Shin did not know if touching wires in the fence would kill them, although he worried about it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For a fortnight, Vanderbilt besieged him with wires, calls, and requests for private meetings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a wire out and began to gnaw at it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lupita watched him take the wire handle off the full box and fasten it to one of the empty ones. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I'll give you a sheet of tin and a bundle of copper wire if you can fix it.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The wire about me had made them all uncomfortable, but my ‘ ‘What you know, Daddy? ’ ’ approach at least enabled us to have some conversations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo strung some wires across the mouth of the funnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In front of me is a chain-link fence with barbed wire strung along the top. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But some of Stuart’s cavalry had cut the wires and they might not be patched yet, so Washington would be in the dark and screaming its head off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I dream that I am wire without flesh, there is a letter on blue airmail paper that floats above the night ocean between here and China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall fences of barbed wire enclosed the camp; you weren’t allowed to leave unless you were leaving for good. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knotted their frayed ends together with the wires that sprouted off the reed, just as I’d always pictured. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Donay, squatting, adjusts our tin can of rice, which hangs over the fire on a piece of wire. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy knew Grandpa Nyles hated barbed wire, but it did keep the neighbors’ cattle out of the horse pastures. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

We have to go up on wiring fatigue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As panicked marchers scattered in all directions, Sheriff Clark’s mounted possemen let loose with a rebel yell and charged, swinging bullwhips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Houses sprawled in every direction over bare terrain, with newly strung electrical wires crisscrossing overhead. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We passed through several road­blocks to get there and three different security officials conducted a body search on me after the wires in my jaws set off the metal detectors. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the number five bus, headed downtown, laughing at some girl whose mother was known to reach for anything—cable wires, extension cords, pots, pans. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A few people are trying their luck selling food at the fence, but I take the back alleys to our spot, where the loose barbed wire will let me into the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was ready to wire in a new story: “Civil War Hero Handpicked by U. S. Grant Called to the Great Campground in the Sky.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The introduction shows a page-wide photo of a forearm and hand squeezing pliers around a length of taut barbed wire strung beneath one of the towers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got a real live wire here,” Milton said, turning to my brother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was halfway to Delaney’s, body wired, brain tripping, when I slipped my hand into the pocket and found the forgotten Gandy’s Rock flyer, tucked inside the denim folds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Aru felt like someone had wrapped sharp wires around her heart. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He must have his mouth shut tight on the wire. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face reddens to a deep crimson, the veins on his neck taut like wires pulled too tight. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After swearing Abdulrahman to secrecy, Ahmad brought him up to the roof and showed him a cage he had built from scrap wood and chicken wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even though I meant what I said, I’m also relieved he found the right wire to cut. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Villagers also had to pay for items like bamboo, concrete fence posts, and barbed wire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Frankie ducked under a bunch of wires to look at the mess that used to be the stairs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He is hitting the wire leader with his spear, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fence had been put up, string after string of barbed wire, and a gate made of fresh planks of wood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wire itself had razor-sharp protrusions as well as trip flares planted throughout. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were done with fixing the posts, they would have to wire them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The candles were small trees that had been pruned and tied to wires to make them grow in the shape of candelabra. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, his muscles stiffened as though a wire strung through his body had jerked him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet from the wire, Professor Paul reached Seabiscuit’s throat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t anything special—the kind with ruled lines and the twisted wire holding the edge—and each of them was numbered. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A cased sausage hanging from a wire above the binnacle swayed a little as the Susan Marie undulated; otherwise, nothing moved. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s coiling up some wire from the school display monitor and sees my smile, frozen, when I see him so close to Tats. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We hated games that went down to the wire. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Another time, I built a robot costume with cardboard boxes, foil, wire coat hangers, and some flashlights I borrowed. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Royal Brougham, amused, watched them go at their first meal and then wired home a story about it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of growling, it barks and snarls and snaps, and its muscles bunch up like coiled wire. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I get out of bed, walk to the corner of the room underneath the security cam, reach up, and yank its wires out. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You didn't steal that copper wire, did you?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His father shouted to him about wires; he shouted at him to stop. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You have done all this before. Every other new bird I put in here flies into the wire before it learns it’s not free.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My hand frees itself from the wire and has just closed on the feathers of an arrow when the metal cylinder smashes into the side of my head. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He chose a white nylon cord, as strong as wire and not much thicker. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Sunday evening Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wired President Kennedy from Atlanta, telling him he was going to Birmingham to plead with blacks to remain nonviolent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then his body drops clean away and only his hands with the stumps of his arms, shot off, now hang in the wire. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bundle of wires trailed over this outcrop before dropping back into the grass. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Except for the wires which ran to the house from a spot among the trees, there was no evidence that Hill House belonged in any way to the rest of the world. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And as his eyes focused on all the gentle gray shapes slowly hopping around in that compartmentalized wire pen, his heart did another flip-flop. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard got his weight back under him, straightened the horse’s course, and galloped him under the wire first. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, it looked like a typical maintenance tunnel, with electric cables, warning signs, and fuse boxes on the walls, lightbulbs in wire cages along the ceiling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The room which she found most to her liking had a bunk bed with brown corduroy spreads and models of airplanes hanging on delicate wires from the ceiling. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Consisting of wire mesh stretching from floor to ceiling, it was rigged to set off a siren if anyone tampered with it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scanned the trail ahead for wires or other traps. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Grandma strolled over to the door “What now?” she said through screen wire. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was I too much my mother’s daughter, wired not only with the same taste, but also the same fears? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Our eyes searched the horizon for the barbed wire of Gleiwitz. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have used a single wire for igniting," he explained. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was alone, leaving the smaller cities that had winked out long ago like Christmas lights on a faulty wire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Some were down near the riverbank unrolling wires directly across from Gray, which made Pax uneasy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

All that was left was the wire frame! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There was still the cold touch of a wire against his cheek. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Since the areas of the cross sections of the supporting wires are equal, the stresses in the wire, force divided by cross-sectional area, vary as the lengths of the wires. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the sounds that played in my head at night now—the jingle of corrugated tin, the short tap of copper wire, the thunder of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then I held up the wire as high as I could, and Tommy and I both helped her through. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched her go, then turned her attentions back to the radio and the strange, beautiful mystery of wires. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Not yet, Amir,” he said, “but soon. When the wires are out.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, suspended from a wire, a tinplate clockwork aquaplane with wooden pontoons and a rotating propeller makes an electric, hypnotizing orbit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tighten the wire noose hiding under your collarbones. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The cracked yellow walls were lined with electric lights in wire cages, posters for old shows, and photographs of actors who had appeared in the theatre over the years. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I had just lifted the wire, ready to slide back to the other side, when I felt cold metal against my neck. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Now,” she said, pivoting quickly from the stove and staring as she pointed the menacing wire toward my nose, “let’s get this done once and for all.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then he picks up two probes hooked onto wires coming from the front of the oscilloscope, a red one and a black one. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him draw in his breath at the other end of the wire. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They took off his shirt and bound him with wire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Being a boy, I climbed the wires and pivoted over on a fence post, on the heel of my wounded hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, that box nothing but brown wood and wires. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Since they’d started the job, Finn and Miguel had replaced more than a dozen fence posts, spliced hundreds of yards of wire, and still it was as if they’d barely begun. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pushed against that chicken wire so hard I was afraid he might bust right through it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I shouted, even though the main fight at the moment was between my shoelaces and the chicken wire. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It comes over the wire,” said the operator. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Off to one side, a wire mail holder, filled with bills. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His favorite pastime was walking back and forth across a thin, long wire that my mother sometimes used for hanging our clothes to dry. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally came to the enclosure gate, I peered out between the wires. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone not far above us has cut the wire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other Germans were securing the hasps on the car doors with wire and spikes and other trackside trash. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dart forward and crawl beneath the barbed wire. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The Star Spangled Banner” blared from speakers as the American flag rose on a wire over the magenta-colored arena floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They walked under sculptures of open books dangling from wires like birds in flight and soon found themselves in front of City Lights. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Mom?” is all I can get out, but it’s squeaky and filled with longing to pull her through the phone wires to sit with me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The cords were “almost as hard as a piece of wire,” Burr wrote. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light was coming in queerly through the frosted glass with the chicken wire embedded in it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing I couldn’t turn my dogs loose, I broke off enough of the wire to lead them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"These wires are measuring my brain activity. I'm here for specialized testing because, according to the experts, I'm a genius." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I guess whatever “wires” are mixed up in my brain are responsible for all sorts of strange things. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Live wires carry electricity above the trains for 143 miles north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, a discarded refrigerator with its face ripped off, and on the curb an old mattress with wire intestines hanging out of its belly. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I see one of them, his face upturned, fall into a wire cradle. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bending down, he opened up his tackle box and busied himself with a bobber and a piece of wire leader, humming to himself, his eyes down. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man inside the booth is talking on the phone, a small wired earbud in his left ear. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Stanton’s operators could wire news and orders all over the country—and soon telegraph lines across the nation were announcing the news: The president has been assassinated and the secretary of state attacked. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fog was heavy over the rooftops and telephone wires and trees, and I would make myself tea and then go back to my room to read and wait until the sun broke through. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Myelin is often likened to the plastic coating around electrical wires—it insulates the neural circuits, making them about a hundred times faster than unmyelinated circuits. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A bare bulb hung on a wire from the ceiling. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to make a centerpiece out of waxed maple leaves, acorns, ribbon, and a mile of thin wire. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Stella Armijo boarded up the shed door, caught and reimprisoned the goat, strung two barbed wire strands above the chicken wire, and released the goat again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bound his hands and feet with wire, tied him to an iron post, and set fire to his body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Using the wire cutters, she snipped the pointy end of the hook, then stuck it into the hole she had just made in the bottle cap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I'll use an 02 tank to spray short bursts of oxygen at the hydrogen, and make a spark with a couple of wires and a battery. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though a red-hot wire had been jabbed into him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A single bulb glowed red behind a wire mesh, adding to the heat in the cramped cabin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everything Eric did—sitting here, asking about Four—suggests that they are, but the way Four sits, tense as pulled wire, suggests they are something else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She hung the grain bag from a stray wire halfway up and leaned the spear against it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she reaches across the table and pulls me fiercely into her arms, which form a wire cage around me, surprisingly strong. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When we got to the trap, Wishbone was digging at the ground beside the wire like he was trying to dig a hole clear through to China. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Their beds are unmade, underclothes on the floor, clean stockings left draped and hanging to dry from the electrical wires dangling through the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A long piece of wire came across my shoulder. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was made of wire netting on a wooden frame, with two leather hinges nailed to the uprights and a hasp and staple fastened with a twist of wire. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wire’s on a peg and the peg’s in the ground—there, look. We’ve got to dig it out. Come on—dig beside it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man screamed as the wire caught him around the neck, almost garroting him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then I pull the cell phone loose from the charger wire, flop down on my bed, and go to work. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the back of the painting, as on the back of many paintings, was a small piece of wire to hang on the hook. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the fence and hooked his fingers through the wire. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no high wires or children in feather cloaks; as near as he could find out, there never had been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On this day, she stood in front of the dining room cabinet and put the radio on the highest shelf she could reach, moving it around as she held a wire connected to it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I believe that her emotional wiring got crossed in this area. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Beyond, coils of concertina wire topping a mesh fence further obscured the vista. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since her encounter with Khione, Piper seemed more wired, tensed up inside like a primed catapult, as if she were determined never to be caught off guard again. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Just then, Bristle’s head rose as if jerked on an unseen wire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And, after circling the chicken wire pen once, it took two dainty steps backward and, with an effortless leap, sailed over the four-foot-high barrier. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joel disconnected the electric fence from its battery and held down the wire with his boot to let me into the paddock. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I have to get more wire and sheet metal first, and it's not exactly easy to come by.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Behind the wire screen was a wide area, and Mr. Galanter kept us busy there throwing balls around. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He would flap his wings and make such a loud, shrieking sound that it made the wire vibrate. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s harder work laying out the wire than guarding, and she’s had a long turn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear,” I said, “let’s send wires to everybody not to come.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The weapon’s components, a piece of wood and a length of hard wire, were originally part of a toilet brush he’d confiscated, dismantled and hidden under his mattress. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was the power that ran through the wires and into the light bulbs? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

First a fluttering as of doves in her stomach, then a kind of burning, followed by a spread of thin wires to other parts of her body. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what was all over the wire; he was certain I’d be armed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was electric cable, the heavy, black kind used for outdoor wiring and strung on telephone poles. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Around the camp, Coach Hedge had rigged all sorts of trip wires, snares and oversized mousetraps that wouldn’t stop any self-respecting monster, but they might very well bring down a senior citizen. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He climbed the wooden pole, tapped into the electrical wires, powered up his radio, and sent information on Ger- man military movements to British intelligence officers in London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was alive, vibrant, singing like an electric wire as he dressed in preparation for the trip to Ravenel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crawls under a barbed-wire fence, then under a double strand of smooth wire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We continued to march between the barbed wire. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I landed knee and elbow first in the pile of chicken wire. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pax pounced on the wire, but he was too late. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At least that meant that they must have dropped the wire. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had put wire all round the garden to keep rabbits out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detering meant to outwit them: he fastened a thin wire to the roof and suspended his bread from it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vines dotted with cruel thorns ran through the semidarkness like barbed wire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Benny didn’t respond, turning his back to her as he adjusted the display of breads hanging in wire baskets against the wall. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My body tenses as if a wire were running through it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the Fourth of July they were beginning to go brown, and Daddy warned Joe and Marly not to toss their sparkler wires too far with the wires hot. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the background still looks off to me, so I take a medium-thick brush and paint black stick figures pulsing in the air around Liberty, thorny scars that look like barbed wire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watch for telephone wires which hang crosswise over the road so low that they might easily pull our heads off. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took forever—I mean, it was worse than the time I’d had to untangle all my video game controller wires. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s all right, then,” quipped Holly, threading her way through the mass of wires. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Macon fastened the wire ends into a knot, but the lobe was swollen and running pus. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Morris then moves over to her desk and points to two wire baskets. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dear Mr. Lon Herbert, How would you like it if you were walking a wire, slipped, touched another wire, and was zapped—fried so your mother wouldn’t even recognize you? Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of wires and batteries around to make a spark. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then burn off the hydrogen with a battery, some wires, and a tank of 02. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that its whole interior was a large wire cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth box contained dynamite, which was disguised to look like lumps of coal, incendiary pencils, timing devices, fuses, primers, wire, screws, and sulfuric acid. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Other times the SS were on duty and the only noise at the ghetto gate was the rustle of a newspaper blowing down the street to stick against the barbed wire. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Also, once I was in Nairobi, she could wire me some money. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The builder of this development certainly should have known how to wire a—Hello! Yes, I want the Fire Department.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lined the shelves and filled the corners and dangled from wires. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nailer got to his feet and handed the rest of his wire over to Tick-tock. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t until they reach downtown, just before the exit ramp to the highway, that Axel spots a few crows gathered on a phone wire. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There are exposed pipes in the bathrooms, wires stapled over doorsills, nails protruding from beams. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After he graduated, he and Margaret built their first lab in a janitor’s quarters at Hopkins—they spent weeks wiring, painting, plumbing, building counters and cabinets, paying for much of it with their own money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dirty, cement floor, wires and pipes, and terrible lighting, but at least I couldn’t see the cobwebs or ghosts who’d probably been hanging around since Lincoln was president. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Matt helped Maria over a tangle of wires into the darkened room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he tried to wind wires of his own together in exactly the same way, nothing happened. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wire whipped up and away, writhing like a snake. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The old scar on his forehead, which was shaped like a bolt of lightning, was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He unravels a piece of the wire and runs it through his fingers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s when I see it, hanging from a wire ring looped into a zipper: my lucky rabbit foot from Libby. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a stiff wire brush. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I say, pointing to the wire basket with a floatable noodle around the rim so it sits in the water, tied to me so it won’t drift away. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Moss blinked to adjust his eyes; he was next to a tall gray building, just beyond a chain-link fence with razor wire curled around the top. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

String and spit and wire and a voice on the radio offering a loom on which to spin his dreams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wrote to the nurses asking for a wire to clean my teeth. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The rabbit’s fur pressed through the wire, and white wisps of it floated away in the sunlight like tiny clouds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A posthole digger, shovels, a few bags of quick-set concrete, large buckets with lids, a role of fencing wire, pliers, and a couple of hammers were piled on the ground near the bushes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was shiny purple and had a white banana seat, wire baskets on the side, chrome handlebars that swept out like steer horns, and white plastic handles with purple-and-silver tassels. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled under the barb wire, stepped around a wet cow splat, and headed for the Snodgrass barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We should have hung him off the wires, not just his sandals.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Frightful’s left wing was pushed from the wire. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Kayak won the San Carlos Handicap, nailing Specify at the wire and breaking the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon then told the story of how one of his falcons was electrocuted on the wires of the transformer in his field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

From that same tool rack, a pair of yellow-handled wire cutters hovered on their own propellers, floated just above Petey’s waiting palm, and dropped into his hand. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cleverly recovering his balance, Monsieur Duval caught the wire by the inside of his elbow and saved himself. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I made a noose of wire to catch it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Two black birds stared at them from a telegraph wire. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The dachshund gave a little yelp, then cringed forward, shimmying with ecstasy, till his mistress, shouting something at him, stepped hurriedly over the wire guard surrounding the tree and picked him up. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Those hands could fix anything that cranked, moved, pumped heat, moved water, or had valves, vacuums, or wires. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey unbuttoned his shirt and revealed some kind of glowing, heavily wired chest plate. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In October, two Salvadoran youths on top of a train were electrocuted by a high-tension wire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Another coil of wire lay ready for annealing. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He had a switchboard in front of him with wires and holes, just like the switchboards in old American movies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter could see it clearly in the wash of the floodlights, streaming with rain, an ungainly mass of machinery and wiring slightly tilted on the rocky ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If they made it through the wire, the Americans would all be killed or captured. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were racks of rockets standing to be touched off to call for help from the artillery or to signal with if the telephone wires were cut. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a dull lightbulb buzzing over my head, hanging on a skinny wire from the ceiling. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Here she checks the trip wire her great-uncle built beneath the telephone table on the landing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To get to work, scientists struggled through the mud to the half-finished Tech Area, which housed labs and offices and was surrounded by another fence, nine feet high, with barbed wire strung along the top. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three birds on a wire was on my list of things to wish on. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They can only be wondering what has happened, why the wire has gone slack or maybe even sprung back to the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Near Ettumanoor they passed a dead temple elephant, electrocuted by a high tension wire that had fallen on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and David had switched off their crash bracelets—they didn’t want the boards following them over the wire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window and saw a slender little girl hanging up the wash on a wire. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody hung a pair of corn husk sandals on the high-voltage wires by the commuter line. I wonder who they belong to. I called Brad Pitt, but he’s wearing his.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At the convent, when I mop, I hang my uniform on a wire hanger in the nuns’ closet and slip on my old brown shift, in which I feel comfortable and almost invisible. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had got his wife’s wire just before starting. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I sneezed and scraped the blade and wire against the inside of my nose as I yanked it out. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In a wire cage in the living room lived a python named Sampson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened again in May of 2008, when Taylor and Jayme got a zip line, which was a wire you attached across an open space, like a yard, suspended from two high points. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He squats down, takes my right hand into his, and careful to not bump into my tubes and wires, draws his mouth to them, blowing warm air into the shelter he’s created. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, Lobel. . . why don’t you get up and watch the wire with me?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story was picked up by the wire services and distributed nationwide. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re worth a fortune. But I guess it would be an imitation dog: ersatz. Right? But those are made of wires and motors; they can’t be eaten.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

An old Chinese birdcage, broken down into a web of arched wires, had become an eagle, its brassy skeletal wings spread as if about to take flight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bony ribs of the wing stood out as high as a hill, and the arteries and veins gleamed like wires of fine-spun ruby and turquoise pressed into a thin sheet of jade. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back to the wires, counted them, corrected the inventory slip, initialed it, and moved down to the next shelf. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Genie took one hesitant step forward, then another, until he saw, tucked between all the foliage, five birdcages all made of wood and wire and set up like small castles. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The tip of the lash was laced with wire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told him to use his judgment on strategy, but to give Seabiscuit two swats with his whip, once at the top of the stretch and once seventy yards from the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weary drew back his right boot, aimed a kick at the spine, at the tube which had so many of Billy’s important wires in it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both hang by straps thin as chicken wire. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I'm at the kitchen table separating the peripheral wiring when Dell Duke's cell phone barks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Looking around me, I noticed that the barbed wire was behind us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look over and see that her wire ponytail collects in a small backpack at her side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We always had to wire up outside loudspeakers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lost her balance, spread her wings, and completed the circuit between two wires. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We picked mangoes from the neighbor’s trees and traded them for lengths of wire, which we used to make axles and attach the bottle cap wheels. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The two men constructed an instrument that included batteries, coils of wire to carry electric current, and a telephone receiver. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You heard them. They're not going to give me a job. Anyway wires aren't such a bad payment. It's what I need to make more sun orbs.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The wire whipped away from him, slithering through the crawlspaces, raising dust clouds as it moved. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Jockey Harry Richards outrode Jack Pollard at the wire, otherwise Seabiscuit, streaking along in midstretch with a length lead, must surely have won,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire looped under and over termite-eaten posts on the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And attached to a pipe with a bit of shoelace tied to a piece of wire tied to a length of string — a grimy, coffee-splashed booklet, its edges soft with age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blast startled Guitar, and the wire slipped again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right on the spot where Johanna Mason hit me with the coil of wire. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unseen wires. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orb stood, and two bronze cables shot out of the top, hitting Hazel and Frank like Taser wires. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nailer clambered through a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the new life we’ll have—a life of peace and happiness on the far side of the barbed wire fence, away from everything that is happening in Syria. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that the windows were covered in chicken wire. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

This second invader, who was having some difficulty climbing over the wire at the top of the fence, had a strangely angular look about him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I see Max walking by on the other side of the fence, well back from the wire. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As far as they knew, it was the first time Americans had recovered an Enigma wiring from messages alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I look left—there’s the dining room, painted blue, overlooked by a television, full of circular tables, separated from the hall by that glass with the square wire mesh in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He sent a flurry of wires to Howard, extolling the superb racing strip, mild fall weather, and general beauty of New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pretty sure she was wired wrong somewhere, that her plugs were switched, because instead of softening toward them— instead of tenderness—she felt herself go cold and mean. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He just stayed flat on his back, staring up at the wires dangling from the ceiling as his heart thudded. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

Everything was wired to recording machines in the basement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Jam put her pamphlet down and got out of her chair slowly, wired with caution. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Rust flakes, bits of insulation, a roll of wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kids in the neighborhood, strangers walking their dogs, moms strolling with carriages—even the two guys fixing the telephone wires. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Magazines, brought from Earth on the silver rocket a month before, fluttered, untouched, burning brown, on wire racks fronting the silent drugstores. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, uh, I’m good here. I guess. If I can wire this thing up to the boat, I should be able to navigate back to the world.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In turn, I knew he would be protecting his stature by broadcasting all over the wire his threat to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only the teacher and the boys; also missing were the furniture and fixtures, and there were long winding gashes puckering the walls where someone had ripped out the wiring. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now Dr. Maris was attaching wires to the brackets, and suddenly, Ernie, the boy with the perfect smile, had braces. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Wooden poles, metal spikes, large pieces of mesh—like what covers a chicken coop—rolls of barbed wire, saws, knives, swords. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed a bunch of loose wires poking out from the edges of the button plate. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The horses stopped at the wire and rumbled a little, but apparently decided not to barge through the flimsy barbed strands and trample him to death. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each has a little wire handle and red Chinese temples printed on the sides. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A real live wire, she liked to play pranks on people and tell the kind of naughty jokes that made Mother blush and cover my ears. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask him about the wires. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting the wires means we are definitely going through with this plan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After they passed the wire, Pollard let Seabiscuit keep running to get more of a workout from the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the waves beat under the piles and he could hear the scampering of white rats against the wire. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that too. But the wire came out with you, so he was happy about that. You’ve got your heal time. Rust Saint’s my witness.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Boomer and I slip under the barbed wire a few minutes later, it’s to find squirrels scurrying back and forth, gathering up the acorns that have fallen everywhere. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had used picture wire torn from the backs of the paintings Osh had given Miss Maggie, and their wrists were bleeding. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Malone took six wires, each ending in a flat pad, and attached them to various places on Lyra’s head. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart sinks when I see the rows of high metal fencing topped with barbed wire surrounding the camp. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We stow the things carefully in our boots; we have to take them to protect our feet against treading on wire and broken glass on the other bank. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

New ant colonies in the forests at Molln are protected from woodpeckers by wire netting to reduce the toll. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I know for a fact that the latex lumps will end up tangled in electrical wires. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But how many German-bom naturalized Americans were herded behind barbed wire? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could try to get out through the basement, but that may be wired also. Or you could run from here and I could distract anyone who saw us.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way she could ask around, put the word out on the street wire, because the street was never her playground. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then you’d slide down the wire holding on to an attached handle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Che Guevara’s face had set a violence quivering within her like a loose wire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the wire wasn’t built to sense them up there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

All this Lyra saw by starlight alone; but then, as Lord Asriel connected his wires, the Aurora blazed all of a sudden into brilliant life. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

Inside, Malcolm saw a new piece of large machinery, surrounded by coils of heavy wire flex. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Einstein had been fascinated by Bernstein’s People’s Book of Natural Science, a popularization of science that described on its very first page the astonishing speed of electricity through wires and light through space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It's high in a box, behind mesh and wire in the corner of the rec room. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A Swiss Army knife with 13 attachments including a wire stripper and a saw and a toothpick and tweezers 2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re here to change the wires on your transformer,” said the heavier of the three men, smiling pleasantly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The fence loomed up behind them, its top wire humming and crackling in the dry air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not worry much about the computers that are wired to help me find a friend among fifty thousand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He directed me as I reached through the wire bars of the door and felt beneath it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of junk and scrap dealers, men and women selling tools, sheets of metal, rolls of wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But evidently Hufsa was in touch with somebody who did not stick at setting a wire. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another sphere contained a wick hanging in empty air from a silver wire, burning with a motionless white flame despite its apparent lack of fuel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was held together with wires, two of which had been twisted into handles at either side. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The trip wire activated a stun grenade—a small device filled with a mixture of magnesium powder and mercury fulminate. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She stood poised on her stand; an arc of wire rose over her head and looped through two needle-holes in her fists. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The Danvers found over a dozen sheep dead and bound up in fence wire.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Genie set his pen down and snaked the spiraled wire out of the first few holes in his notebook, holding it up to his mouth trying to imagine what it felt like to be Ernie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At dawn the next day Leon Longbridge wedged the .wooden scrape into a fork in the sycamore tree and wired it in place. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps by evening it would be wire, rounded and tempered, ready to fashion into a linked collar for some lovely lady’s neck. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Arriving at the used-up haystack, the boy leaned against the barbed wire fence. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship went through the bridge, moving under bare poles like a ghost in broad day, with three gulls hovering above the stern like toys on invisible wires. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear their call “Mind—wire—,” dip the knee in a half-sleep and straighten up again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught Ellsberg to constantly scan the barbed wire fences along the road, looking for a shiny edge that hadn’t had time to rust, the telltale sign of a recent slice. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Pax shared his new understanding that the exploding earth was war, and that the wires caused death. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A few strands of wire that stretched to that high overhead duct were all that kept him from drowning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday afternoon Billy Buck, the ranch-hand, raked together the last of the old year’s haystack and pitched small forkfuls over the wire fence to a few mildly interested cattle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He uncoils the grounding wires, raises the aerials, and switches them on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His hands started to slide off the wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They use ’em for oddball stuff, like holding back wires or keeping wood together while it’s being glued. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It looks like a bunch of little wires with a plastic bulb on the end. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The lunar module had a wire dangling below one landing gear. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Woolf dismounted, Azucar butted him out of the way, ran over a spectator, slashed the NBC Radio wire—cutting off the national broadcast—and dragged his terrified groom down the track like a toboggan. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a collage of shredded roof tiles surrounding a red heart covered in barbed wire. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the work’s only avant-garde touch, a thick wire extended from Miss Baker’s head, at the top of which hovered the object of wonder: a hummingbird. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make some, wrap my hands around the warm cup, carry it to the workbench, clearing a space for my elbows among the wire and sharp-edged tools. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put chicken wire around 'em, and even on top, but people could still reach in if they tried. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall was much too high to climb over, and even if I could get to the top, there was the thicket of barbed wire and broken glass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As he stared, one of the rabbits came close to the wire, looked out and saw him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled at the phone wire to untangle it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His paws sensed a threat from the ground: more boxes were buried near the bank, the field crossed with more wires. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Drops of blood from his fingers dripped down the fence from wire to wire and fell on the ground. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry forward, kneel down, and push the bundle through the barbed wire. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, protect yourself. That soldier told me that he’s wired Koch about you.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So now were all wired for multiple simulations,” I add. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was no running water, no electricity, and nothing to buy but the pipes and wires needed if you wanted to live with plumbing and electricity. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Only a few of the rooms have light fixtures; the others have wires dangling out of the middle of the ceiling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a long narrow face and a chin beard bound about with golden wire, and his stiff red-black hair swept out from his temples to form a pair of taloned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After I cranked the wire down with pliers, the fins, though crude, appeared to be at least attached securely. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His students walk right along with him, on a high wire, the “knife’s edge,” as Volpe likes to say. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had we taken a few more steps than we saw' the barbed wire of another camp. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I panic, yank on the wire—too hard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She pushed it until it clicked down, and a naked bulb hanging from a wire from the low ceiling came on. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the wire door popped open and the birds escaped. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall wire cyclone fences lay on both sides of the house itself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed us this little metal bucket thing and explained how he’d made it from a can and a piece of wire. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bailing wire or electrician’s tape could fix a lot. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, we saw barbed wire; we understood that this was the camp. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening they stand again at the wire fence and the wind comes down to them from the beech woods. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two wires dangled from the heart of the machine and gently danced in the breeze. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

On the other side was Westinghouse Electric Company, with a bid to wire Jackson Park for alternating current, using patents that its founder, George Westinghouse, had acquired a few years earlier from Nikola Tesla. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The hole in the wire grew slowly bigger, until the white mouse said: “I think that’s enough.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two rows of trees stretched their branches toward the sky, reaching across the trolley wires and holding hands with their sisters on the other side, giving the street a huge green parasol in the summertime. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zola scrambles over the fence and up the hill and peers in through the straggly wire fencing. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The alarm. These wires go under the carpet; they’re antennae. It picks up the presence of a—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She went round and round until she found a spot where the wire was loose at the bottom. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took apart light bulbs; he took apart the electric outlets on the wall to see how the wires inside wound together and, in the process, got a painful, vibrating jolt all through his body. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She says that crews are busy locking away the beaches behind a network of concertina wire and huge wooden jacks called chevaux de frise. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then they stand on either side of the tree, passing the spool back and forth as they wrap the wire around and around the trunk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Starlight sparkled in the barbed wire, and there were curious reflections and layerings of shadow, and the big white moon added resonance. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“F is for wire! Ten is for tent!” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I repeated, looking up from a tray of short black wires at Kevin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the shack was the fully assembled bomb, a huge gray globe held together by bolts, with wires snaking in and out all over its surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wedged between the layers of the hull with the plumbing and wiring, Leo could be alone with his thoughts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Rocks, dirt, barbed wire, ferocious dogs, menacing guards, and acre after acre of drab barracks stretched as far as I could see. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We went down into the cellar, where Anne took some wire and fastened a rag to the end of a stick. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before she can bring the brick down, the trip wire behind her jerks, and the bell rings, and someone enters the house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There she carefully slipped it onto a wire hanger and hung it under Papá’s black-and-white coat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Inside, a single naked lightbulb hung from a wire in the hallway. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bombs and rockets followed in intensifying numbers until the climax of the show, when an elaborate wire network erected at Festival Hall, on the lakeshore, abruptly flared into a giant explosive portrait of George Washington. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He came to a tangle of iron and wire: some sort of machine, long ago buried and forgotten. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A jet of light, a jet of pure energy released like an arrow from a great bow, shot upward from the spot where Lord Asriel had joined the wire to Roger’s daemon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But if Dr. Lange had discovered the missing piece, he may have wired ahead. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Words come through the air, mind you, without wires. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the birds don V like it either Here is a drawing of how to change the wires on a transformer so eagles, owls, hawks, vultures, even blue jays don V get zapped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Let us pray,” he said and all the heads on the team dropped floorward as though they were puppets strung to the same wire. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To improve their chances of tuning in to a good station, inmates draped wires over their bars and across the gallery floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The area was enclosed by a high brick wall topped with broken glass and razor wire. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept open for long distance from Detroit. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Too late, thought Edward as Bryce climbed the pole and worked at the wires that were tied around his wrists. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bell pull with a porcelain knob, attached to about six feet of wire when I stopped pulling and knocked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body sparked and thrashed in the wires and bled as the barbs cut him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Man, I just wanted to punch her right smack in her wire braces. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a glimpse of barbed wire stretched across the water and they guessed that this must surround a cattle wade, like the one in the little brook near the home warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only thirty-six inches separates the wires from the tallest freight cars, the auto carriers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The pointers came to the wire mesh of the kennel, wriggling like happy snakes and sneezing with enthusiasm, and even the sickly one came out of his house and fleered at us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the water bubbling through the blue glass vase, the shining brass bowl with its wisp of smoke, the long hose wound around with copper wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a fence, it’s a sensor wire. You get within twenty meters of it and the Specials will know you’re there. Same goes if you touch the ground inside it.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In between marathon bicycle rides I spend most of my time taking care of chickens, learning how to wire up small explosive devices, and trying hard not to suddenly scream my head off with nerves. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The main entrance to the wire chicken coop was guarded as always by two local policemen who looked as if they were made of stone under the rain, with raincoats and rubber boots. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Students stood under the last line of lanterns, their fingers curling through the plastic- coated wire of the fence, peering into the vast blackness, straining for a glimpse, a scrap of sound. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Attached to her head are two ears, of a rabbit or deer, it’s not easy to tell; one of the ears has lost its starch or wiring and is flopping halfway down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Holo didn’t indicate that the block we just left was mined, had the black geyser, or that the net was made from barbed wire. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was bound in a crisscross of wires attached to white metal stakes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, to be driven past the electronic gates, the high walls, the wires. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Wash brought them the things they needed, worn-out clothes from his mother’s scrap bin, heavy wire to connect the limbs, armfuls of straw they could pack into the sleeves and pant legs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He talked about what he would do to me, and I had promptly put an answer back on the wire. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire was stiff and stubborn, and he couldn’t wrap it very tightly, but there it was: it was all he had. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some clothes are in the closet on wire hangers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We had ripped the wire down, and every kid on the block, girls included, could climb onto that roof. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kote pounded a pair of nails into the wall, twisted some wire, and hung the mounting board firmly on the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Max points her thumb at the white cap covering her head of wires. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The monkey was unscrewing the clasp, and the President, his face a mask of grim exultation, was twisting wires together. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I string the fencing around the trunks of three small trees, for corner posts, and then back to the pine tree again where I fasten it with wire. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shook the sun out of his eyes and started removing the staples that held the wires in place on the chewed-up post. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before returning to Rabelais, let’s consider two hanging wires of equal cross section. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Oh, no, I don't think so. Her own secretary was suddenly taken ill and she wired to an agency for a substitute and they sent me." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Janie had wired to Orlando for money to put him away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then she stuck her foot on the bottom row of wire and pulled up the top row, making a wide space. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet all of these main doors are wired,” Calder said. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a wire ring off the gatepost and went inside. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Chain-link fences, topped by razor wire, had been erected into a long, sixteen-foot-high cage extending about a hundred yards into the lot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

With barbed wire, the men lash Emmett's body to a large wheel. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Balancing the small reed and wires in my left hand, I used the other to pull myself onto the tower’s first rung. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Next to me she laid out the Q-tips, a magnifying glass, the bottle of anesthetic, and the cauterizing instrument, which was a wooden handle with a six-inch-long thickish wire coming out of one end. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I slid under the barbed wire and ran. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Instantly there was a clatter outside the wire. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one of my shoelaces I tied the wire to the end of the cane pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if her head hurt, she closed her eyes behind the gold wire rims. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while the fish stopped beating at the wire and started circling slowly again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s your wire, Volts. Watch where you plug it.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first people to respond was Eleanor Roosevelt, who wired: “I regret extremely that Washington is to be deprived of hearing Marian Anderson, a great artist.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I gathered all that remained of my strength in order to break rank and throw myself onto the barbed wire. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barbed wire fence paralleled the rim, and he could see bits of belly hair the deer left on the barbed wire where their trails crossed the fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was still locked, but Leo sensed the mechanisms inside - wires running up the frame, connected to . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The strawberries in the field next door smelled so ripe that I would press my nose through a diamond of wire to sniff the fragrant fruit. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A wire looped around a hinge sawed steadily, but the women were talking so loudly they couldn’t hear it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment longer, he began to retrace his steps, keeping close to the bushes, until he came to the broken wire fence at the entrance to the allotment. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other two girls looked as uneasy as Hannah felt, out in the open, with the watchtowers spaced every hundred feet along the barbed wire fences staring down at them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly I disengage myself from the wire, step out of its reach, and continue uphill. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, he raised his assegai into the air for emphasis and accidentally hit the curtain wire above him, which made a sharp noise and caused the curtain to sway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

High above the crowds, above the barbed wire, above the trench, a single Turkish flag flutters in the breeze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you even think about—!” I yank the earpiece free and let it hang from its wire. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Soon all the embassies were ringed with barbed wire and machine guns and it was impossible to continue taking them by storm; but then there were other needs to keep her busy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing spoiling the idyllic picture was that the walls were topped with razor wire, and there were guards at the entrance to the house. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For their clothing, they use “the closet”—a wire spring standing upright, from a mattress stripped of its ticking. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The razor wire was threaded around a lock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Except that it was wired to a human brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I visualized our phone number clicking through the wires. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now the gates have sentries and there are ugly new floodlights mounted on metal posts above it, and barbed wire along the bottom and broken glass set in concrete along the top. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Z pulled on the light again and snapped the plastic of the fixture while the wires barely moved. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His rich voice rang out, a rippling stream of energy across the wire between their rooms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you need help? Like, a place to stay or something? I can wire you some money if you need it.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Six feet tall, arms like a gorilla, and ties her ponytail with wire. Probably uses it to strangle kids who cross her.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even more wires and cords dangled down from the metal scaffolding that stretched to the roof. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He worked on his knees, cutting away the wire at ground level, where it continued under the surface six inches deep to discourage coyotes and wolves from digging under it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he flashed under the wire in the darkness, Smith waved him down. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wire spectacles reflected the lantern’s glow, as if the flame burned inside him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lethal electric fences, however, use a continuous current that can make a person lock on to the wire as voltage causes involuntary muscle contractions, paralysis, and death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Warden had never quite figured out the vehicle’s wiring, and whoever plugged the bus into a power source at a new campground often got a nasty electrical shock. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The black-and-white mass near the wire screen remained intact. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She came into focus behind the wire weave of the screen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the way civilized man now encumbers his territory, not with great walls or stretches of wire but with a single well-placed device, a neat bundling with the workings of a mind. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dusty wire cables stuck out from the ceiling where there had once been large chandeliers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside is a dead butterfly—one that fluttered over the barbed wire and into our classroom a year ago. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Light comes in through slats netted over with chicken wire to keep out pigeons. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“He said he was gonna grab more wood and wire for his birdcages. But they found his car a few hours up the road. He had jumped in the James River,” Grandma said, flat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Du Barry gave each one of us a flower potted inside a wire birdcage, and instructed us to change its color and shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When we arrived, we discovered that the state had erected an enormous wire cage for us to sit in. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nudged a slew of tiny shimmering wires aside, inserting a buttonhole camera in the space. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Out in the plaza they were stringing electric-light wires to light the plaza for the fiesta. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His voice sounds small, threaded into a wire, barely recognizable through the holes of the receiver. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He helped her fasten it to the raft and run wires to the small rudder in the back. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We’d evolved this system where we called for particular favourite scenes to be played again—like, for instance, the moment the American jumps over the barbed wire on his bike in The Great Escape. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he received a wire from Swope, who had a pleasant surprise. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought you saw guys coming through the wire again?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derby had pulled political wires to get into the army at his age. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s another way in which our devices, perhaps less expectedly, cater to our deepest neurological wiring. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised she hasn’t got it locked up in padlocks and barbed wire. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He pointed up at a telephone wire where a big bird sat. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the bronze mirror, which he’d just finished wiring up to the Archimedes sphere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All around, as far as I can see, the fence is topped with curling razor wire. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

What happens here, at least, is that there’s a big room with a lot of wire cages in it, all different sizes for different kinds of poultry. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

On the bad side, the wire has reminded me of the oncoming lightning storm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Oshiro realized he could see quick, flickering movements in the trees outside the wire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Along what had been country lanes rich with berries, high wire fences and mile-long factories stretched, and the yellow smoke of progress hung over all, fighting the sea winds’ efforts to drive them off. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sea foam lapped around his ankles, rust and bits of wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stared out into the dark for several seconds, as if deciding something, then he shook his head and began marching out toward the wire. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, in fact, a laboratory, with a lot of equipment at one end that I didn’t understand at all then—bottles and shiny metal things and black boxes with wires trailing from them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the aurora borealis, meteor showers over tumbling black waves, night skies so clear the stars seemed within reach, hung from a ceiling by fishing wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The transmitter accepts coded electronic pulse information—words or data—coming from copper wire out of your home telephone or office computer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In Warsaw, Poland, they saw emaciated Jews living behind thick ghetto walls topped with barbed wire, and men, women, and children thrust into cattle cars, marked for the concentration camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The clocks were connected by wire to four flashlight batteries. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main gate was padlocked and topped with barbed wire. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A wire fence had been erected along the north side of the building; on it a sign warned: NO TRESPASSING—Property of the Westing estate. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if our family tree looks like a set of high-voltage wires strung across a field from one steel tower to the next. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys pulled down some trolley wires, stole spare tires from the rear of parked automobiles, and threw stones at the empty police stations. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It started after I had my jaw surgery, when I couldn’t talk because my mouth was wired shut. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

To say ‘Where?’ was bad enough, but to speak openly of the wires—that was intolerable. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the porch were two coffee cans, a red cup, the hammer, a pair of wire cutters, and one nail. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then I stared for a while at a traffic light, which was suspended elaborately on wires above the intersection. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It swung from a wire that was sixty-seven meters long; because its trajectory changed over time, he explained, it proved beyond all doubt that the earth rotated. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Z glanced toward Rashid, who was kneeling next to a grid of metal strips he was fastening together with wire and twine. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We burst outside and found ourselves in the prison yard, ringed by security towers and barbed wire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their mother might lose interest in her and Enrique, and the baby will make it harder to wire money and save so she can bring them north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t afford toilet paper, so on the wall next to the seat was a wire hanger with old newspaper on it for you to wipe. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Racetracks are ringed with poles that tell riders what fraction of a mile remains before the finish wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were just lucky to be wired to endure and overcome. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I pulled up on the wire to the best of my ability, but there wasn’t much slack to it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man and the woman and the books and the rain recede until there is only the radio and its tangle of wires. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A nurse came bustling in then to check all my tubes and wires. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I connected a couple of wires, and now Eagle was receiving electricity from Columbia. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made of diamond-mesh wire, attached to poles and scaffolding with a grille at the front and top. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not with just some wires and pieces of metal.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As a part of our preparation for war we were supposed to practice crawling under wires and climbing over wooden obstacles. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma comes around to the trunk of the pine tree, unfastens the wire that holds the fencing closed, and lets herself in. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is slight, perhaps five feet six inches tall, with closely cropped hair, wearing wire- rimmed spectacles. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I change shifts with the evening workers, he’s leaning against a wooden pole for a telephone wire. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s strapless, wired from the inside, pushing up the breasts, but it doesn’t quite fit Moira, it’s too large, so that one breast is plumped out and the other one isn’t. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at a perfect piano, it turned out, with its surfaces carefully dusted, its internal wires precisely tuned, its eighty-eight keys laid out in a flawless ribbon of black and white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since they were, I sprinted into the courts and kicked the wire gate closed behind me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In each situation his wires got triggered and he’d go off. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The weight of his body pulled down the bottom strand of wire, pinning it against the snowy ground and Creating a small gap in the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The wire dropped and he heard Guitar breaking into a fast run through the trees. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People were feverishly setting up wires all over the desert,” he said, “building the tower, building little huts in which to put cameras and house people at the time of the explosion.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to weed the garden and then you’re going to string up the new chicken wire Dad bought to keep the rabbits out.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first button primed the javelin to explode on impact, releasing razor wire that would tangle and shred an opponent’s wheels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Brian was playing the kit so well that I felt like we were telepathic; it was as if my right hand and his right foot were wired to one brain. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the crowd leaping and yelling, the two horses skimmed the far turn and straightened away for the run for the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fencing and razor wire would have had to be located or ordered. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He popped open a hatch on the sphere, teased out two wires, and connected them to his crossbar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was hanging by its neck in a thin wire a foot above my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He paused and reached ahead for the loosened wire, confirming that it was still there, still leading him out to the light. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before he even attaches any wire to the tree, Beetee unrolls yards and yards of the stuff. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before that bomb was dropped—right over here in the United States, what about the one hundred thousand loyal naturalized and native-born Japanese-American citizens who were herded into camps, behind barbed wire? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fishes for tools, a socket key, copper wire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Nichrome wire was lying in the charred remains of the cork, which had either slipped or been pushed out of place by the aborted exhaust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over my head I heard my mother, pulling things from the hangers, the swish of clothes, wire clinking together. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly Father stiffened, hooked up a loose wire, and stood back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wire goes to ground, the other to sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wires cut her palms, she gripped them so tight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

While we were laughing together by the side of the garden, Cory Cormier reached down and freed my shoelace from the grip of the chicken wire. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He pulls out the minuscule stopper, relieved that it remains attached to the bottle with a curl of wire. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My jaw was clenched shut around the leather muzzle they had strapped to the back of my head, and hands kept my head still as wires and monitors were hooked up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Cutie sighed, with the sound of wind humming through closely spaced wires. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Heavy, bulky, and fragile, with banks of switches carefully wired together, Purple was not a natural traveler. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Trainer Conway was a frayed wire, shouting at reporters to get the hell away from his horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late at night, when the only noises were snores and coughs and the mournful whistle-wailings of Santa Fe trains rumbling through the darkened town, he honed the wire against the cell’s concrete floor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d dozed and awakened in time to see the barbed wire and the rows of dark barracks blurred by blowing dust. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But during the war the Roxbury “wire” had carried a lot about things I was doing in Harlem, and now the New York name magic was on me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, the trip wire quivers, and the bell hidden beneath the third-floor table gives a single ring. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each letter came across the wire sharp and pointed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tubes and wiring herniate from the opening, all leading to a series of dials and gauges, connected to three ruptured vats, and behind it, a series of arrested pistons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We used a wrap of wire to make a loop at the top and bottom of the rocket and then slid it down the rod. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as it receded into the distance, growing smaller and smaller until it seemed to just float there, frozen in place, like a model plane hanging from a wire. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Pax slept fitfully through the afternoon, plagued by dreams in which his boy was tangled in smoking wires. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He knew he had more than enough horse under him to last to the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still birds slid by on moving wires, like unclaimed baggage at the airport. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time when a neighbor’s TV set broke, Dad opened the back and used a macaroni noodle to insulate some crossed wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You would never know they had such meager beginnings, these veils, bow ties, even wedding rings braided from machine wire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The fence was higher than her head and topped with spiky wire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dull, throbbing pain radiated through my temples, and my throat felt as though it was collared with barbed wire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She looked behind the computer and the wires were a chaos she couldn’t decipher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Next they marched us to a different room, where soldiers waited at tables with what looked like big oversized pencils with wires attached to them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rusting car hulks cast the only shadows across deserted yellow yards; in many places barbed wire had snapped between fence posts and now curled frozenly toward the sky. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My shaking hands slide the wire from the hilt, wind it around the arrow just above the feathers, and secure it with a knot picked up in training. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain hid a large bed and clothes on wire hangers lining the wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was what came through the wires that made the light, he finally understood, and he had no idea what that was. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I place the reel of wire on his lap. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a day the stronger men would go out to the bobbed wire and end any shamblers tangled up in it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After a minute, he stopped walking, faced us, and, newly energized, exclaimed that this incident — the assegai striking the wire — symbolized the clash between the culture of Africa and that of Europe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, one by one, we climbed into a little wire basket on the end of a cable, and were hoisted up into the helicopter. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one wire they had to worry about was still up there, snapping and humming in the breeze. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We come to a stop, and I can see that there’s no visible entrance—it’s blocked off by a tall chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since we move most swiftly through the trees, he wants Johanna and me to take the coil down through the jungle, unwinding the wire as we go. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the box I brought, I pull out face masks, goggles, pairs of work gloves, and metal wire brushes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, there are a lot of wounded. So I’ve sent a wire to Koch’s office for confirmation, but thought you might be able to solve the matter more quickly. Did you see him?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They drove across a cattle guard gate in the woven wire fence. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Since they had finished the brick wall—topped with broken glass and coils of barbed wire—I had not been able to visit Janina. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It was brand-new, twenty feet high, topped with razor wire. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In another cage a Gila monster with a skin like a beaded bag reared slowly up and clawed heavily and sluggishly at the wire. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lawson & Carlson says a storm’s coming. Big one. We’re going to be off the wrecks for a couple days. I want enough wire that you can work it on the sand.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

During the night we dug a hole underneath the wire wall and wiggled like snakes under it to the other side. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He indicated a new length of wire strung between two new posts. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Before settling down, I take my wire and set two twitch-up snares in the brush. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by wires. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“When you stayed at the lightning tree, and she and Johanna Mason took the coil of wire down to the water,” Caesar clarifies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was almost universal agreement that if War Admiral broke from a walk-up, he would lead from wire to wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fingering the small wire hook on the neatly whitewashed gate which led into a yard that was green, the teacher stopped talking. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passes me the bowl of milks and a whisk, then goes to grab the cooled cake from the wire rack next to the stove. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I went out, then I remembered and came back and sent the wire. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Ernest’s wire been dispatched than horrifying news arrived: the Athenia had been sunk by a German U-boat torpedo, in the war’s first attack on British shipping. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A mouse had eaten through the insulation of a wire leading to the thermostat. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The pasture’s nothing but mud, so you can’t tell a footprint from a mud puddle, but they found fabric from a shirt caught in the wire. They’re saying it was the Gantrys that killed them.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wire cut my hand, and I was stabbed three times by the barbs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse practically melded into the computer casing when he played, his entire neural system wired into his character. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A roll of chicken wire was the last item in Uncle Chester’s stock of supplies stored in the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I did not want to risk two wires for a spark. It would be dangerous to us if we had static while setting up." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dignified little man in a bright blue tuxedo climbed through the ropes and pulled down a microphone from the tangle of wires and blazing lights over the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thought raced like a rat new caught in a wire trap. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To my right, the zip line snaps, the wire cord whipping back and shattering the windows below me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He helped Heqet wire the box shut, then turned to stir up the fire. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I paced around in my hospital gown and socks, too tired and too wired to do anything but worry. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had removed a few small pieces of wire and silk that had failed to dissolve after my operation the previous February. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In a period of about five or six years, these telecom companies invested about $1 trillion in wiring the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a fallen branch, climbed a boulder under the utility pole, and tried to knock her off the wires. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In its simplest form, this consists of a number of wires; on each wire there are a number of beads that can be put in one of two positions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there Is no doubt about It, I’m wired. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the work area was a mess of tangled wires and pulsating fiber optics. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They rebuilt instruments, checked circuits, wiggled wires, dusted plugs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it; their fingers hook round the mesh. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby had no trouble at all going through the cattle wire fence, but she approached the hole cautiously. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was the shock of my life to see Maria Teresa, so handy with her needlepoint, using tweezers and little scissors to twist the fine wires together. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove, I pointed out the steady series of osprey nests, each at least ten feet in diameter, built along the tops of the high- tension wires. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad fixed me up with the electrical subcontractor on his construction project, and right away I found myself wiring hotel rooms. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My leg gets caught on a wire as I climb over a fence, cutting me sharp. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Boomer and I duck beneath the wire and weave between the trunks, keeping clear of the patches of poison oak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then she turned to me: “You didn’t say anything about this. You didn’t say we had to get past barbed wire!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the ancient electrical wiring was as likely as before to burn the house down. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit, wired from the journey, was bucking and kicking out behind, so they kept their distance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't use the heater itself for anything because the RTG provides all the heat I need, so I liberated the fan and wired it into a power line near the airlock. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire and disappeared into the living room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boys in front of us stood where the path met the silver wire marking East River’s boundaries. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to put a post through the attic to attach the wires,” he says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were cleaning the bits of turf out of it with wire brushes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were no children on the high wires, and all the market stalls were bare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The lower part of the fence was safe to touch, although the top wire buzzed and popped with electricity. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what would the rats want with such a long piece of wire? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A deep trench has been gouged into the soil immediately in front of the double rows of barbed wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a generator somewhere, and plenty of juice running through the wires. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the wiring in the house shorted. Or maybe someone left the stove on.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the wire transfers in Puglisi’s account traced back to The New Jersey Clarion. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

That night, after a particularly exhausting training session, I felt too wired to sleep, and I couldn’t explain why. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were other hooks, leader wires and weights in the kit, besides a whole other kit. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Good to go, thought Foaly, busy wiring the last dish on a watchtower. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I sigh with relief when a jogger trots past with a smartphone strapped to her arm and wires leading up to the buds in her ears. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

That was how they’d been wired: it was all or nothing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The man closed the door behind them and hooked a wire over a nail to keep it shut. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what he was trying to do with the knife and the wire and he’s incapable of explaining. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit crossed under the wire, finishing second by slightly more than two lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a week, he will hear “Gogol” over the wires, see it typed on a screen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other Jews were relocated behind thick walls and barbed wire in overcrowded city ghettos, created in large cities such as Warsaw and Lodz. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Had they come over the common, among the shining wires, through the thunderstorm, the culverts on the great river, to die at the claws of General Woundwort? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped the nearest manikin’s neck, where loose copper wires sprouted from underneath its breastplate. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For family visits, inmates and visitors had to be on opposite sides of the mesh interior wall; they spoke to one another through the wires of the mesh. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I look up at Caleb, whose eyes are alight with knowledge, like there’s a live wire running through each of them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

With the pliers, they plucked the staples holding the wire to the post. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On top of the fence Toby finally managed to get his boxy legs free of the barbed wire. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the big wire fork that had a wooden handle, he pulled the ham half out of the water and turned it over. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The telephones, their wires still severed, were silent. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then attaches a wire to the electrode and switches on the heart monitor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thieves and I turn to see a thin man appear from nowhere, one who looks like he is made all of wire. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then it would be passed through the one just smaller, and so through every hole in turn, growing longer and slimmer all the time, until it changed from an ingot into wire. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I unfasten the wire next to the pine tree, legs like rubber, hardly holding me up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clicked a few dials and pulled some wires, trying to pretend that Hygeia was just one large, dangerous Nintendo game system. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The compound walls, topped by coiled electric wires, were so high I could not see the cars driving by on our street. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pops the hood, fiddles with some wires, then pulls a toolbox from the trunk. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He put the word on the wire for me to come over to his place: I had never been there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carmine is quiet, gaping at the buildings and wires and people outside the window, after hundreds of miles of fields and trees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There should have been silks fluttering, music in the air, and laughter drifting down from the children on their high wires. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He held on with his legs, trying to ignore the pain and sticky blood on his hands as he redid the serpent’s wiring. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was very small, and at the moment you could see plumbing and wires hanging out of the walls. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By manipulating the two pegs and the tension on the wire between them, he could obviously hear a response to his own message. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They have already suffered heavily when they reach the remnants of the barbed wire entanglements. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned his whole weight into it and almost crashed to the floor as more wire came free. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“They’re fine. Little chunks of food keep getting stuck between the wires and brackets. But it’s okay.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gliding above them were multicolored jellyfish the size of trash cans, each with hundreds of tentacles that looked like silky barbed wire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every night Mami pulls open the sofa and makes the bed, tucking the sheets into the wire frame that scratches her hands. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He made a row of bold vertical stripes topped with thin loops, like bars and razor wire. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The cord was cut through, and the metal wires inside the cord were split apart at the cut section. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From there it would go by wire to Washington. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all stop when they get to the line of elm trees with the single strand of barbed wire stretching between them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

John did a balancing act on the wire to get on Belle. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I attached a hook to a wire leader, which I tied to a line. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It goes well. I have learned to draw wire and Sata is teaching me to solder.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They bought him glasses with rectangular wire rims and caked his hair with endless product so that he had a kind of curly, mussy 'do like the coolest kids at school. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I managed to sneak beneath the wire of his expectations, but we worried about my brother, who was seen as the family's last hope. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I put them around their small necks and laced the ends together with bailing wire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the back door h.id been latched, she’d have gone straight through screen wire. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was completely bandaged from head to foot, hooked up to all kinds of machines, with tubes and wires everywhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We followed behind him until we reached a barbed wire fence. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He said my story would appear in newspapers everywhere just as I had written it because it was on the Associated Press wire. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smooth wires that connected each post had snapped and were lying on the ground below. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Max chases the ball while Helena waits, her nose poking through, and when he rolls the ball beneath the wire, I see the crumpled paper slip from her hand to his. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then we came to a barbed wire fence, which was tilted and rusted, the wire itself yanked all over the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take a few hours to wire it up, but that's hardly a concern. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's only a pile of metal welded together with some wiring inside, destined for rust and decay. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you braid the cords with the twine and any wire Z and Frankie get, it might be strong enough to lower Kaitlin down after we finish with the stretcher.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Instead he was just another repeat offender in the middle of the desert, in the middle of nowhere, behind rows of razor wire that glinted and gleamed in the sun like jagged teeth. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollux knows details that would lead to disaster for a newcomer, like which offshoots might require gas masks or have live wires or rats the size of beavers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We agree on a plan, slip out through the wire and then divide and creep forward separately. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of something silvery—it looked like wire—was tangled around one of his legs; the other end of it was caught in the fence. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now he took off the radio’s back cover, revealing a tangle of tubes and wires. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he said, the agents shoved him in a special chair, attached wires to his body, and put a black hood over his head and a device like a catcher’s mask over his face. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Upon the low table beside it lay a stone hammering block and a coil of gold wire. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They were extra careful with the barbed wire that they installed on the top and bottom of the fence, wire that could easily tear them open. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His department is getting dozens of phone calls from magazines, and wire services, and TV producers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least not yet. We also had to immobilize his jaw so that the fracture would heal, so it’s wired shut.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I feel like I am back in the aptitude test room, with the mirrors all around me and the wires connected to my forehead. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Elegant chairs of wire filigree sat on rotating platforms. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The golden monkey leapt for Father MacPhail, but not to attack: he scrambled up and over the man’s shoulders to reach the complex heart of the wires and the pipe work, the resonating chamber. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence on the other end of the wire, followed by an exclamation . . . then a quick squawk as the connection was broken. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Z looked up at the colorful wires snaking down from the ceiling and coughed. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I sensed the beam of her flashlight up my nose, and then slowly she inserted the red-hot wire into my nasal cavity. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had a bottle they passed between them, and Leroy staggered when he walked down the old barbed-wire fence, gathering tumbleweed tangled in the bottom wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beck held a coil of metal wire in one hand and a pair of work gloves in the other. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered his grinning that way again yesterday, and I closed my eyes for a moment, then went over and stood near the wire fence behind the plate. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

From up here, Tally could see the perimeter wire clearly, stretching around the buildings in an almost perfect square. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She clipped the wires to the lemons by attaching one end to a nail on one lemon and the other end to a penny on the next lemon. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Migrants describe being locked up by police officers until a relative in the United States can wire the kidnapper’s fee and buy their freedom. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This was a little more challenging because I had to dig down to bury the bottom of the chicken wire to keep out hungry diggers like skunks and such. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He crimped the wire with his pliers and ripped off a sleeve of insulation, revealing the shining copper core. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But there is no open here, only razor wire and electric fences, where all our truths are trapped. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The boy pulled his fingers away from the wire mesh and began to suck on them to stop the throbbing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry connected the antenna wire, plugged the radio in, and fiddled with the knobs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window at the starry night, at the high-tension wires and the osprey nests, and I thought over and over again about what I could have said back to Kerri Gardner. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed the hill to the barn, crawled between the fence wires, and crossed the field. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There were strong twisted wires running around the tree. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fumbled with the rusty wire on the back of the horse picture, twisting it back in place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I can already feel the silence like a wall, barbed wire crawling up my legs to trap me where I stand. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“No, not coming through the wire,” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clocks were supposed to be lit from the inside, but the wiring had long ago stopped working. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Discarded pieces of zinc, chicken wire, cardboard, torn sheets that Mami had given us, and dried palm fronds formed the walls of our very own barrio under the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He knelt by the roaring footlocker and put a wire contraption against his head. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plenty of service wiring, but it takes a long time to get to it.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Josiah taught him to watch for loose strands of wire and breaks in the fence; he taught Tayo how to mend them before any livestock strayed off reservation land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leo’s gold sphere was sitting on top of its sawed-open head, picking through its gears and wires like it was scooping out a pumpkin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I got a wire: "Back on Monday." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m in the high-tension wires traveling through the neighborhood. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

By the prison system wire, I heard that Shorty also was up for parole. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Davey Cantor kick nervously at the wire screen behind home plate, then put his hands into the pockets of his dungarees. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Through the wire I heard gunfire, screams, shouts, then a big crack sound, and the phone went dead. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled Leo down a side corridor, leaped over a trip wire, then stumbled to a halt in front of a pit twenty feet across. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When a company puts out its earnings, one of the first things it does is hand it to the wires—Reuters, Dow Jones, and Bloomberg—for distribution. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She touched the end of the strip to a damp sponge, then, using the thumb and first two fingers of each hand as a rolling machine, she wound the paper on the wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled deeper into the duct, jerking more wire from its aluminum staples. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad finally shelled out for central air-conditioning, now that he worked at home, and it was too easy to stay inside and comfortable rather than go and help Charlie wire the tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He finished off the beer he was drinking, snipped the can open with his wire cutters, hammered it flat, and nailed it over the hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could easily bring the Hab's microwave into the rover and wire it in, but the energy required to cook ten potatoes a day would actually cut into my driving distance. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tripped on the wires, and he caught her and boosted her into the passageway. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she’d calculated, they were coming down right in the middle of the wire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hanging over the front of the counter, a wire rack holds all the best candies. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His hand tangled in something solid—the copper wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hovering over the map was a little cutout of a Mercury capsule, suspended on a wire. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He accelerated away and cruised under the wire all alone, breaking the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then quickly she heated up the wire and pulled it out of the flame. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Still holding the DS against the door, he pressed the wire into the socket and slipped the earphones over his head. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The shortstop was still the one to watch—he looked like he was stitched together with live wires, gaze steady to the play. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was bare-headed and his fair hair was encircled with a very thin band of gold, hardly thicker than a wire. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

International journalists rushed to their Teletypes and flooded the wires, and by the next morning newspapers around the world carried rapturous headlines. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just after sunrise, Rat said, she came trooping in through the wire, tired-looking but cheerful as she dropped her gear and gave Mark Fossie a brisk hug. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax was a classic Eskimo beauty, small of bone and delicately wired with strong muscles. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like some awful torture table, with these metal stirrups sticking up in mid-air at one end and all sorts of instruments and wires and tubes I couldn't make out properly at the other. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’m so tired, so wired, and so unable to keep my mind on anything but Peeta since I’ve seen the roses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She finished the shirt and put it on a wire hanger alongside the others. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She pointed out starlings perched on the telephone wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With only some wire mesh between the two men, their shouting battle raged for five minutes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barbed wire edges this barren, infinite wilderness, just a line of stitching along a gray tea towel. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Or else there will be hundreds of yards of wire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In a trance, Bloom bent between barbed wire strands into the first field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susan went on to say that Jon had flipped her off the wires with a branch and carried her home in his pocket, thinking her dead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He could pull the sections of wire together and twist the strands into place, and then ride like hell off the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They set fires in mailboxes, cut telephone wires, and vandalized train cars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So incredibly close that when he looked high up on the top edge of her side he could see a single light bulb swinging on the end of a wire. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed up to the back and walked along the edge of it like it was a high wire. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I learned to hunt small with wires, and bigger with that gun. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then he fell again and crawled forward, trailing the wire through the grass with the broken peg snickering behind it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bench beside the apprentice lay a coil of wire, finished and ready for its last annealing. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It nauseated him to see Harley’s body jerking and twitching in the sagging barbed wire, with hands and knives so greedy for human flesh. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And there were words: words in the language that the conductor couldn’t process, words the Cardinals couldn’t bear, words the wires couldn’t transfer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Ladies’ arms draped with pocketbooks and men’s arms draped with coats formed a barrier as difficult to get through as barbed wire. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sunlight streamed through steel chicken wire on the fourth side. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In Berlin, Adolf Hitler wired his congratulations to Schmeling and sent his wife flowers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As she watched, he fluttered to the top wire of the fence, where he perched nervously for a moment. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the stools, wire mesh ran from a small ledge up to a ceiling twelve feet high. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They helped us find books they thought we’d like, and we filled up the wire baskets on our bicycles and pedaled home right down the middle of the sidewalks, as if we owned the place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With wire he securely tied some rafters across the top of the posts then we put the juniper branch roof on the platform. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is when I notice he’s holding a knife, one Peeta was carrying earlier, I think, which is wrapped loosely in wire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blast proved the feasibility of a controlled thermonuclear device so decisively that Teller claimed paternity immediately, wiring back to Los Alamos, “It’s a boy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But the bare portion of the wire wasn’t black or even singed, and the positive lead's insulation wasn't melted at all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park’s body, lying on damp ground atop the bottom strand of wire, became that device. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

What she could possibly do with her knowledge of the intake valve, the Phillips screwdriver, the temperature cutoff, the ground wire, she did not know. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any trip wires, so probably there weren’t any explosives. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

One of the apprentices stood there drawing wire, his shoulder muscles bunched with the effort of pulling a greased, reed-slim ingot through a hole just too small for it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He got the antenna wire to reach to the kitchen window, and he plugged the set in there so they could hear the music in the yard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Boomer breaks into a sprint when we cross under the barbed wire. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, they approached the intersection for the Black Cat restaurant, and James stood up to pull the bell wire. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was appallingly little and flimsy—an open cockpit biplane with wooden struts, tied with piano wire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having started my career as a wire service reporter with United Press International, I have enormous sympathy with wire service reporters and the pressures, both professional and financial, under which they toil. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

So Tjaden has rigged up the lid of a boot-polish tin with a piece of wire over the lighted stump of a candle. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my work was done, I read the stories on the wire services. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike telegraphs, which needed wires and cables, radio messages traveled through the air. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Okay, levity over. Are you going to wire me?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was so humid that green moss balls grew on the electrical wires by the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A cased sausage hung from a wire beside the binnacle; the cot was neatly made up. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Felicia’s hair springs from her head like electric wires, and she swings her arms in great arcs, as if her chaos had a rhythm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d expected to see something whose workings he could understand—a wheel turning, a spark being struck, some wires that led from one point to another. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A small white earpiece that attaches to my collar by a wire. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He told me to fetch him his wire cutters, a hammer, and some roofing nails. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a table in the middle of the floor, under a lightbulb that hung from a wire. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once started, he went on and on—boomingly. “. . . five hundred and sixty thousand square Kilometers, divided into four distinct Sub-Reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had clamped the jaws of the shrimp harvester on to a single wire in the fence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the wire passed overhead, he pulled back, lifting the horse’s head up and to the left as Seabiscuit’s head bobbed forward. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull, but it is wired down tightly. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was heavy wire, with holes about the size of an acorn, and it was set in a steel frame. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But you could hear, if you and your neighbor got in the corners of the cages nearest each other and spoke out through the wire front. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He reached behind the shine stand and brought out a gallon lard can with wires looped through holes in each side to make a handle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas felt a wire of nervousness tighten inside him, pinching his gut. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Just look at those smiling morons! If only all of those wires would snap!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer held his breath, expecting to go under, but the wire stopped sinking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t have any bailing wire in those days, and he could chew through anything else before you could turn your back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s ultra-modern science technology here, too, including an EEG cap that is wireless, meaning that it can send signals without being hooked up to wires. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She couldn’t move. The electricity froze her to the wires.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Reverend Abbott, when he had been at the church the summer before, had put barbed wire on the pipe to keep us from climbing it to get balls that went up there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This time when he tried to cross, his shoe grazed the wire and he plummeted to the ground, and that was how my father immigrated to Holland. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the colt flashed under the wire, Smith looked down at his hand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a bra with stiff wire along its base in order to lift them up. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He rode miles across dry lake flats and over rocky cerros until he came to a high fence of heavy-gauge steel mesh with three strands of barbed wire across the top. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her head scarf snagged on a wire and was torn away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's only copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Appelplatz, surrounded by electrified barbed wire, thousands of Jews, anguish on their faces, gathered in silence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ancient asbestos fibers and mouse grit puffed up around him as the wire tore loose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The back doors were opened again, and through the wire wall of the cage I saw that we had come to a building, very modern, of white cement and glass. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Iceman straightened out and rode for the wire, his face down. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I had to climb the old-fashioned way, holding down the barbed wire for each other as we crawled over the top. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Pollard and Seabiscuit were alone again, burning over the track, Kayak spinning off behind, the wire crossing overhead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whites were made of plaster, wire, and paint. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He untangled the wires of the flapping birds and repainted the chipped toys. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He clawed again for the copper and looped the wiring around his hand to counteract its slickness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He returned regularly to feed wire behind the coins stacked up inside, hook the paper, and fill his palms with change. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Or that someone was just here, right before Boomer and I slipped under the barbed wire. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Next take from your kit the disk-shaped magnet, a wire, a screw, and your battery.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So Mr. Odom showed us how to staple chicken wire to wood and how to screw on hinges for a door, and before long, we had a trap perfect for catching a dog. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby walked closer, and then she could see it was not wire after all, but a length of silver-colored string, probably left over from a Christmas package. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its windows were bolted shut and covered with wire and dirt, its gray carpet bunched in ripples from decades of foot traffic. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My mom had had it all reinforced a year ago, after she discovered that one of the night guards was snipping away bits of wire to sell in the scrap metal markets. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, it was on the wire that the Harlem narcotics squad had me on its special list. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But mine works on a different operating system from other people’s. And my wiring’s different too.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many of us there are, for example, or how many of us aren’t wired for simulations.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he did, colleagues thought he seemed jumpy, wired, unfocused. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He edged up a little as the wire came, but he was too late. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Bertha telling me to be careful and don’t stick my fingers through the chicken wire and stuff like that. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They are little and black and don’t have wires to connect to anything. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Folks were wound tighter than a roll of chicken wire lately. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were to blow up the steel towers carrying high-tension wires to the plant to cut off the power supply. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Ways in've been wired off or walled up by brambles and farmers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They look that way when you don’t know much about them—all of those tubes and wires and valves—but mostly the combustion engine hasn’t changed that much since it was invented. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When he was tired, or when he waited at some high wire gate, hoping his father would pass in the line, he would read the big-lettered words first and then practice the small-lettered words. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That week, a man put chicken wire around his garden, five feet high, complete with a little gate and padlock. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the pointed finger toward a small dark shape sliding down the steel wire. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But it was made of heavy wire with a tough plastic coating, and though he kept gnawing for half an hour, it was too much for his teeth. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Julia was making a tinfoil UFO that she said would fly up and down the street on an invisible wire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A toddler is playing with it, knocking beads together, chasing them along the loops and waves of colorful wires. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tell him he’s my dog now, and I’m not never going to let anybody hurt him again ever, and then I leave, wiring that fence good. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cairo and again in Accra, the American press wire services reached me with trans-Atlantic calls, asking whom did I favor, Johnson—or Goldwater? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thorns and briars were as tough as wire and as clinging as claws. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight he could see Harley’s body hanging from the fence, where they had tangled it upright between strands of barbed wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day, die Laughing Man continued to stand lashed to the tree with barbed wire, the Dufarges decomposing at his feet. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The set was an annual publication, like the World Almanac, and each is full of diagrams of motors, wiring systems, pumps, silos, balers, and so on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She holds a bunch of leaves in one hand, twists the wire around the stem—one-two—hides the wire with ribbon and hot-glues the acorns into place. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’d head down to the wire and stare out at the darkness, out where the war was, and think up ways to make Bobby Jorgenson feel exactly what I felt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the exposition’s eight-foot fence and its two tiers of barbed wire, there was tumult. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘Those cords have cut me like wires; but my feet are getting warm again. I could stagger on now. What about you, Merry?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“If that is true, then I don’t want to wait. I'll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in the flames.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then what seemed to be the film’s entire cast was up on the wires. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire hadn’t reported him dead, or living somewhere else, but none seemed to know where he was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scrunch up the earpiece wire protectively in my fist and fling the head shackle back in his face with my free hand, but he catches it easily. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why I lock it anyway. You could get in with a piece of bailing wire. And who’d want to get in anyway?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The best thing he could find was a length of rusty wire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

James was intent on watching a row of black birds huddled on a wire overhead and didn’t answer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s empty now, a drop cloth on the floor, a tangle of wires poking out of the center of the ceiling. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taken by surprise, he lost his balance and fell, remembered the trip wire, and tried to twist his body to avoid it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was so engrossed in the wiring that he didn’t notice the landing party was back until Percy said, ‘Hey, man. Gelato.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No matter what it was, whether it was the obstacle course or crawling under barbed wire while real bullets were fired over us, we Navajos were just about the best. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A coil of insulated electrical wire was looped over one shoulder. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tore my jeans on barbed wire and got muddier still. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying to make a fruit battery out of lemons, nails, wires, and pennies. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A lone wire led to a socket installed in the middle of our ceiling. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"The wire must reach a high temperature. If you short power through it, that will be sufficient." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By making sure that all workouts ended at the finish line, Smith taught Seabiscuit that he needed to be ahead of other horses by the time he crossed the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Covering his ears with his hands, he bolted to the corner of the garage, grabbed the broom, and swung with all his might at my friend who was perched on the wire. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the thickness of the barbed wire separated my life in hell from their lives of freedom, but we might as well have been on separate planets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

While Snake dealt with the alarm, Fox and Eagle prepared to neutralize the trip wire, unclipping an electronic circuit board and a variety of tools from their belts. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I called him so many times that I finally saw him, but when he came he was covered with dried blood and rags, dragging streamers of barbed wire across the waxed parquet floors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoes were bound up with wire and coated with roadtar and he sat there in silence, bent over in his rags. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he runs the wire from the negative side of the battery to the head of the screw, both the screw and the magnet start to spin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I still have to wire the receiver and prime the charges. Ten more minutes at least.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A team of scientists climbed the tower and began attaching wires and detonators all over the bomb’s surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All new wiring,” he goes, counting on his fingers. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the ear pads is dangling from wires, and the casing is cracked. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The guts of the light—they were really wires—led from the globe across the table, vanishing into the jumble of machines. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax had hated the dark electrical scent coming off the wire between the fan and the wall. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Tiny wires poked Chess’s fingers, but as far as he could tell, Emma had handed him nothing but junk. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

See if there’s any way I can put some fence wire over the top of the pen to keep out the shepherd. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire was cold and it creaked in the staples. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rain and wind paused, and an acrid smell like burning wire filled the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I beg to present you the city of Savannah as a Christmas gift,” Sherman wired the President. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slashed the wire free with the serrated back of his work knife. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She told Jim: “I’m wired to settle in wherever we move and make a life for you and the family. But I still want a one- mile radius. I’m not going to do another Alpharetta.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The yams, some bubbling with syrup, lay on a wire rack above glowing coals that leaped to low blue flame when struck by the draft of air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at him, he was looking out toward the wire again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veil makes it look as if she were peering down at him through a wire screen. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twice he caught his claws in the overhead wire mesh, screeching wildly, letting go, and trying hopelessly again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Amar knows that my father taught me how to start a car with just the wires when I was younger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks to impede the passage of the trains that began to open their path with machine-gun fire, and they cut telegraph and telephone wires. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, she got dark, stood as on a wire, and made her way around the desk. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Two holes had been punched in each end and the ends were laced together with bailing wire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squinted into the dim space, trying to focus on the frayed wire. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Good heavens! What have they done to him? He’s about ten feet tall and thin as a wire!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found Dad in the field, lighting a fire to burn the insulation from a tangle of copper wires. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With Pollard sitting motionless in the saddle, they reeled off rapid fractions, clipping under the wire after six furlongs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so excited that my flower exploded, the petals bursting through the wires like thick tentacles, knocking my sisters' cages to the floor, and stretching between us like an octopus creature. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it makes any difference how the wire’s placed, or if this is merely to add to the speculation of the audience. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only way the van’s atmosphere could have electrified faster was if I had thrown a live wire into a full bathtub. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The wire of the streets, when it wants to, is something like Western Union with the F.B.I. for messengers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wreckage of buildings strewn over the landscape and skeins of wire from the roadside poles garbled like knitting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“What about the wires in the ceiling? It’s not like they’re being used for electricity right now.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A world so different from our square rooms, with iron bars on every window, and lines of barbed wire that pierce our sky. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The sound was coming from among the cars parked behind the wire fence with their dazzling headlights on. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Six guards in steel helmets wait inside razor wire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before I could think of what to say, Mama picked up florist wire, kitchen shears, and a bucket of pink tea roses and scooted past me. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded like his jaw had been wired shut. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He should have known enough to fence that swamp off before this, he said, with an electric wire. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ash moving over the road and the sagging hands of blind wire strung from the blackened lightpoles whining thinly in the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

This time the guards brought ham sandwiches to the cages and then stuffed them through the holes in the wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He could no longer recall what the sky looked like through hexagons of cage wire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It contained a scrolled wire cage, in which sat a gorgeous parrot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It is easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can already picture metal and wires, making marks, shapes against the sky. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The whole place is wired for surround sound. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Between the wheels is a row of ports with wires connected to all different parts. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Fumbling with the bag, he pulled out three flat jewelry cards—each gray plastic, covered in gray fuzz on one side, with a small charm wired in place. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. van Heerden painted them with poison and put them under little wire baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately at this moment Monsieur Duval was doing a very difficult dance on the wire overhead. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had fenced off the parallel faces of each dee with a grid of fine tungsten wires to prevent the electrical field from impinging within the dees while allowing the particle beam to pass through. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His words were exactly what made me worry, as I wandered the ghetto beneath moonlight instead of streetlights because the electricity was out, back to the loose place in the barbed wire fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s where the detector is, behind all that wiring. To see the Shadows, you have to be linked up to some electrodes. Like for measuring brain waves.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was made of wire, but provided food, and the other was made with snuggly cloth, but didn’t offer any food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two men hold a roll and the others spool off the barbed wire. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I remember the wire and how important it was to him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess there must of been a short circuit or something in the wiring,” Buddy Gabaldon mumbled lamely. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an oblong wire cage with a handle on top for carrying it by. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The lowest wire was pretty close to the ground. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In earlier chapters, we considered various wires of the cage in isolation; here, we put the pieces together, step back, and view the cage in its entirety. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Above the table were shelves full of bottles of seeds, and boxes of string, wire, and various kinds of powders. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how something that starts off so invisible turns into metal, bolts, and wires, connecting point A to point B. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But they saw what I was doing, what a tight wire I was walking, and they sat biting their nails and let me win that battle on my own. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The welfare office was in a brick building with wire covering the windows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Somkit took two more wires with little metal clamps on the ends that looked like tiny bird beaks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He drove south from King City over the county road, through the gathering forces of spring, and the meadowlarks flew ahead, bubbling melody from the fence wires. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to Tina they had two boys, Ronny and Bobby, who appeared very close in age and had teeth covered in a network of flashing silver wires. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

By noon the chief of admissions, Horace Tucker, wired a message to fair headquarters, “The Paris record is broken to smithereens, and the people are still coming.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On the other side, she actually made a go of helping me hold up the wire for Tommy. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One light from the ceiling was still hanging down by a wire, dickering and swinging back and forth, and every once in a while I could see stuff inside. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t hard to identify my handiwork of the prior workday: my staples were crooked, catching the wire in a haphazard but adequate way to hold it to the posts. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He handed Somkit a stack of tin sheets and a bundle of short copper wires. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Her arms were bound tightly behind her back, with wire it looked like, so she really was lying flat on her face more than the others, who were resting on their forearms. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It makes no sense—how instantly bloodied he is—until we see the barbs sticking from the wire that encases him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Reaching over, I removed a bent piece of wire that locked the machine’s spinning wheel in place. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jason and I are looking at some big plastic balls in a wire bin on the sidewalk by the front doors. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Working methodically—and filming everything with movie cameras—the Soviets and East Germans finally reached the halfway point of the tunnel, where Harvey had set up a barrier of barbed wire and sandbags. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I manage to get a grip and slowly inch my way out on a limb that hangs above the barbed wire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They all seemed to be wired together, pointing in the same direction and connected to a single bronze lever on the side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Except the office, where the telephone was off the hook, and the wires cut, same as in the kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tipped, spread her flight feathers like fingers, and braced herself against two wires. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were vent pipes in the walls covered with wire mesh and there were drains in the floor. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He lay across the wire, torn and bloody, with closed eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is where, days before, the skip tracers had tried to slip through the camp’s wire fences and Hayes had “taken care” of them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well... most demigods are. Or dyslexic. Just being a demigod means that our brains are wired differently. Like you—you said you had trouble reading.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I got on my bike, I sat on the wire to keep the skirt from tangling in the greasy chain, but then the front popped up and I could not see over the top. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I keep the loops of wire a few feet to my left as a guide as I run but take great care not to touch them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her pay had been increased to fifteen a week when she went on a wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A system check from the rover showed I had done the wiring correctly. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They often carried steel reinforcing rods to older workmen who tied them together with twine or wire as the dam rose from the riverbed in a checkerboard pattern of concrete blocks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She then used that to work out what kind of Enigma wiring would produce those results. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mosca had taken the toolbox away from Victor before he left, but the detective always had a bit of wire and some other useful items in the hollow heel of one of his shoes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We heard a little sawing, singing sound as a file began to slice through screen wire. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One end of wire Werner crimps around a shorn pipe standing diagonally up from the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In a stumbling, broken run, the prisoner threw himself on the high-voltage electric barbed wire that lined the fence. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They surrounded the cages with electrified wire, powered by a battery, to discourage leopards from trying to eat the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time there was a fine steel wire of truthfulness in him that cut off the heads of fast-traveling lies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tar had been placed upstairs in a wire cage, and amazingly, she was sleeping soundly. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We finished the weeding and planted the chicken wire. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Ah, here is what we need. About fifteen years ago hatboxes were made like this. You skewered through the hat with a hatpin on to this hump of wire netting.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they waited for their cousin to wire money, Lefty tried to console the doctor and finally convinced him to come with them to Detroit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Inside Vogel's bomb, the full current of the ship's internal lighting system flowed through a thin, exposed wire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Jessie gathered four lemons and six pieces of wire that were connected on each side to small alligator clips. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A gas stove came into the house and electric wires and a telephone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He despised both his mother and his father for selfishly breeding in a labor camp, for producing offspring doomed to die behind barbed wire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The news ran through the ship like an electric wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I whisper, "My dad's poking around with these wires that are hooked to the machine I found in the basement. He's testing the electrical parts of my electric blanket control." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two bikers had stretched a length of cheese wire between them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The original is Georgian and made of wired glass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The ridiculous story might have lived out a brief life in Columbia had the paper not put it out on the national wire, thinking it was the scoop of the season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were standing near the wire screen, forming a tight circle around Mr. Galanter. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If by some magic the Specials hadn’t noticed the escape so far, the riderless boards had tripped the wire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I hit with nothing but the language whispered between circuits and wire, the language that can bring people to their knees. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From underneath the cap, a ponytail made of electric wiring hangs out. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We wore makeshift wire masks to protect our eyes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it like the electric wires that one sometimes heard in the city? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hephaestus cabin had set up traps around the entrance to the Labyrinth—razor wire, pits filled with pots of Greek fire, rows of sharpened sticks to deflect a charge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He went down to the rocket field in the early morning and yelled in through the wire fence at the men in uniform that he wanted to go to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The finish photo captured the scene: a dense cluster of horses stretched out for the wire, ears flat and lips peeled back in extreme effort. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of each landing there was a gaslight fixture that was no longer being used now that the building was wired for electricity. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Were Kemmerich able to make any use of the boots, then Müller would rather go bare-foot over barbed wire than scheme how to get hold of them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something robotic about them, as if their brains had been scooped out and replaced with wires. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The building wasn’t very tall, and Tally would bounce in her jacket if she fell, but the moment her feet touched the ground, the wire would sound an alarm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“When I’m finished grounding these ridiculous contraptions, I’ll be heading upstairs with my wire cutters. Mummy wants me to snip the power cables to all those senseless video games.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The unfrosted light bulb overhead was swinging crazily on its loose wire, and the jumbled black shadows kept swirling and bobbing chaotically, so that the entire tent seemed to be reeling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lightbulbs inside wire cages lined the walls every ten feet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The wiring in her mind has been snapped in vital places, she fears, and now the strangest things have been happening. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was examining the fence and the way the wire was buried underground so animals could not crawl or dig under it, when from the corner of his eye he saw something move. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She broke off, because Roy Baty had appeared, abruptly throwing the door of the apartment open and entering; a trail of wire rustled after him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hung his head and walked away behind the wire screen. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A barbed wire fence ran from the gate in either direction. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

With spit, he wipes clean the length of the wire and coils it a hundred times around the base of the pipe, making a new tuning coil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had to roll the pot in the grass and climb halfway in with a wire brush to loosen the clinging soap. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Caden,” says Carlyle carefully, like he’s trying to figure out whether to cut the yellow or the blue wire on a bomb. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They called me spider legs, skeleton girl, pipe cleaner, two-by-four, bony butt, stick woman, bean pole, and giraffe, and they said I could stay dry in the rain by standing under a telephone wire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My arms go around her, the wires propping up her breasts dig into my chest. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Switch out the ancient columns and ruined temples for cows and barbed wire, and Leo would’ve felt right at home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed looking at the countryside, all colored for me by contrast with Haiti’s—the electric power wires, the irrigated fields. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Just once, before she left this dump, she’d like to pull a wire inside that machine. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

That tail scratched like barbed wire as it flicked across my winter-frozen face. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

What’s more, they had gone a step further, using the messages to figure out how the Enigma rotors were wired up. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Davey Cantor, one of the boys who acted as a replacement if a first-stringer had to leave the game, was standing near the wire screen behind home plate. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She returned to the doorway holding a crude, narrow box made of splintered wood, wire, and long, jutting nails. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But they’ll be on his back from Washington, wires hot with messages: attack, attack. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the top step and using the cabin top as a table, he carefully untied the wire twist-tie at the top and opened the bag. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess we have to expect this too,” he said, pulling some of the hairs loose from the wire and letting them blow away in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We went over to my hootch, picked up our gear, and then moved through the night down to the wire. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These the girls the mayor wired me about?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The wire of our Nation of Islam brought all Muslims the joyful news that the Arizona climate did vastly relieve the Messenger’s suffering. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw something furry scurrying just outside the wire. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would inevitably surface within a rectangle of barbed wire, would find themselves greeted listlessly by dying Russians who spoke no English, who had no food or useful information or escape plans of their own. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The congregation, Minister, will tell you what it thinks, and what it wants you to think,” said Mr. Stonecrop, and the words wound like barbed wire around the Buckminsters. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Julia was standing with them, trying again to convince Jay about her stupid tinfoil UFO and how it was going to fly up and down the street on a stupid invisible wire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mary had wired me $200 so I could pay for my expenses and buy things I needed. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a long night and a bad party.” no “But why barb wire?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A little later the last bit of wire disappeared behind them like a thin black snake, and Mrs. Frisby climbed down from the asparagus bush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In this zone, infrared sensors checked for movement, with strands of taut wire and electromagnetic green wire providing redundant protection. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tore the LED bulbs out of one and left the two frayed power wires very close together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was white, and naked bulbs hung from it on dark wires, flooding the room with harsh light. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Frankie climbed up onto the table and wrapped one of the wires around his hand, then pulled as hard as he could. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tendai looked up at the defenses on the garden wall: electrified wire, alarms, even machine guns. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers were just on the wire above one of the rabbits when a voice rang out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wires were a tangled bundle and his hands were shaking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I catch it on barbed wire. It is slow to heal.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suit #1 speaks, his voice a taut wire. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Outside the cell there is a clock on the wall with a wire guard over it. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wire rack loaded with candy bars hangs from the front counter. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Together they smuggle the wire home and loop it back and forth through nail holes in the eave outside the attic window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Silently, one by one, they came up the hill, passed through the wire, and drifted in a loose file across the compound. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment it happened that Boxwood stood on his hind legs and put his front paws high on the wire. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This development, in turn, wired the whole world together, and, without anyone really planning it, made Bangalore a suburb of Boston. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He grinned as if he had unearthed a store of treasures, banging a pipe here, examining a wire there. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Horse-mounted couriers and telegraph wires were alive all day with instructions to troops to enlist the help of fishermen and others on the river to capture the fugitives. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body is alive with electric barbed wire. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see anything but boxes, barrels, old things, and some rolls of barbed wire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like there was faulty wiring in the system, because now she was reverting to anger. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Tyson looked down at the pieces of metal he was assembling in his lap—springs and gears and tiny wires. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Adam twisted her hands from his arm as though they were wire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The speed with which humor dates is an index of how closely it is wired into a set of shared assumptions—and consequently how bound up with an orator’s ethos appeal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The boys spent their free time huddled in the Tuve attic, surrounded by cast-off batteries, glass tubes, and coils of wire. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I gripped the reed and wires and waited for the miracle. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stop a safe distance away from her and follow her eyes to the baby, more tubes and wires than limbs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We crawled underneath a barbed wire fence to get a closer look at them as they passed by several times a day. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There, by the light of the rocket I see something move in the wire, then it stiffens and I lie still. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer stripped more wire, tossing the junk insulation over the ship’s side. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried gnawing my way out, but the strands were made of some kind of plastic, as hard as wire. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even with them, I feel as exposed as a bird on a wire. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A young man with round wire glasses walks toward us quickly from the ship’s ramp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

While my friends from America could find miniature trucks already assembled in their shopping malls, we had to build ours from wire and empty cartons of booze. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lucas found parts of the wire chicken run two miles from the house, flattened and wrapped around some trees. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Octavian cut the release wire with his augur’s knife. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nailer only cared about the light stuff—the copper wiring, the aluminum, the nickel, the steel clips that could be sacked and dragged out through the ducts to his light crew waiting outside. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I unhook the wire, push the fence open, and lead Shiloh to the stream for a drink, filling the pie pan with fresh water. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this layered approach, it took Elizebeth and her team many weeks to break the messages and work out the wiring on the new machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Arm threaded the razor wire into a long curved needle like the ones furniture makers used to sew upholstery. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Will that wire really be able to conduct that much power, Beetee? It looks so fragile, like it would just burn up.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We came into the camp from the east, stepping over the wires and ducking under the hanging bells. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The dressmaker with her frilly, colorful creations draped on hooped wire, the overstuffed emporiums and their wonderland of goods, the rival general stores on either side of Main Street. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We moved down the long side of the ridge, trying to keep our balance, hoping we wouldn’t step on a mine or pull a trip wire. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zarra’s opponent parries then touches the foil tip right above the heart; the foil bends like wire. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just snip a length of wire, grasp it firmly in the little tongs and—careful now. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In mid-1951 he developed a radically new design based on placing microscopically thin wires just behind the tube’s glass viewing surface. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s a shame. Sheep would run into a river and drown to outrun a wolf, but I can’t see that many sheep twisting themselves up in wire no matter what’s chasing them.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She tugs wires toward her, attaching them to me, to her, to the machine behind her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Johnny Lightbourne and I found a discarded Christmas wreath consisting of a red fuzzy material wrapped around newspaper, which in turn was wrapped around a wire frame. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She pulled the wires wider and motioned with her head. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He found an antique bucksaw of wood and wire that he used to saw the dead trees to length. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Grace,” her father said gently, like his voice could hit a trip wire and destroy them all, “you have siblings.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Seeing her pupils shrink and explode back out to their normal size, it felt as though someone had wrapped a line of barbed wire around my brain and was tightening it with every passing second. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He skulked down alleys, a roll of lock- picking wire in his pocket. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was eager to work, and when I set him down through the trap door in the wire mesh of the maze, he moved swiftly along the pathways to the reward box. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I doubled back through the diner to the fire exit and crossed the alarm wires to fry the circuit. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It was a matter of moments, then, for me to bend a wire so that I might motivate the tumblers of the lock and spring it open. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are the red bricks, there are the searchlights, there’s the barbed wire, there are the hooks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With riders reversed, Seabiscuit would have won by half a length. Jack Pollard did not go to the whip near the wire until too late. The defeat may be chalked up to Mr. Pollard.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the wire away from the frame and reached through. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The clinging white mist made all the wires that crisscrossed the city stand out like a cat’s cradle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They passed the electrical fence topped with coiled barbed wire, the wooden barracks, the guard towers, and a redbrick building with huge chimneys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully he detached the small charm from its plastic card, unwinding the wire ties and placing the bird on her bedside table. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was funny—we would walk into one of those stores with alarms and bells and electronic wires on the leather goods—you know the type I mean. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans with the minigun held off until the enemy was close to the wire, then opened up with the weapon, spitting out thousands of rounds per minute. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One wall was crowded with tacked-up plans and schematics; another was piled high with tinkerer junk; the bench TimeStar occupied was littered with snipped wires, and tools, and computer equipment. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, you bring me a hundred and two dollars and sixty cents and I send a wire telling the Valdosta operator to pay Adam one hundred dollars. You owe me sixty cents too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kids were tired, wired, just sprung from school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Bigwig was lying across the wire, which came out under his belly and seemed to disappear into the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

People telephone the branch office to request an installation, or to complain about ghost signals, interference, starlings on the wires, and out goes Volkheimer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Colbert and Chamberlin observed, “there is a nervous system, of wires and printers’ types, which connect all together, and . . . places Chicago in close rapport with all parts of the world. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I take the knife and slice through all the wires on the bottom of the electric grid. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His whole body gathered up behind the bit, and he skittered around like a downed electrical wire, begging Pollard to turn him loose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morgan’s work had pinpointed their location on chromosomes, where they were supposedly strung like beads on a wire. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mother had taken my place, crouching over the VCR, groping for the wires, as Dad towered over her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers proudly along the makeshift handle, demonstrating how he’d bent the wire and attached it to the can. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mulch pointed his wired eyeball at the nearest camera. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When Amari turned the page again, there I was—my hair a mass of curly red wires that seemed to be shooting electricity. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even from across the room it is apparent that some very high voltage is crackling through his wires. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tying the bean tendrils to the wire fence I had built when I saw a quiver in the leaves of the pumpkins. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bricks were red, the sky was brilliant blue, the knots in the barbed wire sparkled like ladies’ earrings. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There are two breaks in one of the resistance wires. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wears it in a ponytail with small white cloth lilies of the valley wired around the elastic band. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On this side, it’s covered in scaffolding, and men at the top appear to be adding more stones and bobbed wire. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I start clipping the wires as close to her scalp as possible. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She stared hopelessly at the tangle of red, blue, green, and white wires. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He forced himself to breathe shallowly as he clung to the wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Until I built an antenna system out of wires and foil and metal coat hangers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were clear, Malcolm pulled off the rusty wire and wrapped the roll of adhesive tape as tightly as he could around the paddle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

From time to time she had to cross a wider, well-lit street, where the tramcars hummed and sparked under their anbaric wires. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We crouch behind every corner, behind every barrier of barbed wire, and hurl heaps of explosives at the feet of the advancing enemy before we run. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was wired for basic television, Vonage, and Internet service. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Once the boy waited outside the tall wire fence of a road camp. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gripped onto the edge of my seat, curling my fingers into the gaps between the wires. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Haymitch leans forward and dangles something on a thin white wire in front of my nose. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I thought I was too wired to sleep, but my eyes closed almost immediately. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I shall wire to my people to have horses and carriages where they will be most convenient.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

By the time Neves hit the wire, most of the crowd was chasing him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men pulled down the barbed wire and started to cross the slack with the lumber. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's the perfect hat for Max, and it hides the frayed ends of the wires I've trimmed. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“And Zella said to tell you that if you do get the mill generating electricity, please bring a wire down to her.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She twisted the lighting wires onto the bomb's and taped them off. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol comes to my house and takes it all in—the unpainted walls, the wires dangling from the ceilings, the unfinished floors, the army cots—with incredulous glee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a few bruises darkening both his sides and some cuts on his back from the wire lockers. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I feel a slight pulling on the needles as she attaches the wires. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She found a piece of wire, but couldn’t get it through. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a brother with a knowledge of demolition; he was asked to wire my car to explode when I turned the ignition key. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And beyond that was the fence itself, which consisted of seven or eight strands of high-voltage barbed wire, spaced about a foot apart, strung between tall poles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The mynah lifted on a rise of warm air as it coasted over the garden wall, over the snapping electric wires and broken glass and machine guns. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, in this adventure book I read once, the hero was in a very similar predicament. So he removed the curled handset wires from several telephones, bundled them together, and made a safety rope.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

On her head is a cap with thirty-two wires coming from it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Later, he tinkered with wires, switches, and radios in his spare time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But then I look again, and I see only fences and razor wire and guns. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It had an electric stove, but the wiring was not exactly up to code, with faulty connectors, exposed lines, and buzzing switches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once the first year’s turmoil cooled down, the authorities started letting us outside the wire for recreation. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its windows are covered with wire mesh that reminds me of pictures of fishnets I've seen in books. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He pointed to two thin strands of copper wire connected to the black box. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On one wall, chunks of plaster had crumbled away, revealing the wooden ribs and pipes and wiring. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen Ligaroti’s head jerk up oddly at the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Rasheed watched with anticipation, the way people wait the simple tricks of street magicians, Zalmai pulled on the TV’s wire, pushed the buttons, pressed his palms to the blank screen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We walked along the wire wall until Papa spotted a small hole underneath the fence. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She watched it dash to the chicken wire and squeeze out. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The next day, at lunchtime, the bangle man gave us a bag of beads and a spool of wire. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ron lifted Scabbers out of his inside pocket and placed him next to the cage of his fellow rats, who stopped their skipping tricks and scuffled to the wire for a better look. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ruth’s walk was much steadier now and when we came to the fence, and I held up the wire, she hardly hesitated. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire pressed into his neck then and took his breath. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The halogen bulbs were still installed, but the wires had come loose during Artemis’s investigations. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then I stuck a piece of meat loaf through the wire near him and waited. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was Fiver who was clambering over him, clawing and grabbing like a rabbit trying to climb a wire fence in a panic. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Davey Cantor kick again at the wire screen, then walk away from them to the third-base line, his hands moving nervously against his dungarees. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The ground is littered with tools—wrenches, wire cutters in various sizes, hammers, and a few others that I don’t recognize. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I step out past the fence with its razor wire, I will make sure the world knows who they were and what they sacrificed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Imagine that the wires in your brain are crossed, not literally of course. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We use a more advanced version of the simulation here,” he says, “a different serum, no wires or electrodes for you.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Finally they reached a little wooden shack like the one they’d stopped at earlier, where a dim bulb glowed on a bare wire over the door. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jessie touched the remaining wires to two small prongs coming down from an LED light, and the light blinked on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Plaszów was a series of long, low buildings separated by dirt roads and surrounded by barbed wire. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her knees felt warm and wobbly, like wire hangers bent to the point of snapping. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He made the entire apparatus, including the box that housed the equipment, and he figured out how to rig up a long wire antenna to get a signal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A wind gusted; he tried to balance, contacted two wires, and fell to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And all I see is barbed wire and an old tomato tin, blown by the wind. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He started pulling things out of the pockets of his magic tool belt - copper wire, some bolts, a brass funnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Our second game came right down to the wire, but by the end of it, I’d spotted a pattern to the lich’s playing technique. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We crossed a dirt courtyard, where pieces of clothing hung like pennants from a wire, and entered a dilapidated hut like all the others. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear at the enormities of the forbidden kept her desires delicate, wire and bone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rainbow-colored wires fall away, and Max is left with her straight brown hair. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

James was intent on watching a row of black birds huddled on a wire overhead and didn’t answer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I counted one, two, three...nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the border, floodlights blaze into the night, shining on the canopy, the buildings, the endless barbed wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pax watched the war-sick spread out along the riverbank, rolling more wires, digging more holes, and burying more dark boxes under the hot sun. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Hmph. Go on, then, and run that extra wire back to the barn. Then clean up for dinner. Hurry up, now—your grandmother’s waiting.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of the time she’d been plugging a frayed lamp cord into the wall and her finger had landed on bare wire. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The section was surrounded by a metal fence topped with a band of electrified chicken wire which during the cool summer mornings would be black with roasted swallows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A herd of miniature bronze hippocampi hung on wires from the ceiling, so it looked like they were swimming through the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

How could we explain what happened to her wires? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Felt a flush of triumph as he kicked the last tangling wires off his legs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the wire neared, the horses’ heads bobbed out of time, so that the lead was traded every few feet. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed it by the wire rim that held the top of the globe and burned his hand. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a sheep corral with reflective aluminum panels as fencing, unlike the barbed wire of Nali’s. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She lets us each choose a plastic ball out of the wire bin, and she buys them for us. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’d be dead in an instant and all she would have to say is that I sneezed and jerked my head forward and impaled my own self on the wire. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had evidently not noticed the missing wires from the hat box. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know our barbed wire entanglements are strong and almost undamaged;—parts of them are charged with a powerful electric current. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled on his work gloves, and he cut through four strands of heavy steel wire before he realized he was standing where anyone might see him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stand at the wire fence; sometimes one goes away and then another at once takes his place in the line. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly my Skull Candy knockoff wire led to no music player. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Following the forelady’s instructions, her left hand picked up a foot length of shiny wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made sure the wire was among the weapons. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered up the trailing wire, which led to a complex assembly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She nailed his velvet ears to the wooden pole and spread his arms out as if he were flying and attached his paws to the pole by wrapping pieces of wire around them. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

With Smith watching from the track apron, War Admiral led from wire to wire, winning easily. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I looked down the row of fence posts waiting for wire. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I watched through the wire front of my cage as the others were caught and tagged. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman wondered if somebody had gotten their shirt snagged on the wire mesh while climbing over the fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was also rough and the way was lit by old-fashioned bulbs, hanging on wires. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Someone had replaced the loose board and nailed it into place with big, long nails, and some fresh strands of barbed wire had been strung around the top. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The turkeys were very small and fluffed and ugly, all packed together in wire trays, one layer above the other. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It had a wire leader and a mediumsized hook and he baited it with one of the sardines. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Ares brings his girlfriend here for a date,” I said, staring up at the barbed wire, “I’d hate to see what she looks like.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wire was held up by sharp little sticks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran a bare wire across the battery terminals and got a rewarding spark. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If those insects are fading and the first bolt is about to strike the tree, then all its power will come surging down that wire and anyone in contact with it will die. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papa said something about getting them wired on with bailing wire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she doesn’t have a birdhouse or electric wiring to distract her. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The wire, strung diagonally from one comer of the parapet to the other, stretched across her view of television antennas, billboards, and the distant arches of Howrah Bridge. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The door to the cockpit was open, and there were two men in uniform inside, with hundreds of buttons and wires behind them. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the wire had it, any retreat by either of us was unthinkable. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll call you in a week or two,” she said, “and tell you where to wire the money.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or leading power down from it; for there was a wire running off a huge reel on the sledge, a wire that ran directly upward to the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The mattress was littered with wires, nails and the guts of several disassembled bronze machines. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He started shoving his scavenged wire aside, suddenly desperate for clean air and light. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie carefully positioned the water bottle in the wire cage, aimed the spout into the base of the funnel, then unscrewed the bottle cap. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There was a mat and a pillow in one corner and a shelf along one wall covered in coils of wire, tin snips, pliers, and little glass jars filled with sorted pieces of metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Of course he did not suppose that Hufsa was setting wires himself, or even that he had known that a wire was going to be set. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hell of a note, isn't it? Get my wire?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Blackberry sniffed his way round to the wire door and sat up, nosing over the frame, the hasp and the staple. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m extra wired, wanting to play it, especially as a Decker, since its about wasted opportunities, empty lives, and time dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Miguel knotted off a section of fencing wire, tossed the clamps and pliers to the ground. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s as if she’s been walking on a wire, trying to keep her balance, and now, for the first time, she is on solid ground. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was no wire to speak of and no place to fall back to if there should be an Austrian attack. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She’s excited until she finds out he’s wired her whole house so that he can hear everything she does when he’s not around. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"I will use threaded stopper with a small hole for the wires. It will have little effect on the seal." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He accepted the bet, and they watched as the colt led wire to wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no houses or buildings as far as I could see, only wheat-colored fields patchy with dirt and cracked wooden telephone poles with drooping black wires strung between them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He said you can use a section of wire fence to pick up radio signals, so maybe the silver in a tooth can too. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He watched the rise and fall of a telephone wire. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But they skidded to a stop at their owner’s barbed wire boundary, and sat there, howling and gnashing their teeth until he turned a corner. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly drilled a hole in the beaker's stopper, then stripped a section of wire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the sun sears its branches to hot wires. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy was thin, but put together like wire cable. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the thin golden wire from above springs down at us, bunching in tangled loops and curls around our wrists. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They see sunlight one hour a day, when they are allowed into an outdoor area surrounded by a fence topped with concertina wire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

People are beginning to scream.The brain isn’t wired to be plunged into such darkness without warning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A witch was helping Lord Asriel, and she had flown that wire into the heights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some rolled spools of wire to the holes they’d dug near the riverbank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I pressed up the wire fastener and poured it for him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be needing this anymore,” she said, clutching a cream linen suit, which hung better on the wire hanger than on her desiccated frame. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He backed up slowly, pulling the wire with a horrible, grinding, screeching noise until snap!The wire parted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Keeley, I thought about doing the same thing. But then I noticed something you obviously overlooked: There’s a wire mesh security screen on the other side of those windows.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A flash of white runs up the wire, and for just a moment, the dome bursts into a dazzling blue light. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dismounted and went to work on the wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took longer than they thought to get the minigun set up inside the concertina wire surrounding the camp. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

More often a guard would chase him away from the gate or from standing near the high fence with the barbed wire along the top of it. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those hands could fix anything that cranked, moved, pumped heat, moved water, or had valves, vacuums, or wires. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tilt your head back and you see a pie-shaped wedge of sky through a screen of wire mesh. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He harvests parts from supply sheds: snips of copper wire, screws, a bent screwdriver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I feel like a fish in a wire cage rather than a tank. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

An old wall phone hangs upside down by its wires on the left as you enter, the receiver dangling by its curly cord, a symbol of Sing Sing’s chronically broken phone system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry rigged a flywheel and generator to the waterwheel that powered his sawmill, ran electrical wire into the house, and dangled lightbulbs from the rafters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She touched two wires and got a small shock. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Trip wires with early-warning alarms are scattered throughout the yard, but these are clearly marked by stakes in the ground and we step over them easily. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I understood it all—the cable wires, the extension cords, the ritual switch. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"All you got to do is disconnect them wires on the burglar alarm." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compound was like a prison, all pavement and block, enclosed by razor wire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet of heavy hose, containing oxygen tubes and radio wires, is quite a bundle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fence is maybe twelve or fourteen feet high with three strands of barbed wire run across the top. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent expertly between barbed wire strands and crossed a wide, soggy, overgrazed field, part of which was honeycombed with treacherous hummocks and leached-out grass clumps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along the fence, especially along the lower line of wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three large black birds hung from the ceiling on a wire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the meadow they went under the wire fence. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The strain has been too much for him and he’s blown his wiring. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next step is to dip the wire frames in the muck. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The girl who came in merely stepped to the desk, placed a note in the wire basket, and walked out again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kathy knew this, but at that moment she couldn’t remember which wires went where, which buttons did what, how everything was connected. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The man with the gloves and the boots then donned a wire face-mask as well, and climbed in among us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The woods on the other side of the barbed wire fence burst with birdsong. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiago came back wearing glasses, thin wire frames that he took off to show us how they caught the light and bounced rainbows around the room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The nervy factionless girl jolts from her seat as if stuck with a live wire, and they all start toward the door. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was still raining hard and 1 thought some of the stops in the movement of the column might be from cars with wet wiring. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the huts there were the usual bunks, one above the other in pairs, with mattresses or wire netting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed through the sedge to a fence and climbed through, holding down the wire for each other with their hands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“He won his Games with wire. Setting up that electrical trap,” says Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the sticks and some bailing wire, Grandpa made a frame that looked almost like a gingerbread man. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the back of the truck the other two took a large box made of wood and wire, almost a yard wide, and placed it over the second hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He put in new wiring and plumbing, a new firebox, reinforced floor joists, and a new porch all on his own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night, the tightrope lady fell off the wire in the same way, and the audience gasped in the same way and applauded with the same enthusiasm when she climbed back up the tall ladder. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor by Chess’s feet, Finn and Emma bent protectively over Joe, hiding whatever he was assembling out of tiny bits of plastic and wire. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His team would spend several days with the men in the village, inside the fence made of enormous bamboo stakes or barbed wire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Along the ceiling ran a single wire from which a light bulb hung every few yards. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So Pancho locked the goat in the shed next door to the henhouse, which was also surrounded by the chicken pen’s wire fence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have any serum but they had wired Miami to send it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Inej saw guards emerge with little piles of brooches, porcupine quills, even sashes that Inej assumed must contain metal or wire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Heavens. I think you might have died in that warehouse rather than wire one of us for a couple of hundred dollars.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Julia was standing with them, trying again to convince Jay about her stupid tinfoil UFO and how it was going to fly up and down the street on a stupid invisible wire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He found out that the president rested on two mattresses, and the bottom one contained steel wire springs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The screen door had a yellowed index card stuck in the wire mesh that said, ENTER. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Trembling with excitement, Ranofer could scarcely make his fingers loosen a strand of the wire and straighten it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A short distance away, at a week-old grave, some men were stripping the withered flowers from the wire frames of the floral pieces heaped on the grave. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the side, behind the barbed wire, a small group of women plays in some kind of orchestra. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We dug a narrow trench to bury the chicken wire. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was looking real close at a tiny something, cleaning it off*with a wire bristle brush. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Squads of volunteers, organized by Parsons, were preparing the street for Hate Week, stitching banners, painting posters, erecting flagstaff's on the roofs, and perilously slinging wires across the street for the reception of streamers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There are beds in it, or rather bunks—a couple of wooden beams over which wire netting is stretched. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we first got El Perico, he spent most of the time in a makeshift wire cage Roberto, my older brother, built for him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few young men, the leaders, showed off their physical prowess, detaching the cars from their wires. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Push the screwdriver through the wire near the bottom,” he said, “and pry up,” We did, and the wire bent a fraction of an inch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he pushed aside wires with part of what he was assuming used to be a door frame so he could get closer to the collapsed staircase. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nor could he climb the perimeter fence, not with the razor wire stretched out across the top. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The elevator was not much more than a wire cage, and as it slowly ascended, I could see the beautiful blue Atlantic Ocean just a stone s throw away. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A carved wooden box stood on a shelf pushed back behind a round basket woven from black and green telephone wires. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The south side of the street had no sidewalk, only a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire protecting some kind of engine parts storage yard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"We could run the wire to Lighting Panel 41," Johanssen said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to hook me up to any wires?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a great pile of heavy blue wool she pulled a small tuft, caught it in the wire teeth of one board, and drew across it the second board till the fibers were brushed flat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was very wary of the magic in the wires. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I circle around to the place where the barbed wire is loose, only it isn’t loose anymore. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He must have taken it with him, and quite deliberately, since it would have required time and effort to unfasten the wire. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A lone traffic light rocked on a wire over the empty intersection. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He dashed to the back garden, where Fang and Slasher were hurling themselves against the wire of their cage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how smart the doctors are, or no matter what medication I take, I’ll always somewhere inside myself be wired wrong and nothing can be done about it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am how I am because Grandma was born wired, and my dad, Carter Pigza, was born wired, and I followed right behind them. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fling the bag from me, toward the trench and barbed wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was not uncomfortable; it had a floor of some kind of plastic, medium soft and warm to the touch; with wire walls and ceiling, it was airy enough. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wheels roll beneath us, we stand dully, and when the call “Mind—wire” comes, we bend our knees. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if I need money, I’ll have them wire it to me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I mean piles of things with tubes and wires. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

A factory stood on a hill to one side, the field below filled with flimsy buildings arranged in a square, fencing and razor wire strung around the perimeter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They’d rigged the stage area with lights, the wires feeding into a generator mounted on a rusty Jeep. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It looked like the other firebases, with barbed wire and mine fields around it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they found tracks and sagging wires on the fences with bits of light hair caught in the barbs, they rode through the Acoma gate and brought the cows back again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The little professor stands at the chalkboard drawing a wiring schematic for a simple Morse-code practice circuit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed strange that there could be so much color and beauty, and then when you got to Malone everything was tan and gray and black steel bars and wire. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He put his glasses back on his face, pulling the wire earpieces behind his ears, and said, “In your case, trying is being.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

More bronze wires shot from the orb, intuitively sensing what Leo needed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He hoped the knife would be enough, because they hadn’t figured on wire and had brought neither pincers nor a wire cutter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with a flourish, he plugged the attached wire into the wall. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They laughed out through the wire screen at him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma said through screen wire, which was as friendly as she got. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In front was a circular burst of bright colors—a garden— fenced around with barbed wire. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We fixed our eyes on the television, on Mr. Sullivan, who introduced a circus act involving monkeys that rode tiny scooters across a high wire. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While me and Howard gathered leaves and branches to stick through the chicken wire, Bertha kept Burl busy with all her questions. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Presently the wire tip melted and ran up into a bead. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And all along the rooftop of the structure stood twelve-foot-tall steel posts, a picket line of uppercase Ys, each of them strung with razor wire. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I feel wired and on edge, and my room feels even smaller than usual. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As I stretched each strand of wire, tapped it into place with a staple, stretched and tapped, stretched and tapped, I thought again of that conversation in Wolf Point between Mr. Hanson and Perilee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He flattened out the two humps of wire, and with great care wriggled the charred scrap of paper on to one of them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the teacher take note of my bulging eyes or comment on the thin strand of saliva hanging like fishing wire from the corner of my mouth? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But it calmed her to sing it now as she attached the red, blue, and white wires to the statue of Miss Miss. Heavenly stars, but she’d had a busy few days! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was decided that Mr. Monroe and the boys would make a house for him out of an old crate and some heavy-duty wire mesh from the garage. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had received a wire from London, in answer to Lord Godalming’s telegraphed request, asking us to show them any civility in their power. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Earlier, the pony had been rubbing himself against the barbed wire around the turkey coop, but the longnecked turkeys got all riled up and pecked his legs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Flames and rods and tubes and circles, not to say ordinary bulbous bulbs of every size and wattage and color, dangled like fruit from an ecstatic entanglement of wire vines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strands of wire were four inches apart and a quarter of an inch thick. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Together they watched the molten puddle run from the hollowed charcoal into the stone mold to which it was wired. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Grapevines spread on wire to create a roof and block the summer sun. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But they couldn’t prove it, they didn’t know for sure, he said, clinging to the wire fence. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school they say I’m wired bad, or wired mad, or wired sad, or wired glad, depending on my mood and what teacher has ended up with me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Money to install water pipes, or to repair the electric wires that had gone down in the storm and hung like limp, useless, dried-up worms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Those are her happiest moments, when she can wire money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A thin tongue of brilliant flame issued from the wand and wound its way around their hands like a red-hot wire. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Perplexed, I stand and lift the wire, confirming it’s attached back at the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet past it is another fence, this one chain-link, like the one around the city, with barbed wire looped over the top. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The long wire came across my shoulder, and the fire went away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We loaded up with every available weapon, mostly bows and arrows pulled taut with young wood and reinforced with repurposed wire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Dylan teaches us how to clip, tether ourselves to the harness and wire cable. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sun bears’ domain is wood; the parrots’ is wire mesh. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But when the wires were fastened to her own neural connectors, and the probes reached into her heartbeat and instinct, that's when she opened her mouth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I wired it to the entrance passage and set it off. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores, shopping centers, garages, furniture outlets, restaurants, quick-food stands: the cement procession marched on, broken only by traffic lights dangling from heavy wires over the roadway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept smiling, as if the corners of his mouth were strung up on invisible wire. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They wipe it clean, untangle the snarl of wires, wash mud out of the earphone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘So the thing is,’ Leo said as his hands twisted wire, ‘Zeus is already P.O.’ed at you, right? If you help us defeat Gaia, you could make it up to him.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the back of Mrs. Bradley’s room stood a wire bookrack. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then they were running another way, running, not to the warren but over the fields in the cold, and Bigwig dropped the berries—blood-red drops, red droppings hard as wire. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire had told him I was in town, and on some “religious kick.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dark eyes flashed, and when she spoke, I saw that they had cut the wires on her braces but had left the metal nubs glued to her front teeth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This involves the placement, all over my body, of sticky tabs attached to wires. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

To my thinking, it was refined that she didn’t fuss at Grandpa about not having the house wired for electricity. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He had a piece of cord tied tightly around his waist, and this was attached to the top of a tiny wire cage. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today I wasn’t there just to look around, like when I come in with Dad and he takes forever deciding which kind of wire to get. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They came up to the first-base side of the wire screen behind home plate and stood there in a silent black-and-white mass, holding bats and balls and gloves in their hands. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He soon tired of chasing radio waves with his wire and ordered a short-wave radio with two enormous batteries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire door was a couple of hand- spans ffom his face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There were no cracks in which to thread razor wire and no hinges to remove. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But that never did come through, even after James rigged up an extra length of antenna wire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Every time he attempted to reclaim his position at the wire, her snapping jaws held him away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They bought this concession from the cemetery officials and sold the wire frames to the florists who used them over and over again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer took his knife and hacked Bapi’s light crew code above the place where he had clipped the wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few hours they would churn out half a million words on the Morse wires, Teletypes, and typewriters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And the medications weren’t covered by my plan! And -’ The snake lurched as Leo connected the last two wires. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He wanted to find out if the Anacortes ferry was running and if the power company would project a time for getting the wires up again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They rub their breasts against the wire of the cage until they are bald and bleeding. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They found her sitting behind barbed wire in the corner of a yard outside the brick barracks where she slept. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The razor wire was new, the portable toilets new. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“One of the camp’s perimeter alarms was triggered. Don’t worry—it might be nothing. We’ve had animals step a little too close to the wires before.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The computers were passing underneath a bizarre machine—cantilevers, wires, and hydraulic arms. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nailer squirmed back down the duct, rolling the wire ahead of him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us load our shoulders with pointed and twisted iron stakes; others thrust smooth iron rods through rolls of wire and go off with them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuve’s version was made from copper and wire wound about a hollow three-foot glass tube submerged in a pressurized vat of oil to suppress sparking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And then, when the very last box of wires and parts and tools had been loaded into the wagon, Father went up for one last visit to our room. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a factory egg farm, the laying hen spends her brief life jammed into a wire cage with six other hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It felt better than the wire, but it had little strength, and it wouldn’t last very long; but perhaps they didn’t have much further to go. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The construction had come a little further along on this floor; half-finished plaster dividers rose up between the metal beams, and electrical wiring snaked alongside the ceiling pipes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Startled, I noticed that one of the arrangements, quite near the altar, was wired in the shape of the number 27. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next day he wired Swope to tell him he was coming to town the following morning. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate blackberries from thorny whips that reminded me of barbed wire. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

By stringing the fiber along a gap in a stretch of wire—a bent paper clip worked marvelously—he hoped to diffract X-rays and obtain images. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He told me how complicated the process had been, because the wiring in the building was so ancient. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She tried the home phone, in case the water had miraculously dropped below the phone box and the wiring was undamaged. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Went through the kitchen and saw a lady’s purse lying on the floor, and the phone where the wires had been cut. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish hit the wire several times more and each time he shook his head the old man gave up a little line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had laughed and said no, he’d just be doing pretty much what he did as a civilian: laying wires. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hurried into school, checked to make sure no one was around and the ceiling wasn’t wired, then delved into my bag in search of superglue. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They walked under sculptures of open books dangling from wires like birds in flight and soon found themselves in front of City Lights. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We roll across the studio, careful to avoid cords and wires, and enter the area where the competition will take place. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He looks up at the barbed wire puts his hands in his pockets. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Over the next few hours, I put them back where they belonged, wiring them into the Hab's power grid. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew desert dust in their faces and dried their skin and turned their hair to wire. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The walls of the lobby were badly damaged, unsheathed layers of wire and wood and corrugated paper hanging out of gouges in the plaster. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The forces on the wires are proportional to their masses, which are proportional to their lengths. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pain like a hot steel wire jabbed its way up her leg and into her hip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This exploding earth, these death wires, leave this for them to find. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He plugged the wire into the machine and put the earphone up beside his mask, next to his ear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Commandant!” a man called across the wire fence from the men’s camp. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cantered down the lane and hit the wire, winners by five lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them, the concentration camp at Auschwitz spread out, a desolate flat place surrounded by heavy chain-link fence, topped with coils of barbed wire. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Malone gave her a tissue to wipe off the gel, and folded up the wires. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith wired the news to Woolf in New York, asking that he come up immediately. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had their wire on me from uptown, all right. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stick a piece of coat hanger wire up the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Fence cutters struck under the cover of night, snipping through barbed wire and spurring the cattle to stampede into the fields. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The city and track were completely cut off from all wire service. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a new wire and a strip of paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took his arm, clutching it in a dead rigid hard grip as if her fingers, her hand, were a small mass of wire. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

When jockey Kurtsinger launched War Admiral in his final drive for the wire, Pollard said, do something completely unexpected and probably unprecedented: Let him catch up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of wire with small fuzzy tufts. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only wind in the trees which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The brain is wired for music and language, a topic that will be discussed in Chapter 7. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And there was a problem with the wiring that caused electricity to spray out of the shower along with the water. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On the back, the rudder was wired to some sort of machine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They can’t hurt it, because of the wire cage, but Ms. Warner still feels duty-bound to stop them. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nailer unwound a section of wire and squatted down on the blazing deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A report was then wired directly to the White House. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling had two fiberboard panels missing, exposing the electrical wires. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Padre Leo takes down the migrants’ information, then gives them a meal card or arranges to pick up money wired by relatives in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“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

The meekness of the wire hangers, with their twisted throats and bent heads — they waited too patiently, too neatly, every one a spinster. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gray bird flew above them, above the electric wires for the streetcar line, and perched on the metal cornice of a roof. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe that pink just wasn’t pink enough because before long I’d turn into my wired self again. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stepdad is fiddling with the wiring, probably rewiring it to do something that’d make more sense in an Iron Man comic, like he does with most electronics—eccentric millionaire inventor habits die hard. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dad also scavenged a couple of tables and chairs, and he built some makeshift closets—which were actually kind of nifty—by hanging lengths of pipe from the ceiling with wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They knew the house would have to be gutted, all the insulation and wiring replaced, the plaster and Sheetrock and paint and wallpaper. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The wires lead into a small backpack she's got at her side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Layers of copper wires, like multiple sets of guitar strings, crisscrossed inside the funnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I can feel the danger like a wire round my neck—like a wire—Hazel, help!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mercy demonstrated on two pieces of thin board to which were fastened strips of leather set with hooked wire teeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A large table occupies that space, covered with tools and scraps of metal and gears and old computer parts and wires. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next she disconnected the wiring between the electromagnetic shield and the detector, and found the wiring plan in a drawer of the filing cabinet and set light to it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The approved wire dipole antennas were supposed to be placed within a two-by-four-foot area on the wall—where, apparently, they did no good at all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This fire was often deadly accurate and resulted in casualties among the attackers—so often that it was quite usual in the mornings to see their bodies along the wire. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We can strip wire with a hangover, no problem.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs were jointed and joined by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could be bent, giving him much freedom of movement. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Towering at least thirty-five feet in the air and topped with wicked coils of barbed wire, it makes ours back in District 12 look childish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was cold and quiet except for a milk truck that idled at the rear entrance as two silent, sleepy-looking men unloaded the wire crates and let them fall with a clatter on the asphalt. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Will and Claire stood up then, while the rain poured down beyond the wire screens, over the trees and garden and marsh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire sank slightly as something gave way. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We crawled carefully under the wire and fed the horse the apples. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crouches beside him and he puts the coil of wire in her hands. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would make a broad, fine bowl with a pattern of reed flowers inlaid in silver wire, and he would make a little eye-paint pot with a hinged lid, and a bracelet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Across the opening there was, as Jenner had predicted, a coarse screen of heavy wire. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the muscles in his body were tight, wound up, like twisted wires about to break. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The duct creaked dangerously as he squirmed past, protesting the collected weight of himself and the wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the Palace they built a wire cage and in it their collection of angry tom cats grew with every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This was not as bad as a city ghetto with barbed wire, but we were very crowded and we had little food,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“At the end of this shelf there’s a big cabinet—they keep the mouse cages in it. It has wire mesh doors. You can climb up and down them like a ladder.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a drum Mamita brought back from a trip to New York; a magnificent drum, its sides bright red, crisscrossed by gold wire held down by gold button heads, its top and bottom white. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her father had liked to recite this when she was training on the wire or the swings. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Piles of small wire boxes were everywhere, and oyster shells had been scattered like a layer of earth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it turned out that the astronauts packed a special flag on Apollo 11, with a wire worked into the material so that it would stick out like that. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She bent her head over the wires and made her fingers fly faster. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both too dazed, too wired to sleep, and that first day at Yuko and Ahmaad’s house was full of welcome distraction. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He did so by finding out how much gold was needed to coat silver wire in order to obtain silver-gilt. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A tree had fallen on Piersall Road and knocked the power wires down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

From top to bottom, side to side, the place was covered in all kinds of machinery and wires and ducts and computers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They peered inside it and fiddled with the tubes and wires. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think that’s it,” he said, stowing the razor wire back in its box. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the spool of wire and stalked down the trail toward the barn. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Stretching as far as I can see are double rows of shiny barbed wire fixed to tall metal posts. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers caught the strands of a wire fence, the fence that separated Miss Rachel’s garden from the Finch back yard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In preparation for the Quell, I saw a tape where Beetee, who was still a boy, connected two wires that electrocuted a pack of kids who were hunting him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Even the hens, fenced in by the wire chicken run, clucked and fussed in our honor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Drew didn’t make a move to turn off the NBA highlights show he was watching, but I was too wired to sleep anyway. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I can feel the wire of the chain-link fences against my fingers as I climbed over them and ran away. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the night, Isaac the Joiner had a dream in which we all hung with wires through our bodies, and pigeons made their homes upon us, even as we died suspended. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She was the last to fall asleep, walking the perimeter of the camp and double-checking the wire alarms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She removed the wire and used it to connect the two pieces together. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then he unwinds the wire top and pops the cork. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The bees began to light on my shoulders the ways birds sit on telephone wires. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are not all wired to be gifted artists.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Did that explain why they had books and electric lights and wires and an electric motor? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The monster is there on his own, fitting wires into the sound system. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Half as quick as they’ll get a wire to you saying Your account closed out. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a wire door at the back of this hutch,” said Boxwood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his honeymoon cabin on Long Island Sound, he wired his graduate student Jim Brady to help Livingston bombard a lithium crystal in the eleven-inch accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He’s ushered into a courtyard encircled with razor wire, where eight or nine other Germans sit in their high boots holding battered canteens, one dressed in women’s clothes in which he apparently tried to desert. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The electric clocks on street corners are dismantled, public phones are stripped down to the last wire. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She dashed a grateful note off to her husband pressing him for details and sent a wire informing the War Department of its error. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights were brighter than the ones back home, and I kept looking for the utility poles that the electric wires hung on, but I couldn’t see any. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He did the best he could, climbing up on the track’s outer rail by the wire and settling in to call the race from there. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this time I clung to wires all the way, and was able to stop my motion when I got there, rocking back and forth a few times before I got myself steadied. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next field was ringed in barbed wire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

With each stop, news that the horse was coming buzzed up the telegraph wires, and a new throng would gather farther along the route. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of Italian immigrants, he had come into the world in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917, eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I take me a piece of wire, too, and go back up the hill. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brain is still wired to your having a foot.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She followed her mother into the stinky store crowded with stacked shelves of crooked stick and wire cages. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to the part about finding the wires cut, right then I thought, Uh-uh, and decided I’d better keep my eyes open. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead, three separate lines of copper wire ran ahead of him, a lucky find that meant he might even make Bapi’s quota, but Nailer was having a hard time caring. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One was a bronze chair with a bunch of electrical wires attached to it, like some kind of torture device. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t know what she was doing. None of us could follow Beetee’s plan. You can see her trying to figure out what to do with that wire,” Peeta snaps back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It extended barbed wire and built new concrete barriers.3 China, too, increased border security to discourage North Koreans from entering the country in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They wired the cable to a master switch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have wires, so I can see what’s going on,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That wire was cut from a short distance away by the Careers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Nothing like thin wire or human hair strung on a limber stick would do?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He crawled through the strands of barbed wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about the wire—it will do just what I say,” Beetee assures us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed August 13, construction workers toiled day and night to replace the barbed wire with a permanent wall. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s surrounded by razor wire, but also by hills and trees and sky, a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view of the world, the world. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, they approached the intersection for the Black Cat restaurant, and James stood up to pull the bell wire. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I knocked down walls and lugged heavy beams, ran pipes and wires, and became a familiar dust-masked face at both the dump and the pharmacy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As my body swung around the end of it, I plunged my right hand down underneath the docking collar and found some wires to hang on to. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark brown unfinished walls and the lightbulbs hanging on their wires had reminded him of something, and suddenly he knew what it was. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was wired for sound, so that you could hear the crackle and, of course, you could watch it leap in the air stream that fed it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Any contact with the chain link or the coils of barbed wire that guard the top would mean instant electrocution. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They twisted gold wire and inlaid interlacements of the wildest complexity on the crosiers of the bishops. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wire of our relatively small Nation, these two big developments—a television show, and a book about us—naturally were big news. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you running and I got curious. You looked kind of... I don’t know, wired.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clinging white mist made all the wires that crisscrossed the city stand out like a cat’s cradle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At zero, I touched the bare tips of the ignition wires to the battery. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the foyer, she checks the trip wire: intact. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Copper wires can carry very high frequencies too, but only for a few feet before the signal starts to degrade in strength due to certain parasitic effects. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mrs. Dowdel,” she said through screen wire, “you see before you a woman at the end of her rope.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My best friend’s hair was like a bush of thick black wires. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s not just about the Assumption, though,” August said, shoveling the cakes onto the wire racks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he streaked under the wire, the fans began chanting, “Bring on your War Admiral!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the chicken wire on the window. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We then rolled each pile into the middle of a piece of oilcloth, tucked the ends of the cloth over, and tied the bundle with plenty of wire twisted with fishing line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

All the old pipes and wires are hanging down, and everywhere underfoot is broken glass the color of smoke. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would snuggle into Papa’s arms when harmattan thunderstorms raged outside, flinging mangoes against the window netting and making the electric wires hit each other and spark bright orange flames. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I urge you not to make that mistake. Your trailer is currently wired with a large quantity of high explosives.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All those locked gates and guards and barbed wire made them feel as if we had been taken to a prison rather than a training camp. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Lord’s command, a squad of soldiers brought a set of shimmering wings, shaped like a dragonfly’s, of some thin, transparent stuff stretched over a framework of gold wire. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the others, this one was surrounded with electrified barbed wire and had towers where guards with searchlights, binoculars, and machine guns kept watch on the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when I got to the lot where Speed’s Grocery was supposed to be, I found a gray, rust-stained mobile home, its broken windows covered with wire. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The party was a success, and Catherine clapped her hands at her present, a mechanical bird on a wire that flew around the living room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But most of the lawns here have wire fences around them that will cut your fingers if you touch them and signs that say “Keep Off the Grass!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Hatsue went out into the desert wind and returned with a few scraps of tar paper she’d found blown up against a roll of barbed wire along a firebreak. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z