He clasped his hand as if he were holding a blade, and mimed a thrust. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I fought with the only weapon I had, the sharp cutting blade of a double-bitted ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The protection is little needed; peach palm wood is hard enough that in the Beni it was used for saw blades. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Blackthumb keeps all the blades locked up, I told you that a hundred times. Is this for Lord Leech?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mona did not move; she held the blade lightly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was always too careless with the blade, and scraped the back of my neck, or nicked my ear. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She kept a razor blade at the office and cut out poems and stories she liked for her scrapbooks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia ponders the lump on her son’s neck and the curious scar on his back, a pulpy line just below his left shoulder blade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade never emerged from the cupboard, newspapers were not spread on the floor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I rolled to one side as Ares’s blade slashed the sand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He knocked aside Chiron’s blade and yelled, “RACKl” A blinding white light exploded between the Titan and the centaur. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But I was holding my Swiss Army knife with the saw blade out in case he grabbed me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Windmills stood motionless, their galvanized steel blades shimmering in the sun. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The blade had a bit of rust on it, but that would only make it nastier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I took my jackknife out of my pocket and pulled the blade open. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A tiny smudge of blood came from the place where the blade touched the skin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was bent over an anvil, hammering a red-hot sword blade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where you might be able to find her. Careful boy, that one will steal your heart. Men fall for her like wheat before a sickle blade.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He caught her eye, and with a twisted smile, kissed the blade of his knife. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Where the blade had been, up from the small slash in the fabric, blood pulsed in arterial spurts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then she threw with her left hand, and fought her whoop of triumph as the blade sank into the handle of another dagger. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then the woman was attacking, slashing, stabbing, Archer just barely evading the seeking blade. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So Sun Man knew what to do: He took the flint blade and he cut out the Gambler’s eyes He threw them into the south sky and they became the horizon stars of autumn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since then Arya had taken to walking around with her cloak draped over her right arm, to conceal the blade at her hip. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I massaged her lower back, reaching under the shirt to knead her shoulder blades. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One swing of the cutting blade could lop off her head if she got sassy or too close, and it would be her own fault. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thin fingers of smoke rose from hundreds of cookfires, mailed men sat under trees and honed their blades, and familiar banners fluttered from staffs thrust into the muddy ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He took the blade away from her neck. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was most unusual, with a gold-washed blade and red dragons curled around the handle. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tried the point and the blade again and again on his callused thumb-ball, and at last he tried it on his upper lip. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Rimas slung the canvas over her shoulder and we dragged along, our hands cramped, still locked on to the shovel blades we had gripped for nearly twelve hours. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Light through the open transom fell on the ceiling fan, casting distorted shadows of the four motionless blades against the opposite wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wound itself was burned black as if the iron had scorched Elowen’s flesh, and Kaede had to swallow her nausea as she wiped the blade on the very edge of Elowen’s ermine cloak. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All around him beads of water sparkled as blades of sunlight struck through them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Each flower and blade of grass was decked out in jeweled pendantry with necklaces of sparkling raindrops. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He yelled an angry battle cry and charged me, but I parried his blade and backed away, letting him come after me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then, one by one, they realized that they couldn’t hear anything at all except for the gentle murmur of their blades dipping into and out of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

‘I have a sword,’ said Merry, climbing from his seat, and drawing from its black sheath his small bright blade. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Gerris Drinkwater was standing over them with sword in hand, but he had dropped the blade the moment the locusts had appeared. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"A fine blade like that will not have gone unnoticed." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One hand clutched a tall pike, the head of which bore a sharp point and a fearsome curved blade. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

One of them held a purple banner with the blade scythe design. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He rose to his feet, letting the blade fall to the stone floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her jagged blade suddenly felt ice cold in her hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On Sundays After Mass, After the car Is washed And the lawn cut — blades Of grass standing up In salute — we go To the park. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It lifted my sleeping bag right off the ground and up into the blades. It was totally shredded.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Down the center of the blade ran a blood channel, either side of which there were symbols which Matthias could not make out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Watching how the blade moves, I can see before it arrives. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The blades chomped, growling as they snapped up and down—a warning, I thought, like a dog’s snarl, to get the hell away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If he broke the blade again, it would be the end. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could almost feel the blade fighting'against itself, like two opposing magnets bound together. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

My toes clutch the tiny blades, revel in the softness and the damp earth beneath my feet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A walk of broken random flags, speared by fresh coarse blades of grass, led to the broken stoop. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blades spun back and forth, glittering in the restaurant’s torchlight. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A knee drove between my shoulder blades, pushing me to the ground. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Methuselah tapped the basket sharply with the blade of the dagger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bridget reached in and pulled a blade of grass from his forehead. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He took it down and drew his blade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The stripling had been stronger than he looked; his blade bit through die lobstered steel of the captain’s gauntlet and the padded glove beneath into the meat of his palm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No tree, not even a blade of grass grew on it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even count this one, really—a tidy, wicked little blade. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Good steel it was, with a wicked gleam to both blades; Ebben was never a man to neglect his weapons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Immediately, the blade flickered, showing the dark shape of the giant Clytius moving through a corridor, snuffing out torches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As we got closer to the house, sweat trickled between my shoulder blades and chilled in the evening air. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The blade slashed through three of his four chins in a spray of bright red blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I would pull out the grass in my garden by hand when the first little blades came up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press one hand between his shoulder blades and curl the other one around the back of his neck. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“On the little creatures that live here. The beetle blades.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He agonizes, and ponders, and talks to himself until he’s stabbed by a poisoned blade, and all his tormented self-analysis gives way to eternal silence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Tiny buds stood on the heads of blades of grass all over the fields. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Impressive aim. The knife is one of a pair, correct? See this pattern painted on the bottom of the blade? It cuts off abruptly.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She adjusted her dagger, and for a moment Piper thought about her own blade, Katoptris, which was now locked in her hope chest in her cabin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She pulled blades of grass from their sheaths and ate the sweet ends. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The blade wasn’t more than a centimetre long, very small, very sharp and very shiny. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids running down the aisle with hatchets and axes and saw blades. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had said she’d seen this park in the blade of her knife, but she wouldn’t elaborate. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With the hammer head he knocked off the excess shell, and with the blade at the other end he struck off the small oysters. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single blade was as long as the wings of an airliner. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A startled linnet fled from the whirling blades towards the rose-garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because the arms were curved, they turned the earth away from the blade, which both reduced friction and more effectively plowed the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well then, I guess it’s all right. You know what they say: ‘Have not a hand in the blade with abandon.’” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Do not reveal your skill with a blade. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their wings sprang from their shoulder blades, and their backs and chests were deeply muscled. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the hilt of the sword sinking into her shoulder blade. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He finishes plucking the last of the parsley leaves, watches as Donald grabs a knife and chops them, expertly and swiftly, a hand held flat over the top of the blade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except there’s something stiff and pokey between my shoulder blades, in that exact spot you can never quite scratch. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She surged forward, her arm coming down again and again, twisting and turning, loving the smooth ache within her shoulder as the blade slammed against his. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Gritting my teeth, I wedge the flat of my knife blade under the disc and force it up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I start to make a joke about changing my number, when Mom's voice cuts so roughly into the phone that I feel like I've been stabbed with a rusty, jagged blade. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A blood gutter, Billy learned, was the shallow groove in the side of the blade of a sword or bayonet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to straighten my back under the weight of his gaze, but it felt like he had taken two fists and dug the knuckles deep between my shoulder blades. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I quickly tucked my face into his shoulder blade, under my own arm, and squeezed my eyes shut. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Don’t ask me where she found the strength, but she stepped in closer for leverage, their blades crossed, and for a moment she stood face-to-face with the Titan lord, holding him at a standstill. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Odysseus, the great tactician, answered: “My hand, friend; may the gods award you fortune. I hope no pressing need comes on you ever for this fine blade you give me in amends.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire room is in chaos, but I see the action as if through the blades of a whirring fan. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I thrust the knife toward my thigh, and the blade bends. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pet reached into its chest and picked out the razor blades that Bitter had embedded in the canvas, dropping them to the floor in tiny clatters. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Arya gave him a whap on the arm with the flat of her blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He knew he would not be much use in a fight, but even so the blade felt good in his hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The forklift king actually showed up for work the previous weekend and had sailed the blades through a stack of Apple boxes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His mech is flying, his metal blade wings beating so hard that they form a whirlpool in the lake’s water. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d disappear from my hands, and I’d look around for him, getting panicked, until I’d hear a telltale raspy laugh and find him dangling from a ceiling fan, revolving on one of the blades. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I got Dad his knife with the carved bone handle and the blade of blue German steel, and he gave me a pipe wrench, and we went looking for Demon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the operator threw a gear and the car was squeezed out, metallic toothpaste being chopped up by a hidden blade. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was even worse than Ria; every time I saw him, I knew he was half a second from lunging out at me with a razor blade. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they attach razor blades to the sides of the kites and in a war of all against all try to cut each other’s strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My arms tremble as I hold the scythe up in the ready position: vicious curved blade pointing down, body-length handle at an angle across my chest. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In front of him, he saw the snarling face with its crimson brand, the arm uplifted to throw the blade. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A second less and the trenchant blade had shorne through his heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The blade does the job, her body falling on the shambler side of the wall, her head tumbling the other way. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mary felt the weight of responsibility like a heavy hand between her shoulder blades, but made herself sit up lightly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The blade was engraved with a delicate silver tracery of a mountain sky; its pommel was a falcon's head, its cross-guard fashioned into the shape of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The quinceañera hangs over me like the blade of a guillotine. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Blunt blades slip fierce easy. She'll be back soon, will she?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was so hot she burned her lips and had to quickly press the cold blade of a knife to her mouth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The second piece of the blade was heating, too, and Lyra’s leafy branch sent the hot gas along to bathe both pieces in its flow and keep out the iron-eating air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a mere flick of Balekin’s blade, an almost nonchalant gesture. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before many of his warriors could follow, Hazel pointed her blade at the nearest tunnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When the blades met, there was no ring of metal on metal; only a high, thin sound at the edge of hearing, like an animal screaming in pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They rowed in a much smaller shell, just fifty-two feet long, with short oars and small blades, all designed to accommodate their smaller bodies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I stayed well out in the lake, rowing awhile, then resting and holding the oars so that the wind struck the blades. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As it entered his stomach, the sharp blade had sunk to the eye of the double-bitted ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way it works is, you shove cotton into the seam between the plank and the keel with a caulking iron, which is like a dull chisel with a wide blade. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He slammed his blade into the ground, then dumped out another shovelful of dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She counted every blade of grass in the back yard and every leaf on a certain bush. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It seems we must proceed on foot, Mister Xuan. Run if you like, but expect a sharp and fatal pain between your shoulder blades.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had cut the palm of my left hand on a dull blade at breakfast. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And behold! there lay his weapon, but the blade was smoking like a dry branch that has been thrust in a fire; and as he watched it, it writhed and withered and was consumed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I reach slowly for the rag again, scoop up sand, press it against the sword blade and give it a stroke. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The blade was hot when she wiped it carefully dry with a clean cloth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I think it’s part of the ceremony—until he draws a long, thin blade, one I recognize from his horrible duel with Cardan. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The blade’s tip has a life of its own. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He especially couldn’t see how battling the magistrate wore Mama down the same way fat wore the edge off a blade. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The pain in his belly; a piece of bread; the blood and the screaming; O’Brien; Julia; the razor blade. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He stuck his blade into the tail end of the fish and cut up to its head, letting the blood drip onto Emmett’s chest and face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sitting cross-legged, sunlight and shadows of pomegranate leaves dancing on his face, Hassan absently plucked blades of grass from the ground as I read him stories he couldn’t read for himself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why am I so stupid? Incidentally, you just put a new razor blade in yesterday.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Climbing along the blade of the summit ridge, sucking gas into my ragged lungs, I enjoyed a strange, unwarranted sense of calm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was heavy enough to kill with a single blow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He saw the girl trying to cut Peaches and he ran out and knocked the blade from the girl’s hand. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn heard the knight groan as the sellsword lifted his blade with both hancls and drove it down and in with all his weight behind it, under the arm and through the ribs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The blade sparked harmlessly off the dog collar. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The blade touched Khione’s chest, and the goddess exploded in a miniature blizzard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The paring knife she uses is worn so thin its blade is barely more than a crescent moon sliver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint jingle of harness, the whisper of a blade drawn from its sheath. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Redfern seems to be as much in shock as everyone else, so I grab his blade without waiting for permission. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The terrible ghosts of impossible-to-forget toys clustered on the blades of the ceiling fan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man gasped and stumbled aside, the blade having missed him completely. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I worried about not cutting hard enough, but the blade was sharp and sliced easily through the white feathers covering the bird’s neck. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"You can use this. After tonight, you'll earn a blade of your own. I got it waiting for you at my place." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He lowered his blade and said, “As my lord commands. But after I deliver you the head of Stannis Baratheon, I mean to finish hacking off Lord Lard’s.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I felt a breath of wind catch the hem of my cloak and curl underneath to cool the sweat between my shoulder blades. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That wall of blade stone? That was pretty impressive. If Kronos didn’t know who you were before, he does now— a child of the Underworld.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Think of this plank as a boat. You’re steering the plank so the blade stays on that side of the line.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later he emerges with a beautifully decorated scim—the same blade he used to scare the ghuls away the day I met him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The arakhs shivered together faster than Dany could follow, one man missed a step, the other swung his blade in a flat arc. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Samuel scraped the edge of the blade with his pocketknife and inspected the scrapings in the palm of his hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blades were for them, though so far the blind girl had not been forced to use them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as I heard the coach say “Fence,” I made two advances with my blade extended, immediately followed by two quick retreats. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he could see little or nothing; but the smells of dew and elder bloom were unchanged and his nose brushed against cool grass blades. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jumped and they reached and the blades glinted in the sun. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The razor blade slid back into the woman’s voice. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And then, as if someone else were holding his hand, he raised the straight razor, placed it, blade open, against his throat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The stool he let fly hit the man’s right shoulder on the packed muscle under the shoulder blade— like solid rock, for all the effect one saw. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lost feet and hands to the blades of axes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

A little deeper and the blade would have pierced the apex of the heart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Black blood dripped from the blade, and the lips of Queen Elena were set in a feral snarl as she lifted her sword. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I felt the cold of the blade before I saw it, and sensed the blood even before I glimpsed the red streak staining my palm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She gives me a mischievous look, takes the blade, and runs it quickly across her arm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I took out my pen and uncapped it The bronze blade of Riptide elongated in my hand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He stooped and drew out of a tussock, into which some heavy foot had trampled it, a short jagged blade. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Quickly he reached down and severed it with the small blade. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Gitano only looked at him with resentful eyes, and he picked up the fallen deerskin and firmly wrapped the beautiful blade in it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took hours and many razor blades before my pate felt smooth to my hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corners of the room, dozens of yellow- spruce oars stood on end, each ten to twelve feet long and tipped with a white blade. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She dispatched them with two quick thrusts of her blades. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then he tried a blade of grass, a pine cone chip; there was no way to throw something—anything— into that water and not catch a trout. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was not the only weapon used by knights in armour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai floated it softly into the dark valley of his shoulder blades and as soon as it touched skin, she slipped into his dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As the wolves retreated, Shae left the path to ride back toward Con and Pol, her blade dark with blood from the wolves that had left the fallen packhorse to find new prey. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look very special, just a triangular blade with an unadorned hilt, but it had once been owned by Helen of Troy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She cut off an inch and hurried back inside, brushing the soil off of it and the knife blade. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And whomp, she’d bring down the blade, and that fish head would go flying. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He worked the blade lever-wise and the closing muscle parted and the shell fell apart. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a knife in her handbag with a lot of different attachments, and she pulled out a blade and dug it under the lid. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One was slim and elegant, with a pointed beard, a bravo’s blade, and a slashed pink doublet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blade slipped between the ribs, up to the hilt. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Doubtless Lord Mormont would find someone more worthy of the blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Father jerked his sword free from the man’s back and wiped the blade carefully on the shirt of the dead man. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of us had any idea how we were going to count blades of grass. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“The hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap. Maybe we could find this cursed blade and destroy it. Sounds like Kronos's scythe, right?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he and Mags pull blades of the sharp grass that grows in five-foot-high tufts and begin to weave them together into mats. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the blade sawing through the stiffened linen, only inches above his throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I reach down and pluck a blade of grass. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The bronze giant reached behind her back, pulled out a giant spear with a broad-leaved blade the size of a windshield, and leveled it at us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I ride on my daddy’s shoulders, dandng high in the night, with my feet tucked back under my father’s arms, holding to his shoulder blades. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her voice trailed off, she feared he might kill her, but after a moment the Hound took the blade from her throat, never speaking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Spidery arms gently rake through the bed in advance of the blade, scaring off any mice that might find their way into the salad. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He parried, but the next attack didn’t come from her blade. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth parried away a stinger with the flat of her blade. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He jabbed the blade of the knife into the wood, pulled it out, and jabbed it in again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The wiper blades, on a slow speed, gently pulled me out of my thoughts and into the car. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I was itching to uncap Riptide, but even if I did, the blade wouldn’t hurt humans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was two feet from the crow’s nest when he felt a hot blade of pain sear through the flesh of his thigh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"How many times must I swear to that? Lady Stark, whatever you may believe of me, I am not a stupid man. Only a fool would arm a common footpad with his own blade." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No simple blade or blow could kill him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The spheres grew spikes in midair, like helicopter blades, and hurtled away into the fog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With a flick of his blade, he severed its string, then lifted his fallen purse with the point of the sword. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stay focused on the movement of the PSF’s shoulder blades beneath his black uniform, but it was difficult when most of the curtains had been left open for anyone to peer inside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then, on the way home, two of the Lady Tigros went after Peaches and one of them had a razor blade. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dazed, the dwarf knelt and lifted the blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Three fullers were deeply incised in the blade. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I remembered the man, his blade pressed to my neck, Amil yelling, Papa arriving just in time, and coming here. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He draws a blade, clearly no longer interested in playing politics. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was motionless, still aware of the blade against his skin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The blade was no longer pressing into her skin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Together they worked in a stale little infirmary where Mr. Kapasi’s smartly tailored clothes clung to him in the heat, in spite of the blackened blades of a ceiling fan churning over their heads. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His face reddened with anger and shame, and he swung his blade at me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood absolutely still, trying to hold my neck back from the blade’s edge. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Once it's down I use a mule kick against the curved edge to force the blade through. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Farther away this time, though still emphatically, there sounded another snap! that stabbed like a steel-tipped arrow driven from a hundred-pound bow into that part of Herbie’s spine located between his shoulder blades. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She forced herself to look at the blade again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cole fingered blades of grass under his left hand, then broke off a few and brought them to his bps. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One sign from Hazel, and Percy was ready to bust out Riptide and see how Octavian liked being at the other end of a blade. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The two men kept rolling; broken blades of grass clung to their clothes like green lint. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to kill you,” I say, nestling the blade into his neck. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Against the Serric steel of a Martial blade, the knife will only shatter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She headed back toward the living room, wobbling slightly on her wedge heels, and through the sliding-glass door Pearl watched Trip poke a redheaded girl between the shoulder blades with his plastic pitchfork. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wounded badger had seized the blade regardless of its keen edge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Today Rowan was working with two blades—daggers in each hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

On the tip of the wire was a tiny scorched blade. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She sheathed her blade and patted her cornucopia. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He pulled it free and studied the blade. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I cling to the top rail, panting like a dog around the sides of the blade. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The second, also dark, probably Spanish, was as erect and slender as the blade of steel that was attached to his side. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We are instructed in the finer points of the harp and the lute, the bow and the blade. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Mazen says nothing, I dig the blade in deeper, drawing out a thin line of blood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I hit his sword hilt and knocked the blade out of his hand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He unsheathed his Stygian iron blade and approached the archway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I put the blade back in the box, and the box back in the bag and press my hand against the wet cuts until the credits roll. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It looked like a blurry part of the ground, like a puff of fir needles and leaves and grass blades. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In another he saw an old woman who had been slowly dying for the past four years, whose shoulder blades were jutting through the open wounds in her back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught the hilt of his sword in midair, its sheath sliding away, its blade gleaming. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It had a ten-inch blade that was triangular in cross section. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone bright on the edges of their blades, and sharp on the points of their terrible hooks, and luminous on their eyes, which were wide with horror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His gold blade cut through the tendrils with no problem, but faster than he could sever them, more took their place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I could go around on all fours like a cow and eat every blade of grass in the field!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He worked his way onto the small platform and avoiding the cranking, spinning blades he grabbed the loose wire. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is too good for that oaf, and you tell him I said so," he said as he gave her the blade. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I need a whetstone, to sharpen a blade with. The finest we have here. And I wish to have the auger, the drill, called Rati.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I press my hands just below his shoulder blades and squeeze him close. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now nothing was left hanging to the pole but the frazzled ends of the snapped blades. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nergal thrust his spear at me, and I twisted right before it went through my shoulder blades. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I ran across the room and pulled out the dresser drawer and got my pack of razor blades; I opened it and took a thin blade of blue steel in each hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Cold," said Renly in a small puzzled voice, a heart-beat before the steel of his gorget parted like cheesecloth beneath the shadow of a blade that was not there. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Why did you glean that man today without warning? Didn’t he deserve at least a moment of understanding before your blade?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, fine,” he says, annoyed, trying to push my blade away. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Keep an eye on us with the blade,” she suggested. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That stupid gladius blade had pierced him all the way through. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas had charged thirty or forty feet into the woods, dodging and ducking and losing ground with every second, when the beetle blade jumped onto a particularly large tree and scooted up its trunk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Herold dipped the blades of the oars deep and pulled hard. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hacked down at Rattleshirt’s calf, only to have him deftly leap the blade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined this was similar—only she was moving a thousand times faster, and the grass blades weren’t adoring fans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Olyvar Frey offered it up hilt first, and her son drew the blade and laid it bare across his knees, a threat plain for all to see. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had tucked the blade in the folds of her skirt. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He felt through the handles till he came to one that wasn’t too long to conceal, whose blade came to a point and not a rounded end. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He insists it sharpens the mind the way a whetstone sharpens a blade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rathbone saw what Booth had clenched in his fist: a large, shiny knife, its blade pointed directly down at him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt around in the darkness, but the blade must have slipped down somewhere because I couldn’t find it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden blade caught her high in the breast, a sudden stinging blow that hurt all the more because it came from the wrong side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All the while, his eyes stayed riveted on the beetle blade scuttling across the forest floor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Rusty earth sluiced round the blades of the plow. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He turned the knife in his hand, both of them watching as light glinted off the shiny blade. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If questioned, he could plausibly say that he was trying to buy razor blades. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh. I do,” Velia said, reaching into her pocket and unfolding a blade out of a complicated gadget that looked like twenty tiny tools in one. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Believe me, there are no apples on my desk, and even if there were, they’d probably have razor blades in them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stare daggers into Mom’s back, wishing they were real blades. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But this ain’t my first waltz, and I keep moving through the pack, letting my blades do the work. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I’m halfway there when I feel the pain twixt my shoulder blades. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In his hand he holds a machete—blade bitten from who knows what terrible deeds—which gleams with the light of the stars. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The candlelight illuminated the world: every tree and bush and blade of grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I beat his blade aside and, from long habit, replied with a thrust. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she felt a quick tug in her fingers, like a bite on a fishing line, and Jason’s blade flew out of the water and into her hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He stretched out a hand and pulled the sharp blade from the elf’s body, then dragged off his own jacket and covered Dobby in it like a blanket. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a gash about six inches long running from his shoulder blade to below his ribs. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they looked up, Their faces would be green With blades of grass. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya looked past him, and saw steel shadows running through the holdfast, firelight shining off mail and blades, and she knew that they'd gotten over the wall somewhere, or broken through at the postern. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He drew his sword—a short blade made of solid black metal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the Griever rolled, it made the metallic whirring sound, like the spinning blade of a saw. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Like the rusty blade through her heart she felt it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pima’s mother picked up a blade of rusted metal and held it in front of his face. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders’ webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a good throw, and the blade goes end over end between the heads of the dinner guests before lodging squarely in the temple of the shambler. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The family seems to possess every piece of the landscape, not only the house itself but every tree and blade of grass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the faint grating of the mercenary’s finger bones grinding against the bare edges of the blade. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s what a mouse must feel, she thinks, as it steps from its hole into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After Pearl had begun to snore softly, Mia kept her hand in place, as if she were a sculptor shaping Pearl’s shoulder blades. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She helped the star over to a long wooden table, at the head of which were laid a cleaver and a knife, both of them with hilts of bone and blades of dark glass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old man wiped the blade of his knife and laid down the oar. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In utter silence the brilliant silver blade shot down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘Draw your blades, and stand back to back!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

William raised his hand to protect himself—and the blade bit into his forearm. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Our blades clashed in a shower of sparks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Holy goats,” Valley said, mouth agape as she stared at the blades. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Its blade, narrow and shiny, looked terribly sharp held against Mo’s throat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I used to curl up my tongue in front of the mirror and tauten my frenum into a white line, itself as thin as a razor blade. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the watchers craned their necks upward, the cutpurses squirmed through the press, small blades hidden in their palms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She stops when she reaches a dartboard with a silver knife embedded in the patterned cork, its blade marred with dark stains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as the blade connected with her neck, she screamed and exploded into dust. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

All of the jurors examined the purse, the blood-stained knife, the blackened hatchet blade, the Communist pamphlets, the rum bottle, the trunk, and the signed confession. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the Barrel, a blade this sharp was known as kind steel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was the only blade I really feared. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was probably just an animal, maybe another beetle blade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

‘You told me you’d seen some stuff in your dagger blade?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her own voice sounded wild and crazed to her, but the words poured out in a rush as the blades continued to clash behind her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As I raised my blade, the avatar spoke. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Eyes are only dull blades, but hands are as sharp as broken glass. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He thought he’d seen it before, back in the Glade when the beetle blade had scooted past him and into the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The agony in her voice cuts through Marco like every blade in Chandresh’s collection combined, but he keeps his attention on the contortionist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, replicants look and act so much like real humans that the only way a blade runner can spot one is by using a polygraph-like device called a Voight-Kampff machine to test them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

You have to hold it like this to release the blade. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hades drew his sword, a double-edged Stygian blade etched with silver. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He bends, and I put my arms around his neck, burying my face between his shoulder blades. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few years before, his father had made him kill a goat, to show him the method of the knife, to show how a blade pierced flesh and snagged on tendons. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait till you see this'.” Deftly he snapped open the blade on his pocket knife, cut the cords holding the suitcase together, and the two halves fell open. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was breathing fast, scared and panicky, her eyes going from the blade to him and back again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later, in the apartment, she pulled the blade out of the cupboard, spread newspapers across the carpet, and inspected her treasures. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The two boats churned up the lake for almost a quarter of a mile, locked together in that configuration— Washington’s white blades glinting in the sunlight, Cal’s flashing shards of blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He could feel her breasts against his shoulder blades, her feet by his feet, her stomach against his back. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson still didn’t flinch; he just continued to stare out the window at the flickering white blades on the water, chewing his gum. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were wasplike, thorax and abdomen joined in narrow waists, wings like blades, and stingers longer than a child’s arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He’ll try to provoke you. Don’t get angry. Focus only on his blade, and that unprotected side of his.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Displayed atop its stand, the blade shone in the moonlight—the metal still gleaming after a thousand years. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The scim in his hand tips into the mud as he peers down at the blade emerging from his chest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Its triangular blade and blood gutters on all three faces. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a doorway, I catch a glimpse of Gale, stripped to the waist, perspiration streaming down his face as a doctor removes something from under his shoulder blade with a long pair of tweezers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

High-Tech produced a bar of green soap and lathered Ugwu’s head and shaved it with a razor blade until it was smooth and soft to the touch. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Renault was retreating, each swing of Cain’s blade taking him closer and closer to the line of chalk that had been drawn on the ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His fingers toyed with the hilt of his borrowed blade, though Dany knew he had never used a sword in earnest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He heard the blade of a shovel strike pebbles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rowan pulled out his blades and looked at them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And right when the Life Swallowers drop the blade from its frame, I shut down. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"You don't have to worry about that, sonofabitch, pull your switch blade!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He forced himself not to swing his blades. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It had been tied to the rafter with bear-grass blades braided together for string. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His blade swept over her head in a glowing bronze arc. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With a flick of his blade, faster than Percy could follow, he smacked Riptide out of Percy’s hand and sent it flying into the sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Above his right shoulder the stained leather hilt of the blade strapped to his back was visible,- a two- handed greatsword, too long to be worn at his side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Papi turns around from the onion he’s chopping and points at me with the blade. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All around, tall stalks of cane were weaving and dancing to the rattling rhythm of their knife-edged blades. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riptide’s blade was buried to the hilt in his ribs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If we sailed any closer, those rocks would shred our hull like blender blades. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They would picnic in the park and the baby would roll in the grass and laugh when the blades tickled his feet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pa and Uncle Henry carried the cradles by their long, curved handles, and swung the blades into the standing oats. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In answer, there was an ominous hiss, slick as a blade. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Over the yelling and clashing of blades, Jason couldn’t hear the words. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

An image of blood gleaming on the metal blade in the glare of the furnace came before his eyes and fear rose in him hotly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lunged at the thing that used to be Luke, thrusting my blade straight at his chest, but his skin deflected the blow like he was made of pure steel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then Goddard took the samurai blade from him and handed him a nasty-looking hunting knife instead, for a more intimate delivery of death. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, the rat let out a gasp and pawed at the blade that jutted through its throat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blade itself was a good half foot longer than those Jon was used to, tapered to thrust as well as slash, with three fullers deeply incised in the metal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Its blade glinted with an evil gray-and-gold light where the human steel had been melded with celestial bronze. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She flicked the blade into a round leather sheath and headed for the back door. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His shovel was short and had a rectangular blade, unlike the five-foot shovels with pointed blades he had used when he was at Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He tossed her one of the wooden blades. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She lowered the blade back to my throat, and I slowly drew Miss Peregrine’s letter and photo from my jacket, holding it for her to see. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The tiny golden cup, skewered by the handle on the sword’s blade, was flung into the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He looked at Sting, and the blade was dull. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stabbed his black blade into the floor, and it cleaved through the stone like butter. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Flung across the sky, the sound pierced Taran’s breast like a cold blade of terror. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the white blade of his oar entered the black water, it merely murmured. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He and his friends were into old weapons and would spend lots of time talking about “material culture” and sketching ideas for fantastical blades. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Stupid trees,” Tally muttered, gritting her teeth as she plunged the blade down again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Enrique didn’t exactly get a mountain of stuff either, unless a four-pack of deodorant and a new Gillette razor along with a bunch of replacement blades counted. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It sometimes seems like grass farmers need to know personally every single blade of grass on their farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Up close, his lightning bolt appeared as a bronze rod a metre long, pointed on both ends, with blades of energy extending from both sides to form a javelin of white electricity. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had her doing all sorts of activities: walking on her hands, juggling blades...It wasn’t anything new, but it was unpleasant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Carefully he pulled it down, tied the loose ends and put the brake on the turning blades. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archer traced her hand with his own, trailing his fingertips along the soft blades of her fingers until they were laced with his. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Laila watched its wings catch glints of sunlight as it buzzed from one blade of grass to another. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Out in the centre of the ring Romero profiled in front of the bull, drew the sword out from the folds of the muleta, rose on his toes, and sighted along the blade. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t really have to get that close or as high, all he had to do was get his kite with its blade edges to brush up against the string of the other kite. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I want to smell his neck, bury my face in that broad, muscular gap between his shoulder blades. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes staring into his with that confusion, that hurt, cut into him like a blade. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The man dared not move a step to his right lest this crushing blade split him open. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I cross my arms and use a blade on each side of the neck and pull the metal through. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I tear the blades of grass out of the gutter and stand up to leave. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The blade stops about an inch from the 8TH JUROR’S chest. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dodge and turn, but he expects the blow, and I have to stumble inelegantly back, blocking yet another heavy chop of his blade. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A field of elephant grass weighted with wind, bowing under the stir of a helicopter’s blades, the grass dark and servile, bending low, but then rising straight again when the chopper went away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not reveal your skill with a blade,” he says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A cradle was a sharp steel blade fastened to a framework of wooden slats that caught and held the stalks of grain when the blade cut them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gem-covered blade was sharp enough to cut through a mountain, legend said, and only the Ravenskill Gran, as the eldest of all the Twelve Towns leaders, could use it safely. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He grasped the blade be-tween thumb and forefinger, drew it back over his shoul-der, and threw it across the room with a practiced flick of his wrist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t even look in the direction he’s thrusting, but his blade pierces Elowyn’s throat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Belet plucked a hair and drew it over the blade's edge, slicing it neatly in two. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We both lie down on our backs and my shoulder blades sink into the mat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last it slowed to a stop, the blade pointed at Littlefinger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I slid the silver blade under the flap on the back of the envelope. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was using Etienne’s pocketknife to tighten up screws attaching a cable that lifted the blade, to make sure it would fall cleanly. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They had drawn up for a last desperate fight, blades in hand and backs to the rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘Not alone!’ said Gimli, fingering the blade of his axe, and looking darkly up at the guard, as if he were a young tree that Gimli had a mind to fell. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The sellsword stepped left again, away from the shield, and caught Ser Vardis across the stomach, the razor edge of his blade leaving a bright gash when it bit into the knight's plate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He hid the whetstone, so they had to hunt for it when the blades needed sharpening. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I can put the blade on the tractor. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"That is not the way, boy. This is not a greatsword that is needing two hands to swing it. You will take the blade in one hand." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"I was heir to my father's blade once," he said mournfully. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He raised the sword and brought it down upon the dead man, grunting as the blade sheared through wet wool and rusted mail and rotted leather, biting deep into the bones and flesh beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I too made him gifts: a good bronze blade, a cloak with lining and a broidered shirt, and sent him off in his trim ship with honor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Con ran his hand over the edge of the blade, turning the dagger around. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I watched, he picked a blade of grass, poked it into a tunnel in the mound, and then withdrew it. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts retreated with a collective hiss at the sight of my celestial bronze blade. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I ain’t partial to swords—the time on the reverse is too long if you miscalculate your swing—but it’s better than a couple of rusty gardening blades. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Char grabs hold of my shoulder blade and squeezes till my knees get weak. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He puts the edge of the blade to her throat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was buttons, sometimes it was dam- ing wool, sometimes it was shoelaces; at present it was razor blades. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In half a second, I held a shimmering bronze sword with a double-edged blade, a leather-wrapped grip, and a flat hilt riveted with gold studs. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Wab gathered her long bleached hair into a ponytail, looked us over once with her small, dark eyes, and then set about skinning the animals on a flat rock with her beloved blade. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

With the small blade, he avoided the risk of burning himself out and losing his form. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Light rippled up and down the blade, now red, now yellow, now orange, painting the king’s face in harsh, bright hues. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She fed some wood chips to the brazier on the afterdeck, stirred the coals with a blackened blade, and began to knead the dough for the morning biscuits. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She makes no sound as one of the knights—the redcap knight with the slashed shoulder—beheads her with a single swift and brutal strike of her blade. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was red-hot, and a puff of smoke rose from what I guessed was a little scrap of human tissue that had been stuck on the blade from her last operation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Celestial bronze blade shattered it like a sugar cube. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The great sword lay against the warrior’s blood-flecked habit, its long, deadly blade crimsoned in victory. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As he did, a dark figure bounded past Ellidyr, who sprang to his feet, his blade unsheathed and whistling through the air. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But then he heard about the kinds of blades that could be wrought only by the fey, so he came looking for us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the stroke, the “catch,” he dropped the blade of his oar into the water and leaned his torso back hard, toward the bow, keeping his back ramrod straight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s hand moved so swiftly that nobody saw it; a gleaming blade flashed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And he bore a hero’s sword, the enchanted blade Lightbringer, whose glow lit up the night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She peeked up my nose and then, as steadily as she could, she inserted the tiny blade. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No?” the old man said and he drove the blade between the vertebrae and the brain. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We threw on our dress gray uniforms, including the gray wool pants that scraped every blade of hair off our legs and dark blue cotton shirts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The men had blades at their sides and were sifting through abandoned homes before setting them on fire. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then they stuck a blade right in the heart of her confidence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He sprang to his feet, blade held out before him, but Nina could sense his reluctance. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The turtle retreated even further, favouring the side where the blade was, and suddenly shot its head forward, beak snapping at me viciously. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nick stalked back and forth, scowling and slicing the air with his blade, as though to fend off the truth that was attempting to seize him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My Arkansas National Guard protector calmly looked on as Andy chased me, getting so close with his knife blade that the book I held up to protect me got slashed through the cover. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I opened my hand and let her take the blade. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He tilted it in the failing light, admiring the zed- like g, the curly b, and the curved t, like the blade of a plough. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The santeras had made eight cuts on her tongue with a razor blade so that the god could speak, but Felicia could not divulge his words. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I steady myself and he roars toward me, blade flashing, flexing, coming in for the hit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She gently touched his right eye with the blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He put the tip of the blade into Gus’s shirt and then made an arc with his arm, as though cutting a circle. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prongs of each forklift had been sharpened into oversized sword blades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His father straightened up and wiped the knife blade on his palm before shaking hands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knocked the blade aside and buried the axe in the nape of the man's neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ned could see dried mud and blades of grass clinging to the leather where Robert's feet stuck out beneath the blanket that covered him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fat Tom's blade dropped from nerveless fingers as the wet red point burst out through his ribs, piercing leather and mail. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He chose a satin tunic striped black and gold and a fine leather jerkin with silver studs . . . and only then remembered that his wretched sister put more stock in blades than beauty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He took a simple blade of grass and whipped the snake on the back, leaving it paralyzed, he then grabbed it by the head and snapped its spine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her blade was much too light and had no proper grip, but she liked the sharp jagged splintery end. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for Leo’s face, the blade was too long to wield in the corridor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I leaped back, and the evil blade missed by an inch, cutting a gash in the deck right between my feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The tallest one presses a blade to my throat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he opened the bus window, put the two stingers on the lip and slammed it back down, so the prongs flattened into super sharp blades—we called those “killer wasps.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The blade still has dried blood smeared on it here and there, my blood, Spackle blood, but the rest of it still shines, shimmering and flickering, flickering and shimmering. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She gathered the sheets up to her neck and scrambled backward so fast that her shoulder blades hit the headboard with a crack. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dried ridges of black blood were on the blade! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned over and picked up his knife, bent the blade closed, and handed it to him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not resist them, but simply dropped his musket—and a blade ran across him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Chandresh follows in the wake of the knife, pulling the blade from the board carefully but with a fair amount of force. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had no spark of humor and only occasionally a blade of cutting wit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blade radiated a cold deeper than the Hubbard Glacier. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The only light came from the dim purple glow of a dark sword, its Stygian iron blade set against one side of the container. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A woman hurls herself on your blade, offering herself as a sacrifice to prevent you from gleaning her child, and dies. What do you do?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The knives were old things: the hilts were made of bone, while the blades were chipped, volcanic glass, black as jet, with white snowflake-shapes frozen forever into the obsidian. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I point the sword at him, the rusty tip only a few inches away from his nose, the blade dripping the poor girl’s lifeblood in the space between us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The slender blade seemed very small and the dragons very big, yet somehow Arya felt better with steel in her hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the blade would be just as sharp, and it would work. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tip of his blade ripped my sleeve and grazed my forearm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her father turned it in the light, examining both sides of the blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he pressed the silver spoon against the blade. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only light came from her glowing blade and the openings above. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He told everybody he was going to demonstrate a disarming technique: how to twist the enemy’s blade with the flat of your own sword so that he had no choice but to drop his weapon. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wound from Varus’s blade would do its best to eat away at Jason’s life force. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Automatically, everybody bent down and picked one blade of grass—everybody, that is, except Augustus Gloop, who took a big handful. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

At last the talking was finished and the string-along songs about razor blades were over and the fight began. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my blade out in front of me and could sense that Olena was holding back a bit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Might I borrow your blade for a moment?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He is hunched in such a way that beneath his shirt his thin shoulder blades have a certain lumpy look. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was stained with patches of what looked like rust. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had held on to the metal blade of the shovel, keeping it in place, as Stanley climbed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The woman reared back, slammed her wooden leg down near his hand, and then stabbed her blade into the wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The fine fabric bunched as he pressed the blade to Van Eck’s throat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, a hand-shaped section of blades wriggled and stretched and grew until they were brushing the bottom of her palm. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The tiny blade flashed in the bright light and disappeared into my mouth. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I feel as though my courage will falter, I let my fingers brush the cool metal of the blade. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ekon stared at the blade, feeling its new weight in his palm. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You have sealed your fate. Every time you raise your blade in batde, every time you hope for success, you will feel my curse. Beware, Perseus Jackson. Beware.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The three galleys kept pace, their blades churning the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It whistled over the pond, gliding like a hawk before its blade grazed Adiah’s shoulder and landed in a nearby tree with a dull thud, splintering its wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray blades of grass, seemed to smile and shine in the sun. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farid pulled up a blade of grass and tore it into tiny pieces. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A carefully trimmed beard the color of soot sharpened the edges of his knife blade face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and the leather at one side had a lacquered look to it where he was used to stropping the blade of his knife. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The gloved hand emerged from the deep folds of the cloak and in the moonlight Gabe could see that it now held a gleaming knife with a long, very narrow blade and pointed tip. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Turning around, I saw his hands were curled around the protruding blade as if he himself had tried to pull it from his stomach. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Renault, refusing to take up the defensive, swept forward again, landing a few strong blows on Cain’s blade. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I could taste the pale green sweetness of the blade of wheat, stripped and sucked between my teeth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slashed his blade across the top, decapitating the controls in a shower of bronze sparks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each small movement felt like a knife blade pushing into my side. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The chopper landed in a grassy clearing and the men jumped out, ducking to keep their heads below the whirling blades. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Jon Arryn's beautiful engraved silver sword glanced off the marble elbow of the weeping woman and snapped clean a third of the way up the blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In midair he willed his blade to extend into a javelin - a trick he’d never tried with this sword - but somehow he knew it would work. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Much time had passed when she saw the last yellow butterfly destroyed in the blades of the fan and she admitted as an irremediable truth that Mauricio Babilonia had died. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If he’s on his stomach or side, I’ll plunge it straight through, making sure the blade crosses his windpipe. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Lancelot stuck his blade in the ground and went over to examine the wound. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once, I release the splendor as it erupts, thundering loudly before it separates from me and my blade to seep back into the earth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Like a pebble or a blade of grass, you just stare and think, Dear Christ, there’s the last thing on earth I’ll ever see. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw her blade cut right through the old woman’s arm—right through—and...nothing happened. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He dug around it, probing, probing busily until the soft half-formed sandstone gave beneath the blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I intercepted with Riptide, but his strike was so powerful, my blade could only deflect it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Deckard works as a “blade runner,” a special type of cop who hunts down and kills replicants—genetically engineered beings that are almost indistinguishable from real humans. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But Octavian is the one we have to worry about. In my dagger blade, I saw him taking control of the Roman crowd. I’m not sure Reyna can stop him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, but I recommend it,” Con said, and handed her a wooden-handled knife with a blade made of thin, strong stone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You will have work for your blades soon enough.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was a honed blade made by the King of Assassins for his own profit. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel his paws numbed by the jarring blows of the hefty iron railing against the sword blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the next few days, instead of calling the fish market, Mrs. Sen thawed chicken legs in the kitchen sink and chopped them with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One was gaunt and sallow, with thinning black hair and a blade of a nose. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He showed Joe wood planes, their wooden handles burnished by decades of use, their blades so sharp and precise they could shave off curls of wood as thin and transparent as tissue paper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A Griever charged in from the right, blades twirling. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He grinned as he withdrew the blade’s point from where it dented her skin. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grass stood blade by blade, shocked into separateness by an ice that held for days. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In that shop he sometimes made skinning knives out of cracked buzz saw blades and sold them to hunters in the fall for five or six bucks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spread the county map on the ground and lay a grass blade from our stream location across the page at 80 degrees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d utter a quick prayer and plunge the knife blade into the cow’s neck. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole glanced down and spotted the knife blade lying by his side. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He saw her, spun, and suddenly an axe came flying from his hand, die blade gleaming as it tumbled end over end through the torch-light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everything around me was art, from the stains in my bathtub to the razor blade and short length of drinking straw I used to cut and ingest my speed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The flat of the giant’s blade caught her in the chest and sent her flying. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Goddard sneered and tapped his blade against the huge tuning fork. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Horned King’s blade lashed against the weapon and shattered it with a single blow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I forgot, Jackson. And I wasn't bringing you anything but my blade.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I looked up and squinted, and saw a black shadow knifing through the dusk light, the blades chopping as it drifted closer, dropping lower and lower as it approached Fullbrook. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I was just waiting to see what you was gonna do to me ...” I leaned weakly against a wall, feeling sick, my eyes upon the sharp steel blade of the knife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The only hurt that it did to his enemy, I fear; for it is unharmed, but all blades perish that pierce that dreadful King. More deadly to him was the name of Elbereth.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A helicopter, its blades swooshing the air, sits in the middle of a big red circle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw who it was, however, he lowered the blade, confused. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The blade long and jagged in a hilt of red and black and steel. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pale swords were drawn; but I know not whether their blades would still bite, for the Dead needed no longer any weapon but fear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Citra was ready to hurl herself in front of her to block the blade, but instead of swinging the knife, the man held out his other hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Swords are nice and all, but they don't much compare to a pair of well-made short blades. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The blade was sharp enough to hack off a limb. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he plucked at the long blades of grass, knotting them to form a mesh. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Without hesitating she reared back and snapped her hands forward, shooting the knife blades directly for the madwoman’s heart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Glancing at the “puddles” Washington’s blades left behind in the water, Saxton was shocked at the distance between them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After a pause, she threw her arm back and spun in a circle with the blade in hand. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I looked at it and let the moonlight shine off the blade. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was an ordinary-looking dagger, with a double-sided blade of dull metal about eight inches long, a short crosspiece of the same metal, and a handle of rosewood. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pried the blade under the door and got his fingers under it and then stood and raised it up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Second slid her sword a hand-span out of its sheath, her gaze passing over the copper-colored steel, which had been inscribed with hundreds of words, swooping up and along the blade in perfect spirals. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

First, the word he’d seen scrawled across the torso of both beetle blades— WICKED—ran through his thoughts again and again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment he seemed about to wipe the blade on his trousers but then he plunged the knife into the earth and so cleansed it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stung into retaliation, Redtooth charged Constance with the point of his blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Way down the hallway was a blade of muddy light, so that was the direction I limped. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Chi-Boy pulled his long blade out from the sheath where it hung at his belt and backed into the trees until the shadows covered him completely. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Its rounding metal blades slice the edges of the tin to the right size and shape, while the letter and number forms punch the license number into the center. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To Valley Pepperhorn, I present twin crystal blades! Forged from the tears of a star and made once every five hundred years, in honor of her exceptional fighting and monstruo-tracking skills.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The blade Lesedi summons is thinner than mine, but looks sharper and more defined. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He raps my shoulder blade with his knuckles. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one of the guards managed to get a blade out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked at his sword blade and sighed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was one of those that has a handle which you turn, and down below there are a lot of overlapping blades that go whizzing round. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan tightened the grip on his blade as he looked into the curate’s bleary, half-conscious eyes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pegasus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She held up her hand where the thin slivers of their blades had cut. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’d ripped her off from Papa then let my imagination hand her a razor blade so she could finish what he’d started. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Smooth and quick, that’s the way, no fumbling, she told herself, and she slipped the little blade out of her sleeve, again and again and again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Back in the house he chopped at the wood around the haspstaple and finally jammed the blade under the staple and pried it up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

None that came before that broad blade lived to see another day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hitting a forty-mile target from a distance of 238,000 miles is about like trying to split a human hair with a razor blade thrown from a distance of twenty feet. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he stirred it vigorously until it became glossy white, holding the spatula like a delicate instrument and studying the paint as it laced off the blade, back into the bucket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thigh sheath. It’ll keep the blade safe and out of sight.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And anyone who saw it would be struck with love. I could give you a magical blade that cuts through starlight.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The canvas blades spun, but much too slowly. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen reached up to where it sat on a shelf along the back wall and flipped the switch, causing cobwebs to blow off the blades and fly all over the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lead scythe pulled out his own blade, but the businessman was ready. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"You don't want to lose your balance, lliat's good. Now pivot as you deliver the stroke, get all your weight behind the blade." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fire kills just as swiftly and completely as a scythe’s blade. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It is not moved by want, it is not a blade of grass to be bent by the wind of your hopes and desires. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I lift the blade and start to ask her if we should leave her natural shape intact. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He turned and almost screamed out loud—a beetle blade was only a few inches from him, its spindly legs poking through the ivy and somehow sticking to the stone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he says, slapping me between the shoulder blades. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I adjust the blade’s angle to maximize side-to-side damage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was even conceivable that Ampleforth was the bearer of the razor blade. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The trees and bushes are mostly bare, but I see a few green blades emerging. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Inigo began to leap around the courtyard, the great blade flashing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat rapidly as she ran a finger across the blades and handles of each. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With a single, firm gesture, Gwydion drew the blade and held it aloft. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I bent my head under the gende press of his hand and felt the blade scrape carefully across my neck. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since she’d used it to stab the snow goddess Khione, the visions in the blade had become colder and harsher, like images etched in ice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He stabbed his golden sword straight between its eyes, but the blade slipped sideways, as if the turtle’s skin were greased steel. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered what his last thought had been as he had raised the blade and brought it down. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was slim, with curly blade hair under his white pith helmet, and he had a mailbag slung over his shoulder. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old man reversed the oar and put the blade between the shark’s jaws to open them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the sixth, she manages to saw open a quadrant and bend up the lid with the blade of the knife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Khrazz cursed and turned a high cut into a low one, slipping past the old knight’s blade for once, only to have his blow scrape uselessly off a white steel greave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’s jammed her pencil inside the back of her shirt trying to reach a spot between her shoulder blades. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was deep, low, and raw—a voice like woodsmoke, serrated blades, and boots breaking through snow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think about scoring, but rather how to keep Rachel’s blade from hitting me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Getting off the bus, Ross Wilcox shoved me between my shoulder blades. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Closer, before his nose, every blade of grass, every bracken frond was bent, dripping and glistening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the servant lifts his arm to strike a third time, Cardan lunges for his blade, resting on Balekin’s desk where the servant put it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes as I thrust the blade up and toward him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pregnant girls just sighed at the news and went on sweeping and sprinkling the dirt yards, and the young men sharpened their blades till the edges whistled. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running the blade of her finger beneath her eyes to remove the last of her tears, she sniffed a few times and raised her chin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We even took our fathers’ razor blades and cut designs into the plastic to give each vehicle its own signature treading. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t drawn a blade, but I see the shine of knives under his coat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tim leads me out into the backyard, which kind of looks like a golf course where somebody trimmed every blade of grass with scissors. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of a crescent moon curve they're a half-moon, the blades weighted and sharpened on both sides to easily cut in either direction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Before Sierra could stop him, he pulled out his pocket blade and ran onto the boardwalk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Down came the tents, up flared the torches, out flew the blades, and the yell of battle mingled with the lmentatirm of surprise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as efficient as a swing, but with the rusty blades it’s the best I can do. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Your nose is bleeding,” he said slowly, and pointed at it with the blade of his skinny little knife. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sharp ends of the stiff blades stabbed and stung my arms and chest as I grabbed them up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basilisk’s blade had scarce slipped from its leather sheath when the hammer’s spike slammed into his temple, crunching through the thin brass of his mask and the flesh and bone beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She flicked the blade against her arm, drawing blood. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The king'laid his bright blade down on the map, along the Wall, its steel shimmering like sunlight on water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Steel stabs at my ribs, and seconds later, I am on my back with a blade at my throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In concert, without ever meeting each other’s eyes, they stroked the blades up and down, up and down. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sofya's hand froze to the propeller blade of the plane she was working on. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then he began cutting; to make fine lines and points he used thin blades, for the stems, large blades. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the wolf sword actually seemed lighter than the blades he had wielded before. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Rachel made the same fast double advances, this time followed by a lunge, with her blade swiping only the air, narrowly missing me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

However, when the grass is tall like it is now, the blades cut my skin like paper. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better to die here by her own blade than with her face painted and her body swathed in false silks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I said, drop them!” she screeched, pressing the blade into Hermione’s throat: Harry saw beads of blood appear there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The mud oozed and adjusted itself to my shoulder blades. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Walking made it feel like my bones had healed into blades jabbing into me, but any kind of pain was worth the chance to get out of that darn bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ser Waymar was panting from the effort now, his breath steaming in the moonlight: His blade was white with frost; the Other's danced with pale blue light. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even the grass sticks up with its myriad blades. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, you don’t know. You never tasted any,” Harley answered, trying to pry off the bottle cap with the short blade of his pocket knife. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I run along the inner side of the fence, as close as I can get, calling out David’s name, but the sounds of helicopter blades and sirens mute my screams in the blizzard of dust. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The magic blade cut a gash in the bronze. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You will see, only with the diamond blade circular saw do you have one chance.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hardly a flicker was to be seen upon its blade. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Are your dirty blade and even dirtier habits supposed to mean something?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She pulled the biggest knife from its sheath and pointed the blade at his throat. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My blade cuts through Helene's leather armor, and part of me screams, Elias, what have you done? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“There is another ingredient,” Mona said, and a moment later she straightened, waving the knife in the air to let the blade cool off. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their blades struck and warded and struck again with such speed that the eye could scarcely see them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wash felt a sudden coldness between his shoulder blades, a tightening in his groin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lunged at Travis, driving the blade into the man’s leg, just above the knee. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He sliced a sliver off one of his nails, touched the blade to the center of his palm and pressed enough to open a triangle of skin like a tent flap into himself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra imagined she could see Will’s soul flowing back along the blade to his hand, and up his arm to his heart. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will just a little more of it from the earth, and the light-sword starts to change form, the blade growing longer and longer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He wedged the corner of the blade under it and pried it up and then knelt and took hold of the lock and twisted the whole thing loose and pitched it into the grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The knife has a fearsome serrated edge on part of the blade, so I choose the likeliest looking knot and start sawing on it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Near us, two sailors with axes chopped at lines, and two big life rafts plunged toward the water, which looked blade except for pools of fire from burning fuel oil. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was like a thin ray of dark light. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even starts to teach me how to stall the ball on my shoulder blades and on my forehead, too, like a sea lion doing tricks at the aquarium. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His blade flashed out, cut into her skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In one hand he held the spear, in the other the charred knife blade. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The pale blades sliced through ringmail as if it were silk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It howled like ten pigs being gelded, rolling and thrashing in the rain-swollen mud, weeping a black river of itself, viscous fluid pumping over the blades’ rusted handle. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her whole dress is pale blue tulle, light as air, with straps crossed neatly between her shoulder blades. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Sister Ignatia gave him a look as sharp as a blade, and he ran out of the room in a panicked rush, as though he was already bleeding. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We would buy one pack of those thin blades and glue razors onto the edges of our kites. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It looked as if someone had literally used a blade to cut the flesh under my feet from the heel to the toes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Lightly, her fingers stroked his shoulder blades; quietly they plucked the long hair scruffing his neck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on top of hills, or in their shadows, or even by little creeks, not a tree and not a single green blade of grass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the way his eyes moved from one blade to another, lingering long enough, perhaps, to recall a memory. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Alex shook his head as he reached to rub his shoulder blade where that bayonet had grazed him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he struggled to yank the blade loose, he heard Marillion moaning under the bodies. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He pointed his blade at Hazel and Piper. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How his leg was caught by one of the broken blades. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The knot between his shoulder blades eased a bit. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We ran outside with the wind from the blades tearing down on us from just above the trees, whipping our plain white nightgowns into a froth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they left the town behind, following the winding course of the Rhoyne through willow groves and poppy fields and past a tall wooden windmill whose blades creaked like old bones as they turned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Chess looked back and saw the blade of an ax coming through the drywall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He slammed me into the door, grinding my shoulder blades against the wood. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had to get used to the grip—because it was different than the épée—but I loved how light the blade felt in my hand. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He arcs it in front of me, slowly, such that I see my reflection in its blade even in the gathering dusk. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the fairy aspect of Castle Chariot, which the Oldest Ones—sensing the hidden knife blades after all—had thought would be tempting to the children. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“According to Ostis, you can use Transformation to imbue a sword with ‘a thirst for blood,’ so when it comes time to kill, the blade itself seeks out its targets.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She saw Koss throw down his blade to yield, and she saw them kill him where he stood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, slowly it forms itself into a bird with a blade of red on the wing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bullet entered King’s right jaw, traveled through his neck, severed his spinal cord, and stopped in his shoulder blade. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Forgot the lessons of a lifetime, and concentrated on the wide, shining blade, because who knew? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the blades slither around my ankles, sending chills up and down my spine. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of what I’d done with them makes me want to toss them to the dunes, Teluman blades or not. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Squires tossed pails of water over cookfires, while soldiers took out their oilstones to give their blades one last good lick. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He took the whetstone from his pouch and drew it along first one scythe blade, then another, until each blade glimmered in the sun. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had brought the blade from India, where apparently there was at least one in every household. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

With strong strokes he pulls the blade against the stone, sharpening it. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed the point of his shovel on top of it, then jumped on the back of the blade with both feet. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A different form, but I was sure it was the same blade I’d seen in my dream. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Before his killer could wrench free his blade, Syrio jabbed him in the apple of his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He tugged the blade out of the knife bed, pushed the point into the arm of the rocker, and carved out little chunks of wood, taking his sweet time to explain. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Between the dreamer’s bare shoulder blades, the perched moth trembled. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He fitted the rope lashings of the oars onto the thole pins and, leaning forward against the thrust of the blades in the water, he began to row out of the harbour in the dark. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran for the middle of the platform, surprising the four elder sea demons so much they dropped the red-hot blade. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wore the pads at her knees for crawling and climbing, but there was another reason, too—namely, the tiny steel blades hidden in each of them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He pulled another lever; the wheels, with cleated tires as tall as windows, dug in and the blade scraped forward. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

If by some extraordinary chance the blade failed, they would just start over. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She sheathed Katoptris, wondering how Helen of Troy had stayed sane during the Trojan War, if this blade had been her only source of news. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could drop his blades and go into the house. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Keep your hands well away from the blade.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her pain lost in her fury, she swung at his blade with the remnant of the staff. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They sank so deep that Jason couldn’t see anything except Percy swimming next to him in the dim light of their gold and bronze blades. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I draw my sword and smack the nearest suitor across the back of his head with the flat of my blade. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But this one was equipped with four shimmering blades—one each where the wheels of a groundcar would be—a cross between a normal hovercar and the rangers’ helicopter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He slashed the golden blade, destroying the first katobleps and letting the others bunch up in front of him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I brought down the blade on the monsters enormous backside when out of nowhere another sword blocked my strike. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only one channel came in, some kind of weird repeating infomercial with a woman selling letter openers that looked a little like katana blades, which was not going to make Ernie feel any better. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I spin and let my blades cut through the neck of an old white woman lunging for my throat, her stringy gray hair hanging loose. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The blades remind me of something, as the whole shop does—something important, something I should be able to put my finger on. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She lifted a hand to grab the blade, but someone touched her elbow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A bunting on a grass blade tucked its bill into the feathers on its back, fluffed, and went to sleep. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t look Very inviting,” the bug remarked, for, as they climbed higher and higher, not a tree or a blade of grass could be seen anywhere. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my glowing blade appeared, the Hydra whipped toward it with all its heads, hissing and baring, its teeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But once the razor blade has flicked—he will remember it, and if he remembers it he can recall it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smells the brilliantined hair, feels the scraping blade, the web of scars it left on her stomach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the larger blade on the ground, but concealed the small one in a pocket sheath sewn into her pants. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to figure out the number of blades of grass in the soccer field,” he announced one day. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Each time the giant’s smoky veil started creeping around one of them, Nico was there, slashing through it, drinking in the darkness with his Stygian blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He smiles when he sees me coming, drops his weapon and waits as if the edge of my blade is a gift. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Lorathi brought the blade to Arya still red with heart's blood and wiped it clean on the front of her shift. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“By the way, Smith old boy, I suppose you haven’t got any razor blades you can let me have?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then a hand gripped her wrist painfully, forcing her to drop the blade. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He set the shovel so that half the blade was supported by the rock slab. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

If the problem had been a bullet or a blade, they might have succeeded, but the flecks and shavings of steel were too many and too small. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sword wasn’t designed for that, but the Celestial bronze blade sliced through the chains suspending the hydra. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He stopped whittling and checked the blade against his thumb. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was trying to cut the cords with his gold blade but having no luck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The old man presses a button, and the band-saw blade starts running. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It lay upon slender blades of grass, and draped over the hood of the truck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte tried to bite him again, but the knight’s long blade cut through air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She paused, and plucked another long brown blade of grass from the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of the bear’s blood on the knife blade beside him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The tip of my blade was an inch from his undefended chest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Through the bars of the fence he could see Miss Lark’s Andrew daintily sniffing at the Next Door lawn and choosing for himself the best blades of grass. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The blade was shorter than Longclaw but made of common steel, which made it heavier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pommel was a hunk of pale stone weighted with lead to balance the long blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before he could think it through, before his mind could tell him to stop, he launched himself toward the curate, and thrust his blade forward with all of his force, finally achieving that exquisite completion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He ran his thumb down the flat of the blade, as if he were hypnotized by its beauty. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Just below the wing is a huge cylinder with spinning blades inside it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The beast flicked its forked tongue as it used its trunk to pick up the blade and examine it, two beady black eyes narrowing with scrutiny. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He carefully threaded the blade between flesh and plastic, working it back and forth to saw the cuffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter how skilled a fencer you are, you can’t help but lose when your opponent has a blade of Ramston steel and you’ve chosen to fight with a willow switch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The close-fitting armor is forged by the Teluman smithy—one of the oldest in the Empire—and is strong enough to turn away all but the finest blades. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He picked up the hot sword blade with his bare hands. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was a girl, or she looked like one, except she had little wings growing from her shoulder blades. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The blade caught the charging horse in the throat with a meaty thunk, angling upward, and Tyrion almost lost his grip as the animal screamed and collapsed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We loved flying kites but it wasn’t the pot that made the flying adventurous, it was the Gillette blades. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at Lucas, whose anger had turned to remorse as he witnessed Fulton Dumas beginning to cry with his head buried into my shoulder blade. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Annabeth was struck by a thought so sharp and clear, it was like a blade from Athena herself. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She blinked at the blade, and slowly raised her face to look at him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And every man who signs with them is another sword for Yunkai, another blade meant to drink the blood of my bride-to-be. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She pressed the blade under the river god’s chin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He put the string between his teeth and unfolded the blade. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a scythe—a six-foot-long blade curved like a crescent moon, with a wooden handle wrapped in leather. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He drew out his sword, and they saw that the blade was indeed broken a foot below the hilt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a flash of steel, Cain had his blade at Grave’s throat, and the pockmarked assassin bared his rotting teeth at him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And, yes, there was the blackened hatchet blade and a tiny round piece of metal. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

From waters so cold that ice formed on the blades of the oars as the surfmen raced to save them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up what looked like a small, heavy chrome drill with a medallion-sized round saw blade at the business end. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

Eventually she went to the kitchen and returned to the living room with the blade, an eggplant, and some newspapers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Their white blades flashed above the water like the wings of seabirds flying in formation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Piper’s blade, Hazel’s magical senses and Annabeth’s instincts all agreed - the answer lay here in Ithaca, at the ancient palace of Odysseus, where a horde of evil spirits had gathered to await Gaia’s orders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He slid the blade into his pocket just as she appeared in the doorway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He tried to jam it into the earth, but the blade banged against the ground and bounced off without making a dent. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The blade of light wasn’t getting any nearer. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was utterly bare: a platform of tumbled rocks with not a blade of grass to be seen, no tree, no bush, nor any moss or lichen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He suddenly steps forward, knee bent, and I am stuck in the chest with his blade. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A few guards fly up into the air on pale green wings, blades drawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The edge in her voice was suddenly sharp as a razor blade. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And when the police entered his house to arrest him, they found him sitting on the floor amidst mountains of candy, ripping off the wrappers with the blade of a long dagger. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

In death he looked even younger than he had with blade in hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A naked boy stood on the water, poised to duel with a bravo’s blade in hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I remember the way Halmoni would sing me to sleep, beating the soothing rhythm of a song on the wing of my shoulder blade. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They did not use any sharp blades, because a blade is a deadly object in a hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tooth blade gracefully twirled through the air before bouncing uselessly off the grootslangs armored scales and landing in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the cracked ceiling are light bulbs with slow, twirling blades. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of beating the blade aside, he performed a maneuver I had never before seen, and have not seen since. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen her do that hundreds of times, but I’d never thought about why she cared so much about the blade. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sounds— clashes, clangs, screams, moaning wails, roars of engines, spinning saws, snapping blades, the screech of spikes against the floor, hair-raising pleas for help—it all grew to a crescendo, became unbearable. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And then I heard Father coming down the garden and I took my Swiss Army knife out of my pocket and got out the saw blade and held it in case he found us. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned into the curves like he loved the raspy sound the blades made. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was the creature she’d seen in her knife blade, the bull with the human face. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was almost around the corner when his blade struck her in the back. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A little ways from home the Preacher came running at us holding on to a long sharp blade from off a scythe. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He touched the edge of the blade to mark where the blow must fall, and Ygritte shivered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Clay stood behind his father, chewing on a blade of grass, grinning. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With help from Paul and Billy, he bolted the big bulldozer blade to the front of it, rumbled it up through the barnyard gate and stopped it near the rosebush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"He wore it whenever he sat the Iron Throne in King Robert's place. Isn't it a lovely thing? I thought it only fitting that our champion avenge Jon with his own blade." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I grunt and yank the blades the rest of the way through Maisie’s neck. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He gave the blade a quick twist and then withdrew it again before the wretched boy had had time to disentangle his head from the towel. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boats were moved and steered with short-handled paddles that had broad leaf-shaped blades. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The blade glinted two different colors—steel and bronze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know. Down the street, probably. Stopped by to see the twins—hand me that blade, would you?—stopped by to see them yesterday and Henry was helping her put her stuff in boxes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But instead of handing her the plain-as-porridge sword she usually wielded in practice, he drew his own blade. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A thin wail rose from her throat, sharp as the blade of a knife. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Easley nodded, feeling the blade almost but not quite cut his skin as he did. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She felt her Mist disguise burn away until she was just Piper again - one girl in the midst of an army of giants, her jagged bronze blade like a toothpick compared to their massive weapons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He takes the silver knife he finds discarded on the floor and returns it to the dartboard in the study, stabbing the blade into the bull’s-eye. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The blade Eilonwy had taken from the barrow was too long for the girl to wear comfortably at her waist, so she had slung it from her shoulder. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The tip had been hammered flat, and a jagged blade, three feet long and rusty, had been welded into place. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Again. The flight of the blade was unsteady last time. Be centered in your body when you throw it.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Washington boys slid their seats forward, sank their white blades into the water, hunched over their oars, and stared straight ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The crew were on their feet briskly, to furl the sail, and stow it; then, each in place, they poised the smooth oar blades and sent the white foam scudding by. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seized the blade of a third man's weapon in his cloak-wrapped hand and yanked it away. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He tried a slash, but Bronn jerked back, just out of reach, and the silver blade cut only air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She just withdrew the blade, and the man fell. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I deflected it off the edge of my blade and kept charging. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

The boar charged, Barsena spun aside, her blade flashed silver in the sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Furious as a hornet, he raced back and forth among the Huntsmen, bobbing up and down, his blade never still. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It starts out small and thin, like a rapier’s blade, but I push more of the splendor into it, until I’m holding what looks like a massive broadsword. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I throw my knife at the oncoming mutt but the creature somersaults, evading the blade, and stays on its trajectory. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Also she says she has never seen anything green on that show, like a blade of grass or a tree. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Olena came at me and just as before, I used the same action to score, ducking to avoid her blade, leaving Olena unable to get her light on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor felt a blade cut through the ropes on his wrists. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed his blade into the girl’s flesh. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the space, a single spotlight illuminated a curved sword, its blade bare and supported by two silk-covered wedges. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But Ged stooped and plucked a blade of wild grass that poked up dry and frail out of the snow where the otak had lain dead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The scythe wiped her blade on a chamois cloth the same pale lavender as her robe, and that’s when Citra lost control. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Dad reached into his pocket and pulled out his favorite jackknife, the one with the horn handle and the blade of blue German steel that we’d used for Demon Hunting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun was illuminating each blade of grass. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Keeping the blade to my neck, my assailant pushed me against the outhouse wall and stepped around to face me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His baba had held this blade, and he’d kept it with him until the end. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So I bandaged the cut, packed up my Gillette blades and caught the eleven-thirty bus to Boston. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, the man raised his sword hand, and the folds of his cloak fell to conceal the blade. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She halted just out of my sword’s reach but did not draw her own blade. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I found it and opened the blade I was appalled at how wimpy it looked. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he waited, staring at the blades of grass just beyond his feet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A big brown night moth fluttered out from under the oar blades propped beside her on the seat, and wobbled off toward nowhere through the fragrant air. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew her sword, lightning fast, and turned into a clockwise spin, bringing its glowing blade around and down at me, all in a single blur of motion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her hostage’s carotid artery pulsed under the blade. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The weather was hot and the steam machine that pulled the chain logs through the blade had a big furnace that was always being stoked. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands throbbed with pain, as if the blade were still in her, cutting deep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knocked aside its blade, but the other three kept coming. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The new growth covered the earth lightly, each blade of grass, each leaf and stem with space between as if planted by a thin summer wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He whipped out a short dagger with an ivory handle and a wavy blade. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was certain the title was Judith Beheading Someone but could not have produced Holofernes even if it had been my neck behind the blade. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Goose feathers fly up when he draws back the blade, drifting through the air like snow. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the first sunlight burned through the thin, blue mist and radiated off the blades, a prayer leader said that the Osage were a “humble people, asking for your help.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had a long stack and always puffed thick, blade smoke. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Van Daal parted his lips to answer, Inej slipped up behind him and placed a blade to his throat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Put the blade away, little girl, no one wants to hurt you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I reach for the blade Grandfather left at my bedside. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The leaves grew larger, greener, veined underneath in pale chartreuse, the blades thick and full of liquid that I kept expecting to smell like gardenias, but it didn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even as Taran drew his bow, Adaon was in the midst of the Huntsmen, striking left and right with his blade. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The old man handed him a leather sheath, backed with stiff horn, with buckles to hold the knife in place, because the slightest sideways movement of the blade would have cut through the thickest leather. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pluck a few blades and roll them in my fingers, wondering why the hell it’s taking them so long to pull out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were two knives: the smaller, a hatchet-bladed cleaver, heavy and hard, for cutting through the rib cage, for jointing and segmenting; the other a long, daggerlike blade, for cutting out the heart. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sun dropped behind the hills in back of me, leaving a red smear on the sky, which slowly turned blade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bronze blade glowed with a faint light. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Paintings were ripped from walls, shredded with blades. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"No one may carry a blade here or shed a man's blood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone— I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Desperately, he fought through it, the blades scratching at his face, half blinding him as he tried to find his way back to the main path. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Oleana couldn’t block my blade, and she slipped and fell to the ground without getting her light on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Each time the blades rose from it, the boat ghosted forward without check or hesitation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The line from the great prophecy echoed in my head: A hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was trying not to look at the blade, now scarcely a hand’s breadth from his snow-white shirt. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He slashed again and Nailer’s belly burned where the blade cut a shallow line. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lourdes studies the checkered linoleum, longs to dig for her bones like a dog, claim them from the black-hooded earth, the scraping blade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drop, letting him roll over me before bringing the blunt end of my blade to the back of his legs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We regarded their array: men with blades, men with guns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“No, you won’t,” said one of the bandits, swinging his blade near Werfel’s throat. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The blades were a bit skinny now, but they would fatten. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishtar flips her blade from one hand to the other and sees Nergal's eyes widen. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His little jaw stuck out, and he pulled at blades of grass as they sat by the sandbox. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks up to me grinning, holds his hand out so I can see the red scissors from Coach’s desk smiling at me, their steel blades sharp and ready. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Then he drew his knife, smiled at Elinor, and wiped the blade on his jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My opponent doesn’t have to engage my blade, just retreat, keep himself safe as the last minute counts down. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With a clang, the two swords met, and they pressed each other’s blades. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And Lord Sweet huffed, “The craven sees an outlaw behind every blade of grass.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It somersaults swiftly, handle over blade, and finds itself buried in the dartboard once again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No one of import. Another lover of the blade.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler sucked in a breath and jerked the sword away as the man’s hand ran along the edge of the blade, drawing blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my blade and the fissure grew. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Eight white blades dipped in and out of the mirrorlike water at precisely the same instant. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Blood dripped around the blade, and Håkon tried to bend back to claw at it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her hands shone with the pungent juice and slipped around as she worked the tip of the blade back and forth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Cole picked up the makeshift spear in one hand, the knife blade in the other. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Their sellswords will want the gold, though. What are the hostages to them? If the Yunkishmen refuse, it will drive a blade between them and their hirelings.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tammi tried to dodge my blade, but I sliced straight through her cheerleader uniform, and with a horrible wail she exploded into dust all over Rachel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

No blades were allowed in the presence of the king save those of his protectors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were armed with glaives—long poles with sharp blades attached—as well as bows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

So we’re looking for blood, skin that needs stitching, a gash from a homemade blade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dripping from the blades, as they lifted, sent rows of overlapping circles spreading silently behind them. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haven’t heard it myself, but she swears there’s a crackling in the grass like tiny bolts of lightning traveling from blade to blade. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how the blade Had been made, but I sensed a tragedy. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Riptide grew into a three-foot-long bronze sword, its blade glowing with a faint golden light Tammi’s smile turned to a sneer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And see the world in endless sleep, The hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And there was no witch, no wraith blade, no evil corporate brain-thingy that had caused the change in him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Percy’s voice disintegrated like someone had hit it with a Celestial bronze blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Eyes wide with terror, he ran straight into the paws of his mouse friend, narrowly missing injury on the sword blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The black-mustached man was fingering something in his belt; Harry looked and saw that he was running one broad thumb along the blade of a shining axe. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Though magic might have vanished, it seemed that the power that had forged the blade lived on. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is him up on the dais, his blade cracking through Prince Dain’s chest. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Sharp blades are good to have, if Shire-folk go walking, east, south, or far away into dark and danger.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The blade followed, hissing like an adder Taran felt it sting across his back. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The oars lifted, expanding into aerial blades with a sound like ninety umbrellas opening at once, and the Argo II rose into the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When he shifted to dip his pen in the inkwell, the sunlight caught the gold buttons on his uniform jacket and made them glint like blades. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The blades of the ceiling fan were encrusted with woolly dust, so I knew there had been no power in a while or the dust would have flown away as the fan turned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She yelped as the blade sliced across her thigh, clothing and flesh ripping. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The rip left by the blade no longer visible. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now to bring the tough bow out and bring the iron blades. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the layered petals shatter, falling from her fingers to the ground, disappearing in the blades of ivory grass below. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His blade was in its place, though, and his hand rested casually on its hilt. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I give him the shovel before I go to work, and every time the blades of my machine cut the groove of a screw, I wonder what Max is doing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The blade of blackbirds rising out of nowhere, brandishing and then gone? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At each place was a safety razor, a washcloth, a package of razor blades, a chocolate bar, two cigars, a bar of soap, ten cigarettes, a book of matches, a pencil, and a candle. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the blade in her hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They’d all throw their heads back and laugh and slap one another between the shoulder blades. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if her captain’s blades still hung upon the wall beside her bed, waiting for Daario to return and claim them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Without the cocktail to dull me, there’s a clarity to my senses as sharp as a butcher’s blade. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The point of my arrow disappears into his right temple, and in the instant it takes to reload, Johanna has buried an ax blade in Cashmere’s chest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to beat my blade again, advancing quickly, but I slip my blade beneath his and score an easy touch. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The young man’s head was wrenched sideways, not quite facing the flowers, and even in the shade a single blade of sunlight sparkled against the buckle of his ammunition belt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied, Goddard removed the blade from his neck. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Harry seized it by its rubied hilt and touched the tip of the blade to a silver flagon nearby, which did not multiply. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The floating blade moves where I tell it to. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Make it blow up the Soviets,” I said, running my fingers over the blades of grass. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A blade came out and with a fierce slash, the monofilament line parted. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gwydion quickly returned the blade to its scabbard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The one who taught me how to angle the blade beneath my chin when I shaved. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her wrist and pulled up so that her eyes were level with his, pressed the dagger’s blade to her jaw, and... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I yank the knife out of the table, get a grip on the blade, and then throw it into the wall across the room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He could fetch the whetstone when the blades needed sharpening. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two blades were difficult for him; he favored his right and had little dexterity with his left. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The blade doesn’t stick, but I’m the first person to hit the target. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The words scraped down my spine like a knife blade. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the chopping of helicopter blades getting louder and closer. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He fumbled through the grasses, seeking the gleam of his blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I looked at the blades of the machetes and thought about how much it would hurt to be chopped with one. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At the last second, I managed to tilt my own blade upward to awkwardly parry the attack. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A bolt of dark energy shot toward me, but I deflected it off my blade and slammed into him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another thing that might have been, snipped at the roots as if by one of Dr. Stevens’s surgical blades. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the ash tree, Gwydion’s blade rang and clashed among the leaves. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He dropped the sword blade and ran at me, trying to give me a hug. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had locked myself in the bathroom, and run a tub full of warm water, and taken out a Gillette blade. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The edge of the blade had actually nicked the skin of his neck. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He knocked my blade out of my hands and kicked me in the chest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I’ve got a Swiss Army knife and it has a saw blade and it could cut someone’s fingers off.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cut was clean and deeper than she thought a plain Band-Aid could handle, than she would’ve thought a razor blade could cause. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My feet feel as though I’m running on blades. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could actually tap the blade of the scalpel on the spleen, and the blade wouldn’t dig in very much. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the nine slaves had died with his throat cut by his fellow’s blade. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Bronn was surrounded by three.foes, but he lopped the head off the first spear that came at him, and raked his blade across a second man's face on his backslash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Big and green, with wide fields of high grass that swept back and forth with the breeze, turning the blades into gentle waves. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Below a heavy silver crosspiece was the blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tyrion plucked at one of the twisted blades that sprang from the arm of the throne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cain grunted and pressed Renault’s blade, forcing the mercenary to take a step back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger saw the hatchet blade come into view. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I got out my Swiss Army knife and opened the saw blade so that I could defend myself. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and hugged first his dad and then his mom, who held on to me too tight, like Gus used to, squeezing my shoulder blades. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It oozed up, and I shuddered as a familiar pressure gathered around my shoulder blades. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I imagine the blades sucking me in and spitting me out the other side, and shudder a little. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her blade flashed out, smooth and quick, one deep slash through the velvet and he never felt a thing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Come,” he said, “let me see the blade.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of warding it, I ducked and came up under his blade with my own. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Pippin stabbed upwards, and the written blade of Westernesse pierced through the hide and went deep into the vitals of the troll, and his black blood came gushing out. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The thickly knotted roots and the dull shovel blade conspired against him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

His own blade was still in its sheath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After forging the blade, she had spent another three months using Transformation to engrave the weapon, imbuing it with its magical properties. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She spread the peanut butter with her jackknife, then wiped the blade clean on her shorts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He profiled directly in front of the bull, drew the sword out of the folds of the muleta and sighted along the blade. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But the quickness of the violence, the blade of it, arrested her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Cain closes Marcus’s hands over his blade, pressing until blood drips from his palms. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hatsue arched her shoulder blades—her breasts pressed themselves against his chest—and a slow shudder ran through her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tyrion danced back in while the brigand's leg was still pinned beneath his fallen mount, and buried the axe in the man's neck, just above the shoulder blades. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The midlah grabs it under its jaw and places the blade on its neck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pondered the blanket and carefully set down a blade of grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His cat stare burned into my shoulder blades. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When he found the perfect sapling, he hacked it off with the knife blade and sharpened the end. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With the hand that held the blade, Abbot Hubert pulled down his habit just far enough to reveal three deep, pitted scars, as if droplets of acid had fallen on his chest. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sefia ran her hands along the edges of the book, fingering the leaves that protruded from the pages, until she found the soft blade of the feather Archer had given her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As he laid the flat of the blade across her thighs, she thought her legs might break from the force of the blow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel zipped from giant to giant, stinging them with the blade of her spatha. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Without missing a step they snapped their bayonets onto their guns, presenting the glistening blades directly at the Americans. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I shove the bloody blade into my pocket. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘The blade that is drawn from this sheath shall not be stained or broken even in defeat,’ she said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind the table where the five members of the king’s small council were seated, the Iron Throne crouched like some great black beast, its barbs and claws and blades half-shrouded in shadow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Below it on the floor, just where it had fallen from Mrs. Hubbard’s hand, was a straightbladed dagger—a cheap affair, sham Oriental, with an embossed hilt and a tapering blade. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He disdained full regalia, except on ceremonial occasions, and dressed instead in impeccable coats and breeches, with tall black riding boots and a dueling blade at his side. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He didn't have to put the knife blade to his own throat. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, what’s the big—” His eyes go wide when he realizes my blade is now only a few inches from his eye. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The blade nicked me just above the Adam’s apple. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This could have a steel file or hacksaw blade in it,” he said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they made long wooden arrows without a blade on the tip to spear the fish. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The last of the firelight danced along its blade. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

No. No. No. Around me, my men drop, suffocating as they refuse to kill their friends, or falling beneath the merciless blades of Blue Platoon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Oars flew from their hands; the blades went knocking wild alongside till the ship lost way, with no oarblades to drive her through the water. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to grab Annabeth, and Piper lunged, slashing her blade across the side of the giant’s face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Long gray hairs were matted into the blood on the blade. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fists and the flashing tip of the blade, clouds of dust rising beneath their feet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But he must’ve been one hundred percent mortal, because the blade passed harmlessly right through his chest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Both of us look at it, the white water reflecting off of it, droplets of spray already catching and pooling on its blade, making it shine like a little flashlight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now he slammed the stone with the back of the knife blade with renewed force, again and again until a small shower of sparks fell into the cup. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even his sword, a Greek blade like Riptide, was gold instead of bronze. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A crimson bead of my blood swelled suddenly and flowed onto the blade. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her blade shattered the chains on the left side like they were made of ice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath them turned to ice, and their sandals were replaced with pretty metal shoes with blades on the bottom. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before the startled Taran could draw his blade, a guard seized him and quickly lashed his arms behind his back. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the shoulders, in the broad muscular back, the heavy blade sank with a sickening sound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo shuddered, remembering the cruel knife with notched blade that had vanished in Strider’s hands. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had a black knife with a long jagged blade in his hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Tree and stone, blade and leaf were listening. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Volta shouted over the deafening chop of the blades. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Kronos pushed against her, trying to dislodge his blade, but she held him in check, her arms trembling as he forced his sword down toward her neck. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The woman balanced her finger on the long blade of the wooden dagger in Anya’s hand. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Most of her tattoos run up and down her forearms, with the exception of the turtle on her shoulder blade. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The moment the blade made contact with Elowen’s heart, all the power that had surged between her and Taisin drained away, and now she felt emptied, unsteady. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Piper lunged and drove her blade into the giant’s thigh. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Madoc lifts his blade again, as though he’s going to rush at me one final time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His quick defensive move had saved his life, but the blade sliced through his sleeve and into his upper arm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blade was supposed to reap my souL As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He held it to the light and looked at the rusty blade and put it back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Their wind whipped around us, cold as the blades that glistened in their hands. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It swung around over him, its blades beating at the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If Goddard was just using his samurai blade, he didn’t need Rowan to be his weapons caddy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He struck so quickly that she had to concede to the edge of his blade. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The blades were so sharp they made cutting the grass effortless. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She swung her blade and took off the bronze statue’s head. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One wall was hung with blades, another firearms. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

By the time he slashed, Hazel had ducked between his legs and jabbed her Imperial gold blade into his gluteus maximus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The barber shook out his apron and wiped his razor blade clean. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not ... I don’t even know what—” Ben screamed, a strangled gurgle of madness, and leaped into the air, slashing out with his blade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Made of cast iron, the plowshare was shaped like a V, with the blade carving into the ground and the two arms arcing away like gull wings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He strode a few paces forward, scanning every broken twig and blade of grass. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When Stannis raised the blade above his head, men had to turn their heads or cover their eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I reach behind me to pull my shirt over my head and as I do I realize there’s no pain twixt my shoulder blades. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He has several of these wooden guns, and daggers and swords also, with blood colored onto the blades with red pencils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of his older foster brothers had actually gotten a tattoo that said “I’m Fine” across his shoulder blades. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Next to it are my sickles, the blades as curved and sharp as Miss Anderson’s tongue. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Perspiration was pouring down his thin frame now and the great blade was blinding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I kneel down and run my fingers through the cool blades to make sure they really exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"If I give you the flat of my blade, can you?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Twin giants, like Piper saw in her blade...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It had helped him, in turn, to feel the subtleties of the silver blade. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sadie was an orange cat with eyes as green as a blade of grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She glanced back, saw the second guardsman fall, his blade dropping from limp fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My blade should’ve run him through, but it deflected off his stomach like I was hitting solid marble. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Once she’d sterilized the cubicle, she lit a Bunsen burner and used its flame to sterilize test tubes and a used scalpel blade, since the Gey lab couldn’t afford new ones for each sample. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In order to occupy Eliot she supplied him with the comics section of the newspaper, and crackers spread with peanut butter, and sometimes a Popsicle, or carrot sticks sculpted with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid’s husband fitted the shirt sleeves over it with a karate chop between the shoulder blades. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theon Greyjoy put a hand cm the hilt of his blade and said, "My lady, if it comes to that, my House owes yours a great debt." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While I was considering it, he took up the hoe blade that had crossed the Atlantic in our mother’s purse and shoved it onto a long pole he’d whittled to fit its socket. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Falconer lifted his blade and brought it down, not upon Mr. Armin's head, as I feared, but upon the flank of the horse. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The light shot off the steel and it was like a long flashing blade cutting at my forehead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She poured unicorn draught over the blade of her silver pocketknife. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was the fear and awe I felt when Grandpa took me to a sawmill to watch the giant whirring steel blades whine and scream as they bit into wet green logs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him take out a sort of scalpel which had a long steel handle and a small pointed blade. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade made a hideous scraping sound as he drew it back over the steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The hilt had been fashioned new for him, adorned with a wolf's-head pommel in pale stone, but the blade itself was Valyrian steel, old and light and deadly sharp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Looking back I could just make out the blade lumpy shapes of the oxen and the cart, with Father fighting along at their heads. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nel leaned on her elbows and worried long blades of grass with her fingers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We spread out all over the place, tossing our cardboard squares and counting the blades of grass. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And when Kino saw this knife his eyes lighted up, and he fondled the blade and his thumb tested the edge. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, before she interred herself in the enormous canopy bed, she hefted the knife in her palm, ran her finger along the blade until she felt the bite. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her side felt like it was embedded with razor blades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He took three blades from the tray, and somehow managed to wield them all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I maneuvered the blades carefully around the page. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Sander spat out a few blades and whispered, "Let's get him!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Goddard’s response was to bring the blade even closer to Esme’s unsuspecting neck. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Their blades clashed and parted and met again with such rapidity that my eye could scarcely follow. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

With every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a piece of broken glass, my jaws tightened. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She held out her blade to see in front of her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her skin was fleshy, like squid out of which the glassy blades of bones had been pulled. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She emerged with her back to him, her hands over her head, the tops of her bare shoulder blades perspiring, supporting something still hidden from view. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Odom had fallen against a blade down at the lumber mill. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We pounded the furrows with shovel blades and hoes, trying to break down the soil. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Press your thumb and index finger against the grip. Thumb and finger control the blade. Not your wrist or arm.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A drop of sweat from my forehead splashes on the blade and the knife is just a knife again, just a tool, just a piece of metal in my hand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It satisfied him to see the Spirit Bear’s blood on the blade tip. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Between each finger was a blade, the points of twisted swords fanning out like talons from arms of the throne. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The battle-scarred blade had a word written upon it that he could not make out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He pointed his blade at the quivering Warlord. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The blade was two different types of metal—one edge bronze, the other steel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

From its fingertips, nails like long green blades of grass extended, curling over mottled, barklike skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had tossed off my covers while I was asleep, and the Dancing Fan lay facedown, its blades pushing air impotently at the floor. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She rubs the space between my shoulder blades—a gesture that always calmed me down when I was little. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He reached be-hind him, grabbed the wooden end of the shovel, and held it out to Zero, blade first. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The blade sliding through his unbuttoned black coat easily, hitting his heart as though it had always been its intended target, the silver handle jutting out just beneath his crimson scarf. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now he took the blade up again and walked to the window, where he stood for a moment, looking out across the courtyard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She doesn't look like she has any idea what I'm talking about, even when I clarify that a Rototiller is a machine with sharp blades that mechanically chop soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They won’t get homemade popcorn balls any more, though, or apples: rumors of razor blades abound, and the possibility of poison. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On those satellite images the city looked so small compared to the hurricane, such a tiny thing about to be cut to pieces by that gigantic spinning blade. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I jammed my eyes shut, knowing that if Dad’s head got caught, the blades wouldn’t even slow, just hack through his neck and keep chomping. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ash relinquished it, raising her finger to her mouth, and the huntress slid the blade under the rosy skin of the apple, peeling it off in a single smooth strip. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the drawing I did earlier of myself as the Grim Reaper, the blade of my scythe reading “LOVE.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"The blade . . . you must not," she begged him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I moved the throttle to the rabbit position—it had been on turtle—and pushed the left pedal down, and the blade started whirring. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

As I pull it free, the blade slices the air, dividing the kitchen into slivers. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A dance of death began as the warriors circled and slashed, leaping toward each other, whirling the blades around their heads, shrieking insults at each clash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The broad blade was mottled with dried blood and rust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The greatsword Ice was across his lap, and he was cleaning the blade in those waters black as night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A sword appeared in the giant’s hand—a Stygian iron blade much like Nico’s, except five times the size. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rowan had one, too—bright green bands bearing the curved blade of a farmer’s scythe above an unblinking eye—the double symbol of the scythehood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Good for you, brother,” he said, voice a rusty blade. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pointed the knife at the horde of Grievers; a flash glinted off the blade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

However, Meggie gave a warning cry, and the lizard darted away so fast that the tip of the blade struck the stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the ashes he spotted the charred blade of a hunting knife from one of the boxes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When I’m sure that he’s fallen asleep, I lie down at his back, my face inches from his shoulder blade. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the grass next to him, for once feeling the sharp edges of the grass blades against her ankles. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He twitched the machete again, letting the blade bob before Nailer. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And that was only water and a blade. Think what you might become if you were cleansed of thirteen years of dirt, neglect, and servitude.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She reached up with both hands and grabbed the blade with all her strength, pulling it away from her throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I clamp my teeth together as she teasingly traces the outline of my lips with the tip of the blade. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The scars on Poppa’s cheek had been three lines across his cheek, carved with a sharp blade. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I replied, and looked at the tiny spirals of dirt rolling along the stained blade of the knife. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The liquor on his breath was dank and smelled sharp as a razor blade. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needle went through his leather jerkin and the white flesh of his belly and came out between his shoulder blades. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Judging from the position of his blade, he would’ve taken me—maybe by sheer luck—in the small of my back, my only weak point. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The blade sliced through the air, impossibly fast. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“That was one of them beetle blades,” someone said. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As I run I hear the blade landing nearer and nearer to me, slicing through the bushes around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom brushed the poisonous fog away from his face, went over to check the ax blade . . . and promptly cut his thumb. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reyna grabbed the knife and straddled her, pressing the blade against her captor’s throat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it would buck, propelling whoever was holding it toward the dull, chomping blades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Briares swam after it, his hundred arms spinning like the blades of a motorboat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cold air slipped through the window sash and cut across my skin like razor blades. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At the sight of her jagged blade coming at him, his eyes widened and he stumbled backwards, cracking his head against the wall. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not of the sorcerer, nor his blade, nor even the way my manhood shriveled as it burned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Archer sat beside her and rubbed her back, his palm making smooth up and down motions along her spine, over her shoulder blades. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The blade was scrubbed, rinsed, dried, folded, and stowed away in a cupboard with the aid of a stepladder. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Seen up close, the hard-packed snow became glittering ice crystals, sharp as a thousand tiny blades. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he drew it, and its polished and well-tended blade glittered suddenly, cold and bright. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Bending my knees at the shallow end, I arched my back until my head and shoulder blades were resting on the water. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Again they rolled, entangled, a whirl of limbs and the machete’s blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her dirk was gone as well, and all her throwing axes; instead she had a sword in hand, a short sword with a broad thick blade, almost like a butcher’s cleaver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sheathed the blade, tossed it on her desk, and put her hands on her hips. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He almost reached the woman, but her blade flicked out. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Like a fox,” Ruthanne said, chewing on a blade of grass. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the bottom, the helicopter blades were still trying to turn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t one blade of grass in that yard, just dirt and rocks, with sprinkles of color here and there. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He pulled a Browning knife from the holster on his belt and unfolded the big blade. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No pain Theon had ever known came close to the agony that Skinner could evoke with a little flensing blade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Each length bucked him forward and twice he nearly pitched headfirst into the blades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gwydion’s blade leaped past one opponent’s guard and drove deep into his heart. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I grip my pen as though it were the hilt of a blade and forget to take notes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t bat an eyelash,” she whispered, and carefully lifted my hand to the wood handle of wire and blade. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His words, delivered so swiftly and with such disregard for our feelings, cut through me like the blade of a guillotine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“All blades are now polished to a perfect shine!” she announced. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It must’ve been a regular steel blade, because he was slashing the dummies’ heads right off, stabbing through their straw-stuffed guts. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The blade seemed to be sliding along a very smooth surface, like a mirror, and then it sank through slowly until he was able to cut. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of fencing blades clashing and loud chatter filled the room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Not a blade of grass in the small front yard, but rather barrel and prickly pear cacti and clusters of stones. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

My smile vanishes as he lunges for me, slashing me hard in the chest with the blade embedded on his armguard. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So she lifted and lowered the oar, watching the icy water fall in clear droplets from the blade, and soon the fortress loomed large ahead of her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bingo, the fight’s over because neither of those two girls wanted to mess with Peaches without a blade and they weren’t on their turf anyway. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Face grim, the farmer stepped close behind the mercenary and stabbed down hard, driving the whole of the short blade deep into the mercenary’s body where the shoulder meets the neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He pushed the dead Orc to one side, then hardly daring to breathe, he drew the knot of the wrist-cord up and down against the blade of the knife. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was clothed in a coat of velvet and diamond dust with long, fluttering tails in the shape of knife blades, and his boots were white spectral leather buckled with lys. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She could this in many different ways, with Kleenex or soap bubbles or maybe even a blade of grass. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Machinery hummed as the aerial blades that were still working changed to nautical form. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He dipped the blade of the knife into the can. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The Gran passed a box lined in black velvet material with two shimmering blades to Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

So the blade gets stuck halfway, the beast snapping its teeth at me and clawing at my arms as it tries to get free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His words washed over me as cold as the ocean floor, and my dreams went blade. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shadows passed over Tally, and she glanced up to see two hovercars following her, their blades shimmering as bright as knives in the midmorning sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

That doorjamb really hurt between my shoulder blades. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I then lunged, throwing my arm out, and my blade hit the top of her mask. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then he brings it toward himself, touching the tip of the blade to his stomach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blades whine, and the engines chug in a rhythm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She’d even given him a gift, a knife with the words “I die for love” inscribed on its blade. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was like an old, broken version of Dr. Cable’s, a rusty razor blade drawn across her nerves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You are amazing,” he cried, as Inigo increased the already blinding speed of the blade. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt back and shouted at me to stop, raising her blade so that it hung quivering in the air just between my eyes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And propped against the sofa was his magical sword, Backbiter, glinting strangely with its half-steel, half-Celestial bronze blade that could kill both mortals and monsters. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He raised the tip of his blade to Percy’s eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I jumped back, then counterattacked with Riptide, but Luke slammed my blade away with his shield. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Hit him with the flat of your blade until he finds his feet." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I pass him, he rests his hand on the top of my back to usher me out, his palm pressing between my shoulder blades. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He tried not to look at the hair on her head either, or at her face, turned away into blades of grass. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents, thinking I was bewitched, took me to a witch doctor, who made me drink a strange brew and bled me with a razor blade, all to no avail: I continued withdrawing into myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time his blade bit into the ground, he remembered the way it had cleaved into the wolf’s shoulder. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He cast his sword upon the table that stood before Elrond, and the blade was in two pieces. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know what Madoc would say—to push the blade higher. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As I start walking, I rub the blades between my fingers till they fall away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They sank their blades into the sea of stone—loosened by swings of Jake’s pick—and heaved it backward in a pitter-pattering shower of gravel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Squirrels and Carolina wrens hopped as close as they dared and drank from the puddles, and you could almost see the blades of brown grass lift themselves up and turn green. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a painting too vivid to be real—every pebble, every blade of grass sharply defined, the sky so blue it hurt me to look at it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If not the blade he would have chosen, it was nonetheless a noble gift, and freeing him from Alliser Thome's malignance was nobler still. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So I spent a lot of time along St Anna Bay, and at the Ruyterkade market talking to the blade people. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess you’ll have to stick with me, ” he said, wiping the blade with his handkerchief. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I opened it, hesitated, then slipped the knife, blade still open, back into my bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

With its blade, he drew a circle in the sand, and then he placed the snake within it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason told us to hold our épées steady with the tip of the blade pointed out in front. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“One touch, and the blade will sever your soul from your body.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In comparison, her English was as sharp as a blade, each syllable honed into a serrated edge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Will and Christina slap hands, and then Will claps me on the back with a hand bigger than my shoulder blade. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The droplets of water falling from the blade of the oar were tiny stars, extinguished as quickly as they burned into being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he laid the edge of the blade against the swollen throat of the creature on the straw, the skin split open in a gout of black blood and yellow pus. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With a long hooked blade, he sliced me root and stem, chanting all the while. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tall man drew a curved blade from beneath his leather coat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The blade is beautiful enough to catch my eye. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A nonresisting parry channels the energy of the attacking blade into a circular motion, turning aggression back against the opponent. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Using a blunt sterling blade, I scraped away the soot engrained under his cuticles, relics of his job tending to train boilers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Q—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"You . . . were not here," he gasped when the blade moved upward to his cheeks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Septa Moelle had stiff white hair and small mean eyes perpetually crinkled in suspicion, peering out of a wrinkled face as sharp as the blade of an axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the blade’s so short, he’ll have to be awful close for me to cut him, so I get the broom too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His beard was pointed like a spear blade. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He could hardly breathe; trembling so violently the water lapped over the edges of the pool, he felt for the blade with his numb feet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"His dagger left these scars. The blade he sent to open my son's throat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As he soared up out of a dive with wide wings white against the gray, something blade hurtled at him and struck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had Dad’s razor blade in his hand and was shaving off the faint hairs over his upper lip and laughing at the same time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are weapons?” she says, looking askance at the blades tucked in the ties at my waist. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His profile is as sharp as a razor blade. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My thumb brushes against the blade of the knife. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sight of such soil, curling behind the blade of his plow, must have made him feel happy and confident. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She put her shoulder blades back and realized that she was leaning against crusty bird droppings. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had his own cuttlebone that he rubbed the sides of his beak against like a knife grinder honing his blade. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He twisted the blade and as the shark slid loose he said, “Go on, galano. Slide down a mile deep. Go see your friend, or maybe it’s your mother.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pima shuddered in Tool’s grip, but she didn’t flinch as Richard touched her cheek with his blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the blades tend to slow down, so you have to twist your left wrist to add throttle, to keep the blades turning at the same speed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From up there, one could make out the tips of the rusted blades of Gul Daman’s windmill, on the left, and, on the right, all of Herat spread below. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her mouth fell open as she recognized what they were: razor blades. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After they had ridden for some miles, the highway became a wide street, paved with great flat stones, squared and laid with skill; no blade of grass was seen in any joint. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Snow fell away from the great blade in a gigantic wave. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Before I drove the tractor over to the cornfield I adjusted the blade on the mower to cut a half inch above dirt level. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Achren seized it again, gripping the sharp blade itself until her hands ran scarlet. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The blade was a hundred feet long, easy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I shouted above the clamor of blade upon blade. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the sharp blades of the bayonets and felt my stomach pitch with fear. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mother pulled my arms back until my shoulder blades touched, the proper posture for a lady. observed Grandfather as we departed. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade glowed faintly, casting a golden light on the rows of lockers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Other voices took up the cry, and now the arrowhead flew, a long scream of steel and silk, pounding hooves and sharp blades kissed by fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Piper didn’t look dangerous, but if the need arose she could dual-wield Celestial bronze blades or shoot her enemies in the face with ripe mangoes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The blade was thick at the point but had a sharp edge. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archer touched his temple with his fingers and held the blades of his hands together, opening and closing them like the covers of a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sharp stars pierced singly through the blackness, not sweeps of them or clusters or Milky Ways as there might have been in the South, but single, chilled points of light, as unromantic as knife blades. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thinkable that the razor blade might arrive concealed in his food, if he were ever fed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I feel the cold sting of the steel blade as the pieces of plaster fall away like the husk of a coconut. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Light rippled along the blade, refracting into a rainbow. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“So many of my trials seem to be by blade; this one should be no different.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It had come from having a father who shoved me toward the chomping blades of the Shear, instead of pulling me away from them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I lifted my hand and guided it lightly down the length of knobby bones between his shoulder blades. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Reaching over the table, he opened the book for Meggie at a place that he had marked with a couple of long blades of grass slipped between the yellowed pages. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the gray gloom below the grandstands full of screaming faces, their white blades flickered in and out of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Each time the blades entered the lake, they disappeared almost without a splash or ripple. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The blades are rusty, the edges dull, and the pair of sickles I pick up ain’t even weighted properly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He moved his blade to the expanse of yellow rind above the gouged eyes, and she could see him make three deep rippled cuts across the broad forehead. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down replacing the blade in the sheath. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the shark jerked backwards as he rolled and the knife blade snapped. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade and the handle still held together, but only just; any strain, the slightest push against the water, would break it off entirely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Summoning all my strength, I drew the blade against his neck. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gritting my teeth, I drag the blade down. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Reed took back his knife, blew the last splinters from its blade, and folded it up into his pocket again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A bipedal dinosaur with armor-plated skin and a pair of large cannons mounted on its shoulder blades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sneaky asks, picking blades of grass and tossing them into the air. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I tug on the silver sheath of arrows, but it's caught on something, her shoulder blade, something, and finally yank it free. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Trademaster had allowed the razor-sharp blade to make a shallow cut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wash felt a trickle of sweat begin between his shoulder blades. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a lever and flexed the heavy steel blade up and down, bringing the bottom edge to rest just even with the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

M► ^L. "Left," he shouted, and his blade came whistling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Small stone blades and points provided more length of sharp edge per pound of tool than the large stone tools they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He trades in fountain pens for ballpoints, Wilkinson blades and his boar- bristled shaving brush for Bic razors bought six to a pack. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He seized the blade of Mr. Armin's sword in his cloak-wrapped hand and, with a contemptuous gesture, jerked it free and flung it aside. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They wielded blades called hreshtek, sharp enough to slice a man off his shadow, and kept scorpions in brass cages hooked to their belts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The blade was stiff and narrowed near the end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

To help fund the war effort, the Hitler Youth went door-to-door, collecting brass, copper, scrap metal, razor blades, paper, and bottles to be recycled. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had two blades, one large and one small, a gadget to open cans with, a little screwdriver and a file. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had an officer’s sword with what he said was real dried blood along the razor-sharp edge of the long blade. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Black drops dripped from the blade and smoked on the floor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I think you’ll fit in just fine. Scythe Goddard likes those close to him to be as sharp as his blades.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But it was a valley of mere earth, rock and water; there was not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass to be seen. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Eurytion picked up the sword, careful not to touch the blade. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

One wielded a sword, the other an axe; the sculptor had depicted them in the act of killing one another, their blades and bodies forming an archway overhead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Would the man lunge forward with his own narrow blade? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Annie’s face softened only slightly, her words sharp as a blade. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Basta stepped back, examined the blade of his knife closely as if he had discovered a mark on it, then rubbed it clean on the hem of his black jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I slide my arms around his back and hold him, strumming the knots of his spine and the blade of his shoulder, weighing the events that have made us both who we are now. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The scythe stepped closer, and Easley suddenly found a blade pressed to his neck, to the right of his Adam’s apple. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She carefully selects an almost dainty-looking number with a cruel, curved blade. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But he dropped his blades to the grass. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I slide my hands up over her shoulder blades and pull her even closer. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her companions looked at it with wonder and suspicion, for they had never seen such a blade before, with such an edge on it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if someone had slid a blade into her and with one quick twist hollowed her out, leaving nothing inside but a cold rush of air. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pain of losing her sat lodged like a blade in both of us, right alongside the blade that had been embedded when we’d lost my dad. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The front yard—a rare thing in any house in the East Bay—was freshly manicured, the blades of grass practically uniform in height. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Using a razor blade, she nicked the next dot on one of her pencils and unraveled the paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haldon’s smile was as sharp as the blade of a dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I took out my knife, opened it, wiped off the blade and pared off the dirty outside surface of the cheese. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She passed her multiknife to Maddy, who pulled out a short blade and cut a piece from the arm of her jumpsuit. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There are lots of girls carrying all kinds of blades: foil, epee, sabre. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I go get it, sit out on a stump, running the whetstone over the blade. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think fast, swat his sword with my blade, knock his off of its course toward my chest. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Short crocus blades sheathed the purple-and-white hearts that so wished to be first they endured the chill and rain of early spring. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira entered and saw that he was wiping the blades of his tools and putting them away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew a sword, a slender bravo’s blade with a jeweled hilt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blades swept through the thickest stalks and met with no resistance. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the train and onshore, all eyes shifted from the leaders to the eight white blades barely visible out in the middle of the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"If only old Selmy's mind were as nimble as his blade," he said wistfully, "our council meetings would be a good deal livelier." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She produced from her robe the blade that had taken the man’s life, and set it down on the table. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The blade was leaf-shaped, and the writing on the hilt was Greek. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When it wobbled to a stop they cut a lock of hair off whichever of them the blade was pointing at. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The avenging mouse swung the sword up high; a million lights flashed from its deadly blade as it struck. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It didn’t feel at all like something that could stop a blade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And this time, with a wrenching crack, the knife shattered and the blade fell in pieces to the ground, to glitter on the stones that were still wet with the rain of another universe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Others rush to me, the mechanical women’s eyes flashing, their black parasols spinning like razor-sharp blades. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They prodded the prisoners with cutlass points and slapped out with flat blades at the helpless defenders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He sketched for her the new fan blade Samuel had invented for the windmill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Cooke dropped the Chicago Daily Tribune and pulled a long knife from his pocket; his thumb pressed a button and a gleaming steel blade leaped out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Many, many years lie on it. Surely this is a blade wrought by our own kindred in the North in the deep past?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Holding the knife with both hands, the small woman stabbed down, but the direwolf seemed to sense the blade coming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Half a millennium ago, the Scholars crumbled beneath the Martial invasion because our blades broke against their superior steel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gendy, he sawed the blade into the flesh and struck a bone. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The beetle blade had already revealed his exact position. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was a real girl, with two parents and one house and no blades flashing, breakfast was granola topped with fresh strawberries, always eaten while reading a book propped up on the fruit bowl. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Its blade slid over her forearm as she thrust her way past. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Past a deepblue beetle balanced on an unbending blade of grass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With shaking hands, she slid the blade across his throat, holding the horn cup beneath it, and drop by drop, his life fell into her hands. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He saw no battle lines, only a swirling chaos of banners and blades. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Riptide was now a shining bronze blade in my hands, and as the Chimera turned, I slashed at its neck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Blue Eyes screamed as his blade tore at the corded muscle of her neck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is sharp enough to split a virus cleanly in half, like a razor blade going through a peanut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the confined space of the snake’s den there was no room to wield the fabled blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I think that I am going to be caught, but the servant is the one to pick up the blade, and his gaze does not waver. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I could feel Gum Baby lying between my shoulder blades, shivering. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Rather than being killed by a blade or a bullet, he was hanged from a dead palm tree, where his body twisted in the desert wind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful knife with a gold-washed blade and red dragons curled around the handle. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stabbed a telkhine, and his black Stygian blade absorbed the monsters essence, drinking its energy until there was nothing left but dust. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes you just have to ..." Zero said, then he hit the jar against the blade of the shovel, breaking the top of the jar clean off. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The blade spun across the stone floor and slammed into the cavern wall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dug the point of his blade a little farther under my chin. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Wistfully, he gazed at the edge of the blade resting on the white skin; the gleaming metal reflected the tremulous fury of the coals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She just stood there, in numb and silent terror, staring at the blade against Mo’s bare throat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If there’s gems to be cut or blades to be decorated or arrows to be footed—that’s the job for good old Doli!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Millions of Europeans spent centuries behind the plow, staring at the blade as it ineffectively mired itself in the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He holds it in front of his face and flicks open the blade, then he leans forward and sticks the knife into the table alongside the other. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was cool and then cooler when Dri traced the starburst scar on my left shoulder blade with her fingertip. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed the blade deep into the folds of skin and twisted it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And like many inmates, he has scars: three inches long on his waist below the ribs, about one inch long on his arm, penny-size circles that look like two bullet wounds on a shoulder blade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back, pulling a blade; I would have shot him, but somebody grabbed him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who thought they did not need folded blades, packets of lye, shards of glass taped' to their hands. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He searched the ground and found the charred knife blade. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She hit me with the side of her blade and the coach yelled, “Point left.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His eyes were as dark as his blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tally turned away from the vulpine eyes, shut out the razor- blade voice. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was bent over counting blades of grass. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment, they held their position, the white blades of the U.S. shell flashing furiously alongside the crimson blades of the British. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A glowing circular saw blade of electric-blue energy appeared in my right hand, spinning fiercely. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

King Joffrey sat above them all, amongst the blades and barbs of the Iron Throne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed clean through her body as if she were made of water. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was just shorter than the length of her forearm, and though it was made of a darker metal than the other knives, it was simple, straightforward, and ground very sharp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Right where his belly button should’ve been, his T-shirt ripped open and he grew something like a horn—no, not a horn—the glowing tip of a blade. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fan’s front grate and blades were lying on the floor, and he was busily unscrewing another piece. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he poked a finger into my shoulder blade. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He tapped it with the edge of his blade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sellsword rose laughing and brushed a blade of grass from his knee. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He picks up the kitchen knife with the long blade. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the blade entered the water at any angle other than ninety degrees, the amount of power generated by the subsequent stroke would be compromised and the efficiency of the whole boat reduced. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It hopped to a higher blade of grass, preened, and sang its morning song. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a kitchen knife, its blade about a handspan long. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He took a step backward, raised his own wooden blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I let go and collapsed in the dirt, and the iron, now free, and being chewed violently by the blades, launched into the air then crashed down next to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The knife flies from Chandresh’s hand, blade over handle, spinning in perfect revolutions through the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A hundred blades dipped down into the water as the oarmaster's drum began to boom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Only Caelia pulls out a knife from her bodice, the blade too small to be of much use. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jimmy pulled the biggest knife I ever seen—I mean, like a machete—from behind the register and started banging the blade on the counter. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I recognize the intricate etchings on it—it's a Teluman blade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The great pale silver blade was rising slowly, catching the brilliant light. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Ugo had said the blade was found on his father’s person after the accident. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Bunny pushed his chair back and slapped me between the shoulder blades. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She tried to smile, but her heart was beating like a churning blade against her breast. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Greatness blends mind and body—not by winning against an opponent, but by focusing on your mind guiding the blade. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Corporal Kolodny tiptoed stealthily into Captain Black’s tent early the next morning, reached inside the mosquito net and gently shook the moist shoulder blade he found there until Captain Black opened his eyes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The blades were made of dense iron, twelve inches thick and five feet across. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Luke tried his best to fix me up, but he agreed that none of the practice blades seemed to work for me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I took his razor from the shower floor, bits of his black hair still caked between the blades. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Black blood gushed out and melted the giant blade as though it were no more than an icicle. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he lifted the blade above his head, sunlight seemed to ripple and dance down the dark metal, glinting off an edge sharper than any razor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We’d lie there on the cowhide and look up at the stars and listen to the warm night breeze rustling the corn blades. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning had turned bright and warm; dew still clung to bending blades of grass. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was a hatchet; not sight but touch told him —a hatchet with a heavy worn handle and a heavy gapped rust-dulled blade. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers flicker, like blades of grass shivered by wind. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He selected a short silvery dagger with a rubber grip, then one with a long black blade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Bright with banners, obsidian blades gleaming in the sun, the army advanced on the long-term enemy it had routed so many times before—and was utterly defeated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a good blade—strong, smooth, light. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then the blade disappeared between them, and when it emerged, dark liquid streaked its length. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He lunged with the knife again, cutting through the air with the bright blade, but Dustfinger avoided it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She gave a sideways push, snapping the cutlass blade in two pieces. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

From the tension in his neck, Hazel could tell that he was tempted to drop the charade and attack—one quick slash with his Imperial gold blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Amidships, Piper and Hazel practiced their swordplay, gold and bronze blades ringing in the night. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tonk had explained that a pair of thin blades, spinning so quickly that you couldn’t see them, carried the craft through the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She shakes her hair so it ripples over her shoulder blades and raises her hands so that they meet at the clasp of her brassiere. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was a knife in his hand suddenly, its blade thin as her little finger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then, using a wooden blade, he scored the surface of the clay in the drainage bed so it would dry faster. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The commander-in-chief dropped his blade cloak an the chest and stepped across to stand behind her. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the sweat building between my shoulder blades. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tip of it juts out and up like an ugly thumb and the serrashuns along one side spring up like gnashing teeth and the blade edge pulses like a vein full of blood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shoto took the sword and drew its ornate blade a few inches from the scabbard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But he did have money in his pocket which no country blade would have had after a big toot in town. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel his shoulder blades, his ribs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He took the small bottle and slammed it on the cement, breaking it into shards and blades. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I wrap the blade part in foil, and the handle in brown packing tape. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He kicked the blade of the shovel under the edge of the boards and stopped and got his lighter out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The train passes out of the trees, and a thin streak of moonlight catches the blade. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The blood was bright on the blade, and it made her stomach clench. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It had a pair of nubs above the bony shoulder blades. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The songs said it had taken a thou-sand blades to make it, heated white-hot in the furnace breath of Balerion the Black Dread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t imagine why that one word would be stamped on the beetle blade, unless for the purpose of announcing to the Gladers that it was evil. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

She pulled a sword out of thin air, swept Percy off his feet with the flat of the blade, and pressed the point under his chin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the cracked ceiling are light bulbs with slow, twirling blades. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One guy I knew took the comer of a razor blade to his arm and made a small cut each day. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon Mrs. Sen lifted the blade and locked it into place, so that it met the base at an angle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tied around the base of each blade were lots of bead necklaces. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden her hand slipped down the handle, struck the tang of the blade, and slid down the blade. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tap the side of the door with the blade and watch me walk up to the doors. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was blown away by their finesse; they could take the tip of their blade and hit their target with such precision. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The gold blade seemed to grow heavy in his hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Silas flicked an imaginary speck of dust from his sleeve with a fingernail as sharp as a blade. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He reaches out a hand and touches the ridge of Henry’s shoulder blade, the skin where the sheet has slid off him, where his lungs stubbornly refuse to stop pulling air. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Toward the end, the metal became much thinner, and at the very end of the thin bit of metal there was a tiny blade set at an angle. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if a hatchet lay lodged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man held Gabes neck with one gloved hand, raised his weapon with the other, and touched the tender skin there with the blade. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At last the talking was finished and the string-along songs about razor blades were over and the fight began. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I ran expecting death between the shoulder blades or through the back of my head, and as I ran I was trying to get to Mary's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rusted razor blades and bloody cloths were the most innocent items. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the image, that of a young girl calmly drawing a sword toward her body, pulling the blade through a man’s neck as she might have pulled a string through cheese. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The other one had gone after Chuck and was just about to swipe at the kid with a long blade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There didn’t seem to be any source of light except for Percy’s and Jason’s blades. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other ten swirled around him, just out of blade’s reach. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I slashed with Riptide, a good strike to the flank that should’ve cut the monster into Meow Mix, but the blade just clanged against its fur in a burst of sparks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Captain Soderland would stroke his beard; Josiah would wipe the froth from his mustache and clap the captain on the shoulder blade. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She laughed and threw a blade of grass at him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The wooden hilt was clean and polished, its silvery metal blade sharpened to a lethal point. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, Rowan’s blade hit its true mark, and ran Scythe Goddard through, all the way to the hilt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Pressing his foot against the top of the shovel, he flung his full weight down onto it, forcing the blade into the earth. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain,” said Bluebell, “do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saw him twisting the razor han­dle and opening the twin safety latches on the head, sliding the blade out, holding it between his thumb and forefinger. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Marine One helicopter could land on one side of the house, its rotor blades kicking up gale-force winds and slamming tree branches, but inside the residence we’d hear nothing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Robin took her place before the left propeller with her hands resting on the blade. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a ladder made of iron whose slick rungs were coated with ice that gleamed like neon in the circling blades of yellow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blade missed Håkon’s tail by a hair’s breadth, driving into the rocky ground instead. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The human twirled the mace as though it were a cheerleader’s baton, ramming it home between the troll’s shoulder blades. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He was shaved by a manservant with a blade sharpened daily, and his tailor’s bill could have fed a village. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And of course there was the sheer physical fact of her, the blood-tinged blade that she was, the riot of color that caught everyone’s attention. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His voice was like a razor blade running over my skin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She heard the crunch of sword on mail, saw sparks fly as the long curved blade glanced off a gauntlet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was a touch of rust already forming on the cutting edge of the blade and he rubbed it off with his thumbs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her knife falls through what sounds like potatoes, the blade striking the wooden cutting board beneath. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wipes the blade clean on his shirttail and slices the bread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hand curled around the smooth dragonbone hilt, and he slammed the blade into the table, felt it bite into the wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"I forgot, I would of . . ." Alfred tasted his own blood, warm and salty, and he felt the pavement scrape the skin off his shoulder blades. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mahogany top split into four pie slices, which elongated into wooden blades. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not so much as a stray piece of grass decorated the cutting blade, and the garage smelled not of death but of soap and Armor All. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There is nothing at all, not so much as a bent blade of grass, to indicate that anything had occupied the space hours before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The scorching blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eyes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the dark without moon or stars a drawn blade gleamed, as if a chill light had been unsheathed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the blades, a round brass boss proclaimed in curly script, Chicago’s Finest Wind Machine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When they reached the stem, the lad tied up their blades and slammed a shoulder into Duck, and the big man went into the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He slapped his hand on the incline of Patrolman Mancuso’s shoulder blade. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade’s image zoomed straight through the doorway, down a spiral stairwell, and into a dark, cylindrical chamber like the inside of a grain silo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he ventured to unbuckle the cumbersome sword, Eilonwy opened one eye, made an irritated face, and pulled the blade away from him—with more determination than he had expected. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The celestial bronze blade had to be destroying his essence. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"The false knight who profaned his blade with the blood of the king he had sworn to defend." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the blade sailed overhead, she lashed out at his legs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he picks my mind again, I swear, I’ll shove this blade through him, Augur or not. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His blade wedged in the wood, and she jumped toward him, letting the force of his own blow snap the upper part of the staff straight into his face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to ask you whether you’d got any razor blades,” he said. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“At least we salvaged the blade,” one said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The blade windmilled, its every turn visible to Thomas, as if the world had turned to slow motion. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

R.C. picked up his pocketknife, wiped the blade on his pants leg, folded it closed, and shoved it into his pocket “Let’s get out of here, Hiram. I’m done fishin’.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The blade was just like I’d seen in my dream: short, sharp, and dark as midnight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The heat radiated outward from where the bullet went in just below my left shoulder blade. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once hooked up to the scoring machines using a body cord, points register when any part of the blade makes contact with either the metal mask or the lame. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I press the cold blade of the knife against my skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A woman in black with ugly blue eyes and a curved blade. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And lying there it seemed that he saw every single grain of dust and every blade of grass and that he heard every cry and shout and whisper going up in the world now. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached over to the drawer that held his cutlery and pulled out a knife, brought the blade to the corner of the plastic bag. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The blade had caught him below the ribs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It touched draft horses hitched to wagons and sickle blades glittering sharp and ready at the beginning of an autumn day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked at the ground and saw solitary blades of grass poking upward. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In Wisconsin, as I was driving through, a hunter shot his own guide between the shoulder blades. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his flagging strength, he fought to raise the blade again. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He imagined beetle blades out there, helping the creatures find their way. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His blade flashed in the light again and again, and at first, Inigo was only too delighted to retreat. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man slowly unwrapped the shining blade and let the lamplight slip along it for a moment. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loud as the mower was, it still wasn’t moving and the blade wasn’t going around. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

In the air and at the girl’s fingertips, stuck in her hair and in blades of grass, like she had just broken free. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A few more slices of Grave’s blade and the rope would be severed entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She scooped a handful of silver coins from Hedge’s baseball cap, grabbed duct tape from the coach’s supply bag and began taping coins around her blade. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The blade gleamed long and thin, with an evil-looking curve to it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She hugs me quickly—the hug all fingertips and shoulder blades—and is gone without another word. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The magic blade sank to its hilt in asphalt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She let the blade slip back into its sheath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My blade hit the base of Luke’s and I twisted, putting my whole weight into a downward thrust. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed the blade to her palm and looked up at her, smiling. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where a blade should be on the sword, an outpouring of iridescent light appears instead, shimmering. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Celaena threw her dagger, and the blade clanged as it landed a hair’s breadth from the one she’d already embedded in the bull’s-eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His preparation was to dig a trench, heaping the earth in a long ridge beside it to hold the blades half-bedded. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His golden eyes turned toward her, and Percy charged, slamming his blade into Jason. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But Shawn chose a knife, and a knife whose blade was barely bigger than his thumb. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The gas stage lights shone on the shiny blade now stained with blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blades both cut into Sorrento’s right side, creating a shower of sparks, and to my surprise, they actually did some damage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Many of the men were drunk on clotted mare's milk, yet Dany knew no arakhs would clash tonight, not here in the sacred city, where blades and bloodshed were forbidden. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But I have no great skills. Mostly I do repair work. Perhaps if you had a dagger blade that was dulling, I might be able to please you. But anything more is beyond me.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I run a scissor blade around the package and lift off its top. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He’ll begin to rub his flint blade and say “This is your last chance.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The man-eating tigers, the spinning blades...But I still think a few ballerinas would be nice.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom reaches over, but I scoot down the couch, out of reach. at I pick up a lime-colored pencil and swish a tiny blade of grass on my page. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell forward, under Falconer's blade, and landed on his outstretched left hand, at the same time thrusting his sword before him, parallel to the ground. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He moves the knife in his hand, turning the blade toward my cheek. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

This time, I can’t help but wince as Mama’s gaze cuts into me, sharp as a blade. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

While she worked she kept an eye on the television and an eye on Eliot, but she never seemed to keep an eye on the blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I prayed when I fed the first piece to the blades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A detached parry uses the wrist, snapping fingers, and the blade’s flexibility to deflect. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Keep your guard up, Percy,” he’d say, then whap me in the ribs with the flat of his blade. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And as their lips touched, her blade slid through the meat of his neck, just below the ear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stuck the sword blade out the window, where it made a cloud of boiling bubbles. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Buddy Ray showed her the blade in his hand. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Flowers bloomed among the green blades, and a stream ran at the foot of the hill. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Clipper slid over to the line until the Orange’s blades were all but clicking up against the Huskies’. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His hands traveled down her body again, coming out from the dress to hold her neck under her hair, then her shoulder blades. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rowan and Citra trained with blades and staffs, sparring against the scythe, who was surprisingly strong and limber for a man of his apparent age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“He has carved up a whole...cohort of...goblin guards...with spinning blades. He’s ruthless….Aren’t you? And a killer....Of bad people.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When he faces the men again, he sees the light glinting off silver blades. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes! I have made two thousand seven hundred and forty-one magic swords,” Tyson said proudly, showing me the newest blade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could see Catherine in the stern but I could not see the water where the blades of the oars dipped. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A wraith struck her with its death-touched blade and the poison caused her heart to go cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The window was the same, open only a crack, and the wan sunlight lit up the blade of a chopping knife on the table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The giant spun, a dagger suddenly in his hand, and Reyna just managed to dodge the blade. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She stood over her friend, sweeping her blade back and forth to keep the giants at bay. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Each vest came fashioned with a harness that held small vials for Seven, holsters for Valley’s blades, and darts for the three of them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He thought it was suicide to wait for Grendel—Grendel the murderously all-powerful— without at least a good keen blade for company. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a jar a soldier took a sweetsmelling paste and smeared it on my back along the shoulder blades. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs whirligigged like blades, then they clamped around the pole, and he held up his hands to suspend himself like Spiderman. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He invents a machine to slice carrots: lift a lever, nineteen blades drop, and the carrot falls apart into twenty neat cylinders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The carving on the steel had the pearly gleam of a Damascus blade, while the stock flowed into lock and lock into barrels as though they had grown that way from a magic planted seed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world tumbled in on me like hay from the loft door, each blade cutting with knife-sharp pain. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The shovel stayed up a fraction of a second longer, perfectly balanced on the tip of the blade, then it fell next to him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

At the moment, the blade showed nothing except sky, but looking at it still made Percy uncomfortable. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sheer fluke that it was the blade's handle that hit my rib and not its fang. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wiped a circle on the fogged-up mirror and shaved with one of the hotel’s old-fashioned razors, the type that opened and you slid the blade in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and pushed the blade of the shovel into the earth and got busy filling a wheelbarrow with dirt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sounds of our blades clashing and an occasional roar filled the room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Tlie club caught me again, this time across the shoulder blades. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She smoked and picked a little bunch of grass blades. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then he lifted his blades, arms raised in a V, and roared. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I went down, my jaw struck the blunt side of the blade of an axe jutting from the side of the crate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His onscreen knight pierced the dragon’s hide with his steel blade. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The side was riddled with crevices and caves, spiked with jagged ridges like ax blades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"This blade was sent to open Bran's throat and spill his life's blood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I grab the blade out of her hand. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My anger sharpens like a blade toward the armored silhouette before me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness, and even the fingers that held it would be cut to the bone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He cut a sliver of cheese from a wheel and held it out to me on the knife blade. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the unexploded bomb half-buried in the ground at the start of Aleppo Way, its nose buried deep in the dirt, wing blades pointing at the sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luxa did a pretty good job with the meat, but then, she was used to handling blades. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not a blade of grass, not a speck of green to rest on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was able to get a look at every blade of grass in the Soviet Union," CIA director Allen Dulles said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered why the Grievers were just waiting—the beetle blades had obviously let them know the Gladers were coming. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Another helicopter soars overhead, the relentless beat of its blades making me anxious. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Kicking the rat over on his back, she flung the broken blade away and grabbed the rodent’s tail tightly with both paws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A pair of bravos passed in rumpled finery, leaning on each other as they staggered drunkenly past the docks, their blades rattling at their sides. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They flashed along the open plateau now, and the blades were both invisible, but oh, the Earth trembled, and ohhhh, the skies shook, and Inigo was losing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The adinkra was two crossed swords with holes in the blades and handles, and it pulsed with dark light. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Rocky was honing his knife; he tested the blade on a thread hanging from the sleeve of his jacket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He holds it out from his body and turns it so the blade points in, at his stomach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z