The window was so high that I could barely hear the sound of traffic below . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings stand empty, row after row of them, the windows broken, the doors gone—probably burned for firewood—and when I poke my head inside, even the floors have been ripped out and salvaged. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I look out the back window to make sure the evening sun is drying my clothes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Everyone thinks I’m in bed. It took me a long time to climb out my window and make my way here.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He saw himself refusing Mack’s request and he saw the broken glass from the windows. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finally stopped pacing by the back door and now just stares longingly out the windows. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Paint was peeling off the letters on the window: Good Salvation Soup Kitchen. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was squinting out the window at the O’Toole Boardinghouse across the yard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He has only one room too, and a little kitchen with no window. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Only one store on the block looked open, its windows glaring with neon. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Across the courtyard I could see the matchmaker’s servant through a yellow-lit open window. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden color and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air inside was dim and still, slanted with light from the side windows, not those pretty stained-glass windows but milky panes you can’t really see through. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it’s tiring to always be on guard, always peering out the window, looking over my shoulder. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put one foot up on the window seat. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She went to the window and stared out, trying to spot the bird among bare oak branches that stood out black against a broken sky of gray and palest blue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

From the two windows in the main room we could look out on the courtyard we had come through the night before. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All three stood openmouthed, staring at the empty hole where the window had been. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, Mean Lady Ming. We would like to put the people’s flyer in your window for the people’s rally this Saturday. Free Huey. Power to the people.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I look out the window, all I can think is how wrong my mother is about this. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Away from the window she could see sky and the windsock at the end of the runway, but not anything immediately below her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

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

She’d been like this for over an hour now, and she pulled her blanket tighter around herself, the heat of the roaring fire not adequately reaching her seat by the window. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mark kicked out and latched his legs on the lip of the window frame before he could fall all the way out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The window was so small and so high he couldn’t look in to verify his fears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that same night the searchlights went on in the guard towers and swept across their single window. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She saw him out of the train window, scanning every coach for her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cold, cottony light of a winter storm was something he gave thanks for after living without windows for seventy-seven days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he cut them off at the eyes, “the windows of the soul,” rendering them even more enigmatic. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I slept until four, the whir of the central air under my window blocking out the sounds of the world. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at the many tearful faces against the window. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mark picked the man back up and once again threw him toward the broken window. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But there is something illegal about dangling an infant out of a tower window,” Justice Strauss said indignantly. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Millard’s footsteps moved to the window, and the blinds parted an inch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Through the window Chacko could see the tops of buses, luggage in their luggage racks, as they thundered by. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need you to take me to the back door or, like, outside his window or something. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There is no electricity so it is dark, except for the area that is illuminated by sunlight pouring in through the glassless windows. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall beside the window stood a dark wooden cabinet. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Several windows are cracked or missing altogether, and broken whiskey bottles litter the floor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no seats; instead, half a dozen brass bedsteads stood beside the curtained windows. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Through the window I could see that night had completely fallen and that lights now gleamed in the streets. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly we all climbed down from our shelves and looked out the windows and doors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Three!” shouted Mr. Flux, his eyes popping open like window shades. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help myself, I rolled the window down just enough so that our words could get in and out but his hand or claws couldn’t He said, “OK, what’s this?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

She got up and looked out the window. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, come on,” he calls in through the window. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I gazed at my closed bedroom door and then out the window. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window at the shady streets, the sprawling houses, and the expansive lawns, which seemed more uniformly green than the lawns on my street. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Still low and quiet, the boys crept past the mirror emporium’s display window, catching glimpses of their own reflections dozens of times over in mirrors of various sizes, shapes, and mounts. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cate cracked our windows, and the air rushing by brought in the scent of rain and carried me quickly into sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She flew down to the sill of one of the four glassless windows in the church bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was outside, but it sounded pretty close, so I leaned over to my window, pushed the curtain aside, and looked out. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Even though they told themselves that they trusted Minli and believed she would return, Ma spent most of her time looking out the window, lost in thought, while Ba grew older and grayer every day. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window I saw him lean against the white stone railing on the balcony. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the sign and headed for the window. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everything looked old about it, old and tended, the smooth brick sidewalks, the many-paned windows, the little dome on top of the main building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drapes hang from the windows, covering the empty panes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mai looked back at the school and saw a decal in a classroom window. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Holes are cut out every couple of feet: fat holes for windows, skinny holes for doors. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Lord Petyr was seated on his window seat, languid and elegant in a plush plum-colored doublet and a yellow satin cape, one gloved hand resting on his knee. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The double-glass windows of the office kept out most of the noise. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To the right of them the gym meditated behind its gray walls, the high, wide, oval-topped windows shining back at the sun. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked up a ramp to the entryway, then passed down a long hallway of doors and windows into offices. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I put it back in my bag and stare out the window. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I said, “You won’t let them put May in the bank window, will you?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us I see candlelight flickering to fife from window to glassless window, and here and there the locals light small fires along the edges of alleys. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Hazel stared out of the window and watched the houses shrink and thought of villains and snow globes and what it would be like to be trapped inside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a lean clothes pole in the back of the yard from which six washlines on pulleys connected with six kitchen windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light’s still on in a window, but I think old doc was in bed, ’cause he come to the door in his pajamas. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally retraced her steps to the exact window they’d jimmied, a dirty, forgotten pane of glass concealed behind decorative bushes, and found that it was still unlocked. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mark slipped out the window several inches—a thunderbolt of pure terror flashed through him like an electric shock before his progress stopped again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gus slid his burger and fries through the kitchen window before I could ask for it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was a joy to have a window that moved. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A fat bee crawled across the top of the dresser, and adroitly Biff caught it in his hand and put it out the open window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He ran back to the first window, the one he’d opened into the shrubbery, and looked through. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leah came in the window before dawn and whispered to Mother awhile, but I don’t think she slept either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s barely any light, only moonlight that reaches through the small window. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He stood there with his right hand resting on the giant gun on his hip, then tapped on the window and made a rolling motion with his hand. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Monet hands the driver some money and gets out of the taxi and opens the glass door and goes over to the reception window and indicates that he is very ill. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and dragged the box under the window, trying not to laugh. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And found what I’d been looking for After emerging from the Underthing, I made my careful way through a window and a locked door into the women’s wing of the Mews. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Javier rose and walked over to the windows, then whistled, and then Moss stood slowly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mei-li turned back around and rolled up her window, then she turned off the music completely. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And she set a chair in the front-room window and every evening I would sit there with my toys and stuffed animals and books and I’d wait. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the chest under the window and looked inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the houses, there were no glass windows. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The drafting table by the windows is all but hidden in the meticulously ordered chaos of papers and diagrams and blueprints. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cabot had already rolled the passenger window down when she approached the car and rested one hand against the door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Again he passed a window and he saw a sprawling mob held at bay by troops. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What can I do for you?” you say with a smile as the window drops. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It would not have come as a surprise to Gregor if she had not come in, since his position was preventing her from opening the window immediately. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner furthest from the window was the door to the bedroom on which was tacked a map of northern Europe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The small table abuts the wall of the trailer and sits beneath a window. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I walk into Dream & Bean and Dylan is sitting by the window. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The movie kept playing, and through the window, Ivy saw Mr. Bishop pushing the lawn mower up and down the front yard. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

To smile at the sheer loveliness that pressed in from the windows and touched his grief, making it a pleasure to behold. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him through the window, seizing his horse’s mane, and mounting in his blundering brutal manner, and sidling and backing away. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up the dinner dishes, then sat in a chair by the window for about an hour, not doing anything except thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Your hair is as vivid as a Kinvara sunset, autumn leaves, the Koi goldfish in the window of that hotel in Galway. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was mostly Mamas prayer group members who plucked flowers; a woman tucked one behind her ear once—I saw her clearly from my window. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he said, “friend John, where are the skeleton keys? If so that we can open the door, we need not break house by the window, as before at Miss Lucy’s.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

"I shoved my fists through my roommate's window." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s so warm in the car that the windows keep fogging up, and I draw little squiggles in the condensation. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his glasses looked dollish: they were thicker than window louvers, tinted a strange bluish shade, and framed in white plastic. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Warm sunlight streamed in the window, and after a moment I closed my eyes to let it fall on my face. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dim light swirls in through the windows and the gauzy curtains. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about that,” I say, nodding out the window where Sam is still talking to Ethan’s dad. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Actually, I was in danger of falling out the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Both groups set to removing the windows, prying them out of their casings with the long bars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

That particular swath of lawn was also pictured in a photograph taped to the wall next to the window. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Grandma had died, her ninety-year-old sister sat blankly in front of the window all day and never left the room. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red weathervane was Caesar’s sign that this was the house, the yellow curtains pulled shut in the back window the signal that Fletcher was home but his wife was not. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Eden walks by, then peeks out the window at the approaching soldiers and points some handmade metal contraption at them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was a gloomy room with a little light coming in from the window on the narrow street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma had flung open every window, but there was a peculiar smell in the room. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, the chanting ceased, making a distressing silence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The many perches were half-empty; every now and then, another owl would swoop in through one of the windows, returning from its night’s hunting with a mouse in its beak. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It leads to a landing where there’s a bank of windows, which must look down on something. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Gus turned his head back away from us, staring out the window at the patio in his backyard. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I popped the screen out of the window and set it carefully against the wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I turn my face away from the window. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Z slid his head and one arm out the narrow window and waved at the people standing at the parking lot far in the distance. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I could see the windows only through my right eye, and they looked blurred. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The windows were all gone but the brick shell of the house remained, damp and blackened and steaming, and most of the roof, the dark slate shingles gleaming like fish scales from their recent soaking. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was shaving by the open window, a camel-hair jacket over his pyjamas, and I in my flannel suit and heavy shoes felt clumsy and overdressed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning out my dorm window, dropping them on the heads of the boys below. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his screaming got too pathetic to bear, our grim-faced mother brought in his cage and set it on the floor by the window, where Methuselah continued his loud, random commentary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there the glow of hearth fires shone through shuttered windows, leaking between wooden slats, but only a few. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lightning hit the royal palm outside my window. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here Captain Cook insisted on looking over the window display, which consisted of several open packages of shiny white boric crystals. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

A golden dawn was breaking in the east, but behind Lady Melisandre’s window in the King’s Tower a reddish light still flickered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Was I any better, spying on her from the library window? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My tester hadn’t arrived yet, so I rolled down the window in a panic and called out to my dad, who was waiting on the sidewalk. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Of course Mr. Neely would let us test the design from his classroom window after school. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo smiled at her husband, who nodded at her, then looked away out the window. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The exterior sustained some damage, so they’ll pressure-wash it, sand and caulk it, and repaint every wall and window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There were no orbs inside, just the dim moonlight shining in through the slatted windows near the ceiling. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She checked her makeup and kickboxed her own image in the reflective glass of the lounge window. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Although she had nearly reached the door, now she turned and fought her back way through the crowd, toward the windows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Because I didn't answer when you threw rocks at my window? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bran pulled himself from the bed, moving bar to bar until he reached the windows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I sat there, surrounded by the smells of autumn coming through my open window, unable to leave, unable to sleep. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then that smell of jet fuel, that smell that welcomed me before, and leis and the scratchy blanket wrapped twice around me, and why does the window seat matter when the shades are drawn closed? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove through I saw faces peering through the dark window of the lodge, and a child ran round from the back, staring curiously. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I turn away and look out the window, trying hard not to smile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There came the sound of more windows breaking farther on down the street. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill gazed out the window at the trees that lined both sides of the highway, the occasional handmade roadside cross, marking where someone had met their end, punctuating the unbroken wall of green. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Very badly,” said Percy peevishly, and he slammed the window shut. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he gave a loud shriek, and jumped straight out of the window, which was on the first floor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hugged the backpack to my chest and looked at the rain sheeting on the window. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Moonlight streamed through the window and she could see the odd shapes of the half-finished clockwork animals scattered around the room. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Through its window I can see burnished wood and intricate light fixtures. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s outside the small bedroom window. In the hedge.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But every evening before going to bed, Prosper stared out of the window, wondering what Scipio was up to. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid someone would see in through the window. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma would tease me all the time while I waited at the window for Mom. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large windows beside our table let in so much sunlight I feel like I’m sitting outside. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She presses her hand to her mouth and turns back to the window. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Or, sometimes, we would enter by windows from a fire-escape, or a roof. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smile lit up his face as he looked out of the window again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Something about this particular memory made her shake her head, stifle a laugh, and stare out the window with a wide smile—like the opposite of an ache, more like a relief. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She climbed into bed in her street clothes, opened the curtains, and wiped the condensation off the window. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She takes off her high heels and rubs her ankles while staring out the front window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the chamber was clean, Madam told me to open the windows again and let them stand open all afternoon to make sure there was no lingering pestilence in the air. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare down the building’s steel girders and black windows, all the way to the cracked sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped and 1 stepped out of bed and across the floor to the window. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I sit in the middle section and look out the window. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio swept a hand over his forehead and looked at the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the broad fields gave way to softly rolling hills covered with orchards, and through the carriage windows Ash watched the fruit being plucked from the trees, red and round. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the wall of windows, returned but different. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And they had to leave time for holiday parties on the last day, and making presents for each other, and for looking out the window, hoping for the miracle of snow on Long Island. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

All the windows on the first floor had been boarded up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way she was there, there’s no way she could’ve heard —” “The window was open,” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The wind angel—or whatever he was—whisked in and out of the pink granite windows, then disappeared on the other side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Robb opened the window and let the night air into the stuffy tower room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ma stood by the window as the stars began to poke holes in the deep, blue velvet sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He taped rags around the window casings, but it was little help. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My gaze went to the old picture in his store window of the group of men in overalls and miner’s hats. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So Turner sat at a small desk by the window—a window closed tightly and imperiously against sea breezes exiled by fate—and began the first hundred lines of the Aeneid. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Not all of the scholarship winners leave for good,” Headmaster said, still looking out the window. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of his reverie, Macon was interrupted by rapid tapping on the window. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to be goaded the time she leaned out of the window above me and dropped a raw turnip on my head. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

To Mollie, even the King of the Osage Hills seemed vulnerable, and after pursuing justice for so long, she retreated behind the closed doors and the shuttered windows of her house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

James knocked, and the bucket lowered back to her window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few garments hung out of the windows, limp and crinkled, as though they had been recently laundered. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Montag moved out through the french windows and crossed the lawn, without even thinking of it. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows and doors were either part of the original structure or a perfect restoration. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Finally the kid staggered breathlessly onto the bus and sat behind me, tapping at the window and waving at his father, who was now standing next to Mommy, waving at his kid. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barn was still dark, but the faint glow of sunrise lit the window in the hayloft. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It smells like someone opened a window in heaven,” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people were still leaning out their windows, for the night was warm, even though the sky still held storm clouds from time to time among the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the corner of the room by the big window, there was a loose floorboard that the twins had pried up five years earlier when they were convinced that a treasure was hidden underneath. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t matter to me if you get sicker and sicker,” she says, looking out the window. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father hadn’t replaced the window but used the flap as a watchpost whenever police raided the neighbourhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myron Cloon slumped down in a chair by the window, chewed off a fingernail, and began playing with it in his teeth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned my head against the warm window and looked at the road stretched out before us and at the land rolling away endlessly on either side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the windows were still lit and their glow reflected on the water's surface. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window I see three sets of tracks paralleling the one we are on, brown and silver, and beyond them broad flat fields of furrowed soil. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I crack one eye open, notice the pale gray light filtering through the bars on the windows, and grunt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Especially in Erudite headquarters, where there are a lot of windows.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight streamed through the high window of a chamber pleasantly cool and fragrant. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

His glasses now moved so close to the window that Prosper thought he could just about see the outline of a face. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She folded her arms on the window sill and laid her cheek on them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees grew straight, then arched overhead like the vaulted ribs of some great church, their stained-glass windows the green leaves dappled with golden sunlight. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She set my bowl in the sink and gazed out the window. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What Bernard was telling us was like opening a window to an entirely new world,” recalled Charles Bonner, who was sixteen at the time. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was fresh painted, and chintz curtains hung in the windows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only light came from the dull orange glow of lampposts and the high-up windows of surrounding buildings. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We find a place for the tree by the window and open the box. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I stared at the raindrops as they slid down the window. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It would take one of Byrd’s miracles for Braviary to fly past the window just now, as the three of them look at the sky and the trees and the creek. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All the buildings on my left are empty, their signs torn down and their windows closed, but it is a clean kind of emptiness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I suppose I should clean the kitchen and vacuum, but the windows are open and robins sing on the front lawn, where a pile of mulch with my name on it is waiting. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I walk down the hall and pop into my room, where Muqtada is putting his distinctive shape in the bed, turned toward the window, in his continuous dead reverie. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There are grasslands filled with endless purple flowers whipping by our windows. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Entering that sombre study, I could see just outside the window the brilliant red flames lit in every tree, and beyond, some threatening thunderclouds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After apologizing to the people at the next table, he went back to gazing out the window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny lay in the ‘birth and death room.’This was hardly more than a closet with a tiny window off the kitchen, used for storage except in times of sickness. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living bonobos were gone and it was only Otto and me facing the men at the windows. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw her from the window and sent Auggie out. He got down on his belly on the platform and scooped her up.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Hannah!” her father said again and her mother stared at them so fiercely over the seat that they drew themselves into opposite corners, staring out their windows with expressions of injured innocence. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Velia turned over on the window seat to face us in the dark. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The hostess seats us at the window that overlooks the patio, which has a garden and outdoor fireplace. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked through the small window of the room and saw Siddhartha standing there with his arms folded, unmoving. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth crosses to the window, pretends to watch a robin hopping about in the courtyard. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Theresa appraised her new apartment from the doorway — four bare walls, two filmy windows — she could not help but imagine what Helen would think of the decor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke barely spoke to Toby on the way to school, staring out the window and trying to quiet the howling anger inside him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Over by the window, sitting on a three-legged stool, was the shriveled-up mummy of an old lady in a tie-dyed hippie dress. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as he disappeared from the window, she slipped off the bed like that stupid cat and put her bra and shoes on in the dark. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then, holding Rock by the neck and crotch, Joseph power-drove him through the window into the truck headfirst. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Miles glanced through the driver’s side window, let out a quick curse, and grabbed a stack of papers on the seat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Newt’s head appeared at the little glassless window, looking through the bars, a smirk on his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dad called out, rolling down the front window. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He leaned out the window, trying to see any sign of movement in the other buildings, but there was none. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hooper began to mould plasticine between his hands, for another layer to the geological model, standing on a board beside the window. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I stand on the ledge, under the arch of what used to be a window, and stare out at the city. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was the old wizard, sitting in a chair by the open window. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To Lexie, it was akin to anthropology, the stripper moms and polygamous wives and drug-dealing kids a window into a world so far from hers it was like something out of Margaret Mead. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Patrolman Mancuso said something as they passed under his window, and a woman’s hoarse voice said, “It looks safe to me, Irene. There ain’t 110 lights on. He must of gone to the show.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shadow seemed to pass by the window, and the hobbits glanced hastily through the panes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She seemed very calm and brave considering the caravans of segregationists said to be driving past her house and tossing firebombs and rocks through her windows. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn pushed back his chair and went to the window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside, I sit on the waiting room couch, watching out the window. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw windows framed by blue curtains that went from floor to ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sides facing the sidewalk have wide windows where people can place orders and pick up food. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If they hadn’t already seen the first window, they would have thought this was some kind of optical trick. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Allen pulls up, rolls down the window, and says, “Come on. Get in.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They positioned potted plants with red ribbon pompoms in the window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like huge round windows and looked out over the city, one facing north and one facing south. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A dialog window popped up, asking me to confirm the spelling of each of their avatar names. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was also a window that stared at the building next door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Coraline went over to the window and watched the rain come down. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” I said, tossing the disinfectant wipe out of the window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, I broke your window. I should pay. And I can pay. I get money from helping people. Or maybe I can do something for you. I’m a good worker. I like work.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then they were in sagebrush again, barreling along with the windows rolled up against the adobe dust that enveloped their vehicle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We circle around the ghetto fence to a new place, near a small basement window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the sunlight, telephone wires looked like glass strings high overhead, bushes glistened like cakes made of diamonds, starbursts of frost etched themselves against our windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then you run over to the window, and outside everything is covered in white: the sidewalks, the trees, the cars on the street, your windowpanes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He felt as he had looking into the darkened windows of the house on Zelverstraat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As we rolled, I reported every detail from the window. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of vidfeed windows materialized in the air, all over the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He thought of the pigeon flying over the snow-covered land, looking for another window at another bedroom, and he felt bad. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lancelot and Guenever looked over the sundown of chivalry, from the tower window. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now the sun had full come up, and sunshine streamed in from the windows at the far end of the hall. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the door frame and saw them carrying Kaitlin to the window on the stretcher they made. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t throw him out the window—Johnny flipped him out the window! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can smell the sprinkler mist through the open window—mildly chlorinated, heavily fluoridated. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Usually, I spent that period passing notes with Lauren, my best friend, or staring out the window daydreaming about boys. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Big Tony was standing on a chair, staring out the basement window. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I lingered in the shadows by the window and watched Lissa and her dad move around the kitchen, laughing and talking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

To bathe, they had to dive out their bedroom window and into the cold salt chuck of the harbor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Instead I was welcomed by the hum of generators and the glow of TV screens behind cottage windows. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was a warm night for early June, and since the AC in Satan's Hearse hadn't worked in this millennium, the windows were cracked open. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I picked up Pantalaimon and you picked up—the other one and we came through, and it was moonlight everywhere, and I put him down to close the window.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We rolled down the windows and waved at the local villagers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is for the information window and they will direct you to where you need to go next,” the grandma repeats like a machine. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” she said, sliding the poster through the open window. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I stopped in at the Anglo-American Club and sat in a deep leather-cushioned chair in front of the window and read the magazines. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Wooden planks have been nailed across the opening, and when I go to the basement window where Max scooted in last time, there’s no one there, either. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some nights are silent; not a motor car turning within earshot; no drunks or restless babies crying for their mothers and Alice opens any window she Wants to and hears nothing at all. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the window were wide fields with wonderful rail fences just like in the pictures of Lincoln splitting rails. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom had a window that closed with a wooden shutter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front window has a new smash in it the shape of a sunset. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I see a flicker of movement in my periphery, and look out the window that faces the apple orchard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nor do I claim a lurking triumphant face behind a window curtain. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went over to the window so’s the full moonlight would let me see. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Violet had guessed, during her climb, that it had found some notch in the stone, or part of the window, or perhaps a piece of furniture inside the tower room, and stuck there. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He walked down the broken blocks past clusters of abandoned buildings, the glass from shattered windows on the sidewalk, junkies on the steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Heavy rain was still splattering against the window as he got dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt; they would change into their school robes on the Hogwarts Express. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I got out of the car and Sonny drove away, yelling, “Good luck!” out the window. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wave with both arms from the upstairs window. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Faces might appear in the windows at any time, asking angry questions. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would also help if we opened a window,” Rashid said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Yet outside his window, the wide world still called. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I nod and look out the window for a long time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Eleanor wondered, and then was ashamed; I came here to stop thinking things like that, she told herself sternly and rolled out of bed and went to the window. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The window on the driver’s side did not close all the way. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The weather beyond the train windows was as patchy as it had been all summer; they passed through stretches of the chilling mist, then out into weak, clear sunlight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As she and David passed through the dark streets, the ghosts of the Rusties no longer seemed to threaten from the windows. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

You can hear people shout at each other through their windows. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

She folded her hands under her head and stared at the gray patch which was the airshaft window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shifted and twisted until Laleh got annoyed and leaned against the window instead. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever World Wrestling Federation with Hulk Hogan came on, or The A-Team with Mr. T, people would cram into his living room and gather around his house, trying to watch through his window. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The windows of the house were open and the overwhelming ammonia essence of cat stood like an invisible wall between me and the front yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her is a window that overlooks the city. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She turns to me and Suesetta, says, “Go wait in the car. And when you get in, look straight ahead, don’t look out the windows. You understand?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From my window I have watched a girl with halting steps spread the wet linens on shrubs, rocks, and fences. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Matt pulled away from her, and went to the window. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside my window, the moon shines in the distance. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As he drove me home, I looked out of the open window at the compounds we drove past. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had tricked us at first, more than once, sending us running to the windows to see what beautiful, exotic birds made such a strange call. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The masonry weathered the storm just fine, but the windows and wood need refinishing or replacing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Most of the windows were dark: everyone sleeping, early to bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Come and look at this,” said Ron, who was standing by the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A small sign with the proprietor’s name, Mr. Das, was in a corner of the window. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted a sliver of moon through a window. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Emily looked out the window and watched the city pass by. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This is usually a great thing for observing the outdoors, but with bad weather, windows turn into problems. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was made of gray shell-encrusted sea rode, long and low like a bunker, but it had windows that faced the sea and it always had a good breeze blowing through it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He leaned back into the truck seat and swung his arm out the window and pointed forward. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The dishes piled up on the table beneath her window, untouched and spoiling, until the servants took them away again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Francis was looking out the window, “Yesterday it was nearly seventy degrees.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Church bells send arcs of bronze careening off the windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ulysses looked out the window and saw the sun glowing on the horizon. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I can go out the window, like always. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Eyes watched from nearby windows and doors, but no one was about to intervene. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was hot as hell and the windows were all steamy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I can see them through one of my windows. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I stand back from the windows, where I know Stuart can’t see me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And you, miss, if you’re well enough to chatter, you’re well enough to work. Get back through the window, little boy.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around, and with a jolt of surprise saw an old wizard with large, pale eyes standing quietly by the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Men stood at the windows of the prison, calling out to those who passed by. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was as fragrant as the flowers outside his window, as slight, but he trembled with a warmth I’d never felt before, an almost imperceptible tremor that somehow transferred to me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a tiny window seat, tucked low in the alcove so that it was set deep in shadow, sat Cassiopeia. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Then I recognised her face looking back through the window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He studied the town-house windows, most of which were covered with wooden shutters. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It looked like the longest windshield wiper ever, and it whipped our house and windows. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was still at this ground-floor window when I reached the door and so I opened it myself and stepped into the hallway. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits back down at the table, closer to me now, his back to the window. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tripping the latch to my window, I reached through and set my lute lightly on my bed before heading back down the way I had come. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a window in the covered bridge between the armory and the Great Keep where you had a view of the whole yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tall windows were framed by pale yellow drapes, pulled back now so that sunshine flooded the chamber, throwing soft spotlights onto the blue carpet. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I fed him,” she yelled from the same window to anyone who was listening. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I attempt to knock on the window, but my hand goes right through. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window and wondered why Jeffrey thought I, of all people, was somehow qualified to keep him brave. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother got a pail of water and a towel and took me by the hand and led me to a smeared window. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned out the window, into the cold air, looking back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see him through the window, crammed into his polyester uniform behind the desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At least one of the courtyards had been completely isolated and could only be accessed by climbing through a window. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had edged around from the back of the room to the side near the windows. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried me outside, my feet were bleeding from stepping on broken glass blown from my window. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was Mrs. Ortelli through the window of the bakery, chatting with her customers. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A green glow lit the windows of the house. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wants only to go home, to stand in their four-room flat and hear the chestnut tree rustle outside her window; hear the cheese seller raise his awning; feel her father’s fingers close around hers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The patch of moonlight that slipped past the rusty iron bars on our window fell on the book that our teacher, Parvathi, had given me before she moved away. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I forget about leaving. I look out the window, and I know that this is where I want to be forever. It’s home.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We maneuver through the dim hallways of Terminal 5, as it is labeled—“an old name,” David says—which have no windows, no hint of the world outside. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He looked out my window and pointed to the spot. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

The car is hot and fumy, even though the windows are open, and when the second movie starts, Roamer and Amanda lie down flat in the enormous front seat and go almost completely quiet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And if she turned away from faces looking past her through restaurant windows, that Violet heard the clack of the plate glass in mean March wind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the cookies that far out on the porch, Mrs. Trent can sit in her front window and get a sideways look at whoever comes out to retrieve them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, trying desperately not to disturb the universe, Hazel took her place in her usual desk, third row from the back, right next to the window where she liked it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or not, since Z stepped back and kicked hard at the window, making them all jump. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A guy in work clothes leaned out the shotgun window with an actual shotgun and fired a long-tailed streamer into one of the logs. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faded loops of coloured paper hung in the windows, and on the shelves were shabby little boxes of Sherbet, old Liquorice Sticks, and very withered, very hard Apples-on-a-stick. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

With his eyes still out the window, he reached out and squeezed my shoulder with a heavy hand. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But I kept my forehead pressed to the window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

You rise to the window and give light to my life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

James directed her to a huge marina, where lights burned in many buildings and in many of the small windows of the boats tied in rows along the docks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went into my bedroom and sat down by the open window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I stare out the back-seat window, practically jumping out of my skin. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But I wanted to toss her out the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Under the dirty window was a stone sink, where the old man was pouring something with a shaky hand from a large bottle into a smaller one. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A voice rang out from the backseat, but with the tinted windows, we couldn’t see its source. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hartlieb pursed her lips and glanced out through Victor's dirty window. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead I saw the glowing windows of an all-night restaurant. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no outside walls, just windows. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Passengers disembarked and watched the Tribune window, waiting for the next announcement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I shot a panicky glance out the window, but it was too dark to see much. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah, just look up at my window every couple of weeks. I’m stacking pucks, one for every—well, you know.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when business was slow, he paced back and forth in front of the store window, monitoring Sam’s Pizza. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth’s curtains twitch in her windows as I walk by, and I give them a wave. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t even thought much about her, though her moonlace plant still bloomed in his mom’s window box. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, the serene views on the windows fade away, and the real world comes back into view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am not,” I said sadly, looking out the window. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Milo walked sadly to the window and squeezed himself into one corner of the large armchair. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A soft breeze seemed to blow in the moonlight, spilling it through the open window and lighting the bowl like a lantern. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Tab each took a window so they could look out for the moon. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ghosh offered to take the upper berth, climbing barefoot up the ladder, his suit carefully folded away, so that Ashoke had the window to himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The red sill-lanterns flutter in the windows and bathe the walls with ruby light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I gave up trying to signal him and crept ahead to the next window. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was ten o’clock at night, and I honestly felt like I could’ve scrubbed the floors and washed the windows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One look out the window, and Frank knew he was in trouble. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Many houses there were, chambers, halls, and passages, cut and tunnelled back into the walls upon their inner side, so that all the open circle was overlooked by countless windows and dark doors. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s where Chima goes. It used to be so much better, but now look at all the missing louvers in the windows, look at the dirty buildings.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or walking the streets of a big city, gazing at lights in every window, seeing the families inside, none of them mine. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I rush to the window to make sure that he leaves, that he is finally out of Donna’s life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Is she referring to the bedroom window or the front door?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Park opened the window quickly and leaned out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As I stepped toward the window, the barber studied me close. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sent Matthew to search for birthwort root, put out the fire, and opened all the windows. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izzi and I sneak across the courtyard, our eyes flicking nervously to the windows of the Commandant's rooms. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When dressed, I sat a long time by the window looking out over the silent grounds and silvered fields and waiting for I knew not what. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Patients with yellow fever were isolated in rooms with screens on the windows so that mosquitoes couldn’t feed on their infected blood and then transmit the disease to healthy individuals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I sink into the passenger seat, turning quickly toward the window. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They turned then and saw Pilate leaning on the window sill. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see fire escapes and big windows that look wrong. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The basement didn’t seem to have any windows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Outside her window, Sierra could just make out the dim haze of the neighbors’ backyard lights. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The flower tree by the parlor window wasn’t dark, but the thick trees were. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice drifted off, her eyes drifted away from them and out to the windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the last 3 days removing Hull Panel 19 and the front window. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: You don’t know he threw a little boy out the window? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the windows were rolled down, the smell of fried chicken and sweet potato pie lay unmoving, and there wasn’t enough room to stretch. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I came out of the bottoms, I could see the lamplight glow from the windows of our home. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giant chart of the four basic food groups was tacked up between the back windows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was afraid the sound could be heard through the window. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a window broke, with a different sound. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, away from what Aunt Nancy would do, Frank exits his truck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The window is as open as it goes, there’s a breeze, hot in the sunlight, and the white cloth blows across my face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old woman ended the contest by leaning out of her window and emptying a bucket of slops on the heads of the combatants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A fly left over from fall buzzes against the cold window. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would peer out the window and watch them, laughing hard when Amil missed the ball, since he could hardly see me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He closed his window, pulled down the shade. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I climbed in first and kept having to scoot over as Rosaleen settled herself by the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marigold smudged the window with her nose as she peered into the nearby brush. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“My God, what an eyesore!” rang out a girl’s voice, as clearly audible through the open window as if she had stood in the room beside them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Marly stared out of the window on her side as Joe did on his. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped to the window and lifted her into it; he was working fast now that he had started. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He threaded his way out between the stopped cars and leaned engagingly on the sill of our open window. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even though me and Jay had gone to bed, I couldn’t sleep, so I stared out of the window. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five years earlier, I had stood behind that same window, thick rain dripping down the panes and my breath fogging up the glass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Morning was at the window, and he blessed God, lying on his bed, tears running down his face, for the vision he had seen. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The window is open a bit, so I jimmy it wider and climb in. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On the way, we pass a window and I see a gray, snowy dawn spreading across the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window, reminded that I was part of a humble continuum. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sunlight flickered on the mullioned windows, and there was a soft rusted glow about the stone walls where the lichen clung. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the right side was a white marble building with rows of tall windows. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I jumped when something slapped against my window. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I cranked the window open to shout hello, but the sudden harshness of their voices stopped me. “jBcutta!” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. White stumbled back from the window, horrified and baffled. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I looked out one of the narrow windows from on top of my bunk, I was reminded of my secret place high on Tarbean’s rooftops. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fish and octopi darted in and out of the windows. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There weren’t no windows but the wind blew in between the boards. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother took in a long, loud breath through her nose and stared out of the front window, as if gathering herself. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ben saw his sister fall into a hedge that bordered the classroom window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall tell its buyer to place it in a window.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every window in the house was open, but there didn't seem to be any breeze. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne walked to the window and stared out at the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alec had backed away from the window, his face as pale a thing as Mark had ever seen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It is attached to the foyer, but it sticks way out, and tonight Greta is behind the window. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He walked by the new girl's desk, but she didn't turn away from the window. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Gran’s expression softened as she leaned closer to the window. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later Mom picked up the phone to call the Fire Department again as I peered out the front window. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch my reflection in the windows just beyond the main corridor—my hair is stringy and limp, and the bandage dominates my forehead. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Eliot looked out the kitchen window, at gray waves receding from the shore, and said that he was fine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her eyes tear over, and she looks out the window. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

While during the day Gregor, out of consideration for his parents, did not want to show himself by the window, he couldn't crawl around very much on the few square metres of the floor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are plenty of carpenters who will assist with the windows, if you don’t feel up to the task yourself, Elihu,” Bellingham said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shivered once and stood up, walking up the bed of the truck and reaching through the cab window to pull out two blankets. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘No!’ answered Frodo, coming back to himself out of darkness, and finding to his surprise that it was not dark, and that out of the window he could see the sunlit garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the window a man sat before the table and stared down at a chess game laid out before him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He rolled down the window and the heat of the desert came pouring into the air-conditioned car. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I averted my head to the window and watched the country fly past as we traveled through an area of sun-light. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I swing out the window, drop to the ground, and head across the green to my house. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember it was in the spring when the days was longest, for the light was coming through the window and there weren’t no lantern going. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows had been opened and the rooms aired out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread the cereal on the snow outside his window. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In my bones I knew I had outgrown my fear of Big Ma and that there was nothing she could do to me, but I stepped away from the window. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the plane ride leaving Port-au-Prince for JFK, I had curled into my mother and together we looked out the window. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Citra, at least, had a window, but the view was of a brick wall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I cracked the window, the fall crisp seeping in, the familiar static of air pushing through a tight space. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Snow was swirling against the icy windows once more; Christmas was approaching fast. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

General Macarthur looked out of the carriage window. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He jumps out into the rain, grabbing the windshield wiper on my side and connecting it to something at the bottom of the window with the spring. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I break away from her gaze and stare straight through the window. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was sitting up and looking out the window at the marine layer, frowning slightly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The sheets feel cool now, and the breeze through the window feels good on my damp forehead. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The truck interior was dense with the scent of his cologne and Obinze would, from time to time, take deep gulps of fresh air through the open window. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He saw the night through the window and when the vehicle began to move he could see the empty streets and flag-decked buildings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the lights are off, but somewhere on the first floor, blue television light splashes out from the windows. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The windows to the lecture hall were shut, so there wasn’t much chance of my being overheard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He rolled up the window of the car, Toomer’s side of the car, he thought. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window delivered more than a stingy puncture of sunlight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Tía crosses to the window and peers out. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Angry drivers leaned out of car windows to shake their fists. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He sat on the burning milestone with his matted hair and eyes like windows, and was glad to be able to look away sometimes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya was no longer slumped against the window and was instead sitting straight as a jackrabbit, her sunglasses pushed up onto her forehead. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her chamber was even brighter than the attic, but the windows were closed and the smoke thinner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rolls down her window the rest of the way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I fold back the sheet, get carefully up, on silent bare feet, in my nightgown, go to the window, like a child, I want to see. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the window was a lovely planted garden. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bo sits in the neighboring lane, waving his arms, pointing at my window. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I saw Char through the window, laughing again. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stick in one of those long wiggly plastic straws that Mom kept from when I was four and sit on the window ledge in the living room, sipping slowly while smiling at the birds. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The blast of the window air conditioner that dripped water into a dog bowl on the floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite efforts by Howard Fuller and Ann Atwater to calm the situation, a score of angry black teenagers sped down Main Street, tossing garbage cans and bricks through a dozen store windows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As quiet as mice, we crept outside through the window. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows of Fielding’s office were dark, thanks to the black plastic. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After a while, buildings start sprouting up outside the window, and soon we're entering a city with buildings that are even taller than the ones in Chennai city. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He gestured toward the window, indicating an area between the building and the edge of the woods beyond. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marigold’s practicing oboe”—Cady flicked an elbow toward an upstairs window, from which faint, stilted notes of music had been puttering for the last several minutes—“but I don’t know about Zane and Will.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She gazed out my window at the black night. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That was the day I rode my sled in through her cellar window. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Trying not to disturb the azaleas, she peeked in the dining room window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its window, between coffee machines and toasters, stood a few toys. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put my head out the window of the bedroom where I sleep. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I hear a scream from an apartment window. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

So that night I feigned a flulike illness and locked myself in my room, then slipped out the window and climbed down a drainpipe to the ground. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I watched John Worth through the kitchen window. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear the sculptor through the window—a deep dark moaning that’s sucking the air out of the air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There were no footsteps above, no sliding of James’s window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The real moon shone through the casement window. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I only vaguely knew the names of the trees around me, and all I knew was due to Charlie pointing them out to me from the cruiser window in earlier days. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But Jajas eyes were blank, like a window with its shutter drawn across. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Put down your guns or I open this window.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Outside the windows, a steady roar was interrupted by sharp sirens or the insistent crash and clang of garbage cans, the whining motors of cars, and the faint sound of babies crying. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And I sit back and look out the window past the lakeside park to the choppy waters of Lake Michigan. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t much care for the lack of windows or the dark walls, not to mention the decor itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I can see Hogwarts,” said Malfoy, clearly relishing the effect he had created as he pointed out of the blackened window. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sound reminded Finn of an earlier time, a time when another car was jerking left and right, Roza’s pale hands slapping at the back window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I took the diary and tiptoed back to the window. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I shut my windows, and as I was coming back I glanced at the mirror and saw a corner of my table with my alcohol lamp next to some pieces of bread. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Jesus’ stained-glass face was also remade and set back in the window. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In March he was so sick that it was an occasion on the days he got up to look out the window. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man scrutinized Mo's face until he turned his head away and looked out of the narrow kitchen window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was warm enough that, now that the hand was gone, she had opened her bedroom window wide. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The melted ice dripped down the window slowly and crookedly, like tears. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only moonlight lit this side, and the study window was dark. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly turned back and looked through the doors’ narrow windows. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He fished one out of his bag and made to leave, glancing out of the window to the backyard as he went. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I opened the back window and smelled the rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Jiro lowers his window a sliver to yell at the journalists to move out of the way. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How beautiful and safe it looked, with the sunshine slanting in the window! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Granny would shake me and I would open my eyes and see the sun streaming through stained-glass windows. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finger the rubber crack where the window goes into the door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the window she could see her boys in the yard, the tops of their heads as they sat in the grass beside the overturned wheelbarrow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He put his left foot up on the window seat and rested his injured hand on the horizontal thigh. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We now leave the attic window open a crack every night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I look out our window at the abandoned house across from ours. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She held the new gold threads to the window and examined the subtle shifts in hue, choosing just the right ones for the repair. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, “Yeah. Most of our windows are.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The smell reminded her of chemistry lab in secondary school, and so she forced open the bathroom window, which was often jammed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was why he had looked out the window. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It appeared as a jumble of cascading windows floating in front of me, displaying text, maps, photos, and audio and video files, all indexed, cross-referenced, and pulsing with life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the wrong office for our purpose, and it wasn’t until an hour or so later when it was our turn at the window that we found out. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a tiny painted-over window high up on the back wall that lets in some light from outside. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In those days, if you had been interested by peculiar things, perhaps you would have had the luck to notice a knight-in-armour riding past the window. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother leaned out the window of the attic, high above, waving and calling to get his attention. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sound of it opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened her eyes, she was staring out the window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the shops seemed closed; the ones that remained open had new bars over their windows. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And then a girl threw open an upstairs window and started yelling, too. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The information lady is bilingual and answers back quickly in Spanish, pointing to the other window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I sat in the jet this afternoon, flying home from New Orleans, and looked out the window to the patterns of a December countryside far below. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no light in any window that I could see. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They walked through the Smoke, past cook fires being extinguished with shovelfuls of dirt; windows coming alight with candles and electric bulbs; and a handful of young uglies pursuing an escaped chicken. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Newt stepped forward and dug his hands into the thick ivy, spreading several vines away from the wall to reveal a dust-frosted window, a square about two feet wide. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I pulled aside the heavy drapes and stretched on my toes to push up the window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if the face in the window of the Sports Family house was another third child, so what? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to understand the excitement of staring through someone’s bedroom window. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The windows, blind and black, retained their look of dull emptiness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar checked the window and said, “I’m sorry that happened to you.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The cold sun made their faces like copper and brass, and through the closed window John heard their coarse, irreverent voices. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Norma and Héctor pushed each other to sit near the window. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He heads straight for the back door, where Miss Celia’s face is in the window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The trains lurched off with the guards watching anxiously from the windows. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It came out of Quentin’s window and climbed across into the tree. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed, looking at the glittering diamonds in the store window, the rings and the neat rows of golden watches. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran back to Solomon’s store and caught a glimpse of himself in the plate-glass window. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put them on, then she slipped out of bed and tip-toed over to the window. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is staring out the window at the empty parking lot. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He stayed by the window, and she saw him make as though to put his hands in his pockets, only to discover that his breeches didn’t have pockets. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In Malvonne’s nephew’s room with the iceman’s sign in the window. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped the envelope from his jacket pocket, reached in, pulled out the papers, and tilted them toward the faint light coming through the store window. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two ferries are about to cross paths in the middle of their journey, their bloated white bodies lined with rows of tinted black windows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The purple monkscloth drapes that hung from the window next to Mr. Reilly’s desk created a meditative area in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window, we could see Ben lugging the axe up the front steps of Mrs. Cadaver’s house. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A long sideboard sat in front of the shuttered window, and five graceful candlesticks with white candles were lined up in the center. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My throat tightens, thinking of Papa standing by the window, chewing his pipe. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I twist in my seat, looking out the back window. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One night, summer fifteen, Gat tossed pebbles at my bedroom window. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There have to be a few windows that face each other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Out the window, beyond the curtains, the flame atop the waste stack, high in the distance, flaps and shivers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar a stained glass window of liquor bottles glowed: the blues of English gin, the deep reds of claret and Madeira, the tawny browns of scotch and bourbon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed toward what used to be the back wall, which had fallen years earlier, leaving little more than the frames of two tall windows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Looking out the train windows, we could see the university’s Gothic spires. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no window to remind me there’s air outside. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my fingers around the window bars and looked into the emptiness. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She joins me at the window, confirms she knows our location, and gives me the good news that we aren’t many blocks from the president’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With the full moon beaming through the open window, it didn’t matter. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I heard a rock ricochet off the trim around my window. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A passing car on a gravel road had thrown up pebbles and broken out the large front window of Rocinante and it had to be replaced. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy told the realtor soberly that he was sorry, but he couldn’t bear to look out his window at that depressing sign. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have to sit on a window ledge by myself because they aren’t speaking to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned off every light but one and hung sheets across all the windows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They finished washing up the windows quicker than they ever had before and took the bucket of wash water down to the kitchen to empty out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hollows was simple and square, with stained glass windows showing Teccam in a classic pose: standing barefoot in the mouth of his cave, speaking to a group of students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Already I could feel myself being lifted by the wind coming through the window. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The truck came while she took off her shoes and socks, and she ran to the window to watch Daddy go out and the truck turn around and go away. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He then stormed back into the house and flung all windows open. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

More sounds from up above: a scream, a window shattering. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“All those neighbors will look out their windows and kick themselves when they realize they slighted the head of the northern SIM!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blinked at the icy rain picking at the windows. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The door opens onto a nicely appointed sitting room, the small windows opened to catch any bit of a breeze. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Olly’s window is wide open, the blinds are up, and the lights are off in his room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked through the window to see a pleasant young man who showed no hint of animosity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why are we forgetting to watch the window? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Elinor opened her window and passed a bottle of water around. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He kept the isinglass curtains snapped to the windows to cut off the draughts, and tight around his neck he wore his gray wool shawl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once the elevator doors open, I carry the chair to the huge, arched window of the tower, where it's always quiet, even when the dorm is full. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She wanted to tell her she hadn’t meant to embarrass her, but her classmate had turned away to stare out the window, her eyes fixed on the changing landscape. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Using only my good arm is awkward, but I stack firewood on the sills of the two windows that are missing their panes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Adam was nailing the blankets over the windows again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mac had also noticed that the window in the dentist’s second-floor waiting room was just a short drop to a small side-street where we might make a run for it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We carried our hammers and nails and boards up to Auntie Braxton’s and started on her windows. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three meters up, there was a window shaped like a porthole. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Let’s take the stairs,” I say, as if there’s some other option to get outside, like a rope hanging from the hallway window or one of those aircraft emergency slides. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it enough that I have to wait on you?” she cried as he cowered next to the window. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was alight in the parley room window. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I thought you were going to slice her in half with the window!” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Through the abundant windows I see a strange vehicle—it’s shaped like a bird, with two wing structures and a pointed nose, but it has wheels, like a car. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I stare out my window again for a minute. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Twigs scratched against the high windows, as if they needed to be let in. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There was not a single porch light on, not a TV glowing behind a window, not a Town Car in a carport. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The view from the window is of a series of rolling hills, and a row of hillside homes that light up at night like a string of Christmas lights. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

James bent to a low shelf and slid aside books to create a tiny window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The gray windows of the house slanted at strange angles. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He rammed his shoulder against one of the open windows and grunted as the frame shuddered but didn’t break. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A large window looks out over the Japanese garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He sat and stared at Harry for a few moments, then, as though he had suddenly realized what he was doing, he looked quickly out of the window again. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I know,” he said quickly, and took his foot down from the window seat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I sat in my hard folding chair and began closing all the little windows. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I went over to the window and pulled the curtain aside and looked out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

From the windows of the bus, Saigon is a prosperous and bustling city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. White reached through the bars that covered the window and pushed it open. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The roofs of the buildings here were tiled and arched, and the walls, windows, and doorways were in gold or red or green. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s asleep at her desk, and Darrell and a bunch of other kids shout and laugh over by the window, playing videos on their phones and filming themselves, too. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It showed its face through the windows and the roof. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ever a creature of habit, Bobby moved to his favorite table—one by the window looking out onto a side street, with a few birch and juniper trees not yet in bloom. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her curtains flutter, and voices drift down through the open window. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small window opened and displayed the item’s properties. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He went and stood by the window, looking out at the green lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed and looked out the window and prayed we’d miss our turn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I ran up desperately, lugging foe box of thirty erasers, twenty-three of which had sent their chalk dust toward Mrs. Baker’s windows. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

In one of them, large Gothic windows were lit, showing shelves of ancient books. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could reach the child through the unglazed window! Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed over by the lights and stared at the TV images in the window: people chatting, laughing, shaking their heads - a mid-afternoon game show. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angel just stared out of the window and stroked her sleeping cat. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stuck close to the building, and when she turned the corner, she walked under the row of windows. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

By dusk, he had finished the roof and framed in the single window. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We’re in the forest again, only now the trees are square, the branches growing out between windows in the trunks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He must have been watching out the front window. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There on the roof just beyond the window stood a tear-streaked toddler who looked barely old enough to stand. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window at the platform and said, “I’d hoped it would be different circumstances than these, though.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I lift the window so the squirrel has enough room to crawl inside. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window as Vernon transformed into the ghetto. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I went around to the side of the cabin and peaked through the window. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The model was on display in his window. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She turned and headed for the farthest stall, by the window, but when she reached it she found that it had no door. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then one morning she was there, glancing about, and she looked straight up at this window. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, unknown to any of the caretakers, was a small broken window. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I make a bundle out of brown paper and my apron, then take the back way around the ghetto fence to the basement window, avoiding the guarded gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The flames lit the darkening glass of the window where the boy stood in hooded silhouette like a troll come in from the night. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Early evening light fell through the window onto her fractions homework. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was squinting to read in the dim light from the overcast window. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And just then a paper bag sailed from a window to my left and burst like a silent grenade, scattering garbage into the trees and pancaking to earth with a soggy, exhausted plop! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heaved a porch chair through a parlor window, leaped in after it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows on the ground level were boarded up, but a few random lights blinked on and off in its uppermost floors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

High up are two long windows, too far above my head to look through. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scooted to the middle of the backseat and looked up at the Colonel sitting shotgun, smiling, his face turned to the wind blowing in through his window. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I looked out my side window and saw the field rushing up. We had landed on grass strips before, hut this one was dotted with mounds that looked like waves undulating toward us.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Then she picked at the window sill until she had a splinter of wood and put it in her mouth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was staring out the window, and had been the entire time they’d been on the road. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She turned her hands towards Dr. Tandlemann and then towards her husband, whose face was pressed up to the window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He moves to the window shaded by Venetian blinds, pulls the cord to open the slats. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was lit with a dim, crimson light; the curtains at the windows were all closed, and the many lamps were draped with dark red scarves. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up to see a client of his, Frank Noland, a fit and robust man of about sixty, leaning out from a second-story window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Chandresh brushes her words away with a lazy wave of his hand, walking back to the window and staring at the expanse of blue papers hanging over it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The room itself had no windows and its walls were thick. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They see a sign in the window of the mill: milk for sale, one cent a glass, and also fried eels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gorgeous old place on the water, with high ceilings and windows always open to the sea breezes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I hurried over to the side window and looked out. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can see the Potomac River clearly out the window. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Clasping her frail, veined hands in her lap, Vivian gazes out the window. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ihe War a Door Closes From your window you watch love and happiness sink like twins in quicksand when she drives away, leaving you suffocating in sleeplessness, out of breath and hope. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rain pounded against the window of the bedroom I shared with four others at the foster home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then, ahead, Winnie saw the jailhouse, its new wood still unpainted, lamplight spilling through a window at the front. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc watched his progress through the windows And then wearily he got a broom from behind the water heater. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a big one-eared tom with gray stripes who had learned to jump on the outside sill of my mother’s kitchen window. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long concrete building with windows in every room. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She glanced out of the window in time to see her father cleave a log into three separate pieces, which he then heaved onto a growing woodpile. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Make friends!” she said through the rolled-down window as I walked away. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Turning from the principal’s office window were two uniformed men, the patches on their arms identifying them as West Virginia State Police. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The agents sat in their car, watching the windows. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess they think he’s the one who broke that window.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Lamar gazed out the window, a troubled look on his face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

On the way, he threw the bottle of wine out the window. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Several bullets came through our old classroom window that faces the street. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There was no obstacle to entering, but she hesitated and perched the moths on the window ledge to peer inside. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He picked up his lunch and headed for the dirty-tray window. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Our windows had netting to keep the mosquitoes out as well, but the pests still managed to find their way in. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She says, “Mason, do not bring those bad boys to the door like that! My window is right there!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When he tired of making faces, he carried me to the dormer window, where, together, from the opposite ends of life, we gazed down at our leafy neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At last they came to The Prancing Pony, and that at least looked outwardly unchanged; and there were lights behind the red curtains in the lower windows. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I turn to the house to see my cousins’ faces pressed against the top-floor window. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

I move the dresser back to its place, go into Muhammad’s room, and put the blue board against the window. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The row of beds that mine was in faced the windows and another row, under the windows, faced the wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the windows reflected the sky, and one of the Black Jackets was repairing a couple of broken tiles on a roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Get from that window,” Ma Charles said to Fern. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Amused, Victor looked at the reflection of his face in the window. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the stones surrounding the window’s opening were no longer stones—just damp clumps of pulp. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Gus stared out the window, watching the planet shrink beneath us, and then I felt his hand relax beneath mine. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

While they had been speaking, the window had been open beside them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The window was greenish, with that chicken wire mesh they used to put inside glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a door closes, she amended to me after his sermon, find yourself a window and climb through it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She approached the bay window like a double-o agent on a mission to save the world. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easier than making my way up the side of a building, and took me high enough to where I could jump to the wide stone window ledge on the church’s second floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stan put the paper away reluctantly, and Harry leaned against the window of the Knight Bus, feeling worse than ever. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She whirled away from the window and marched back to her bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She could lie in her cot and tell the time of day by the angle of sunlight pouring through the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I can’t say for sure. But you see that moon out your window?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the street, I saw the many windows and the playground. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She patted the clothes that she had piled on the window ledge. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She turns a corner and drives into a market that makes me roll up the window to keep out the stink of dead fish. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Oliver looked over at Jimmy L’s window, but his friend had disappeared from view. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A clerk would paste each incoming bulletin to a window, face out, for pedestrians to read. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Beams of light stretch across the polished tile, slanting through the ceiling windows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I roll off my bed onto the worn blue dhurrie rug that feels almost slick under my feet and step to the window to see who could be coming to our house this late. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When we kids played around the mule barn, we peeked through its dirty, screened windows to look at the ghostly stalls and the ancient harnesses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no use risking theft or discovery because of a few pinpoints of light reflected in an abandoned window. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She looked out the window, combing the ground with her eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

We could pry a board loose and see out of the south window down into the courtyard. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Snow fell that morning outside the courthouse windows, four tall, narrow arches of leaded glass that yielded a great quantity of weak December light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The policeman left her and strode across the room to the broken window to glance outside. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear angry voices coming from a window, many men talking and arguing all at once. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he must have turned down the TV and went to the window to see what was happening. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to feel rather hungry, and when Robert had gone back into the house I crept into the dining-room through the long window and stole some biscuits from the side-board. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The man studied the store window as if he were assessing a painting, and then went back inside. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Genovese was chased by her assailant and attacked three times on the street, over the course of half an hour, as thirty-eight of her neighbors watched from their windows. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if Mrs. Krajewska is looking out her window, like she always does, and sees the man who was supposed to be my brother sneaking like a thief into my house? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I open the windows and move my bed into the middle of the room, and then I climb under the blanket and go to sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I stumble to the window, wrapped in my blanket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The poster ripped as Diana yanked it through the narrow opening and finally was able to slap it to the brick wall next to the window. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I heard a rustling and turned to the house across the street to see two rusty gun barrels in a glassless window. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We ran inside and up the stairs and held on to Dad’s legs so that Mom’s weight wouldn’t drag him through the window as well. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When Chief Taylor was dragging me away, I saw Bat Lady in the window. She was trying to tell me something.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The afternoon light slanted down through the high windows, so that up close to the ceiling the air was flecked with glowing gold specks. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to wrap my arms about it, but the trunk was much bigger than it had seemed from my window. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now it welcomed her like a familiar friend, the contrasting trim above the top windows like raised eyebrows surprised to see her again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Princess Shireen was curled up in a window seat, her hood drawn up to hide the worst of the greyscale that had disfigured her face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dirty dogs let Byron get away with not doing his share of the windows and I had to do the whole car myself. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After canvassing the street, he’d stand on the curb’s edge and look up at the house windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d fitted all the doors and windows with locks, and at their request, installed three additional, secret doors. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma looked exhausted as she stared out of the front window. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ever since we first went into hiding, they’ve been tacked firmly to the windows. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He stood up and walked over to the window on the other side of the train, as if he might be able to see the problem from that angle. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The two men differ in build, temperament, and scholarly proclivity, but they pressed their faces to the windows with identical enthusiasm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

New York ahead of her, her family behind, she moves to the back, her purse in her lap, the land pulling her gaze to the window once more. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pen and, revolving it in his fingers, looked out the window at the falling snow, which seemed to be slowing finally. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced up from the pool of sunlight spilling from his window to the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She did not try to make him open the window because it was July. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But then my darting flashlight happened across something atop the shelf in a corner of the room, right near the boarded-up storefront window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I toss pebbles at his window, willing him to come out. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He figured out that when you made a withdrawal from the drive-through window at the bank, it took a few minutes for the transaction to register in the computer. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at me with careful eyes—desperate eyes—but the light in them vanishes quickly, like a window being slammed shut. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Raindrops pelted the window, making it hard to fall asleep. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Finn imagined Roza sitting on a bus or perched in the window seat of a plane, blue sky behind her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw the room key into the bathtub and walked over to the window. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Through her window she could see the last wrinkled leaves gripping the branches of the ancient red maple, refusing to drift down to the ground until absolutely necessary. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The station seemed even dimmer than before, as if the windows had shrunk since I entered the building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

White faces filled the apartment windows all round him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was broken, not by Ron, who in any case looked as though he was temporarily dumbstruck, but by a soft tap, tap on the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But the door did not open, and though he ran to the window and rapped long and loud, the enchantresses did not show themselves again. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There are two men here. I saw them through the window. I was too high to see their faces—only their feet. “ Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We lived in a big gray building with windows so small, you couldn’t put your head outside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I am in the bedroom, sitting by the window with the lamp. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Then why would you love coaching? Seems like if being a cabbie gets you paid, that should be what you love," I explained what seemed obvious, looking out the window. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We tore the grass to shreds, crushed the neatly manicured bushes, stomped the flowers, and cracked one of the house’s windows with a rock. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a screened window nearby came the sounds of sizzling food and the clatter of pans. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sun, or flat light on a cloudy day, pours in from every window; if there are secrets here, it seems to say, the light will quickly find them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bird, casting a quick look in his direction, flew at the window again, but this time it encountered no barrier. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But when it rains, the rain comes through my window when I am sleeping. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its window boxes were always bursting with climbing white roses, and their scent clung dense and sweet over this portion of the canal. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She ran barefoot down to the living room and found Rasheed already by the window, in his undershirt, his hair disheveled, palms pressed to the glass. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sandbagging on the ground-floor windows was reinforced, and civilian contractors were on the roofs checking the firmness of the chimney stacks and the concreted skylights. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was narrow—the first floor of the house was only as wide as two windows and a door. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He choked on his spittle and fought for breath, then finally relaxed back into his stupor, leaning against the window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rose, slow as a sleepwalker, and moved to the window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the windows are sparkling clean, and the lawn is short and neat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He squinted through the window a moment longer. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Thick fog was all I could see out my window in the morning, and I could feel the claustrophobia creeping up on me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A peek through a window revealed a Remington rifle, a plastic box of shells, eight or nine paperback books, some tom jeans, cooking utensils, and an expensive backpack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dim glow emanated from a curtained window, and from within they heard a baby crying. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The music rattles The window and Scares the cat out Of one of its lives As it drops From the fence. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so nervous I leaned out the window to watch for him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A block away, people throw rocks and garbage cans at the windows of the McDonald’s and the drugstore next to it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She studied the windows as the bus passed, smiling if she saw me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the window a crack and put his nose to it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s brown paper tacked over the open window in that room, so it’s as dark as a hole in the ground. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The praise house was filled with people spilling out the door and sitting on the window ledges. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the window almost right over his, I saw a man and a woman squirting water out of their mouths at each other. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As they walked the streets, Mariam spotted more signs—painted on windows, nailed to doors, billowing from car antennas—that proclaimed the same. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Yawning, he went to the window and looked out at the little town, but there was nothing to see. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I need to be louder than the muffling snow, loud enough to be heard through the walls of buildings, loud enough to be heard through car windows and bus doors. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I sat at the window on the plane. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Abbot Mortimer pointed at the first rays of sun streaming in through the window. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Silent tears started rolling down her cheeks like the rain on the windows of the bus. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed that the windows had bubbly glass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I see a shape move closer to the rear window of the police car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The windows were covered with heavy gold fabric. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tap on the window to say hello as she walked past our house to the tenement building next door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They have put in the window the cardboard sign that has a pound measure printed on each of three edges—10 lbs., The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deciding that his wife had found the perfect partner, the podiatrist moved on to the two women standing in silence at the front window. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled me aside, away from my brothers and sisters, away from Mom, to the corner by the window. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So were the offices of the clerks who kept track of which buildings had broken windows, what streetlamps needed repair, and the number of people in the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She walks to the window and adjusts the horizontal blinds to let in sunlight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Porthole windows expose night views of the water. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Though, soon enough, Axel knows, with Byrd’s attention, and the sunlight from the window, those nesting plants will grow up too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, the palm trees are absolutely still. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The train started to slow and then sped up again, then slowed again, and black steel girders covered with years of oil and dirt became dimly visible outside the windows. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It just barely touches the ledge beneath one of the window spaces. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Night winds, moaning around corners and whistling through cracks, dashed snow against the windows of the Mountain View Inn. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The light from his hut showed him bent from the waist with his upper torso completely swallowed by the mouth of the open window. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His four dead sons looked at him sadly as his three living sons carried him to the window. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone stared in confusion as the sky god began to pull light from the ever-present sunrays beaming through the skylights and windows. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were still questions about the wheel’s safety, and unfounded stories circulated about suicides and accidents, including one that alleged that a frightened pug had leaped to its death from one of the car’s windows. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Feliciano held his handcuff chain and walked the man toward the opposite wall, where the windows had been broken by the inmate with the mop handle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain drummed on the high windows, and the floodlights, shining through the glass, cast a pattern on the walls as if dark rivulets of water were streaming down them from ceiling to floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The other door was locked when I tried it, and there were no windows. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She converted one of the two bedrooms into a study and wrote there, standing often by the window to look down at her new Roland Park neighborhood, the restored row homes shielded by old trees. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He examined the window ledge, stared up at the ceiling. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Calder noticed the top of Mrs. Sharpe’s head, just the crescent of a tidy white bun, in one window. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are cots arranged in two straight rows, with trunks beside them for what we brought with us, and large windows with elegant curtains on the opposite end of the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was leaning out the window of my sister's new apartment, on the far side of the river San, waiting for her to come and have lunch with me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Officer Khan is now looking at me with raised eyebrows, and I try not to stare at the window. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A man walked up to the Gladers as the others in his group spread out around them, sweeping their guns left and right as they shot at the observation windows, shattering them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window, watching as the suburban sprawl surrounding Birmingham faded into the slow-sloping hills and fields of northern Alabama. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And in several of the restaurant windows surrounding the parking lot, people have stopped eating to watch. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the dirty window there was the brilliant midsummer countryside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most of the time the servants ignored Matt and the Alacrans looked past him as though he were a bug on a window. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jillson shouted, rapping again with such force that the girls’ window rattled in its frame. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

One night her father picked her up out of bed and carried her to the window so that she might see the wolves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear old Manderley,” he said, looking up at the windows, “the place hasn't changed much. I suppose Danny sees to that. What a wonderful woman she is, eh?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I dipped in my brush and started applying the second coat of Overtly Olive to the window frame. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Having all those doors and windows open on the second floor creates a breeze that blows through the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was washing the windows of the store when I came upon him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look through the tinted windows at the grimy houses and the brown snow that pass us by. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled the blanket to my chin and watched the snowcapped hills in the north through the window. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains and even half the windows were open. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

So tell me, Tyler, those nights you stood outside my window, was I spontaneous enough for you? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The plaster was coming off the walls and the blinds hung crookedly in front of dark windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The motorman, seeing the huge, spherical, white figure panting in the center of the tracks, slid the car to a halt and opened one of the front windows. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Only one window broken but not a shingle loose,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I think you just like to wallow,” said Maria, striding in to open the curtains and windows. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nauseated, she looked out the windows that lined the passage. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My friend saw the priest from our mess going by in the street, walking carefully in the slush, and pounded on the window to attract his attention. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was with these people for only a brief window of time, but in that moment I saw the difference between prison and jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All the while her eyes looked off toward the window, like she was seeing the drama play out in the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of the door, two windows faced the street. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered idly how they kept the air so fresh in a building with no windows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I could see her running after us through the back window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went down the long dark wall of the mill, the windows bricked up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Just a kind of window in the air.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My table was near the window, I could see out, as far as the front gates. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My copy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sits on the window ledge. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Keeping her eyes on the intruder as though he were a bear, she managed to get her left foot across the sill and straighten herself to a sitting position on the window ledge. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As quickly as she could, Cas lowered herself down from the cabinet, limped around a broken desk, and got close enough to see out the window. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A single cobweb stretched over the nearest window, across a bloodred sky. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At least one assumed he had been watching the sky, there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No es nada. That’s just from the broken glass of the car windows. Don’t worry about me, mi niña. It’s you I’m worried about.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Also, out my window I had the most exciting view I had ever seen, so my stomach and my eyes were very happy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would I ever look out a window and not think of Stick? The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Axel goes to his chair by the window. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He seated himself on the window seat, Needle across his lap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The hall grew bright again, as lightning lit the windows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She ran upstairs again and paused in front of the window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were quiet again, looking out the windows on opposite sides of the bus for the next two stops. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, it’s becoming thicker, as if it has pressed up against a glass window and is being forced to condense. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When nothing happened, she went out to the kitchen and opened the windows so we couldn’t tell that she was smoking. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Through the curtainless window he could see the lopsided moon with hundreds of stars dancing in bright attendance. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She placed Edward on a chair in the dining room and positioned the chair so that Edward was looking out the window and could see the path that led up to the Tulane front door. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She looked out the window too, most of the time. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And it’s freezing, and the light will be gone soon. Wouldn’t it be easier to just go through the window?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In its windows were a series of twinkling flames from floor to ceiling. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she walks right past us and into our bedroom to look out the window. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The heat from a hundred-odd bodies fogged the bus windows, and it acted like a screen to the outside world. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, something told me to go inside a poolroom whose window I was looking through. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had arrived at one of the nursery’s wide-open windows and must have seen what lay before her some seconds before she registered it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nico stared at the sunlight coming through the windows, as if wishing he could escape through those narrow openings. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She looked out the window to the front door directly below. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He walked to the nearest window and looked out. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Claudette’s church, Hutchinson Street Baptist, was dynamited, its stained-glass windows blown to pieces. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“But, darling—for Christ’s sake what are we going to do with curtains? We got no windows.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk along in silence, past darkened department store windows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It turned colder that night, so after we had eaten dinner I built a fire in the living room fireplace and closed the windows. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The drops enter through the kitchen window at impossible angles. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of Lannister house guards stood beneath the western windows, a line of gold- cloaked City Watchmen beneath the east. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then I look into the window and see that it’s Martin. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He lay watching the rectangle of window, feeling the warming blood driving through his veins, his arms and legs. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The images slipped away in smears of light, like raindrops racing down a car window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sound of a car’s engine filters in through the window. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A day earlier and she might have been sleeping in a bed beneath one of the windows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was no glass in the windows—most were covered with something white, either paper or cloth. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After the president drove off in his carriage, Guiteau walked around the side of the building to an open window near Garfield's pew. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then all at once he realized he was exhausted, and with that he rolled up the driver’s side window part way, slumped behind the wheel, and fell asleep. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that night it fell, warm rain, dripping from the eaves and pattering at my window, while I lay flat on my back with my eyes wide open, listening. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the bedroom window, there’s a gap between planks. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Laundromat, with its windows completely steamed up, was as warm and damp as a Turkish bath. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is night, I think, though it’s hard to be sure because they have boarded up the windows of the bus from the outside. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I get up and head over to my window. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Side by side they stood looking across the road at the rows and rows of dilapidated brick houses, their windows dull and blind in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I continued to stare out the window as the bus rolled down Gramercy Road. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said that she had broken forty-eight windows during her time in England “because it is a means to an end.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My eyes drift to the tops of the trees I can see out the window. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Somehow, my just being at the window had made it happen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Chubs sat in one of the middle seats, dividing his time between the book in his lap and the world of trees just outside the tinted car window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As the woman motioned for Rhonda to roll down the window, no one could help but notice the huge silver watches on her wrists. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mama will keep some of these papers to light fires; others will be used to wash windows or line our shoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Valentine’s Day was fun at school, of course, and the windows looked bright with red and white hearts and streamers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then she trundled back to the window to catch a breeze, if one took a mind to come by, while she combed her hair. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The jail resembled a fortress, with barred windows and cold stone passageways and tiered cells. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I went and leant out of the window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, I saw her sit in a seat near the front and push her sunglasses up. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He saw a window that looked out on a river which he knew was full of fish. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Someone in an engine-boat was trying to maneuver it towards an upstairs window, where a gray-haired woman in a nightdress was calling for help, her terrier dæmon barking madly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She watched from her window as people reached down and picked them up from the ground nearby. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I lifted up the window and leaned out a bit. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And I’m left staring out the window, watching District 12 disappear, with all my good-byes still hanging on my lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was combing her hair one morning when a white crane alighted outside her window. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, after Wolfie had returned, we were chatting in the flat when I overheard a conversation going on near the window. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adventures of Rainbow and her young mistress, Edith-Anne Pevington, had filled many a happy hour curled up on the window seat of Miss Mortimer’s office. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kinkade stared at me briefly, then looked out the window. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The blinds were shut and there were heavy bedspreads over all the windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We all crank down the windows, but it’s just as hot outside as it is in the car. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ethan opens his bedroom window and slips out as he hears his father’s footsteps approach. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He goes home to a studio in Morningside Heights, with two windows facing west, on Amsterdam Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Francie went over to stand at the great window from which she could see the East River twenty stories below. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back and look out the window as we roll past the lower school. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He got ready for bed, then stood by the window, even though the room was really cold. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was faint moonlight coming in through the landing window and it illuminated the hall below. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I peeked out of the bedroom window to make sure Dad hadn’t left. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she glanced at the window as she went so that she could see how her new shoes looked reflected in it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I lay naked across the bed and listened to the sounds of the night drift through the open window. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He studies the items in the window, and his reflection in the glass, wearing the cap she’d bought for him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond their heads she could see the windows looking down, and to one side the tower waited confidently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shades on the windows are pulled down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took a few seconds for her to find me, crouching by the window in the half-light of an afternoon behind drapes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As I sat down on the bus and looked for her through the window, it occurred to me that since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a screen, the window should be sensibly closed at night, meaning no air, unless I’m willing to take my chances with the bugs and the neighbors. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I shall get to the filing,” Ignatius said when he found himself staring out the window at only an empty street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dim and dark and the pillars went high up, and there were people praying, and it smelt of incense, and there were some wonderful big windows. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The wind whistled through the broken window on my side of the Plymouth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn't tired, though, so I looked out the window for a while. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Aaa jerked up in the window, wildly triumphant. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time I got back and Abbey was hiding in my room, watching me as I climbed in through the window and put back the screen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stare out the window at the bleak gray sky while she busily prepares me something to eat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When Penelope saw the pale, wizened face in the darkness just outside the window, where no face had any business being—why, she recognized it at once! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I saw a woman come to the window and smile and wave her hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and I saw her silhouetted in the window light. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I make my way to the window again, which has been left open to let in some semblance of a breeze. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Climbing vines had grown up inside the room and had pressed against the glass of the windows, seeking warmth and light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And suddenly there was Helmholtz at his side— “Good old Helmholtz!”—also punching—“Men at last!”— and in the interval also throwing the poison out by handfuls through the open window. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood a step back from the window and thought in his direction as hard as she could, as she always did on days they could not walk from the bus to class together. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She did not like the quiet corridors with carpets but no windows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard voices on the street, some shouting, and saw trees blurring past in the window. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looks through the arched window above the piano as if searching the waves to find the precise spot. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone broke in the window. You locked the door, Grandfather. It’s not your fault.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Iorek came back and watched Will close the window, and asked to see the knife again, peering so closely at the silver edge that Will thought he was in danger of cutting his eye. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It lacks air-conditioning, something Gerald and Lydia have never bothered to install because they are never there when it’s hot, and the enormous windows lack screens. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stares out the window for a moment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To the right is a small office with a glass window that has inch-wide squares of thin wire embedded in it; inside, nurses sit at computers. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Glass broke in three windows and a tile slid off the roof, and then a maidservant ran out, terrified, her clucking hen of a daemon flapping after her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood seemed quieter Cabot quickly reached into the window of the car and into the backseat, where he grabbed a metal flashlight holding four D-cell batteries. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As we drove away from the upscale neighborhood, I stuck my head out of the van’s window and shouted, “Hey! Anyone want a kid?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His nose was getting congested.“I mean, they tricked us. I sort of wanted to open the window too, when I saw those wolves charging. You know, in case it wasn’t fake.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

‘Johnny, put down that gun. Here by this window. Lay your right hand down like that, so.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the windows and the Dumpster, around the parking sign. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set up her easel under the stovepipe, right next to the back window, because she said it got natural sunlight—which it did, relatively speaking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are blue and, judging by the holes in the building to my right, used to be windows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra, Iras, and Charmion used ropes to lift Mark Antony through a window. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Teddy swiveled his chair and looked out the window to the sky beyond. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Connor and I heard a squeaking sound, and we both turned and looked at the soda shop window. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We drive Slowly, warm air sucking Into the rolled-down windows Of our Chevy, the Sharpest one on the block. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men below her window were talking French. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The emptiness was very deep inside him, and after a while he glanced up at the window once more and started down the dark sidewalk where they had walked together so many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, she could see the first stars just starting to peek into the sky. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before the night was over, hardly one storefront window was left intact. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Through the dirty window, I could see part of the overpass bridging the two Nogaleses and the chainlink fence separating the two cities. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There was beautiful shrubbery around this house, and she would sit under a bush near the window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Out a window the school band practices a triumphal march. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kneeling, squinting through its broken windows, so he saw Otto’s stout legs on the other side. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My room felt hot and stuffy so I went over to crack open my window. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody had planted blue morning- glories below each of the four wide windows, and the vines of the blue flowers were climbing cotton strings that had been nailed to the window frames. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Toomer rubbed his hands along the shoulders of the big dogs who had commandeered positions by the windows facing the river side of the bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s early, around 5:00 p.m., but there are already two couples at a table near the window. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmhouses with electric lights burning in the windows. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the bus, I lean my head against the glass window. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Here in this small, window- less room there was no place to dry anything. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy drapes had been pulled across the windows, and the darkness was black as ink. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I looked out the upstairs window down into the backyard. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I tugged it free and the window came open easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as though the tenants had vanished, leaving the houses silent with all windows shaded, refugees from a rising flood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hauled me away before I could punch a hole in the appliance-store window. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Walking over to her stepsister, she placed the paper on the window seat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take care you do not disturb it; and even if the room feel close, do not to-night open the window or the door.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It's dark when I slip out the rec room window. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sky outside the window was ruby-red; it seemed to be sunset. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He was looking through the window at a fenced-in sandbox and swing set in the hospital garden. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The windows near the ceiling were small and dirty, the old leather furniture spilled its innards, the tables were mutilated, the walls ash-colored, the floor concrete. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was some commotion behind the windows, then everything quieted down again. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The lecture began when an old man with small eyes and a sharp nose shuttered the windows. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The window frame groaned as Frankie lifted it outward, its hinges ungreased and neglected. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She could hear chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark out now, and a steady rain was pinging against the window. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

They stepped up into a larger room washed in sunshine from tall windows. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Later will come wall frames, plumbing and electrical, windows, walls, and a door, and at the end, I’ll lay down a beautiful wooden floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, I went into my room and sat by the window, looking out at the cashew tree. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pitch-black because the two windows that appear on the layout are boarded up from the outside. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Ob drank his cocoa and looked out the front window while I got the table spread. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He adjusted his top hat and looked out the window; his hands moved in circles to explain better, but no words came out. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then she walked around to my side, knocked on the window, waited for me to roll it down, and kissed me on the cheek as well. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She made clothes for her five daughters throughout their lifetimes, and she also made curtains for the windows and sewed quilts for the beds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The table was littered with disordered papers; rain was beating on the windows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Imagine colorful wooden doors in odd shapes and windows at wonky angles embedded into the rock. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I look at the hovering window for a moment, then accept it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We both looked out the window to see. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

From behind me a hand reached out to pull the window shut. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was about the size of a broom closet, with barred windows on all four walls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ammu ignored her mother’s drawn, frightened face that appeared at the window. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A firefighter named Driscoll jumped up from his chair, ran to the window, and saw what looked like a dark wall. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Coach made his way to his taxi—the Motivation Mobile—had his arm out the window, the other holding the stopwatch. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Haying on the McKinley place on Sundays earned us a few windows. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering their last meeting as he stood at the dark window, Harry had to admit he was lucky even to have reached his thirteenth birthday. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he paused, laughed to himself, and rolled all the windows down. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I could see Bowdy in the window of his upstairs bedroom. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we marched up the walk to the front door, the window of a car parked in the driveway whispered open. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The sounds of a furious violin poured from the living-room window. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He walked to the window carrying a bazooka and fired it at the tanks below. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the front, staring out the window, my eyes unfocused, my palms sweaty, my breath catching in my throat. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It’s on a raised platform, in front of a window. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though her windows were shut, an odd draft from somewhere in her room kissed her face, smelling strangely of roses. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, if the wooden and graffitied boards over the windows and doors are any indication, nobody’s lived here for a long time. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Whatever window of opportunity had existed to complete the one glaring piece of unfinished business in the revolutionary era was now closed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For years Aunt Florentine and I had sat together at her window and watched folks arrive for viewings and visitations and funerals. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Velia’s voice was quiet from her spot on the window seat, as if she was afraid to ask the question. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mam says we should bring the poor Pope up to hang on the wall opposite the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The room became dark and silent, though the clack of Sam’s shears, now nearer to the windows, could still be heard faintly from the garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"We'll remove the nose airlock, the windows, and Hull Panel Nineteen." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the windows I could see the Rebels moving around. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It assaults the cobblestones, the houses, the windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was the fog that made them look so far away, they were not far really, the window was not so very high. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They drive us through the streets in a car with blackened windows, and the train's waiting for us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The cabin lamp over the ship’s wheel had been left on; a ripple of sunlight, flaring through a window, shimmered on the starboard wall. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How many windows do you think are in that office building?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“She waited a minute, rocking on her heels, and then she lit a cigarette and went and stood by the window. She began to laugh. She went on laughing. I thought she would never stop. ‘ Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped the compact into my pocketbook and stared out of the train window. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Stephen, who’d been watching from his bedroom window, joined her moments later. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He turns, catches his reflection in the window, loathes the silent German who stares back at him. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Translucent curtains hung in front of two windows, protecting the room from the night outside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was one of those lofts you see in movies and at parties, the one cavernous nearly-empty room of windows and hardwood flooring, some exposed brick, steam pipes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrinkled her nose and cast a contemptuous look through the window at the crumbling plaster of the neighboring houses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fled down an alley, past dark curtained shops and merchants washing the grime off their windows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Troublesome, careless child! and what are you doing now? You look quite red, as if you had been about some mischief: what were you opening the window for?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He laughed and then he got up from his chair and went to the window. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They peeked out of the window of the bus, and saw that the coast was clear. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light filters in weakly through a bank of high windows, illuminating the dust I kicked up when entering. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Will turned aside at once, casually, and looked in the window of the jeweler’s shop beside him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent many hours doing nothing but lying on my side, a life jacket pushed out of place a few inches, like a curtain from a window, so that I might have a clear view. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I open the window and crawl out, land on my feet, and make it across the jungle of grass and wildflowers to the tent. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I raised my head up to look over the seat out the back window. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mark barely has time to notice this before Alec throws his body forward and tackles Boss, the two of them slamming into the glass of the large window. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And what a delight it would be to paddle towards them, and slip along canal-like streets and tie up by second-floor windows and look at all the odd views and strange reflections. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

All the buildings are identical—brown brick with dark windows—and they have numbers on their sides. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I talked with her and the children as their husband and father, while reflected in the glass windows of the booth I saw another man they would not know. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron was leaning out of the back window of an old turquoise car, which was parked in midair. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Through the open window I could still hear their voices, but I couldn't make out the words. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

No one would get a phone call, or a telegram, or have to look through a glass window in some cold and foreign basement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From houses back off away from the road there was a waving of flags, a fluttering of white handkerchiefs; women lifted lamps at the windows. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient mossy smell, the smell of a silent church where services are seldom held, where rusty lichen grows upon the stones and ivy tendrils creep to the very windows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“There are few people travelling this time of year,” he said, glancing up at the windows of the sleeping car above them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept looking up at Lateesha's window, wanting her to see it too. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, it was as if I was sealed into a noiseless box, and even when I opened a window, all I could hear was the rhythmic whisper of cars driving on the nearby road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

I opened the window — surprised when it opened silently, without sticking, not having opened it in who knows how many years — and sucked in the relatively dry air. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Barb and Julie unlock the bed, rolling it right up to the window so I can see. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For one thing, it was painted pink and had flower-print curtains in the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler shook his head numbly and Bast waved as he stepped the rest of the way out the window, closing it gently behind him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tight-faced, Lyra slid down the roof and into the gutter, and then climbed in through the window again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She picked it out with a sharp nail and turned her head to the window. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She stared nervously at the tattooed girl who was working the window. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I would look out the window into the yard and watch Hassan and his mother kneeling together, picking tomatoes or trimming a rosebush, talking. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly and pondered the question as I glanced out the front window at the few soldiers standing at attention. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When sleep finally overcomes me, the morning light creeps through my narrow window and forces my weary eyes open again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

You glance out of the window, wondering who it is. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You can see almost all the way up the creek now,” Byrd says, facing toward the window. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The whining of the millions of insects intensified, rattling the windows overlooking the alley. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I watched her pass by our front window on her way back to her apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Just then, the sun managed to come around the corner of Isabelle’s window and throw itself into a small square of light on the floor. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

In a flash Abel would be out of our car, over to theirs, grabbing the guy through the driver’s-side window, screaming in his face, raising a fist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the corner next the window facing him was a small, dark man looking out at the snow. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guys smoke joints with the windows cracked and the fan on high to diffuse the smell in case we get pulled over. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the window in Molly’s bathroom, also on the ocean side, a light cotton curtain dances constantly in the breeze, sucked toward the screen and out again, billowing toward the sink, an amiable ghostly presence. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She visualized the room behind those gabled windows and suddenly realized that the playroom consumed only half the space the attic should fill. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He points out the window with his pencil. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Ghosh extended his arm out the window, flicking the glowing tip of his cigarette into the night. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were gaping rectangular spaces on the dashboard instead of air-conditioner vents, so the windows were kept down. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to watch out the window in case I wasn’t dreaming. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I climbed onto the window sill and out to the fire escape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We met Auma at a downtown train station, and the three of us boarded a passenger train with slatted windows to head west out of the city and toward the Obama family’s ancestral home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As he turned down a lane full of small, tidy houses, he could see lights on in every window, and people sitting in those windows, looking up and down the street. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the window, and before Nipper could step in he reached out and grabbed him in both hands and pulled him in. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I need enough time with Dray alone, so I walk over to the white car and tap on the window. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I walked over to the window to watch the Ruiz clan dance to the rumba. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And he saw through the windows in each of the stairwells how the snow fell hard out of a glowering sky and boiled, borne by the wind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He follows Oliver with his eyes and when they’re gone he sits on the bed looking out the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Walking down River Street, they stopped at every window and planned exorbitant purchases when they made their first million dollars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called down from the window to the courtyard: “Jews! Repent! It is not too late! Come with me! Save yourselves!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Far above them, someone shakes a duster out a window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, not too long ago crying in public would have had out you out the window.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All my life, I’ve stared at a gaping hole in the roof, the boarded-up windows, the slow, creeping forest that was starting to suffocate that house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When they came by the window again, I could see Ronnie’s sweating face framed in concentration, counting out the waltz steps while Ralph struggled to lead his fat younger brother around the room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She put it up on the window ledge, over the kitchen sink. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They stared at the woman scrambling over the rugged ground with her hairpins falling out, and opened the windows to hear what she was hollering about. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The German Army marched down Mickiewicza Street, row after row with boots that could be heard with the windows closed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We drive past dark houses with boarded-up windows, and I try to imagine them clean and polished, as they must have been at some point in the past. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Theodora was wearing a vivid yellow shirt, and Eleanor laughed and said, “You bring more light into this room than the window.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We park in front of a house with eight windows and billowing curtains. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The damage to store windows had occurred on the march back to the church on Monday, and C.P. figured that was when something would happen this night, too. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rasheed, who took up the window and middle seat, put his thick hand on hers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a perfect night to run away, thought Fadi, casting a brooding look at the bright sheen of the moon through the cracked backseat window. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Dusk softens the sharp points of trees outside my window; the sky slowly darkens, then blackens around an orb of moon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“There”, being the window, I crossed to it, and stood “there,” in a very uncomfortable state of mind, looking out. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see the front parlor windows alight when I walked down Wall Street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Good morning, merry friends!’ cried Tom, opening the eastern window wide. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Cupping her hands against the window, she peered through the glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“B sixteen!” he says, rushing to a window to stare at the plane parked outside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dormitory windows began to fly open and olive drab blankets were hung over the sills by the dozens to air. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame DuPont cuts copy paper in half lengthwise and proceeds to paper over the skinny glass window in the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Will stopped under a window at the second-story level and said to Pantalaimon, “Can you fly up there? Can you look in?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doze off, and, when I wake up, I see the sun rising in a but­termilk sky through the window next to the nurses’ station. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight cut through the window and sent rhombuses of light knifing across the garage space. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t so crazy: we’d pass older students bent over chess sets, in window seats or on the grassy slopes, and Ruth would often pause to study a game. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know why the glass in the window is shatterproof, and why they took down the chandelier. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the one window; all of its yellow blooms had faded to a general gray, and Turner had started to peel it away. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“As we approached,” reported Pash, “pillowcases, sheets, towels and other white articles attached to flagpoles, broomsticks and window shutters flew the message of surrender.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rolled down the windows, although the February cold bit at my face and the loud wind made conversation impossible. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

That would make her lock her doors and windows. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shout insults at her from their windows and balconies, hiding behind the boughs of acacia trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer around Lenny’s nice curtains to look out the window. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

An electronic sign at the center of the room flashes Now Serving C26, and behind it is a long counter with people stationed at little windows. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Somehow, even from this distance, even through the back window of the police cruiser, I could see that she was looking directly at me, directly into my eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They approached the window, bending O’Doyle’s blinds wide enough to peer out. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He leaped to the window and scratched at it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A mansion by any account, three stories and all gables and massive windows—many of them broken now—and fancy brickwork. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I glance out the windows, I see that the admin offices and the Hub are blacked out, too. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I knelt on the window seat and looked out upon the afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Candles on the window ledges lit his way and he noticed all the different smells . . . strange spices, extinguished fires and burning cedar, sweets, powders, and perfumes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

This time he’s on the flat roof outside my window, so I have to open it and let him in. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

There’s that new girl, Heather, reading by the window. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hedwig hooted happily at Harry from her perch on top of a large wardrobe, then took off through the window; Harry knew she had been waiting to see him before going hunting. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Smoke and cold air poured in through the broken stained glass windows of the chapel. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His next assignment was working chemistry boot camp at Velma T.’s house to make up for blowing out the chemistry room windows during science class. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the summer, the servants had covered all the windows with bamboo curtains to drive out the sun. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing and swing ’til there’s a ragged hole around the window. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see Mr. Cooper staring at me through the store window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I set the box on the shelf by the window and opened it up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The windows are steamed, Led Zeppelin is in the stereo, and when I lift my head up to fling my hair away from my face, I open one eye and gasp. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t see anyone in the windows, including the small oval of the secret room, but I think she is watching me, to witness what I might do. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not fond of Stuart and it didn’t bother him at all that Stuart was all wrapped up in a window shade, crying and hurt and unable to get out. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he peered at the house’s boarded windows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sticky, having recovered a bit of strength, came over to hold Reynie’s legs as he reached out and lifted the frightened girl through the window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in the bed a while, staring at the windows. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The baby toddled to the window, pressing a chubby palm against the glass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My companion looked up and watched her intently as she lowered the window and moved, still visible, behind the light curtain, watching us both. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned out the window of her best girlfriend’s house because the shouts were not part of what she was dreaming. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt tears in her eyes and turned to the window. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She spent many an afternoon staring blankly through the window while singing songs of sorrow to herself, as though she were going mad or something. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put a piece of tape over the hole in the window. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The big boy jerked his head back at the window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scorched curtains and soot fanned across the ceiling and cardboard peeling off the window and the very first pale light of predawn leaking through. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was well past midnight, he judged from the black outside the window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were still hanging out of the window. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Their own shapes sectioned in the thin and watery glass of the window there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She stepped on the gas and rolled down the windows to blow out the bugs. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Evelyn sits at a table on the right, staring out the window. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A dim light flickered through the dirty plate-glass window on the third floor. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a Chicago sewer grate where there should have been a window, or a ship’s steam stack in place of the carved Torah ark. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I turn around and look through the window. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sat on Granny’s lap, in the middle of the bus, by a large smudged window. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He disappears from the window and returns with a marker. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned back and looked out the bus window. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair was red-gold, burnished copper in the early light of winter that came through the small window and fell over her as she ate. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess we’re just going to have to break the window,” I say. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the big houses he saw beautiful lights and candles in the windows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will he return to staring out the window and waiting for his life to begin? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He nodded over at a lady from Moscow who had run away from her husband and who never came down to the courtyard, but watched from a window three stories up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And then I passed a window and smelled that sweet pie again. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train had six cars and she saw it through the windows of the last two cars. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the window, open it, and in come the eerie moans and caws of the loons, the thunder of the winter waves, stellar waves, I see. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They might be talking at the water’s edge, he thought, and keeping to the wall, he moved silently across the marble floor towards the great windows. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He remembered hoisting the window; it had not been hard. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I used all my energy to stare blankly out the window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As you walk down, there are posters of old movies displayed in the window. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hastily straightening his glasses and unsticking his cheek from the glass, he pressed his nose against the window instead and squinted down at the pavement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And I had the stained-glass face of Jesus in the window looking down upon me with his love, approval, and assurance of protection against the hostile world outside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours sitting by the window, watching the world pass by as we went from the East Coast to Chicago, then across the Midwest and through the Southwest. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window at the School™. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the road into the park, there was a small general store, its one plate glass window cluttered with signs for circuses, garage sales, and church suppers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if you can’t see the new moon through your window?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clerk at the window assured her that it would reach its destination that afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a tense moment, we stare at each other as the rain drums against the windows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m staring at the scenery outside the window of the pony, brain tangled in bloody memories and a few regrets, when Miss Duncan asks me, “So, Jane, what do you think?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And Maddy, who had now climbed back in the backseat, also put two fingers up, but held them up to the window at Becca and the girls—a peace sign. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The sign in the window said Miss Sadie was a medium. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I snuck a glance at Stick, but his attention was on the city, the walls and corners whizzing by his window. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Outside my open window, frogs and crickets made the silence more profound. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gaze skimmed over all of these things before they found a face, across the garden, in an upstairs window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

You won’t have to strip and wax the floors or wash the windows. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The first floor of the house was still empty, the windows still boarded up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not the best time to be meeting in a room with holes in the walls instead of windows, but this is the biggest room they have. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the three short years since Gemini 10, I had forgotten how beautiful the view was, as clouds and sea glided silently by my window in the pure sunlight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Civilians should go home and lock your doors. Do not peer out of windows.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, in the twinkling noon light, she found what looked to be a faint heart traced into the grime of the kitchen window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manderley stood out like an enchanted house, every window aflame, the grey walls coloured by the falling stars. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned my head out of the window and let the cold mid-afternoon air rush past my face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sun pours in the windows on the right side of the bus and casts splotches of light on people’s hair and faces. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It flew out the window and attacked the food. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Out the back window, Fiona watched Simon Cabot climb down from the passenger’s seat, and she straightened her back. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Taking her rucksack in her arms, she ducked through the window in the air and vanished. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked out the window the answer was so obvious it gave me a chill. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The children were shown into an ordinary classroom, where sunlight streamed through the windows, the desks sat empty, and an Executive waited to speak with Jackson and Jillson. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth is on the opposite side of the bed, her back to the window while mine is toward the door. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So that was you looking in the window before, and hiding behind the car over there with Frankie?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My response caused consternation among those young men and suddenly their faces disappeared from the window. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fernando whoops when the ladder hits the Erudite window across the alley. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The day was hot, like the sun was breathing on us, but the windows of the school were open and a light breeze ruffled the papers on our desks. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In some of the rooms the red stone walls would seem to drip blood, and nowhere could she find a window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say anything, but she kept twisting her hands and looking out the front window. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She knew it would come back and blow up and be worse, all for that window in which something could have been said, and she knew she was, right in that moment, inside that window. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This was the kind of visit space that movies and television made out to be the norm, with partitions, windows, and telephone receivers, and with both parties anguished because touching was impossible. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BFG’s head was level with the upper windows one flight up, and Sophie, sitting in his ear, had the same view. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he said, “we shall see the tower from a window”—and shivered as he passed through the door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He offered to repair a broken sash cord in one of the Tynmore windows in exchange for two voice lessons for Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked thoughtfully through the shop window. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the faces were moving along with us, coming closer to the car windows. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A poster of The Goonies hangs lopsided on the wall, and his desk sits under a big window with a view of other floating houses. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

To my left, under the windows, was a dark wooden counter the length of the room. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

From then on I kept looking out my cell window and from time to time it seemed I could see into my past and amuse myself with stories about my family and old friends. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There were even windows peeking out at foot-level, cellar windows, which meant five stories in one house. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scarlett retreated to her bedroom and opened the windows wide to let the burnt smell out, then she sat on her bed and made a phone call. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The plantings in the gardens still retained their linearity and rectitude of bloom; but a chicken-house was mere ash, and the windows of the mansion were broken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Next Dr. Zinchenko studied the holographic statues projected into black crepe-lined recesses cut into the massive stone piers that supported the arched windows from which the Wonder Dome rose. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When enemy planes were spotted, air-raid sirens wailed, warning Germans to black out their windows. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

George got out of bed and knelt by the small, round window that looked out on the ocean. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Pip, Pip,” she said one evening, coming to such a check, when we sat apart at a darkening window of the house in Richmond; “will you never take warning?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, she stepped into their hands and climbed out the window. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I somehow managed to lurch over to the door and open the window to try to get some fresh air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They walked four across along Broadway, craning their necks, looking up at the giant billboards and down at the rows of window displays, cameras, suitcases, NYC memorabilia, clothing stores, makeup stores. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Another cop pulled up, came to my window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I walked to the window and pinched my nose to block out the smell of a building that Dad said was sick and I had to agree. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hastily he climbed back out of the window. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griggs stuck his head out the window and waved to him. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I can already imagine her in that sleek outfit in the window. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Giant windows, cut into facets that held the light like prisms, climbed up the tallest towers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So she wrote a note and left it on the floor by his bedside, and took her rucksack and went off to look for the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I replaced the bars on the window, redid the two bolts and closed the window back up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I get back downstairs, Kate is standing at the sink smoking a cigarette out the kitchen window, her hand dangling over the sill. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I nod, press the headphones into my ears, and look out the window. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Helena goes to the window, and after a minute or so, calls, “She’s gone!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the ledges above him there passed a farmhouse, then another, and still another, where yellow lamps were glowing out the windows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun failed in its attempt to light the room through the single window, and the press of bodies and scents and sounds melted to give us an aromatic and artificial twilight. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were families in the barrio with running water inside their houses, electric bulbs shining down from every room, curtains on the windows, and printed linoleum on the floors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He slid over a chemistry table and headed for a window while Frankie made a beeline for the other one. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We roll into Witney station and out again, the train starting to pick up pace as suburbia melts into grimy North London, terraced houses replaced by tagged bridges and empty buildings w'ith broken windows. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened Angel’s door, expecting to find her huddled under the bed or screaming at the window. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the window over the sink. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wild laughter wafted through the broken windows and steamed in the cool air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bright sunlight streamed through the window and into my eyes, awakening me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He disappeared, apparently not concerned about the creamy window anymore. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The library was even cooler than it had been a week ago, and darker, since the only light came through windows that were stained yellow and didn’t let in all that much. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A small window—the only window, I was to find out—left of the door stared dully at me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Out the window behind the aquarium, I see Mom in the yard talking to the mailman. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo rolled down the window and drove with his head outside, the way train engineers did, the air rushing at his face as he watched the white lines of the highway fall past the truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I scoot against the window, away from her hand. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s Henry, and he’s standing just outside my car, tapping on the half-open window. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My father hurried to put his coat on over his pajamas to go and help put out the fire, but a loud crack! from the street brought me and my parents to the window again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside our bedroom window, my sanctuary waits—airy and open, made of red railings and blue sky. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, I just stand there for a bit, looking up at my old bedroom window until I feel tears sting the back of my eyes, and I know it’s time to go. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his days as he wanted: He wandered through the rooms of the castle, staring dreamily at the light streaming in through the stained-glass windows. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lights burn in Claude’s windows, though the rest of the block has no electricity. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Olly’s already waiting for me when I go to the window. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the seasons changed outside the windows, as the weeping willows shed their million leaves, as snow fell on the flat roof and the angle of sunlight declined, Desdemona remained in bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, I’m in a bed, and sun is streaming in through the windows, and Ollie sits across the room in an armchair. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shadrack got in and in less than three ho.urs he was back in Medallion, for he had been only twenty-two miles from his window, his river, and his soft voices just outside the door. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In that short window between eleven p.m. and four a.m., instead of getting good rest, I would spend my time drinking copious amounts of water to make sure I didn’t become dehydrated during practice. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then he and Brick both hang their arms out the windows, knives flipped open and showing. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a big, spacey kind of building with windows high up, and daylight coming down in beams, and the clean smell of wood shavings in the air. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward so that his mouth completely filled the vidfeed window and shouted, “Other than that, not much! Not much new at all!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mama said nothing; she was looking out of the window, as though she wanted to catch the last sight of those women. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Above the walls there were heads in the windows of the houses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I also took a look out the window to see if all the perverts were still in action, but the lights and all were out now. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Trevor came up behind me and peered into the window himself. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I heard his taxi stop and went to the window and called to him; he waved and started up-stairs carrying his bags. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I lean my forehead against the backseat window and try to see past the speeding dark and into this new world called Detroit. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I take one last look at the phone booth through the window of Don Luciano’s store. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cinder and smoke drifted like soiled gauze past the window. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And if you opened the little window latch and gave it a shove, the windows would swing open, all the sky would come in. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something moved in the huge picture window in the front—it was Ms. Morales stepping off to the side, behind the drapes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The plastic windows were all scratched up, and it was dark, but I could still sort of see what was inside. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But after long, silent minutes, I opened my eyes and pressed my forehead against the window louvers to look outside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Curtains, as vehicles often had back then, obscured the windows, and the car, a Buick, resembled a black coffin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Through the open window I hear the sound of a garbage truck. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the scudding day passed overhead the dingy windows glowed and faded in ghostly retrograde. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to listen to the radio, loud and with the windows down. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We watched August walk over to the window, put her hands on the countertop, and gaze out at the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains were still open, and the only light in the room came from the moonlight filtered in through the window. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand at his windows, his desk, his shelves of books. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got windows and doors and a lot of trees round it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my students have security doors and bars on every window. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Did he plead with them not to replace the window because more might be coming? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And there was not even a glass window where Hanako could see her reflection. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We sit in the back row, out of sight of the window in the door. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They had to drive all around me honking their horns and saying stuff out their windows. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was straightening up the textbooks on the bookcases below the windows. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dark outside now, and the rain was still coming down, pattering against the windows and blurring the lights of the cars in the street outside. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

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

“The jackal leaped through the window again. The hyena tried to follow, but she became stuck. ‘Help me, O junior wife! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next afternoon, Judd sets me to scrubbing down the sides of his trailer and his porch, shining up the windows, raking the yard. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged and turned away and stared out of the tiny window. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And in the distance Hazel could see a small, dark form crouched on one of them, perfectly framed by the window, like a piece of three-dimensional art. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She fetched the short ladder from the shed and propped it against one of the two south windows. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pray to the forest of fallen trees that Brian looks out the window and sees me here with the naked English guy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Driving past the inky sea, Estha put his head out of the window. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind's eye they burned with a thousand lights, a fire blazing in every window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He set his elbow out the truck window, leaned back, took a deep breath, and smiled. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I look out the window as we drive along the highway. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a door, nor a window, but rather a bronze grate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t, but in the world of the wheel-pod trees, there had just been a shower of rain; and so it was that he discovered the window and found where Mary had gone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is six stories high, with wide windows arranged into a grid, divided by pillars of brick. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The building is three stories of solid brick with long windows on the first and second floors that have solid steel shutters that could be closed in case of atomic bomb blasts, riots, or invasion. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The call would ring out from the village on loudspeakers at the mosque, and we could hear it trickle in through the windows. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And like a million others, chests pounding, tracks controlling their feet, they stared out the windows for first sight of the City that danced with them, proving already how much it loved them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree house was a small structure with one glass window. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nessa, twirling a braid, stares out the window at the speeding cars. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He went and stood by the window, looking out upon the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They had been watching from the windows—at first with mild curiosity, then, as the crowd seemed to swell to the very walls of the hospital, they watched with apprehension. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had knocked out the light, and through the dimness I saw Clifton heading to where a red neon sign glowed in a dark window as something went past my head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tear my bedsheet into strips and twist it into a rope of sorts and tie one end to the leg of my bed and try to break the window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various meats were on display behind a dirty glass window. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I saw him once or twice talking animatedly to a crowd at breakfast, or visiting with Zu at Cubbies, but it was always from the window of Clancy’s room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The window, however, lets in lots of light, and I’ll be able to see just fine when I work. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Santo and Johnny’s “Sleepwalk” was playing when I next came up for air, the windows of the Dodge steamy and gray, the heavier droplets making curving little translucent streaks down them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, while the boys are at school, I wait for Matilde, peering out the window in case she comes early. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spends hours kneeling by herself on the sixth floor with the window open and the sea hurling arctic air into the room, her fingers on the model of Saint-Malo slowly going numb. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For years now, driving past Rubsamen Medical Supply, my grandfather had noticed the unchanging window display of hernia truss, neck brace, and crutches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He rolled down the window an inch or two and breathed the salt air blowing in over the marshes from the Gulf. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves him in his seat by the window. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the end he did close the windows — with mock groans — to please her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed the stool to the window and climbed up. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to grab her by the hair and throw her down the stairs, throw her out a window, beat her face with my fists. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up just to look out the window. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He started to sleep out there, and had screened in the windows and made shutters for when it rained. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My head leaning against the carriage window, I watch these houses roll past me like a tracking shot in a film. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I lifted the screen and threw the meowing ball out the window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes never wandered out the window to the slushy world beyond. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A face peeked through the curtains of the foyer window and disappeared. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ethel would watch them from the couch or a window, and if one of them stopped working before she told them to, she’d beat them all bloody. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The castle was darker than it usually was in daytime because of the thick, swirling gray snow at every window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Twinkle lights come on in shops, strung around open doors and windows to spill color onto the street. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

David’s office is spacious and warm, the walls lined with books where they are not lined with windows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now everything in the house scares her: the creaking stairs, shuttered windows, empty rooms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s still some finishing touches to make, and we’ll leave the windows open so the paint smell dissipates.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The room was chilly but I didn’t shut the window. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had been a fine house once A wide black walnut staircase rose to a landing window with most of its stained glass still in. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hear a rising cadence of joy that makes the benches, walls, and windows seem to tremble. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She never pulls her shade down and thru my window when I put out my lights I can see her from the neck down when she comes out of the bath to dry herself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What case are you working on?” asked Zach, stuffing the envelope of honey money into his pocket and setting the box of jars on the side table by the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peeks through the window by his head. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

We know they will die if we put them into bottles and leave them by accident in the sun in the back window of the car, as we have done before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the school are houses with graffiti and barred windows. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

People is driving down, circling round the little island a grass at the end with they windows down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He took down his foot from the window seat, parked his cigar end in the copper ashtray on the writing table, and came away from the window. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The cockpit window shatters as she plunges through it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He looked straight ahead, down Fifth Avenue, where graceful women in fur coats walked, looking into the windows that held silk dresses, and watches, and rings. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment and wrote Come to our window. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the night, the window lit up like a movie screen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I walked across the porch and peered in the window. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has treated his shapes much like the enclosed, flat panes of a stained-glass window to create a lively decorative pattern. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, I sit in the lounge room with her as the day dies outside the window. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As Walter approaches the open window, I stalk off, pausing just long enough to spit in the dust. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every day, the little gray-furred beasts would scurry tormentingly through the branches that hung outside the nursery windows, which threw all Penelope’s attempts to teach odd and even numbers into chaos. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

By now, true morning light was seeping through its arched windows, reminding him of the time, but he just couldn’t make himself return to his room to pack his things, not yet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Crimson sill-lanterns sit in each window and cast their bloody light over the courtyard. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When the young girl went back to the window and looked down, the damp patch on the gravel had evaporated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still I can’t get the sound of our car window shattering that night out of my head. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

From my bedroom window I watched the world. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I open the window and watch them fall, a sprinkle of white to the ground below. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She just sat and stared out of the window, thinking what a blissful world it was and how lucky she was to have entire charge of a pig. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Grandma closed all her windows because the dust from the road never settled. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

What Dolores had been hoping for when she rolled down the window was a breath of fresh air. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The window behind the curtain let in enough afternoon light to hint at the shape of a bed and dresser. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I remember clasping her hand as we walked to St. Joseph’s, right in the center of Kinvara, a small church made of stone with jewel-toned stained-glass windows and dark oak pews. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Wash thought he saw a hand disappear behind a window shade when they passed Fannie’s place. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She brushes her teeth, avoiding herself in the mirror, and goes back downstairs and stands looking out through the window in their front door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I followed his gaze and saw that he was scowling at the pouring rain outside the window. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At the window, in the shower, in my sleep. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Look, aeroplanes!” said Michael, as they stopped before a window in which toy aeroplanes were careering through the air on wires. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I love to watch the city from above—the graffiti on factories, the honking cars, the old buildings with shattered windows, everyone in a hurry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I opened up the windows to let the breeze in and blow out the smell of old air and silverfish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He looked to the right, to the left, behind him; then moving more quickly, he circled the building, disappearing from my view, reappearing, staring at every window, upstairs and down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She’s looking out the kitchen window, at the trellis of bougainvillea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Lee Chong’s they stopped and looked into the messy display window where tools and clothes and food crowded for attention. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Two of the walls were windows that looked out onto a park and the water. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

At his prompting, I sketched out the room, with the door at the top of the page and the window at the bottom. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It looked queer among the tenements with its tiny small-paned windows, clapboards and steep slanting roof. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bare hall with two windows and closed doors all down the corridor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The world looked blurred through the window and I waited for my eyes to accustom themselves to sunlight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rode the tram for three stops, me leaning over Gus so we could look out the window together. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was freezing, but he stood at the window, looking up at the night sky, his hand up against the cold pane. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I could see her vaguely outlined in the moonlight that came through the window. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon Father and Mother were as settled in the tea room of our comfortable hotel as two cats sunning themselves at a window. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind shuddered against the window behind him and the snow outside fell fast. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No,” Kyle heard Haley say in a hushed tone to the clerk working the Returns window. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He was still in there, on the seat next to me, between me and the window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

I could roll up the windows and lock the door. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room she was in was quiet, with large windows vaulting up the walls and domed skylights pouring in late-afternoon sun. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A few students look out the window, trying to be above it all. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Familiar wild heads flared in our night windows; the villagers encircled us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out the window, I saw a smoking ring of trees from the clearing where we’d taken off. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There’s a bedroom and a living room with a curved glass window stretching from floor to ceiling that overlooks a glittering Tokyo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed more sedate than I remembered it, more perpendicular and strait-laced, with narrower windows and shinier woodwork, as though a coat of varnish had been put over everything for better preservation. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hopped up and looked out the window as if the anxiety was tailing me like the Feds had. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She looked out at the wide expanse of golden grass being lashed by the rising wind, and wondered whether Anya had closed all the windows in their house in Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maid curtsied once more, went to the heavy drapes, threw them open to reveal a large square window cut into the stone. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At eight-thirty I stood up and went to the window, where we always say good-bye. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Well, certainly, I must have smelled like a tequila farm, since Dad had been breathing out the liquor in noisy respirations and I had kept the windows closed against the cold night air. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The melted window glass hung frozen down the walls like icing on a cake. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever I hear a shell coming I drop down on one knee with the pan and the pancakes, and duck behind the wall of the window. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But later, when I glance out the window, my eyes fall on the scrubby trees across the street. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Lemme see how bad it is,” he said, and crossed the aisle, putting his face close to the windows. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The hallways are dimly lit, but I can still see the snowmen and reindeer in every class window. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And after much searching they found the servant girl I liked so much, the one I had watched from my window every day. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses had countless windows, mostly with shutters but some with glass, more than I had ever seen before. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t go back through the window till much later,” he said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shots rang through the development and car windows were shot out while the people staring out their windows backed away, trying to avoid stray gunfire. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Jamie put his foot back down on the floor, looked out the window and said, “Why do you want to know?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window open to the salty air and his lips mouthing the words. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They dressed him in a white gown and laid him on the bed by the window where he used to look out for Oliver. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hooded birds darted and dived outside the windows at the behest of falconers perched on the ground. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One by one, the windows across the street went dark, and so did Mr. Szymczak’s. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Joon looks out of his window and I look out of mine. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Some alleged calendrical devices may just possibly be due to chance—an accidental alignment of window and niche on June 21, say. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to open my window, but the little latches won’t move. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you complaining about my food?” said Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham from the window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The countryside now flying past the window was becoming wilder. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Khalid’s skin is brown in the silver light that pours in through the window. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He rolled down the window on the passenger side and climbed into the bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light peeked through the curtains of my living room window, and I thought I saw my mom’s shadow. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The moment Meggie looked her way she drew the curtain, as if she had felt Meggie watching her, but she still stayed at the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Outside our small kitchen window that faces the river, the sun begins to make its entrance onto our side of town. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As Anh had nervously inspected the windows to establish the best source of light, he’d mounted her expensive, brand-new Nikon to the tripod and positioned it on the edge of the parquet floor. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Despite the run-down condition of the few pieces of furniture and the torn curtains on the window, there were touches of pride all around. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have seen us from the window, for three minutes after we had started he was on our tail again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled to the window, pitched the paper in before him, caught hold and heaved himself upward onto the ledge and then inside. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mami ran from the window, her face glowing, to the basket of house clothes and slipped out of her flowered dress into a faded shift. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He did not suggest, as all the other visiting priests had, that God’s presence dwelled more in St. Agnes, that the iridescent saints on the floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows stopped God from leaving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Thomas came to the window, she pointed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we’re gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she’s not expecting us.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the schoolroom windows the paper hearts are blossoming. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in the airport appeared the same, every corner, every window, every set of plastic seats, every gate. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the table near the window was a brown leather chair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One day, with her hands pressed gently against her stomach, Carolina fell asleep in her chair by the window. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Furies. The three worst monsters from the Underworld. No problem. No problem. We’ll just slip out the windows.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to concentrate on things beyond the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped my foot impatiently and glanced out the window for Henry’s car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His long white robe swirled around him, and the morning sun shone through the front window, so he almost appeared to glow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hackett held us up on the way back to look through the windows of the boathouse and point out the single sculls and the eight-man longboats. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He carried a pair of the jars to the window and held them up and turned them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his heavy eyelids and propped his head against the inside of the car window. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we ate, we threw the bones out the window, plink, into the water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As Citra’s eyes came into clearer focus, she saw the window behind Scythe Curie. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Through the open windows came the faint leathery scent of cow dung, always present except on the coldest days, and noticeable only to those who had been away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The best were distracted mothers who either had kids with them or left them in the car, with one eye always toward the window. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tad walked to one of the narrow windows and studied the parking lot below, looking for Frankie’s white Mustang. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, guess who’s going to pay to have this window replaced.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Forever after, you’re able to spot the red light in the upstairs window or the champagne glass on the door that doesn’t open until midnight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This gave us a window on the wider world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I would sit by the window engrossed in reading while they talked by the room’s door in low tones. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached Petey’s window, Finn released the reins and slid from the horse’s back, knees loose and watery, hands trembling. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

You’re sitting by the window watching a guy with a bucket of roses set up shop near the subway station. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But we need you to look through that window.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then I started thinking how Papi and Tío Toni might not even have a glimpse of sky and fresh air or a bite of food and all my positive thinking went out the window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He returned again after an hour and again after two hours, looked through the window and saw Siddhartha standing there in the moonlight, in the starlight, in the dark. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theodora came up the heavy stairway after Mrs. Dudley, looking incredulously at the stained-glass window on the landing, the marble urn in a niche, the patterned carpet. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the windows were open and she could hear the music very marvelous. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was how he said it that I knew he was responsible for those storm windows. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

With the apartment windows open, you can taste the carbon monoxide rising from the street below. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

God knows he won’t be doing much but reading and looking out the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

An explosion shook the walls, and glass fell out of a nearby window. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She taps her fingers on the window and pulls the door open. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It had a door, a few windows, and nothing else. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as she leaves, I go to the window in search of Olly, but I don’t find him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tall apartments rose overhead, their open windows overflowing with orchid plants, laundry, and chatting neighbors. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There were no bars on the windows, no jangling keys, no doors to lock or unlock. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he really watch them through the window? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I merely smiled and rolled over and drifted dreamily out a window. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Alas, my sacrifice was in vain, since there was too much glare and I couldn’t risk opening a window. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mack and George are chatting while George cleans one of my windows. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The window into the past frames the new road before me like a postcard. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He stared out the window miserably until Carrie arrived with the tray. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Jon glanced at the King’s Tower, he glimpsed a flash of red behind a window. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They looked at each other through the window for the last time and their eyes filled with tears. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stack of books was arranged near the simple cut-out window, and the few robes Brother Ugo owned were folded on his trunk. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A few windows might break—the front sitting room, with its bay window, was at risk. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He climbed over the blackened stones where there had once been a window, jumped down in the dry grass behind the wall, and crouched low. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That night, when I got home, I was looking out the window, being sorry, and my mother was like, “What’s wrong?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning light coming from the side window showed stubble on his chin and above his upper lip. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He stood by the window for the longest kind of a time, then knelt down by the windowsill and covered his face with his hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When the window is partly open — it only opens partly — the air can come in and make the curtains move. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I turned right here I’d go up past my gallery—what was my gallery, now a vacant shop window'—but I don’t want to, because that still hurts a little. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out the window, the snow is starting again. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He rotates it in front of his eyes: eighteen little windows, six balconies, a tiny entrance door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first night of our new life, Georgie and I had crawled through the open kitchen window of our house and crept to our parents’ bedroom. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though Ash looked out the kitchen window every few minutes on the morning Kaisa said she would come, part of her did not believe it would actually happen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was still a bit of a shock when a hammerhead shark drifted through the bedroom window, regarded me, and then swam calmly out the opposite side of the room. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled several straws from the broom and held them to the fire until they blazed; I rushed to the window and brought the flame in touch with the hems of the curtains. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Canadian harpooner Ned Land has found his window for escape. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As children they claimed to be able to tell from across the far side of the park whenever their mother had a migraine by a certain darkening at the windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She stares at his profile picture, a photo she took of him in his bedroom where he was looking out the window, waiting for the mailman to deliver his Xbox Infinity. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She sat on a chair near the window and stared outside, crying softly. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light from the window shone on Nadia's side of the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light outside the windows was fading by the time the session drew to a close. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Father Quinel lived behind our stone church in an attached room without windows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas and Florida were quiet, facing the windows, waiting for the owl. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the last stage was the clerestory, which consisted of sixty- foot windows that reached right up to the roof. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Through the window, I can see the platform's thick with cameras. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The minute I roll down my window, he starts talking. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Thunderstorm, thought Alyce, as she hurried to fasten the wooden shutters over the windows before the skies opened. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The house itself is perched atop a knoll, and from the upstairs windows you get a good view of the lake. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper turned his attention back to the windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped on the window and motioned for Ham to roll it down. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just then something came out of the window of the cab. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I can clean up those glasses in the window, if you want,” said the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning as soon as she was awake Laura ran to look out of the window, and one morning she saw in each of the big trees a dead deer hanging from a branch. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when I woke up from it all, there was my mother, sitting in a chair on the other side of my hospital room, staring out the window. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No, said Hubbard, but there would probably be a window of clear skies from about 5:00 to 6:00 a.m. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cabdriver rolled down his window and began yelling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When nearly a fortnight had passed Frodo looked out of his window and saw that there had been a frost in the night, and the cobwebs were like white nets. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I'm running past buildings of tan bricks, five stories high with black fire escapes and windows with bars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The flames drew pearly tints out of the white walls, and the windows glowed yellow-gold, suggesting cheerful fires within. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Foot-high words had been daubed on the wall between two windows, shimmering in the light cast by the flaming torches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Outside, my dad, Violet, and three police officers surround the open window of Officer Jameson’s squad car. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’m having a heart attack. Open the window, Virginia! I’m suffo- eating!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first rays of dawn were sliding over the garden wall, and the window was empty. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other children were spread throughout the car, catnapping, daydreaming out the window, or playing cards. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maddie switched off the torch and stared out the window, her night vision ruined by trying to read the map. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Its floor-to-ceiling windows coupled with the bright summer sun were turning the place into a greenhouse. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dark, steep shadows slanted in from the window. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In one of the windows, a crack in the glass spreads out like lightning as the determined people try to get in. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

No windows shone, but she could see a pair of headlights, far off, moving on a straight line. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building was still standing, but its doors were padlocked, the windows shattered, and the letters K and R miss­ing from its name. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Franklin must not have called the police to report me, though I jumped at every sound and spent hours peeking out the windows, waiting for a patrol car to arrive. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Cobwebs hung everywhere, and there were no windows, only a very long stair that descended far beyond the light of her little candle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I think about the house in my school reader, white, with a picket fence and a lawn, and window curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few long seconds passed as Grandma stared thoughtfully out of the window. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The patio swings around the house to a private nook where they like to sit talking, and that nook is directly beside my bedroom window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z