, its thin covers rumpled, papers and notebooks strewn around it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Its walls and floor and ceiling were made of wooden planks notched cunningly together and decorated with all the creatures of the sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cavern walls narrowed on either side, and I realized wed entered some kind of side tunnel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were bare and there was no canopy over the small hard couch. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The humming of my parents’ voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nox swung wide, the rope wrapped around his middle going taut as he collided with the castle wall below. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Beneath his paw there was writing carved into the dust-covered wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The one time we took it down, there was a pale square behind it, as though the sun had tanned the wall around the painting. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Using it to hold the alarm button down, I pull open the door and use a brick leaning against the wall to keep it open. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It’s all anyone will talk about, and it’s driving me up the wall, because what everyone should be talking about is why Sandy Sanders ran away in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The last standing wall of the clothing store cracked and tumbled down with a dull rumble. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She places this glop in the nearest wall hole, wipes her hands on her skirt, spots a lizard running along the wall and follows it until it slips into another wall hole. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought that was how a man behaved, so when I got upset, even as a young boy, I would throw things or kick the wall. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Because the people who left their secrets on the walls thought that this was some ordinary place, something for garbage and graffiti. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was like climbing a sheer wall, and as fruitless. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall above the magazine rack is a row of light switches with different names under them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A distinct howl shook the walls and made Celaena’s blood icy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Phelan lifted him into the air and slammed him against the cell’s metal wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Here!" she says, settling down in a patch of shade cast by a wall at the corner of two busy roads. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d pull over and go up to the wall, and she’d put me up on her shoulders like I was a little periscope. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

January pulls open a hidden drawer in the wall, then reaches inside and takes out a long silver staff. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t just fall in the river, Kat. There are walls all around. You’d have to throw yourself in deliberately.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held the boat, it rising and falling against the stone wall and I helped Catherine in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I ran into him Tuesday downtown at the P&S Drugstore, where he was slouched against the front wall looking bored and smoking filterless Viceroys. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

That’s when I noticed the shotgun leaned up against the wall. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The doctors were worried my face would prove a huge problem when I ventured beyond the safe walls of Fortress Hoge and into the big, wide world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She leaned her head back against the wall and raised her eyes to the ceiling before correcting herself. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We play it against the side wall of Carol’s house. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How exactly did that grand wall come to be compromised?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Chi the walls of King's Landing, spitfires were belching death, and the great trebuchets behind the Mud Gate were throwing boulders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fang looked up the hard gray wall, damp and dark at the bottom where the sun hadn’t hit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Brass lamps hung from the walls and the earthy floor was worn and smooth; as they walked, their shadows rippled, fanlike, across the wall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was flat against the mud wall behind the nest like a picture hanging up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile was forever writing on walls when she lived with us, and Pa was forever painting over them. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Set against the wall was a square table and three straight-backed chairs, chairs without dragon feet. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I consider men who always need the protection of others to be those who cannot meet their enemy in the field, but must seek refuge behind their city walls and defend them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

A crucifix stood out on the bare wall above her head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous wall, like a giant patchwork curtain of stone, surrounded the thousands of houses of the city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring it up close to the wall,” he whispered urgently. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Each car has a wall of corpses stacked in the front. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But before I reach the gallery I come to a wall of plywood, concealing a demolition. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made walls by nailing boards along the railings, but it leaked pretty badly out there, too, so he still slept under the inflatable raff. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then his injured foreleg gave way and he lurched sideways against the wall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when he was helping the Retrieval boys scrape some pod wreckage off a tunnel wall, they were spotted by a group of potholing humans. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Above our heads was one of my mother’s paintings, which covered the restaurant walls, our home, and nowhere else. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I expect to find, but it’s not the sight of my mother seated behind a card table with all of Aunt Lucy’s furniture pushed up against the walls. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Out in their small courtyard, Jinjoo paced along the outside wall. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Their shadows moved with them along the wall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had a potbellied stove in the middle and a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the wall. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Obedient, Sandor Clegane swung down from his saddle, but there was no way through that wall of fleSh, let alone to the roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

May Ling would fall asleep, milk-sated and warm, in that cozy crib, snug under a hand-knit coverlet, a wall of crib bumpers shielding her from the hard slats of the sides. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Moss watched a tall, lanky kid lurch forward and grab for the handhold that was attached to the wall just above Moss’s bike. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Skulls crunch as I shove a pack loaded with food and water into a wall crypt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Think about that while ya sit here and stare at the bloody walls.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I hardly even had the guts to rub it off the wall with my hand, if you want to know the truth. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Looking in the mirror hanging on the outside wall of the bathhouse, I wrap it stylishly around my choppy hair, with a careful knot in the middle, the ends hanging down over my right shoulder. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I showed him my castle walls and how I had constructed new merlons along them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

These slower-growing leaves develop thicker walls and take up less water, helping them stay fresher longer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If she got beyond the wall, she could make it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Singh had a steamer to loosen the paper from the walls. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was in side the shed, staggering from wall to wall, her legs too thin for her full belly. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It sounded through the wall, above the rain, above the wind. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs Compson stood watching her as she mounted, steadying herself against the wall with one hand, holding her skirts up with the other. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are larger than my usual format, and space out the wall nicely. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the squadron reached the wall of the inner force field, the outer field reappeared. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was very silent in there, with no sound of the waves on the shore and only the lapping of the water against the rocky walls. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snuck a glance at Stick, but his attention was on the city, the walls and corners whizzing by his window. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There are paintings and framed photographs all over the walls and glass boxes full of pottery and sculptures spread out all over the floor space. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He glanced at her clothes, which looked like the garments of a queen when she had them on, but now, hanging from their nails on the wall, seemed like the sad rags of a beggar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the carpet rolled against the far wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once he just shoved Granny across the room, up against the far wall and back into her chair, and where she sat sniffling while the arguments went on. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has already run her hands over its contents many times: a wooden oar nailed to a wall, a window dressed with long curtains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted bright blue and were of wood and the lamps threw their shadows against them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “Hmm. Well. Okay then. Don’t let that blank wall stop you, Mason. Have at it.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

White hospital sheets, white walls, white lab coats, all running together. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But I have nothing, so I try instead to stagger away, only to mn straight into a wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The house dripped mercher wealth—walls paneled in dark wood, floors tiled in clean black and white, all in good taste, all perfectly restrained and impeccably crafted. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Up the street a man was banging his head against a stone wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A microscope sat on a table in the closet, and there was a chair, and from the wall hung an air hose. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are rails of wood that let the sunlight right in, and logs on the ground are our pews. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She only catches a glimpse of his face as he glares at her and then she turns away, returning her attention to the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Squeezing into the far corner, we knelt down to wait and listen, hidden behind a wall of nervous sheep. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Fezzik reached the top of the wall and started carefully climbing down the other side. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to watch this Spanish dude stand near a wall, with his knees bent, staring off into space. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They walked together through the meadow, toward the gap in the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it would be like to go all around the world but never be able to get outside the walls of the hospital. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He felt along the dusty shelves on the wall where he knew Sean kept an old flashlight. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Below Him—on the altar—stood the fat tallow candle, whose constant fluttering flame shed some light upon the white walls of painted lime. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, Stannis would hardly need scaling ladders to storm the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We would all stand; my uncle, leaning his walking stick against the wall, would lean his weight on the table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma would never let her walls look like that. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bodega banged a fist on the table, then pointed a finger at the wall as if he were pointing at the people outside. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Seeing how my hands were occupied, my face sort of broke the fall, hitting the wall first, a millisecond before my foot slipped into the brimming trough. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were shelves along the wall, and a refrigerator. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I could see the Zeppelin poster of clasperless Icarus hanging over his bed and the framed picture of Richard Feynman on the wall. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn stumbled back against the wall, so relieved she nearly fainted. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The air was dank and musty—like the smell of wet blankets—and the massive stone walls were slimy to the touch. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kapos sent us back to our places, and I chipped away at the salt wall again until they told me to stop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brilliantly painted red and gold animal dens line two of the four walls, their sides propped open to reveal lions, tigers, panthers, jaguars, bears, chimps, and spider monkeys—even an orangutan. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Beyond the fence, much closer now, is the imposing exterior wall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But it had streamers and wavy cardboard on the walls, and posters about kindness that really mean calmness. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Barrels of slimy stuff stood on the floor; jars of herbs, dried roots, and bright powders lined the walls; bundles of feathers, strings of fangs, and snarled claws hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His voice was light and conversational, but Harry saw him slip an inch lower down the wall as he said it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But when she finally got to the wall, she was told her husband had died,” the woman continued, ignoring the interruption. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This realization momentarily stunned me, which was unfortunate, because Sorrento’s lightning weapon was still firing, moving in a fast sweeping arc, cutting across the ground, then diagonally up the castle wall, toward me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were strange candles burning high on the walls out of reach. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the chamber made a crackling sound like ice in warm water, and dozens of gems streaked toward the giant, punching through his armor like buckshot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the lizards run away up the walls with the rest of her words, and I can’t hear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I entered my stronghold’s hangar and pressed a button on the wall to open the launch doors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He, too, winks at me with his one working eye, and decorates the walls of his quarters with what he calls “the telltale visions of a captain triumphant.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I thought I was going to walk into Dylan’s apartment with Hogwarts banners hanging from the walls. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Helmuth sways, puts his hand out to the wall to steady himself, to keep himself from melting. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers shake as he undoes the ties in the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They worked their way through the dining area, lifting tablecloths and peering under chairs, scrutinizing wall hangings and the small clusters of carnations on every table. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s coming from beside the silage rolls, down a little nook that opens up next to them back to the wall. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You know, it could be the electric wiring inside the walls. It could smolder for a while in there and then burst into flame.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun, trapped beneath a wall of pewter, stained the clouds a yellowish gray, making the sky unusually bright. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I can make him face the wall, if it helps.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The palms were torn up from the descent down the glacier wall, the skin scabbed over where the ice had cut her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I write him a private message: Please take that off your wall or edit out what you say at the end so no one else sees/hears it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Harry leaned against the enchanted wall, which opened to admit them, and he and Luna sped back down the steep staircase. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

By God, ’tis a desperate situation altogether when you can’t turn your back but tenants are not paying their rent and making walls and rooms disappear on top of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the shelves against the wall there was no bread at all, only a single, sad round roll. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Aunt Daisy said, pointing at one of Phoebe’s candies glinting on the floor on the other side of the gate, pushed next to the wall. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big hole in the recently whitewashed wall, and a tangle of rubber tubes and pipes was sticking out of it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Once at the bottom, the walls create a maze, leaving only a small portion of the garden visible at a time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Earlier, Minho and a couple of Runners had pulled out ropes of ivy and knotted them to vines still attached to the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead of admiring the photo, looked at his own reflection in the glass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Zola leans against the balcony wall and stares out at the beautiful mountain, so tall and strong. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were empty boxes for hide-and-seek, there were walls to climb, tin cans to roll, and pieces of twine to tie and swing on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, very good. Reznak, see to it. Once the Second Sons ride out, close the gates and double the watch upon the walls.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

More stones fell; more cracks spread up the walls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I retreated from him in haste and, settling on a stool by the wall, tried to calm myself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He walks toward the wall, peering closely at one of my sketches. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Jack Sheppard himself couldn’t get free from the strait-waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he’s chained to the wall in the padded room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Beyond the city walls, a hundred pavilions had been raised beside the river, and the common folk came out in the thousands to watch the games. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The teenager was shoving the torch at the thatched roof now, because all the wall was doing was smoking. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mom hung paintings on the walls and stacked street finds in the living room and put colored bottles in the windows for that stained-glass effect. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand flecks of golden light sparkled upon the dark surface of the water a few feet below where he crouched; the black wall of rock beside him was illuminated too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I put down my mop and, after a second's hesitation, unhooked our big cast-iron wok from the wall. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The blue, furry fairy gestured toward the orangutan, and the shackles binding it to the wall fell apart. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

‘I do not doubt the valour of your people. But the world is changing. The walls of Minas Tirith may be strong, but they are not strong enough. If they fail, what then?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With its oiled wood panels on the walls, it reminds me of the chamber at Elsinore where the king received his visitors. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She couldn't have gone beyond the walls anyway. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Joseph checked the dining room and ran his fingertips along the carved moulding on one of the glossy walls. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I survey the mailroom again, see that most of the walls are similarly covered. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The wall we walk gets more disgusting the more of it I see. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“What exactly is your field?” my father asks, examining the many diplomas lining the walls. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Small kids were perched on tabletops because there weren't enough chairs, and the Epiphany sixth graders stood like caryatids leaning against three of the four walls of the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grainy scenes, but no less terrifying: grocery stores ablaze, smoke billowing from their rooftops, walls gnawed to studs by flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Poppet looks wrong, somehow, standing there on the opposite side of the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She indicated a fuel drum by the wall and a box of matches. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Toby instinctively pushed himself against the wall until he heard a girl’s voice. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d had to relive this awful cycle so many times, at so many different schools, that sometimes I really wanted to put my head through a wall. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I got up and ran across the field and fell over the other stone wall. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white walls were now painted beige, and instead of the big comfy sofa, stiff chairs sat alongside a cement-looking couch balancing on tiny wooden legs. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Will you put your arms up and stand against the wall for a search?” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Too big to fit in the sick bay with the rest of them, Horse pulled up a stool and wedged himself in the doorway, his bulging muscles pressed against the walls. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond those canvas walls, each man got a heel of bread and a chunk of black sausage no longer than a finger, washed down with the last of Galbart Glover’s ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man had a stick in his hand, and he had forced the hyena dæmon back against the wall. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A row of silver filing cabinets lined the wall behind it. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, still struggling for air, and crush him against the wall with my body, my lips finding his. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I let it in, so it can find its way out onto the wall. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Money for the cement and cinder blocks that rose out of the ground in solid, grey walls and flat square roofs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the afternoon, we stopped by an ojito, a spring bubbling out of a rock wall, and drank water straight out of the spouting hole. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Seasons of rain and snow had turned the iron gate rusty and left the cemetery’s low white stone walls in decay. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I say, feeling a little warm all of a sudden, “most houses have art on the walls, so I figured I’d decorate the room and drew a picture of my dad in his uniform.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The air sang to her just like the walls and floors in her house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We have eggs, buttered toast, and a glass of milk each for dinner; there’s a small sack of coal in the corner, and magazine cuttings pinned all over the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care to read about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The front door banged against the back wall as he jerked it open and walked out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes me against the wall and takes off her gray jacket. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My walls are decorated with images of the Fibonacci spiral in nature: flower petals, pinecones, nautilus shells, far-off galaxies. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I dodged and the beast buried its head in a brick wall. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But she looked over and saw the bishop’s daughter, Julie, tucked between the edge of the wall and the piano, sobbing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on my hands in her cramped, sweltering office that has shelves covering every wall, each stuffed with piles of books and loose papers looking ready to whip around the room in a windstorm. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I heard my father ask my mother through the wall separating our rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The clock on the wall ticked its way closer to one A.M. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Pong picked it up and stuck it out between the bars, angling for the peg on the wall. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Its walls stretched out gray and ominous for miles, and its spotlights beamed even into the Atlantic. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi leaned over the wall’s ledge as far as she dared, fingers outstretched. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Inside the walls of green silk, his captains and lords bannermen were waiting to hear word of the parley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the models simply outlined walls, fences, and doors with loose stones, but some were elaborate constructions complete with plastic model cars, toy animals, and thatch roofs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From ten feet away, I hear the bird’s skull crack as blood sprays everywhere on the wall, splattering onto Kim’s feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never touch a wall on the sunny side.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker peers over the wall, sees Madge on the ground, and pulls out her phone. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

My breathing seemed so loud I was sure Mr. Foster could hear me through the classroom wall. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thus the number of apostrophes in circulation remains constant, even if this means we have double the reason to go and bang our heads against a wall. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Hanako spotted a bustling outside market, right next to a single broken concrete wall and a big pile of rubble. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He push me back ’gainst the wall and push himself hard against me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I turn my head so that I’m facing the wall of books. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He stopped at last before a building against the outer wall and gestured for Tree-ear to wait outside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It goes up the hill, where it connects to the rec yard wall, and down the hill as far as I can see. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The walls are hideous,” Amaka said, in English, and I wondered what she would think of our compound walls back home, if she ever visited us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The truth swells larger than the tub walls can hold, cleanses me more than the water and bubbles ever can. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We darted to a window that looked out on the street and flattened ourselves against the wall next to it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For a few moments, I couldn’t see anything outside the smooth walls of my sphere, then my pearl broke through on the ocean floor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wood floors were “practically black,” the windows were “caked with dirt,” and the walls were smeared with something she “didn’t even want to think about.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The walls of the gorge form a bowl, and water falls over the edge onto the rocky bottom of a creek below. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I brought my hands away from the walls my palms were covered in black soot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He found the Veranda Cafe, its walls painted with Venetian scenes and featuring a large elliptical dance floor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I ducked around the corner into the hallway, but pressed up against the wall to listen. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Moments later the door slammed opened again, hitting the wall so hard flakes of the crusty blue paint chipped off. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I keep busy by reading the bathroom walls. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The force of the throw sent him staggering backward into the wall. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When a brick touches the inner surface of the cell wall, it breaks apart into hundreds of individual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred hues of red, yellow, gold, and orange met and melded in the temple walls, dissolving one into the other like clouds at sunset. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond was dense forest of pine and spruce, and the mountain like a black wall, but the steps were there, chiseled deep into the rock, ascending into the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Rubbing a balloon on your hair and making it stick to the wall.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke had stepped back across the cold spot and was examining the hall carpet, then the walls, patting at the surfaces as though hoping to discover some cause for the odd cold. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the wall behind the TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The marble shot over Jackson’s head, struck the stone floor in the distance with a satisfying click, bounced off the far wall, and skittered around the corner. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In our city of Isfahan, they were the shadows on every wall. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The bass beat from the main hall thundered in the stairwell, echoing off the walls and in my head. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The ruins themselves weren’t that impressive: a few stone walls, a weed-choked central courtyard, a dead-end stairwell chiselled into the rock. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"There's a jetty,” Scipio whispered, "and steps leading up the shore toward a gate in the wall.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trees held their protecting shadow right up to the walls of the house that rose among them, making obsolete the deep porch that wrapped around the first story. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I glanced at one of the men against the wall, and it looked as if he was skin-popping—shooting heroin under his skin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had to think for a moment about the location of the highway, which direction the E-Z Rest faced, but Cade was right: He was walled off in East Berlin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They disintegrated as he pulled them from the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself getting mad, so to be safe, I sat down, my feet dangling over the Chinese side of the wall. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If those tourists had come to Tiwanaku at its height, walking through the miles of raised fields surrounding it to the city’s carefully fitted stone walls, they would have been delighted by its splendor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could hear my mom yelling through the walls. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And the walls of the corridors were similar to those that surrounded the Glade, the ground made of the same massive stone blocks as in the courtyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stop by the row of metal mailboxes that hang on the wall. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bus was still lodged inside the welfare office’s walls, smouldering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guard on the wall would hear them if they were too loud, so she heeded Alfhercht and didn’t say anything. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There’s graffiti of two silhouettes on the wall with the air pumps for bike tires. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Stone would have to be carried and built up into walls, then the sails would have to be made and after that there would be need for dynamos and cables. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Whistling and looking for food and shelter, I went on up the mountain, following the stone walls, discovering many things about my property. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his head hanging over the table, he ran his fingers along one of the crevices in the wall and started to do a rap tune. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning, French slapped Ann hard across the face, knocking her into the wall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later we three were lying back against the boat walls. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mong turned his head suddenly and puked against the cave wall behind him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I passed a half-finished wall, I picked a brick from the scatter and carried it at my side, reassured by the block’s weight and heft. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He and his twin brother Zethus undertook once to fortify Thebes, building a lofty wall around it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its stiff walls of heavy yellow canvas were badly faded, stained by mud and water, with spots of mildew showing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Going to lob them over the walls—they won’t like this!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He belonged, not to this scum which clung to the walls of a rich man’s house; nor did he belong to the rich man’s house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The stone was a chunk of wall, and not just any chunk. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lily was sitting on her bed with her back to the wall, reading. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The lights hanging slack overhead, the soft ground underneath and the canvas wall that faintly blew in and out, like cheeks puffed with air, made for the feeling of a country fair. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed us how a rock wall goes together. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But when they were on the street later, heading down to the bus stop, she saw Khadim again, leaning against a wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Their gabble circled the cinder-block walls and popped from the gunnery slots. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another gave me a blue-and-white-beaded wall hanging with a big Arabic “Allah” carved out of wood dangling from it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They thud against the wall, harder than I want them to. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Looked to me like they’d kill us all if they ever broke through those log walls. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the picket fence of Mrs. Cobb’s, steering as clear of it as if it were the wall of Jericho about to fall. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A book lay open on the table, with a chair in front of it; against the opposite wall stood a small sofa, neatly upholstered in cloth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the dimensions seemed a little off—something with the height of the walls, but she couldn’t be sure. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Along with housing a kingdom of rats and roaches, the walls between tenements were paper-thin, so I was constantly involved in the personal lives of my neighbors, whether I wanted to be or not. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The faster we can clear this stuff away, the sooner we can leave this mound. Maybe we can even get away before the wall collapses.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The squeals of young girls, the grunts of old women, and the trickling of bathwater echoed between the walls as backs were scrubbed and hair soaped. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jon’s pictures hang in the white room or are stacked against the walls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They lounged against the wall of a liquor and soft-drink store, smoking cigarettes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Instead he had chosen a black cloak and a wall of ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A black stove, pouring out heat, squatted against the far wall. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya gathered some up and wove a patch for the sukkah wall, then wove its ends into the wall’s ragged hole. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A portrait on the opposite wall catches my attention. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“ARGH!” it shouted, spinning around before knocking itself unconscious by running headlong into the wall. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The walls of the crevasse narrowed down to a thin gap, a few feet from the top, and then widened out again below. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No longer anonymous, but named, identified, the procession marched slowly on; on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestination Room. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a fat ball of snowy paper stuck on the wall. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And the crucifix went up on the wall of Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point he had nothing to do but wait, and overwhelmed with self-reproach and worry, he began to creep and crawl over everything: walls, furniture, and ceiling,. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the glow of the fake sun, framed family pictures and yellowing birth and marriage certificates are attached to the other walls, like a shrine to Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands of them dangled off the wall on nails in a morbid inventory of manacles and fetters, of shackles for ankles and wrists and necks in all varieties and combinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted Rowan up and pushed him against the wall with a bruising slam that made Rowan sorely miss his painkilling nanites. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They edged the board closer, David squinting through a drifting wall of smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Stanley had a poster of him hanging on the wall of his bed-room. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She goes flying through the air, landing with a splash in the churning open ocean beyond the wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And college^” he said, pointing to some other cut-outs on the wall. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They quizzed me on what 1 had observed staring at these walls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one comes in to remind us that we are in a hospital, and the machines on the walls and the metal bed rails kind of disappear for a while. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I saw you come down the wall. You came off the train.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Portraits of all the mayors of the city since the beginning of time hung on the walls, staring solemnly from behind pieces of old window glass. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A modular shower and toilet unit were embedded in one wall, opposite the small ergonomic kitchen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I consider tapping it against the wall but don’t, because the postmistress is watching. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not little fires, either, but massive walls of flame that licked high into the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But now there was a box of blank wall where the painting hocked for my bail money had been, I couldn’t remember which. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We squatted on the floor with our backs pressed firmly against the wall, our knees pulled up to our chests, our heads lowered and protected by our crossed arms. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The paint had long disappeared from the clapboard walls and no work had ever been done on the garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kate was leaning against a wall, trying to hold herself up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was small and cavelike—dark, moist, frigid, with ashen walls and cold tiles the color of lead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With a rope and a grapnel he might be able to get over that wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance they could see in the dim light the movement of the black guards upon the wall, and the patrols before the gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the legionnaires lifts Nan by her neck and slams her frail body against a wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My sister, Dell, reads and reads and never learns to jump rope or play handball against the factory wall on the corner. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond the narrow tunnel, the earthen walls opened into a long field with gently rising slopes on either side, like seating for spectators. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Reason said No. The tarpaulin was sturdy canvas, not a Japanese paper wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway led her to a wobbly table against the rear wall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the long, hot days, they idled away, picking plaster from the walls and digging into the earth with sticks. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real stained-glass windows, high up and out of danger, gleamed where once there had been blank walls. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the glimmer of light from the hallway that streamed underneath the closed door, I could see the crucifix on the wall and Mamas figure on a chair at the foot of my bed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama looked at the wall where six years ago an unsupervised three-year-old Oliver had drawn a post-impressionist-Picasso-like depiction of their family. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The ship slid by for what seemed like a mile, a mile of high, black canyon wall, a mile of castle fortification with not a single sentinel to notice us languishing in the moat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I keep wondering what exactly was written on the walls. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Surely she didn’t mean the long fork that hung on the wall behind the kitchen stove—a scary million miles away. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brushes, screwdrivers, and spray bottles hung on small hooks along the walls. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just the Ping-Pong table folded upright and pushed against the wall of the house. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The very wood of the walls seemed darker, more worn and chipped. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the wall, flat. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped to the ground, and when I hit the dirt I felt all the pain in my body come pouring back, a fire breaking through a wall and blowing through me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sit up and scoot back and check the wall I was leaning against. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The walls were chiseled with fine carvings of goblin kings and queens. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Its walls were made of thick iron sheets that reached eight feet from the bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I squint into the light, holding back a gasp as I take in the majestic onion-shaped domes and mustard and terra-cotta walls that connect four minarets, each topped with bright tiles. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

‘I last saw him fighting on the ground behind the wall, but the enemy swept us apart.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She looked at the alarm clock hung on a nail on the wall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall between the bookshelf and the fireplace, a taller bookshelf stood apart. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I found white dust at the base of the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Above the walls I observed spires—some with crosses—from which hung a host of multicolored pennants tossed and turned by breezes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s decorated our bathroom in red and orange, with purple mermaids swimming on the walls, and hooked up the toilet seat so that it plays “Jingle Bells” when it’s raised. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The screams of the other Gladers echoed off the tunnel walls as they slid down the oily chute. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He turned and raced for the gate in the green wall which, now for the first time, he remembered seeing. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Against the wall of the gutter, a bearded man whose shirt was stained with someone else’s blood sat holding his head in his hands. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Inside me, I can feel the air climbing the wall to get down there but it’s not enough. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were no doors, no windows, nothing to hide behind or use to get a leg up on the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but I felt shy and out of place in there with the noise and energy bouncing around and sheer goodness clinging to the walls of that house. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The wall opposite was made of some rough clay or plaster. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is widely believed that Ruess fell to his death while scrambling on one or another canyon wall. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At their backs rose a perpendicular wall of rock, and Perrault and François were compelled to make their fire and spread their sleeping robes on the ice of the lake itself. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

But life outside the prison walls wasn't much fairer than life inside it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“We each had our end of the lifeboat. It’s amazing how willpower can build walls. Whole days went by as if he weren’t there. “But we couldn’t ignore him entirely. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up against the brick wall and gave a short nod. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a rest area, gently lit in pinkish tones, with several easy chairs and a sofa, in a lime-green bamboo-shoot print, with a wall clock above it in a gold filigree frame. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he tacked the sign up on the wall in front of him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way up was steep and stony, the summit crowned by a chest-high wall of tumbled rocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kaz peered past the dome to the embassy’s open courtyard and the ring wall gatehouse beyond. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I took a chance and raised my head to look over the wall. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led them to a wall of doors, pressed a button and bowed slightly to show them in. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those occupying the chairs closest to the flaming chair abandon their seats and rush for the door, only to find that there is no longer a door to be found, only a solid wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re above a waterfall in the Dead Land. A bunch of rats are trying to scale the wall. A lot of us are hurt and we’re totally lost,” he said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the posters of LeBron on the wall, from when he played for Cleveland the first time. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I stay behind, looking at the space on the wall where my art was. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was at the top tier of the very tall shelves, along the northern wall beyond which the shark-fin ridge fell away in a sheer cliff all the way to the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After several turns they came to a house close to the wall of the citadel upon the north side, not far from the shoulder that linked the hill with the mountain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The experience was not lost on the painters, and doubtless some of the sketches of the “Prelude to the Great Storm” will grace the R. A. and R. I. walls in May next. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My notes are spilling over and across the wall itself and reaching toward the closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment I think that maybe I could just keep walking, out toward the mystery of the wall, past that to the open prairie, continue moving until I’ve left this whole mess behind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The gold and green lights from the scuttling creatures shimmer in an aurora on the cave walls. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The track and gym are instead walls of white. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Foaly clopped over to an equipment rack clamped to the wall. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I shifted up in the bed, leaned my back against the wall, and took the mug. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Twice, he fired his weapon into the street claiming he’d seen someone trying to climb the wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were sitting together along the wall, with our legs sticking out in front of us. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Helmuth lies on his back in the darkness, arms linked behind his head, watching the moon shimmer the walls. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He described, in his halting way, a city of whitewashed houses and tile roofs, of vines spilling over walls, of busy marketplaces and beautiful gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was frightened to see the rats were halfway up the wall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All night watchmen on the walls heard the rumour of the enemy that roamed outside, burning field and tree, and hewing any man that they found abroad, living or dead. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When anger rips a hole in me now, I punch a wall, or run ’til the wind cuts my breath off. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the rock walls were damp and slippery. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mo and Dustfinger stationed themselves by the doorway, one to the left and the other to the right, their backs pressed to the wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were on the wall, not on Darren and his desk. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the barn wall for a while, and blinked and blinked, trying to pretend everything would be okay. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I leaned against the wall, unable to stop crying. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Weak light came from outside and I saw that we were in a room with black, shining walls that curved high overhead. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could hear Jason too, crying loud beyond the wall. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the rows and rows of filing cabinets that line the walls. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up from bed and lifted my 30/30 carbine from the wall and listened again near the door of Rocinante— and I heard the steps come closer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the middle of a desolate but strangely familiar room, with peeling paper on the walls and all the windows boarded except for one. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Still, I was sitting with my back to the wall with a good view of the door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On one wall he made a scale drawing of the major planets, ranging from little Mercury, represented by a circle about as big as a marble, to Jupiter, as big as a basketball. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the guys leaned against the wall, scanning the crowd of students as they passed by on their way to the door. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Tree-ear stole silently over the frozen ground, edged along the wall of the shed, and after a quick glance around, hunched over to put his eye to a shoulder-level knothole. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Matt pulled Fidelito through a doorway and slumped against a wall to recover. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns to me then, and I wish I could fade like a shadow into the wall behind me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is my name standing out there so clearly; I should not be on the walls of this house. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a can of primer up against the wall, open. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

While she rummages through a small bin on the bookshelf, I stare at the doodles on the wall next to me. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I walked into the arena, and a wall of darkness slammed into me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But Kaz had spent his own money to have the Slat’s drafts shorn up and its walls insulated. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The walls were concrete blocks painted army green, devoid of windows. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After a bit she lowered the flame in the lamp so that the hut was dim, with dark shadows on its walls. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She could hear terrifying wails that seemed to be coming from the walls of the place. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the gap in the wall he could see colored tents being raised, stalls being erected, colored flags, and people walking back and forth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was just writing her name on the wall with a marker. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The walls of the low house were four feet thick, and the round pole rafters were tied on with rawhide ropes which had been put on wet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the draperies a story below, burning, lighting the night only enough for us to see that they were on the ground and some distance from the nearest wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose you wanted to scale the walls of a fortress which was on the other side of a river. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A wooden box was set against the cliff wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The spiders became excited, swarming over the walls, swirling around Annabeth’s feet like a glistening black whirlpool. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, though a wall of slate-grey clouds hid the setting sun as it made its descent into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They gleamed in the morning sunlight as though their walls were studded with precious jewels. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm in the shadow of the western wall. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of ravens rose from inside the walls when,they climbed through the broken gate, and the caged ravens in their wagons called out to them with quarks and raucous shrieks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s only a low murmur through the wall now. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage; he had carried it in before I could forestall him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When the peoples want surpleases of blossoms in those hard stone walls, they plant violets and other dainty purple and blue and white flowers. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

A wall, too, the men of old had made from the Hornburg to the southern cliff, barring the entrance to the gorge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If no one was around to see him, my older brother would help me carry the heavy pails of mud from the pond to plaster our walls. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the young moon rising; under its thin light there loomed before him a black wall of rock, pierced by a dark arch like a great gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The fire sang in Bigger’s ears and he saw the red shadows dance on the walls. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I make an X, a small one, on my painted jungle wall. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Furniture was overturned, statuary broken, walls stained; the pages of torn hymn books lay about everywhere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you see the antenna along the eastern wall?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The smears of blood on the wall looked like someone had been writing, and then rubbed it away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I followed Twig’s gaze toward the tiny code box, which was flashing blue on the wall. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fact, they really ain’t no proper walls at all, just plyboard hammered together. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then he mumbled, “Follow me, Magister. There’s a garden over here with a low wall.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It involved a climb over a garden wall and the results were three oranges, a melon, a fig or two, and a pomegranate. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

On the parlour wall, Faber's house, with its sprinkler system pulsing in the night air. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leans against the wall beside me and rests his arms against his knees. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He covered the roller and started spreading paint evenly across the wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I’m betting he’s at least eighteen, betting he stands alone at parties leaning against walls, knocking back shots while long-legged girls in fire-engine red mini-dresses slink up to him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Gritting his teeth, he began pulling himself up, paw over paw, not being able to reach the wall for help as the rope was held outwards by the projecting gutter dangling him out in space. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Behind her the walls of the room were flooded with green and yellow and orange fireworks sizzling and bursting to some music composed almost completely of trap?drums, tom?toms, and cymbals. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jammed me against the brick wall by the ribs, warning me to shut up or else. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been under fire together, and as long as he lived Longstreet would never forget the sight of Pickett with the flag going over the wall in the smoke and flame of Chapultepec. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The detective division of the Las Vegas City Jail contains two interrogation rooms—fluorescent- lighted chambers measuring ten by twelve, with walls and ceilings of celotex. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one condition—that Justin hold off on making tracks until he finished the stone wall around the man’s property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I nestle against the wall and close my eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But he did find me, lying beneath a collapsed wall. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how you can sleep at night with only a wall of glass keeping you from death.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He leans against the rock wall across the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers the big, long folding tables that he’d helped his father to set up, chalkboards on the walls, Sonia standing up on a chair, writing “Congratulations.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I began to scream, getting up in the darkness and plunging wildly about, bumping against walls, scattering coal, and in my anger extinguishing my feeble light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was looking around the house, at the walls and floors and kotatsu, then said bitterly, “It’s warm here.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The floors and walls can be your friend.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the walls were twice as thick as before. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He’s careful, doing as little hammering as possible, and when he’s done, I can’t tell that his wall is not the wall of our attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I started creeping through the hall, the bat clinched tight in my right hand, my left hand sliding softly along the wall to guide me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The moment she left the room we’d fight over who got to sleep next to the wall. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floors have been redone, the walls freshly painted, the ceiling dotted with track lights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he mounted the stairs, the worn bare treads, the cracked and scaling wall on one side, the balustrade with its intermittent missing spindles on the other. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes flitted round the walls, as though he half expected to find a window somewhere. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Leo held his fire close to the walls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Within that last door her candle showed them a small room like a dungeon-cell: floor, walls, ceiling all rough stone, unfurnished, blank. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had been outside the wall, and heard them in the court conspiring. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tank went through the wall to a Level 0 corridor outside the hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waterfalls on the walls stopped flowing into the pools—instead, droplets began flowing upward, sparkling like diamonds as they joined the story above our heads. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It took Matthias two passes along the wall before his fingers found the carved lines of the wolf. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Behind her, the empty house stood like a protecting wall. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her chair clattered to the ground a second after the glass shattered against the wall behind Dad’s head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Shavepate took an axe down off the wall, inspected it, and grunted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man seated next to her was eating bitter kola, crunching loudly, and when he turned to make conversation she slowly shifted away until she was pressed against the airplane wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were never more than a few steps from the cool Mediterranean, and Abdulrahman would follow Ahmad to the shore and up the great Phoenician stones of the wall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He pointed off to the left, where a thin sliver of light spread across the floor like an arrow pointing toward a crack in the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He tried to take it from the wall; it was his now, after all, Sirius had left him everything, but it would not budge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He is in the old Pita building just down the road, and he is putting up walls for the school of Mr. Pomodoro. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

We were ordered to strip and then line up against the wall of the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been watching from the windows—at first with mild curiosity, then, as the crowd seemed to swell to the very walls of the hospital, they watched with apprehension. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was dozing in my sleeping bag, watching the morning sun cast shadows across the walls of my tent, when Helen yelled, “Jon! Telephone! It’s Linda!” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Helena kicks the ball, bouncing it against the blank brick wall of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Propped up against the wall were two pillows in pink pillowcases with Cinderella on them. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On the wall hung a sheepskin with a map of the north painted across it in faded colors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bottle is cool and smooth in my hand and I want to fling it at the wall and watch it explode into a million pieces. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Hank picks up a fake leg from against the wall and smiles at me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But then their body heat melts the ice walls, and they slide down a little farther. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"I like the feel o' stone walls about me when I sleep." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A warm September wind pours across the countryside and sets the walls of the tent rippling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wall of wood and mud allowed only a trickle of water to pass through, and it had turned a narrow stream into the wide pond that many animals now called home. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tired of pursuing her up and down the house, begging her with his eyes and drilling holes in the bathroom wall, he decided to devote himself to politics. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we first got there, I sat in the back of the visitation room, a little room of exposed stone walls off to the side of the sanctuary in the Literal Heart of jesus church. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He pushed off the wall with both feet as hard as he could, swinging his body away from it just as the Griever charged in with its claw and needles. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Outside the tank’s display wall was an amphitheater with seating for several hundred. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The walls of my room were all white. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back against the wall for a minute. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whole hours pass during which he can do no more than press his cheek against the wall of the truck shell seeking something cold. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the wall was a framed embroidery of a Japanese geisha that Kaylene had made. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As I was nearing the hole in the wall one night, I heard a sound. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Littlefinger led him into a tower, down a stair, across a small sunken courtyard, and along a deserted corridor where empty suits of armor stood sentinel along the walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

At the far side of the glade there was a break in the wall of trees, and a clear path beyond it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A rocking chair against the bare walls of my room. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing else remained of a curtain wall that had once stood as high as Winterfell's. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mo and Elinor were asleep near the locked door, but Meggie lay in the dark with her eyes open, feeling fear ooze out of the cold walls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the city, she’d owned lots of things—practically anything she wanted came out of the wall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, there’s a loud click and a section of the back wall slides away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

So I say nothing as we walk through the bodies of the dead toward the outer wall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A mural on the wall showed painted children smiling in front of a rainbow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a glow growing against the white wall tiles. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I want to walk the walls,” he told them, his own breath frosting in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Malvonne could feel the wall of life pressed up against the woman’s palms; feel her hands bashed tender from pounding it; her hips constrained by the clutch of small children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tacked to the walls were dried bats, owls and shriveled lizards. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of shuffling feet echoed up the walls and the red lights of the beetle blades flashed more menacingly in the ivy—the Creators were certainly watching, listening. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was that word again, erected between them like a wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We’ve made the walls out of huge sheets of cardboard and painted on the bamboo patterns. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He needed the heads far the wall, but he had burned the headless bodies that very day, in all their finery. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Along the walls, glass cases displayed crystal balls, geodes, macrame dream catchers, and a bunch of other strange stuff. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I found a spot in the corner, sat on the ground, and leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Black vines crept in and out of windows, through doors and over archways, up the sides of high stone walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we had to trot down the middle of the street because the walls of buildings had crumpled and spilled over the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She grabs my arm outside the Skulls' barracks, where I was heading for a bit of rest before a graveyard shift on the wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A large, long table filled the opposite wall, while shelves covered the other two walls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch, he got a small paint brush and a can of black enamel, and locked himself in the lavatory, where he painted the alphabet in code on the wall. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went down to the boys’ toilet and waited until he heard through the wall the flush of water on the girlside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped it under my shirt; but when I got upstairs, Charles’s head had rolled back against the wall where the headboard should have been and he was snoring. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This must have originally been several rooms, but the walls had been removed from most of the first floor to create one wide space. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She reached out with a foot, pressed it into the wall, and anchored it there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everything disappeared: the red walls of the church, the faces of Capricorn's men, Capricorn himself sitting in his chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I hate coming to school in the morning. You never know what you’re going to find on what wall.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We wrote the message on walls all over town, sometimes just part of it before we heard somebody coming. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were brick and covered with ivy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you gotten desperate enough to stay out there overnight, see if maybe something opens while the walls are moving?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time, the watching crowd stirred as the hundreds of people around the walls drew breath as one. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, they just move. Makes one heck of a grinding noise. Same thing happens out in the Maze—those walls shift every night, too.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My Jamaican rear gunner and I took a tortuous route over a series of garden walls to avoid the checkpoint on the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I can already feel the silence like a wall, barbed wire crawling up my legs to trap me where I stand. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Thewindows ate up large chunks of the walls, and Obinze imagined the room in the afternoon, flooded gloriously with light, and himself sunk in the armchair by the door, lost in a book. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the walls were lined from the floor to the high ceiling with shelves of books. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Business was carried out at one end of the shop, which was long and had benches against two walls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the different rooms, if you could just slice the walls away all of a sudden. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cries angered the sleeping demons of the deep and they sent a wall of water to quiet the intruder.... In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cluny sized it up: exactly what he wanted, the perfect distance from the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The wall was much too high to climb over, and even if I could get to the top, there was the thicket of barbed wire and broken glass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

"Back to the walls. If the gods should spare us, I shall remember every man of you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the Orcs laughed with loud voices; and a hail of darts and arrows whistled over the wall, as Aragorn leaped down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Emma shouted, “Train!” and we split apart and pressed our backs to the walls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Opposite us, I can't help but also study the larger-than-life mural portrait of Tariq that cropped up on the wall behind where he died. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Candles flickered on the fireplace mantel, reflected in the mirrors along the walls. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shading his eye against the sun, he stared up at the walls. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We tied one edge of the new tarp to the rods poking out of the wall of the bridge, right alongside their tarp. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He barely looks at me, scowls at the back wall instead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tally looked up at Dr. Cable’s cruel beauty, at the puke- yellow-brown of the walls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the middle of one of the dark-paneled walls hung a stuffed moose head with long antlers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

People stand in line on the saturated ground, waiting to fill buckets, basins and containers from a row of taps on the outside timber wall. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, years later, a third wall and eventually a fourth. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But then Ruth said: “Let’s sit over there, over on that wall. Just for a few minutes. Once they’ve forgotten about us, we can go and have another look.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vainly they crawled and clambered about the walls of the coomb, seeking to escape. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It will be hanging against the right wall, just inches away from my hand. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the dark, the straw walls and roofs combust into yellow and orange flames, illuminating the red faces of girls running away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We retrieved our clothes on the other side of the wall. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She turned slowly, taking in the silver-blue carpet butted up against burgundy-and-silver-blue-striped walls. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then the wall at the back of the room began to move. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two minutes the police had to pound their clubs against the walls to restore quiet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Enos says it’s a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Behind him, over Evreux, a wall of clouds ignites once, twice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A tiny scuff in the plaster on a western wall of the White House, which he was seeing up close for the first time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I look at the space behind the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And I want to do more to help than write back on the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The altar was shattered, the wall coverings shredded, the walls themselves bare. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Isa recorded her fourth take, she watched Jessie prop two pillows against the wall and sprawl against them with her National Geographic magazine. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Fantasy crackled like electricity along the back wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had drawn a picture of a stone tower—one that she had drawn before—with high walls and an observatory pointing at the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mormont paid no mind to the mongrel crowd; his eyes were fixed beyond the siege lines, on the distant city with its ancient | walls of many-colored brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He followed her into the familiar cottage and waited while she reached for her walking stick that leaned against a wall and arranged it under her right arm. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You kidding? With Mama in there fussing? When she starts fussing at the walls, you know she’s gonna be at it all day. She wouldn’t even let us.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could be lost, scraping her fingers along walls at the edge of town, drifting farther away every second. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even find the back wall, let alone any secret door. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Light tables were taken from the walls and set up on trestles and laden with gear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Runner balanced himself against the wall, gave both of them a cold look. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was warm in the kitchen, and the yellow walls were so bright and Betty Allen’s humming was so musical that I started to think that maybe things weren’t as tragic as they seemed. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the two of them would grow quiet, near sleep, hearing the waves push against the island’s outer walls, the ceaseless shushing of the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The walls were whitewashed and the big red-painted furnace was a comforting thing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not knowing what else to do, he walked to a cluttered pile of boxes in the corner of his room and moved them to the side, revealing a hiding place in the wall. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Down below, Cluny squatted against the wall, glad of the chance to take a breather. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

January closes the drawer and then presses herself tightly against the wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You ever think about how many pictures of dead people there are on the walls of Cracker Barrels?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He hung it on the wall over our table. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This turned the living room’s cheery yellow walls dim and shadowy; it made the whole house feel like a cave or a hideout. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She likes looking at the walls, at how neatly their corners meet, the linoleum roses on the floor, the ceiling smooth as wedding cake. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden was surrounded by three walls built of rough stone, the other two being not much higher than the one I’d just climbed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Through the wall the school Xerox machine was droning, droning, droning. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At one point she must have broken open a pen and spun it around, because if you look closely, you can see small, dried drops of ink all over the walls and ceiling. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Someone had just thrown a door open and slammed it against the wall.The shouts had reached a hysterical pitch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Big Head was on her side of the room building some lopsided wall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The other wall is painted with happy bunnies, kittens, and puppies. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Postcards of authors are taped to the wall over her desk, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He scored a line with a mighty claw along a strut less damaged than most, and feeling a flimsiness in the quality of the metal, turned away at once and scanned the mountain wall again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the end, that dream hadn’t even made it over the Night Zoo’s walls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I need to get closer to them, I’m thinking, when a tall, dark-haired man walks out of the building through an entire wall that’s pulled halfway up like a garage door. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Every bit of the walls was lined with shelves and every bit of the shelves was full of books. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Bright paintings and drawings decorated the walls, and clay sculptures stood along the back of the room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my pocketknife with my other hand and drove it through the shingle into the wooden wall of the cistern, pinning my makeshift piece of sygaldry under the water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Downstream was nothing but a wall of fire, and if the wreck brake loose the current would take him right into it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The display on the screen follows my fingers, flying from the screen onto the wall, where it fills up the entire space, fully magnified. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He ripped the picture of the man with the bullfrog sandwich from the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“B is for Basil, assaulted by bears,” I reply, continuing the morbid rhyme we memorized off the poster on my bedroom wall. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Pulling off the main road, we glide through a tall wall of neatly trimmed evergreens, then crunch our way up a pebbled driveway. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Eric stepped out of the way, and Michelangelo pressed himself against the wall so the children could squeeze by. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

While Kaz backed to the wall to join his crew, that gun barrel stayed right against his cheek. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her sit down with her back against the wall near her little city. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The cool water took the edge off, but their words had to climb over a wall of pain to reach Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perdita hit her head on the cavern wall as she landed and was knocked out. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Near the snake’s tail which lay directly across his path, he saw the skins and pelts on the cave wall tremble slightly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We started searching the gutter and sidewalk and the walls of people’s houses. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a little, clinging to the rock, he found himself with only clouds above him and mist below—and he knew that beyond the wall of mist reigned fire. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Looming through the tall windows along the back wall, dark skies were crammed with nimbus clouds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once she stumbled over a rock and fell against the wall, and her hand found raw earth supported by timbers, whereas before the tunnel had been dressed stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Certain areas of the walls are stone, while steel beams and concrete heavily reinforce others. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be like a code word to remind yourself to simmer down. Mama taught my little brother Cotton to say ‘rutabaga’ every time he gets the urge to draw on the wall.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

These seem to me like the inscriptions I used to read about, carved on the stone walls of caves, or drawn with a mixture of soot and animal fat. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood on tiptoe to see over the barnyard wall, and her mouth dropped open. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Daddy probably wouldn’t like the new paintings on the walls. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He pointed behind the desk, and Chess noticed a whole pile of signs leaned against the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One of Ellsberg’s lawyers pulled out a fat cigar and lit up under the “No Smoking” sign on the wall. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

How can she be expected to cook dinner for her family with the names of dead people on the walls? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It came out of the great chest cavity and broad jaws as though it had bounced off the walls of a cave. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the top level had gray slab walls topped with a red tile roof. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to the lightboard on the wall over my head, and turned it on. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa growled, while he awkwardly removed the poster from the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had special cultivated flowers, grown for the house alone, in the walled garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs beside the men’s legs wait, looking up from time to time, and the girl who brings the food from the stove stands looking at the wall as she waits for the plates to empty. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you were a charcoal drawing on the wall done by an art whiz. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Mam says we should bring the poor Pope up to hang on the wall opposite the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, Will saw with dismay, he was cowering against the wall of the cave, back in his angel form, trembling and whimpering. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A jumble of index cards was thumbtacked to the wall. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A stream of smoke curled up from the groundskeeper’s workshop huddled against the retaining wall ahead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s part of the security system. It makes the wall look solid from a distance, but once you get beyond the projectors”—he pointed at the cameras in the trees—“the hologram goes away.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

High walls topped with searchlights enclosed his cell block; guards with machine guns patrolled the perimeter. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I step into the waiting area, I dump my bag onto one of the chairs and walk over to the alumni hall of fame wall. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He points to the wall of pictures behind me, the empty space included. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bilal stood to the side, his back pressed against the wall. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A wall of dark clouds loomed up behind them, churning like a kettle of milk left on the fire too long. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He ground it out against the wall behind him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ever since the raid, he spends his time either staring at the wall or crying. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The parents before him, along with the walls surrounding them, started to fall apart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, I shrank against the wall to let them pass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compound walls, topped by coiled electric wires, were so high I could not see the cars driving by on our street. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun went higher and left the eastern sky, the square of sunshine on the wall grew larger and diffuse, and the bright yellow color of early morning was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bells of the Elderclock rang out, loud and panicked, high and demanding, an escalating tide of echoes, climbing one on top of another, booming over the White Island, the ice moat, the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Inside the walls there was only a series of ramps and a great tumble of boulders and stones of all sizes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I flipped the switch on the wall and track lighting illuminated three columns of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even before she started to cry, I had to look away, down at my feet, at the wall, anywhere but at her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A knee-trembler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that’s in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Anya had a knife in her pocket already—she had been using it to craft the sukkah’s walls—and she figured that was all she needed for gathering branches. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Three times around the wall of Troy pursued and pursuer ran with flying feet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, by the ankle bone, Odysseus hauled the fallen one outside, crossing the courtyard to the gate, and piled him against the wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was surprised at how loudly his voice crackled around the room, as though it were electric and sparking up the paneled walls. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Christina has no reservations about poking around—she already discovered two textbooks wedged between the dresser and the wall, evidence of Caleb’s Erudite leanings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Friday afternoon, I was sitting with Grover at the lake, resting from a near-death experience on the climbing wall. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand hit my chest hard as she slammed me against the wall, knocking me breathless, my head smacking the plaster. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He looked toward the corner where it was propped against the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hanging on the wall were the only things of value in the whole office: three Nirvana guns, obtained at great expense when the detectives opened their office. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The unfortunate Rabadash appeared to be suspended from the castle walls. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When I hung up, I went back to reading his wall: Just heard that Gus Waters died after a lengthy battle with cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

True Belle looked at them and had to lean against the wall to keep her laughter from pulling her down to the floor with them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean against the wall, waiting for my balance to return, and watch Locke turn the elaborate silver knob. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Men who pushed and pranced, appearing to us as dark stick puppets before the wall of fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a huddle of limp black players slumped along the wall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then I saw a shadow flit across her face, and she drew back against the wall, effacing herself, as a step sounded outside and Maxim came into the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They walked until the tunnel wall opened to a narrow archway. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Looks at the walls around it like he’s thinking about how that got built. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She takes her seat as she’s told and holds her head so high and proud that she reminds me of the paintings of African queens my mother left hanging on our living room wall. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear turned and slid down the wall, slumped over with his head in his hands. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I flicked the negatives, as he must have done, toward the comer, heard them scratch dryly against the wall and flap to the floor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, a branch broke in the wind, skittered across the dooryard of his shed, and slammed against the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The house, which Prosper had seen from the wall, soon emerged between the trees. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Matthias arrived at the wall he felt like patting the old red sandstone. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z