The wind blew hard and few bales of otter skins lay on the shore so probably the ship would leave at dawn. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d stretched our hands out as far as the tips of our fingers could go, touching the wind, trying to reach heaven. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The winds had been against them much of the voy-age, and without the galley's oars they'd still be beating their way past the Fingers, instead of skimming toward King's Landing and journey's end. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The tiny apples hung on that way; they didn’t seem to fall, even in strong wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had rained heavily, and though the rain had stopped, wind still blew, and the leaves of the trees fluttered and revealed their pale undersides. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I felt as restless as the wind picking up in the trees. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They continued up the winding steps, past empty windows and broken balconies. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Not even like rain so hard it wakes you up or the kind of wind that hurls tree branches into the streets. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They passed the Door and walked on down the steep winding road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The wind is biting cold and blowing from the north. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wet winds howled around them and waves rose like the fists of drowned giants to smash down on their decks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A cold wind sends the big dry leaves of plane trees rolling down the gravel lanes of the Jardin des Plantes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before he reached the corner, however, he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere, as if someone had called his name. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The only noise was the peculiarly bleak whistling of the wind through the upper branches. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On autumn nights, in some parts of the city, the wind from the lake brings a sweetish smell to shore. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the lush farmland or forest of Europe, but desert and wilderness, with hot, salty ocean wind that sucks the moisture from our lips. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the wind blew, little clouds of dust would rise in the road and follow the wind tracks across the fields. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived, on December 31, it was eighty-five degrees, and the Santa Ana winds whipped against the rickety walls of our motel room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind blew against his calves and then began to circle in front of him, picking up grains of the dark blue sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sound of the wind in the pine branches and the smell of snow from the mountain made him alert. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t mentioned Miss Lilian, my brother and I would still be telling tales about the old days, amusing ourselves while the rain fell and the wind blew. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Already it was getting cold and a bit of a chill wind was springing up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one bit of luck I got is that the river here is pretty calm, despite some splashing from the wind. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

How could it exclude every other smell, in open country on a south wind? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Fast by the wind, but very smooth. And how light his footfalls are!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Bran could hear the wind in the trees, the clatter of their hooves on the ironwood planks, the whimpering of his hungry pup, but Jon was listening to something else. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A cool afternoon wind blew in, cutting through the oven-hot kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If Chico was right, then they’d do this show, become big Broadway stars, and wind up with forever homes. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of chop offshore, plenty of wind, and it was difficult to navigate our way from buoy to buoy. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since the encounter in New Mexico—whatever had happened when that wild wind blew through—he seemed really fragile, even more emotional than usual. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sun sparkled on the ice and snow, and the wind blew the last clouds away. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe the wind would blow us in circles until the end of our days. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two Step’s voice came to her over the rushing wind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As Petey drove them home, windows open, hot wind tossing their hair, the song of the crickets seemed to reach a furious crescendo. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At one in the morning, Groves rolled out of his cot, pulled on a shirt, and walked through rain and wind to the mess hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The artist was trying, I think, to illustrate dust and high winds: Mars 3 had entered the Martian atmosphere during an enormous global dust storm. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house creaked and heeled as wind gusted. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, a gust of wind rushed through the treetops and then—thunk!—the robot looked down as another pinecone rolled away. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It dwindled at last to a country cart-road little used; but it did not wind: it held on its own sure course and guided them by the swiftest way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He shoved her in, jumped in behind her, and flapped the tiller, let the cobalt sail up to take the evening wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, wind whipped through the holler in relentless surges, howling through the trees and rattling windowpanes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The times are critical and dangerous and I must have you here to assist me....You must leave the farm to the mercy of the winds. I can do nothing without you.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

What was left of her, ice, snowflake, smoke, blew away in the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of clothes flapped in the wind—white sheets, Ralph’s blue dress, a red blouse and nightgowns—wet and fresh and blowing out in different shapes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A wind from the shore caught the camouflage netting on the Athena Parthenos and stripped it away, sending the silvery cloth rippling across the Sound. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not a cloud passed unnoticed, not a wind blew untested. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I watch her walk out into the darkness, all alone, with the wind blowing hard. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was a pop and he was gone, leaving a faint scent of grapes that was quickly blown away by the wind. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

But the air was chill again; already the wind was turning back towards the east. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Children’s Tower thrust into the sky as straight as a spear, but its shattered top was open to the wind and rain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She and Peris used to boast they’d never wind up so idiotic, so shallow. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The wind whistled and the snow became a blinding blizzard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wind in the grass, the big slate sky over the dunes, the house infested with mice and falling down, lull of candles and dirt and music. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the stone dust that the wind blew, thoughts kept circling in her head. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday, the day clear and cold with light winds, we set Auk XVI on the pad, sliding it down the launch rod. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The roar of the zeppelins was now much louder than the wind in the trees, and lights were moving about, too, shining down through the branches from above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m teaching him how it feels to have the wind in his face,” Joon said when I worried Harry might get dizzy. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

No, cold winds to blow this stifling heat away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were buffeted by a fresh gust of wind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We slept in the hay all night, waking when the wind was wild, sleeping again when it was quiet. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

She felt the gallop of a wild horse in her chest and the anxiety of a rider rushing headlong into the wind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything dried up all the plants the corn the beans they all dried up and started blowing away in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The commandant raises his left arm and yells, “Ten!” and the wind frays the word across the long expanse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just promoted you to Master of the Helm. The wind no longer guides us,” he says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Still, they would be impressed, he hoped, by the lovely bay windows, the shining parquet floors, the impressive winding staircase, the wooden wainscoting, as they sipped champagne and dipped samosas in chutney. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She pondered this, as well as the oblong shape of her pond, which was caused by the flow of the ice as it moved with the wind. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time he sniffed, trying to get wind of the peanut butter at the end of the maze. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, the deathless fires put out their glow and smoke on the darkling air, and even at this great height the clang of hammers could be heard in the snapping wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A stinging wind blew in a silver mist and the cold rock was hard and unyielding. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she spread her wings, was lifted by an updraft of wind, and spiraled skyward on a warm thermal. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pinmei and Yishan stepped through the doorway, the stone walls protecting them from the wind even as the cold seeped through the lattice windows. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was bleak, full of the sound of wind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In each crack grew a gnarly sea grape tree deformed from leeward winds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then I remember reading Horatio’s letter, and despair, like a cold wind, dispels the momentary peace. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When the wind blew the grass would sigh as the stalks brushed against each other, whispering in a tongue that only gods could understand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A chill wind was blowing, banging the shutters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sky lizards are already scurrying into holes inside the trunks, guided by some instinct they’ve known from a millennium of eight-hour wind cycles. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Service would be denied, voices would be raised, and she'd wind up drinking her tea at some pancake restaurant in midtown. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He felt guilty now, winding the soft cloth around the handgrips, so he told her what he figured she wanted to hear. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A cold, raw wind whipped dead leaves about the ankles of the four people grouped in the Sunset Towers driveway, but not one of them shivered. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My brother and I had gone to the head of a canyon that winds down to a little harbor which is called Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was cold with the first wind of winter. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a chilly day with a sharp, stinging wind—not the kind of weather for being outside. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But what if I threw caution to the winds and forced people to explain their first impressions and snap judgments anyway? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The point sailed over him and Jason flicked his hand, summoning a gust of wind that changed the spear’s direction. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t do that again!” he yelled against the wind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I stood up, bracing my body as best I could against the wind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy had joked about ashes scattered to the winds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I smelled old leather and dust on the wind there I knew I was close. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wind was so loud that it was hard to tell. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried closing my eyes, letting the wind slap at my cheeks, opened my mouth to swallow the clean air. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The usual low whisper of “Severus Snape?” greeted him, the chill wind swept him, and his tongue rolled up for a moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At the very next corner, deep inside the dense, impenetrable shadows of a narrow, winding side street, he heard the mysterious, unmistakable sound of someone shoveling snow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You could fake a drug overdose or something so you wind up in the ICU,” Kim says. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped daintily over the heather, scarcely seeming to press it with his airy trot and the wind made waves in his long mane, which had been freshly combed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Leo had anchored the Argo II between the pillars, Jason summoned the wind to carry him and Piper ashore. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Farmer was concentrating on negotiating the narrow, winding highway, with its dangerous blind spots. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He could hear tree limbs succumbing to the wind, great exhalations as their trunks fell on streets and roofs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As the wind, I watch myself journey to Cuzco with the Villac Uma to study the ways of the shaman. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Typically, the plane would have been flying on autopilot in that situation, reacting immediately and appropriately to wind shear. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Her mother, Mabel, had complained enough about her hard delivery, the rare frost that morning, the wind howling between the seams in the cabin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The wind blows my hair across my face, cutting my vision into strips, and I leave it there. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The FBI caught wind of this, set up a sting, and arrested Westerberg. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a morning of blue skies and no wind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nights were well below freezing now, and when the wind blew it was like a knife cutting right through his warmest woolens. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There the root borer is a serious pest of the banana, so weakening its roots that the trees are easily toppled by wind. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When it cleared, raw winds swept down from the north, whistling through corridors and hall, sending up whirls of dust in the courtyard, billowing the tapestries that hung on the wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The wind- bent boughs of trees were frozen in place. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

That night the weather changed, and a wind came from the West laden with rain, and it blew loud and chill, and the yellow leaves whirled like birds in the air. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The kind you wind drives Tía Mari crazy because it tick-tocks too loud. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The long, upright bodies of the oarsmen were catching the wind, acting essentially as sails, hurrying the shells down the course. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If we tried, we could reach out and grab that laughter, the way a person can catch sparks flying out from a campfire, or dandelion seeds carried by the wind. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They walked through Seven’s yard, the sun making rainbows against the crystal wind chimes hanging from the trees. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His growl changed to a fierce song, its notes rising and falling along with the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The night was warm, but a cold wind was blowing from the lake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In and out, it was like listening to the wind through the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now a great wind blew the rain sideways, cascading the water from the forest trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“What about no wind on the moon? What about the American flag?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then she stooped, the wind singing in her feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Next to her, Gale ran up and down the railing, passing gas; but the strong wind off the Adriatic helped whisk it away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He gazed at him for another instant and then sniffed the southeast wind before he crossed the stream and disappeared into the trees, his outline lingering like yellow smoke, then suddenly gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was part of the job, helping clients prepare their homes for coming winds. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Sir Bors came from the northern hole to parley with the King and with the Constable—a long, indistinct argument or explanation which the people could not catch on account of the wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled over the wind, trying to sound more upbeat than I felt. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She flew to them, and the three falcons played on the invisible roller coasters of wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The fire had begun near the corner of De Koven and Jefferson and quickly fanned out thanks to increasingly gusty winds. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is why the typical chicken yard quickly winds up bare and hard as brick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The warm desert wind blows over us as Lita pulls me into the tightest hug ever. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jack, who had said nothing, began to choke and cough, and a gust of wind set all three spluttering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Why did New Guineans wind up technologically primitive, despite what I believe to be their superior intelligence? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But in 1989, driven by a change in the Supreme Court's treatment of death penalty appeals and shifts in the political winds, the attorney general's office began vigorously seeking executions of condemned prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Do you taste the wind and the night? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to be surprised when people like this wind up in the middle of a violent incident. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the thunder boom and the wind rage around the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

At eight o'clock the wind was blowing more strongly, but Lombard did not hear it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A work time, he thought, there had to be a work time each day when he could finish getting the boat back into shape, get it ready for when the wind came again. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind, hitting a pile of chaff, will scatter all the parched stuff far and wide; just so, when this gigantic billow struck the boat’s big timbers flew apart. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I buttoned my jacket against the wind and concentrated on Captain Billy’s sons Edgar and Richard who had jumped ashore and were helping Otis tie up the ferry with graceful, practiced steps. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me I hear Rocky wind up another howl. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was October, the weather had turned clear and warm, and the cottonwood trees along the banks were yellow and rattled in a south wind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You gotta beat the wind to make time,” Dad always says. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He opened the door and an icy blast of wind struck his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the deserted street until I could no longer hear the sound of the motor, only the hiss of the powdery snow that the wind kicked up in little eddies on the ground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because it was a wind strange to me, and therefore mysterious, it set up mysterious responses in me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nervous wind stirred the branches, but nothing more. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen of us have been removed to the Plover schooner and, receiving favorable winds, set off up the river, flying no colors. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The small town's cozy, winding streets and stooped buildings enfolded my fear like a grandmother's arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The March winds were warm, and they melted the snow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They descended faster now, the wind wailing around them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time they could hear the wind picking at the pine trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I stop to look at the emptiness beyond the Commandant’s window, miles of whispering dunes, rippling like waves in the dawn wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Distant but deep there came up on the wind a roaring sound like the roll of thunder heard far away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sage — low-growing and shrubby — could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Still, he was alive, and the wind was in his hair, and the cloud was scudding through the sky like a galleon at full sail. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The three adults paid tribute to Amaroq until he was almost smothered with love; then he bayed a wild note that sounded like the wind on the frozen sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roaring of the wind didn’t seem as loud. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra kept her sweet rumba up, imagining congas winding beneath a softly humming voice, letting Robbie’s eyes take her in fully. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All her strength seemed to have forsaken her, as if the next gust of wind might blow her away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

People used to say it even has its own weather; the winds from outside do not blow through it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then it seemed to Frodo that she lifted her arms in a final farewell, and far but piercing-clear on the following wind came the sound of her voice singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kiyo, nearly thirteen by this time, looked forward to the heavy winds. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods would smile on him, and Osiris himself, Osiris the Merciful, would speak out of the wind to him and direct all his affairs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Meggie’s voice died away as if the wind had blown it from her lips. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A northeast wind kept blowing the ruffle on her bonnet away from her face. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This ruler began his trip after the start of the winter, a winter that came early and harshly with winds that whipped and screamed at the mountain peak. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And sometimes that expense winds up being a shattered skull. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We went straight, regardless of the wind, at a steady speed, cutting through the waves instead of riding them, with but one purpose: to get there. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Gabe looked through the window, down at the winding paths that crisscrossed the village. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is the sound of the wind hitting the eaves. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Immediately, two or three others cried out also, and a wind, a foretaste of that great down-pouring they awaited, swept the church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Harry’s seemed to be picking up every sigh of the wind, every cracking twig. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A wave of desert heat knocked the wind out of his lungs when Nathan finally stepped out of his father’s SUV. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A few airborne seeds swirl in the wind, then drop into the chasm of shadow between houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The cold wind blew, banging the crippled doors as we went inside. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Yellow fever had scattered the residents of Philadelphia to the four winds. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wind through warrens of hallways, past a warder who drops his newspaper and sits ramrod straight as they pass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They dragged me from the second place to the third place, every voice sowing the wind, all things summoning the whirlwind that would sweep us all away to drown in the deepest sea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My tail will be in the wind from now till we leave, I know that. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Jason’s brain was still fuzzy from his wind trip, so it took him a second to process that. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I can hear my own exhales despite the whistling wind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the little bit of family history Vonetta had first recited spun itself into a long, winding yarn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And when the string became the width of Minli’s little finger, a strange clattering — like a wooden wind chime — filled the air. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

At least it kept the wind off our skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a winter wind that was bringing tears to his eyes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, Katie’s piercing screams had died away and the only sound was the roar of the wind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were squalls of rain on the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all whispering now, for it was like entering a vast open library or a mausoleum in which the wind lived and over which the stars shone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind freshened throughout the night, gradually increasing until the Frog was boiling happily along at a steady four and a half knots. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun shone at right-angles to the north wind, leaving the east side of the furrows white with frost. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tannery stood, its bricks and cement had held it together despite the raging winds; but the workers’ huts, of more flimsy construction, had been demolished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He winds the watch slowly, regarding the hands intently as they swirl around the face. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The necessary dust would require 1,200 Saturn 5 rocket boosters to be transported from Earth to Mars; even then, the winds might blow the dust off the polar caps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nah, I was thinking that wind is making a pretty song.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned into the cold wind and ran towards the street. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let the wind blow warm, let the days be heat hazy; nevertheless autumn had come to Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew a low, plaintive moan, the beginning note of a lamenting song. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Magdalys yelled as the smell of salt water reached her on the ocean wind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Fetch it, good man,” and Jasper streaked away in search of the stone, his long black ears flopping in the wind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pretending to aim toward the waves, he spit so the wind would catch the thick saliva and carry it back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The wind did not blow until the sun was overhead. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the light rain began to blow on the wind although the sky was not properly covered with cloud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that one of Ebola’s paths goes from the dead to the living, winding in trickles of uncoagulated blood and slimes that come out of the dead body. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last moment they scooped the wind with them, flapping them vigorously. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon the wind and rain calmed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He could almost smell the salty ocean wind. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A lasso—a rope of wind, more tightly wound than any tornado—wrapped around the horse’s neck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, bluster. I keep forgetting my symbol is a basket of unripe fruit. Why doesn’t the spring wind get more credit? Summer has all the fun.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A south wind was blowing up from the sea, rustling the black trees of the gardens, and through that warm stormy summer dusk I hastened from him as from a murderer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Abbey and I had hoped, the current and the wind were in our favor, transporting the dye down the shoreline in a shiny stream from Dusty Muleman’s basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He transformed quickly into that shimmering flag of gray, then exploded into a cloud of mist, whisked away by an unfelt wind. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

To raise more money, Bennett has followed a grapevine of affluent evangelicals around the country, winding up even in places where evangelicals would have been a rarity just a few decades ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He stood there perfectly still, the wind ruffling his hair and the dull light glinting from the rims of his glasses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kat kept winding a strand of hair around her little finger and then unwinding it. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fine and dark, though the wind had made a tangle of it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the young people in DJJ facilities were tried in juvenile court, as those who go through adult court usually wind up in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins blew out the light very early, and went away as hurriedly as though all the winds of the world were blowing behind her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He and I had a good time finding limbs that were twisted and bent by the wind, the sun, and the ice. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax recognized that wind—the story she was about to relate would end with blood on the snow and cold steel jaws. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The boy spread his wings to their full limit and soared ' away on the wind. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I slashed up with my sword, heard a sickening shlock!, then a hiss like wind rushing out of a cavern—the sound of a monster disintegrating. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They needed to get their act together, learn how to wind an alarm clock, get out there and get to work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father cut the motor and twisted the rear rudder hard to the left, tilting the front rudders upward so that the wind lifted the right side even more. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling rose up in me like a column of wind, but when it got to my mouth, it had no voice, no words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt followed a winding path through the gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their long undersleeves, which they had pulled out to wipe their tears, flew white mourning in the mountain wind. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Migrants huddle between the cars or with strangers, seeking protection from the biting wind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Through the late afternoon and evening, the wind sculpted the snow first into low mounds and then into strange, sharp shapes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The cold wind slaps my face as I pedal home, brings me back to my senses, makes me furious with myself. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A sound like howling wind, or a screaming girl. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He caught hold of the window, hoisted it slowly up and the wind blasted his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt humbled by the size of the full moon, by the chill wind that swept wide across the foothills of the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could not even see the sun, and the force of the Harmattan wind almost knocked me over. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is one road from Wall, a winding track rising sharply up from the forest, where it is lined with rocks and small stones. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

My anger drained into the wind—a little bit. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A night wind whispered through the great windows, sharp with the smell of the sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With the wind the way it was he might wait all day for a shot, unless something startled them on the other side. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, winding inside, pieces are trying to come together, synapses trying to form, a complete story trying to connect within. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I whispered it into the pillow: I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I’m me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moaning of the wind and the cries of the animals outside mixed into the thin smoke of incense and the fragrance of piñón wood burning in the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, blowing fine Whfll spray across the raft Then the stars came out We stayed in the middle of the raft, side by side, as it drifted aimlessly over the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind she walks a path in the Jardin des Plantes, the air golden, the wind green, the long fingers of willows drifting across her shoulders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wind was at his back and the stars guided him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened again, and the cold wind suddenly gusted through the room, rustling the papers on the desk, swirling my hair around my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I hear pounding—doors flung open by wind; shutters slapping against windows; glass cracking, breaking like a thousand bottles. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The wind still pushed and pulled at me with slapping hands, and it still wormed up my sleeves and down my neck. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He came across the meadow, moving into the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The howling wind flung itself at the house with a fury that frightened him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Or had it really been so short an amount of time?—you could hear the wind rushing in an open window, a wind that dropped a few small, spiky leaves to the floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Every day the temperature soared toward 100 degrees Fahrenheit or more, and dry winds blanketed the camp with a fine, red dust that covered the ground like snow. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later he walked up the beach, his long shadow reaching over the sands before him, sawing about with the wind in the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A hot wind from the street rose up the stairs, fluttering our skirts and causing me to turn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spacecraft descending on the shrouds of a large parachute is particularly vulnerable to horizontal winds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another month the grasshoppers would be dead; autumn wind and old age would chill them bone white, leaving their hollow shells to swirl with the dry leaves in the ditch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel and the wolf eyed each other as the wind danced around them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wind was so strong that it carried off some of the soil from the surface of the ground, and then the hurricane drove a wall of water up the Angara. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stiff winds that plastered snow onto the face and made the eyes water had calmed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was sailing fast into the face of a cold wind that all but sucked his breath from him; but he liked it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A little wind sprang from nowhere and blew into my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The drive to the movie theater was quiet, with only the wind breaking against the edge of the windows. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When the girls reached the beach, the tide was high, and the ship — a magnificent reproduction of an eighteenth-century sloop built on a studio lot in Hollywood — listed and limped in the high winds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There are five behind us, and when they find your trail upon the Road they will ride after us like the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The brightness outside hurts my eyes and the wind makes them water and the screaming on the playground stabs my ears. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Hanako grew more winded than him as they ascended the path. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It had no foundation, but was tossed hither and thither by waves and winds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had learned at Delhi that such a wind would be followed by a cold front. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The window creaked as I eased it up, and the smell of horses and other farm odors hit me, right before the wind issued a warning. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wind blew steadily for one more day. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worried these questions the way Mr. Whiskers worried the mice he caught; worried so, in fact, that I barely felt the piercing wind the whole ride home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Colin sat there for a while listening to the wind tease the trees as clouds moved in above them, and he let his mind wander. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I call to Ruby, but the wind tugs at my words and I know she’ll never hear me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It was very warm for March, and the kite wind blew steadily from the south and turned up the silver undersides of the leaves. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My body hung in the grip of the wind for a long second before my feet touched down. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even in the enclosed quadrangle, the wind was whipping it into spray. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It led to a staircase, but one that winded upward to the level above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On Friday it was still cold, with a strong wind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

This kind of sunshine and ocean, with the accumulating roar of the surf and the salty, adventurous, flirting wind from the sea, always intoxicated Phineas. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He listened to the wind over his ears, cool and whispering. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was no voice, just the wind passing through the yew trees, just the occasional lapping of water against the hull. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No! No!” shouted Arm, but the wind tore his voice away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind flutters them over the cobblestones like snow. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Often the sea wind made its single traffic light flail from side to side or caused the town’s electrical power to flicker out and stay out for days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Out in the camp in the light of the fire Pickett was winding down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blast of searing hot wind knocked them off their feet. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The maples and birches turned bright colors and the wind shook them and they dropped their leaves one by one to the ground. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wind was high, and the sharp desert sand blew hard, stinging Bod’s skin. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The winds and sea spray whipped against our faces, making it hard to see or even move. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The wheels screamed on the steel rails, and wind rushed through the narrow space, hurling dust and loose papers down the platform. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They rushed down the front steps and along a winding path, going through darkened gardens until they reached the edge of the desert. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good boy,” Miss Maggie said again and again as she led him out of the barn and into the wind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They were sheltered from the wind and they wrapped themselves in their blankets and took turns watching but after a while the boy was asleep. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even the rain was a soft blessing against her face, and the warm June wind brushed away some of the terror of what had just happened. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I had fallen onto my back, the wind knocked out of me, my ears ringing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I can feel the wind fighting to break through our storm windows. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sphere was ten feet away, hissing and spinning as the winds inside began to stir. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m on the floor, leaning into the front of the couch, winding the cords of my new earbuds around my fingers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The Doctorita starts clanking around in the kitchen, blending together bananas and sugar and milk in a mixer that shrieks like the wind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were us, the indfgenas, with skin as rough and ruddy as freshly dug potatoes, cheeks chapped raw by the sun and wind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the dimming sky and feathery clouds fanning the wind were above. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If you hear anything speaking to you—in the wind, in your ear, whatever—just ignore it. And tell someone. Don’t leave the camp alone.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The din was on the causeway: a horse was coming; the windings of the lane yet hid it, but it approached. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But a Santa Ana wind blew in, in the middle of the night. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The crowd began to break apart and stream from the yard, queen’s men, king’s men, and free folk alike, all anxious to get out of the wind and the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind carries the haunting sound of sobbing to my ears.. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mastery of the Reynolds number, and using that knowledge to build wind tunnels that successfully simulated real-world conditions, was the key to the NACAs success. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I think he had the sense to see, when the rest of us didn’t, what was in the wind for us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had been knocked out of him, and his knees ached where they’d thumped against the hard ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She missed dinners in the mess hall, with wind spirits whisking platters through the air and legionnaires joking about the war games. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was no sound but the wind and the water, no voices, certainly no gunshots. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His mother came down in a hired auto, in a fur suit like an arctic explorer’s, and saw him off in a twenty-five mile wind and a steady drove of ice floes like dirty sheep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

From below there came a roaring, rushing sound, like the crash of surf on a stony beach, but he knew it was the wind tearing through the leaves on the trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winds were thirty-five miles an hour with gales up to fifty. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They moved at a great speed as soon as they had left the hills, and made a noise like a rushing wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She clenched her hands into fists and turned into the wind, letting it stream over her head, loosening her hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sam whirled to see the mask seemingly floating in the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you went down the river long enough, along its sinewy windings, you’d reach the sea; but what could you do there? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And wind creeping through cracks, rattling and banging loose boards and shutters. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wind came on, and the day grew miserable. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A huge orange moon was rising just above the trees at the far end of the garden, and a branch of an old lilac tree tap-tapped in the light wind against the window pane. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain is white, the wind blows, the snow is hard packed, but spring is beginning in their hollow maple. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has to shout over the wind, which blows harder through the open doors by the second. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then the wind went again, it was hot and sultry as before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wind took the Frog backward, but with the sails loose and slatting she moved so slowly that she was effectively still. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady faced the wind, lifted her wings, and was airborne. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Aru could feel an invisible wind stirring against the back of her neck. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The air was cold and dry and there was no wind. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A chill wind was blowing and the sun lit the mountain peaks with golden reflections. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in my bed, the wind pouring like a river through the room, and tried to sleep. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He winds the handle on his door and his window slides up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The canvas or sacking screens of their perches moved heavily in a breath of wind, like banners in a chapel, and the rapt nobility of the air kept their knight's vigil in knightly patience. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No, thanks. I just want to rest here and get my wind again.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She looked at the sunlight filtering through the canopy, how the trees swayed in the wind with their long, bony arms around each other. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I inhale deeply, tracing the hard lines of his jaw with the tips of my fingers, pondering the winding paths that life presents—ends leading to beginnings and back again. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We’re halfway through it when another feeling finds its way to my stomach, winds up, and spills. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he sighed, a deep, trembling sigh that filled the silence of the room like a wind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She spotted the sphere of winds at the base of the foremast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Strange spices scented the chilly autumn wind, and he could hear faint cries drifting over the wall from the streets beyond. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But finally it had to recognize that, even making its way around the world, it didn’t know how to turn a man into the wind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a momentary—part of a second—hitch in the roar of the wind, a tiny hesitation and the full force of the storm hit the Frog like a giant sledgehammer. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without trees to tame it, the wind blew wildly, burning Minli’s cheeks red with cold. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“There were regions, open to the sweeping winds and rain, which were yet lighted throughout the night with long, blinking lines of gas lamps fluttering in the wind.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The passage seemed to go on for miles, and always the chill air flowed over them, rising as they went on to a bitter wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My masquerade continued until my father got wind of it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we have the defoliant, the Collective will have us return to the surface once the winds are calm. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Out of the wind came a clap of thunder. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He called the wind and the wind came. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pinmei’s eyes burned with tears, and the wind shrieked as the night darkened the sky, the paper of the window flapping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The wind is getting up now; the heat is about to break. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and felt the voice of his sister-in-law wind around his heart like a ribbon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

All in all, he was pleased with the change, although he missed the doves cooing on the roof and the wind blowing through the poppies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working without a single hard fact, islanders drew a variety of conclusions: pilot error, pilot inexperience, misread charts, crossed signals, fog, wind, tide, ineptitude. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that we were at least a hundred feet below ground, they were filled with a steady, rushing wind that smelled of dust and leather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The lilac jacaranda tree by the gate, leaning backward over the fence as if the wind had made it laugh, was exactly as I remembered it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Brullo shouted something at the other nineteen remaining Champions scaling the castle walls, but from seventy feet up, the wind carried his words away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A whisper of wind brushed through the palace’s rooftop garden. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wind blew so cold, like white fire. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now, again, return seemed easy: the high gods wound the wind into the east, and back he sailed, this time to his own coast. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great ribbed belly of the zeppelin bulked over the bomb, straining at its cables in the wind, its silver sides running with moisture. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But being inside still blocks the wind and cuts the sharpness of the weather. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mr. Cross, Mr. Thompson was just on your back yelling yee-haw while circling his arm in the air as if winding an imaginary lasso." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The thick walls shut out the clamor of the castle, and he could hear birds singing, the murmur of crickets, leaves rustling in a gentle wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mama Ya-Ya is outside using her senses: sniffing for sea salt, feeling hot wind, listening for the roar of water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The opening led us into a winding passage that ran steeply downhill for perhaps a mile. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To turn the force of the wind and sea, the force of the earth and a person, into a dance across the water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind gusted, whipping the man’s hair into Mark’s face and rippling through their clothes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now, with the music off, there’s just wind, and rustling brush. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing harder than anything I’d ever experienced anywhere, even on the Patagonian Ice Cap, a place reputed to be the windiest on the planet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"The wind can be a little scary here, my lady." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The wind, it seems, isn’t discriminatory in which kind of plant pollen it blows. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then a gust of wind through the door made the torch sputter, and the semblance was gone, washed away in orange glare. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was swinging wildly as strong winds buffeted the gas bag, and the witches pulling the rope were barely managing to hold it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A long-drawn wail came down the wind, like the cry of some evil and lonely creature. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The raincoat flapped in the wind and started flying about the bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was a little while before Harry became aware that the voices of Katie Bell and her friend, which were being carried back to him on the wind, had become shriller and louder. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I found myself running, fighting the wind around the head of the bay toward the pier where the boats were breaking up. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Beyond the farms, palm trees waved their fronds with the moving wind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

All around our fire was darkness and wind and the mad, roaring river. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The Black Tortoise needs help,” hissed the snake, its voice like the wind through pine needles. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Likely to be headed into the wind all the way in.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up and blew my hair in my face. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they bounced off each other they lost their grips on the rope, and it was sucked into the Mr. Flux cyclone, which spun in such a blur he was more like wind than man. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The water had flattened out some, but the wind was as steady as it had been all night. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got the wind knocked all the way out and it takes awhile to get it back, a little at a time. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The standards of all five cohorts curled in the wind. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Just headlocked him, flipped him pretty hard, knocked the wind out of him. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There was then a silence, broken only by the sound of the wind in the leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wind, which was also increasing in power, took all of these burning objects and blew them over the heads of the firefighters. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And winding up my heart to hyperspeed, and using my stomach like a trampoline. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And there was a gigantic wind blowing into the car, and Raymie’s soul was as big as it had ever been before and she felt not one bit afraid. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Two men and two women, wagoneers, rough from years of being outside and smiling to be spending a night out of the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The water was desolate, the sky was cloudless, deep blue, and the wind was steady, strong, and dry. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart, facing into this wind, felt that he was uncreated. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was almost no wind, even up on the bluff, and the smoke curled and wafted upward like a curtain quivering as it shuttled across a stage. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I listened to the wind bending over the prairie grass, I realized I’d never have my leg as good as new. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d silenced Matthias’ conscience with prejudice and the promise of a divine calling that was probably nothing more than the wind moving through the branches of an ancient tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was something helplessly fragile about him; he looked as if a wind would blow him down. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wind went like grey waves through the endless miles of grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Just as the skeletons opened fire, the pearl fragments at my feet exploded with a burst of green light and a gust of fresh sea wind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their sails would belly out full and white before the wind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their flight followed the course of the river, and she saw the fires spreading across to the other shore, driven by the wind of its passage. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Crosby led her back in and she started up the ladder, the wind snapping her dress around her legs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rocked backward as if assaulted by a strange wind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wind was still whipping up a furious ground-blizzard at the surface, but far above, the sky had begun to clear, revealing the hulking silhouettes of Everest and Lhotse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She carefully walks down the stairs, which wind around a corner. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And something had happened to the Dust wind: instead of that slow drift, it was racing like a river in flood. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wind shifted lower, and so did Dad. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was light, the seas were calm, and although they saw the glitter of those great snow white wings more than once, the birds were wary and stayed well clear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That evening, just after supper, the wind rose, and the rain fell down the wide chimney and hissed in the fire. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing more steadily here, and I was beginning to feel cold. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, in the small hours of the morning, the wind stopped flaying them and began to taper off. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She ended with a slow, subdued flourish of treble chords and finally one soft single bass note, like a Graphophone winding down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the old days, the winds swept through the irrigated plains around Jalalabad where farmers grew sugar­cane, and impregnated the city's air with a sweet scent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He turned round, but all that he saw was the wind moving through the dry brown grass and a rain bird circling in the sky. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A warm wind came from over the vacant sea and blew the dust into their faces as the captain turned the Bible pages. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being in motion, outdoors, with wind in his face made him feel alive—it brushed away the anxiety that since his mother’s death had seemed to be nibbling continuously at the corners of his mind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But then I would realize that I had just seen moss swaying in the wind. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since the wind was very cold and I was no longer afraid that the Aleuts would find me, I made a fire in the cave and cooked a supper of shellfish and roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon the sky cleared, the wind died, and the seas slicked off. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He summoned the winds and flung three ghouls off the side of the hill like rag dolls. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He looked like he might have been blown in by the wind. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t know how to turn you into the wind.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to the bottom, I kick the sand out of sheer frustration, and thanks to a gust of wind, some of it flies right into my eyes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was nearly knocked over by the power of it: a gale-force wind, ice-cold, biting into her face and pulling at her clothes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They believed that holy wind would always defend Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither one answered, or if they did, the howling wind drowned out their responses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I found it hard to be bad tempered on the top of a hill with ocean all around, the western sky like a painting still wet, the wind soft and warm. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wind grew louder and made wild noises in the ravine. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them the wind washes frost from the trees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Random harpies and wind spirits flew by overhead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the water is so still, sometimes bubbles come up, sometimes the wind comes and the water’s got ripples across the surface. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, and the wind had died down to its usual whisper. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Peruvian littoral, it is bracketed by sea and mountains, but it catches, rather than misses, the prevailing winds, and the rain that comes with them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As Hazel still went up, the south wind began to blow and the June sunset reddened the sky to the zenith. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we wind along the narrow mountain roads, I try to re- member everything I can about what happened to my cousins Zoyla and Gregoria. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trail entered the brush at last and followed a winding route among the tall sagebrushes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful clear day, and when I got to the top, the wind danced the ends of my hair so they tickled my neck. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind bowled into me like a charging bull. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Something slithered in Emily’s belly, as if a snake were winding its way around her stomach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The horse was stamping her front feet and blowing her nostrils open wide to catch the mountain-lion smell that was on the wind now. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then all I could hear was the sound of the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wind rippled the water but otherwise all was silent. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I moved like the trees in the wind. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bitter wind came down off the mountains and through the barbed wire and hurled the desert sand in their faces. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lupita let the cold night wind blow on her and stared at the sky. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

With a millisecond to spare, he’d summoned the winds and avoided becoming a floating patch of demigod grease on the surface of the Adriatic. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some nights, at ten or so, they climb a steep, winding path to the top of another hill. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He hoped the wind would not be blowing in the woods tomorrow. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person’s bare right hand, naked to the frigid wind and grotesquely frostbitten, was outstretched in a kind of odd, frozen salute. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

All my sense of time and direction was scattered by the wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The wind died down to little puffs, my own breath. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A part of me wants to run, but the other part, which envisions sprinting down the road in nothing but a wet bra and underwear, decides the wind pushed the door open. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When we were winding up our conversation, I briefly asked Bram about Molly, his wife. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ryna’s Gulch is up ahead. It makes that sound when the wind hits a certain way.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wind set the leaves to rustling, it was like a chilly finger tracing a path up Jon's spine. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Beowulf took the role of her desperate sea captain father, while Alexander ran about them as the storm, howling like the wind, and quite convincingly, too. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The wet grass glittered and nearby a nut tree sparkled iridescent, winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had died down completely and the sky must have cleared. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Paper birds swirled around the knoll in a spiral winding tighter and tighter and tighter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The small wind moves with me, a warm touch against my face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those looks could travel around a room as quick as the wind, replacing all conversation as soon as you entered. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She pushed the door open, peeked in, and saw that the ashes of his fire were still hot; wisps of smoke drifted from the chimney and disappeared with the wind into the gray sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Cinna showed me. You can practically see the whole city. The wind's a bit loud, though." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even the wind seemed to be blowing colder, and Turner shivered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When you wind it up, it can do something I’m sure no other automaton in the world can do. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She watched him wind it around the wrapped book and tie a neat knot. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

No wind or boats disturb it; the whole area is peaceful, quiet. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Groans from the hapless radiators, coupled with the slamming of the wind against their windows, had kept them awake through the dark hours. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wind of the morning ruffled the water of the estuary and whispered through the mangroves, and the little waves beat on the rubbly beach with an increased tempo. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a sound like mountain wind, a sound so high it could drive you crazy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cold wind follows courtiers through the doors leading from the Royal Game Salon dock. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At the moment, arguing with a crazy wind god seemed safer than befriending an angry son of Hades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Only the wind, he thought, nothing but the wind. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, I began to sense a greater underlying pattern to the way the wind moved through the courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sound of the wind echoed between my stinging ears. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“New laws for each new form, of course. New lines of potential. Complexity beyond complexity, accident on accident, until—” His leer was like icy wind. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a gust of wind puffed through the sackcloth covering a hole in the window; the candle flickered but did not go out. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wind drove her again and she hit the next wave and nearly stopped again. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This morning he said you were full of college-boy wind,” I said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quick, powerful puffs of wind create brush and bush sparks, trees become mammoth flaming candles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But they were nothing like this quiet harnessing of wind and the sharp keel cutting through silken water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it,” I said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her flour and hurried outside, sighing as a cool wind hit her face. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The sound of air being sucked upward through the furnace mingled in Bigger’s ears with the faint whine of the wind outside in the night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It has to be this one. The winds are right.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The valley was deep and there was a stream at the bottom that flowed down into the lake and when the wind blew across the valley you could hear the stream in the rocks. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind rattled the windowpane and made the old building creak. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had four daughters and one son, and they learned through their children that the wind of the gods’ favor never blows steadily for long. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And strange, icy winds kept blowing the mist past him though they never blew it away. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Another and another fell and then the wind howled to life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The whole world was white, filled with dime-sized snowflakes that fell at a slant before being caught by the wind and hurled in a variety of directions. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had been waiting for more people to show up before he began his speech, but Rocky and Tayo and old man Jeff were the only people out in the wind that afternoon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only the bamboo leaves clung to the bamboos in the sparse clump to the east of the house, and even though the wind wrenched the stems double, the leaves clung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As they kept running, the night grew colder and colder and the wind bit their faces. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sun sets behind us and a cool wind whips across my face. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept jettisoning the balls into the Atlantic. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my head slightly and glance at the tattoos winding along my left arm, then run a hand across the images. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The racing winds in front of him pulled his lips into a wide smile. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wailing Tower only wailed when the wind blew from the north, and that was just the sound the air made blowing through the cracks in the stones where they had fissured from the heat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She drew it back with her fingers, but she was so engrossed in the reading that soon her hand dropped to the page and her hair escaped again, flying wildly in the wind. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As I headed into the trees, the high-pitched whistle of a steam engine carried on the wind, harsh and plaintive as a screecher’s call. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The flames had died in the early morning, leaving a deep bed of sullen coals that glimmered when the wind brushed them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few swirling lines suggested a rush of wind and some clouds. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The wind was from the south, moist as a kiss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The crickets yelled their chorus outside and the wind cackled in the dry cornstalks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As suddenly as it had come the wind died. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the storms came so fast and so close that one had hardly finished tapering off before the next came, with winds Turner could hear before he could feel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

While she stares at me, all of the mean things she’s done wind through my head and I wonder if I’ve made a mistake in coming over. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had been asleep but a short while when my mother came bursting through the door, yelling, in a winded voice, “Get up, Johannes! Get up quickly!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Pallas Athena turned like the wind, running ahead of him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I knew now that I had followed Narciso and that I stood with the wind whipping at my back because I had expected to hear my brother’s name called. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head thrust into the wind; his arms hugged his form; his mane and tail streamed back; and, without moving—such was Agulen’s skill—his legs beat the ground. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, a white sheet of wind jetted out of the thermos and propelled us sideways, turning our downward plummet into a forty-five-degree crash landing. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to think about the painful memories of close friends whose lives were blown away like dust in the wind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The squall wind was in the tops of the palms and I could imagine how they looked in the night sky, thrashing against each other high over our little cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The head wind was strong, and the engine groaned as the boat struggled to chop through the waves. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who taught you to speak the language of the desert and the wind?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All morning the truck heads northwest as the sun climbs higher and higher in the sky, and the wind blows away what little protection the clouds have to offer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was in the East and all the mists had rolled away; wide lands lay bleak about them in the bitter light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Around the commandant’s house, bright flowers were teased by the wind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no movement about the house at all, and the pink garment hanging in no wind from the upper window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of wind, soft as hair, wrap around my fingers and push my arms back. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The wind came in cold and strong from the open windows and it was late at night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It promptly and enthusiastically flew back in my face, as if gusting in on a high wind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Captains bowed their heads; and when they looked up again, behold! their enemies were flying and the power of Mordor was scattering like dust in the wind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As if trying to catch the scent of something on the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The winds of war, and of change, come and go. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Inside the wall trees were growing Their branches hung out over the wall; their leaves showed not only green but also blue and silver when the wind stirred them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Late in the day we reached a village called Lobuje, and there sought refuge from the wind in a cramped, spectacularly filthy lodge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind was rising, clawing at the shutters of his chamber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind whipped up a froth of fallen leaves on the ground around her, and she pulled the sleeves of her sweater down over her hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bathroom was off the porch, and the latch to its door was broken, so that sometimes the wind would pull the door open, exposing the person sitting on the toilet. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind cut mercilessly across the barren end of Rass, but the hot shame and indignation inside me made me forget the wind as I walked. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he winds my hair around his fist and slices straight through it at the nape of my neck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I can feel again the wind on my face, and hear my laugh, and his that echoed it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Quickbeam bowed like a tree bending in the wind and handed to Aragorn two great black keys of intricate shape, joined by a ring of steel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Adam covered his bleeding nose with his hands, and Charles swung his bat and hit him in the ribs, knocked the wind out of him, swung at his head and knocked him out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few bees flew out of my head as I walked north with my buckets, blown out by the strong cast wind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breath starts to match, mimic his as I keep gazing at rocks, the winding stream. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wind continued to pick up, and I used the noise to cover my last few steps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the human world, the wind comes from somewhere, and goes somewhere, and, as it goes, it passes through somewhere—through trees or streets or hedgerows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when she was in the deserted village at dusk, the wind awoke as day shifted into night. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing with the wind at his back, like that mule, and he felt he could stand there indefinitely, maybe forever, like a fence post or a tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In winter the wind of the plains may keep the city clear of snow, but when it blizzards and piles up they do not clear the streets, having no streets to clear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind died, but the cold grew deeper. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He sailed out from between the dark cliffs, and on the sea was broad, bright morning, with a fair wind blowing from the north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon the wind rose, the skies opened, and the rain came. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And now it is all a matter of wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I liked exploring the rows of plants—they offered some shade from the Mississippi sun, and if the wind blew even a little, the plants swayed and stirred up air that seemed almost cool. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His voice was as cold as the northwest wind.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It looked like all the flowers on her dress were bobbing in a gust of wind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wet his finger and held it to the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A cold wind was coming down the Rhone Valley. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And with a whoosh of wind, Nate was on his way. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the wind howled and sent the tops of the leafless trees casting back and forth in the night. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The whole package disappeared in a few minutes, wrapping paper flying away in the wind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

So the wind blew with all its strength, and the sky was filled with sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wishbone stuck his head out the window, his ears flapping like crazy in the wind, while me and Howard sang Bible school songs. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The four posts which had held the platform continued to burn like torches, one for each of the directions of the wind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was coming hard and my hair flew in my eyes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Schiem was as good as his word, and, since the wind was blowing, it wasn’t too long before his nose was comfortably red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jeremy, being like all birds knowledgeable about the wind, knew the answer to that. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were sparser up here, and the wind blew more vigorously, sharp gusts that tugged at her clothing and pushed her hair into her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I will have hair that can play in the wind light as a kite. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was starting to think he lived to take the wind out of my sails. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the day of Woodrow Wilson’s second inauguration, March 4, 1917, one thousand protesting women encircled the White House in the biting wind, sleet, and pouring rain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They fluttered out over the hillside like dandelion blossoms on the wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Everything was sort of violet and still, the sky green paling into gold beyond the gable of the house and a plume of smoke rising from the chimney without any wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is up to the wind to spread the spores far from the blasted forest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I kicked at an empty potato chip bag that the wind was blowing around like a leaf. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A string of Buddhist prayer flags snapped furiously in the wind. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

His squall was like a whirlwind, like a sudden wash of freezing spray, like a harsh wind, weather like a hot wall of sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The wind is driving snow into my back but I am powerless to move,” he later recalled. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sickly sweet stink of rotting corpses hangs heavy in the air, and every time the wind shifts, I gag. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I heard a noise: the wind, I thought, shook the door. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A wind twisted Frightful’s silky pantaloons of pinstriped feathers, which hung down over her enamel-shiny legs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“And Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who had gone burning and murdering with him disappeared—blown away like ashes in the wind.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A cold wind blew somewhere in me, lifting little leaves of terror and obscure longing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse slipped between the Bone Gap cemetery and the Corderos’ stone farmhouse, winding her way through the grasses at the edge of the Willises’ beeyard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Aha!” shouted Ron, as the wind whipped their hair and clothes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once she had the jacket around her shoulders, the strap and zippers seemed to wind around her like snakes until the plastic was snug around her waist and thighs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My father answered their questions in detail, and they listened intently—this group of men with nets, blowing their smoke into the wind. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She winged out over the water to be rocked by warm sea winds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The boy listened to the wind passing through the tops of the tall pines; he thought they moved like giant brooms sweeping the sky. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words are wind, she thought, words cannot hurt me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to discuss a trouble spot of increasing concern to the United States: a mountainous, heavily forested country winding more than a thousand miles along the coast of Southeast Asia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Although only the river separated us, it was a ten-minute, winding drive back to my house because there’s only one bridge in my neighborhood. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The British were coming back, but once again Ran Laurie, with his narrow-bladed oar, was having a difficult time getting enough of a catch to help power his shell through the wind and waves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I almost recognized the melody, but I could not be sure; it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wind comes up between eight and ten in the morning, and if it’s in your face, it makes the job more time-consuming. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I stayed at the gate, shivering in the wind, staring at the empty road and the moon high up in the sky as bright as a new dime. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Besides that, our potatoes have contracted such strange diseases that one out of every two buckets of pommes de terre winds up in the garbage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The wind and the story have blown all the warmth from my body. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The fire flared in the wind and sparks raced away down the sand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The unforgiving November wind blows me towards the building. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I follow Ms. Albright to the dressing room, where Martin is flopped all over a plastic chair, winding the end of his beard around his finger. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The wind caressed her nakedness, and she gasped at the unwelcome, but not unwanted, joy of it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It’s like the pinging of wind chimes at dawn on the Gulf of Mexico combined with the sound of ocean waves against the shore. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Goldy ran some of the wind sprints with us and I asked him why. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It came on the wind, sweeping toward her in scratchy bursts, and then was borne away again before she could discern any words. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind pulled the scream from my mouth, and my lips flapped like I was blowing a thirty-second raspberry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But the harder I ran, the more the wind blew me back, until I was running in place, my heels digging uselessly in the sand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wind that blew across the graveyard was cold, but neither the man nor the boy seemed to feel it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was only a category three storm with 50 kph winds. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silver-gray dust being thrown in the air by the wind was not snow, but ash. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He got up, and began to retrace his steps, winding the string up again into a ball. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Millions of trees were killed by the burning wind. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

And all eyes followed his gaze, and behold! upon the foremost ship a great standard broke, and the wind displayed it as she turned towards the Harlond. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The voice began to disappear in the howling wind, and I could barely hear the final words. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It sliced my fingers again as the wind dragged it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Air wraps around my ankles and wrists as the wind gushes up, like a geyser. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Soaring upward, with a fair wind behind and a new world in front—what could be better in this life? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another noise in the wind, too, something that did not seem normal—at least not here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When he reached the first rocks that lay littered about the bottom of the hill, he stopped and listened to the sounds which were carried on the wind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Below our fields, twisting and winding, ran the clear blue waters of the Illinois River. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, a thin drizzle that traveled horizontally in the wind, soaking through his supposedly waterproof clothing, mixing with his sweat and his dirt, chilling him to the bone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The wind came up as it did every afternoon, and the yellow dust ran into the sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Otto scampered up and settled on top of it, winding his feet through the straps and using them as stirrups. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The moment he bad left the earth, the wind had vanished. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there one sat upright on an ant heap and looked about, with ears erect and nose in the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds swept down and hung all day over the land and brushed the hilltops, and the winds blew shrilly at night. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had finally stopped, but the wind carried on, whipping the prairie grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was now prudently making cute kitchen curtains, which would soon starchily oppose the wind. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat bowled over, completely winded, all the fight knocked out of its body. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Urvashi was, like, a heavenly nymph queen, and Hanuman, who was the son of the god of the wind, was a powerful demigod. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He moved along the boom, still pulling at the main, fighting to hold himself upright in the wind, and kicked the sliding cabin top forward. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porch swing creaked and swayed like someone had just gotten out of it, but that could’ve been the wind. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

More scenes appeared, and they swirled around my head, just like the wind, and…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wind rushed toward her, and the cries of the riders were clear upon the air: They called for her mother, for Elinor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered worse when the wind hit my bare skin, but I knew it was better than being in wet clothes, so I went to work on my shoelaces. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that a steady rain driven by a chilling wind continued to blow across the Langer See almost continuously, and that the police barracks soon proved cold and drafty. 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 happy for you to park there. No problem. And they run the state’s biggest wind farm, which is uber-cool.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Around us, the wind rustling the trees sounded like thousands of voices. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

‘Have peace now,’ she said, ‘until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! For nothing passes door and window here save moonlight and starlight and the wind off the hill-top. Good night!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bus winds along the road, bringing us closer to what I had seen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A light wind was moving in the tops of the pines—cool sweet air, gentle and clean. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our people began to call that place Hweeldi, the place where only the wind could live. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put one hand to my eyes and with the other I gripped Ultima tightly as we struggled against the wind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her branches began to wind back into her spine, one by one, while the folds of bark were devoured, bit by bit, by the folds of her wrinkles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I try keeping my back to the wind, but my rear end freezes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wind seemed to be dying down a bit. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she now shivered beneath the starry mantle, and she looked northward, above the grey hither lands, into the eye of the cold wind where far away the sky was hard and clear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The wind bent the palm trees almost to the ground. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool lovely day. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I walk, it seems like shapes appear in the sands, figures spinning and dancing, feeding off the wind’s ferocity. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The world had just begun to lighten, and the tall grass rustled softly in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The other two chicks hatched to the peaceful sound of wind playing on the webs of the Delhi Bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Celaena’s warning cry was carried away by the wind as Grave set about sawing Nox’s rope from its tether on the gargoyle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were silent for a long time, lost in memories that the murmur of the mourning wind carried across the treetops. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a gust of wind tears him from my shoulder. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He took great strides, creating a slight wind in his wake, his left arm swinging high with his left leg, his right with his right, in an unusual cadence. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, a branch broke in the wind, skittered across the dooryard of his shed, and slammed against the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now she fought head winds from tack to tack, and some day’s sailing did not take her fifteen miles nearer home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful held her wings outstretched and glided on the wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We stood with our backs pressed against the lamp’s warm housing and our fronts to the wind’s chill. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In Hazel’s mind, green branches were straining in the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A seagull flew low over the waves seemingly motionless, buffeted by the wind. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The winds whistle and shift all around us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind blew through the treetops, making a mournful sound. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The city is known for its beauty—the glistening Lake Tanganyika, the winding Kalimabenge River—and also for its conflicts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On those really frigid days when my teeth would start to chatter after walking just a few blocks against the icy wind, how did he stay warm enough to play his accordion? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

You almost thought then you could hear the wind rustling the branches, and talking about it seemed to only make things worse. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shifted uncomfortably, as if an arctic wind were rattling through their ranks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This voice coming to my ears was neither a wind with an accent nor an animal speaking up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They whisper chants and spells that the wind carries through the leaves, back to my ears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in months almost no wind blasted the summit, but the snow on the upper mountain was thigh deep, making for slow, exhausting progress. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their tents had been lashed to ribbons by the violent wind, and they were all suffering from exposure. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But before I’d flown far, a great wind came up and hurled me high into the mountains, and I had to take refuge on a clifftop. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ends of the scarf fluttered in the freezing wind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care much then about the leaves and the wind. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I helped Mother by collecting the paint flakes, keeping them in my pockets, then tossing them to the wind. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Afraid that like the big bad wolf, the wind might blow all our houses away. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The wind god settled on a nearby wall with his basket of fruit and spread his russet wings in the sun. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The aiakh moved so fast that Quaro's blood flew from it in a fine spray, like rain in a hot wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The ashes blew away on the wind, carrying the message. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

Her curling blond hair moved in the wind, and her eyes were green as the leaves of summer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

White sheets of wind blasted in every direction, scattering the lifeboats, lifting me out of my free fall and propelling me across the ocean. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only possible course was to take advantage of the prevailing winds and currents and make for South Georgia Island, 800 miles to the east. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He spins on the side of the road, his leash winding around his feet. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The cove was partly sheltered from the wind, but as soon as we went through the passage between the rocks and into the sea, great waves struck us. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a quick moment to check on me, behind her, the brim of my Yankees cap whipping wind into my eyes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

At home, she said, “Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind—poom!— North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrace sloped to the lawns, and the lawns stretched to the sea, and turning I could see the sheet of silver, placid under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the brook swam quietly through the woods, and up above them the warm wind blew through the newly opened leaves of the big oak tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds were strange shapes now and tinged with copper; the wind freshened. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind never stopped, and the boy remembered the day he had sat at the fort in Tarifa with this same wind blowing in his face. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wind buoyed me up over the roots, the rocks, the little hills. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the stories they had chosen from the magic books, which they had to shout into his ear, because also he said that the wind was invading his ears and making him deaf. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happens when you wind it up?” she asked. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The trees also act as a windbreak—when the grass is sheltered from the wind it can grow higher. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The wind and the prospect of action excited him and he spent some time with Dandelion, Hawkbit and Speedwell, pretending to be a cat and encouraging them to attack him as realistically as they could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind approached the boy and touched his face. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke repeatedly, panicky, convinced that somebody had called out to him in the distance, imagining that the wind whipping around the tent was footsteps or voices. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They saw nothing, they heard nothing, only the insects and the noise of the wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a straw hat with a wide brim to keep off the sun, and the tail of his white shirt flapped in the wind. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As I cling to the rope ladder, a chill goes through me that has nothing to do with the blustering wind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I placed small rocks on them so the wind wouldn’t blow them away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind generated from such a column could reach out hundreds of feet and might attain hurricanelike speeds. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wind picked up and a little rain started coming down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue and the wind was beginning to pick up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The wind was howling, and he and the girl were trapped. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep hearing the swoosh of the wind through the trees, the pounding of the rain all around me, and my own voice: “Let him go!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind howled as it never had before and a tree fell right on top of the roof of our house and crashed into my room, narrowly missing me. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of aromas wafting in the wind. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Up from the lonely hills, drifting on the wind, came a woman’s voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind is blowing and beating against my window; the rattling sounds like a nervous drum. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For nearly half an hour they climbed a steep, winding, and stony path, following Sirius’s wagging tail, sweating in the sun, the shoulder straps of Harry’s bag cutting into his shoulders. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If the cameras look in the ultraviolet, however, we see a graceful, complex swirling weather system in the high atmosphere, where the winds are around 100 meters per second, some 220 miles per hour. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since Luna really didn’t have any other explanation, It must be the wind seemed as good as any. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The boy thought he smelled wet ash on the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was just a handle to wind up the tongue with. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There’s no wind and the sound is muffled by the snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air was freezing and the wind blew out his candle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By midnight, the wind had calmed, and flames had faded to a swath of glowing embers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The wind’s pummeling me, the salty spray nicking my hot face, the ocean below drumming as ferociously in my head as out of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Two hours into the climb, the wind kicked up so fiercely that it was all he could do to hunch down and cling to the rock, praying he would not beblown off the mountain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She heard the whistle of the wind in her ear, singing across the ice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What had the wind to do with it? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But, in the desert, there was only the sound of the eternal wind, and of the hoofbeats of the animals. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ebola River empties tracts of rain forest, winding past scattered villages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the train approached, they got up off the picnic table and stood near the tracks, close enough to feel the wind from the train. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as their eyes met, his hands dropped to his sides and he gave a little winded sigh as he continued to look at her hard. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wind whipped around the boy, tugging at his clothes, making his hair ripple. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The female voice was high and soft, like the wind whistling through the reeds of the water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A stinging wind blew across her dry, aching eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the Everglades the wind had romped among lakes and trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to think about anything, so I thought about how the wind was needling through my clothes to my skin. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“What are we supposed to do until then? Hope he doesn’t catch wind of what you’re doing and try to hurt one of us?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, Edward,” she said to him after she was done winding the watch, “when the big hand is on the twelve and the little hand is on the three, I will come home to you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The wind roared over the hilltop, seeming to gather beneath the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the move now—now trotting—the banner streaming out in the wind. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The front door swung open, and Sierra’s Tía Rosa came swooshing in as if pushed by a heavy gust of wind. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The wind blew into his face across the lawn. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when the wind is blowering hard and bellowing like a bull, I slip through the trip door and into the bed with the feather duvet. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The moon was a crescent and the wind harsh. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To keep out the wind, she rummaged through her baskets for some newspapers and crammed them into the diamond-shaped openings of the collapsible gate. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“In my travels around the world, I’ve often seen people speaking of love and looking toward the heavens,” the wind said, furious at having to acknowledge its own limitations. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to make a joke about himself, say something like “Sunstroke hell, the wind blew me off,” but he didn’t have energy to move his lips, to even form the words. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He blew on a withered flowerhead, and the seeds shaken loose went up on the wind like sparks of fire in the sun. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bones sniffed the wind wildly and plunked into a frozen desk. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he heard a deep groan and a crack that echoed above the wind. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The evening wind blew harder and harder as she climbed higher and higher, and several times Violet had to stop climbing as the rope moved in the wind. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fanning laughed again and led the way up the narrow winding stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Jinn are dead, little Aspirant” His screams are like a wind out of the north. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With the raft next to the boat, the dragging effect was gone, and there was nothing to steer the boat head into the wind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two winds were blowing the waves in two directions, completely apart. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wind god disappeared in a swirl of red and gold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But as I sat in the evening wind and scanned the ocean going slowly gray, I wondered why I felt so sad. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then the king raised his hand, and with a rush like the sudden onset of a great wind the last host of Rohan rode thundering into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was dusk, and Ron and Hermione had just turned up in the common room, pink-faced from the cold wind and looking as though they’d had the time of their lives. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Along a polished earth, pieces of straw and twigs scampered until they were stopped by some rooted thing; and little stones rolled crookedly before the wind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a calm in the wind and the bright sunlight made everything stark and harsh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness rippled around Cain like shreds of clothing in the wind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Sustained winds over one hundred kph now," she said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment their connection was severed, they let out a scream so powerful it generated its own wind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As we passed Mr. Barley’s door, he was heard hoarsely muttering within, in a strain that rose and fell like wind, the following Refrain, in which I substitute good wishes for something quite the reverse:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Autumn had fully come, and the wind smelled of crisp leaves and snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As the rabbits stared down they could discern, here and there, a very fine scour, like smoke—chalk and powdered gravel carried along by the river as dust is blown on the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started up the winding stairs inside, only to be stopped at a ticket booth by some caretaker who yelled at him in Italian. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds, all she heard was the warm night wind shushing through the willows. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The tree branches bent in the wind violently, as if being shaken by the sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no wind but the leaves are in motion, there’s a ripple, as of unseen cats, or as if the leaves are moving by themselves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was chilly and yet heavy with an odour of cold decay. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They approached the square, where the Confederate soldier gazed with empty eyes beneath his marble hand in wind and weather. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bun could have been contrived to escape into black streamers blowing in the wind or in quiet wisps about her face, but only the older women in our picture album wear buns. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew and the stars shone gently upon him in the new dusk. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, a few of them wind up at the far edges of the quincunx’s bottom rack. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s statement took the wind out of the security inquiry, and the board passed Calvin after a brief interrogation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But at least they had a roof above their heads and log walls to keep the wind off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Please help us,” Pinmei begged in a whisper to the wind. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

For the purposes of understanding music theory, however, the important thing about standing waves in winds is this: the harmonic series they produce is essentially the same as the harmonic series on a string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then in a shift in the wind he heard a distant faint patter. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A strong wind blew up, and within moments our world was transformed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We became quiet again and listened to the evening wind whizzing through the trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He flung the F word into the wind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I feel England pulling at my heart, an echo calling to me like wind in a tree’s branches, saying, Come back, come back. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And then the frantic morning winds began to twist along the ground, and a chill came into the air, and the poison oak turned red. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is their wroth. A wind as cold as hell itself and snows that never end. We are cursed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They emerged into a brisk wind that made Jon's cloak swirl and snap. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the sound of a mighty wind interrupted the quiet morning. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I thought Miss Maggie might blow apart like a dandelion head in the wind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Rishi beckoned, winding his way around a few room dividers and coffee tables. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My drawing stick rolled away, propelled by the wind and rain. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“At the mercy of the winds, at the mercy of the sea, to the quarters of the New World, we came. Transients. Nomads. I bid you welcome.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the sky was dark, furious clouds stampeding across the sky, and the wind tore at the threadbare dress Ophie wore. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I got a jacket, as the wind would be chilly, and went downstairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did she lack visual references, the endless wind pushed her off course. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the winds were kind, his fleet might well be on its way back to Eastwatch even now, with as many of the free folk as he could cram aboard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the intention craft she could move lightly with the wind, adjusting her balance like a wave rider in the Peaceable Ocean. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The white part of the room got calmer the more serious it got, but a tongue storm struck the Negroes like wind among palm trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We listened to the howl of the cold wind outside and could hear at intervals the bitter bark of a coyote. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew from off the water to the northwest and swept raucously down Hill Street. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wind chimes jingled against the glass door as it swung open. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She felt the meridians of energy springing back like strings snapping into position; it made her skin feel red, chapped, as though she had been scoured by a dry wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Scented smoke rose from braziers that lined the winding streets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I get on the city bus headed toward cam- pus, I'm just another person who doesn't want to freeze to death in the wind chill. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deep ruts in the road were frozen and glazed with ice; the wind had a clean sweep across the prairies, a sweep that sometimes seemed about to carry Jethro before it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was paddling from the back of the canoe because you can go faster kneeling there, but I could not handle it in the wind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining and in spite of the cold there were a few bucks and does at silflay, keeping out of the wind as they nibbled the shoots of spring grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind inflates the curtain, first blowing it into the room and then sucking it back against the screen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They must have climbed a long way up; Tally could see patches of moonlight rolling slowly across the low hills around the city, pushed along by the fight wind that barely tugged at the clouds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sun was gone, and the wind blew cool, bringing the first hint of the smell of autumn. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All five senses were bombarded by the frenetic activity of the shopkeepers in the medina as I walked to school every morning through the winding streets of the old city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One day on course due west, off central Krete, the ship caught a fresh norther, and we ran southward before the wind while Zeus piled ruin ahead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showers of petal snow sifted down when the wind touched the green branches, and the blossom scent drifted upon the air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what if I suffered from full-fledged panic attacks every time I drove our beat-up '88 Camry through the winding, narrow roads to my new temporary digs? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The wind died away—a sudden hush descended. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two Step said over the whistling wind and popping rifles. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The shadows moved to and fro like branches in a high wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a life-size sculpture of Zephyr, the Greek god of the west wind brought to life by Francavilla, a crown on his head and one foot on a cloud. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The wind that blew in their faces was cold, yet somehow stale. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wind was whipping off the lake, and she hugged her upper arms and stamped her feet as she waited for the door to open. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He carries a lantern up a winding staircase to a starlit observatory and looks through the eyepiece of a great telescope, its mouth pointed into the black. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The welcome hiss of wind washes in, or maybe it’s the sea and the wind, her ears unable to unbraid the two. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The cemetery was deserted and the dark crooning of the wind bowed the heavy cypress trees. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Werner risks a glance upward: a single hawk, riding the wind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the winds of winter began to blow and snow fell in chunks, we undid the snap under the horse’s belly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A voice rises above the wind and waves. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As always the wind began to drop as the day waned, but it sometimes took half the night for the dust to settle out of the air. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Come and visit it with me as the wind. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Jinny hefted her bag up over her shoulder, and then she noticed something—that the rushing, roaring wind that usually swirled around the cliffs wasn’t as loud as usual. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Near our cottage, where the small creek winds under the old wooden bridge, is the most beautiful bed of roses. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But I feel her around me, not like arms but like a small wind of warmer air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they came upon it from a turn in the road and they stopped and stood with the salt wind blowing in their hair where they’d lowered the hoods of their coats to listen. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the very top, on the plateau, the trees that could stand the wind at that height were few. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my youth I often crawled miles on my belly through freezing wind for the pure glory of blasting a mudhen which even soaked in salt water made poor eating. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of white sails skimmed along in the distance, bellied out in the wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went through the door and the wind was like a branding-iron on his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tent was dark, its silken walls flapping like wings when the wind gusted outside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they moved a mile before they were forced to anchor again; sometimes only half a mile; sometimes it seemed the huge dripping anchors barely broke water before the wind died again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It burned in his stomach and took his mind off the cold and the sound of the wind outside. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they stood straining their ears, they heard a noise like a wind coming in the distance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Warm wind blew as I headed for Miss Sadie’s house the next day. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The breeze against my skin, the fading pain in my fingers, the sound of this tape winding from one spool to the next, reminds me of everything I’ve heard over the past day. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The wind blew through the cloth, chilling her skin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a slight, persistent movement of wind through the yew tree branches, and the elms and oaks of the copse, and a rustling of the high grasses in the field. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She brought me an old-fashioned hand-cranked ice cream machine and said, “There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came to a rickety wooden bridge—just thick plywood laid over a concrete foundation—over Culver Creek, the winding rivulet that doubled back over and over again through the outskirts of campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It pushes us back at the same rate the wind pushes us forward. We sail at a fine clip, yet go nowhere.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

If a train came along, the train wind would sail the hat off Train Ear’s finger. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

This time it was not muffled by the wind but by the body against which it had been fired. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the teeth of that wind he rode, under the portcullis, over the drawbridge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I felt young and small and very much alone, and now, in spite of my pride, I found his handkerchief and blew my nose, throwing my drab appearance to the winds. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was taking in the sweep of scenery, the narrow, zigzagging paths winding through clusters of trees, connecting one brick mansion to another. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wind carried away the sound of the decoy gyropters, which had now disappeared around the flank of the mountain, and no one watching spoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the fall came, and the air was dry and sharp, and the wind high, she was always with Gabriel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He went cautiously out into the field, squatted down against a clump of thistles and began to smell the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t fight him no more than you can fight the wind or the tide. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

While Hazel gazed, the wind slowly veered round into the west, as Cowslip had said it would, and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as he continues to wind the second clock, and as long as it is accurate, he will know the time difference between his present position and his starting point. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“She is mine, and she will love me,” the man said, deep voice barely audible over the wind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you could walk down Main Street and smell Mama Santoni’s warm bread instead of dust and wind? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sun warmed my hair, and a wind pushed my mother into my father’s arms, and all the apple-picking parents and children smiled for a long, long minute. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were silent, listening to the stretching and groaning of the timbers, the hissing of the wind in the sails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At last they reached the crest of the grey hill, and a sudden breeze blew in their hair and stirred their cloaks: the chill wind of dawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At the gate a dim orange glow shone through the bars where the guards had taken refuge from the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old brownstone buildings line a winding hill, each one with an antiques shop, a boutique, or a restaurant. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

How he had looked to her coming through the door with his hair rumpled by the wind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stayed there for ten days, until high winds forced him to seek refuge in a cave midway up the precipitous face of the bluff, where he remained for another ten days. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cars passed them, they created gusts of wind that Lupita felt as blows on her body. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Even the music playing around us sounds cold—synthetic bells, echoes, a background wind, and a deep, thudding, rhythmic beat. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then, around ten o’clock that night, the wind and rain started for real. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

And when the waves and the winds smack at them, they spread their wings and skitter around and then they try to come back together again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She stops winding, leaving me with my hands still garlanded with animal hair, and takes the cigarette end from her mouth to butt it out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hung from a broken chain and the wind knocked it against the post with a muffled sound that made it echo like a funeral drum. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the wind bellowed and raged against the glass spire, but it could do nothing to shatter the walls. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Anemone, the nymph who refused to yield to the wind.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

You try to scrub blood, you just gonna wind up with nasty red hands. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I drive the whole way home in silence with the windows rolled down, my thoughts swallowed up by the wind. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And until then . . . well, until then I'll keep taking deep breaths because it feels like the wind got knocked out of me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then the good land did again its healing work and the sun shone on him and healed him and the warm winds of summer wrapped him about with peace. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She watched him wind it around the wrapped book and tie a neat knot. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Thirty Years’ War, which had pummeled and bankrupted much of Europe, was finally winding down, and intellectual life flourished. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the wind freshened from the south, the red and yellow beech leaves rasped together with a brittle sound, harsher than the fluid rustle of earlier days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold and wintry and the wind was blowing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I started to wind the stem when the operator came back. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left Leper telling his story into the wind. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The trees are just the same, Leader. There’s a storm coming, though. You can hear the wind. And look. The sky is turning dark. Maybe that’s what you saw.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Did I ever think I would wind up here getting old? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small wind blows and the planets spin slowly. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Taran turned, a gust of wind caught at his face. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I told him about the river where I had washed the clothes among the kingfishers and the dragonflies, and the calls of the doves and the wind rustling through the leaves of the peepul trees. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grasses sway their tall spears; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the soft warm wind of the late summer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road to the village was full of students bent double against the bitter wind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He stood a little taller, keeping in step with her as they continued through the outskirts’ winding streets. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wheel continued to turn, however, as if no wind were blowing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The wind was behind me and the mainsail was full out. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Their torches could be seen winding up the coomb in many lines. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Their clothes snap in the wind, but still they stand motionless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hair of some was flickering in the wind and they looked alive. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the rabbits came up by the hole inside the beech wood, a swift gust of wind passed through the leaves, checkering and dappling the ground beneath, stealing and giving light under the branches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Meanwhile the snowfall was thickening and the wind increasing.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blows the eucalyptus trees, a buoy clangs, a boat horn toots, Natalie drags her toes. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is indeed the greatest place in the world! There are bugs aplenty and wind does not tear down our webs!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The wind blew even harder, sending a swirl of dust over the basin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its black wings spread in alarm, and the wind buffeted me back a step. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Our sails are full of a steady wind as we head relentlessly west. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A winding covered walkway lifted up from the cloudy water like a lotus flower. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She thought that it was the wind echoing through one of the caves and was about to leave when she noticed silvery shapes on the floor of the cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear it so distinctly because the wind blows toward our line. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from above, a beautiful maiden leaned out upon the night wind and let down her golden hair. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The howling wind and pounding rain made a frightful noise, and yet through it all a single, chilling sound could still be heard—the awful tolling of the church bells. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

After coining down from the side of the Devils Thumb, heavy snow and high winds kept me inside the tent for most of the next three days. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophia has her hair wrapped in a kerchief to protect her style from the wind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johannes Kepler believed that there would one day be “celestial ships with sails adapted to the winds of heaven” navigating the sky, filled with explorers “who would not fear the vastness” of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Henrietta’s body made the long, winding train ride from Baltimore to Clover in a plain pine box, which was all Day could afford. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That night, over icy roads and through howling winds, Paul Revere rode the sixty miles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And row on row of tiny wind waves flowed up the pool’s green surface. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It slammed into Nathan’s stomach and pushed him back, knocking both the wind out of his lungs and his glasses to the ground. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But the pond back home had lilac and forsythia behind it, with picnic tables, a small playground, and a winding bike path off to the side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then we did some wind sprints and finally had a half hour of just shooting practice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was getting stronger; it made a whirling sound as it came around the southwest corner of the ranch house. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind that lifted spray off the white-capped waves was monstrously cold, and searched out every gap in Lyra’s wolfskin, and her hands were soon aching and her face numb. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As they were winding their way up the steps, she said, "Why do you let people call you a dog? You won't let anyone call you a knight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A wind—out of nowhere—making her hair fly, and everyone breaking into a choreographed song and dance at the exact same time. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a steady whoosh of wind rustling through the bushes and trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"I wish you fair winds and good trading, then. You have brought me a precious gift." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Dustfinger had hauled the dogs over to the nearest tree and was just winding their leashes around the cracked bark when Flatnose came out of his daze. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A gale set in on the fifteenth, and winds of more than seventy miles per hour drove them north for six days. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odours on a wind that iced his body. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the other side of the door, grabbed the hand bar tight and tossed my body into the wind, the way Styx had. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sciola was talking to her, as soothingly as to a child; we could hear him above the crunching footsteps, the drip of water and the sift of wind in the trees overhead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had killed her, not willingly, but driven by the Army impatient for good winds to sail to Troy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the song winds down and the show is over. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But how could a mouse leave in winter when there was snow on the ground and wind howled? Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a gust of wind, then, so strong that it rattled the windows of the village, and whirled and spun the weathercocks until they could not tell north from west or south from east. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wind howled outside in the blackness and Freddie, looking like a gnome, flashed his gold teeth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the temple complex was silent, but Pong’s thoughts swished like the wind through palm leaves, filling his head with noise. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sun was mild and the waves low, the wind fresh but still warm, and things would have gone perfectly if Pinch hadn’t teased Andeg. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I cried out once more, but my voice was lost in the howling wind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mob of rats had scrambled through the fence to catch Basil, but it was like trying to catch smoke upon the wind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The November wind came up behind me and knocked me off balance. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I shout over the cry of the wind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Snored so loud, you plumb drowned the wind.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye he saw them, at first mistaking them for a strand of his own hair caught by the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind whistled through the twigs and fretted the occasional, dirty-looking crocuses. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Beowulf smiled, and gazed to the east where dawn was in the wind. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

A raw skinning wind like a million trolls howling. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

Long dark hair shaking in the wind; beautiful, it was. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it also meant that whatever end of the boat was facing the wind tended to fall away, bringing us broadside to the waves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was only the swirl of snow and wind and the chopping of the helicopter blades. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you need the wind behind you to speed things up; sometimes you need to head directly into the wind to help you take off. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In silence, Chou and I follow the red dirt trail winding and stretching before us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind rustles dead leaves still clinging to the oak branches by the street. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only sound is crickets and peepers and the hush of warm summer wind. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each time the wind picked up, it blew a few of the flyers across the meadow, and either Liz or I had to run after them. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind is stiff now, and chills me right through my clothes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A young man in a trench coat, with cornsilk hair and delphinium eyes red-edged by the dull wind, turned to me and then pointed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no proof of our wedding. Words were spoken. That is all. And words vanish on the wind,” I said bitterly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ah kinda thought—” The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tayo thought about animals then, horses and mules, and the way they drifted with the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rajiv lifts the collar of his jacket to block the wind. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“The letter explains everything. Actually, it doesn’t explain anything at all. And besides, the letter is gone, blown by the wind into the lands of no return.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ah! the wind and the whiteness and the black branches of Winter upon Orod-na-Thôn! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The wind blew fierce and strong, and it pelted them with bits of sticks, sand, and little rocks. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, her teeth chattering from cold, Kaede stood so close to the campfire that when the wind gusted, it sent flames dangerously close to her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No accurate measure of the wind’s velocity was made during the fire, though many eyewitnesses claimed it was as strong as a hurricane. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was gusting, cold as the breath of the ice dragon in the tales Old Nan had told when Jon was a boy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The second sat close to the flames, feeding them twigs and branches and complaining of the wind in a querulous tone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the parking lot, just past the visitor center, was a dark little stand of pine trees hunched down in the wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Other backyards have lines with clothes that are bright and colorful and dance in the wind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The yard was lonesome and the wind made quick, scary shadows and a mourning kind of sound in the darkness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She'd climbed down with Henry and was back at the top before him, the rest of us waiting at the edge, cold wind, jitters, springing to hoist her up; dead? is he...? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The horse stood straddle-legged, as if perpetually bracing himself against a strong wind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing hard and cool across the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wind came up it blew right through them, whirling flurries to the ground. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

That made several heads turn, Malcolm’s among them, and they saw the headmaster coming out, his gown flapping in the wind. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A cold wind came swirling through, and a cloud of ice crystals sparkled blue-white in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everything is quiet except the sound of gulls squawking overhead and wind rattling a window somewhere. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Damp, foggy winds blew through the castle’s every hall and chamber and whistled in the ramparts, sounding like faraway screams. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then, if I can’t steer to any harbour with the wind that is, I shall cut down sails and lie by, and signal for help.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She stole down the stairs again and took a winding path through the back meadows to Blackbird Pond. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"I been running in the park, build up my wind, get in shape, strengthen my legs—" "Slow down. What are you talking about?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei yelled so she could be heard above the sounds of the wind and the clopping hooves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then, abruptly, the wind ceased; dust settled over the town almost gently, like a fine lace handkerchief. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was usually like a live oak, tall and strong against hurricane-force winds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I'm walking down the street toward the car when I see a black plastic bag on the sidewalk, fluttering in the wind. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He walked with the wind at his back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I could have made the team do more wind sprints, I wrapped up warm-ups and turned everyone over to the assistant coach and then I ran over to the coach’s office. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Just the wind ...” She shook her head and cut me off with a gesture. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jaunty adjusted his grip on the wheel, extending his index finger ever so slightly to feel the wind. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The queen herself was seen summoning the winds, Unfurling her sails and frantically paying out the slackened ropes. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

July 31: For the last week the wind has been unusually calm, and in order to make any time at all we have lowered the sails and used the engine. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The rigging went slack, tar melted and dripped, the wind died to fitful breezes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many were dead and gaunt, bitten to the core by the eastern winds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Below, a lone maple shivered in the wind, shedding leaf after leaf that scooted down the lane without so much as a backward glance. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The wind seemed to blow it farther from the boat, and the waves ran under it bewildering his eye, and ever and again it seemed closer to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Very high winds have been recorded on the surface of Mars, and sometimes nearly the entire surface of the planet is obscured by blowing dust. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his eyes from the boy’s face and stared out across the fields still cracking in the wind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My maman walked the streets of her neighborhood in itty-bitty miniskirts, with her long, wavy brown hair blowing freely in the wind. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Far out to come in when the wind shifts. I want to be out before it is light.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last lulled by the wind in the boughs above, and the sweet murmur of the falls of Nimrodel below, Frodo fell asleep with the song of Legolas running in his mind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Steam did not overtake water and wind as a source of power until after 1830; in Swift’s Laputa, as in eighteenth-century England, steam power did not replace water power but supplemented it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Reception was all right at first, though as the wind picked up later it got more and more difficult to hear anything. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

By afternoon the wind rose, and she realized it would be impossible to sleep in the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind is picking up in Jankburg, and I can barely hear her. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We were flying through a wind of our own making. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming back for you, Calypso,” he said to the night wind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they moved out into the widest part of the Langer See, the winds grew even stronger. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The gray wood was bald, shaved by many seasons of wind and snow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As we wind through the first of the bodies, I look down. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So he walked outside, tasting the cool wind, and dragged his secondhand canoe from the garage and righted it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was no wind to help her fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s a wind machine,” he said, “for Mother.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The voice, or whatever effect of wind and waves it was, faded. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Howls, shrieks, the lash and whistle of the wind, the creak of the basket like a tormented animal, all filled the wild air with hideous noise. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But above all the drive of the wind and the water. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was a nor’easter up and down the East Coast, bringing with it dense fog and high winds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then the truth hit her, as cold and harsh as a blast of winter wind. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The recruiter paused to rearrange the pamphlets and check the damage the wind had done to the posters. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the cold night the wind moaned and died down, like an idiot in an icy black pit. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not haunted. The wind just blows through the house,” I say. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In silence they passed the wooden hotel, where a tourist was huddled on the porch out of the wind; then they stepped onto the main street, where the stores stood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry bamboo leaves rattled in the wind. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The beam of my flashlight caught for a frightening moment the waters of the Bay, which the wind had whipped into a fury. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the wind that blew on Elinor’s face as she got out to open the gate felt familiar. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Whenever the wind came through the sky, he and his small family would sit in the stone hut and warm their hands over a wood fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would it be, he wondered, to live on a planet with a wife and three children and have them die, leaving you alone with the wind and silence? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind is furious, the view out the window pure white. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Seems like a big wind could blow her away. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The thunder and wind made it feel like a scene out of a really good movie. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Beyond the shade everything shimmered in waves of heat and the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had no walls, not even a rail; only on one side was there a light plaited screen, which could be moved and fixed in different places according to the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Commandant turns her gaze on us, and it’s like being blasted by a frigid mountain wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then the other side struck us, the wind from the opposite direction. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was coming harder now, much harder, wind-whipped and silent, though the wind could be heard pushing against the beams in the courthouse attic. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wind died down and the Bottle Tree stood up straight again, as if the forest wanted to hear my answer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They wandered through fields with the wind blowing their thin dresses against their thighs, and gazed inscrutably. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind gusted stronger, but I made a rude hand gesture at it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was free to journey as the wind. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I knelt a moment, trying to catch my breath in wind that held more snow than oxygen. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Over the Rainbow!” she calls out, several gin fizzes to the wind. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their cries floated to him on the dusty wind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dauntless's sails flapped and then suddenly filled with wind. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The howling winds were driving them straight toward the rocky coast. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At first people said, “Thank God, this will dry things out”; and then they began to curse the wind; and finally they tried to get their cars, trucks, and horses unstuck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt cold gusts of wind scattering dry oak leaves in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I drop like a stone, my eyes closed, one arm out-stretched to feel the wind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The winds clutched at him, buffeted his body as it hung. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The wind sang softly to him, like a whispered lullaby. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We filed outside with our shovels into the cold sting of the wind. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually her calls faded away into the night, and the wind died down. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Borne on the wind, the cloudburst drummed hollowly on the fat wet hills across the valley and moved out over the flat lands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t call her stupid. I said she could have made a mistake. Pole Star’s shipping schedule puts her just out of Tokyo, and that’s assuming the winds have been favorable. No closer.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, every crack and chink had been plugged with rags to keep the wind out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Out there the wind was stronger, a cold north wind that howled across the lake, knifed through their layers of wool and leather, and set them all to shivering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the autumn the leaves flamed and rat- fled before the west winds, tempering their sad atheu with glory. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black Betha rode the flood tide, her sail cracking and snapping at each shift of wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

An unnatural wind stirred up the trees outside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On their seventh day at sea, the wind again turned into a gale roaring up from the Pole; the temperature plummeted. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I looked up in fright, thinking the wind would knock me off my knees. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were made of words, and words were wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of falling straight down, both creatures had been swept out of Jess’s line of vision by huge gusts of wind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a gasp that reached my ears even over the wind, then a wail unlike any other sound I’d ever heard. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We all sat and watched him slide down the hill, the brisk wind making our eyes water. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had to control the winds, not the other way around. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They chugged along at fifty miles an hour with the radio blasting and the late-afternoon wind whipping their hair, getting high on her Columbia two-toke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wind ruffled the little pools of water that dotted the desert. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the wind blew, it shifted the smells: sweet spices to bitter moss to a plain funky, nasty stink. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was just the wind, or some freak accident with the hinges, but I didn’t stay long enough to find out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I would be gazing at the awe-inspiring chasm when a freak gust of wind would lift me up and fling me over the rail. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless wind and time have taken her away.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He vanished and passed down the hill, less than a rustle of the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wind ripped a few strands of hair from her braid, and she tucked them behind her ears. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And even as they hastened on their way the wind brought a grey rain, and all the fires sank, and there arose a great smoke before them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’d never noticed the way the tall pasture grass bent with the wind. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I shall never feel the wind blowing again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long before everybody in town got wind of what I was going to have to do. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers flicker, like blades of grass shivered by wind. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind could be heard whishing in the brush on the ridge crests, but no breath of it penetrated down into the ranch-cup. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the silence had stretched unbearably long and the men knew at last that the horn would not wind again, they grinned at one another sheepishly, as if to deny that they had been anxious. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought about the park, the good feeling of gravel underfoot and the wind streaming past his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Their backpacks were maybe 100 feet away, uphill from them. Their faces and torsos were covered with snow; only their hands and feet were sticking out. The wind was just screaming across the Col.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As they set off up the left bank, the wind began to blow in fitful, warm gusts, with a multifoliate rustling through the sedges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind took the plate, flipping it Over as it fell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d liked the map of Kerch best, a whimsical drawing of their island nation, surrounded by mermaids swimming in the True Sea and ships blown along by winds depicted as fat-cheeked men. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the angels singing, and the warm wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She held her head high, as if sniffing the wind, and the strength I had seen when she dealt with Tenorio at the bar filled her face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father could sense the rising wind, and besides, it would shake the loose windowpanes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winds began rising from the bay waters, racing over Oakland and sweeping low over the hissing weeds, which nodded back and forth in great shimmering waves of gold. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves are high, the wind is strong, the moon is white and full. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Coming from the west, the Pacific trade winds hit the cold air from the Humboldt Current and are forced upward in a classic temperature inversion of the sort common in southern California. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wind veered and the reek of fox came over the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there it burned uptown, pushed by a strong wind, devouring Bridge Street, Dock, Stone, Marketfield, and Beaver, then it ran up both sides of Broadway. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thore were no birds, no insects, no animals, and no wind. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Thinking about it, talking about it, planning for it had taken us up like an Arkansas tornado that pounded and pounded us in the wind. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She hangs everything out on the clotheslines behind the apartment house and we can watch the clothes dance in wind and sun. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sea was quiet and there was hardly any wind, so I couldn’t even ground myself in sound. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no wind; not a bird sang, not a leaf stirred. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was near nightfall on a simmering July Saturday, and all the horrors of the night before seemed to be whisked away on the rushing wind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"I beg you in the name of the Mother," Catelyn began when a sudden gust of wind flung open the door of the tent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I ran to my foster home, where, indeed, the walls broke the chill wind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind whips my hair all about, tickling my face, but I do not smile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some parking ticket confetti, caught in a frail wind puff, tumbled across the dirt and settled around the sheriff s boots, which were on the wrong feet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up and I could hear thunder in the distance. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After the fierce storms of winter came many days when the wind did not blow. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all his haste, Captain Eaton had missed the wind after all, and the Dolphin lay becalmed just off Wright’s Island. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hulking towers rose up, cast- ing jagged shadows, their human-made shapes obvious against the plain of treetops rippling in the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of a storm on the ocean and a sea gull being dashed through the air by the wind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He called out a question as they rode, but the wind blew his words away, and the king did not hear him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time we got there, the street was a river of people—an enormous group already!—winding back from the corner store. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The wind was rushing past him, battering his face and deafening him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Yes, it would be nice to live in a nicer house and to walk out into the perfume of berries on a June morning, to stand in the wind and smell them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Huge amounts of sweets and fats fool our instincts and we wind up eating much more than we should. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We wear our coats to bed, huddling together beneath the blanket while the wind moans, drinking hot water for breakfast because there is no tea. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Too anxious to think of doing anything productive, I simply sat and enjoyed the weather, watching the wind tumble a few scraps of wastepaper along the cobblestones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was done by rotating the boom and wrapping the sail around it, like a rolled up window shade, until it was reduced enough so the wind couldn’t blow the boat over. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did so, and saw snow whirling thick on a light wind down the street, over the whitened roofs; two or three inches had fallen in the night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only offering in front of Sima was the drain and the threat of a little river of blood winding its way across the floor toward it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wind up like a pitcher again, and this time, I throw a fastball right into his glove. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I can’t do that any more than you could open the watch. God winds you up, and you go till He stops you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The caretaker, cutting dry weeds a hundred yards away, heard a whining carried on the wind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To feel his hands on hers, to hear the petals of the tulips tremble in the wind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Deen would stand below, on the rock cliff, and Jinny would step very intentionally, out into a gust of wind, holding his hands, to keep her from falling right back. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I shoot out of the beast’s mouth at the same time its jaws close, and the accompanying blast of wind sends me tumbling forward. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the wind died down, I finally opened my eyes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the previous twenty-four hours the wind speed had not fallen below 107 miles an hour, and often gusted much higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Or a balloon, yes, but then you would need the right wind.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The voyage had been smooth, with steady winds, a glassy sea, and a crew of ten men. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The River Run is in two short weeks,” Marla says, looking into the camera as she winds up the story. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

If the winds and currents were strong, he would be in New York City by the afternoon. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was no reply, but the wind whipped about her one more time, petulantly, and then it dropped away, and was gone. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The wind from the thermos stirred up a nice sea spray that made a rainbow in the sunlight—perfect for an Iris- message—but our connection was still poor. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was sun shining, and the branches of trees were waving and tossing in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue of the lake matched the blue of the water on the map and the river cutting southeast through the green forest looked just as it had on the map—delicate, winding. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Looking towards us, the horse sniffed the wind, started walking, then quickly picked up his gait to a fast trot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Who was sleeping in his stall, the wind, for him, a lullaby. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The little evening breeze blew over the clearing and the leaves rustled and the wind waves flowed up the green pool. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grey cloaks snapped in the wind as the guardsmen marched them across the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From time to time, instinctively, he looked up and sniffed the wind, but his caution was half-hearted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am at the top of a bell tower, and the wind is blowing hard at my back. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was no wind now, the air all dead around him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his sleep he was aware that the wind had increased. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside there was a gust of wind, and the fire flared up green and blue and white. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She heard herself scream, and then that was drowned out by the shriek of the wind as she soared even higher. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, they know about it, ma’am. Lots of people call us when they first move in here. We wind up having to explain it to them.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and felt the wind in my hair and the thrill of traveling into a dazzling, bright future, certain that one day I would be old enough to do this for real. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the exhausting climb up the endless flight of stairs afterward, the winding, the dizzying back-and-forth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Frightful awoke from time to time, when the wind blew so hard it rang the church bells. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If the nilas is disturbed by wind, the ice forms rounded discs called pancakes, which look something like white lily pads with their edges turned up. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was eager to wind up business by 3:00 P.M. for an appointment he had with his wife, Mary. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief usher escorted them through the lobby, up the winding staircase, and across the first balcony to their theater box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late . ..” she looked at me gravely, “you get a coin instead.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But she held on tightly, and that, apparently, was what the wind wanted her to do, for presently it lifted the umbrella higher into the air and Mary Poppins from the ground. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The other girls watched, tongues flicking over their braces, tasting their lipgloss and testing the wind. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He was accustomed to the silence now, but except for the wind whipping around, things seemed even quieter than they had been just two days before. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She played it, without being told, letting it out a fraction, pulling it in two fractions, responding to the pull of the wind in the sail. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basement remained, a great square hole in the ground; and in its crumbling walls, protected from the wind and snow, numerous small creatures lived. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the wind the sound of crashing in the brush came to them. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I protect it from the wind with my hand and blow on it to make it catch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m in the cab now and wind down the window. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

So he went certain, unhurried, and unhopeful on the way he must go, and the wind of winter bore him to the south. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

However, as the ground grew rocky and steep, a sudden wind blew — like the mountain itself was yawning. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She winds her way through to me as the band pipes up with a fresh jiving number. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice never melts; it clings to the bottom of the world, spawning winds, storms, and weather that affect the whole planet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

That is how Jenna and I managed to wind up in the back of Beth’s closet, so I guess the spider web-filled tunnels are good for something. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She drove an old, pale blue car to school every morning, rain or shine, snow or sleet, hail or wind. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a wind now, but it’s not coming from behind us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And once, when the wind was blowing the right way, she thought she heard music. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Grandma’s voice blowing like wind at my back. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Seven had nearly forgotten the gold button on their cloaks that allowed them to float on the wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

All that greeted me as I stepped out onto the rocky shore was a gentle wind. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were round and smooth, rubbled by wind and water and weather and time, but mixed in with them were black, hardened shards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wind swirled around them, stirring their black cloaks and sending a scatter of red cinders flying from the fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Intense heat pulsed across his body as he ran; sweltering wind from the left, cooler air from the right. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His face was blank now, his mouth open in a low howl as constant and unthinking as the sound of wind through winter trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Take me with you, wind, high over the sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, each time me wind dropped, the lines would slacken and the figure bow forward again, sinking its head between its knees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A keen wind was blowing from the North again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We had left the front flap of our tent loose, and the wind had blown it against the stove. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the wind resistance on my feet makes me go so slow. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The wind was bitter on his face, and it made his eyes sting and tear. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still moving slowly, the hurricane was heading up the coast with winds over one hundred miles per hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Once I heard the pattern, I couldn’t stop hearing it, and I spent the rest of the summer looking and listening for patterns in other random sources—the wind, clothes tumbling in the dryer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Embarking on the seventh, we hauled sail and filled away from Krete on a fresh north wind effortlessly, as boats will glide down stream. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biting winds blew in from the southwest, kicking up legions of whitecaps on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Overhead the cannon boomed again and the dry palm fronds clattered in a sudden gust of hot wind. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The wind here was really powerful, and a gust pulled at me so hard, I had to reach for the fence post. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monuments look carved from the wind, hunched and holed and weathered, translucent, and stretch as far as the eye can see. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within that mighty bulwark, the kitchens and stables and yards sheltered safe from wind and wave. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, there are strange winds blowing through the world now, sir.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace wheedled, winding a rubber band around the end of the braid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tore the logs of the raft apart as a great wind scatters a heap of dried chaff; it flung Odysseus into the wild waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat heeled a little now, in the afternoon wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shad says that some folks took that news real hard; it kind of let the wind out of their sails all of a sudden.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence, except for the wind in the trees beyond. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And for once, the trade wind was not blowing. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was strangely still, without even a breath of wind. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were carried by the wind, bathed in incandescent light, victorious and smiling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The road winds up the rugged mountains, and as the sun rose my mood lifted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, even though the sky directly above was clear and sprinkled with the glittering souls of infant children who had died, a wind sprang up and rippled across the grass, carrying rain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind hits him like a solid force, knocking him back against the rear fender. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What revolutionised Debussy’s music more even than hearing Mussorgsky was a sound that came from much further afield, blown into Paris on an aromatic wind from Asia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was like the debris you get on a sea-shore: the wind must have carried some of it for miles and miles before finally coming up against these trees and these two lines of wire. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day a new place, a complex, winding traverse over the varied topography of this appealing planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we ran out to the car, the rain was coming down in sheets, and the wind was blowing so hard that umbrellas were useless. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took another long look behind me, through leafy branches swaying and bowing in the wind, to convince myself that my imagination had run away with me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

That means turning to wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems for power instead of coal, oil, and natural gas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

To be continuously outside, exposed to sun, wind, rain and sea, was exhausting, and not only to the body but also to the mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were no dusty red winds spinning across the flats this year. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had been knocked out of me, and there was a powerful throbbing in my back, as if I’d been cut in two. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wind stopped rustling the trees; even the bug on Miles’s windshield froze in its tracks. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The wind gathered such a force that it blew my husband past my bedroom and out the back door. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A powerful gust of wind caught her wings and swept her upriver. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It ain’t right for this place to suck the strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew over them and Nailer turned into the freshening breeze. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A wind rips through the phone wires overhead. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“When I got into bed it was five minutes to eleven, because I look at my watch before I wind it up.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, when they turned and headed north, dead into the wind where he could not follow, he felt a sadness at their going, their leaving him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked at it, studied the crude work The brush made a fair wall, not weathertight but it cut most of the wind off. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A multicolored flag hung limply at the top of the pole, no wind to reveal its pattern. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The wind blew their carefully combed hair all out of order, and the salt spray covered their bodies, so they arrived at the dock looking as they ordinarily did, except their grandmother. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above the wind tumbled the voices of animals: yips and barks, growls, bleats, caterwauls and roars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The trees hesitantly swayed with the quiet wind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind drove the rain inside. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turned at Allen’s Market and the blast of wind struck me in the face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neumann One’s vibrating leg shakes the truck lightly, and the sun flares through the remnants of insects smeared across the windows, and a cold wind sets the whole field rustling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Raised wooden side-walks caught fire and the wind drove the flames along at a brisk pace. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved but slow snakes of sand borne by the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“A different kind of stupid, right?” she says, her voice loud enough to be heard over the rush of wind through the cab. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stallion was able to avoid the loose stones and fallen branches that lay across the winding path, even without Taran’s hands on the reins. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was like wind rushed through a noisy tree in fall, every leaf muttering something to its neighbor. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Pilate and Reba, seated beside the bed, bent over her like two divi-divi trees beaten forward by a wind always blowing from the same direction. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind whipped my hair and flooded the truck with a weedy, new-mown smell. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The rest was shrouded in shadow ... except beneath the open window, where a spray of ice crystals glittered in the moonlight, swirling in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A good high wind would pull them up and away and they would land perhaps among the tops of the trees. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts her head to inspect a scent on the wind. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind wafted in through the open window and over her, the familiar wind, and it smelled almost like the air in Capricorn's church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was cold in the cell, the wind screamed night and day, and worst of all, the floor sloped. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There had never been any voice in the wind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where did we wind up, by the way?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They couldn’t make six knots in a trade wind!” he grumbled. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t want to hear any of it, and the wind, allying itself with me, threatened the chinaberry tree outside the back door. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cold wind got the best of us, and I had to take off from school the following Monday and Tuesday because I’d gotten really sick. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A northeastern wind had joined the cold front, and it felt twenty degrees colder than the day before. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The husky voice was beautiful even when it was barely more than a murmur borne on the wind. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hop in the jeep and Ranger Alford drives us down a winding dirt trail. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The air is gray today, the wind spitting ice, and it’s hard to remember a time when I wasn’t afraid of death. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By now the sun had set and the wind was again tossing the trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, nothing. Anyway, what happened after the wind bomb went off?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the last day of our journey, a terrible wind began to blow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where they would. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The wind closed in around me, and the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was cold and hard, but I was so tired I could have slept in a wind tunnel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

High wind rakes the summit of Everest, May 12. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had ripped some of them right off the yards. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Someone calls as if to a missing child and the wind carries the sound away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Although Mia had flattened the pages, the wrinkles still rippled across the birds’ wings as if the wind were ruffling their feathers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I passed Shawn carrying a large china plate of dinner rolls, and he stabbed my gut so hard it knocked the wind out of me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Or will I have to wait for a kindly wind, and depend on the indulgence of the bears in the meantime? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Squallers circled in the sky, wind whipping the air around them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’m glad the wind’s come up today, but that the sun’s still shining. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was like a wind that threatened to unsettle everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Our footpath finally came to an end on a winding paved road just wide enough for a single car. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook the reins to the lovely mares with long manes in the wind, guiding them full tilt toward his father’s hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was enough to take the wind out of Rowan and make him feel light-headed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There had been strong winds and heavy rain all day, and as Wood spoke, they heard a distant rumble of thunder. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

What made Sunday the eighth different and particularly dangerous was the steady wind blowing in from the southwest. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was beating more wildly than ever, and a drop or two of rain splashed onto Will’s face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands sprang up from the ground like leaves in a wind. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane held up his arm, and the bird spiraled an elegant descent, luffed into the wind, and landed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The heat surged out in waves, washing across Mark’s face only to be sucked away by the wind gusting from behind him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And there are countless other headstones engraved with names he does not recognize, and more that have been so worn by time and wind that they are illegible, their owners long forgotten. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The shacks were made of plastic, tin and cardboard and stood near clumps of blue gum trees, whose branches screamed like ghosts in the icy Cape wind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat for a while around the fire and Dadi sang, her high-pitched voice winding around the air like a butterfly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We keep an eye out for our own. Young Anthony practices because running is in his heart. He runs at night to get better, to improve, to feel the wind on his face.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Gottlieb protested that even without an explicit calculation of wind loads, the buildings were strong enough. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She’d grown up hiking its winding trails, diving into its cold lakes, and fishing for trout in its streams. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine I was sawdust blowing away with the wind. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine that I am back in the Spinney, that their whispers are just the wind rustling in the trees. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But all day we heard nothing but familiar sounds, the surf, the wind, and the cries of sea birds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper heard the wind pushing the boats against the piers; he heard the dull thud as they bumped against the wood. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Ferolind was still visible on the horizon, its sails full of the wind that whipped at their cheeks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But I have no idea how to turn myself into the wind.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I just stared at the huge mainsail and kept the wind behind us. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The wind’s in the West,” she said slowly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Much of the last year had been spent out- of-doors and on horseback, and now he was always out in the sun and wind. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the stumbling figure ahead of me, and between the blasts of wind I could hear him talk to himself about Tenorio’s threat and how he would warn Andrew. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cold wind coming down the valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But when he finally moved, he moved like a cornstalk twitching in the wind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A set of wind chimes in a hurricane. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I'm convinced it was the product of a subtle magic, the alchemy of moonlight; the school a flower-studded wasteland, the rocks sunken, the dry winds hidden, the lost crickets chirping to yellow butterflies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only a glance upward at the star-spangled sky and the trees twisting in the wind, Lupita ran after her brother. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The steps were very wide, winding down and around to the lower floor. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had a hard time getting the brake closed—you had to know which doors tended to jump out and get in the way—but finally succeeded, a little bit winded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lord's voice wheezed out of him, like the wind being squeezed from a pair of rotten bellows. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The water was going every which way beneath them, and the wind was a storm blowing so bad, they could hardly control their wings. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the wind blew off the lake, the nearest corpse twisted on its chain, ever so slightly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We were soon winding through a network of quiet streets, following Mrs. Stewart’s directions, turning from one nearly identical block to the next. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then from many points little rivers of red flame came hurrying on, winding through the gloom, converging towards the line of the broad road that led from the City-gate to Osgiliath. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mostly the proper way to mix the clay, the proper way to form the tiles and smooth the dry ones, so that through wind, sun, rain they will last and last. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Digger had cupped his hands around the cigarette to relight it after the wind put it out. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

At first there was the sound of the wind only. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It’s likely that the wind was blowing at a steady 30 miles per hour with some ferocious gusts. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

With another wild kick, she rolled herself over and stumbled to her feet, staggering in the direction of the forest A tickle grew in Tally’s throat as the pepper dust dispersed on the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The women’s journey toward equality with men in both rights and opportunities has been a long and winding path. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“So put down the wind bomb, and watch Khione get humiliated.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Still, it's a bit disconcerting to hear howling winds when you're used to utter silence. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stalked across the yard, into the teeth of that wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gregory's hands started shaking, the paper vibrating like dry leaves in the wind. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The whole ship blazed as it moved against the wind and out to the waiting sea. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew urged me, and although I could keep up with Andrew we did not have enough wind to outdistance the Kid. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was whooshing along noisily and steadily at a brisk twenty-five miles an hour, but gusting to at least double that, and from ever-shifting directions. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a tomb; without the kids the schoolhouse was a giant, quiet tomb with the moaning wind crying around its edges. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up and blew cool and damp through the screen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then she showed me how to pull and tug and guide the kite into the winds. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she heard a faint voice in the wind, laughing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t the wind ever blow on this river?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe you could turn on the fan and sweep against the wind," I'd suggest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The prince nibbled at first, with his fingers, and then threw his royal pride to the winds. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here Strider turned aside, and soon they were lost in a sombre country of dark trees winding among the feet of sullen hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I felt the tiny rush of wind from his wings against my forehead and, reflexively, my eyes squeezed shut of their own accord. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was only the sheer brick wall stretching down to the pavement, the cars and buses moving like toys so far below, and the blast of the wind against his face that made it terrifying. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The innkeep's body turned slowly on its rope whenever the night wind gusted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knew Mother would have strong opinions about where I’d wind up, with curved legs and weak bones like the poor Congolese children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke this morning to the wind whipping against the window, so I shove Daddy’s old gloves into my jacket pocket before I head to school. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was warm, but the wind in his face was keen and refreshing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Because the mountains catch all the moisture from the Amazon winds, the terrain is as wet as it is steep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The kinship of dragons is with wind and fire, and they do not fight willingly over the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The gwythaints, which, at a distance, had seemed no more than dry leaves in the wind, grew larger and larger, as they plunged toward horse and riders. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Listen for gunshots or raised voices but only the soft sigh of wind whispers through the grasses and bobs the heads of tiny flowers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake before dawn, scraps of nightmare stay with me: my face carved and branded; my brother hanging from the gallows, fair hair fluttering in the wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Together we wind through the streets of the Seam until we reach the burning building. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived in Gotenhafen at dusk, our faces red and chapped from the wind on the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The halfway point is the Queensland Drawbridge, which arches over the river, and then the course winds back toward the historic settlement houses and into Old Town. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The wind stirred, and Hazel felt the cold tugging at her, trying to pull her to it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was more wind in the sky than there had been, and soon he hoped that he would see land. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing you would notice about our island, I think, is the wind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was full of stars, and the wind was gusting along the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He heard no wind, no voices, no sirens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the wind had competition here on the hilltop. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cheeks were red, burned from the cold and wind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stand with my back to the bedpost and wind the rope around myself, feet first. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oily lifeguards were winding up the lane ropes for open swim and a gaggle of coaches crowded around the awards table, sorting nine colors of ribbons into thick manila envelopes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Argo II veered to port, its aerial oars in motion, its sails catching the wind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

We made it about half a mile up the mountain, moving deliberately so as not to frighten the horses, winding our way through the wheat fields. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wind through the open windows had broomed out all the fetid feeling of absence and nothingness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As alert as an eagle, he was sniffing the wind and wagging his tail as if reading some amusing wolf story. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long while the snow ceased to fall around him, and the wind to blow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of home, though he could not drive on the dark, sea his ring-prowed ship; for the sea-air rolled, dusky with wind, and the waves were locked in ice. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of a breeze on the water, but even the wind seemed molten to them as they climbed into the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The plastic sheeting on the roof rose here and there, tugged by the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The world rushes forward, and I can almost feel the blast of wind against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s still some danger from the wind—it’s at approximately twenty percent. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They stood thus for the moment, between two gusts of the southern wind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind got so strong it almost blew me down the mountain, but I kept going. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She backed through a door and started up the winding steps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were flinty too, black and sharp, but the years and the salt winds had turned his hair the grey of a winter sea, flecked with whitecaps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was as if a supernatural wind had swept through the place and sucked out all sound. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even where I hid nearly thirty feet away the wind was so strong that I was forced to take a step forward, as if I’d been pushed roughly from behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He listened to the wind, and felt the stones beneath his feet. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

An hour later it starts, sheets of rain pouring down and wind that ripples across the surface of the striped tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, lifting her veil and lashing her cheeks with salt spray. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He smoked in silence, thinking of nothing, and listening to the sound of the wind that brought the scent of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must feel as if a giant wind suddenly picked them up in Pakistan, blew them across the globe, and set them down here in this foreign place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The wind thundered in the trees, and when I finally looked back, Miles stood at the door to his truck, outlined by moonlight, staring right back at me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They listened to the wind in the eucalyptus trees awhile. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And the watchers on the shore saw the wind shift, the waves subside, and the Greek ship leave the harbor, flying under full sail to the sea beyond. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A puff of wind came and the sheet tore out of my hands, went twisting round the mast. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A wind skimmed the water, and Minli could see her anxious face as pale and as white as the moon reflected in it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing except the keening wind and the rasping call of a cactus wren somewhere in the rocks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the warm wind and smelled newly cut grass, and a bird perched on a branch of the ailanthus and sang for a long time before it flew away. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The elevator doors open, and the wind hits us immediately, still warm but woven with threads of winter cold. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up then, and the dry dirt whipped up from the ground and passed over them in a cloud. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The inevitable result is that the people who wind up in front of a judge are usually guilty of some crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now he was in utter darkness, feeling himself being pitched forward in a sequence of jerks and rushes, the wind rushing past him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Their little group of three pilots, three navigators, three gunners, and one mechanic celebrated the new year in a village called Lopatino while they waited for the snow and wind to die down. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The wind strengthened and blew paper cups and empty cigarette packs in eddies around the parking lots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d start to tell him the wind made it slam, but there wasn’t time. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

This was, in effect a wind gun driven by atmospheric pressure and where the piston replaced the bullet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mango takes off for shelter in the trees, and I freeze while the wind whips up around me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She listened to the skirling of the wind and the scuffling sound of leather on stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As it did, wind shear blew it laterally off course. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So tonight I say my poem twice, just in case the winds didn’t hear them the first go-round. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All the laws and beliefs of Earth were burnt into small hot ashes which soon would be carried off in a wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits led their ponies up, winding round and round until they reached the top. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sheets of charred metal roofing crumpled in the fields where the wind had blown it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As I stand there feeling sorry for myself, Mango peeks out from his hiding place, looks around, then tentatively crawls out and winds himself around my legs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Each time he stretched out his hand to grasp them the wind tossed them high away out of reach. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to take us down, Dr. Grumman,” Lee shouted above the wind. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their crowns entwined and crisscrossed and whispered with rain, and bowed and shifted as troops of monkeys passed through them like currents of wind, leaping from crown to crown, crying their untranslatable cries. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed, winding my way through the slowly moving crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the head of the winding columns rode the Horned King. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Near the sheer stone front of the generating station, a zeppelin slowed to a hover in the buffeting wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t have someone’s hand to hold as I tiptoe to the window, only to realize the scary noise is just a branch scraping the glass, just the wind. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a long moment there was no sound but the wind and the water and the creak of leaf and limb. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Up the field the others at badminton sensed a shift in the wind; their voices carried down to us, calling us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he was, right there, his long hair wild in the wind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He tiptoed back to the bed, slipped matches into his pocket, detached the plug of the electric lamp by his bed and picked it up, winding the flex round it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment it felt even worse than being the wind, like he’d suddenly been wrapped in a lead overcoat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The wind that’s ever present outside our lobby doors due to the way the buildings are clustered feels special when it hits my face and blows back my hijab a bit. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As the wind, I visit my animal friends. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

To her left, several electrical cords wind along the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They wore gold rings in their leather ears and in the wind their sparse and ratty hair twisted about on their skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wind howls as Ishtar lands on the next plane. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had several hiding places where he lay up during the day and he only came out at night to hunt and explore and search the air for telltale hints of Aurelia in the wind. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The river stretched out in front of her, winding its way into the snowcapped mountains. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But his words were carried off by the stiff wind, and the others, tugging and twisting at the coarse ropes, didn't hear him, didn't reply. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A chill wind blew about them, and Coraline shivered and looked away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A wind from the sea lofted snowflakes against the windowpanes, where they melted and ran toward the casements. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was hot, tired from dealing with the children all day; the wind had been blowing, filling her hair with dust—but now everything was quiet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin on the cowboy’s face was wrinkled; it had been rubbed dry and red by the wind and sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was quite a sea running but we were going with the wind. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And then a gentle wind blew across the cornfields, and the corn whispered here, here, here. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re crying,” he said, which was stupidly obvious; but seeing her that way took the wind out of his helicopter blades, so to speak. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was chilly, but we were out of the wind. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the cap he wore over his ears was made from tawny thick fur which shone when the wind ruffled through it; it looked like mountain-lion skin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She would have to send her kisses on the wind, hoping that the wind would touch the boy’s face, and would tell him that she was alive. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smooth and easy, Alfred, build up the wind and the legs, smooth and easy, pick up those feet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain and wind paused, and an acrid smell like burning wire filled the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well, it’s the winds, old man,” White Deer said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some plants spit their seeds into the wind. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It must be the wind,” she told herself, though the idea was clearly ridiculous. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I could see the tattoo, the navy blue ink of it, winding up his neck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He drove his fist into my stomach and knocked the wind out of me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Moisture from the sodden ground soaks my socks and I'm aware of the sharp bite of the wind, but I don’t stop. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boys lay crouched under the wagons, wrapped in hay to keep their wet bothes warm against the now cold wind, and all joked with one another while heaven fell. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sahil held me, he blocked out the cutting wind, and it felt like everything would be okay. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Here, come out of the wind at least.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jason summoned the winds and whisked Piper and Leo down to the surface. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The winds had swept the ash and dust from the surface. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“What a lark! I have never yet in my life slept out of doors, though it may as well have been out of doors when the east wind blew through the wind hole.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I knew we were surrounded on all sides by violent winds, but the litde cay was calm and quiet I reached over for Timothy. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew, cracking and splintering the remaining bones, but he sensed the presence of Mercer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The hard, cold ground pressed sharply into her shins, and the dreadful wind was worrying at her hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You know that. I am at the mercy of the winds of fate.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘And hold to your purpose! North with the wind in the left eye and a blessing on your footsteps! Make haste while the Sun shines!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m not afraid of failing. It’s just that I don’t know how to turn myself into the wind.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, the Dream’s parameters were caged by technology and by the limits of horsepower and wind. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Worsley knew that the boat was so low in the water that the wind had no purchase on the sides of the craft. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Her hair was flowing in the wind, and she appeared to be looking back at something or someone behind her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As my charges waved their flags in approval, a gust of wind snaked down the street. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the days she ignored me, I hung my school dress and stretch pants on the clothesline for the wind to shake them a thousand times. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wind shifted, and the alley filled with clouds of gritty steam from the doused fires. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Where does a woman go when she leaves one man who hits her and is just as likely to wind up with another man who hits her, maybe even worse than the first? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I inhale the fresh wind of the sea. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sky was brushed clean by the wind and the stars were cold in a black sky. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing steadily and the old man’s voice was almost lost in it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But before she could strike hard and be driven down, the nose came back through the wind and the sails filled. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t noticed it before, but now, suddenly the wind was strong. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as they sold some cars, she was going to order sirens, hill holders, auto robes—“wind, water, dust, and oil proof”—and chain pulls for getting out of mud or sand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Emo was laughing loudly, pointing at the body hanging stiffly, swaying a little in the gusts of wind, then pointing at Leroy kneeling on Pinkie’s throat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Easy for an immortal wind god to say. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Somewhere a wind had blown down a pole. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still less can ships get searoom of these Drifters, whose boiling surf, under high fiery winds, carries tossing wreckage of ships and men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The easterly wind that had been blowing ever since they left Ithilien now seemed dead. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The shape of that dent lasts only a moment, and is as close as anyone gets to seeing wind. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At Camp Four, Lhakpa Chhiri and I shivered in the wind outside the tents, peering up at a tiny speck moving slowly down the upper Southeast Ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As they reached the bottom of the slope, Taran heard the waters of Great Avren rushing like wind in a summer storm. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He imagined them in the air, the wind attacking their hair. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the leaves shake in the wind, they tickle my skin. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It had turned suddenly cold; the sky was brilliantly sunny but the wind was up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were the gurgle of the creek and the wind, now a soft murmur. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In some ancient time, an enormous tree had fallen in a giant wind. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on cement blocks behind the guesthouse, next to what looked like the gateman’s bathroom, a narrow stall which, when the wind blew, brought a stale smell. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A blast of arctic wind came through, and Mr. Rochester and the kids turned their backs to it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The two children stood silent, shivering in the cold wind. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They are due to windblown dust, the patterns varying with the seasonal winds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust hung in the air, for the wind had died and the evening was heavy. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they were half-way up, an eagle flew past so close to them that the wind of his wings blew' chill on their faces. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin used to stand on her head and let out enough thread to form a balloon. Then she’d let go and be lifted into the air and carried upward on the warm wind.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Just the wind,” I said airily, holding a twig in the fire till it got red hot on the end, like a long cigar. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The wind caught the leaf and swirled it away. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strangely enough, he felt his fear whisked away like a swarm of gnats caught in the wind, replaced by an intense curiosity. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Oh yes, he thought again, oh yes, wind, come and take me home. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that it was autumn, a bright, cool day; the leaves made a rustling sound when the wind blew, and some were turning yellow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The snow clung to their boots and breeches, and the wind rattled the pines and made their cloaks snap and swirl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Almost nothing remained of the original Gray Horse settlement but some rotted beams and bricks buried in the wild grasses, which the wind ruffled in ghostly rhythms. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Frederick sits on the back patio most days and watches the wind drive discarded plastic bags across the lot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They stayed warm all the way to the textile mill in Brunswick, with the wind at their backs and the heat under the robes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

On the highest point, the beech trees of Cottington’s Clump were moving in a stronger wind than that which blew across the heather. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard it then—a moan, like a creaking wind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For Saturn as for Jupiter, the magnetic field captures and accelerates the charged particles of the solar wind. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange to think of a Red Army sentry on a barbed-wire watchtower shivering in this very same icy wind. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They even sit facing into the wind so that they can take off at any moment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After Billy Eckstine finishes his last song, the applause continues like a mighty wind rustling through a forest of trees. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Koffi looked over her shoulder a final time before heading down the market’s winding roads. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They both lay completely exhausted as the wind howled around them, stunned by the danger they had come through. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The wind whipped Lissa’s hair around her face, and she hunched her shoulders against the cold. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then all at once the wind fell, and a calm came over all the sea, as though some power lulled the swell. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pure fragrance of the water and the melody of the wind in the poplars held our fancies. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hard task catching fish every day, especially if the wind was blowing and the waves were high. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At daybreak, as grey light welled up in the east from the sea, the two young men set forth in Lookfar from the harbor of Ismay, raising a brown, strong-woven sail to the north wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

All around, the music vibrated through the assembled villagers, making them sway like a wind driving through a wheat field. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anya clutched the bones to her chest and turned to where the cold wind came from. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was in the sky, the wind blew, the grass was green, the screen door stood wide. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here there was nothing, not even the wind over the poppy fields or the murmur of doves in their nests on the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dried grasses rustled as a wind gusted down the barren slope, raising several strands of Kaede’s hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Icy winds cut across the plains and howled through the ravines and rattled tree branches. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He circled the mound and stared at a faded blue rag partially uncovered, quivering in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The words roared in my ears like a storm wind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside it began to thunder a little, a few raindrops fell, then a wind blew the clouds back over the mountains. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the high-road there had been a gay west wind blowing in my face, making the grass on the hedges dance in unison, but here there was no wind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the song winding down, and I was worried it would all end, but as the next song kicked in, they kept at it, and more people joined them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the winds of February blow cold, I wear a mantle of deerskin. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He listened, and I listened, and I could almost hear the wind speak to me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the change in the sounds around them, too; the howl of the wind, the engines turning over steadily to generate power for the lights, voices from somewhere nearby giving orders. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Out of the east the biting wind was blowing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a winter of strong winds and rain and wild seas that crashed against the cliffs, so I would not have gone out much even if Rontu had been there. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost dusk, the wind had dropped, and I saw old men squatting in the dirt, Papa and some of his cronies, muttering and smoking their cigarettes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orange-gold flowers waved slightly in the wind as the sun set to their left, casting the entire area in a golden haze. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sun was strong enough that the wind whipping in just felt good. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A light wind was blowing to the west, carrying the muck fire away from us, toward the Gulf. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cold wind whipping up off the water made goose bumps rise on his flesh. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my black suit, with my dirty Wallabees, I stood in the doorway, which was open to the winter wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Slicing wind gusted toward the intruders, lifting them up and sending them tumbling backward until they slammed against the rear wall and disintegrated. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wind blew and the waves crashed against the shore so that we could not go out on the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Everyone laughed, even Dimple, who laughed with a hysterical edge to her voice because she was just so glad this thing was winding down. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Mama! Did you see that lightning storm today? We knew there was trouble when the wind started blowing from the north, so we flew down to some shrubs and waited for the storm to pass.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In 1773, a Scottish explorer named James Bruce heard wind that a surviving copy of the Book of Enoch existed in Ethiopia. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Above them, the intention craft hung as firmly as if it were anchored and bolted there; no gust of wind had the slightest effect on it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was silence except for the sound of the rising wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind dropped, and it suddenly grew cold. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I can’t hear a rustle of wind, the buzz of a fly, a word of conversation. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Others sensed turbulence approaching and took detours around destructive winds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

An improbable gust of wind ruffles his just-long-enough, perfectly mussed chestnut hair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Show us your bright sun again, still these winds, and melt these snows, that we may reach your foes and smite them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had to lean down to hear his voice over the wind outside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The red dirt trail winds and dips behind small foothills, shaded by tall teak trees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind ripped Gaea’s form into nothingness, scattering the sand into the blue sky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The storm wind whipped at his face, and then the wind died and a woman stood before him on the other side of the fire, her face in the shadows. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The great tail is blown away from the icy nucleus of the comet by a wind of protons and electrons from the Sun, which has set below this horizon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might not miss these walls as a dead man, but I will miss the wind and the scents it carries, of faraway places where freedom can be found in life instead of death. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was true that outside the wind was relentless. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the press got wind of Louie’s adventure, reporters took creative liberties. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Unseasonably cold weather, meanwhile, makes people cheat prolifically; so do heavy rain and wind. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The look only lasted a second, but it chilled me more than the freezing wind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lanre, his face in shadow darker than a starless night, was blown away like smoke upon the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wind picks up as we stand at the edge of the car opening, like a hand pushing me back, toward safety. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Just let me wind down for a moment while you tell me where your key is,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It starts to get cold once the sun is down and the trade wind kicks up from the Arctic over the ocean and comes right into the condo. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remember the wind in my ears, the sound of the old outboard Evinrude. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the tendrils of worry wind around his heart, nearly squeezing it to a stop. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Any second, Roy expected to hear honking behind him, curses in the wind; the pickup truck trailing so closely that he would feel the heat off its big V-8 engine. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He coasted on downwinds, rode like a water skier on turbulent winds, and soared on light breezes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She reminds me of a clock winding down. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Like a candle fighting to stay lit in the wind. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The wind grew cold, but fearing that those on the ship would see the smoke we did not start a fire, though we had meal to cook for breakfast. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be a titanic struggle to gain headway against the wind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they stepped out into the yard, the wind filled Jon’s cloak and sent it flapping against her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing from the west, and it was difficult to be certain but he thought he heard the low hum of an engine. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not even a whisper of Lita...or her story on the wind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He is a small man who takes small steps, as if a strong wind could, at any time, whisk him up into the clouds. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the lines the sea wind had etched at the corners of his blue eyes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I yelled over the wind, pointing at my eyes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wind formed a halter and brought the beast to a stop. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And the young aviators were training in open-cockpit biplanes, with the wind biting at them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Nearly every day now I run ten or fifteen miles, barely clothed, my skin exposed to the California winter rain and wind or the summer sun of late afternoon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, rain and a high wind, tearing through the yew trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At the long town wharf, a seagull stands on twig legs, facing the wind, shaking his feathers dry. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wind Being waved goodbye, and its human form disintegrated into strings of wind carrying cactus flower petals and sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He holds the string up in one hand turns the rings so they wind and unwind in bright spinning flashes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Creeping along the shadows toward home, we saw an orange glow beyond a corner and heard a strange sound, like a fierce gust of wind. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It was like he was running into the wind, even though it wasn't a windy day. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Eleven winding steps lead to the second floor, which is full of the smells of faded grandeur: an old sewing room, a former maid’s room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Clouds scudded nose to tail across the sky, though it was not raining and the wind was quite warm. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had to yell over the chatter of the wind and road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z