Maybe they were wandering the streets and alleys of Mingora looking for me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She also had to watch our three chickens, who loved to wander away from our farm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were already people around, wandering the municipal gardens—now in midwinter, little more than a large grassy field with, here and there, some steps, a shrub, a statue. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

No. Sierra’s mind wandered back to the image of her chalk ninja shooting up a tree. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She stared at him and her fingers wandered delicately up and down the blade of the knife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d walk out in the middle of the picture and wander into another one. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you why I’m up. Why are you two wandering around in the middle of the night?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her voice has that exasperated edge our children get when we dare wander from their lives. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lina said, “No, she wandered away before the lights went out. She got away from me. She may have come this direction.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had wandered unnoticed into our meeting and was standing at the front window, looking out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bathed in a curve of the Susquehanna and then wandered in a southerly direction, keeping to fields, woods, stream beds, and little-used paths, headed, they thought, for Virginia, where Macon believed they had people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sparrow wandered up the corridor, past her own room and Ruby’s, all silent behind their curtains. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Roz wandered the island, covered in dirt and green growing things, and everywhere she went, she heard unfriendly words. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They wandered around Rockefeller Center and watched the skaters for a short while. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind still wanders back there, but not like it did a few months ago. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She wanders around his living room, looks at the books he is beginning to organize on his plywood shelves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When my blood tells me to wander, I know enough to trust it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He has no particular destination in mind, wandering from tent to tent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My wits wandered some, ’bout the time my hands started bleeding. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, if he was denied heaven, would he wander through the night like La Llorona, searching for something that was forever lost? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fort, wild, home, rat, open, belief, she chanted to herself as she wandered among the bookshelves. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wandered past the subway and continued around the corner to Forty-second Street, my mind grappling for meaning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story I heard was that fifteen minutes later Shawn wandered onto the site. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mind kept wandering back to the halls of C Average Middle School—the crash of locker doors, the babble of excited conversation. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A street policeman wanders through our alley as I'm getting ready to hit the ball back to John. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was strange to wander into the fairytale woods and come upon a place that felt so real. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“So you can see bits of the circus without having to pick a tent to go into, just wandering around.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

How she had learned this was unknown, but visitors did wander through the village from time to time. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drifted about, with no ties of affection, with no ambitions, like a wandering star in Úrsula's planetary system. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Henry stood patiently, gazing down at the floor; gradually his eyes began to wander, and after about five minutes he made an exasperated noise and looked up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy’s spirits were already so low. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were thick-necked and brutal, with flattened noses and scars wandering across their arms and faces. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The many orphaned children found in these places became known as “wandering sparrows.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they were just street people who had wandered in to flop down in the beat-up chairs and smoke pot or shoot up in the elevator. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Since that’s what she was doing anyway, she doubted more wandering would hurt. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was, as I wandered through the streets, a continual popping and cracking as the guns on Copp’s Hill fired, though I have no notion of what they might have aimed at. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We go down to the cemetery and see my father and wander through the rest of the graves. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“But don’t wander anywhere close to the soldiers,” he warned. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And after aimlessly wandering the Glade to hear the other Runners’ stories, he snapped out of his funk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As the days passed, as she had wandered on, she’d encountered more and more of them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am Brother Luke, a wandering friar, newly come to St. Mark’s. I have brought thee food, and, cause ’tis Friday, fish.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

As he drank, I wandered down the hall to Audrey’s room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Too, Penelope longed to ask about the strange staircase the children had discovered upstairs, but she did not feel it wise to confess to Lady Constance that they had wandered into the attic without permission. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Like the judge, Lombard's eyes wandered slowly round the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Violet had very few materials with which to invent something, and she didn’t want to wander around the house looking for more for fear of arousing the suspicions of Count Olaf and his troupe. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I found him at four thirty in the morning when I came back to the lab after wandering around down at the waterfront—on his side, stretched out in the corner of his cage. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

With a gang of children, I roamed the streets, begging pennies from passers-by, haunting the doors of saloons, wandering farther and farther away from home each day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanders through a hard winter, taking shelter beneath trees. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I think he’s gone back to one of the places we wandered, one of the places with water.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, some bin of unwanted DVDs or an aisle endcap of pointless knickknacks would catch her attention, but her dark eyes would always wander back to where our hands swung between us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She wanders through the empty rooms that they took such delight in decorating. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They just wander now and nobody believes that they want to be good, because they look like hairy demons. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A light emerges, a light not kindled, Werner prays, by his own imagination: an amber beam wandering the dust. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At that point, it was big and wide, but it was a wandering every which way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom says that despite their marital woes and my grandfather's wandering eye, they remained in love till the very end. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It insured that wandering spirits stayed where they belonged. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in third grade, I’d wandered over to the cello in music class—it looked almost human to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we had eaten, we wandered around the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts wander around and then zoom in on what June whispered to me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs— Are we not acceptable, moon? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They are dirty and weak, feral and hungry-looking, like I’ve wandered into the den of some wild, desperate pack with Max as their leader. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They spent several quiet minutes wandering around the room, taking in all the wacky games that people used to play. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He had spent the better part of the morning wandering Brooklyn, far enough out of Red Hook not to be spotted by anyone he knew. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Every question, every stray thought from miles around came wandering into my brain, sniffing about, scratching at my attention. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Cattle grazed in thick grass that rippled about their legs, and goats with fat udders wandered with clanking iron bells tied about their necks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caravan guards wandered among the aisles in copper helmets and knee- length tunics of quilted yeUow cotton, empty scabbards swinging from their woven leather belts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Trolleys went to every corner of the city, zipping up and down hills, their clanging bells a warning for anyone careless enough to wander onto the tracks. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In her disappointment she had let her mind wander, and only now became aware that one of the Recruiters was peering into the darkness in her direction. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Brave Orchid’s children quit wandering and drooped on a railing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Masvita would cry because her spirit might be wandering along the dark roads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more for holding both kids’ hands when I pick them up from the Head Start bus stop to keep Bryce from wandering into the street after some rock he’s spotted. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’d wander around the neighborhood paranoid, avoiding everyone I knew until the high wore off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander to the clothes hanging overhead, several stories up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He left the quay and wandered the city streets, muttering to himself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was the desert that he had wandered for so many months; despite all that time, he knew only a small part of it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Try as he might to avoid it, his mind still kept wandering back to the image of the vicious Griever. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When the bonobos wandered out of the clearing, I would have been happy to let them go and stay a duo with Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, I thought, it is the Márez blood in us that touches us with the urge to wander. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the apartment, Jule shoved the stack of mail upside down in a drawer and hid her wallet while Brooke wandered around. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Joe wandered off to study the geology of the island, discovering glacial striations etched in the granite. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It is time, however, for the wandering Bolitars to settle down. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And then I remember to put my brain back on the screen, where it wanders away again, this time to Dad. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Either the wandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to lie under the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You wound me, wandering off like this. Have you grown tired of my hospitality so soon?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We stay silent so long that a buck wanders into range. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They were doomed to wander aimlessly for a hundred years, with never a place to rest in. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and Uncle Robert started discussing business and I wandered away, trying to get a better angle on watching the continuous miner and the shuttle go through their choreographed dance of mining coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mind usually wanders and gets lost in a tangle of worries. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then he got up, and dusted the twigs out of his jerkin, and wandered off forlorn, taking the easiest way and trusting himself to God. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was already farther from the enclosure exit than I’d ever planned to be, and one of the soldiers could wander by any minute. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m jealous of your thoughts to-night. They’re making you a little kinder than usual; but some way I feel as if they were wandering, as if they were not here with me.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Branch, also eager to set off on an adventure, sniffed and wandered here and there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once a storm blew down the fence to the Turner property, and a neighbor’s cow wandered onto their land. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But Sohrab had wandered to the window, where a half-dozen pigeons strutted back and forth on the sill, pecking at wood and scraps of old bread. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the second floor, she wandered over to a window seat and sat down. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then the bun of his mammoth, archaic six-gun collided with his wandering gaze; abruptly he quit stumbling around. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

William was warming up, his words ebbing and flowing like the sermon of a wandering preacher. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

So, Ellen and I wandered together in the veld and hills surrounding the township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make sure that he doesn’t wander off again, or get into any trouble. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And sometimes while she talked Lee’s mind wandered out and came back and went out again like a ranging dog, and Lee would nod at intervals and make a quiet humming sound. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alisha changed into a dress, and I dropped them off at the hotel, returning an hour later to find Bonnie wandering the tearoom with her disposable camera. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I left them without saying another word and wandered back into the woods. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After we’re in and the engine is running, I toss her our notebook, the one we’re using to record our wanderings, and say, “Write it all down before we forget anything.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The day I wandered into the coal shed looking for trouble I had the drum on my hip and two little dowels for drumsticks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes wander up to my rainbow hair, then down to my arm of tattoos. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom would have made note of her good posture and lack of makeup, but my eyes wandered to her shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To prevent their getting separated and wandering in different directions they went in file, with Frodo leading. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I would just wander off and fall asleep somewhere. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

No sign of Rabbi Shilsky, whom I traced to a Brooklyn address in the 1960s, where he apparently landed after wandering through Norfolk, Virginia; Belleville, New Jersey; and Manhattan. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Seeing no one about, I made up my mind to wander the town for a short time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After looking around the living room, Isa wandered into the kitchen in search of her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Basta’s knife was still at his throat, but just as the man was about to let the tip of it wander a little higher the Magpie seized his arm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

James had a library book on rocks, and they spent days just wandering around the park, filling their pockets with little rocks that matched the pictures in the book. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Helena was asleep, I wandered into the empty living room and turned on the lights. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jam tried not to look over at Pet, who was wandering around, looking at the shelves. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So he wandered around the apartment all day, in and out of rooms, talking to himself, just like a kid in diapers. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would wander to the couch, sit for a while, stand up, then check the phone again to make sure it still had a dial tone. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Those who sought his views were advised to wander into his vicinity as if by accident and to "talk as it were into vacancy." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Matt wandered around the garden, admiring the ice sculptures and a fountain of wine with orange slices bobbing in a red pool. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he wandered along, pretending to be making notes, and kept his eyes open for the public library. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Men wander off or just sit down to die.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The advice comes from classical rhetoric, and it makes sense for long orations: if a listener’s mind momentarily wanders, the passage she has missed is gone forever. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

People would wonder if she wandered off alone during a break; there would be murmurs about her, and questions. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In tonal music, just about any melody is allowed, as long as it fits into the harmonies as they wander away from and then head back to their home base. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Absorbed in my rebellious thoughts, I did not mark where my wandering steps took me and found myself in the foyer where I had lately suffered Hamlet's rejection. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After a while, I turned the television off and wandered into the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I know your kind: punks like you wander the streets of nice neighborhoods searching for prey. Just couldn’t resist the pretty white girl who’d locked her keys in her car, could ya?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to get it done, but my thoughts wandered to the email, Elle, Stephanie swapping spit with Erin, Will’s threats. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Quincey Morris tightened his belt with that quick movement which I knew so well; in our old wandering days it meant “action.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I just wandered around the streets for a few minutes. I had to breathe. I am a poor scholar—I am not used to guards following my every move.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Cole’s gaze wandered in a big circle around him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Come end of picking season, he’d wander out to some old lonely place they’d told him about and look for arrowheads and bits of old bones, clamshell, and whatnot. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A veteran of old skirmishes, bearded, scarred across his cheek and the bone stoven and the one eye wandering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had wandered nearly a mile from the car, mostly downhill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nan, Wynn, and I wandered around until boats started to come in from the lake and people began to move toward a covered grandstand. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They were quarreling passionately, but in subdued voices, because of the quiet in the square and the people who were wandering past nearby. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They quietly wandered over one day when I was kicking around a ball with Alex in our backyard. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Why had he ever let his mind wander in class — what if a teacher had once mentioned how to breathe underwater? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We wander up and down the long hallways until we find the right office. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“How about it, woman? Did you happen to bed down with some wandering God a dozen years ago? That might solve our little mystery.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Abjuring his past, he floated from his home village in a canoe made from white stone and wandered the Adirondack and Allegheny forests, then a place of constant violence and, apparently, intermittent cannibalism. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pressed it against the hull and turned it on, but it wandered all over the place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always hoped my monkeys would wander off to live in the forest, but they never did. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

That dog is a right Hindu, so she is, and that’s where I found her mother wandering around Bangalore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wandered the aisles, getting myself lost, asking people if Dr. von Braun was nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Monks in yellow robes wandered along all the paths of the magnificent grove. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded absently and continued to wander around, looking things over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The only time I was able to fall asleep that night was when the last morning breeze, the one containing the irresistible urge to sleep, saved me from my wandering mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Into them once strayed old Silenus, who, intoxicated as always, had wandered off from Bacchus’ train where he belonged and lost his way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the dream there was a peculiar horror in wandering on and on through the crowd and not knowing where to lay down the burden he had carried in his arms so long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Straggling, catching up with one another, keeping more or less together, they had wandered over half a mile down the fields, always following the course of the brook. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two sols wandering the desert, I found something to navigate by. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Oedipus the old man’s mind was wandering; what he said was sheer madness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times my mind wandered off as I worried about Papá. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

MacDuff had wandered off, and she was alone on the terrace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I break our eye contact, letting my gaze wander everywhere but him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he had finished all the engraving on hand he would dawdle around the front of the store with the watchmaker and the salesgirl or wander out to some soda fountain to drink a Coca-Cola. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Jack and Moniek wandered through the crowded camp, a group of Hungarians suddenly surrounded them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was done with disobedience from his son, done with the wanderings and false boundaries of the girl who was his by rights. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Your wife can wander as she pleases. After tea." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wandered over to the laptop that was supplying the music to the stereo. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She turned her back on the island temple and wandered slowly over the perfect lawn the rabbits had made, toward the bridge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A blaze of connection—or collision, as though they had long been wandering in the same labyrinth and had finally rounded the corner that would bring them face-to-face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wandered into the kitchen to find Elle at the table with a group of seniors hanging on every word she said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Take it as a warning, for whatever profit that knowledge may be. But do not listen overmuch to the echoes. Others have done so, and have wandered hopeless ever since.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

More people came and wandered over the cliffs to look at the ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the more she wandered the station, the more likely she’d be seen, but it was worth the risk to confound the DNA detectors and send her pursuers on a wild-goose chase. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There are stretches amounting to many minutes when all three of our trainers wander off, leaving us to sit there in silence or take the opportunity to squirm. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people wandered out of the buildings almost naked, others still in their nightclothes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the rêveurs wander the circus continuously, methodically visiting every tent, watching each performance. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I go up to my room and try to paint, but my mind keeps wandering. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

For four years his force wandered through what are now Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, looking for gold and wrecking most everything it touched. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The particular path he chooses to wander down has no obvious doors, it is only a passageway between tents, endless stripes illuminated by flickering lights. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The house, as he wandered about it impatiendy, was silent, too silent for his vigorous blood. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As Lillian wandered about the empty rooms of the house carefully making mental notes about furniture placement and room arrangement, Colonel Meecham herded his children to the front porch for a morale check. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people seemed to be wandering like them, just looking at the activity. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shy giants wandered north and never returned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He admiringly let his flashlight beam wander through the room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders to my mother and Prim. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Madoka and I had wandered off to a few places in the city before our scheduled sightseeing days. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had wandered, while playing with the other children, a little way from them and had been bitten or stung by something poisonous. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch I was a little bored and I wandered around the apartment. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then Esme wandered off, searching for playmates among the children of the stars. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I wandered through the nearby marketplace, intoxicated by the exotic spices and perfumes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

RiRi wandered over with her tic-tac-toe stick still in her hand. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As I wandered home—little fearing, amidst the confusion, any harassment—I passed individual soldiers sprinting down alleys, seeking their station. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You couldn’t have picked a better day,” Ben gushed when I wandered over with my own bag full of morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When he had completed turning around, he immediately began to wander straight back. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the majority of the army wandered about the sands without purpose, like citizens of an Italian town in the hour of the passeggio. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I discovered that, most of the time, the chimps wandered about in small groups of six or less, not in a big troop like the baboons. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy said they had been wandering with dazed looks by the shoe shops where the streets get narrower when he stopped to offer directions. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She belongs to us, but one day her magic will fade and she will wander back into the Bog and we won't have a witch anymore. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“What the hell were you thinking? Did you know you’d wandered right off campus?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They crossed the street and wandered in the meadow that folks called “lots.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was exiting the lobby, he said, “Any idea where he might have wandered to?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Towards the end of term he had a flare-up of asthma and wandered wheezing around the house in pajamas and bathrobe, hair standing on end, gasping theatrically at his inhaler. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

While her mind wandered, she began to tremble. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And yet the instant that he allowed his thoughts to wander, his feet had brought him back here of their own accord. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After that, we wandered in the forest searching for a new base before the wet season started. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Is that…?” His eyes wandered up to Pong’s half-inch-long hair, and he smacked a palm over his eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

This was why Einar had told her not to let her thoughts wander. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I fought off the irrational worry that Denna might have wandered into the woods in a delirium, and that I should go look for her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the rest of her days, his mother had a mass said once a month for the repose of his soul which she knew wandered about in Purgatory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the wandering notebook and flip through the pages. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When April and Melanie wandered over—and registered exaggerated surprise to find him there—he got right to the point. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in another world, another Will had not seen the window in Sunderland Avenue, and had wandered on tired and lost toward the Midlands until he was caught. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nights, I laid it beside me so that my hands, waking, could touch his suffering flesh instead and be tamed from their shameful wanderings. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders to his mother, then to his family and Maria Isabel, who might be pregnant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

“He was wandering around the desert, in a hundred and twenty degrees, in full Greek armor, babbling about string.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

What if they had wandered away and were now lost in the city, with its busy, dangerous streets and large, succulent population of pigeons? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Bod wandered over to the northwestern part of the graveyard, to the tangle of ivy that hung from a yew tree and half-blocked the far exit from the Egyptian Walk. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He remembered wandering up the hill, that what he had thought to be a child had turned out to be a fox, that a helpful caretaker had escorted him back out to the street. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The paths of the body were long, but the paths of the spirit were short, and the vadzimu had gathered to witness her gift, and to protect their wandering child. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tired of wandering about alone, and Amy’s familiar presence seemed to give a homelike charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a part. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polito, who spent his life wandering around, getting married three or four times and taking care of sheep in Wyoming, Montana, and Utah, had died young of the flu. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to wander the streets of New Rome, holding hands with Frank Zhang. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You keep mouseworm on lead. No wander, no stray. Give plenty work. Much kick, like this.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It is the “cosmetic touches” that the videos emphasize and that Ted, when he wanders back into the room, continually directs my eye to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wander into the kitchen for juice and toast. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Manchee wanders in and out the back doors as I sweep, sometimes chasing the pink moths I stir from faint corners. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They sang protest songs and listened to community leaders who assured them that after hundreds of years spent wandering in the desert of segregation and oppression, the Promised Land was at last within sight. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Ron nor Hermione felt like going, however, so they and Harry wandered onto the grounds, still talking about the extraordinary events of the previous night and wondering where Sirius and Buckbeak were now. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s not safe to go wandering around dark corridors these days.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t-matter what things. Anything. Buttons. Garbage cans. Stay in the moment. I get the feeling your mind wanders.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, with his good eye on Ishmael, the other wandering crazily. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another study from the University of California at San Diego found that creativity is enhanced when people let their minds wander, or when they do the most menial of tasks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Adam waited out the winter, wandering up the river to Sacramento, ranging in the valley of the San Joaquin, and when the spring came Adam had no money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind wandered; I kept checking the clock, desperate to escape. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Anna wandering over by herself. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

His mind wandered while Lily, as usual, recounted a lengthy dream, this one a frightening one in which she had, against the rules, been riding her mother’s bicycle and been caught by the Security Guards. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It kept wandering up to the dormitory where his, new broom-stick was lying under his bed, or straying off to the Quidditch field where he’d be learning to play that night. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He had wandered into an area not previously explored, had apparently slipped on the ice and tumbled and bounced for a distance of 150 meters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson wandered away after his pipe, and Alfred and Jeff went into the front room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s maybe seven buildings total in Farbranch, smaller than Prentisstown and just buildings after all but somehow so different, too, it feels like I’ve wandered right off New World into some whole other place altogether. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They wandered back to the rooms of fine French and English furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towards midnight she began to wander in her speech; and after that it gradually set in that she said innumerable times in a low solemn voice, “What have I done!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She and I used to spend all day at the mall, wandering from store to store trying on crop tops and miniskirts that we were never allowed to have. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I kept my hands in my pockets where I’d stashed my only magic defenses—Hermes's multivitamins and Riptide— but the farther we wandered into the resort, the more I forgot about them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the two limped together to the edge of the fields, or wandered off into the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Justin and I finally broke that awful, painful stare, I wandered down the hall and back into the party. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I wander Green Street, drifting behind Grandma and Kim on their way to school, then shadowing Kim and Carlos coming home. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

This brief overview of precolonial North America counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter and vast unused and uncharted lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

People in the area felt uncomfortable about a poisonous spider wandering their neighborhood, and blogs discussed the dangers posed by Penelope and her offspring. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In this story, though, there was no prince-at-large; what wandered was her mind. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the Team Freeze power-up vanishes from the glass jar on the pedestal, and the other avatars start to wander off, muttering. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And with that, he would wander back into his study, to all appearances still thoroughly engrossed in the volume held open in his hands. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor got out of the truck, and Park wandered into the cornfield to pee. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

This history of persecution and wandering had left them, on the whole, poor, deeply traumatized, and out of touch with the modern world. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

How strange his life had been, he thought He had wandered along strange paths. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d all wandered into different corners, and were staring at one picture after another, only occasionally making the odd hushed remark like: “Come and look at this!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If in this wandering narrative I seem to have cut the cords of family joys and sorrows, of Junior’s current delinquency and junior Junior’s new tooth, of business triumph and agony, it is not so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not till they were eating a delicate cream cheese that M. Bouc allowed his attention to wander to matters other than nourishment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could’ve wandered around in this room for hours and had a field day looking at her stuff. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to wander through the park with her and write poems in my notebook. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They take a few minutes wandering from stone to stone, among thick and thin tablets, some leaning back as if pressed by a wind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Italian staff whispered that some of them wandered over the Alps and had no paperwork at all. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She said a word to the goats, and the beasts began to bleat and browse and wander, freed from the spell. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids wandered away then, each one giving Thomas a lingering look before they walked off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

What if their early fire right out in the open was for cooking up a third stranger who wandered across their path? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t sound like he’s under the truth serum at all now, though his slumped posture and wandering eyes indicate otherwise. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Exhaustion consuming him, his mind wandered to his short time in the Maze, his time as a Runner and how much he’d wanted it—ever since that first night in the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A cool shadow crossed my face and I arose, whistled for Frightful to come to my hand, and wandered slowly home, stuffing my pockets with spring beauty bulbs as I went. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his uncle said, his voice a quavering whisper, “Well, and you are a s6n to me and more than that wandering one of my own.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It’s difficult not to let my mind wander when he looks at me with those leonine eyes, when he folds his hands together on his lap, long legs crossed at the knee. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he turned the knob of the front door, his mother said, “Don’t wander too far, Turtle. Mahal kita. Be careful.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever been in a completely empty room, just sitting there to let your thoughts wander?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how deep into the woods I’d wandered, and I was more than a little lost, but not to the morels, who weren’t hiding from me any longer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We can’t, really. Some of them do wander off, but most of them return.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I might have cause to fear the Sons if they saw me wandering alone through the streets, but only if it was night and I was naked and unarmed. They are craven creatures.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wanders away from the group, muttering something about fingers and toes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The apartment is empty and I wander between the two rooms, the bedroom and the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I was fishing with my daddy, and I wandered off and...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you need to leave, the guard will call for an escort. No one goes wandering off without a guide, understood?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now I wander among the guests, lost and aimless, responding to the sympathetic words of those around me with appropriate, practiced replies. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wander around the living room, looking at photos of generations of women who all look like Carla. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was familiar with its dimensions, so at Qunu I would not have to wander in the night looking for the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I think about how many humans might have wandered in with the same intentions, and I realize that my brain short-circuited and kicked out the wrong image. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We haven’t been able to wander lately, and we still have four or five places left on our map. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At least if someone sees me with him, they won’t think I’m wandering alone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She remembered the day Thalia, Luke, and she had wandered into a Cyclopes’ lair in Brooklyn. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And bear and deer wandered miserably down from the high country, seeking food. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was always so excited when it began, but then my mind would wander a bit, and I didn’t always listen carefully.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I left, my question was still wandering in the House of the Wind, giving no answers, hinting at many. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bod brooded on the injustice of it all, and wandered through the graveyard kicking at stones. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

His wanderings brought him, as they always did whether he liked it or not, to the base of the Tower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wander down the path into the garden and through the fruit trees, recognizing landmarks from stories Baba told. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wandered off a little way into the clearing, kicking his feet against the tree roots, stirring up the leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I like to think he’s wandering in another world, seeing things no one can ever imagine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dabbing at my eyes, I wandered around the office and finally found myself in front of one of the Mughal miniatures. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The parent would sit on the bench and read while Scarlett would wander off the path, a splash of fluorescent green or orange or pink, and explore. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

All day, the two siblings had wandered around the house, doing the assigned chores and scarcely speaking to each other. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her ladies-of-honor fan out around her like a guard, surveying the area, running off people who wander by. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On one of those afternoons I wandered by Henry’s house and found him in his back yard digging a flower bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finally I wandered into the sword arena, where I usually go when I’m in a bad mood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spent half my time wandering the halls, asking people directions to rooms they’d never heard of. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was wandering deeper into the tangle of ivy and trees that made the graveyard’s northwest quadrant so dangerous. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then we wandered out to the patio and through another door to a study hall, and then into a kitchen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As I wander back to my tree, I think of Alice alone in the forest, as I once was. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But Ted - he was anxious to get home. Surely he wouldn’t have stopped and gone wandering off into the Barracks?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shave was a wandering spirit who entered you and taught you a special skill. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbstruck, I watch Emmett wander, zigzag down the middle of the street. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

University was supposed to be the thing that gave him direction, but instead he’d wandered down a different path. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wandered up and down the cotton rows looking for arrowheads or lost tools or anything I could find in the furrows. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He looked happy to be back in this familiar place, scene of so many adolescent wanderings. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head, not like she’s angry, but like she’s been wandering around for an hour looking for glasses that were on her head the whole time. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Bits wandered over their way, nodding their head at Moss before sitting next to him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Light Hair’s dad scolded him for wandering off without telling anyone.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

They brought Hodor to carry for them, but he had wandered away, and when they found him some boys had him backed into an alley, poking him with sticks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He arrives in Dresden on September 28, and spends the day wandering the outskirts of the city, wondering where the circus might set up. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If the stars are campfires, I would like to visit those other hunterfolk—the ones who wander. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander over to a small chest sitting under my desk, flail of the 200,000 Notes I received for capturing Day. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was a junior now, but back when he and Cherie were in ninth grade they ditched school all the time, wandering through the city with their friends, looking for fun, courting trouble. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But those five Great Lakes which the St. Lawrence feeds with memories of the sea are themselves landlocked, in spite of the wandering river that connects them to the Atlantic. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch the next day, the boys wandered through town, joshing one another, poking into shops, taking pictures with their new cameras, buying a few souvenirs, exploring corners of Kopenick they hadn’t yet seen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My stomach still felt sick as hell, so I handed it all to him, and we wandered into this campsite area that was on a cliff overlooking the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Wearing a floppy yellow hat and yellow duck-footed sleepers, Penny wandered into the kitchen, coughing and sneezing. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My mother and Aunt Maggie cooked in the kitchens of white folks and my brother and I were free to wander where we pleased during their working hours. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind wandered to my home; would it still be there? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he began to feed, Hazel came up and fell in with him, nibbling among the grass tussocks and wandering on wherever his friend pleased. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanders through the circus like a man in a dream. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She would often sit with Bran beside their little fire, talking of everything and nothing, petting Summer where he slept between them, whilst her brother wandered the caverns by himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though I try to pay attention, my eyes keep wandering over to the two girls sitting directly in front of me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Of course, it had turned out that he’d wandered over to inspect the candy aisle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he still wandering around, looking for his enemies? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered a few feet off and sat down and began to inspect the ground carefully, pawing through the grass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills whose very names—Blue Ridge, Smokies, Cumberlands, Green Mountains, White Mountains—seem an invitation to amble. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Doorman wanders over and sniffs the card. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I punch his order into the computer as I try not to let my eyes wander. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On a Saturday afternoon in July 1938, a half-starved teenager wandered into a bus station in Columbus, Ohio, appearing confused and disoriented. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom rose and wandered dazedly around the room touching things, avoiding Linda’s chair, stopping once to cough. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to make his way toward Annabeth, but she was just out of reach, calling his name as she wandered among the demons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He wandered hack in a heartbroken daze, his sensitive face eloquent with grief. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I pressed my cheek against his, letting my hands wander until they found his steady heartbeat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s dangerous for her to speak that way. Her mind is beginning to wander.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered in that direction, and through the crowd I could see that someone—Susan— was seated on the bench. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

My mother told me she ate their souls, and that their soulless bodies have wandered the earth ever since. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Papa seemed to be confused, wandered aimlessly for a few minutes, and then stood in front of a sign for a long time. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Buttercup nodded, and down the corridors they wandered till they reached her suite. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered through the wild solitudes of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre, playing, always playing, and the rocks and the rivers and the trees heard him gladly, his only companions. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another kind of object in the sky, the wandering or vagabond stars called planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strangers kept wandering up and talking at me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was just after dawn and the air was heavy with dew and Olanna wandered around in the damp coolness, under the green foliage of the forest, sidestepping thick roots. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His sister told me that he'd started wandering in the evenings and getting lost. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Adam wanders to the side of the bed, pulling me along behind him like a mindless puppet, and shuffles his hand around the end table. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The papery skin of her aged brow furrowed and her eyes wandered about the room thoughtfully. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It now wandered to where a half-charred log lay smoldering in the grass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, I wandered throughout the city with the Handsome One riding proudly on my shoulder. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

By the time Henry comes wandering into the kitchen in his pajamas, there’s an entire breakfast spread on the long green table, and Alex is at the stove, flipping his dozenth pancake. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And then, at that point in my wanderings, when I thought I’d seen all there was to see, I came upon the town’s great square. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

For their wanderings, Amanda and Roamer are planning to focus on the James Whitcomb Riley Museum and our local farm and history museum, which is right here in Bartlett and features an actual Egyptian mummy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bod wandered the paths of the graveyard, looking for someone to talk to, but there was no one about. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He wandered out across the roof, away from the building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After she left the dress department, Mrs. Trepid wandered around the store, touching purses and scarves and slips. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t feel quite right, she told Lina; after a while she wandered off to bed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Isobel asked in a silky voice, “Do you know what happens to girls who are found wandering about without protection?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

George, who was wandering up Carondelet with an armload of packages wrapped in plain brown paper, heard the cry and went up to the gargantuan vendor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes wandered over the blackened debris until they caught on something bright nearly lost among the ashes, something small and brilliant blue. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Beneath gray skies, I wandered the streets, engaged not simply in my errand, but also in wonder at what was about me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So after the night manager lowered the security gate, Peralta would wander the streets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I am at the door, peering into the hallway to see if there are any nurses wandering around. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No, no, it was my fault, I’m afraid. I kept your boy here listening to the wanderings of an old lady.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they thought they could catch barbarian phrases about forever wandering. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once when Adam was quite small he wandered silently into the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he wandered through the couch-stocked maze, I stood near the room’s entrance, trying my best not to block pairs of roommates as they maneuvered furniture through the narrow front door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Fayu consist of about 400 hunter-gatherers, divided into four clans and wandering over a few hundred square miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hurriedly dropped off my entry and went wandering around. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had come to the Catskills for the Passover festivities and had wandered off for the day. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

While all of the girls sat in a circle, laughing and sharing the pictures of their new families, I crept off and wandered to the classroom. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Later, as she lay in bed thinking of pirates, fantasizing about them in their formfitting breeches, her hand wandered beneath the sheets. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Medical teams fanned out into Kinshasa and managed to locate thirty-seven people who had had face-to-face contact with Mayinga during the time when she had wandered around the city. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine days Demeter wandered, and all that time she would not taste of ambrosia or put sweet nectar to her lips. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she remained attentive, occasionally her mind wandered to her own task that loomed ahead. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The woman in the pink striped frock with the little boy got up and wandered off along the path towards Kerrith, the man in the shorts following with the picnic basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, while she pulled weeds from the vegetable gardens, her mind wandered to their first meeting by the river, when she first caught his eye. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes blank, their ghost bodies wander about. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It would be difficult if citizens wandered in, looking for the Department of Bicycle Repair; or something.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t let him wander around down here, alone except for the dead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wandered around helplessly until finally I noticed the staircase—small and badly lit—in the far corner of the building. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next day in the presence of all the Phaeacian chiefs he told the story of his ten years’ wandering. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran back down the hill, and the three of us wandered over to one of the big trees and sat down beneath it, staring toward the barn, which still glowed with the party inside. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve managed to block out all the noise to let my thoughts wander. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had half an hour to kill, so I wandered through the university bookstore, then got some coffee and sat outside on a stone bench, watching the parade of undergraduates. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he was eating the second, his mom wandered in the kitchen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And on the third day of wandering, somebody shot at the four from far away—shot four times as they crossed a narrow brick road. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just shook my head, and he wandered off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She wandered from one room to the next without ever being the least surprised to find everything in perfect order and sparklingly clean. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at the end of all our wanderings, we return to our tiny, fragile, blue-white world, lost in a cosmic ocean vast beyond our most courageous imaginings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lola had said she needed to reconsider her hair, and her brother had wandered off down the corridor, to the lavatory, or beyond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When my head began to hurt, I let my mind wander. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered through a series of tunnels that led me into a giant, cavernous chamber. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Kuda wandered up to one of the bowls and dug in his hands. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stella watched Spoon Man wander over toward where the neighbors, like moths, were hovering over the warmth of the fire pit. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But after a bit of a wandering start, she finally headed straight for the point. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Snape set down the smoking goblet, his eyes wandering between Harry and Lupin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I just go back to our compartment or wander around 13 or fall asleep somewhere hidden. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He dismissed her with a flick of his fingers, and she gathered up the book and wandered down to the main deck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We kept it going for a minute before kids started to wander away toward food and games. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They had been left stranded in the forest—this very forest—when one day a herd of long-horned goats wandered into their camp. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Pinmei did not know how long they wandered, half running and half staggering through the piles of snow and frozen stone streets. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Clancy laughed, drawing my attention back to him from the window, and I suddenly wasn’t sure how I could let my thoughts wander. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Matt, gnawing his bread, wandered off with Branch at his heels. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind wandered, thinking of her friends at Tule Lake and how some of them had abandoned her after they learned her parents were renouncing their citizenship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wander a bit upstairs, checking the place out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The officers wandered toward the hallway to the left of the spiral staircase, the one with the cream carpet, so difficult to clean. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bailey wanders down curving paths, his mind preoccupied with bottles full of mysteries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As Lillian’s fingers circumnavigated the beads, Ben’s mind wandered and the prayers became thoughtless, untongued words whose meaning was bled out of them by repetition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was that somewhere, if you go back enough in history, everybody comes from ancestors who wandered around looking for refuge. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’ll be there soon, and then it will all be over—wandering, Finch, us, everything. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Bri might be wandering around the streets. We need to look for her.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m carrying our wandering notebook so that I can make notes on the buildings and the history and anything interesting that I might want to share with him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wander off a bit before anyone can give me my next task to do. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I wandered in for lunch to find Rosaleen wearing a new dress and her hair freshly plaited. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his mouth shut about his military service, and as he wandered around aimlessly with his long hair and unwashed clothes, nobody asked. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s finally stopped wandering around the house at night.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The superintendent, a guard in his thirties, wandered among the seamstresses like a buyer at a cattle auction. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

By her design his quest for news about his father’s wandering would bring him fame in the world’s eyes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You wander down to this part of East 125th, you got to pay the fare, Lollypop,” he said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She saw a world of gray, of pale grays and dark grays and blacks, where fog drifts wandered like wraiths. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He began wandering around the carnivals and tracks, trying to talk his way onto the backs of horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Cato isn't one to wait for his prey to wander by." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He waves an arm at the Carousel and the ribbons shudder, as though the softest of breezes has wandered into the tent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Liked to wander in his fields, chat with his pickers, taste his berries, smack his lips, smoke his pipe, go to town for a sack of nails. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without a guide, his campmates say, it is easy to get lost and wander in circles in the sameness of the brush lands. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Thoughts and feelings are free to wander, like characters leaving their books to taste life in other stories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get the coffee,” I said, and wandered out to the kitchen to leave them alone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered painfully along the river bank, listened to the rippling of the water, listened to the gnawing hunger in his body. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently I managed to climb out of the shopping cart on my own and start wandering the aisles, and Dad didn’t realize I wasn’t sitting in the cart until he reached the cash register. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At Port Authority I wandered past the tie shops and fast-food stalls, looking for the ticket booths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I've lost my bearings what with all the wandering around I did yesterday evening, but I try and head back in the general direction of the stream. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She said, “You be careful and hurry back. I hear Leroy done lost his mind and is wandering ’bout. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Pursuing it, he surveyed the town, wandered about in the maze of streets, stood still in places, and rested on the stone steps to the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, when I get home from school, I change into my home clothes and wander over to Abuela’s house. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She let her mind wander on briefly to other things, to a backpack and bedrolls, to a portable stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We decided that no one should adopt him,” the woman went on, “but that all of us would feed him if he came to the door. He has a wandering spirit, though.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They must have wandered the streets for a while, wanting to congratulate him on the rescue and share the joke of it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I give her a pep talk and a hug, and after she’s caught her breath, she mutters, “Time to play nice with the Manipulator,” and wanders off to the high-jump pit. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dust kicked up around them as they wandered up and down the rows of tables, each one selling something different. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

While Grandma and Mother were looking for a new lamp for the living room, I managed to wander a little bit away where I could see them, but they couldn't see me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A dog, an old beagle with an age-white face, wandered out of the auto-parts store and began to sniff at something on the sidewalk. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his father wander barefoot, their pant legs rolled halfway up their calves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had forbidden her to come ashore, but whenever Theon came to Lordsport he spied her wandering forlornly about the deck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Many parents stayed close to the jail and the fairgrounds so the released youngsters wouldn’t have to wander the empty city streets at night trying to find their way home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

This occasionally led to hard words when someone was caught wandering a little too close to our wagon while my father and mother were working. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They had already had snacks, gone to the bathroom, and wandered through all the gift shops, and Uncle Iman’s plane was still not here. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We went down the hill—Francis, sulky because he hadn’t wanted to come, followed two or three paces behind—and wandered through the crowd. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were master astronomers and timekeepers, which meant that they had to use advanced math, thanks to the wandering nature of the calendar. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her husband is with Sonia, listening to their youngest recite poetry in that beautiful lilting voice of hers: "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t mind wandering about like this. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning there were many leaves covered with Bilbo’s thin wandering hand; but most of it was written in Frodo’s firm flowing script. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He simply had wandered to this spot in the early days following the war. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

October 10—Usually at night I go out for walks, wander around the city. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Any vandalism must have come after the fact—and that implies that there might still be marauders smashing windows, and water-zombies wandering the labyrinth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dusk was beginning to fall as we wandered out into the narrow street. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“His spirit wanders. He has become an ngozi without a resting place, without heirs. He seeks revenge. He is the one who slew your relatives—and that one’s father is responsible!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eva also fell asleep quickly, her huge frame the length of two wandering boys. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It begins like this: “I wander through the meadows green, Made happy by the verdant scene—” There was a tap at the nursery door. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When I was alone, I wandered and poked my fingers into strange chemicals, watched intricate machines trace red and black lines upon ruled paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was inexplicable, and he turned to leave, but he turned again and wandered toward the house— white and solid and spacious. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanders past graves belonging to philosophers and poets, authors whose books he knows from his grandmother’s library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mind wandered, and I fantasized about the end of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I looked away, my eyes wandering back to his family, embarrassed and dissatisfied. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy’s legs tightened on my shoulders. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland sat on the edge of the group, cracking his knuckles, his eyes wandering from one point to another. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They talk about what the doctor said even when I wander in to get a snack. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Shoemaker’s secret,” he whispered to the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wandered closer to Fentons, unsure whether or not to get in line. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“W. F.” was confident that anyone who followed this procedure could wander about town in complete safety. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There I was an interloper, wandering in rooms that did not know me, sitting at a desk and in a chair that was not mine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once, at a party at Sally and Oliver’s, they’d wandered off to make quick, giddy love in Sally’s walk- in closet, piles of her sweaters looming over them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her breath quickened as his fingers traced the curve of her neck and wandered careless toward the soft flesh below. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

This time, before your mind can calculate the answer it will wander away down the street with the child, dancing to the African music that has gone away and come home changed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered aimlessly up and down the hall and kept pushing back her rumpled hair with the palm of her hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most of the ghostly legionnaires were still wandering around in a daze. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the girl’s spirit still wandered, looking for her people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re supposed to wander Indiana, as if there’s anything interesting to see. We have to have partners, so I’m working with this boy in my class.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The same underworld exists now in virtual reality, except it’s called the Dark World—a dangerous virtual place where I frequently wander, searching for the criminals who like to hang out there. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We wandered through the house, bumping into boxes, trying light switches, hoping to get a little more packing done. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Gross, who was wandering the Beach- wood mall with his son David, said he couldn’t live without his annual cruise. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

These animals ate all their crops and from time to time they even carried off children who wandered away from their parents. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“That was amazing,” Abby says as soon as Simon wanders back to us. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Props are missing and people wander around partially in costume, and the various Creekwood music prodigies are in the orchestra pit running through the overture. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We spent the day wandering around the neighborhood, finding restaurants and cafes where we could eat for an affordable price. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My soul wandered over the dark plain until it came to a cluster of adobe huts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older children, like John or Roy, might wander down the avenue, but not too far. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If on their own they would wander all over this big L.A. without a plan other than to avoid polis. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moss moved away and wandered into the kitchen, placing his hands on the counter to steady himself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a while I found the courage to leave the mam, stone-paved street, and began to wander among back ways. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Lewis Powell had not wandered into the government’s hands this night, he might have escaped Washington and vanished from history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Savage meanwhile wandered restlessly round the room, peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the shelves, at the sound-track rolls and reading machine bobbins in their numbered pigeon-holes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better to try to reach Kevin from here than go wandering around some Northern city trying to find him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I brought the shoemaker and the wandering boy up to the projection room to sleep. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I slip my hands under his shirt, let them wander, feel him tremble. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes, when I was somewhere near the back of the store, I thought I heard Ruth’s voice and wandered towards it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheep heard the crickets, and they felt so uneasy they broke a hole in the pasture fence and wandered up into the field across the road. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

But that night, after hanging up the phone, I wandered the streets some more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A second later the sheep all moved away, back to their regular peaceful wanderings. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was wandering the streets of the world's most dazzling city with her husband, and she was free. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They wander, as we do, searching for facts to fit their sparser stock of hypotheses, but when the receptor meets its match, there is only a single thud. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chandresh wanders across the room, adding the crumpled piece of paper in his hand to a stack on a chair, and staring idly at a set of blueprints hanging over the windows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was old, sick, and lonely, his mind wandering to long-faded days of glory and adoration. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wander upstairs and down and then back again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I was bored and my mind wandered. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Jaimito wanders through plants taller than he is, tugging with all his might at the vegetables and dropping them, with clumsy toddler hands, into the sack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were very blue, and when he was tired one of them wandered outward a little. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bennie nodded and said “Oh, wow” occasionally, but her eyes wandered up and down the subway map, and Sierra could tell her thoughts were elsewhere. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The other two afternoons I usually spent wandering through art galleries, mostly on Fifty-seventh Street, where I did all but hiss at the American entries. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But audience members are always free to wander around the landscape however they wish. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the flight attendants wandered the aisles collecting all the tiny plastic bottles of alcohol, the women on the flight started pulling headscarves out of their carry-ons and covering their hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wandered about, occasionally crying out, “Flanders—Glanders” or “Daughter—ought to,” whenever the ideas occurred to him, while the dark Queen hung in the background. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I wanted to do was wander around the yard until they blew the whistles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His attention seemed to wander, his eyes carrying over to the other side of the room, toward his computer and TV. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At night he jungled up with wandering men in the camping places on the fringes of towns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw me approaching, he waved me over and wandered back to his usual perch at the bar, clapping me affectionately on the shoulder as he walked by. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Very early the next morning I heard him up and astir, wandering from one room to another. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Too terrified of crevasses to wander far from camp, I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent—the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright— fighting a rising chorus of doubts. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are free to go. Take care where you wander. Else it might be you we find upon the morrow, smiling a red smile.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As forenoon gave way to midday, Beetle wandered the fairgrounds. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily and James wandered through the store, scouting for the best hiding spot. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And who would coax Patria back if she wandered away again from the still waters and green pastures of her sanity? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around, enjoying the festivities and talking to the vendors about their art. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wandered to the strange kitchen, thawed some iced huckleberries, ate them disconsolately. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first one they had seen and so they wandered curiously around the kill, watching their elders. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out our notebook and write about the wandering crane and a boy with a red cap who swims in winter. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mother has wandered off without saying a word. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Megan looked irritated, even bored, her eyes sometimes wandering from the proceedings. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been wandering around for quite a while,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You asked me to come directly to you, Professor, if anyone was wandering around at night, and somebody’s been in the library — Restricted Section.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

This could be us next year, wandering into Tuesday-night parties off campus. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She wandered around the building until she finally found a young officer working in a filing room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Restlessly, she wandered over to the steps in front of the memorial and sat down. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But eventually they wandered off into the night. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ship wandered from island to island—there were about eighteen in all—and Darwin ventured ashore, scrambling through the pumice, collecting birds, plants, and lizards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lyra was profoundly curious about she-bears, because she knew so little about them, but this was no time to wander about asking questions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Diego wandered to her side and offered her his hand through the open window. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The gold cloaks found her wandering naked on Sowbelly Row. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bod and Scarlett wandered the graveyard together every weekday afternoon, tracing names with their fingers, writing them down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Finally he wandered off to peruse the merchandise. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wander over to another boulder and kneel in front of it, brushing some loose dirt from its face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the library a moment later, Mr Cardinal was wandering around the shelves, scrutinizing spines. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wander through the stalls, enjoying the easy give and take of bargaining in Bangla. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to try to control my brain’s wandering fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every day, after work was finished, Gillian and I were allowed to wander off on our own. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hold her gaze, I looked at the table, I let my eyes wander around the room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He guzzles from the bottle like he’s been wandering the desert with Moses, drains it, then tosses it into a trash can. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She would find herself wandering down gloomy halls past faded tapestries, descending endless circular stairs, darting through Courtyards or over bridges, her shouts echoing unanswered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fact that one infected person had wandered around the city for two days when she should have been isolated in a hospital room began to look like a species-threatening event. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, supposedly Father is still over there wandering about in the jungle, and honestly, what else does he have to do? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, try to stop my mind from wandering, but it is skipping from memory to memory. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We were Christians, but we were mimicking the ways of the Israelites when they wandered in the desert without a home. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, as I sit on my piano bench and start to practice, my mind wanders back to the ride home from the Islamic Center. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders while I’m on dates, or I get too touchy with Jupe at school, or I slip up and call whatever girl I’m with Jupiter. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The road was once a dirt track that wandered through the heart of Africa, almost impossible to traverse along its complete length. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of these things, we were basically left to wander aimlessly about our new environment for the entire first week. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We wandered for about half an hour, talking.Then he heard something and told me to wait for him. He headed off toward the farmhouse and was gone for a long while.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a while, she got bored and wandered off to the kitchen door, hoping to cadge a handout from Viola. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Abram has hair the color of carrots and one eye that wanders everywhere except where he is looking. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

This was why Harry spent as much time as possible out of the house, wandering around and thinking about the end of the holidays, where he could see a tiny ray of hope. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I browsed through the magazines until the clerk got anxious to sell me something and then I wandered out. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now saw a world leap to life before my eyes because I could explore it, and that meant not going home when school was out, but wandering, watching, asking, talking. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wander,” he said at last, “whether they will remember about our Table?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I hid from it like a yellow-bellied coward, keeping my mind on figures when it wasn’t wandering back to the musical note Anemone Cordimas put at the end of my name. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fort, wild, home, rat, open, belief, she chanted to herself as she wandered among the bookshelves. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

An elderly Italian peddler on his way home for the evening, unaware of the rising emotions, wandered into the swirling mob. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Scipio let the light of his flashlight wander over the others' sleeping faces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reduced to the size of a wandering but completely lucid angel, she was in full possession of her indomitable spiritual energy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then another message appears: I got your rules for wandering and I have an addition: We don’t travel in bad weather. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She wanders freely around a city in which Gogol, in spite of his many visits, has no sense of direction. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If we try to go any farther, we’ll be wandering blind.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, I wandered the halls of the courthouse while we waited for one more piece of paper to be faxed and approved to clear the way for the release of Mr. Caston and Mr. Carter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We wandered the streets, among the people and bomb craters, chewing dried fish. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I finally wander out into the living room around ten in gym shorts and glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I thought he might want to eat back at the cabin or even the dock, but we wandered until we found Liam. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The security guard at the front door acted like girls were wandering in and out in their gym clothes all day long. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"You know, Angela, we could have the wedding right here. . . . Turtle, where are you wandering off to now?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down, saw Longstreet rise, move off, shoulders bowed, wandering head down and lumbering, like a bearded stump, to stare out at the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would merely drown, and her spirit would wander without any hope of rejoining her relatives. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four years earlier, when she had wandered in from the mountains, I hid her for a day, secretly feeding her in the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would go out to wander the island’s trails in the early morning, at a slow pace. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sentences wandered through the report like morning glory through the pickets of a fence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I was wandering around, looking for something new to read, and feeling that rush of watching someone who isn’t you get in trouble. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Stay in line. Don’t wander off,” the officer said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

While he filled his suitcase, Florent wandered slowly around the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I wandered among them, trying to realize what war was, what it meant, and I could not. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while I worried that Viking 1 had been condemned, like the legendary Flying Dutchman, to wander the skies of Mars forever, never to find safe haven. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others whom he had not touched began to wander away. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ampleforth made one or two uncertain movements from side to side, as though having some idea that there was another door to go out of, and then began to wander up and down the cell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She blinks, and her eyes bug out as she sees my robe, and then they wander around, looking for my face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and went back to cooking, while I wandered away, bewildered. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are peasant girls, not much older than I am, wandering in the field. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered, necks craned, bits of concrete and broken tile crunching beneath our feet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For many years the sheriff dreamed of spending the shining time hunting and fishing—wandering in the Santa Lucia range, camping by half-remembered streams. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered through the woods, searching for children, whose bones she used to make her magic powders. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a lurch in his stomach, Pong saw a trio of police at the building's entrance, surveying the crowd and checking bags and satchels as people wandered inside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ben-Jamin and Hudsonien sneak out of Zen Castle late at night and wander into the Dark Woods for a romantic rendezvous. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“One day he showed up, stayed awhile and pushed off. He wanders through every few months.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On that day, that first of June, 1774, Johnny and Rab, like almost all the other citizens, did no work, but wandered from place to place over the town. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the fourth day, I make my way to the rim of Lake and Blueridge and decide to spend my time wandering through the bars. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He took the packages up to his room and then wandered down to the lobby. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Breathless and stunned, I wander the trove, struggling to walk within the muck that fills the space between treasure piles. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As I rolled, my mind wandered back to my fight with Mom outside of J.P. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you worry, Mr. Jackson. Jesse will wander in. I don’t think the boys have him.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered from Mr. Turner’s office and into the hall, feeling weak, frustrated, and pitiful. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The job suited Singleton after a long period wandering. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You could survive in the wild. Eating out of trash cans and wandering the streets.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Think about the dream and just let my mind wander until other thoughts come up in my mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew where these documents were; and no one was willing to risk his or her life wandering through the infected city in search of them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We sat down on the ground, and everyone seemed to wander into their own thoughts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

By the time Sneaky wanders back in, I already have butter and syrup on the pancakes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Me and the Preacher wandered ’round the carnival for ’bout another hour. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you see what a villain he is? Do you see those grovelling and wandering eyes? That’s how he looked when we were tried together. He never looked at me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She let her mind wander back over her stay at Grand Isle, and she tried to discover wherein this summer had been different from any and every other summer of her life. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Camp outside town and no one will bother you so long as you don’t start any fights or wander off with anything that isn’t yours.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I might wander freely through the house drinking pancake batter from a plastic bucket, but the moment one of my sisters overspilled her bikini, my father was right there to mix his metaphors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Of a bloodshot eye that had opened, wandered and then fixed its gaze on him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juicy stuff, and yet Zane couldn’t keep his mind from wandering. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The rescue workers wander, stare, peel off their shredded gloves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps under the shadow of the Unnamed some of the beasts of Mirkwood are wandering hither to our woods. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He begins by simply wandering, casually investigating the odd home of his Wunschtraum clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were vacant, like the eyes of those mad people who wandered around the roadside garbage dumps in town, pulling grimy, tom canvas bags with their life fragments inside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, who else was going to wander into Goldman’s Best Bakery and be $2.80 short on an order of cream puffs? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Half in a dream he wandered forward to the riverward side of the tree, where great winding roots grew out into the stream, like gnarled dragonets straining down to drink. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One morning he wandered outside and down the street. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanders into the bedroom, where she’s working, kissing her on the shoulder, drawing her to bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We rushed outside and found the other passengers wandering around in a daze, arguing with the driver, or running around in circles yelling, “Were going to die!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he could see for himself what happened to Lolo’s shoes and how he had wandered off. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the weeks I’m idle I can do anything I like, get up in the morning, stay in bed, take long walks out the country like my father, wander around Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cap wandered the halls like a lost soul in search of the fictional geography lab. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But her ghost was always wandering about the woods, gazing over Hailsham, pining to be let back in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, bands wandered outside their turf and explored new lands, whether due to natural calamities, violent conflicts, demographic pressures or the initiative of a charismatic leader. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered often about the four main business blocks that were brightly lighted and then through the black, deserted alleys behind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Boy, they sure fixed you up good. I guess they don’t want you wandering around either.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered on and found one of the regular deer paths dotted with droppings. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And I was so naive I just kept wandering around, not knowing I was headed for trouble, which I found soon enough. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inevitably there are mystery items requiring extra time and inquiry: clothes that have wandered over from girls’ or men’s, clearanced items whose tags haven’t been changed to reflect their new prices, the occasional one-of-a-kind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A wandering shepherd gave you to me, a servant of Laius.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The souls of the unburied might not pass the river that encircles the kingdom of death, but must wander in desolation, with no abiding-place, no rest ever for their weariness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered through the first level of the Eolian, searching without knowing who I was looking for. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Isannah had wandered off because a passing clergyman had seen the sunlight on her hair and was asking her to say the shorter catechism as proof that she was as pious as she was beautiful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered down narrow streets lined with narrow houses and up broader streets where the houses were grander, where the street-level windows rose from floor to ceiling of the rooms within. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered slowly towards the drive and the waiting car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fantasies that run through my mind aren't like the childish ones I had before the camps: dreams of wandering through cool, dark forests, catching fairies hidden among ferns. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She left her children behind, telling them not to wander away but to stay within sight of Leopard, who would look after them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On his dreadful journey, after the shaman has wandered through dark forests and over great ranges of mountains,...he reaches an opening in the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few “well-dressed” inmates were wandering between the blocks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chuck’s eyes wandered as if he wasn’t sure what to say. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then he left me there, wandering off sideways through the corn instead of down the rows, alternately whistling and humming a song I didn’t know. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually we wandered away from my house, no plan, just the two of us meandering through shady neighborhoods. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Their older siblings and aunts would sometimes provide temporary shelter, but the living situation would get disrupted by violence or death, and so Trina would find herself wandering the streets again. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He wandered away again, out into the courtyard, fingering the half loaf in his sash. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They wandered high and low, looking for people, and they found nothing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It would give him something to do, reflected the King miserably, which was better than wandering about all the time, with his eternal sorrow gnawing at his heart And he fell to thinking about Piggy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a pair of guards outside the bedchamber, to keep the girl from wandering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No wonder the whites wandered the park in the growing darkness, Cora thought, her forehead pressed into the wood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Imagine wandering through the most realistic virtual Paris ever, or lounging in a full simulation of Hawaii’s beaches. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I watch her for a moment, and then I wander over to the prop table, where literally everything is out of place. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I know from the internet there are 133 “places of worship” in this tiny town, but it seems odd that Finch would choose one for the last wander. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We watch the screen and I do not let my mind wander. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Like chimps, they wander around in little groups of friendly individuals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton took a moment to silently look him over, letting her eyes wander up and down his body. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I never learned any prayers, so I wander away into the fields, beyond the gates and watchtowers, as far from the barracks and bodies as my atrophied muscles will carry me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the dream from which he’d wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pri and Donna leave for their first class, while Chantal and I head to an office where students wander in and out—most with their uniform skirts shorter than mine. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Presently, the men began to wander aimlessly about the basement, looking into corners, examining the shovel, the garbage pail, and the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t wander into the space that was once his living room, or to the puddle where Byrd sits that was once dry wood floor. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Piece of cake,” he said to François, who wandered in and stopped to sniff the frame in obvious admiration. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When things were slow we’d wander back and forth between the container and the wall, talking and hanging out with the other people with nothing to do in the middle of the day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You mustn’t wander off like that while the passage is open—anything at all might wander in here!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I let my gaze wander the room and was surprised to see Fela standing in the crowd, waiting for the demonstration to begin along with the rest of the students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I leave the bedroom, wandering through the apartment, past eating, crying, praying people, searching for who spoke to me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

While I worked, my mind wandered and I started thinking about Marcus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Winnie wandered restlessly about her room, sat in her rocker, lay on her bed, counted the ticks of the hall clock. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the cold beverage section, we wandered to the canned-goods aisle. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At times he wanders up to the library’s sun-filled, unpopulated top floor, where all the literature is shelved. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was blowing little puffs of smoke from the thin cigarette he had rolled; he looked very satisfied too, as if he were satisfied with everything that morning, even that his cattle had wandered away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered from church to church, listened to the sermons with new ears, and heard pastors begin to preach liberation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they went to find the restroom, I wandered down the aisles to kill time. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mind wandered around a great deal, until it found Anatole. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered through the maze of booths and tents, thinking how much Jesse would have adored the spectacle of it all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Midst the swarm of people, mangy dogs wandered. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

How I wandered aimlessly about, too disoriented for proper panic, numb with shock and dread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Friday evening, wandering through the alleys of Kathmandu’s Thamel district, I sought refuge from a deepening depression. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy suddenly appeared on the road in front of us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, tears streaming down his face, he wandered around their place, their house bur not a home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Still, after the parole board set me off, my mind wandered toward escape plans. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Ah, maybe later,” she says, wandering over to a case at eye level that has a necklace in it with a jewel the size of a Ping-Pong ball. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

From the four walls of his bedroom to the rushing creek and deer-spotted trails tucked behind his house, he wanders and wonders. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Or I didn’t feel like wandering around looking for someone to save me from talking to someone else. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My thoughts don’t wander anymore; he’s where they go as soon as they’re idle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Megan is not a mystery to be solved, she is not a figure who wanders into the tracking shot at the beginning of a film, beautiful, ethereal, insubstantial. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, we understood that it wasn’t a real Rhinecliff Raider who had wandered into our stadium. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes wandered past him to where Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster, sat watching the Sorting from the staff table, his long silver beard and half-moon glasses shining brightly in the candlelight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Then my mind wandered and my thoughts became a living part of me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In part I think it is her nature. It could be she simply has wandering blood.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I nod, and wander around looking at books while he’s gone. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander to where the woman’s body lies on the pavement. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then, once we were at the mall, since we never had any money to shop or watch movies or buy food, we’d just wander around inside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My wanderings even led me down along the piers and docks where I read plaques telling about the old sailing ships that used to put into port there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait a while to see if they wander off. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Milo and Tock wandered up and down the aisles looking at the wonderful assortment of words for sale. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got out of the car and wandered into the bookstore in a daze. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The State Department did not want troublemakers like Pauling wandering about the globe saying nasty things about the politics of its onetime investment bankers who held back the hordes of godless Reds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Just wandering around the countryside, pushing people around. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Feeling at a loss, he wandered up into Great Hall and stood in front of the tapestry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The taxi was driving through the streets of Bournemouth and this was the time of day when the pavements were crowded with holiday-makers all wandering about aimlessly with nothing to do. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

At 8-2, the North Atlanta coach, hoarse now, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, quietly wandered over to his bench, and sat down. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The others followed him, with Nala bringing up the rear so she could corral Tater if he started wandering off again. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When the sun started going down we just randomly wandered into this run-down park. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After her lungs felt good and full, she wandered up and down the shelf-lined aisles. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he wanders through pathways and concourses and walks in loops around the courtyard with Marco in tow, who is taking notes whenever Chandresh finds something to comment upon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For if a private cow happened to wander out of its barren pasture onto National Forest land, the cow’s owner, and not the Forest Service, was to blame. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wander through the day wondering how I’m going to say it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When we played, we were always checking on the little cows to make sure that none of them had wandered off. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been spreading quietly along the Kinshasa Highway, a transcontinental road that wanders across Africa from east to west and passes along the shores of Lake Victoria within sight of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tommy and I wandered forward and found ourselves in what must have been the front room of the house. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm wandered about the grass, looking at the little trees with glowing blossoms and listening to the birds that flew and sang in the branches as prettily as nightingales. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My eyes wandered up, then down the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The working people were dressed muchly as we did out in the country, but there were a few gentry who stuck out of the crowd like peacocks wandering in the chicken pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward they wander hand in hand, kissing now and then against a building, along the very streets he was pushed up and down in his stroller as a child. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We head toward an exit, and with all the parents and kids wandering through the zoo paths, no one notices two long-faced kids leave. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were dogs and a cow wandering about. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they wandered down the street madly photographing everything in sight, I heard one kindly lady say, “Wasn’t that sad? We should have given him something.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he wandered off into an even older memory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Youns are superstitious and believe that if their body parts are not buried together when they die, then their souls are doomed to wander the earth for all eternity. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men were telling him angrily to get down, get down, but he went on wandering. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

People roam from tent to tent, wandering down paths that loop over each other, never seeming to end. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It is the soul of Lupito, they cried in fear, doomed to wander the river at night because the waters washed his soul away! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if someone from the campus wandered into the audience? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he wanted to know what the plan was—like, were we going to stay inside and not go wandering around the apartment complex. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some time when she was out looking for food she might wander by the spring and see that it was being used and find my steps leading to the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not wander into any dangerous parts of the city, nor risk my life crossing the Thames. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my bags and wandered back down the hallway. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” Trotter said in a maddeningly calm voice, wandering over to a lower shelf as she did so. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wandered around to see what was left of the Gribley home. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as Nhamo lay in speckled shadow and watched the ants wander over acacia thorns, she considered the implications of this story. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says sometimes a flock will wander into the orchard and they get a decent lunch that day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The boy beside me wanders away with a short, round woman who tells him it’s high time she has a man around the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I promised Dumbledore I wouldn’t wander off while I’m staying here.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wandered the mall, hitting the electronics spots, first Radio Shack, Best Buy, moving my way up to the Apple Store, coveting things I’d never be able to afford. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I snagged a beer from the kitchen and wandered through the house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As she played, her mind wandered back over the years to her first batch of professional pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they spoke, I jotted down his responses and allowed my gaze to wander restlessly across the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Those who desire to be purified cannot be refused and the black stain of his guilt had grown fainter and fainter through his years of lonely wandering and pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last weekend the big excitement was the elk that wandered onto Main Street and blocked traffic for an hour. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh’s attention remains only on the man in the grey suit, and it does not once wander to this other man who bears a passing resemblance to his assistant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So Bing wandered down the beach, walking stiffly like an ousted emperor, picking up shards of rock and chunks of driftwood and flinging them with all his might into the surf. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since this is serious personal business and not a wandering, I don’t bring Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I mean tomorrow when we wander. Unless you’ve got big plans. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Henry tired of his play and wandered off along the beach, Roger followed him, keeping beneath the palms and drifting casually in the same direction. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her wandering eye would transform the stalagmites and stalactites into sculptures of hanging alligators, witches’ claws, or the face of her hated history teacher. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let my imagination wander, seeing the first explorers on the moon as they worked their way back to their station after a day of walking among craters and plains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were simply sparked, ignited—free to wander hand in hand, all the world before us, not what it was but what it could be, the world to come, the one we made ourselves. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because my mind wanders in the morning my feet are always a few steps ahead of me and suddenly I found myself on Miss Volker’s back porch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he’s finished taking pictures, we wander to the food court and get giant cinnamon rolls the size of our faces. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Justin announced one evening around the partition: “I’m going to get out of my cage tonight and wander around a bit.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As he turned the corner and looked at the dozens of folding chairs where the graduates were sitting, his mind wandered to the people who weren’t there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

While Anya finished her errands, Ash wandered among the peddler’s stalls in the village green. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I approached from the stacks, sort of wandering out and casually bumping against the table to make it look like the whole encounter was completely random. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In his wandering the boy learned that the words men use most are “Get!” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he just wandered away trying to follow his brothers and sisters into the trees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“One day,” Nhamo said when she had recovered, “a hen belonging to the junior wife wandered into the senior wife’s hut and broke three pots. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Mom and I wandered around the mall, stopping every couple minutes so she could sit down and take deep breaths and squeeze my wrist so hard it left angry red marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around the cities by day, stumbling into the newsroom at night, exhausted, to write my stories. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one dared to disobey him, even though half an hour later he had forgotten his previous foolhardy notions and wandered off to hunt worms. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, he wandered over to our section and we asked him why he didn’t preach to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I can't let you wander around on your own in a place like this." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I end up wandering through the aisles, trying not to make eye contact with scary-looking pink mohawk girls. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He quickly felt as if he had wandered into a German fairy tale. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Especially when there really was not much at stake—just a hunch of hers that the boys may have wandered down there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They would wander from house to house, they had their seasons, but I’m talking about where they most often slept. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that darkness turned people weak because it confused them and made them wander. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In my hacked account, I’m able to wander around as an anonymous player. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wanders through paths expecting to see Poppet around every corner, but he is met with only stripes and emptiness. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Feet with roots, that’s called a fungal infection,” Poet told the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

While Mack and Helen were busy in the living room, I wandered into the kitchen. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She had a smudge of dirt on her chin, and I imagined what she must've looked like when she was little, wandering around the country with Thalia and Luke. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

No cow would dare to wander into these fields and eat the plants, as the thorns at the edge would tear into her skin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When her hand went limp, I would let myself wander over the ground of what happened. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered up one street and down the next. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander from them to the last person in the room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, what did you think I did at the Bureau? Just wandered around cracking jokes?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now they had wandered off—one might almost say inconsiderately— and left him with his wretched brachet to get rusty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one ever cares if I wander into rehearsal, even though the show opens on Friday. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

So I, bored almost to madness, had wandered into the living room and turned on the radio, very low so that no one could hear, and pressed my ear against the speaker. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he began to wander through the city, and found himself at the gates. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered down the main corridor, until I found myself in front of the door marked GUIDANCE. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bus dropped us off in Santa Monica in the late afternoon, and we wandered around for a while in clothes that were still a little damp from the storm. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Audrey whistled when Plath wandered too close to the water, but the stupid dog ignored her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“This is a regular honeymoon paradise, isn’t it? Did you ever see such roses?” asked Amy, pausing on the terrace to enjoy the view, and a luxurious whiff of perfume that came wandering by. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his does would wander about the fields until the patrols hunted them down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd is a mix of tourists who’ve wandered too far from Times Square and actual working New Yorkers wishing the tourists would just go back to Times Square. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He lived day and night in their company, warming himself against their skin as he wandered over the range, sleeping at their feet under the Colorado mountains. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re surrounded by rocks and trees and grass and room to wander. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people just wandered into the room, like the tall, bearded man who walked in just before Farid and Sohrab arrived. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wander through the streets alone—not the relaxing stroll of a summer night, but the tense hurry to get—where? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A search party of graduate students found him hours later, wandering in the woods in the outskirts of Austin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I often had no idea in which direction the road was or where the others had wandered. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She pictured wandering around the house, trying to avoid him all day, and cooking for his terrible friends at night, perhaps every night, for the rest of her life. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the light began to fade as the difficult path wandered aimlessly upward, inching forward almost as reluctantly as the trembling Humbug. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered along the deck toward the bows, and soon made the acquaintance of an able seaman by flicking at him the pips she’d saved from the apple she’d eaten at breakfast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a hard look, like a father warning an errant child not to wander off. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

During the wake, the men wandered through the sitting rooms and hallways of the house, speaking softly of business. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of revelers or rioters, or whatever they were, wandered in the opposite direction, looking for more trouble to get into. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The sun was held back by rain clouds the morning Frightful saw Sam and Mole come home from their wanderings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

‘But at the western edge of Mirkwood the trail turned away. It wandered off southwards and passed out of the Wood-elves’ ken, and was lost. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After long wanderings and many trials on land and sea he reached Italy, where he defeated those who opposed his entering the country, married the daughter of a powerful king and founded a city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jotunheim, where the frost giants and the mountain giants wander and live and have their halls. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Thus they wandered for some five minutes, standing still, listening, clanking, crouching, creeping, peering, walking on tiptoe, and occasionally making a chance swipe behind their hacks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we wandered along the shallow shore, the mist dissipated, exposing an entire community of canoes being steered by both men and women on the surface of the lake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It is not proper for women to wander aimlessly about the streets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wandered forth upon the streets of the town without knowing what it was he wished. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Four wandering rabbits—giving themselves out to be some kind of embassy from another warren—had been held and impressed into the Right Flank Mark. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is being practically dragged out by a second, and the third wanders in loopy circles, as if deranged. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered along the river until they came to the wide beach, bright under the moon, where the low tide was turning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t think so. I think you must have wandered away from your father’s party and got lost Those huntsmen found you on your own and brought you straight here. That’s what happened, Lizzie.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Ray lives here. Doesn’t go wandering off in the middle of the night and leave his family for a barstool.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was worried that Momma had wandered off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or someone saw him wandering around and picked him up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe she got knocked on the head and had amnesia and was wandering around Lewiston, not knowing who she really was, or thinking she was someone else. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“A bounty hunter wandering the Dark World,” he murmurs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As she wanders around gazing into the glass cases full of stuff so sparkly, some of it hurts Scoob’s eyes to look at, he decides to try and make the most of her distraction. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I kept my gaze from wandering back to the windows. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Often I catch sight of her wandering in the garden out back, her head covered by her shawl. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. Well, apart from old Mr. Carson stepping in the hole we had to dig to get it out. He was wandering around in the dark for some reason and sprained his ankle.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I wandered across the lawn to the terrace my eye was caught by a gleam of sunshine on something metal showing through the green of the rhododendron leaves at the turn in the drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of newcomers wandering the streets at all hours was part of the cityscape. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers.When you look at pictures ofjesus He’s always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My thoughts wandered as my fingers worked their way through the fleece with a knowledge that came from having done this task for many years. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As I wandered about the kitchen I suddenly smelled feces and urine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like I had plenty of time, though, and the languid pace and midday heat sapped my will to do anything more taxing than wander the grounds in dreamy amazement. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Thoroughly disgruntled, the sparrow hopped along like a feathered convict with a ball and chain, forced to follow the young mouse wherever he chose to wander. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were seen wandering in circles, dazed and half blind, before dying in convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sheep wandering around alone in parking lots, like this one, would die. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That said, do not presume to change a word of what I say. If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Suppose he’ll wander to a city, Pittsburgh. Maybe New York. Fella can always get lost in a city.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hand wandered up to the spot where Alfhercht had touched him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She wanders around the main lobby, loops around the gift shop, visits the cafeteria. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days’ wandering, he came upon a small warren and, snarling and clawing, forced them to accept him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it wandered out in the woods somewhere, the mauling little more than an inconvenience to its morning. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then I began to worry about him, out there wandering across the headlands with his binoculars and little notebook, possibly in the company of a sheep-murdering madman. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I wandered back and forth from my barn to the house. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered toward the window, gazed out at the blackness and the few lights here and there. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The two wandered a bit until Nokomis found a good ironwood tree. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hackett had told me he’d hidden bottles in crevices all around the base of Horn Rock, and we wandered over to the far side, where no one else was around. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Be warned, Potter — any more nighttime wanderings and I will personally make sure you are expelled. Good day to you.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He got up and wandered away, lighting a cigarette. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would wander the ward, talking to nurses and other regular patients. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe that's why the policeman said I shouldn't be wandering in the woods by myself. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One silly one which amused the Wait was as follows: We wander the sky with many a Crook And land in the pasture fields with a Plonk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel could hear guards wandering over to see what all the ruckus was. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But that was definitely the wrong path to let my mind wander down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kira had seen no sign, no hint of a wandering mind. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without leaving her bed, she wandered the dark corridors of pregnancy, stumbling over the bones of women who had passed this way before her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Spectators, people who had been wandering the streets because of the earthquake, were starting to gather. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After that, the four of us wander the mall, trying on purple lipsticks and eating sour apple candy slices crusted in sugar that turn my tongue green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That NIGHT, after Stuart has left, I wander from room to room, dry-mouthed, cold. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I do, actually. Because I have seen what happens to people when they hear the truth. They look like they have forgotten what they were searching for, and are just wandering around trying to remember.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I search farther and wander about here and there; it is a strange feeling. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie was against it because Pinkie had black-out spells, and she said, “The whole herd of sheep could wander onto the tracks and get hit by the Santa Fe Super Chief before Pinkie woke up.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier, she had wandered off to smoke her last cigarette before showtime. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“She has never allowed herself to be seen doing either, since she lived this present life of hers. She wanders about in the night, and then lays hands on such food as she takes.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tanu and I wandered through the marketplace admiring the cinema posters with pictures of glamorous women and handsome men. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

No plague patrols wander the streets, and the only sounds come from occasional cars and the distant blare of JumboTron ads. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A creek wandered through the seven rooms of the masked ball. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since she was able to show them the precise location of Robbie’s attack on Cecilia, they all wandered into that corner of the bookshelves to take a closer look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If a man, boldest and most intelligent of creatures, won’t wander from place to place, a stranger to all, beholden to none, why would an animal, which is by temperament far more conservative? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered through a blood-colored room filled with old theatrical organs, huge organ pipes, and what appeared to be enormous copper brewing vats, liberated from a brewery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They did not understand sitting; they had wandering feet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and wandered restlessly around the library. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had left the clearing and were wandering again through the checkered shade, with their arms round each other’s waists whenever it was wide enough to walk two abreast. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For a long time the friends wandered through the woods. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wander in, looking round us, mouths open. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She got up and wandered around the room. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clean and well-dressed, I looked like some regular boy come wandering in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry wandered dispiritedly toward the library, but halfway there he changed his mind; he didn’t feel like working. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He wandered over to a pile of grass clippings and lay down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, in a heavy downpour, he wandered back to his Wellington hotel at four-thirty and lay down heavily with his writing tablet to compose a letter to his parents. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He staggers off, wandering back in the direction of the bonfire courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, he and Byrd wander side by side toward his peacock truck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He started making cereal and cooking for the kids who would wander by. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

‘But do not wander from your road. What of the third turning?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

People wandered, looking constantly to the sky in fear of the Black Death. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had grown restless from waiting to go hunting with his master and had wandered away to hunt alone. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snowbird people from cold places like Michigan and Canada suddenly start to wander into El Caribe to make it even more crowded. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I wish they’d all stay put and not wander back here. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We wandered around for a while as I tried to get my bearings, and then I heard Daisy whisper, “Holmesy.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wander past the shelves, my attention shifting from table to table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her mind grows lazy and wanders around too many topics—her schoolwork, a cute boy she met in Phnom Penh, movies she saw—but always it comes back to our family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were the first six people to refuse Tehlu’s choice of the path, and he cursed them to wander the corners—” “Are you telling this story, Jacob Walker?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wandered lisdessly about the room, trying to think of something to do, dreading the return of my mother, resentful of being neglected. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long-faced horses and chocolate-eyed cows wandered past houses huddled right at the edge of the road. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even in my happiness my thoughts sometimes wandered to Sass. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You want them in the Gift, that’s your folly, but see they don’t wander off or I’ll send you back their heads. Winter is nigh, I want no more mouths to feed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the dress department, she wandered from rack to rack, occasionally pulling out a dress and holding it against her. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he glanced in the mirror, he was startled by the wild, empty look in his eyes, as if he’d gone blind wandering in the desert. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Another rumour had it that a girl’s ghost wandered through those trees. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gaze wanders to the corner of the suite, searching for the mattresses lying on the floor, Keira’s figure huddled under a blanket on the couch. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lay motionless, still listening; but all was now silent, and at last he turned and fell asleep again or wandered into some other unremembered dream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes had wandered, yet again, to his father’s name etched into the wall before them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They talked as they wandered idly on and Phaedrus asked, “Is not the place somewhere near here where Boreas is said to have carried off Orithyia from the banks of the Ilissus?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rafik lit a stick of incense and wandered back and forth in the hall as if conducting a ritual. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We both saw the trail of bruises wandering from wrist to elbow, decorating her pale skin like some sort of primitive tattoo. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lowering and rising, Cole wandered off away from the fire, then pretended the fire was the goal of his long migration. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Draping my blanket loosely around my shoulders, like a stole, I wandered down the hall toward the light and the gay noise. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He wandered perilously close to where Penelope was hidden, but merely to pull a book off the shelf. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Where is your life vest?” yelled the shoemaker to me as he clutched the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’s wandered off to stand by the fence across from the steps, watching us with his elbows resting on the metal railing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

If anyone was foolish enough to enter without permission, he might wander for days without finding an exit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Minli thought as she wandered past stalls, weaving around merchants and customers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The guests wandered around, choosing delicacies brought to them on trays by the maids. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were so aloof,” he said, “always wandering into the garden with Jasper, going off on your own. You never came to me like this.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

By now, the wandering is really an excuse to drive somewhere and make out. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A single pedestrian wanders down the sidewalk, and a gardener is carefully trimming a nearby hedge—but aside from the faint clip-clip-clip sound of his shears, it’s quiet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the nasty friends the little wretch had made in his wanderings, he supposed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander over to the computer desk. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Sergio noticed his father’s eyelids drooping, and he watched his hand wander back, feeling for the doorframe. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I made my way down to A deck to check on the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He always wanders into Dad’s room, and the minute he climbs into the king-sized bed, Dad gets up and comes back with a glass of water. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She explains that certain creatures are allowed to scare and harass unsuspecting people if they wander someplace generally acknowledged to be spooky—like graveyards, old abandoned mansions, dark caves, and under beds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Old Ikwa wandered over curiously and, when he couldn’t find any room underneath, sat near us with his elephant- ear leaf held up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon in June, when Wilbur was almost two months old, he wandered out into his small yard outside the barn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Staring at his grotesquely muscled shoulders—stooped, naked despite the cold, sleek as the belly of a shark and as rippled with power as the shoulders of a horse—I found my mind wandering. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Heggarty says he’s sorry but he can’t be handing out money to every man who wanders in claiming he did his bit. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Finch: So you’re saying I can carry you when we wander. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mom wanders in for some ice—yes, she drinks her champagne with ice. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Outside in the hallway, there were people wandering in hospital gowns who were far older and sicker looking than Suzanne, and they were still here. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As Winston wandered toward the table his eye was caught by a round, smooth thing that gleamed softly in the lamplight, and he picked it up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Listening to my heartbeat, my mind wanders to Ma and Geak. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there were any brandy left in the bottle he might close the door and wander away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I looked sullen, perhaps, for she shrugged her shoulders and wandered to the looking-glass, straightening her little mushroom hat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was after 6:00 P.M. when I wandered back to the house from the peach stand, having sold nothing, not one peach, and found Rosaleen in the living room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy cried of aches in his legs and feet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The draper sat upon the cobbles of the street, his hair lank, and a daughter of perhaps my age wandered about through the wreckage, picking up silks and attempting to drag them back inside. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I found a ladybug, I rushed it to the Plant to stand guard for pests, but my tiny crimson sentries always wandered off. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I think I would even find it quite a satisfying challenge if it weren’t for the noise—and Paul’s wandering hands. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

While wandering aimlessly about the streets of Memphis, gaping at the tall buildings and the crowds, killing time, eadng bags of popcorn, I was struck by an odd and sudden idea. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that, Ulbrickson knew, had to start here on this dock, with the boys who were now wandering off into the waning light. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling her mind was going to wander. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I feel freedom for the first time in months, and an air of contentedness wanders next to me all the way home. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His mind wandered as it always did nowadays in church. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Ah! My mind was wandering. I love the way swallows turn just before they’re about to crash into the ground. No, lad. You wouldn’t be able to survive. It’s better if you go to Aztlan.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he wanders from home to home among people he knows, accepting hospitality wherever he can find it. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

After my family was killed, I wandered deep into the forest and slept. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bailey asks, indicating the steady stream of circus patrons that continues to wander by, completely ignoring them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I was not about to wander off, for supposing, just supposing, Papi finished his drink and decided to open his bags right then. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She could wander out into the street and get lost. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What I am about to tell must be the experience of very many in this nation where so many wander and come back. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as time passed we went more seldom and wandered less far. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They said whilst the Preacher was killing those men, one of the horses spooked and bolted and that was the one that wandered into the Settlement. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I know Grandpa’s soul isn’t wandering the woods like the ghosts I sometimes think I glimpse between the trees. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He saluted, sneezed, wandered off, in no great huny, wiping his nose. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beto wandered to the stove and lifted the lid from a casserole dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The truly impoverished live in makeshift tents in areas where I have never been allowed to wander. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy hid his crying face in the crook of his arm. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Where’ve you been, Kat? I didn’t say you could wander out when you felt like it.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In winter, up here, people just don’t wander around; he knows that.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we went in and before long we’d wandered apart to look at different aisles. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Longer, maybe four days, or more like seven. But don’t be all hope, child. If he had deep head wounds, he might be addled crazy and not know where he wandered off to die.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I admired their piety and envied the food the monks gave them in return for their devotions, but try as I might, after only a half hour of chanting, my mind wandered. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said that I had, but that I didn’t feel like going and wandering around looking for someone to talk to. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It was true, sometimes when William and Judith were talking about the house it was all she could do to keep her mind from wandering. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Denny got the motor running and we puttered downstream, looking for harbor seals, which he said sometimes wandered up the river. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The half dozen men he had gathered up before had picked themselves and their rifles out of the ditch and were wandering off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His eye wandered up and down other girls’ legs, so he didn’t know how to drive straight home anymore. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mimi had wandered over to where the purple coat lay draped over a basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Matt got up and wandered into the kitchen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wander over and pretend to admire a shawl when I notice a green-and-gold box with a curved lid. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Nate would ask me, his squinty blue-gray eyes hawking me as I wandered the aisles. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Police found me two days later, wandering the dirt roads west of Calypso, wearing a grocery bag for underwear and covered in hickies I couldn’t explain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When flies began to gather on the foxes, the rodents lost interest and wandered off. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dicey wandered over to the fresh produce counter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zohra snaps photos of me posing in front of the most colorful areas, and then we take a few selfies, like some of the other tourists wandering around. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Goldilocks wandered the floor, pecking at kernels from her spilled bucket of feed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Geography and talk about the places left to wander. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wandered through the hall, munching on this and that, while watching out for Father. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the book, she would be kissed by a wandering prince; and then the happy ending would sprawl across the pages, in scroll-wreathed letters, with purple and yellow banners. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the hyena, the boy thought that he might live far away from people because he was an animal who liked to wander at night and needed quiet paths for his wandering. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Dancers spin onstage, kids wander in and out, and parents stand on tall ladders, hanging a huge Bayanihan banner from the rafters. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But I do wander by the market as it’s closing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For a while we wandered aimlessly, looking for anyone who resembled Miss Wren, or anywhere it seemed peculiars were likely to hide. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A small boy, not more than four years old, wandered around to the back of the huts, saw me, and stopped still. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the female bonobos shrieked, the other replied, and then the foraging group wandered out of the clearing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, about ten minutes later, Celia wandered back into the gym, her eyes redder and puffier than when she’d left. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s because he had to wander from house to house here,” said Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts loosed themselves from their everyday moorings and wandered. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘As you wander around, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, a man walking down H Street wandered up the front steps of the house, knocked on the front door, and rang the bell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He starts at Nick’s mouth, and then his eyes drop to the drink in Nick’s hand, and then his gaze wanders to a brooch on Martha’s sweater. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was my habit to wander away from the troupe in the evenings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My wanderings took me to a place near the Sacred Rock. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His gaze wandered to the window, as if he could catch a glimpse there of those long-forgotten, happier days. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They had splashed through two brooks and wandered fearfully in the deep woodlands west of Ecchinswell. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t give him a ounce of supper that night. Just put him where he could watch the others eat. Teach him not to wander off. Got him back in the shed, right now.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large muddy water buffalo, led by a boy perhaps a year or two older than Minli, wandered through and was ignored as a commonplace occurrence. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Doctorita wanders to the table in her bathrobe, still clutching her knitting needles, half a yellow Baby Jesus dress draped over her arm. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

June 30—I’ve stopped wandering the streets now that I have Fay. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We wander around awhile and then ditch our communicators under a bush. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I try not to listen and let my mind wander to some other place where that emptiness lives. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For months I had been wandering the desert, throwing myself at that undeserving creep Zach. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“His mind keeps wandering,” the instructor said from inside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had woken up so early—and slept so little after that encounter with Nehemia...Unable to stop, Celaena wandered into the Land of Sleep. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I watched as they wandered past, laughing and shoving at each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kelly wandered about in a baggy pair of trousers and a bathrobe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At last, however, as he wandered on, he met a strange and beautiful person. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say he wanders the halls even to this day, never able to find his way outside.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He wants to make sure you don’t pull a disappearing act. You have been known to wander off.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And so, the princess became lost in the woods. She wandered for many days. Finally, she came to a little hut, and she knocked on the door. She said, ‘Let me in; I am cold.’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The cows wandered all over Heaven and cloth did not get woven. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi leaned over the table, shielding the sheets from the group of kids that had wandered in. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We stay close, not wandering too far from one another. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, I wander from body to body, begging those I’ve killed for forgiveness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once, she had let her mind wander as she thought about the woman in her dreams. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked almost as if he were drunk, stopping, moving on, wandering to left and right, stumbling over little ruts and stones on the path his living feet had known so well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What if the horse had wandered into the busy streets? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was a good hour before everybody else wandered off, but I remained behind, my face turned upward. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, looking away from her, his gaze wandered to my table and our eyes met. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then of necessity they followed the grass that fed their flocks in endless wanderings. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even tell Thomas, as we wander the lavish ballroom with its endless banquet tables and chandeliers, that arresting Day has filled the gaping hole Metias’s death left in my life. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When he feels safe again, he resumes his wandering. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The banks of the stream sank, as it reached the levels and became broader and shallower, wandering off towards the Marish and the River. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then her voice seemed to wander off as if she was speaking to herself and maybe to us at the same time. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As mothers appeared on porches one by one throughout the mill village, calling their children’s names, C.P. reluctantly wandered home, dusk descending, the pale yellow lamplights sputtering on in houses as he passed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, she pulled open the glass door of the bookcase and let her eyes wander over the spines of each book. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the Solomon Islanders who had been watching our invasion from the jungle came out and began wandering around the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were an exuberant, restless people, wandering across the ocean of the plain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rochambeau finishes writing it, underlines it, and then wanders over close to my table. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He wandered past the quad while munching on it and headed for the east wing to see if the college reps had decided to stick around until lunchtime this year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bullet trails have left wandering perforations down the other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They wandered through fields with the wind blowing their thin dresses against their thighs, and gazed inscrutably. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wanders toward the little market close to the tracks, the Fish Place, and I try to follow without looking like I’m following. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the stranger had wandered off; she could hear kids carrying on about messing that dude up, wherever he was. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My father wandered over to the folding chairs set up outside the tent for the men under the night sky. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We approached the embarkation officer, the wandering boy between us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is written that the old shall keep to the comfort of their beds! second priest: It’s a bad habit, beloved friend, this wandering about at night when monsters prowl. third priest: Senility. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered off to chat with his friends, several of whom had also pulled down their bandanas. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Moving with great caution, I wandered down one alley after another, spying ahead even as I constantly checked behind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the children just wandered off without paying him anymore attention. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad wandered in, and I told him the news. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” I said, “he didn’t tell me that,” and I wandered to the dressing-table and began combing my hair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was looking Lyddie up and down as she asked, as though Lyddie were a stray dog who had wandered too close to her house. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she wandered over to the fruit and vegetable counter and discovered potatoes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roza wandered back to the sculptures while Finn went to get them cookies and warm cider. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

How could the two of them wander through Tartarus and find the Doors of Death? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I let my eyes wander as Mrs. Brewer continued talking. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I just needed to wander the woods. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This would require accurate observations over some 18 years, the time it takes for the Moon to complete one cycle of its wanderings against the background stars. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the end, he might start wandering about, unable to think sensibly, or plan where he was going. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the other days he had carried them around with him during boring wanderings through the business district and the Quarter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or wandered into a swale where the air was bad, and never returned. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

These wanderings were the engine of human worldwide expansion. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bristle called to Runt, who was watching a wandering vole. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I must have seen her make a million pies as I wandered through the kitchen, and it had always looked so easy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Charlie, whose attention had started to wander. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Beneath the stars, with his overcoat on, he wandered out into the cold. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can't wait to leave this sad house, with a ghost of a mother wandering from room to room in her white widow's sari. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then my eyes wander to the white coffin next to them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

That I’d fallen asleep in fits and spurts and gotten up when I couldn’t force my wandering mind to stay stationary anymore. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes perhaps a tramp will wander there, seeking shelter from a sudden shower of rain and, if he is stout-hearted, he may walk there with impunity. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shouldering her pack, she wandered through the grasses in search of fuel, a much less exciting assignment. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went upstairs to feed Nipper, who had returned from his daily wanderings. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

On either side of them were the stores, which Miyax recognized by the many people who wandered in and out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They peered at him through the window, but they wouldn’t let him in, so he wandered through the meadow, afraid to lie down in the tall grass. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not a minute is given for free wandering. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

His voice trails off, like his mind has wandered away. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, down the line, through poverty, hunger, wandering, cruelty, fear, and trembling, to death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The bus station was chaotic, but I loved wandering through the market. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a little past noon, and the customers had just started to wander through. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sick wandered through the streets with missing eyes, picking the lice from their hair and throwing them at the healthy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This left him free to wander unescorted through the city, visiting with the Alexandrians as a private citizen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, he didn’t say much. He just said you wandered off.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Alex stood at attention, as though his posture proved he wasn’t the sort who would ever wander off. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I let that one pass, looking away, my eyes wandering again around the spacious room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Avery was in and out of jail until he turned twenty, when in the midst of a psychotic episode he wandered into a strange house, thinking he was being attacked by demons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"He is old, his mind wanders," the king told her gruffly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wandered out of my room and headed for the kitchen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Under different circumstances, wandering through Rome with Annabeth would have been pretty awesome. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They spent a long time wandering through stores, looking at toys and records and pianos and birthday cards. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, as the mass progressed, my eye would wander through the crowd. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Frank and Percy ordered, Hazel wandered down to the docks and asked some questions. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could hear them laughing as they wandered off. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders, like it sometimes does, to images outside the walls of the school, even while his teachers are asking him to think about things inside the school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wandered aimlessly for perhaps a quarter hour, exploring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A wizard — young, foolish, and gullible — wandered across my path in the forest I had made my home. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The morning was passing towards noon, and still the Company wandered and scrambled in a barren country of red stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We wandered over to the first area—Space Is Dangerous—and watched a video of a hole being blown through a thick metal plate by a simulated meteoroid. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He already knew the lesson, which was why he was letting his mind wander down the road ahead of his body. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the island and began the wandering life that she kept up for the next twenty-some-odd years, and stopped only after Reba had a baby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children wandered up and down while Stewart and Dicey sat watching the little waves that meandered up onto the smooth sand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She didn't eat lunch. Caught her wandering the servants’ quarters a little while ago. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Four wanders through the crowd of initiates, watching us as we go through the movements again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

All but Loo, who’d wandered off a ways, to hunt something in the high grass nearby. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’d been staring at the same page for five minutes before he realized that the words were just a blur and that his mind had wandered back to dogs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

On its way to the Mississippi, the combined river then wanders, quite conveniently, within two hundred yards of the central plaza. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When not attending meetings, Stanton and Mott spent time together, wandering through the city and visiting the sights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was like wandering through the catacombs of memory. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

While the men searched for signs of the stowaways, the mate wandered among the stores, checking the insides of a crate, lifting the lid on a barrel. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Midwives, nurses, dentists, barbers, apothecaries, wandering healers, quack physicians, and next-door neighbors offered opinions on the disease, too. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I can’t see them but I know the ghost boys are down below, roaming, wandering. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

One day, he will grow too old to be told that a wandering man is a mirage and that naked flesh is a dream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I take heart from it—at least I won't be wandering in circles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As an hour passed by and he could not sleep, the Brahmin rose, wandered up and down and then left the house. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my disappointment, I wanted only to sleep, but my mind kept wandering back to the rally. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash glanced at Mr. Crane, but his attention had wandered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spent some time in the kennels talking to Cavall, then wandered off to help them turn the spit in the kitchen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto sat for a moment, then wandered away, investigating the trash pile and toying with a piece of old oily cardboard before I scolded him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours wandering about in the Natural History Museum. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grocery opened at dawn and did not close until the last wandering vagrant dime had been spent or retired for the night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood under the clock in the cold, the wandering boy playing in a mound of snow near his feet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After tea he wandered off on the pretense of carrying out some fictitious task. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bugs often wander through my domain on their way to somewhere else. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Not sure what to think, I wandered over to where Derrick sat on the edge of a horse trough. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Faerie must be looking for him, and here he is, wandering around in a flimsy silver fox half mask, blinking at me with drunken confusion and swaying a bit on his feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wandered into the yard, wondering how I was supposed to get the image of that withered apple out of my head. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy jumped up and hugged my leg. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With my flour sack stuffed with plants and weeds, I wandered along the railroad tracks, letting my footsteps fall evenly on each tie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chickens wandered the aisles; women walked back and forth carrying packages on their heads and selling bags of peanuts and dried vegetables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Battered by European diseases and slave raiding, many fled to the Orinoco, becoming wandering foragers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After we eat, we wander into the playground. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And there was the chicken coop Linda and he had built together, and the chickens wandering in the yard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, instead of getting angry, the lions wandered away. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

At one point I decided to wander outside and sit on the stone steps just beyond our dining room's French doors. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile I wandered up and down the streets, in and out of stores. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders to the wolflike creatures in the first arena, the monkeys in the Quarter Quell, the monstrosities I’ve witnessed on television over the years, and I wonder what form these mutts will take. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I drive over the railroad tracks toward the city, my eyes wandering over the skyline but not really taking it in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Joe wandered quietly on plush carpeting through a maze of corridors, leading to a full cocktail bar, then a cigar shop, then a writing room, and then a library with oak paneling and heavy beams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to throw up every defense I possessed to keep my brain’s wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I know Coll and Dallben well. And they are too wise to let you wander here alone. Have you run off, then? I warn you; Dallben is not one to be disobeyed.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I was merely being prudent,” Lord Fredrick replied, in his merry, thoughtless way, “in case we find another twenty-three grubby children wandering in the forest. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, what!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As he waited, Hazel realized more fully than ever how dangerous was their position, without holes, wandering in country they did not know. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, after wandering around the town, I turned back toward the Institute to talk with the dean. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait,” said the wandering boy, frantically searching the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But you do not live in the City, do you? What are you doing wandering around the Wood?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discover that my wandering thoughts and steps have brought me to Mother Ermentrude’s lodgings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And then she squeezed Ivy close one more time and wandered away. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In a blizzard, you can get lost in a matter of yards and wander off course into oblivion. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered along the cruise line docks, pushing through crowds of people arriving for vacations. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A number of stray carts wandered across the parking lot aimlessly, carried this and that way depending on each moody gust of wind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This time, though, she crossed her arms and wandered the field, looking at weeds, picking up rocks, kicking the sand—killing time. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, I just felt...not tired, exactly, but more like my mind was wandering and going nowhere in particular. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With a child's instinct, I knew the man was safe, for occasionally, strangers my grandfather had met on his travels came for a visit and wandered over to our property. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On days off in Portorož, during the rare times he wandered into public view, Bobby was continually asked for his autograph or to pose for a photo. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze wandered to the ripped-up grass under the splintered branches and crushed boughs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Seth wandered over to the brink of the ledge and stared down into the ravine. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But Emilia had pushed the wandering boy into the boat, sacrificing herself for another. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a while, we wandered away from dragons, for to explain about the dragons, I had to describe my home—I mean, our home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she waited, her eyes wandered to the boy with the sticking-up hair. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A gardener had trimmed the ancient roses, planted geraniums, laid out the vegetable flat, and brought the living spring in little channels to wander back and forth through the garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My glazed eye wandered over the dim and misty landscape. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Just once, though, after I’d been wandering aimlessly around his room for a while, I did ask him: “Tommy, are you glad Ruth completed before finding out everything we did in the end?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes wandered again to the beautiful instrument on the platform by the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lurvy wandered off by himself, hoping to meet friends and have some fun on the midway. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alan wanders among the scattering of tables, watching people curiously and smiling if they notice him. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled under the fence and wandered around without ever being challenged, thereby exposing an enormous hole in the security fabric of the nation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I began to wander aimlessly through the rooms of the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dad wandered home sometime after this, I couldn’t say how long, a gaunt, defeated look on his face. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wandered the streets of Greenwood for about an hour, came back, alone, and had some pie. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, The Goober wandered to the assembly hall, attracted by cheers and hoots. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the night writing or wandering through the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that wandering wore them out something terrible, though. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But the best part of sitting in the back was that my mind could wander aimlessly, because church was so dreamy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Under the brow of the hill, they found a hole where a stream wandered into the dark. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spend the rest of lunch talking to Mrs. Medina about oral history projects and good questions, and then I wander over to my next class before the bell rings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cole mumbled as the breeze drifted sparks upward like wandering stars. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“If I was a ghost I’d want to stay in the places I knew, not wander along and get lost.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eventually Mama Evangeline looked tired of batting bonobos away, so I said good-bye to the mamas and wandered with Otto back to my mom’s office. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face showed no emotion and his spirit seemed to have wandered away from his body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After we finished our Cheesecake Factory dinner, we wandered down to Nordstrom. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Afterward I wandered around the lobby in a daze. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders to Pa, Ma, and Geak, and I become deaf to the conversations around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And here is another marvel! I have wandered in many lands, since I left my home, and never till now have I found people that knew any story concerning hobbits.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He wandered back home and found Lee up and stuffing a very large turkey. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wander down a side street until I notice a jet-black tent with a faded sign out front. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Plutarch disappears and I wander through the crowd, looking for Peeta, as strangers congratulate me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone wandered like ghosts beneath the guard towers with the mountains looming on either side of them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I wandered through and looked at each one. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wanderings to the bedrooms, the payments, were so soft and casual they seemed incidental. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By now the cattle were wandering around all over the place. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander to the girl she just picked out to be her next challenger. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Miguel’s disappointment and rage at Alba’s being the granddaughter of Senator Trueba vanished the second time he saw her wandering like a lost soul down the corridors near the cafeteria where they had met. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he’d wander outside to look at his car, rev the engine, play with the mirrors. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around lost until a pilot took me to his airline’s office and gave me a lollipop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

To see if he would swing his legs over the side of the mattress and stand up and wander to the bathroom and shave his face, the smell of soap wafting out to the hallway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

An ancient fig tree spread its branches over the path, as if welcoming all who wandered by. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was no point in wandering like a lost puppy. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders back six months to a fetid basement. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

According to their own tales they were the original inhabitants and were the descendants of the first Men that ever wandered into the West of the middle-world. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grown to manhood, Dionysus wandered far to strange places. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered over to see what the children of Terrell Elementary had written. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Normally it’s off limits for lunch because there’s no gate, and I guess they think kids would just wander off. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He stands up and wanders around the waiting room, shuffling through newspapers left in empty seats. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ear, Eye and Arm wandered around, waiting for something to happen. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not headed for the trash, I see now, but for a small, skinny dog wandering the heap. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing gave them as much excitement as the wanderings of her mind. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a heavy, wandering black line, which I presumed to be the Forest Service road we stood beside, though there was no actual telling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He calms himself, makes small talk with Ford, then says his good-byes and wanders out into the sunlight. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the day before Christmas, Lieutenant Colonel Gawie Marx, the deputy commander of Polls-moor, wandered by my cell after breakfast and said quite casually, “Mandela, would you like to see the city?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds and squirrels mainly, but also rotten cats and dogs—pets that had wandered into the park looking for shelter when there was none left anywhere in Manhattan. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They wandered farther and farther from the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Cora thought back to the night she and Caesar decided to stay, the screaming woman who wandered into the green when the social came to an end. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We wandered about all the way to the Cotton Tree, the national symbol of Sierra Leone and the landmark of the capital. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon a scouting ant wandered across the rush bridge which Merlyn had commanded him to make. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poet called to the wandering boy and whispered in his ear, pointing into the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy stood up in our lifeboat, his tiny arms stretched up toward the ship. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he wandered across the garden from the pool, leaving the skimmer behind. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Our folks were wandering around the hotel somewhere and I was halfway through my last hundred shots when Annie started waving her hands around like crazy. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts have wandered toward him after being led to the river and the stones of home. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His hands wandered, looking for something to do. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had joined us two days prior, just wandered out of the forest alone and quietly began following us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía under the chestnut tree with impatience and made him wander all through the house even in broad daylight. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She reminded Kit of a young fawn that had wandered near the house one morning. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been wandering around all day without knowing where to go- ‘That must be him,’ Aunt Gloria said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived up the hill from them, and for some time he’d seen Mia with her Brownie wandering the neighborhood, snapping pictures of this and that. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He spent his days as he wanted: He wandered through the rooms of the castle, staring dreamily at the light streaming in through the stained-glass windows. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He saw three gates during his wanderings—the main entrance with its gatehouse, a postern by the kennels, and a garden gate hidden behind a tangle of pale ivy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“A needle and thread,” said Gregor, wondering if his dad’s mind was beginning to wander again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That I wasn’t alone anymore, doomed to a life wandering the mall. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The wandering look and changed utterance told what wreck had taken place in her once vigorous frame. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

On Stockton Street, we wandered from one fish store to another, looking for the liveliest crabs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered out of the kitchen and into the living room. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Who are you looking for? We’ve seen a few fellas wander down here,” said one of the girls from inside the drained pool. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha wandered through the grove deep in thought. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered off and saw two jaguar cubs. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I wander to the display of Marie Antoinette's private cell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She took me by the hand and we wandered through the bumpy fields in the dark, passing the haunted faces of survivors. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He wandered around the cemetery and sat down on the cement curb of the Williams family plot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosts wandered in the quarter, whispered in the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

White found himself wandering through a wilderness of mirrors—his work more akin to espionage than to criminal investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin and bones, with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion, to fulfill the promise of dying beside his wife. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Scott wanders into the kitchen, opens the fridge and takes a beer out. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After waiting a last nervous few minutes, Ranofer wandered casually from the shop and, once out of sight, ran like a hare. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The rest of us were either putting on the silly robes and towels to make us look like shepherds, or wandering around the stage. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m sure she wouldn’t have wandered down this far,” the steward said. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

About the only audience he could count on was a bearded character everyone called the Mad Russian, who had been wandering Sequim’s streets barefoot and muttering to himself for as long as anyone could remember. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Children wandered the twisty alleys and found eld bronze coins and bits of purple glass and stone flagons with handles carved like snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His house was high in the peaks of the Zuni mountains and he waited for people to wander up to his place. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It also, incidentally, eliminates the possibility of robots, in complete adjustment, wandering off while still on Earth and thus bringing U. S. Robots face to face with the strict laws against robots on Earth. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Right there he took the opportunity to lecture me about why the hens shouldn’t wander away from the safety of the barnyard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered outside onto the balcony, just the two of them, and sat close together in the evening breeze facing west. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Belle had to ring up a few kids buying their after-school junk food, so I wandered around the store. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They didn't want to spend too long inside—we were wandering in and out of shops—but everything was beautiful and I couldn't imagine leaving empty-handed. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, my mistakes, self-doubt, insecurity, and wandering mind left me high and dry. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then Harry’s thoughts wandered back to his mother and father.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Celia wanders past the desk and stops in front of the fireplace, watching the miniature pages turning through time on the clock upon the mantel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One of the birds wandered close to the bottom of the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From what Robbie said, the shadows are spirits wandering around, and then a shadowshaper comes and gives them a form, yeah?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Get back from the canal,” she yells whenever one of us kids wanders too close to the fence behind our house. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy clung to the leg of the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I rode along the Kinshasa Highway as a boy, it was a dusty, unpaved thread that wandered through the Rift Valley toward Lake Victoria, carrying not much traffic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two days they wander around the marble mausoleum that glows gray and yellow and pink and orange depending on the light. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes never wandered out the window to the slushy world beyond. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I thought how we might have wandered in the valley before lunch, and then sat out afterwards under the chestnut tree with books and papers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As Anya understood it, someone could spend several lifetimes wandering the lands to the east. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, Jason had wandered the ruins, crying and alone, calling for his mother and for Thalia - until the wolves came for him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

While I was standing there in the goal waiting for something to happen, my mind started to wander. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear our front door slam shut next door, and I wave to Mom and Penny as they wander over to the porch. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I let my thoughts wander, and my eyes with them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The goal of the Hindu is to free the Atman entirely from the cycle of rebirth, to stop wandering from death to death. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Miss Avocet stayed on, emerging from her torpor now and then to wander the halls, calling out forlornly for her poor abandoned wards before slumping into someone’s arms to be taken back to bed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The morning was spent wandering across the steep hillside with our heads down, my gaze locked on a point about six steps in front of me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But more than a few blocks away, north of the raucous automobile traffic and elevated railway on 86th Street, was a strange unknown territory, off-limits to my wanderings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd come in last night with Conwy, one of the wandering crows who roamed the Seven Kingdoms collecting men for the Wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My dad wandered around to the other side of the car and checked out the view through the driver’s-side window after smudging some frost away with the heel of his hand. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Because for my father, that was the day he began his wanderings in the valley of the shadow of death. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rice wandered about, stared at the prisoners, wandered back, hands behind him, peered at Chamberlain, shook his head. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the leftovers are stored in the fridge and the dishes washed, the four of us wander into Didu's room and spread ourselves across the floor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He let his eye wander cautiously up and across the cabin and there on the other side sat a devilish young man, a dark handsome young man. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baffled and smarting from the snub, C.P. wandered down the street. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the plane flew over the beach, the people down below looked like ants wandering in and out of the water. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She listened to Mister Singer’s radio and wandered around the house thinking about the programs she had heard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The breeze she gets on rainy evenings charms her, and she’s taken a liking to her neighbor’s cat, Chloe, that wanders the halls and is scared of mice. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I went off to wander through the camp in search of a little more bread and a few potatoes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began wandering between the front room and the bathroom, their eyes half-shut, bumping into each other. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point he managed to scavenge meat from a diseased caribou that had wandered into the lake and died. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every mother on both sides of the border warns her children that La Llorona will get them if they wander too close to the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I have wandered for so long without any sense of purpose, and now this ephemeral purpose has been given to me—it feels like it has been given to me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I wandered up and down the streets, I turned bitter and angry. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As I wandered among the stacks, I kept hoping I’d stumble upon him reading about the life of Rimbaud or searching the pages of cooking books for a great lemon meringue pie recipe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I brush wandering strands of hair from my face. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Dawn breaks, and my panicked run turns to a stumble as I wander from alley to alley. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nico and he were wandering along the esplanade when Jason spotted the guy with wings buying an ice cream bar from a street cart. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Following his falcon-flight across the days and winds from Osskil, the shadow might wander or might come straight, there was no telling. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rain has now steadied somewhat, but it is still sufficiently hard as to discourage one from going out and wandering around the village. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the baby had wandered down from the hills, somehow surviving. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When work ended for the day he wandered through the scorching streets, blind and deaf to the spirit of holiday already sweeping the crowds around him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I wander over to one of the lounge chairs, sink cautiously onto the soft leather, and inspect the armrests. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Virgil’s mind had wandered that day as he sat in the uncomfortable chair across from Mr. Linton with his parents on either side of him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was watching the boat, waiting for it to wander, to float out to sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He is becoming more like Apa, only wandering home when he needs sleep or food. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was so used to the wandering attention of his fellow classmates that the phenomenon here thrilled him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Colonel Meecham stood at the back door of the church, his arms crossed, and his mind wandering. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was lost and wandering in that white jungle of cane. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is an altogether different experience to wander through the circus anonymously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A spec four from the first platoon had wandered away from the company and was riding with us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was taken on October 13, 1976, by Frederick A. Murphy, then of the Centers for Disease Control—on the same day that Nurse Mayinga wandered around Kinshasa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered around the store, Dad letting me choose anything I wanted. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He wanders off to talk to other parents. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I liked their readiness to act, but they seemed lost in folly, wandering in a fantasy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started talking—about nothing special—and wandered out of the house together. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze had wandered upward to the body revolving slowly overhead, and he seemed to be lost in thought. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Someone would wander up and ask: “What’s the sound?” and if they liked the answer, they’d sit down on the grass and wait their turn. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bee wandered in, found nothing, and left. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanders into the kitchen attached to his guest wing, where the ceilings are high and the countertops are shiny marble. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the spectators, she noticed, were not of the city: she saw sailors off trading ships, merchants come by caravan, dusty men out of die red waste, wandering soldiers, craftsmen, slavers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was wandering the empty castle, searching for his fa-ther, descending into the crypts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Rabscuttle got separated from the others, and after wandering about for some time, he strayed into the guards’ quarters outside King Darzin’s city; and they caught him and took him up to the King. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A narcotic heaviness still clung deliciously to my limbs and I imagined what fun it would be to wander with her—drowsy, hypnotized—up to Commons in the fading light, the snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frodo wandered round the familiar rooms, and saw the light of the sunset fade on the walls, and shadows creep out of the corners. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wander around the room, looking at the artwork on the walls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Rats wandered in and out of the cells, squeezing their fat bottoms through the bars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know for a fact that is not true,” Tara says, settling into the chair opposite, though her gaze continues to wander around the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His eye wandered, and had no meaning in its wandering: this gave him an odd look, such as I never remembered to have seen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

While Michelangelo walked with the monk to the low-slung buildings of the abbey, the children were set to wander—silently—through the orchard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He thinks, also, that by simply wandering the circus he might improve his chances of happening upon the red-haired girl. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Amanda had resumed her compulsive smoking; her hands shook and her gaze wandered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy stood next to the long dining room table, his head bowed by an overturned chair. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Often, in midconfession, his mind wanders to the next thing he must do for migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The sheep wander in lazy circles, nibbling on the grass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Filthy, dazed, and hungry, they wandered on foot from the train station to Vancouver’s brick downtown in a cold, dismal rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“That road’s not lit. She could wander in front of a car.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I want to travel the world and wander in sand dunes and climb to the top of snowcapped mountains. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

As she listened amused, the others silently stole away and Hera could come to no conclusion as to where Zeus’s wandering fancy had alighted. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while Mackenzie runs herself ragged in game temples, I wander through my neighborhood making random turns, maybe in search of my own boss key. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He was always wandering through the woods, tinkering with a discarded two-stroke engine, chopping wood, or carving a block of wood into an animal head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s where you belong. Don’t wander off or one of them soldiers will shoot you dead.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we did eventually wander outside, I noticed the lamps had come on all the way down the long street, even though the sky wasn’t yet dark. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t see how wandering stars can be holes in a skin. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed how had Gollum kept himself in all his lonely wandering? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Arthur wandered the picnic grounds in bow tie and suspenders, a porkpie hat pulled low over his forehead and the enormous weight of his camera slung from a thick leather thong around his neck. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want your sister to wander off.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The girls wandered over, drawn to the command her beauty bestowed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He found us; maybe he had followed us in his wanderings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered around the East End, jogging slowly, in no hurry now to find 728 Sycamore Street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among these a cunning eye and foot could thread a wandering path. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

An old, close-bitten pasture, with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They wandered in the valley forever; and they smote the rock, forever; and the waters sprang, perpetually, in the perpetual desert. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She tried to explain to them how it worked, but at the first mention of shifts and tilts their attention began to wander. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wandered back to my room and sat on my cot. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked the dirt and huffed and sulked as I wandered aimlessly. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The last time Josiah had seen them, the cattle had been wandering southwest along the boundary between the reservation and state land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That wandering about of things was even more exasperating when she sat down to write. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And why are you unshod? Even an E’lir should have better sense than to wander naked-footed in a place such as this. Your behavior lately has been quite reckless. I am dismayed.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wandered to the tip of the large island and got a surprise. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the tar pits, we wandered around from exhibit to exhibit. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He wandered off to the beer cooler and came back carrying a six-pack of Budweiser. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered over to a tree with deep, bowing branches. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We all got up and wandered through the drawing-room to the hall in great relief, Beatrice and I a little ahead of the men, she taking my arm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered along to the right, past hotels with awnings over brightly lit entrances and bougainvillea flowering beside them, until he came to the gardens on the little headland. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If a vampire wandered by, I’d make his day. No effort required.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And suddenly my attention wandered, and looking at my ancient friend, I saw that his wandered also. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they perform their experiments, which make little sense to my primitive intellect, my mind wanders. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I started to read about it, but then Dad wandered through in his pajamas on the way to the kitchen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand to the ground, and the bug or, rather, Cotinus texana stumbled off and wandered away unconcerned. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We wandered the halls quietly, or my mom would come out and shush us with eyes gigantic like, “Don’t make him angry.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He wandered for ten years before he saw his home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

What little sleep I got was sabotaged by a familiar nightmare, one in which I wander through a stinking, body-strewn battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Zola wanders in and out, he is offlivious to her. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He’d wander a few feet and I would call him and he would bound back, his mouth full of grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alone, he wandered over to the winners’ circle. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She giggled with excitement, although I imagine she said the same thing to every out-of-town attorney who wandered in. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And when she died, her remains were to be burnt in the prison yard, to prevent her spirit from wandering into any young innocent bodies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He wanders absently into a perfume store, a clothing store, a store that sells only bags. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered along these rows, listening to the deep hum of the machines, until I finally reached the center of the temple. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Emily and James wandered through the store, scouting for the best hiding spot. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hate Lolo for wandering off the way he did. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy clutched his rabbit and waved up at us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I am told you have been wandering the castle,” Lord Bolton began. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After hours of wandering, asking for directions and getting conflicting answers, I find the side street where the buses to Yana Urku pass. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words were exactly what made me worry, as I wandered the ghetto beneath moonlight instead of streetlights because the electricity was out, back to the loose place in the barbed wire fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was not a big airport, but the number of people wandering, just wandering, amazed him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But it was evident to all of us that Jocko could not hear himself hailed; that he was wandering already upon the foothills of a country where there are no names. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

That first night, worried about taking my legs off in front of the others, I took my time wandering back from dinner. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Women picketed the schools and plucked out children who had wandered into them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of her website sitting dead and empty, I add: We should write about our wanderings so we have something to show for them besides pictures. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wander down the hall and into the bathroom. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just before we were to reboard the bus, I wandered into the large drawing room dominated by a Hals and a Rubens. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The mother wandered over to another car, began chatting with another family. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We wandered on and found some orégano, and we gathered plenty because this was not only a cure for coughs and fever but a spice my mother used for beans and meat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you must know where my wife is. Vera is not like this at all. She wanders... but always comes back to me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Whatever he was when he wandered away from his family, he is incalculably worse now, damaged beyond repair and probably even recognition. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Their daughters all helped, and the look in their eyes told me how strange it was for them to see a girl wandering after school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

From time to time, a vagrant or a wino would wander through the front door, assuming the house was deserted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly he had learned that he could, occasionally at least, jump from his cage and wander around without incurring any anger or injury. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe in that kind of truth he got lost and wandered off the trail and didn’t come anywhere close to the top of anything. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There would be at least one of the fairy folk wandering around with empty pockets by the time he’d finished. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They were nomads who wandered the countryside without regular work, without families, without masters, and without fear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I would hate to wander in that murky water for the rest of eternity looking for my parents! Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fernanda, however, realized that there was a sun of clairvoyance in the shadows of that wandering, for Úrsula could say without hesitation how much money had been spent in the house during the previous year. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Older brothers and sisters often stood lookout near dens, and parents never let their babies wander far. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I wandered aimlessly, staring at strange face after strange face. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lyra wandered away on her own, and went to the reedy bank to sit and throw mud into the water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If it were summer, I would swim across. I am a very strong swimmer,” he told the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took my place as directed, but Mala wandered over to the piano and sat on the bench, which was now positioned where it belonged. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybeth wandered among the rows, studying the statues of angels and lambs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered over to a big map that was posted between some poles. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know where he could find the judge’s office, so he wandered uncertainly through the building, looking at the placards on the doors. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders, and I picture Will’s reflection in the glass of the NICU, standing just behind me with a daring smile on his face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I let my fingers wander to the waistband of his jeans. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Lithuanians wandered in shock through the rubble of their homes, finding the rumors hard to sift through. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy smiled and gave me a salute. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Kid Sampson, Nately and the others wandered apart in a noiseless eddy of motion and were sucked away into the cloying yellow stillness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The others had been driven off, or had bolted in terror, and were found wandering in different corners of the Bree-land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Normally I’d wait for Otto to wander back, but I was feeling antsy and directionless, so I followed him, ambling after him into the undergrowth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She searched through piles and wandered through racks, pressing back hanger after hanger, until she found a cocktail dress made of a slinky silvery material that matched her eyes, with little chains for straps. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The drone and die sea of green trees that lay before the plane’s nose and flowed to the horizon, spread with lakes, swamps, and wandering streams and rivers. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered about through the salt marshes at the foot of the Common, circling until he came out on Beacon Hill. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are no chained storefronts, traffic jams or pedestrians wandering around wearing Walkman headsets. The Texas League baseball park still has billboards on the outfield fence.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others with gratuitous comments.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Momma’s ghost was lost and wandering because I didn’t send her home the right way. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the evening meal, men would be wandering about some and usually collect by a fire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a wild and free state they...stray sometimes for miles...wandering until they find a suitable environment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children were wandering aimlessly, staring blankly, not yet old enough to grasp what had happened. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Shoshana had wandered over to the piano and was banging notes out with a crab claw in each hand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Back and forth she rocked him, her eyes wandering around his room. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The two rabbits began to wander among the outbuildings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found small pathways among the boulders, wandering tracks both aimless and purposeful, which led toward the grain store, and also in various other directions which he could not understand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, a moment later: “What are you doing here, Tod? Don’t you know it’s rude to wander about in someone else’s credulity?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His first instinct is to panic and scream and wander blindly about. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning I meet The Red Hearts of Limerick and we wander out the road looking for a football challenge. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Having someone to sit with, even Conner and the Maybe-Not-Actually-Morons, for the last ten minutes of lunch was better than wandering around alone. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was on patrol and wandered the building, hoping to find some new thing that would make Miig agree to stay. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Useful skills can always be bartered. You see, your expertise is valuable,” he told the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

While Sherman kept looking through the telescope, I wandered to the edge of the roof and looked out over my little town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But everyone knew someone who had accidentally wandered too far. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The air was full of buzzing and murmuring, and the figures wandering around the parking lot looked as if they had escaped from the dreams of children and not the words of an old man. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wander around the perimeter for a while. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I’d gone wandering earlier and found some willow bark to chew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were so many other trails that wandered off along the way, and me with them. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I wandered into the jungle with the group, staying a ways back and foraging whichever berries and plums and shoots I recognized. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was not inclined to dissuade her mother from wandering far away from the terrace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the cows wander far enough to sniff the odor of lion urine, they know a killer is nearby and run in the opposite direction—right toward the waiting lions. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids wandered around, lost for ten minutes before they ran into a student in plaid flannel pajama bottoms and boots that looked like house slippers. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wander the aisles gawking at all the books. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He and his horse wandered about all day, bumping against branches, getting tangled in blackberry bushes, and rapidly losing their tempers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She instructed him to go back to the campsite if he got bored, not to go wandering about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young boy, perhaps ten, wanders over to ask questions about the meaning of the insignias on his uniform. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wandered among them, entranced by the narrow streets, the iron-grill balconies, the green plants and vines glimpsed in lighted flagstone courtyards. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Blond Policeman wanders to the open door of my room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

No more wandering around town at all times of the day and night. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And be back by the afternoon. Don’t wander too far, either.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Fadi wandered through the stuffed animal shelves, amazed at how lifelike they were. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Slaves carried the practice over with them from Africa as a way to capture and dispose of any haints wandering around.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I just wish Finch and I had pulled together all our wanderings, and maybe documented each one a little better. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Emilia stared at us from above, then quickly pushed the wandering boy into the boat on top of us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Beans and Mutto kept leaving their chairs and wandering around and flopping on furniture. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Movie house has no holes,” said the wandering boy, imitating the deep tone. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“She was abandoned. Someone found her wandering the side of Beach Boulevard.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There are fewer patrons wandering the circus at this hour, and as they walk Bailey notices that many of them are wearing red scarves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As I sat pretending to read the story while Dad watched me, my mind wandered. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was fond and proud of me—it is what no man besides will ever be.—But where am I wandering, and what am I saying, and above all, feeling? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He slipped through a side door and wandered through the hospital for about fifteen minutes until a nurse intercepted him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they wandered off and watched from the stands, whispering behind their hands while I rounded the bases, arms pumping. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After a few days’ reflection, Rindlisbacher hoped, the young man might explain better why he’d wandered across the yellow line—and more than once. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Frightful was not about to join Chup wandering free on wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I looked back down toward the broken lute in my hands, but before my gaze wandered too far he caught my chin again, tilting my face up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I let my eyes wander the sharp planes of his face. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But I wander for hours, and eventually, the light fades and night falls, dropping like a curtain over my eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He hurries out of the thicket and back into the clearing, hoping that his brother had somehow wandered back there without hearing him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gimli was wandering about, tapping the stone here and there with his axe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On and on she wandered in desperation until she reached a bit of land which was floating on the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd around him quickly dwindles to only a few people wandering up and down the pathway. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I should stay here or get up and go home but who wants to be wandering the streets when a guard might ask you what you’re doing out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If one person were to go wandering off, it was important that someone else stay put. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called, wandering around to the barn and in where the horses and the cows stayed dry on days like this. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not. Lana knows that wandering around the mountains looking for us wouldn’t amount to a hill of beans. Better to make a beeline for the one spot that’s most obviously a rendezvous point. Here.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

While I waited for our lunch, I wandered along the store aisles, stocking up for supper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fishermen say the Heike samurai wander the bottoms of the Inland Sea still—in the form of crabs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered off the terrace onto the gravel path between the roses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When someone died without a descendant or proper burial rites, he or she turned into a shave and wandered until a willing host was found. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Connor and I wander around, looking at the crafts, most of which are terrible. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now class was close to starting and people came wandering in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered onto a wider road that led to a river. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Leaving his loot in the suitcase for just a moment, he wandered off to see if he might be able to find one. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As our hypothetical modern visitors wandered through the hurly- burly of construction and deconstruction, they might have felt that despite the commotion something was missing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally they wandered south of downtown, into a plaza surrounded by smaller glass and brick buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I owe him a wander and, actually, a lot more than that. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We walked or, it seemed, wandered for nearly an hour before Simpson called in the chopper to take us back. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s looking at the floor too, wandering from picture to picture and scratching his head. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Years and months had become weak, and people could push against them and wander back and forth in time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wanderings through the crimson twilight had brought them to the neighborhood of Metre 170 on Rack 9. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Exalted Cyclops, a housepainter named Jack Murray, who had immigrated from West Germany, delivered long, wandering diatribes against the Jews, who, he claimed, had destroyed his first country and now were demolishing his second. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Or it might be an hour. I have wandered for some time since. I do not know! I do not know!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Often his thoughts would wander, but he would always bring them back to the imaginary journey, and something about doing this would often make him sleepy. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

He showed up one day with a group of friends—guys and girls—who laughed and cut up in view of the practice field before wandering off to hang out as they pleased. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The speeches were long and formal, and my attention wandered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy pulled up his pant leg to inspect his own tiny knee. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a couple weeks’ worth of hardtack in there, that’s what the boys eat down south on the front, plus pterofeed in case you can’t find any wandering...whatever that thing eats.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Clubs will be out soon, and she’s most likely wandering the halls waiting for us to get out so we can hang out a bit before going home. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Well, I was; and I loved my wife dearly, as I loved my son, my only child, a little boy not yet one year old when I wandered out of my world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spend the afternoon wandering through downtown Athens—past music venues and into vintage clothing shops, where Abby spends her food money on a pair of faux leather ankle boots. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As though he had escaped his everyday life and wandered into another world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before an unfamiliar student wandered close. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t lace getting up, getting dressed, getting onto the train, going into London, wandering the streets. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergio was picked up on Route 32 in downtown Albany, and nobody would say for sure how long he had been wandering. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Hornet let the beam of her light wander across the walls. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same wandering blood in his veins was in his sons. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean that she comes home, goes to her room to change clothes, wanders into the bathroom, picks through mail, and then finally arrives at the refrigerator. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When I did fall asleep I had varied, wandering dreams. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I slid my skateboard under our table and wandered toward the ordering area. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“We’ve wandered too far from civilization, boys. The folk that need me don’t trust me, and the ones that trust me can’t afford me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Most people wander on land between the time they die and the kugadzira ceremony, when their family welcomes them home,” the fisherman explained. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until then, they wandered around the maze of roads in the development, watching the children at evening play. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander around his room in awe, even as I hunt for clues. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nok paced beneath the tree, letting her eyes wander the temple grounds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A few ducks wandered along the muddy shore, in and out of the tall grasses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pigeon wanders out of his room right before lunch, looking sleepy. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were safe, Cecilia was with Leon, and she, Briony, was free to wander in the dark and contemplate her extraordinary day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But I could still see the beast’s attention wander, now that the bright flames were gone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As a sophomore at Permian he was found wandering around the field house parking lot one day drunk. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m jealous of your thoughts tonight. They’re making you a litde kinder than usual, but some way I feel as if they were wandering, as if they were not here with me.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

During high school I used to wander out to the garage from the house to read or just get away after one of the countless arguments I had with my father. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she awoke, she wandered off saying nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one followed me and I wandered the streets amazed at my own action. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pulled myself off the cot and wandered outside, I found the tallest Negro man I’d ever seen working on the truck, bent over the motor, tools scattered around his feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she asks about Mom and where we moved from and all that, and I know they’re going to be a while, so I wander into the living room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Any ambiguity, any tendency to wander from the matter at hand, will introduce grave hazards for the cells, and even more for the host in which they live. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried retracing Harry’s route from the library, wandering around the dark passageways for nearly an hour. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A bevy of guests wanders into the hall from the dining room, sending the cascade of rose petals adrift once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The curator of the dinosaur wing had seen him wandering up the stairs to the second floor. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As Roz wandered through springtime, she saw all the different ways that animals entered the world. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed, and had fallen into the river. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you often wander about like this at night?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A wandering fly parked itself on her nose. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what to do, so I’d make a few lame attempts to pat their hair until they wandered away in disgust. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I began to cut classes, to walk in Golden Gate Park or wander along the shiny counter of the Emporium Department Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were three dark figures driven to wander by the wild sea-blood in their veins. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence listened soberly, his eyes wandering over the magnets, Tesla coils, and vacuum tubes littering the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I entered the maze and wandered around in circles for a few minutes, confused. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He begged, “Do you have work for a poor wandering goblin who has lost everything?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“At least a couple hours. It wandered away a little after the sun came up.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The girl’s started to wander around in circles in the clearing, looking at stuff like it means something to her. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

One night, he wandered over to Mac’s cell and told him that he wanted to enter a newspaper contest that required an essay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my regular, non-British accent I say to Violet, “It’s time to start wandering.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the winter it becomes a torrent, a mean little fierce rivers and in the summer it is a place for children to wade in and for fishermen to wander in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During one practice, Mandela simply wandered off and joined in a pickup soccer game at the far end of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He looked like an impoverished old man, one of those sad wandering souls who travel the provinces hawking their wares from door to door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet wander this way and that until sunset. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Newman wanders over with a plate of rice in her hand. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Once she had wandered half naked to the tram depot before we were able to bring her inside again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Fortunately my parents have wandered out of the room or else I’d be mortified. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But my mind wandered across the Atlantic Ocean back to Sierra Leone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ma’s eyes wandered between the bare knees poking beneath the dress and the device attached to Caroline’s forearm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One night neighbors found me wandering through the trailer park alone and kept me until my mother returned home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Typical targets were women on the edges of society who exhibited odd behaviors such as talking to animals, wandering the countryside at night, or hoarding insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Don't wander off by yourself like you always do." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After contentedly poring over The Tivies, I wandered into the lab to see Francis, unquestionably early, flipping the cardboard base pairs about an imaginary line. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Monet and his friend wandered through the cave, shining their lights on the petrified rain forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dance was in the lounge between the two dorms, and so, when I heard the band start up, I wandered down the stairs to a landing where I could watch, unobserved, the partiers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Once, a horse wandered up to the camp gate. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wander back down the halls to the cafeteria, which has the same fried-food, boiled- vegetable stench as cafeterias everywhere. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, with slow steps, her head down, she wandered about the pillared rooms, laying her hand to things, her lips quivering, until finally she sat alone in the darkening wine room, waiting. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered around a bit, but there wasn’t really much to see. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was loud enough to attract attention and two girls wandered over. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At the day’s end they came to a stream that wandered down from the hills to lose itself in the stagnant marshland, and they went up along its banks while the light lasted. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I push myself off the couch several minutes later, then wander over to my desk and turn on my computer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My horse wandered from the road, and I could not lead him back. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Oh, they wandered into the wrong house all right,” Grandma said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scipio wandered into Victor’s office and sat down on one of the visitor’s chairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out, through the miles and the storm that wetted and shook her window; she reached out with her heart to her friend, wandering wherever he was. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I put one mouse into each trouser-pocket and wandered downstairs in search of a secret spot. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I wandered on, wet and miserable, looking for a place to conceal myself, hoping I might stumble upon the Green Man. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood debating what to do, my eyes wandered about, and fell upon several placards, in red ink, impaled upon a nearby fence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charley did not wander about but sat close and pressed his shoulder against my knee, and he does that only when I am ill, so I suppose I was ill with a kind of sorrow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered back into the yard, sick to my soul. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Lola, Malaya was a young Filipino girl who once wandered into a starving village. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He displayed his wound, told him of his flight that day, how he had rowed across the river with the object of wandering into the town, and how the river had laughed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s okay to wander around without the swoop swoop of your heart rising and falling in your chest and your wings stretching over water if you’ve never had it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were hampered, of course, by the fact that they weren’t allowed to wander off on their own but had to move around the castle in a pack with the other Gryffindors. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He left her and wandered through the darkening camp, dragging the heavy block of cement behind him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a stray dog should be wandering by, or a toucan. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he saw, in this wandering, how far his people had wandered from God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when there was still money, or when I had earned a few dollars waiting table, I'd eat out and wander the streets until late at night. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, travelers sat playing cyvasse in front of an inn, drunken soldiers wandered in and out of what was obviously a brothel, a woman beat a mule outside a stable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z