If you have a barn, and it’s still standing in the morning, it’ll have rocks and keys and bolts embedded in the wood like they were shot from cannon. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She lost herself in the blond wood grain, slipping into the elliptical lines of age on the wood’s surface. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Foraging in the woods and rubbish heaps, gathering fallen grain-heads in the autumn—these were honorable ways to gamer a meal, requiring time and work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Me and the Preacher walked through a patch of woods toward the sounds that were cutting through the night air. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She answered joyfully, “Come!” and stepped forth from the woods with her arms outstretched. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the broken stool—the seat, legs, and scattered wood chips— then brought the pieces out to the trash can. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A load of wood had come for the kitchen, and walking behind the wagon was the redheaded boy from the village, Will Russet. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The racetrack had been built in a grassy field between the archery range and the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Standing, he looked one way and then another, tracing the fencerows that had more oaks than other trees, the far lowland woods and the foothills. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was as rough as the sound of a saw on wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Nobody was hurt. What was I supposed to say? Rumors that several bodies were removed from the woods . . . well, there certainly will be rumors now she’s printed that.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We started up the road and then went across a meadow and found a path that crossed the fields and went toward the woods on the slope of the first hill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As I walk through the woods, I see an owl circling overhead. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We can take him to the woods to kill him if you want,” says Sir Haye, shrugging. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

More were baying at them from the woods. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw down my books, ducked his bear hug, and scampered up the mountainside and disappeared into the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about heading straight into the trees, but the night was so dark, it would be faster to take the road and then cut into the woods farther down. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

In fact the woods has quite a lot of paths. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he leaned down and picked his bag up off the floor, sending bits of dust and wood and tile flying. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the sun went down I was still lying there, seeing only walls of wood and the open sky, blue-gray as a pool. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The moment when I cross into the pine-needle-strewn woods, I let out an enormous breath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You try to go back, try to run back to the woods, and you’ll never run any more. You go on with me or you die.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited for a while before he tiptoed across the corridor and pressed his ear against the wood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We could see where he had made a campfire, carefully surrounding it with stones and clearing away the brush so he would not set the woods afire. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t seen any bears—indeed, he had been section hiking the trail for years and had seen a bear only once, briefly, rump end and fleeing, deep in the Maine woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The very wood of the walls seemed darker, more worn and chipped. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I climbed a hill and turned right into pine woods on a smaller road, and turned right on a very narrow road and turned right again on wheel tracks on pine needles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he’s hiding in the woods, he’s probably wet through and freezing cold.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It sought out the scattered pieces of the fire, rolled in them until they were extinguished, then ate the wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No woods, no cover, no rabbits: and night setting in. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stand in front of the wood stove,” she said. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

As a cover for illicit sex in the woods. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I made a scrape—an open box with a narrow strip of wood to keep the eggs from rolling out. I’ll put sand on the bottom.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Matthias started to slide down the rope on the Mossflower side of the wall, where the woods came close up to the Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I figured I might be able to drive the cattle down there through the woods. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can be reasonably assumed that she was surrounded by a frightening cacophony of sounds — wood igniting and burning wildly, the glass of windows exploding, stairways and ceilings collapsing. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They set the tower on fire. I’m sure it went up like a box of matches. It would have been twenty-year-old jungle wood, left over from the Belgians.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leshiye were silent in the woods, and they rarely harmed people. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I continued for another mile until the forest began to give way to trailers, a few small homes, and finally, an entire community hidden away in the woods. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A figure scurried past me, carrying a large plank of wood. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a rustle and a slight, deprecating cough from the direction of the woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Wash was splitting wood behind his house when he saw a flash of yellow in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, Missy Samuels, swore Skeleton Woman lived in a broken-down shack in the woods near Loomis Lake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

So again I went along a path I know in the woods, about two-thirds of the way up the hillside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I help Rue collect and place the wood for the first two campfires, the third she'll have time for on her own. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was the most famous wood carver of the Solomons, an artist of great originality—but that did not free him of the necessity to grow his own sweet potatoes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back to the pink house in the woods, it smelled sweet again, because Betty Allen was baking another one of her seventeen cakes. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The view was not of the backyard—it was too close—but of the former woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember,” he said, “the thrush that sang to us, that first day, at the edge of the wood?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Brian had taken to carrying a pocketknife with him at all times, and he often whittled pieces of scrap wood when he was working something out in his head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When it lands, there’s a crack of wet wood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fields and woods were shut in under it, emptied and subdued. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not scared to taste weird stuff, or walk through the woods, or explore scary places, or even fight, especially if any of those things had to do with Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then she made a sharp coughing noise, and her cubs obediently dashed off into the woods. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barn isn’t red, like I thought barns were; where it isn’t painted, it’s just really old brownish-gray wood. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

As they walked, the whining of the saw grew louder and louder until it seemed to make huge circles of sound through the woods. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It would be pretty hard to conceal his excursion into the woods if he came home looking like a pincushion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It vanished into the nearby woods, properly defeated. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The village men say the Khmer Rouge soldiers are all around us, some even hiding in the village or in nearby woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did what every fawn in the woods does whenever it gets come up on by surprise, I froze right where I was at. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My ears rang with faint noises I couldn’t place—crackling and hissing, the groan of wood, indistinct voices that sounded like screaming but were so far away they might as well have been whispers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In a pair of baggy pants that used to belong to Mr. Potter and a sweatshirt he’d found in the woods, Georgie looked smaller than ever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The smell of rain mingled with the sweet scent of honeysuckle, and crickets chirped in the huckleberry bushes along the edge of the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A black toilet seat, worn through to wood in some places, is set in the middle of a rough-hewn bench. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like a piece of furniture, the screen encased in wood and surrounded by little fake drawers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the hall, on a throne carved of black wood, sat a woman. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Eight white men going into the woods in the area where the Greenwood cabin was supposed to be. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had been behind German lines before many times—living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struggled to get into the box through the door, which was barred by a piece of a wood blocking it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And were there poisonous spiders in the woods too? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I am not going to sleep in the woods at night. I’m not a goat,” Delia retorted. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I saw the Japanese wood block of the ocean waves and shifted the loose stack with my fingertips. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A bookmark as black as charred wood lay between the pages. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then, his bag swinging in one hand, the object his father had pushed into his hand in the other, Tristran Thorn set off up the gentle hill, toward the woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The steam engine had been nearly whisper-quiet, the hiss low enough that we didn’t attract a single shambler from the surrounding woods. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

North of the compound, the brook was in full spate, choked with leaves and bits of wood, but the scouts had found where the ford lay and the column was able to splash across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I debated following her, but she quickly veered right and vanished into the woods. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They stood under the boughs of the woods again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I stare into the shed at all the stacks of wood I’ll need to move. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I was positive that Timothy was back on north beach cutting on that piece of wood but something told me not to go down there. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My plan was to slow roast the chicken pieces on a wood fire, and this would keep the chicken from drying out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She brought him a car made of wood, some playing cards, a schoolbook with math problems in it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Not unless they’re intentionally stocked in the woods or specially summoned by somebody on the inside.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He moved on, slower now, stepping from the woods to the edge of the field. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tally took one last look around, taking in the ruins splayed out below them, the dark woods, the pearly strip of river stretching toward the glowing sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We stand here and talk, and in seven, eight hours it will rain and we don’t have shelter or dry wood or a fire going. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is a perfect winter day and there is not a building in sight for miles, only an expanse of snow and wood. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two jays came flying straight through the wood, their wings whirring on the air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Cabin eleven was too nervous to have sword class with me after what I’d done to the Ares folks in the woods, so my lessons with Luke became one-on-one. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Not quite so big,” admitted Bigwig, “but bigger than a wood pigeon: and a lot fiercer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have some really nice runs down by the beach and the woods on Bainbridge Island, which is where we live. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At least my death will help pay for the life of the boy in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods I said, “Matt, I have seen that boy.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

That also meant that he wasn’t paying attention when I got into his backpack and emptied a tube of fire ants from the colony I’d found in the woods. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

The short, choppy fluttering of wings slapping against wood. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Rotten pieces of wood crumbled around her ears and shoulders, into the collar of her shirt. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

August used a pound of wax per candle and pressed tiny violets into them, which I collected in the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good luck. Your daddy’s done planned out your whole life. You cain’t go off to no shack in the woods; you’re going to the Tuskegee Institute to get learned.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got up and walked around the Pond, and stopped at an outcropping of boulders that fell out of the woods. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Splitting wood for her, hauling water, planting a garden. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the sounds of the veela and their admirers had faded completely, they were in the very heart of the wood. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She tied the horse to a tree in the woods near the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she runs through the cool, dark woods, she begins to realize how alone she is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the still woods, the only movements were bars of sunlight glinting like green glass through the leafy canopy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For east or west all woods must fail... The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The seat had once been bright red, but what was now left of the paint was dull and chipped, revealing the gray wood beneath. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Behind them rose the woods and the mountains; to the left Mrs. Frisby could see the big stone in the middle of the garden, near which her children waited. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And the bed was wood, on legs, covered with lightly woven bed coverings. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I may have said hide out in, but I didn’t say the woods.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

During daylight hours, the steamy wood was often full of northmen come to pray to the old gods, but at this hour Theon Greyjoy found he had it all to himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I took in a deep breath of his comforting smell—wood smoke, grass, and leather. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Cursing wildly, he turned back to the flames and gave the burning chunks of wood a hard kick. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Just wood and that pink insulation stuff and tiles and clothes and food, all the colors of their world thrown together like a giant had had a temper tantrum. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We placed buckets of water on the cast-iron wood stove in the kitchen so we could have warm water for washing and shaving. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our snares had done well enough and the woods were flush with greens, but this was really no more than our average Friday-night haul. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their faces, arms, and legs were covered with dark brown hair the color of rotting wood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As he slipped inside Summer’s skin, the dead woods came to sudden life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It sells the wood—tropical hard wood—to several different countries. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he yells a third time and Ray doesn’t listen, Axel kicks his running into high gear and goes into the woods after him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The closer we get to the edge of the woods, the more each step feels fraught. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was going to run into the woods, out of view, but I know they would panic. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The bear dropped to all fours—stopping my breath momentarily and nearly stopping my heart—made a loud “whuffing” sound, then turned and disappeared into the woods. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Turning he saw a man dressed in grey, who carried a staff of heavy wood that was not a wizard’s staff. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie flipped open the lid, immediately smelling the spicy, sharp scent of the wood. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He turned at the edge of the woods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And another creature that looked as if it had been sprung from the limbs of an oak tree: wood nymph. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And, wrapping the baby securely in a sling, Xan marched into the woods, whistling as she walked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He also started collecting armloads of firewood, cutting and splitting the wood with a small handsaw and hatchet, and stacking it in a straight pile against the cabin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She felt like ordering them to go chop wood or mulch the trees. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring her injuries, Constance called into the surrounding woods, “Over here, he’s over here!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As he held up the staff to see what lay before him, he caught a dull gleam at the farthest edge of the circle of werelight: a wall of rain-wet wood. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They skirted the side of the wood that lay along the southern edge of the combe and then, in ones and twos, slipped across the empty road beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there frozen for a second until I could just make out a man in the woods wearing a camouflage hunting outfit and a black ski mask. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I was done in the woods I passed Byron, who forgot again about his promise not to talk. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd been collecting booze and stashing it in the woods around the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wood of the doorframe is all rotted, so it only takes a few blows from Courtney’s boulder-shoulder to get the door open. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We were in the woods again, and it was day this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nali pointed to the stars above and called certain clusters by their Navajo names, while Nathan’s fire consumed the last bits of wood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled soft around our shoulders. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robot swung her flattened hand, and the sounds of chopping wood echoed across the water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he thought now, if he chopped enough wood quickly, there would still be time at the end of the day . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When she found him, he always hugged her tight, smelling, as she would remember seventy years later on her deathbed, of wet wood and sweat and the sweet wildness of the outdoors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I picture myself alone in the woods, lost and crying. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue carried the wood they had collected in case the flames did not find enough to feed on among the stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now batteries were in position behind him, beginning to open up on the woods near the cupola. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were hungry and cold and living in an abandoned shack in the woods not far from the pig farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I watched, certain that it was about to impale itself on the broken limb, but the jagged spear of hard wood barely dimpled its chest before splintering. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Besides his quiet times reading the mountain, Tree-ear’s favorite part of the day was unloading the wood at the kiln site. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was plain, mostly, wood or metal painted blue, but a single Hebrew letter—shin—had been inscribed in gold on the front. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Again and again he hit the chunks of wood as if beating a drum. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Let wood from the forests of Eyllwe defeat steel from Adarlan. Let the King’s Champion be someone who understands how the innocents suffer.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I badly want it to be my moon, the same one I see from the woods around District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They soon realized that the woodland on this left bank was lonely, thick and overgrown—denser than the nut copses and bluebell woods of Sandleford. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cleared palm fronds, chunks of sea grape, pieces of wood, dead fish, fan coral, and shells that the sea had thrown up. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the Austrians had a great amount of artillery in the woods along Ternova ridge beyond and above us, and shelled the roads badly at night. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I thought to myself, I ought to follow them, maybe take up residence in the woods for a year or two. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In order to pen their disobedient toddlers and chickens, the women would turn her out of the village to be devoured by the beasts that waited in the woods to forage the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right under the window was a pile of stacked wood. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Theresa analyzed the relative merits of action versus inaction until her choice seemed not so much between paths, as between going blindly left or right in a featureless wood. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The undertaker reached down and knocked on the wood to let Big Joe know. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some odd reason, he thought of a time when he had been on the mountainside, taking a break as he chopped wood. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And then they were in front of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t answer, so he just kept on walking, a step at a time, on and on through the woods. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There were no shuls with walls of exposed wood here, except for one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Its berries, its bark, its leaves, its sap, its pulp, its wood, they all thrum and burn and twist with life. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

One of its feet was made of wood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He checked Derek one more time, made certain his breathing was regular and his heart was beating steadily, and then moved off down the side of the lake, looking for wood. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the man in the yellow suit stood tapping his foot in the road for a long time all alone, looking at the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would stay out in the woods past lunch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you like her cookies. They could be made from baby powder and wood shavings and you’d still like them.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a threshold and a magical woods, and you thought they might make you a hero. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was all polished wood and beautiful too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in group twenty-six got caught stealing wood. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The woods were not as totally dark as they had seemed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael saw where she had worked with the wheelbarrow at bringing cordwood from the shed to the kitchen door; there were splinters around the wood block where she’d cut kindling. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To find enough wood to make another would have taken me all the spring and summer. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he does is feel along the edge for the pencil mark, and shave off the wood real smooth until it’s just touching the line. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We packed up our tents, breakfasted on raisins and Snickers, and set off into the deep woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I was done, she stared into the shadows of the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’d asked her one day when we were walking in the woods together, just us, a rarity. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And then, now a trio, we set off into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There they sat for some while, looking through the window at the bright stars above the steep-climbing woods, and talking softly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the woods the sun was rising in the sky, but the iron hands pronounced the time as 5:43—probably about the time it was back in the real world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Behind the store there was a clearing, larger than Pa’s clearing in the woods at home. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furniture lay in heaps of splintered wood and feathers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heavy shoes made a terrible loud noise on the wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fens and wild woods of England were alive with them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the cabins were gone—piles of charred wood and stone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She tried to keep herself from picturing pakuks, the skeletons of little children, flying through the woods, or the icy breath of giant windigos striding over the ground, cracking trees off with every foot crunch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

With one huge effort, he broke free of me and ran into the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I've known English witches", she went on, "who have turned children into pheasants and then sneaked the pheasants up into the woods the very day before the pheasant-shooting season opened." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The wall dividing our side of the house from the bar was made from shiny sheets of fake wood panelling, but the rest of the walls were rough, splintery boards painted pale green. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mama would’ve roasted us a big turkey, even if she had to go out to some remote woods and kill the dang thing herself. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A thin stem of smoke was rising out of the woods ahead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people’s ideas, unable to stand on your own. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll go out and call for the dog, because it’s getting to be evening, and there are coyotes out there in the woods. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his way back, Jon swung wide of the column's line of march and took a shorter path through the thick of the wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Either, he thought the boy had long ago left the wood and reached the town, or if he were still on the way, he would hide from the pursuer. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milagro and I volunteer to feed the horses in the stables, and then we ride them through the woods and the lemon groves, the horses all buckteeth and happy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would go out with Andeg and find more squirrel caches in the woods. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The fire I made was only of the driest wood, and I made it right at the water’s edge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through them, I could see a small T-shaped wood dock at the other end, and, beyond that, several wooden cabins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Please note, Mrs. Miller, that the “connection to the assignment” is that it involves two roads diverging—not in a yellow wood, like in Frost’s poem—but someplace else. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those two weeks were mostly uneventful save for the massive forty-man search party that the police department somehow coaxed into hiking through the woods all around Lily and canoeing down the river. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My back is to the deeper woods opposite the river and I can feel the quiet of Viola standing there as clearly as if I could see her. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I leaned back and took a deep breath, then kicked and kicked with all my strength until the wood broke and flew into the dark. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked back farther into the woods and sat down. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The children of these families wouldn’t look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I have never seen a live monkey—there’s nothing like that in our woods at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then a deep, booming gong sounded somewhere beyond the woods, and at once, green and red lanterns blazed into life in the trees, lighting a path to the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stopped climbing; he listened; he watched. liie woods gave answer: the rustle of leaves, the icy rush of the stream, a distant hoot of a snow owl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They’d led me nowhere but to the middle of the woods. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On my way home through the dark woods, my head down and my hands in my pockets, I ran virtually headlong into Camilla. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I took the wood from the protected spots beneath the trees and wrapped it in my scarf to keep dry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next minute under a second explosion part of the wood rises slowly in the air, three or four trees sail up and then crash to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started for the woods behind Bat Lady’s house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Aromas of freshly cooked food wafted about, intermingling with the scent of the sweet woods burning in the fires. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was made of wood and stone—a smaller version of the prison at Cape Coast. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flip it over before he can see himself, then get up, motioning for him to go back into the woods so no one inside hears us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Were we really being taken to the woods to be shot? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nattie and I have to share a bedroom, two mattresses on the wood floor. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That she would spurn me for leaving her alone in the woods. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We followed them through the woods, around the pond, along the creek, to every place we used to go. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The deep-pile carpets, the expensive genuine wood desks, reminded him that garbage collecting and trash disposal had, since the war, become one of Earth’s important industries. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whole clouds of them lifted, chattering, into the sky above the wood, and then settled, only to lift again. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early evening they were disturbed by a horseman cantering along the ridge track that passed the north end of the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked, we saw kids heading in the opposite direction, from a row of pathetic wood cabins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

August had us load up the empty supers and haul them out to the woods so the bees could come and do the big cleanup. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was as delighted with the introduction as she was with the melodic sounds of her language sprinkled over the woods, even if the words were said clumsily and even out of order at times. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The walls are paneled with dark wood instead of cinder blocks. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Being springtime, the leaves were out and the woods stretched as far as I could see. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It squatted there like some toad made of glass and wood and shingles. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Deydey worked continually, emptying pots from inside and chopping holes in ice, fishing to keep them strong, making sure the water in their kettle was always fresh and clear, their wood piled high. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Almost like toys abandoned in the woods for years, recently discovered by the next generation of kids ready to play war. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The armrests was carved in the shape of a couple of snarling lions and the wood was shiny and wore down from so many folk gripping on to it. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I’ll explore the woods and take notes for my zoological diary. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her feet moved of their own accord toward him, then past, back to the woods. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And the entire top of the staff was undecorated; it was smooth, uncarved wood, in the same way that the expanse across the shoulders of the robe was untouched cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those are the kind who play loud music in the woods that can be heard for miles, just to see who it attracts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

However that might be, it was proved later that there was still magic in its wood. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

By the time he had found the gap, right down at the far end of the wood, the sun had come right out, the sky was clear. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually the window sills were completely done—two coats—and my mother had Nathan start on the wood railing of our front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“They look like giant wood lice. They eat carcasses of big fish and whales.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They had even-set the woods ablaze where they could, though the leaves were still green and wet from recent rains, and the fires had not spread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She stripped away the green, resinous wood, pausing to remove a splinter from her thumb. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a great deal of bustle, muttering reproaches to itself, the Dwarf half led and half supported Shasta at a great speed further into the wood and a little downhill. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

"He holds the world record for pulling the most nails out of a piece of wood with his teeth." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The route led down into a wooded valley with a chuckling stream edged with brittle ice, which the path followed for perhaps half a mile before taking us steeply up into denser woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes during the day it jumped down and darted off into the woods, but it always came back to him, once with a wood-mouse it had caught. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled of wood, and sawdust clung to his neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light reflected from the stained-glass window on the stair landing and made shattered fragments of blue and orange and green on the dark wood of the hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He put more wood on the fire and knelt with his hand on his forehead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Colonel Arbuthnot’s face looked as though it were carved out of wood, it was rigid and impassive. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as far as I could see, there was only dust, huge boulders, and thick woods. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I never saw you before. Do you come here a lot? No one’s supposed to. It’s our wood.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood real still and squinted into the darkness of the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he would ever see the star again, and he stumbled over roots as the way led him between old trees into the deep woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Back there in the woods you were angry.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up and trudged into the house, his figure as bent as if he were carrying a heavy load of wood on his strong shoulders. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d sleep deep in woods tonight, out of civilization, the riskiest part of the trip behind him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the woods around here quite well?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last Hazel heard what he was listening for; a rabbit—or was it two?—approaching from the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried a box with her, made of ash wood, which contained golden apples. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Eldridge would not allow the sick man in his house, but he did let Piercy stay in an abandoned log cabin in the woods. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Here there was wood in some places, but also brick, stone, and aluminum. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I crept across the grass, back to the edge of the woods, to May’s wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the air is rippling in tiny visible waves, distorting the sharp edges of the wood and a goblet of wine someone has set there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to bricks and wood, we carried barrels of kerosene, flour, and even small fishing boats, all for the NKVD. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And so the next day, my wife drove us deep into the boundless woods of northern Maine for our trek through the Hundred Mile Wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He comes by here once a week and hunts back there in them woods.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“As in droplets of blood bouncing off the well-buffed wood floor of the gym?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then the road was clean-packed snow and led through the woods, and twice coming home in the evening, we saw foxes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed up a block of wood—but then, twenty-five years of self-imprisonment took control. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Face expressionless, pale eyes fixed on Mo, Capricorn sat there waiting: waiting for the clink of coins amidst the harmony of the words, for chests of damp wood heavy with gold and silver. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old store’s wood shelves were painted a dour green, but stuffed with a rainbow assortment of canned food and bags of chips, pasta, and even marshmallows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She pointed into the woods and took a few steps in that direction. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

With Nero racing ahead, we fled through the woods, tripping over roots and ducking branches. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Witchlings got up, but before they stepped out into the woods, they hugged one another. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He nails two pieces of wood at right angles, with another nail for the trigger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and Prim had set up a medical area for the injured and were attempting to treat them with whatever they could glean from the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn't walk into that room with the smoky fire from the damp branches I had scavenged at the edge of the woods after the coal had run out, my bands empty of any hope. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Outside, a curl of mist floated above the ground at the edge of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I got up, my bare feet soft on the wood floor, and shook him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was always talking about the woods, the berries that grew there, the strange haunting cries of some of the birds, the loud sound their wings made when they were disturbed and flew up suddenly. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned next to it, her ear against the wood, and listened. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk past the guards, and the tile turns to wood beneath my feet. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They permeate the grain in wood, metal, and stone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us take turns moving wood, and soon we're breathing hard. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about jumping in the woods to hide, but frankly, I was just too tired. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By walking through the woods, had I accidentally moved farther from my destination? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lizzie also grew up on the reservation in Kansas, where she helped to provide for her family, harvesting corn and hauling wood over distances. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The noises of the surrounding woods were muffled inside the tent; all Harry could hear was Ron’s breathing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Witch lived in the woods, she was told, and had a tiger’s heart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He pointed past the woods, away from town, toward the country road and its endless cornfields. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t figure out what was going on in those woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stately stone and brick homes had wood interiors, and stood side by side with smaller wood-frame houses. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the charred wood from his hands and struggled over the tree, blindly fighting his way through its leaves and branches. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

About them were gathered the Rohirrim, the Riders of the Mark: wonder overcame their joy in victory, and their eyes were turned towards the wood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s Nia,” Aaron said, leaping to the closed-circuit phone in his kitchen, which was full of grapefruits and dark wood cabinets. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel might have plunged into a mysterious fantasy woods after an evil witch with a pack of wolves at her disposal, but at least she’d brought a compass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He daydreamed at school, imagining quiet places in the woods or how cookies were made or how trees grew. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the departing villagers passed the river, at a spot where the water ran swift and deep, Alyce stepped out of the woods. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once went an entire year without any wood at all.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sun was sinking behind the mountains, and the shadows were deepening in the woods, when they went on again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He barely made a sound, ticking off every mile back down the mountain until they were parked on the side of the road, the woods barely visible in the distance. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Outside under the window were some carts and an old diligence, the wood of the roof cracked and split by the weather. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The lid slipped in the wood, then it held. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A barking runner, who is more than happy to go on an early adventure in the woods with Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Dicey emerged from the pine woods, she saw the two figures standing far off, across the road by the mailbox. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Dad would stop the car, and Mother would take the girls into the woods on one side of the road, while Dad took the boys into the woods on the other. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the state’s 9,304 square miles of territory, some 85 percent—an area somewhat larger than Wales—is woods, and nearly all the rest is either lakes or above treeline. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We dashed across the road, to the path to the lake in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A hand lashed out against the wood, then a foot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ve been to the ocean and to the mountain and to the woods. So I thought this time we’d try...dinner and a movie.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He just had to get out of the woods and across the field to the fort. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, I believe, he glimpsed that there was something—some elusive, elemental something—that made being out in the woods almost gratifying. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wood was old and the paint was cracking, giving the Nativity scene a poignant look of absolute poverty. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It is an extraordinary experience to find yourself face-to-face in the woods with a wild animal that is very much larger than you. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was real thirsty, you know, and it didn’t look too far. So I plunged off into the woods. Not real smart, right?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a soft scrabbling of paws on wood, the latch clicked, and the door opened a fraction, just enough to admit the slight body of the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he noticed the plastic tarp had blown off his wood stack, so he walked over and tucked it back around the pile. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe she had come into the woods and slipped into the life she was supposed to have had, if no one had wanted to give her up. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Windmills were a great power Painted around 1490 by the French artist RobinetTestard, this picture shows people collecting aloe wood as it floats down a river from the Garden of Eden. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As I was not good at hauling water or cutting wood, I could not personally argue for a life without Nelson. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times the boy went out to bring wood for his mother. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she drew it out, there was a wood quail pinned to the other end, shot through the skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mark tossed the wood shield to the side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The open trap was only a few feet ahead, but the fire was spreading fast, consuming the old wood and dry straw faster than she would have believed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then literally an hour later in those same woods, Scoob fell into a creek, and she had to save him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

At our new place, I have Dad’s old bedroom furniture from when he was a kid—a bed, a desk, and a bookshelf, all made out of the same dark wood. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You tell me his name and I’ll tell you why he wants to pay so much money for a piece of wood. “We don’t know his name,” Riccio answered. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I throw it at the desk, barely registering as the point sinks into the wood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stubbornly he had fitted and glued the scraps together and carved out three small crucifixes from the blessed wood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He got a fire going and they set about dragging up a great brushpile of wood to see them through the night. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And, with one savage, angry blow, which held in it a curse for every hour of every day of his life that he’d spent chopping wood, he busted the log neatly, downright exquisitely, in two. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning it was a larger group of villagers who followed the hoofprints to the woods where the broken-toothed Jack and his friends were clearing brush from Roger Mustard’s field. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went in and found that every hiker for twenty miles was already there, several of them sitting around a wood stove eating chili or ice cream and looking rosy cheeked and warm and clean. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was more than annoying, because he had been careful to lay the wood neatly as he chopped, and each bump led to further disarray of the tidy pile. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He pulled up his trouser leg, and Adam saw the contraption of iron and leather and hard wood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No other sounds but the hoot of an owl in the woods and the distant surf on the beach. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But when Old Yeller and I got well and took to the woods again, we wouldn’t have time to wait around on a fool pup, too little to follow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar, a white man, bald and shiny, leans against the polished wood counter, eagle eye on the coarse fellow and the girl. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It would be an ocean of wood with a dun rim of humanity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, I knock, the sound of my knuckles reverberating off the worn wood. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Won’t you sit down, Moddom?” enquired a voice, and they turned to find a tall man in a black coat coming out of the wood with a table-napkin over his arm. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a framed print of the woods in winter and another of ducks in flight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hog jumped off James and ran away into the woods, still squealing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the thunder boomed through the wood again, he stuffed his fingers in his ears, and ducked down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“This looks all right,” Henry said when they came to a small clearing deeper in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Weylin was pointing away from me, pointing into the woods ahead of me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jos and Charles sent the letter to Dr. Darwin early in the morning, and then Charles went out shooting in the woods near Maer Hall. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and went back out of the house, out toward the woods. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but we should walk them through the woods,” Bobby Gene said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then she saw a man with a heavily scarred face walking through the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Muhammad bursts in as I’m fingering the wood veneer on them, his phone in the air. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

That, or he went hiking through the woods and either got lost or got eaten by a bear. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Out of the mist jutted a row of cavernous wooden structures that must be warehouses, and beyond that the dense, dripping green of fields and woods. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Richard felt transparent; she was looking at him but he felt as if she could see the wood carving that hung on the wall behind him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was his fault, they said, all of it, he was the one who'd gone off first, he had chosen to go into the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many of them left: the soldiers had cut most of the wood for lumber and firewood. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one or the other would vaguely remember having heard a whippoorwill call somewhere in the woods, close by, late at night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her muscles felt like they'd become wood and she imagined her bones were splintering and growing bones of their own. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He jerked and dragged wood around until the wall was once more in place—crudely, but he could improve it later. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for a nearby piece of wood and turned it over in her hands, measuring its strength and its straightness. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, something terrifying lived in the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods, before we turned onto El Indio Highway, I paused at the stop sign long enough to turn around to look at the twins. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I have training, but Gale’s scheduled to work with Beetee on weapons or something, so I get permission to take Finnick to the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Soldiers splashed through the glittering puddles, toting wood, emptying wagons, carrying buckets hither and fro, and standing about on corners conversating with each other. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the hall door, stared up and down the long narrow hall, saw nothing and closed the solid wood door behind her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see a long way down across open fields to a road, a farmhouse, a long sweep of wheat rising up to green woods on the far ridge, at least a mile off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running through the woods north of her house, it amazed me how green things grew on top of green things that were still green and growing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stopped at the woodshed and picked up several sticks of wood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coffin’s wood was as dry as its occupant, and perfect for burning. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Outside the wood, the field was still bright with evening sunshine, but among the firs the light was dusky and here the bats were coming and going thickly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And is 500 certified attacks really such a modest number, considering how few people go into the North American woods? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The entry hall stretched from one side of the building to the other, an expanse of glittering crystal, plush Turkish rugs, and carved wood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Wow, this whole place is wood. Look at that staircase. I’ve never really noticed it before. It looks like something from an old movie—you know, like Bette Davis should be standing at the top.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She built the cook fire back up with dried dune grass, then added fresh wood in a rough pyramid shape. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The crowd scattered, a few heading for the woods with sticks and clubs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wood’s light-colored, with soft gray grain running down it like pathways. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Paint peeled from the front door and wood trim. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The woods just beyond the property were full of bears and cougars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I did not even think of shooting him, until he was waddling away into the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What else did the old man in the woods say?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

These materials were much more expensive than wood, and cost more to put up, and, thus, were beyond the means of poorer citizens. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The field is just on the other side of the wood there, we’re as close as we could be.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We’d watched the men from the ambulance bring May back from the woods on a stretcher, then listened as the two policemen asked August and June all sorts of questions. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped back as it gave way, the wagon splintering as if its wood were rotten as an old stump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Nature produced you, but nurture has perfected you,” Gertrude often said with pride, as though I were her creation, carved from an unlikely piece of wood. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The broken wood beneath held that side a foot or two off the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Inside marble stairs wind their way to classrooms filled with dark wood desks nailed down to dark wood floors polished to a high and beautiful shine. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And he’d of thought to gather piles of wood when we first got there, instead of keeping just enough ahead for the next campfire. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Emerging from the woods near Hampden, into an expanse of snow-covered meadow that sparkled in the light, I saw twin threads of smoke coming from the age-blacked chimneys at either end of Commons. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Next I collected dry wood from the hollows of trees and under canopies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the wood wagons had been attacked before, soldiers always came out of the fort to save them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The river was a bright sheen of sunlight disappearing into the thick woods beyond. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just her name and the year she graduated etched into a brass rectangle glued to a dark slab of wood. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They did not have enough wood or coal to heat their homes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She marches off, her heels making loud, angry clacking noises on the wood floors. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

So far he had not lurched off to the woods to retch, but he had not so much as glanced at the dead men either. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the back of the room, up in a loft, came the sound of someone at work with a wood rasp. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He thought about asking Mr. Stine if he’d gone down to the basement to check the heaters in the wood shop, but then he snuck a look at his watch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except now it was mixed with wood and metal and a sort of cloudy scent, like spring had caught a cold. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There did not seem to be an end to the wood he would need and he spent all the rest of the afteroon into dusk making wood trips. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without telling the others what he was doing, he ran over to grab it, then sprinted out into the clearing, heading straight for the Shack and for Alec, using the wood as a shield. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He hit the waves but grabbed hold of the wood before his head went under. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

This place stinks like rotting wood, and the floorboards creak like they are going to crack open under us. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He walked out to the Trask farm, found Charles cutting wood, and gave him the letter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad marched over to the picnic table and slid Styx’s ashy dogs right onto the wood. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The second time, the Oracle had come out for a little stroll in the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“After school, bring in wood and coal for the fireplaces.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us made so much noise Lissa got to her feet and stared across her yard at the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the six knights and the two children crouched in a circle at the edge of Lord Bertulf’s wood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We took off, scrambling up through the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In those days the wood was not a wood, it was a forest, just as her grandmother had said: a forest that went on and on and on. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on this trip, she suddenly fell asleep in the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

TTie wood was hard and he didn’t want to cause it to split so he took his time, took small chips and concentrated so hard that at first he didn’t hear it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the green wood hit the sea, it gave a shudder, as though it was waking. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Wouldn't it be better, sir, to grab a piece of the floating wood even if it means letting go of the flag? This way, you might live to fight another day for your country." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

After supper Pa took his gun and went into the woods, and Laura and Mary went to sleep without any stories or music. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even used a wood burner to etch those words: Byrd's Potting Shed. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Louver says there’s critters of all shapes and sizes out here. He tells quite the tale about goings-on in the woods.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a tall, angular man stepped out of the woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And finally, when he stood up, slowly and stiffly, his face was as hard and tight as wood, and his eyes were hard. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grand-stands were old and made of wood and the betting booths were under the stands and in a row out near the stables. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Another rag, sprayed with disinfectant, goes into the middle pocket, and a yellow rag bearing wood polish in the right-hand pocket. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quarter of a mile beyond the woods stretch, the road led past the Burdow place. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods in the valley were still leafy and full of colour, and seemed peaceful and wholesome. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were fireplaces in the village and lots of wood and food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Separating the Meadow from the woods, in fact enclosing all of District 12, is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wood curved round and he followed it, until he was out of sight of the fence, and the tractor. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“She is far in the woods, but the path is safe, and she can finish the teaching that your mother started. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s also great luck because I know the woods like the back of my hand. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It would be almost impossible to find wood in die dark so he had to have it all in and cut and stacked before the sun went down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spot she had chosen to spread her blanket was under a handsome black walnut that grew at the edge of the woods bordering the acres of cotton. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only place he coulda gone was the river, so I cut through the woods to find him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Her hands found a heavy iron ring set in the wood, and she yanked at it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He lounges in his seat, long fingers tapping restlessly against the wood of the bench beside him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then I placed the twigs on top of the grill, where the green wood would smolder rather than burn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His fingers picked long splinters from the wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around as though she’d just realized that we were half in the woods, half leaning against the back of Bat Lady’s house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He put another log into the wood stove and sat down at his personal computer, which was located next to his clock-repair bench. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But sturdier than wood we now are—and the pale green of things is a better camouflage against the sky and sea. It protects us from the loathsome, scanning eyes of the beasts.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He took his notepad and headed into the woods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Ghosts of Might Be run riot in the woods, and stationery shops and messes of stars. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were more than two hundred people sheltering in the woods, including some wounded who had dragged themselves in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The door was grey wood studded with iron, and Theon found it barred from the inside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He found two right away, just a few feet into the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The uncles smiled and nodded as Redemption and Jam greeted them, then fell back to their tasks, a low hum of conversation flowing across the wood of the table. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Paper birds, paper maps, paper people, dust and ink and pulped wood and time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I lifted it and felt how solid the smooth brown wood was against my shoulder. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

If stopped and questioned, he could claim that he was on his way to feed his hogs, which ran free in the woods. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope wondered what, if anything, in the mysterious woods they once inhabited could have prepared them for this sight. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Surely we can use furniture made from other wood? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We grabbed our bikes from the woods, and I never pedaled so fast in my life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Haymitch has his own troubles over in the woods, where the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, far off in another field, a man shouted to his horses, and the shout died away in a cry that ran frightened over the brown water of the creek and into the darkening woods. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his own furniture there, brought out from the country house, but he’d chosen it carelessly and it was an atrocious mix of styles, upholstery, light and dark woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She’s the girl you met in the woods? The fairy princess who had been locked away?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Walking through the woods is more dangerous because there are no adults in the woods, just other kids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They led around the lake and up through steep woods to the summit of Piney Mountain, which wasn’t indicated on the map and isn’t really a mountain since it barely rises to 1,500 feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

House after house ignited and burned to the ground, leaving behind blackened foundations and charred heaps of wood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the woods, they built hideouts and sang forbidden songs, making up irreverent lyrics for the Hitler Youth songs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t found the first bit of evidence that there were any snakes in the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s a big affair going on up in the woods.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the escape across the field became this whole long adventure through a cornfield maze and into the deep dark woods. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were on a cliff in the woods of Connecticut. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘For tonight we go to the woods on the hills above Woodhall. It is some miles, but you shall have rest at the end of it, and it will shorten your journey tomorrow.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A big burning chunk of wood whipped by. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The woods thickened briefly, then the leaves opened up and the sky returned in all its midsummer glory. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For an instant he feared rib! but the sound had been wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It faced nothing but an open, grassy yard and a line of trees that began miles of woods filled with things making noises that used to keep me up all night. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I read of chalk streams, of the mayfly, of sorrel growing in green meadows, of rooks circling above the woods as they used to do at Manderley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A figure in a long coat stood behind the giant stacks of wood. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The woods were on the move, creeping toward the castle like a slow green tide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The meat and plants from the woods combined with the exertion it took to get them have given me a healthier body than most of those I see around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There are 1,500 types of wildflower in the southern Appalachians, 40 rare types in the northern Georgia woods alone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid Uncle stayed out most of the day, then carved wood outside under a tree. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I can cook,” he said, “and chop wood, and ride a horse, and tie all sorts of knots!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The house was so near the woods that she could hear the ring of the axes, hear the crash as a great tree came down. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would alight just before the edge of the wood and unfurl herself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, they’ll come lumbering out of the woods like drunken farmhands. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The woods begin to evolve, and the pines are intermixed with a variety of trees, some I recognize, some completely foreign to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They felt so warm and strong, almost as wrinkled as a crumbly’s from days spent working in his wood shop. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Groundsel set to work along the bank, while Vervain went into the wood, where the mouths of the holes lay between the tree roots. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were great elk in that wood, and spotted tigers, and lemurs with silver fur and huge purple eyes, but all fled before the approach of the khalasai and Dany got no glimpse of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The scent of burning feathers, parchment, and wood stings my nose. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I would suck on chips of wood that I broke off my bed planks. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Behind them was the backdrop of dark woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“He will be all right,” says one of these, an old man with skin like charcoal wood. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he got in the sled and drove into the woods. And I called after him, but...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The ground fell away from the woods into a shallow dip. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Grotes use gas lights and candles, and there’s a pump and an outhouse in the backyard, wood stacked on the porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It lies like an empty shell amidst the tangle of the deep woods, even as I saw it in my dream. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael had mounted a cherry wood knob on its steering wheel in order to ease the difficulties driving presented to a man with only one arm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She sat on the pile of wood in front of the fire and sipped. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I fled with the body to the woods, heart churning—boiling like a flooded ditch—with glee. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in a green lotus leaf, the brown, glazed crickets smell of smoked wood and honey. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later we sat by a wood stove in the warming house, all alone, and after a while I asked her what it was like to be dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the good thing about this place: The wood was easy to find. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After walking a few kilometers we arrived at a clearing in the woods. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell sat down on a big wood stake that was overturned at the end of one of the few empty campsites and put down our bags. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think of that counselor telling me I was the house in the woods with no doors or windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I'm not getting stoned with you two in the woods.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would have left a pretty nasty gash on Rowan’s head had it connected, but Rowan ducked and the thing hit the door, leaving a substantial dent in the wood instead of in Rowan’s skull. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They were hanging the family motto her dad had years ago stenciled onto scrap wood: LIVE, TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, BLESS, AND DON’T BE SORRY. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The vestibule had clean, white walls; the table and benches were of dark wood; and the priest was dressed in a white cassock—it was all neat, plain, simple. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I played in the cement drainage area because Tanner told me someone had killed a kid in the woods last year. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

So me and Howard and Wishbone went behind the garage and followed the narrow trail that snaked through the cool, damp woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, the bag is full of—I look twice to make sure I'm not imagining things—wood. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We were crouching behind a tree, staring at the donut shop in the middle of the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hit the wood against the poster, and the mirror under it, again. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then quiet, followed by the sound of wood chopping. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But before he could go on down to the little wood, there came an exclamation from Balthamos, and Will turned to see his outline dart across the slope toward—what? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She picked a splinter from the rough wood of the table and said nothing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Another shell goes overhead and Werner imagines he hears the wood in the huge beams above him splinter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They watched it clear the further hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slat of wood that wasn’t actually wood? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Those wagons regularly drove west toward the forested slopes, where they loaded wood for the stoves in the fort. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then she took the biggest knife from the kitchen, slipped it into the doorjamb, and forced it until the dried-out wood splintered and came out in fragments. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to meander like a Mars rover to forge our way through the woods, weaving a slow and unpredictable path. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Got us a babe in the woods,” Burton said as a few hooded figures gathered around. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When we reached the end of the path and sat on a giant log in the middle of the woods, she pulled me against her and told me about the Cobalt Blue Orchid. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then the clear twilight air was split by the screech of a saw biting through wood from behind the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Not the warped wood on its own but a spell that made it so. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"We can go hunting in the woods soon, wait and see." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cool high shade of the woods was a relief, the sculpted intricacies of the tree trunks enchanting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A visit with my father in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The second time, I saw it run out of the woods, screech to a halt, and start eating, just like that roadrunner in the cartoons. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Even as he swooned he caught, as through a swirling mist, a glimpse of Strider leaping out of the darkness with a flaming brand of wood in either hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A gull poised himself high in the air, silent and alone, and then spread his wings wide and swooped beyond the lawns to the woods and the Happy Valley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Fire!” someone yelled, just as the crisp smell of ash and burning wood reached Magdalys’s nose. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The endless cycle of work for Min continued: chopping wood, cutting clay, draining clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Away from him though, the woods come alive with animal sounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I turned and started walking back down the trail, so angry that they were in my woods. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Workers labored, carrying bricks and wood beams from carts and stacking them on the site. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I walked five miles over low hills through the woods to the town of Etna, where I sat beside an old cemetery and ate my sandwiches, then packed up and walked home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bare woods stalked along either bank, and they could not see any glimpse of the lands behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but big wood like this’ll hold a big fixing. It’d take a long time with a screwdriver to get them screws out the wall.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tyrion barely got his shield up in time, and the wood seemed to explode inward under the force of the blow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods stood a Roman legionnaire in full armour, holding a pilum. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then, using a piece of wood or chain as reinforcement, he would fill the space between them with concrete, a mixture of mortar and small stones. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Try as the potters might, the wood in the kiln never burned the same way twice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Andeg also hunted in the woods for seeds and nuts cached by squirrels. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I picked up the knife and sliced off sliver after sliver of wood until the rest of the branches had been whittled into weapons. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A shadow with white streaks races out of the woods. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

So I hang my rug over the banister on the deck and walk a few steps toward the woods. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I planned on running deep into the woods. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They collected themselves sufficiently to pull up short of the wood and make a more dignified approach to the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes swept the clearing, then up the edge of the clearing, and in those two sweeps he knew—he knew the clearing and the woods. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They’d just come out of the woods, doing stuff I’m sure they didn’t want their teachers to know about. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the houses in Key West were made of wood and built close together. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found even harder wood and even tougher vines. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s about a brother and sister, Jack and Sarah, who go out to play one day and find this old train track in the woods. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If you hear me shout, don’t wait, run for the nearest piece of woods you see. They won’t come into the woods on horseback in this snow.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his clothes from the basket and went a little way off into the woods to change. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was tied to a hard chair - wood, by the feel of it. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You keep off the streets, or I’d see you. Who do you play out with? Are you hiding out in the woods with one of those dam slick-headed jellybeans? Is that where you go?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Acorn, Hyzenthlay and two more were crouching near him on the wood, but the rest were huddled here and there along the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of ants spilled from the lacy wood. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was so dark now we literally couldn’t see ten steps ahead of us as we walked toward the woods. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We sat in the meadow watching the satyrs chase the wood nymphs through the snow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was living in a shack in the woods like this. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Outside the door, the ravens in the trees took up the cry, until the night wood echoed to the murderer’s song of“Yours, yours, yours.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the floor of the kitchen, friction strips have been nailed into the wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Say hello to your new foot!” he said, slapping the wood with his tail. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Here I am,” he sang loudly, “In the middle of a terrifying wood. Trada-la!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Does Indiana still raise any boys who roam through woods or fields and might even explore the margins of a river? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

From all sides comes the whir of tiny wings, which I used to confuse with the sound of insects in our woods at home. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t try to interrupt the important observations or thinking time that the woods offer. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The woods have always been our place of safety, our place beyond the reach of the Capitol, where we’re free to say what we feel, be who we are. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They soon found the road but they avoided it, preferring instead the obscurity of the wood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Let's fish at the lake. We can leave our poles and gather in the woods. Get something nice for tonight," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We tried everything. Drink, drugs, prayer, even small doses of poison. On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some men looked up, puzzled by the fast irregular knocking sounds that came from up and down the line as arrows hurtled into wood or frozen canvas. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Campers were having flying horseback lessons, swooping over the woods on their pegasi. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the kind of wood for making an observation post in a tree, which Abby has been pestering me about. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Home, where he could cradle the new baby pigs in the barn, climb the trees at the edge of the woods, throw snowballs at the posts of the clothesline. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rose-garden lay below, and the eastern part of the terrace, while beyond the rose-garden rose a smooth grass bank, stretching to the near woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘I can go into the wood any time I want.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Nothing that he had ever known, outside of the wood, seemed real. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Different woods, different merits. Basswood’s easy to carve, holds fine detail, and it’s light. I use it for the marionettes’ heads. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I expected better,” Cain said as Celaena crawled into a kneeling position, still clutching at her useless piece of wood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The saw screeches, and slowly, I pull down until the sharp teeth meet wood. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A fire burned in the small wood stove and the windows were closed tight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“They don’t make me hear everything clearly, the way you do. I have to fit the sounds with the shape the lips make, like a puzzle,” Renee said, looking from Gen to the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It showed grey and pale, a line of fading light through the wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So many textures—prickly pines, rough, crackling wood, smooth leaves, velvet brush cover, and weeds and dirt. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The following summer, the Sinclair family returned to Beech- wood Island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The platform of wood and brush and grass began to shift and collapse in upon itself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Soon the boys and the fury were swallowed up by the wood. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The stone plunged down and hit the wood with a thump. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sliding a piece of wood under a giant saw when he does this, and I nearly lose a finger. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She turned away from the window, away from the woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Kantorek sweats and spits out a dirty piece of wood that has lodged in his teeth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the local coffee shop, hunched in one of the secretive, high-backed booths with hundreds of people's names gouged into the wood, we drank cup after cup of black coffee and talked frankly about sex. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They had come to the edge of the wood now, with no sign of slowing their rapid jog. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood locked around my neck was rough and splintering. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I checked the woods for telephoto lens flare and didn’t see any. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wood paneling was flimsy and stuck on with two-sided tape. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

These were the woods through which she had wandered on her way home from Mrs. Shigemura’s lessons, the woods where she had cultivated the kind of tranquillity- Mrs. Shigemura had demanded. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was too big, of course, and too long, but there was no time to change it, and we set off together across the lawn to the woods, Jasper running in front. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Crab and Grandpop went on talking while Genie snuck peeks at the rifle, how the smooth wood contrasted with the gray steel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I could swear I’d even heard a rattling sound echo in the woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When she opened it, he smelled dried apricots and juniper wood burning. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He closes the interior door, and wedges it shut with a chunk of wood. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

These woods are not as empty as you think, he had said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Moonlight glinting on Finnick’s bronze hair, beads of searing pain peppering me, a leg turned to wood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was evening once more and Hazel and Fiver were feeding outside the wood with two friends. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked the children to sit on the wood slabs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So Chet was in the woods at the same time as Virgil. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Opening the window, she noticed Dale walking along the lawn at the outskirts of the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

On the sixth day since their parting from the King they journeyed through a wood climbing down from the hills at the feet of the Misty Mountains that now marched on their right hand. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I slid off Jingle Boy and ran out of the woods and down the road to Cooter’s home. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was animal, carcass, stone, wood, water, and each time he reawakened. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were parts of the woods that Jesse did not like. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Will threw one long branch into the woods behind their house and followed after his dad. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When I went to cut wood for Mama, though, Little Arliss left the dog run to come watch me work. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had found an old junker while snooping around in the woods behind Bob Fenton’s gas station. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As Papa pointed out the day the men talked over making the drive, we had plenty of grass, wood, and water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian’s bedroom was at the end of the hall, the biggest and brightest, with a view of fields and woods and the road beyond. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘Down in a clearing in the woods not far below. We got a sight of them through the tree-trunks. They are very large!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It swept across my face, smelling like the river, like a piece of old wood that had gone moldy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And knows Axel for Pokémon battles in the woods, and playing games with Ms. Dale, and eating strawberry ice pops at the picnic table on hot days, and making silly faces, and being kind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They found Joey in the woods, not far from O-Hall, at about three o’clock that afternoon. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I decide that’s going to be my focus today as I cross the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

DAY-doe, he says, and it’s a groove in a piece of wood. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grinning with satisfaction, I follow her tracks into the woods where they soon disappear on the leafy trail. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When James was eighteen months old, a fast-burning fire spread in the nearby woods. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At first it was scattered villages, surrounded by the tendrils of the wood of Vincennes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Neel rested his hand on the smooth wood of the chair’s back. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Planks of wood stretched across the tanks with netting in between. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A door somewhere is kicked open—I hear wood chips splinter. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The three boys went into the forest and fetched armfuls of rotten wood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not only did I wish to meet this strange woman, but it had been months since I had left Elsinore and I longed to be in the woods again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I walked in the woods in the afternoon when I was sure August wasn’t out there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds died slowly away, and seemed to go southward, on into the wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She could fly over the woods to rescue Jack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So much of the divorce, and the other man, had bothered him, but coming close to death in the woods had led him to understand some things about himself and other people. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, and then—as if on cue—the scrape of weathered wood against stone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s still there, right on our dresser, a piece of wood with who-knows-what inside.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The design was fairly simple, and the wood required was easily obtainable from the managed forest on the western side of the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He tried to remember what he’d heard, once, about attacks in these woods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him a wood is painted on a curtain, and on the table stands a mug of beer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one had a clue. Old wood house. Tinderbox.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The truck passed on and the black diesel smoke coiled through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But still there were patches of woods here and there, so as I plowed along through the snow I kept looking around for woodlots to run to if something happened. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the floors are not polished wood or even linoleum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the hospital, he’d said one of the first things he was going to do when he’d rested up was to teach Dallas how to chop wood and light the lanterns. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So how much dead wood you got out there?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decides he wants a large house in the woods—a house befitting a president—and that the lot of us hot, itchy, feverish men and boys will build it for him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then, without warning, the silence was rent by a voice unlike any they had heard in the wood; and it uttered, not a panicked shout, but what sounded like a spell. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

From here, the woods were a totally different creature than from Dr. Hyde’s classroom. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And other sounds came to them on the pummeling wind—the roaring beat of an engine, the creak and howl of great masses of wood being crushed together, human cries. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Misty tendrils of smoke bled along the ground at their feet, and the smell of burning wood laced the air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He said he lived back in the woods, but had six kids and only two rooms. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I do not think the wood feels evil, whatever tales may say,’ said Legolas. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

So while we made occasional coal-collecting expeditions, we used mostly wood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He heard horses’ hoofs plodding on the road and far-off pounding on wood where a neighbor was shingling a barn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We've searched our vocabularies for the name of the wood and settled on mahogany. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I believe there is magic in the woods, Uncle Martin had said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Look at this place,” Genie exclaimed, stepping out of the woods and into a crazy overgrown yard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was not winter in the woods—at least in these woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her damp cheeks glistened like the pumpkin-colored wood of the table where Pax’s humans ate their food, brilliant against the white of her sleek throat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Mong claimed the wood was perfect, we cooked the hot dogs and ate and drank more. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He knows that George will say, “If you have ever gone into the woods with me…” He knows that Ray will cover George in kisses. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To me, the wooden houses seemed like shells of wood which terrible monsters had spun about themselves. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tower was made of wood and housed a large iron smokestack, which vented three boilers located in the main building below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Then the wood will be charcoal, and one may take it off the fire to cool. Is it not simple?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I headed into the woods in the direction of the glow. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He remembered the close, damp, soily smell of inside the wood, the way things had moved and rustled. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

As soon as Zeus’s head passed through the shower of sand, the marble disintegrated like it was going through a wood chipper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I can smell the smoke of their wood fires, more than thirty miles away, or if it is only our fort’s fires I am smelling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A boy sat waving at me from a tree stump at the edge of the woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I grabbed ahold of his mane and looked hard at the woods. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s voice cracked with desperation, and Seven could think of nothing to do but to continue chipping away at their wood prison and getting the hex out of there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It covered house and barn and fields and woods. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’s leaning on the table, his fingers spread wide against the wood grain. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The place where he chopped wood was nice. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Between Deepwood and Dagmer lay long leagues, rugged hills, thick woods, wild rivers, and more northmen than she cared to contemplate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I do not want an apprentice,” Antain said as he rubbed oil into the curve of the wood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Only thing was, I was a farm boy and ran to the city, and you’re a city boy running to the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a minute he came out of the woods looking confused. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have to be down the hill at CSA in an hour and now I can take the streets, for once, instead of tearing through the woods, trying to give Fry the slip. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Fish, roots, berries, nuts, rabbits. There’s a lot of food around the woods if you look for it, I guess.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her through a crack in the wood at her feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wooden watchtower was the tallest thing this side of the mountains, rising twenty feet above the biggest sentinels and soldier pines in the surrounding woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Living in the woods all alone probably made a person weird. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Other than a cottage or two, thick woods edged up against both sides of the road. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As the rabbits came up by the hole inside the beech wood, a swift gust of wind passed through the leaves, checkering and dappling the ground beneath, stealing and giving light under the branches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fewer smells of bright, alive green and decomposing wood? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She strode forward into the woods, then bent over at the waist and hoisted the rifle off the ground. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But, Bear,” I said, “the steward tried to kill me. Twice. And when I was hiding in the woods, he came along the road. I’m sure he was searching for me.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I hear as they enter the woods is Cato saying, "When we find her, I kill her in my own way, and no one interferes." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

Toño is grateful also, I know, for on this slab of ancient wood, in this old and holy place, shoulders touching, I can feel my brother weeping. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rubbed pitch from the wood between his fingers and looked down at Gallup. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A shot would come from the woods, and you’d return fire, killing a lot of the vegetation without ever hitting the sniper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Guttingen took away the breakfast trays and put more wood in the stove. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The chief mate plucked the block of wood out of Sefia’s hands and dappled his fingers over her hastily carved letters. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At supper time Pa and Grandpa came from the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee was at the far end of the hut toward the wood line trying to get his sixteen to work. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they came to the part that was now the wood, and turned from the trail to find a camping place, they happened on the spring. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whispering follows me into the woods, though I’ve outrun him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled at Jasper’s leash and panted up the steep narrow path through the woods, not looking back any more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wood had rotted around the windows, allowing rain to pour inside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was oddly satisfying to see the notches grow in the weathered wood. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His axe was shivering her shield, cracking the wood on the downswing, tearing off long pale splinters when he wrenched it back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now here she was in the woods, holding something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Lengths of wood were spread out in the yard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy moved forward a bit more, inching here and there to avoid the gaping holes between planks of wood and broken furniture. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Don’t do that. Get some wood. Try to light a fire, Mal. It’s really important.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

These woods seemed as if they must have been there since the beginning of time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She edged quickly past the wreckage and the half-built fence, and found the remains of her mother s color garden at the edge of the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put more wood on the fire, as it was damp in spite of the flames, and went to bed in my underwear and suit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ethyne was a little girl, her mother told her story after story about the Witch in the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My eyes open wide as I learn of this evil machine, wondering if it is sitting in the woods waiting for us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands hit wet wood, and I grabbed. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The alternating pattern of light and dark suggests sunlight falling through the leaves in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The young mouse ran, pushing the vole in front of him and calling out: “Run, keep going, Mr. Vole! Try to make it to the woods and hide.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He added wood to the fire and cleaned up the camp area. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alec continued to head for the heart of the blazing section of woods, not slowing down, as if his one final goal was to run to a fiery death and end it all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

While waiting, now and again adding more wood to the oven fire, I looked about me, amazed anew at the quantities of foods I saw. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wood floors were dark and difficult to clean because the mop strings caught in splinters and cracks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s an old shed that’s falling down behind the MacGregor place. I’m going over to gather up some scrap wood. You’re welcome to come along.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And he made a perfect boat out of that piece of wood?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bonnie and Twill, the District 8 refugees who I encountered in the woods last winter, weren’t so far from their destination after all. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A worn footpath brings us into the woods, and soon I smell the smoke from cook fires. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Gently he stroked her cheek and quickly disappeared from the disappointed woman into the bamboo wood. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his pocket might be a newspaper with a squib: “Oak cord wood is bringing ten dollars a cord in Los Angeles.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that's why the policeman said I shouldn't be wandering in the woods by myself. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now there wasn’t no doubt, this was ’bout stealing wood! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d remind her of what the policeman had said about the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It grew in volume, the sound of splitting wood came from the rear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would lead him out of the woods and right back to the fort. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

And sometime in the future, when the brothers and sisters had been raised up, escaped with him into the woods and left 12 behind forever. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The edge of the woods was a few hundred yards away, up a slope of grass that was horribly exposed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended, and strode on silently, and in all the wood, as far as ear could reach, there was not a sound. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He believed he had once seen an Elf in the woods, and still hoped to see more one day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I grab hold of Mami’s hand as if she were a little girl lost in the woods. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

By the time he was eighteen he was full-grown and he killed, alone by himself, a great lion which lived in the woods of Cithaeron, the Thespian lion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods, they flung themselves down in the pine needles and waited for Wash to catch up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at the attic overflowing, filled with floating wood and memories. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Now we shall make a half joint, so, and fit it tightly, cutting each piece only halfway through the wood, so the crosspiece will just fit into the upright one.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I skirt around the hole and enter the woods at my usual place. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It’s this cluster of boulders in the middle of the west woods that, if you look at it just the right way, looks like a huge fist sticking out of the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A butter churn stood watch over a neat stack of fresh-split wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struck a match and tossed it in, started a giant flame on the paper that quickly jumped to the wood. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The woods are still covered in a shallow layer of snow, and though everything is dead and brown, there are birds and squirrels making it move and sing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’d better check on you first. Are you the Brian Robeson who survived alone in the Canadian woods for two months?” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the trip home he sees his sister being groped by the judge's adult son and he reacts violently, striking the man in the head with a piece of wood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not nearly as definitive as knuckles on wood. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sounds of distant cannon fire reached them, but there was no splintering of wood, no splash of iron in the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I walked faster, moving into the woods alongside the road as soon as I passed Weylin’s fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The stream begins to curve to the left into a part of the woods that's new to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard the sound of wood and brush being broken into kindling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a far walk for Virgil; just cut through the woods, cross Elm and Ash, and voila, he was there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For his purpose they had to become accustomed to going about in the fields and the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, there are oval organelles, embedded in the surface close to the point of attachment of the spirochetes, and other similar bodies drifting through the cytoplasm with the particles of still undigested wood. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a little while, a horrible little while, for Manchee to find the scent again once we’re back in the woods but then he barks, “This way,” and we’re off again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then her head drooped, her eyelids closed, her hand started slipping, slipping, slipping away from the dark polished wood of the cradle. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crack of wood breaking startled me, but I let out a breath of relief when I saw it was only Jay punching out the pieces of his model airplane kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Keep the rest. It’s difficult wood to work with.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She looked up with surprise as she almost collided with Mrs. Derby, who was walking alone on the path that led to the woods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abruptly, it turned tail and dashed for the woods. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I undress and hang my clothes on a splinter of wood on the door. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned how to set the tinder in place so that the wood caught fire as quickly as possible; she learned how to breathe gently on the first sparks to coax them into flame. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Tree-ear crouched under the bridge, watching idly as Crane-man shaved another sliver of wood from the chopstick he was whittling. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Arnold’s photograph of the aftermath showed a Lilliputian man, possibly Burnham, standing before a great mound of shattered wood and tangled steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I am a babe in the woods, abandoned at the foot of a tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents gave me a lute, a beautiful thing of smooth dark wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And of course the crow was right, and of course Luna knew how dangerous the woods were. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

All sounds of water, wind, wood, sail, were gone, lost in a huge profound silence that might have been unbroken forever. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

About half an hour after he left they heard the braying of the mule at the edge of the woods. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The landscape is lush and green, with a huge lake at the center, and nothing but trees and woods for miles around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She sent Mary Alice to the pump for pail after pail of water, and she sent me to the house for coal scuttles full of wood ash from the kitchen stove. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She knew, like all of us, that the woods were where you went to do things you didn’t want other folks to know about. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I missed the fresh air and the scent of wood from the labor camp. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She followed Turner into the main house, her feet squeaking on the dark, polished wood of the floor. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The noise was coming from the woods to the East, and soon there was a noise of horse-hoofs mixed with it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

After a while, the sound of Robb's laughter receded, and the woods grew silent again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“When I was growing up, it was still in business. It was huge and had these great wooden banisters and old wood floors. Everything smelled of wood.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“So if we don’t go into the woods or the barn, and don’t bother the fairies, we’ll be fine?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In geology class, the teacher, Mr. Dodge, was talking about the petrified wood forests near George, Washington, on the Columbia River, and how it was pretty amazing that wood could turn into rock. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt the same way your body feels after a day of splitting wood, or swimming, or sex. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he has me stand and lean my short leg on a big block of wood. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

With this sad prediction the owl stepped through his doorway, spread his great wings and was gone, soaring silently downward into the shadowy woods below. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, imagine that you’ve got a stain on your wood floor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, I’ll bring enough water back for all of us,” I say, and I follow him into the woods leaving Chou and Pithy behind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We headed into the deep woods for the last time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He took me along the railroad tracks to the bend by the woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Some people find it easier if they close their eyes," Mya said as she led the mules through the gate into the dark wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The woods that the foresters said couldn’t be cleared yet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The table was bulky and made of a light, unfinished wood— Tariq’s father had built it, as well as the chairs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

With another twist of her wrist, the pole began to shudder, and a groaning sound came from the wood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

From each summit the panorama was sensational—for as far as the eye could see nothing but heavy green woods, denim-blue lakes, and lonely, undulant mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As his hand lingered on the wood, he suddenly felt something unfamiliar beneath his fingers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Until the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day," he said, crossing the room to wrench the dagger from the wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He spent free weekends instructing C.P.’s men in combat techniques and firearms training, strutting around in the woods outside of town, barking orders and wearing an 8 mm Mauser strapped on his hip. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment, he was gone, swallowed by the woods as if he were more deer than boy. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Piggy leaned forward and put a fragment of wood on the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A buggy rounded the turn and the pair nearly dove into the woods. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I closed on the hellhound, which was now pushing the satyrs back toward the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods, he pointed down the slope to the clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then it went on again and came at last to the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very good,” he said, spitting out a wood chip. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I stepped closer to her and caught the faint scent of honey coming from the wood. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I took Melyngar from the stable. They are hidden in the woods outside the castle. It’s all done now,” Eilonwy said gleefully. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The tuning pegs are carved of some butterscotch wood, caressed into smooth rounds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Brian and I decided we needed to make the fire even bigger and went out to collect more wood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ran, laughing, out the door and disappeared into the woods out back. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He followed the stream of cars and pickup trucks down a dirt lane that wound through pine woods and emerged into a large open pasture. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He leans heavily on a staff of smooth wood that has begun to bud at the very top, as though it were still alive. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In addition to the tiny shacks, substantial wood, brick, and stone structures were begun as well, and an army of workers emerged to do the job. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

This one smells like the forest, like wood and earth, with her mixed in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You mean you live out in the woods?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Brett had sipped from the Martini as it stood, on the wood. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a small chink of glass on wood. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run to Mama or out in the woods to find Doc, but I couldn’t. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everything inside was built from dark wood, polished to a gleaming shine. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“The wood didn’t even get wet. Besides, it’s wrapped up in several layers of cloth and plastic and—” She bit her lip in frustration. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They emerged from the woods on top of a low bluff that marked the border of the marshlands. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we’d disable the drivers or allow them to run into the woods, at which point we’d tie them up so they couldn't join the ranks that would be sure to follow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was nicer wood than the loom my grandma used with the thread we had made. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stand here and there in the wood or under its eaves, silent, watching endlessly over the trees; but deep in the darkest dales there are hundreds and hundreds of them, I believe. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Some would be walking in cool woods and picking bunches of wild flowers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of the wood coming to an end, in any direction that he could see. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The woods were dark, with fireflies popping in and out of view. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later I heard a slow clop~clop~clop, like muf-fled wood blocks, then a sound like an animal snuffling right outside my door. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s why we call this pie-shaped piece of wood a log; because we use it to log the speed of the ship—you see? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time when we were in Płaszów a guard struck my mother on the side of her head with a wood plank. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was pretty far for us to have to come to burn her, but there was plenty of dry wood around. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers toyed with the wood as he looked up at the sunrise that had begun to glow warmly over the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“We picked cotton, chopped wood, plowed. I never knew what it was to fold my hands. This here is as close as I ever been to watching my hands do nothing.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m weary of these superstitious country folk, and the ...” Someone added wood to the fire and I lost my father’s words in the crackling that followed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He also dragged in more wood— endless wood—and then relaxed and watched die sun set over the trees in bade of the ridge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer was to make the roads and sidewalks out of wood and elevate them above the waterline, in some places by several feet. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wet shells meant the end of hunting anything except blackberries and dry wood, which we hadn’t thought to collect any real supply of. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One day, while collecting wood, Ku-Ang saw something red glittering on the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After about nine meters, I reached a wall of boxes filled with wood wool. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I rub the wood harder and harder to try to erase the blood but it won’t go away. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura watched him till he was out of sight in the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peel the potatoes and set ’em to boil, rub a wood bowl with garlic, mix up a salad, and slice my French bread. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the scarves, we pick up the wood, now the size of our bodies, and carry it horizontally on our backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he wasn’t shot in his vitals,” the boy said, “he might get healed in the woods.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fairies holding Lena paid her no heed, passing out of sight into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then I hurled it as far as I could and made my wish quick before that penny hit the road and bounced into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"How many miles to Babylon," recited Tristran, to himself, as they walked through the grey wood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after I emerged from the door in the cargo hold and stepped onto a large floating piece of wood, I watched the giant ship sink in front of my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The woods were thinner near the sea, the terrain mostly flatlands, rolling hills, and salt marshes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The time they had spent in the wood might never have been. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

One can guess that their boats were not made of wood, because they had long lived on the almost treeless plains of Beringia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Marching them through the woods, across the creek to dig up trouble.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow, if the Council of Guardians decided in her favor, she would look for the kind of wood she needed: short, smooth pieces she could fit together at the corners. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe night noises scared them—the barking of foxes, the shrill screech of owls, the rustle of unseen deer in the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it came to women, I was lost as a lamb in the woods. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They came to a clearing in the wood, and a little stream ran through the middle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated on the edge of the fight and the edge of the woods, too tangled in my mind to enter either one or the other. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am hiding now in thick woods high up on the west ridge near the gap at the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was some distance back, on the edge of the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Never once did the dogs exhibit any symptom of uneasiness, and even when we returned to the chapel they frisked about as though they had been rabbit-hunting in a summer wood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The man’s wife chopped it up and they used the wood for their cooking fire. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Be mindful of snakes sleepin’ in that dead wood, Stella,” Mama warned. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But when I touched it, I realized it wasn’t wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even though Uncle Tim gave us the station wagon a long time ago and it is so old the fake wood side panels are peeling off, Apa treats it like we bought it yesterday. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He hunts in these woods — he killed a wild boar. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Aileen led me around the back of the arts building and down along the edge of the woods toward the pep rally field and then down the slope to the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many things to see in the woods that I forgot that dark was coming. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey and James pulled mussels from the rocks and washed them off in the water, while Maybeth and Sammy climbed back up the hill for twigs and larger pieces of wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his back walking away from Miigwans, out of the safety of the woods and into the unknown of the city. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

So I go on, back into the second stretch of woods, heading for that second field. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today my family would never imagine I’d be in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Skip around, run toward me, slip in and out, in and out, in and out! Make for the woods! Twist and turn!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A long line of villagers snaked from the fountain to the edge of the woods, where the fire appeared to be heading. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Jon went to gather fuel, digging down under deadfalls for the drier wood beneath and peeling back layers of sodden pine needles until he found likely kindling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That night he dreamt of wildlings howling from the woods, advancing to the moan of warhoms and the roll of drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is red and it spreads . . . seeping into a crack and bleeding across the unfinished wood. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s some woods next to where they set up the market. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you see, Glerk?” she said, showing off her mechanical cricket, made of polished wood and glass eyes and tiny metal legs attached to springs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They destroy the shacks, reduce them to flat pieces of wood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I can’t really recall what the packing-up was like or if I even contributed, but we were gone from the clearing and into the darkest part of the woods before the sun was fully up. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He loved the woods because Hunter taught him how to. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to haul all our empty tin cans and other trash at night out into a hidden place in the woods quite far from the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a scuffling in the run that led down from the wood and Hazel called, “Who’s that?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed over a jumble of bricks and splintered wood and twisted pipe. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Nearer to the rosebush, on the edge of the woods, stood a hickory tree, its scaly bark like a ladder inviting her to climb. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The desk top is of blond wood; it slants down, and there is an armrest on the right side, to lean on when you were writing, on paper, with a pen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was calm, though animals’ slops and whiffs of burning wood made it rank. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The huts were closer together here, and close to the edge of the woods, so that they were shaded by trees and smelled of dankness and rot. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heard the solid thunk of one of them hitting the wood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Deeper and deeper into the ancient woods I went, past thick bracken and stately oaks, until I tripped and fell again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly sorry, I reached out for him, but he was already running toward the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Thank you,” I say, and then it’s just the sounds of knives and forks scraping against the plates, chewing, swallowing, glasses of water being sipped and set down on wood. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and deeper into the wood, never far from the stream, climbing steadily up towards the slopes of the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There are staircases, also of wood, which creak when we climb them, and banisters we aren’t supposed to slide down, and iron radiators that make banging noises and are either stone cold or blazing hot. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the bed, built by Tony Bucci, is not exactly a bed; it’s just wood hammered together in the shape of a bed, with a plank where the box spring and mattress would be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She glanced over as he dropped the pamphlet on the wood of the table and stood up, pushing his chair backward. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure, got a nice stove, burns coal or wood.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the alligator’s jaws snapping together on nothing but air encouraged all three of them to run wildly into the edge of the woods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this place was in a storybook, there’d be witches in those woods. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once the Stolls had passed, we forged deeper into the west woods where the monsters were wilder. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were two fireplaces, in which the ashy logs of wood turned from grey to red as the sunlight retreated. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the two men tramped through snow-covered woods, several “French Indians,” as Washington called them, suddenly appeared. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he imagined the Tripps wheeling out of the woods and flying around them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was a great shadowy wood of Huorns at the head of the valley, and another round the northern wall. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I think to my own brief ballistic history, right after those men attacked us in the woods—how I took Kelton’s pistol, and how I was fully prepared to use it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

However, opposite it a sign pointed to a dirt road running off into sparse, piney woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

With deliberate slowness, I set it down on the wood of the desk. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was given a uniform, a new pair of boots, a helmet, a flashlight, a whistle, and a knobkerrie, which is a long wooden stick with a heavy ball of wood at one end. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box was a long rectangle made of wood, roughly the dimensions of a coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed a long time before the light came creeping back into the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He steadied himself and tried to see about him in the gray woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When we finally climbed into the car and headed back up the mountain toward home, I scanned the woods and yards along the way, hoping I’d see that stray dog again, but I didn’t. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Pushing the bike ahead of me, I followed a deer trail deep into the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and dislodged tears splashed on the wood in front of me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, honey, you have to promise me you won’t forget to put on the bug spray, okay? On the legs, especially when you’re hiking through the woods. It’s right here in the front compartment.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then, there he was, popping from the woods, pedaling furiously straight at her, the donut box flying in the basket. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

My butt slaps against the wood so hard that I swear it might split in half. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were witches in the woods, they stole beauty from swans and then rotted from the inside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rest gently now against the wood and think of nothing. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as rough as the wood grain of the table in the dining hall, the skin along his thumb as hard and dry as leather cracking with age. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He whispered a prayer to the nameless gods of the wood, and slipped his dirk free of its sheath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The floor was covered with a flat rug whose fringes had worn away into frayed edges where they met the wood floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe the woods are where people found each other. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Before he let himself rest, he set about collecting wood, and soon came across a circle of charred stones in the grass, where someone else had made a fire long before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hiring himself out to neighbors and relatives, he chopped wood, plowed fields, brought in hay, and built barns and cabins. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Another boom sounded and then an explosion rocked the far end of the Ocarrion as splintered wood flew through the air. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He’d trained him to lie in the woods like a fawn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The crack on the back of the ukulele had been neatly mended with sticking plaster and the round hole in the middle was covered by a piece of wood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were many Austrian guns in the woods on that ridge but only a few fired. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were woods to our left, the Hudson River to our right, and the driver seemed to be veering toward the river. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some had urged that very thing within her hearing after the battle in the woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He loved the farm because he could be out in the real air, and he wouldn’t wear work gloves be-cause he liked to touch the earth and the wood and the animals. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The grass was dry and withered, and the cows must be taken out of the woods and kept in the barn to be fed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conor could hear the wood groan and saw the roof sag. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fuel being scarce, and the Staniford Street house being draughty, I offered my services to a work crew in exchange for wood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But it was a good deal larger than mine, with dark, polished wood, deep drawers, and a large, green, leather-bordered blotter that covered almost its entire top. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gained a profound respect for wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It had been built some fifty years back, hidden in the woods, right near the river just in case somebody needed baptizing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I am surprised he has not bitten through the wood yet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She’s talking about the carved wood details on the legs and on the ledge where the sheet music goes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When we finally reach Casse, a brown and dusty, dirt-street market town made of wood and corrugated metal, Farmer feeds me Cokes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Who ever told you that we were going to hide out in the woods?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavily weighed down by the wood on my back, branches poking maddeningly, I had burned almost all of the fuel not to waste strength lugging it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s going to take a sight of wood gathering.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a long time the friends wandered through the woods. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But for all that, we still see that even the most fanciful of stories hold a shred of truth, because I did find something very near to the mad hermit in the woods.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had been across to the woods to satisfy his curiosity about what the rats were doing there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She could take a safer route, along the driveway and back, before it entered the woods—and still give the impression of a serious search. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Somebody was setting off firecrackers in the woods,” he said, and I closed my eyes tight, the ineluctable fact of the matter at hand: I had killed her. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He started to turn and go back into the woods but he didnt. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing, nothing; it was a stroll through another store, and his currency strange and unusable there, and his passion cold, even when he touched the wood and plaster and clay. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my gaze back to the wood post in front of me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In desperation, I turned and fled into the woods, stumbling over roots and stones, crying as I hadn’t cried for years. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Foresters took their axes to the trees in the waning afternoon light to harvest enough wood to see them through the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the mornings he would scrabble out into the woods and return in the evening. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She slid it open and stared down the hallway to where the brightness of the lamps sent long flickering shadows dancing across the paneled wood before her eyes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You’d be skittish too if we were on the run in the woods.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He poured in water until he reached the exact moment when the wood began to float. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They arrived at a set of smaller doors made of a fine-grained white wood, and the Huntsman turned the round crystal handles and said, “You will be very comfortable here.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dad stayed at the door until Charlie walked back into the woods, muttering to himself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

With an open palm, Anya smacked the wood of the door. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was a stillness to this wood like nothing Bran had ever known before. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He went outside and brought in more wood and piled it beside the hearth. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even the small creatures in wood and field who could understand no language save their own knew what it meant. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t wood of this sort absorb blood, doctor?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Where Ophie and her mother huddled, the air was still clear and sweet, even as the acrid scent of burning wood began to taint it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Just room after room of bare walls and dusty wood floors. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And I turn back to her to see her looking all around, the Noise still whispering all around thru the woods and the rain, the fear still on her face. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After adding more wood to the fire, little Willy kissed Grandfather, hitched up Searchlight, and started off for town. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had used most of the wood around the hemlock house, so I crossed to the top of the gorge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the cool night I flew, deep into the woods and away from the stink of smoke and hate. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed to have disappeared into the woods like an enchantment I rode downhill, hoping to come upon a river that would lead me to a village where I could ask the way. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, hours from here, a cracked Junior Explorer compass lay on the floor of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He found a new route along Willoughby Run, followed it down through the dark woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you saw the entire country,” Royal said, “from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the great Niagara Falls and the Rio Grande, would you make a home here, in the woods of Indiana?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Out in the woods now with Sairy, Dallas pulled out his own block of wood and studied it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The little ones explored the little patch of woods while Dicey studied the map. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what was lovely was the fall to go hunting through the chestnut woods. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Eric bent down and blew softly again till the patch was bright Sam poked the piece of tinder wood into the hot spot, then a branch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Staying his knife on the carved wood, Murre asked, “What of death?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The new snow lay in skifts all through the woods, along the limbs and cupped in the leaves, all of it already gray with ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The handle fell back into place and there was a loud, iron knocking on the wood of the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in Canadian woods we met From one bright island flown. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Only there’s nothing like that where this old man is pointing, just a wood box that’s old and got a big brass record in it with holes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bare feet were deep in wood shavings. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a flintlock musket, almost six feet long, butt and stock of polished wood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was made of wood and had been scrubbed to a pale, smooth finish. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood floor beneath the carpet squeaks under my weight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This is the first time we’ve seen each other since the woods except for the kabillion times I’ve seen him in my mind over the last few days, which included Christmas. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel moved softly toward it, conscious of advertising her presence with every step to all the watchful wolves of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

With her hem, she wiped away the wood filings, then made slightly wider cuts, curving away layers of casing to deepen the drum’s sound. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And then he began to drive very quickly, and after that there was the dirt road and the woods and we jumped out of the car and began to run. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all I want. I live here. My name is Flume. I belong to the squadron, but I live here in the woods. You can ask anyone.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We plowed through the woods, lugging the gunnysack, passing it back and forth between us when it got heavy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The little wood reappears; we know every foot of ground here. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you have wood and a good knife, I will show you now. Tonight.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first night I burned half of the wood and slept curled against the mountain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods were deathly still, more forbidding than I had ever seen them—green and black and stagnant, dark with the smells of mud and rot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bailey takes a closer look as he walks by, wondering if the contortionist is somehow concealed in the platform, but it is solid wood and open underneath. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Was it not this which had finally died today in the wood by this delightful river? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can start chopping wood into boards tomorrow,” Leo said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He jabbed the knife into the wood and got to his feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the shade of the trees, he almost felt like he was back at Camp Half-Blood, heading through the woods toward Bunker Nine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I passed some giggling wood nymphs who threw olives at me from their garden. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think maybe there are snakes in these woods?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The problem was not wood so much as the lack of a tool. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And there is certainly ample room in the eastern woods for large cats to roam undisturbed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The grain of the wood felt reassuringly solid, and tracing its whorls with her eyes was easier than thinking. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You remember what I showed you when we went out to the woods?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It does smell an awful lot like bacon. Maybe it’s some old codger who’s living in the woods and he’s making his breakfast.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Swim across the lake in the woods, climb the quarry down Pig Lane, go nightcreeping across some back gardens. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He decided that if he were a real woodsman, he would slice off a steak and grill it over a wood fire. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After that he rubbed and polished the gunstock until the wood of it was bright and shining, too. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t close my eyes without seeing it—that tentacle- mouth horror in the woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The wood was damp and moldy, the iron studs rusted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ellis Island had been made out of wood and iron. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went for a walk through the woods.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I know I haven't been in this part of the woods before, there were no sizable rocks like the one I'm sheltering against on my earlier travels. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But if all of it was true, there was more water in the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had shot her in the cottage in the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fox fell, lit on his feet, and ran into the woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Arya had started to roll it up when the colors caught her eye: the blue of lakes and rivers, the red dots where castles and cities could be found, the green of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warblers fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They lost her in the thick woods and they separated in order to double the chance of finding her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rainwater is dripping from my clothes and onto the shiny wood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My bedroom door opens and Coop strides in carrying a small wood table with bowed legs and a cardboard box sitting on top of it. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Far into the dark quiet hours they floated on, guiding their boats under the overhanging shadows of the western woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On July 3, several cars drove up to a brick mansion surrounded by gardens, meadows, and woods. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shepherd had said to follow the path to a certain stream at the far side of the wood which would shortly lead them to the highroad. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And you didn’t live in the woods without getting a smear of dirt here and there, no matter how often you bathed up in the stream. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then I take Twill out in the woods and try to explain the basics of hunting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was made from wood, and had a small cheetah print pattern burnt into it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were the sounds of a fight: grunting, shuffling, cursing, the banging of elbows and knees on wood, the smack of flesh on flesh. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her sister, Zlata, stood at her side, silent, but she held a piece of charred wood like a club. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And Pascagoula made a roast and Daddy’s got the wood all ready for a fire tonight in the relaxing room.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A low thrum came from the woods behind them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When they reached the corner of the wood, they found the others feeding or basking in the evening sun on the north side of the beech trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I, too, went down the steep twisting path through the dark woods to the beach below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell it waren’t no forest from ’round here ’cause these woods had monkeys hanging in the trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Some had merely signed their names in Everlasting Ink; others had carved their initials into the wood, still others had left messages. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The yard, overgrown and long neglected, stretched out behind the house to a large tree, and beyond that to woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ducked behind a particularly wide one, and slowly peeked around to see who else was in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Garland said, “It’s a chance anyway, breaking free and coming here to Earth, where we’re not even considered animals. Where every worm and wood louse is considered more desirable than all of us put together.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And even though it’s the same color as the wood, it’s actually metal,” Finn added. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I took off my cap and tossed it into the blackberry vines that grew everywhere in these woods. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The day before the lighting, they dug a big hole in back of the store and filled it full of oak wood and burned it down to a glowing bed of coals. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She began by shoveling up all the soiled straw and wood shavings and depositing the stinky mess into Papa’s wooden wheelbarrow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was fashioned from beautifully carved wood, lying on its side near the edge of Father Olufemi’s desk. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I run to the edge of the woods and wait for her to look back, but she doesn’t. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“And so, the princess became lost in the woods. She wandered for many days. Finally, she came to a little hut, and she knocked on the door. She said, ‘Let me in; I am cold.’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I was lost in the woods and I couldn’t find Pita or Chencho anymore, but I could smell his putrid eye socket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Ready to go now, I followed Miig’s lead and walked behind the newcomers into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We cleared brush from the edge of the woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The best time to see them was at dawn because after the sun came up they would be hiding or sleeping inside shelters of old tin, cardboard, and scrap wood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Emmett and George’s woods beyond the barn are crisscrossed, leaning, too big to go over, too scary to stay in one place for too long, so Axel races deeper and deeper, under and through. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The walls were paneled again, in a darker wood — where they were visible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in my body seems to be screaming, but I am as still as the woods. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Crafty-eyed, wicked as an elderly wolf, I would scheme with or stalk my imaginary friends, projecting the self I meant to become into every dark corner of the cave and the woods above. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go around to the back, to the porch where they keep wood for the stove, and I open the door and fall onto the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At once, birds rose up in alarm from the bushes, and flew off through the wood.'Are you O.K.?' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

So I went back down on my hands and knees, and I crawled around in the dark woods looking for the letter and the sandwiches. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tears through the woods—knees up—and over some fields. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now she started moving her gold, silver, jewels, and spices into her mausoleum for safekeeping, along with a generous supply of wood. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Right in by the wall was where the wood had the most support and was less likely to creak. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had tried to copy him, but wound up splintering the wood instead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brush­wood clogging the aisles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, his jacket and knapsack were found abandoned, miles into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cold days dragged mechanically: up early and to my job, splitting wood, carrying coal, sweeping floors, then off to school and boredom. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore the same expression she’d worn in the woods at camp, the moment she drew her sword against the hellhound. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With the last of my strength I slam my frustration into the wood with my axe. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were carved from aged iroko wood, as unforgiving as steel. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards down the slope, something rustled through the woods—snapping branches, crunching leaves, hissing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s about half the size of a car engine, wood, four knobs on it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Genie eyed the woods nervously, until, thankfully—and animal-attack free—they came to a part of the trail that opened up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Its windows had no glass and were covered by thin pieces of wood and rusted Coke signs from the fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, one of the Finns left his wood chopping to urinate. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Unless it was when he put wood on the fire and sat down and talked while it burned, and the steam began rising in white clouds once more under the little roof. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The two rats stumbled off through the woods in different directions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Amah led a large iron pot, rolled in on a rough wood platform by two of Da-A-Fu’s uncles, in front of the dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They would not carry me down that steep path through the woods to the grey cove and the deserted cottage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I thought someone had put a wood chip into my mouth, until I realized it was my tongue. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was heavy and light at the same time: soft rose silk and heavy, dark shiny wood carved all around with dragons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irritated that the draccus seemed to be taking its sweet time making an appearance, I heaped more wood on the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She kept this collection on shelves of pale, honey-colored wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The lakes had vanished, and the woods as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He paused before a small white cottage, snuffling ecstatically the wonderful aroma of cooking drifting out mingled with wood smoke. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The killer, bird in her mouth, ran toward her pups in the woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My mother found me and carried me back through the woods, across the fields, and down the long hill to the house. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

We worked all day long each day, with Mama and Lisbeth dragging up the wood and me feeding the stinking fire. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearily they made their way out of the woods and back to the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The road took them up a hill, and soon they were in the woods. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He's pointing up to the woods, far beyond me, and without turning I know that Rue must have set the first campfire. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He carried in so much wood and built such a high structure with it that his mother walked in fear of an avalanche of oak. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How big a fool are you, old man? If there are enemies in this wood, a fire is the last thing we want." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The twins? Probably off in the woods somewhere,” Naomi said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

You have to call her back sometimes, otherwise she’ll drift away into the woods and disappear. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Skeleton Woman is in those woods,” Missy went on. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it ate some of the rocks along with the wood. I know I gathered more than this to line the fire last night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not just dropping them like an animal in the woods.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Chiron appeared out of the woods, looking grim. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My shoes tapped against the wood, as if I were dancing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All things in the woods, from insects to fish to bears, were always, always looking for food—it was the great, single driving influence in nature, lo eat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira sipped at the strong hot tea and thought again about the ominous stalking sound in the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My attention floated away from the woods and the hunt. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of anything else—the woods, the hills, the storm. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The woods on the other side had a pathway. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he barked treed a couple of minutes later, it was in the woods the other side of the corn patch. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was all dark wood and creaky—creaky wood floors, two creaky dark wood four-poster beds, creaky dark wood rocking chair in one corner, a creaky sofa with dark wood armrests in another. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The beaver chewed and gnawed and carved up that piece of wood, turning it over and over in his paws. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The woods were dark, but she could still see the path, feel the cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But planks of wood across windows can be just as good. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“What if the dragon in our woods is a nice dragon?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Shin heard from other repairmen that the foreman’s wife, while out working in the woods, had stumbled upon a secret execution in a mountain gorge. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But when I shove the front door open, familiar wood floors and rows of wooden benches arranged in a square greet me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Despite my best intentions, the kindling wood caught hold of a spark and burst into flame. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lays the axe in with the pile of wood and strings her scarf through the rope to make a handle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed to Anya without drying his face off, wet hand out and dripping on the wood floor. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The woods about the lake they left behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s no one. Not anymore. And, anyway, she’s not from that world anymore. She’s a creation of this place. I’m not sure she could...you know...he outside of these woods.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The path bent around the base of a hill rising in the woods. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The houses were constructed of wood, and they were painted white, yellow, green, and tan instead of pink, blue, and lavender like the homes in Tijuana and Ensenada. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For all the wear, the complaints from deep in the wood at every step, the cabins had the always-quality of the hills to the west, of the creek that bisected the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was just an idea that was already beginning to fade, to become part of the drunkenness in the woods of the night before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Carved into the wood along the table’s edge are the letters “D” and “T” linked together by a heart, so small I almost didn’t see them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness came early to the silent woods, and before the fall of night they halted, weary, for they had walked seven leagues or more from Henneth Annûn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puddle of light wobbled as she came through the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like her even more when she runs alongside another tall and skinny girl who always looks like she’s got the wood on her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The sweet waxy smell of wood, the watery smell of stone, were of churches everywhere. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The two-mile stretch of woods road was just ahead—the hardest two miles of the trip if one considered the terrain. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next step: unload wood from the shed and get it ready to measure and trim. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, the workshop was a warren of crates and sandbags, wood scraps and tools. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The caterpillars are everywhere in the woods, striped and bristly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had learned a little about the woods, when they were up above the stream. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I’m going to put some wood on the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs looked oddly white, in the aqueous light of the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“How would you know about a wood pewee in your business?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass grew green again and the woods were full of wild flowers. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breaking curfew, being in the woods at night, those weren’t offenses for the review board. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My optimism had pretty much been trampled into the snow out there in the woods, along with our capture-the-flag hopes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then Sierra pivoted off a stone and burst out of the woods. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Some wood- pigeons sang drowsily their Take Two Cows Taffy, and, on the other side of the musical water, there was an enormous knight in Mack armour with his tilting helm in position. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia ran upstairs and returned a few minutes later, having donned a more appropriate outfit for tromping through the woods. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

What brought it to me was a dream I was having of my mother carrying a wicker basket, walking across a field and into a woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was there she became the powerfully strong young woman who could handle mules, bale hay and chop wood as good as any man. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

These woods were dense and dark and dreadful. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is the flight from us that sent them sprawling into the subdivided woods. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I look down at the coiled rag rug and the shiny wood floor underneath. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was a peddler and mender of toys, the red and gold wagon was his shop and his home, and he had driven into the woods to camp for the night. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Now is the time to smash him. Let me march on Deep- wood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Far below lay the fields green with wheat, the flat pastures grazed by horses, the darker greens of the woods. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of it burned a low fire and two piles: one of wood, the other of round rocks. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Hey!” the boy cried, his flip-flops smacking against the creaky wood floors. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Each stole a twenty-pound bag of rice, and they met in the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take off the protective glasses and look past the electric saw machines and wood planks for Tommy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And that’s pretty much what we all did for the rest of the night—hollered and wrung out sleeping bags and kept throwing wood onto the fire. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If it were near the edge of the wood, it would be getting light. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I dragged one of the crates over and upturned it on its side, spilling out mounds of sodden wood shavings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I leave him and go to chop wood for the cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We could go back to the woods, camp out, wait until morning,” Juanita suggested as she stifled a yawn, laid her head back, and closed her eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dinah had been out in the woods all night, but her clothes weren’t dirty at all. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I was learning to use the tools. I began to try them on this small chunk of wood that had been discarded. And it—” He hesitated. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a faint breeze came through the wood towards them, and passed, just stirring the warm air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I just needed to wander the woods. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She dumped the wood into the box behind the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a slow, repetitive sound out on the invisible water: a creak of wood and a quiet, regular splash. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nailer’s face felt like it was carved from wood. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know when you showed me the map back in the woods,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She’d gone out to get firewood with other women in some woods a few miles away from the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sour smells of wood smoke and wool and cows cling to him, saturating his poncho, his rough skin. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet took me out toward the lake in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Through the woods I walked, shining the light on the ground so I could avoid any traps that might be hidden. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Leaning against an old picket fence, he whittled casually on a small piece of wood. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We cast about through the woods, noting the disposition of houses around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“The Witch is not in the woods,” she said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Let her story serve as another warning—you have no business in those woods.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She loaded wood on wagons, split rails, and knew more about mules and hoes and plows than she did about the interior of a house. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming up past the Back Door and around through the gardens of the Great House, the three boys crossed the clear-running Thwilburn on a wooden bridge and went on northward among woods and pastures. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of the Speckled Sussex went over to a pile of wood shavings in a corner, sat down, and started fluffing up her feathers. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But when she went through the garden gate she found herself in a clearing in the middle of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hollow wood handles on the bottom, high- explosive charges in a steel can on top—handheld bombs the boys at Schulpforta called potato mashers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She stood looking at the line of trees that demarcated the woods as clearly as any doorway. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sun set, and the woods grew darker, but before the last of the twilight was gone the moon rose. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, it’s all nonsense,” I said as I gathered some dry wood and piled it near the edge of the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are dangers in the wood. There are dangers here that will follow you into the wood. And there is one who is more dangerous than you could possibly imagine.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

On a piece of warped wood, I saw a faded painting of an old man in a toga. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But as soon as we got to the edge of the woods, Takumi turned away from the dirt road. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The light in the distant woods had stopped flashing, and Sticky turned from the window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed up the cellar stairs, freezing with every groan of the old wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven, differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prospect of an afternoon in the fields and woods was tempting—until I thought of Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wedged among mattresses, bed frames, chests, tables, and stacks of cardboard boxes, a big golden dog panted and lurched around, excited by the smells of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s move into the wood clapboard Rad Lab in 1932 marked an administrative, financial, and intellectual break between the lab and the Berkeley Physics Department, its putative parent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then with a bit he bored a hole lengthwise through the square part, and with his knife he whittled the wood till it was only a thin shell around the round hole. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you look in the woods?” said Emma, pointing at the dark line of trees behind the dunes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was no handle and no keyhole: nothing but a plain expanse of aged wood, and a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Berg had taken them a lot farther from home than they’d thought, and they ended up camping in the woods for two nights, resting just long enough to feel strong again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The rafts are a few planks of wood lashed on top of two tractor tire inner tubes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It's two pieces of wood on metal wheels, something used to move heavy boxes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The old Valyrian road glimmered ahead of them like a long silver ribbon winding through wood and dale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think of a hundred moments in the woods, lazy afternoons fishing, the day I taught him to swim, that time I twisted my knee and he carried me home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hurt factor: Mostly I was annoyed having to explain that my artificial legs were not made out of wood, thank you very much. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he had a good pile of these, broken and lined up for use, he searched for slightly larger dry wood and still larger until he had a pile as high as his knees. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

My patent-leather shoes slipped on the rotting wood of the pier. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The uneven wood floor creaks and rocks with every step. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, in the barn, Tiller said, “Florida, you have a...a...way with wood.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant patio is a composition of dark and light wood. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He said, “I’m going to set these pieces of wood up at about twenty paces and I want to see how many of them you can hit.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Carvings were etched up and down the wood, and it hummed as giant hands found familiar grooves. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed Caesar, who loitered by one of the work sheds with a group of young hands, carving a piece of wood with his knife. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After a minute, the end is red hot and smoky, with flames catching on the new wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When they emerged from the woods, however, her bravery dried up into dust. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded in her ears, and the sound of wood against steel became almost unbearable. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He knows that George will show up when he and Ray cross from woods to clearing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He called Thomas At-the-Bridge, who knew the ways of the woods and the tracks of the animals, to help him discover what sort of beast had been prowling about while they slept. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the road, where the farm itself lay, overgrown fields stretched back to meet a thick woods of pine trees, oaks and tall, topheavy loblollies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way the light casts a shadow across the wood floor. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Fiona stayed behind to watch Claire, who was still sleeping, and with Grunt and the emu-raffe loping after us, we crossed the plateau to the little patch of woods that grew at the far edge. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Mr. D offended his father a while back, took a fancy to a wood nymph who had been declared off-limits.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Assassin kicked at the bits of splintered wood on the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She missed her friends and the games they’d play in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I dan’t get down here but once a year in the fall. Forage for the hogs makes it worth moi while, but only just. There’s strange things in these woods. Especial off tae the north.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Disney cartoons lure out the girls, who always surround Brother Vu, begging him to break yet another piece of wood. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But Mark could hear fingering catcalls and whistles haunting the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If I'm going to swing a stick of wood to thwack a round object, I'd rather it be the flatter rectangle of a cricket bat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the small wood was going well he went out and found larger wood and did not relax until that was going. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked up the driveway to a red Cadillac and crashed the wood into the front windshield. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His shoes kicked lightly against the yellow oak wood, his sludge-brown socks, garterless, collapsed in sagging circles below ankles that were surprisingly small and white. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and disappeared down the shadowy road, and as he went he whistled, very softly, the tinkling little melody from the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a sight for sore eyes, sore, tired, traveling eyes. I saw you two running into the woods hand in hand when I drove by in the cab. It was like a time warp.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I climb the ladder up to the house, over worn wood shaped to the hands that ascend and descend every day. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

I don't argue with her because I feel like this is an idea she's been working on for a long time, an intricate idea she's carved out of a block of wood. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The place was packed with lopsided row houses patched with tin sheets and scrap wood and cardboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They walked upstream for half a mile and entered woods again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were many recesses cut in the rock of the walls, and in them were large iron-bound chests of wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Zizmo drives through the gloom, past the octagonal gazebos and the monument of the Civil War Hero, and into the woods where the Ottawa once held their summer camp. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sadly I turned my back on the steamy kitchen window and trudged across the field toward the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I go off into the woods to relieve myself. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s wood out back, behind the lean-to,” she said. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How many nights had they both been out in the woods at the same time? I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Paul grabbed Nate by the arm and they tore through the woods. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the woods she fell in love with a shadow who tricked her into believing he was a man. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are still clues, Axel supposes, but not like the ones in the deep woods. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The room has Harold’s minimalist look to it: the twin bed with plain white sheets and white blanket, polished wood floors, a bleached oakwood chair, and nothing on the slanted gray walls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On other days, deep in the woods, I've listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our District. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As her knife moved nimbly over the wood, shavings drifted down the steps, mixing in with Tiller’s wood chips. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the best things about Mr. Woodwell’s boat shed is the clean smell of wood shavings and varnish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stella said after a few minutes of watching him hack at the wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Alone, I thought, lying down on the old wood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The woods that surrounded Grace Turner’s old bungalow were still there, and as the drive cleared a last stand of beeches, the main house came into view. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She would never forget the rattle of the rain on the jailhouse roof, or the smell of wet wood, or the darkness that had saved them all; or how difficult it was not to cough. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were walking through the woods, Maxim and I, and he was always just a little ahead of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A good nut year means a good baby year,” the midwife said as she sent Alyce and her nutting basket to the woods to see what kind of a year it would be. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Grandpa’s soul isn’t wandering the woods like the ghosts I sometimes think I glimpse between the trees. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“May I, Father?” he asked, and without waiting for permission, he placed the wood in its braces, barring the door behind them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wished Georgie would step out of the woods and stop me from walking across the field to the terrace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We'd made sure to gather enough green wood to make the smoke noticeable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My brother has a hammer and some wood, and his own jackknife. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As our eyes got used to the dark we could also see the picnic table and behind it that black woods. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the street and entered the woods side by side, Gen tugged at Renee’s sleeve. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the cold of winter, the wood frog’s heart freezes and stops, waiting until spring until it thaws and beats again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As he turned to follow Speedwell up the run that led into the wood, he found Clover beside him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's just that part of the woods isn't good. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Whether the people felt that way about the wood or not is difficult to say. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white flakes of wood lay all about him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no place to go except higher up the hill and into the woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He issued orders to the search party that they were to stay on the floor of the woods until they found something. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We remained like this for a long while, and by the time he had to go to the loft to chop wood, I knew he was a good, decent boy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The kerosene has evaporated from the wood by the time he locates the matches. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the rounded end of the stick into the little hollow and start spinning it twixt my hands, pressing hard into the wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The flames started to lick quickly up the dry wood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a dim new moon, which he hadn’t seen while he was in the woods, and Jethro watched it dully as home came closer, step by step. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clutched the doorknob in my fist, leaned my back against the cool wood. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We found an old man lying in the woods one morning, near one of the jeep trails not so far from here, and he was dead. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A decent woods with sturdy hardwood trees, plentiful food, game that isn’t creepy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under the pressure of his hands, a slab of wood popped out from the wall. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem to be any nearer to the edge of the wood, the trees were thick, on all sides around them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In the basement of the school or out back behind the wood shed, I learned Navajo songs and stories. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was gone eight, they had been in the wood for more than two hours. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The two of them had stayed to set up camp while the others went to gather more wood and refill their water skins. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Catelyn was content to wait, to listen to the whispers in the woods and the faint music of the brook, to feel the warm wind in her hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Minli thought about her own home — the wood floor always swept by Ma, the extra blanket Ba put over her when the wind blew cold — and she felt a strange tightness in her throat. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was reared all the way up on its huge hind legs, shorter forelimbs pawing idly against the wood planks. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week the ship jumpers possessed mill jobs—stacking lumber, sweeping sawdust, hauling slab wood, oiling machines—worth eleven cents an hour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel like the traveler in Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”: “Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The dry wood caught quickly and the flames soon warmed my face and hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The splintered wood looked like teeth in a wide-open mouth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was two steps behind when I hit the foul line, and when I took my takeoff step he was still on the wood. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I was out”—Hangman stopped “skating”—“er...last January, when the pond in the woods froze over. Messing about with some other kids. I had Granddad's watch on. His Omega—” Hangman blocked “Seamaster.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looked across the lawns to the clearing in the woods where the valley sloped to the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lola was convinced the woods teemed with snakes, but Virgil was certain that he could find five stones here. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the spring there would be pale blue violets and primroses, goldilocks, wood anemones, and white Stellaria. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he reads the part where the little kid asks the bigger kids about the scary beastie in the woods, I daydream. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up a slat of wood about three inches wide and bored holes in it. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They could not go to the woods to hunt, the way men did. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it we burn scrap pieces of wood left over from the construction. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t register the zing of wood cutting through the air until the Commandant’s riding crop slices into my back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Take off your boots and dry your stockings. I'll find some dry wood. If the ground's not wet under the rock, we might be able to get a fire burning." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Appalachian Trail was formally completed on August 14, 1937, with the clearing of a two-mile stretch of woods in a remote part of Maine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, most of those centuries-old trees had been chopped into wood to build ships and railroads and buildings for America’s brand-new cities. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at that sawed-off piece of wood resting on top of a metal frame with skate wheels up front. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam is happy we’ll have loads of paper for lighting the fire though the wood we burn from that collapsing shed leaves a sickening smell and she worries the white maggots will escape and breed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, in about ten minutes he came up through the woods, wagging his tail. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

One approached it by way of a great clearing some three hundred yards wide extending from the bluff’s edge back into the woods. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At this moment, up in the wood, there broke out an excited yelping and a jay began to scold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering aimlessly at first in the wood, Frodo found that his feet were leading him up towards the slopes of the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Liang did not realize how wonderful the brush was, however, until he dipped it into the water and painted a frog on the wood of his boat. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A murderer might dump a body in a wood but it'd be an idiotic place to wait for victims. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Anya said, “I’m too tired to get any wood. We can all just lie next to each other. Håkon can keep us warm.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They dumped us into the middle of the woods with nothing but a wristwatch and told us to find our way out,” Dri said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most villages had craft schools, where boys and girls learned how to weave cloth, carve wood, and master other skills that would land them steady work when they grew up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I went to the woods this morning and dug these up. For her,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, instead, you and I could just, like, go out in the woods that weekend and hang out. Like build a fire or something and go camping.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We grabbed up our poles and hiked through the woods to see if Styx wanted to come along. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fewer than a dozen shields remained, sad grey things with faded paint and long cracks in the wood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I walked out of his embrace and past Lara and Takumi to her casket and knelt before it and placed my hands on the finished wood, the dark mahogany, the color of her hair. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was no money for wood, but my father, he hauled slab ends from the scrap pile at the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of sliding around it, which they could easily have done, they searched until they found a fragment of wood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were happy as they drove through the springtime woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the chairs match and the table is an old wood job with lots of scratches on it. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at it, confused, until the Huntsman told her it was a gift from the wood nymphs, who had visited during the night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One man, found with rosin and brimstone-tipped slivers of wood in his pocket, was tossed into a burning cobbler shop, another was quickly executed with a bayonet through the chest. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned abruptly on his heel, and made towards the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then me and Howard headed off toward the road, peering into tangled shrubs and squinting into the dark woods along the way. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Raising a block of wood high, she brought it down on his head with all of her strength. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The evening star had risen and was shining with white fire above the western woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like wax, candles, oil lamps, tobacco, burning stove wood, whiskey, dirty clothes, and leather boots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when they had begun to enter the wood that embraced the hill, it slackened and the sun came out. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods, where the grassy roadside banked above the macadam, they stopped to wait for an opening in the traffic. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except this time, the only sounds I heard were Jackie’s soft snoring and the bullfrogs down in the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Denna dropped another load of wood and peered down into the bucket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You put her in the woods and you lost her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A current of warm air, rising from the woods, was carrying them along. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wood walls creak in ways they never did before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little man stoppered and pocketed the little bottle, shouldered his pack, and the two of them walked together down the green path through the grey wood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow Daniel knows it’s time for something unexpected, not an eyebrow or a dance move, not a plan for what they could find in the woods, but a friendly dose of the truth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All stone and dark wood, it had held up for the most part, though it now had a faded, sad look, as if losing its former occupants had stolen its soul away. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The wood smoke still smoldering from the barn fire made Anya’s eyes water, and her stomach clenched. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

One of the girls blew a silver dog whistle, and a dozen white wolves appeared out of the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ser Corliss lit the first pyre with the torch, then thrust it into the wood at the base of the second. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No more wood, I am warm enough. Please sit down, Isabel.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled wood smoke and sage in the old man’s clothes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I like the smell of wool and wood smoke. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The queen's men have laid claim to all the seasoned wood." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even so, by the time they reached the King's Gate, he could hear a booming crash of wood on wood that told him the battering ram had been brought into play. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I shook my hair back, hitched up my overalls, and hurried outside for our walk in the woods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I say, fingering a burl in the wood. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sidman took everyone else to search for wood, and she organized-what was brought back into a pile that slouched from the biggest logs to the smallest twigs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You know who you look like, sitting there? You know that picture in your kitchen, of the girl and the lady sitting in the woods? You look like that lady.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a second, Bristle’s head reappeared, and in her jaws was a wood rat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He walked back to the house, with the sun climbing behind him, warming his back, and he chopped wood and waited until he smelled smoke from the stovepipe. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

From his shoulders, chest, and hair, he plucks hot pieces of stone and wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the boys’ room, all that remained were the bolts that had attached the bunk beds to the wall; I guess that wood had built someone a cooking fire. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Ophie picked her way out of the woods she saw them in the yard; the pastor and his wife were standing near their big car, holding Ophie’s mama in a comforting embrace. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would hold out her hand and birds would fly out of the woods to settle on her arm—lorikeets, parrots, doves. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Naomi of the woods, the Naomi on the twins’ wooden Christmas ball, Wash’s Naomi, she would stay in the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d crutched over field and woods, through mud and gravel, up hills and down rock faces, over stone walls and under fences. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He thought of the grizzly bear his mother had intercepted at the edge of the woods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re going into the woods for weeks and weeks with a person you have barely seen for twenty-five years. Have you really thought this through?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The satyrs and dryads worked to repair the damage to the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A heartbeat, two, four, and sud-denly it was as if she and her protectors were alone in the wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Judging by the height of the sun in the sky, that was in no way the time in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The shelves on which they stood smelled of freshly sawn wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

From somewhere deeper in the heart of the wood came the droning of ring doves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Later they swapped the apples for wood, and the Irish immigrants who played called the disk a poc—the word for punch or strike a blow. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven flew through the woods and out into the road like the Cursed Forest had literally spit her out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He held the line tight in his right hand and then pushed his thigh against his right hand as he leaned all his weight against the wood of the bow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner cupped his hands around his, and they sat silently together for a time, feeling the warmth of the wood——stove and of the coffee thawing their frozen selves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“If it’s so dangerous, why not seal the wood in something that won’t burn, like plastic or steel? Why not put it in a safe deposit box?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then I would heat my coffee and sit comfortably on my back step and contemplate wood and water and the quick-rising mountains with crowns of conifers and the fir trees high up, dusted with snow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the tree limb that holds the nest, I position the knife in the groove and I'm about to draw the teeth across the wood when I see something moving. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I noticed that,” Kote said with a flicker of curiosity, running a finger along the darker groove the letters made in the wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon they turned dark, getting an extra covering of deep brown, like the color of the dark wood floor they rubbed against. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She looked into the woods, over toward the saplings where the other rat lay. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas held his block of wood to his ear, as if maybe he could hear what was inside. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The last few times he did not bring anywhere near his proper share of wood.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There was a long piece of wood that was half in and half out of the roaring flames. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They sat for a while, listening to the sounds of spring in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No point in being in the woods after dark if you don’t have to. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept cutting wood and piling it like a nervous child biting his nails. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was novel to have something firm underfoot and exceedingly agreeable to be out in the open, in warm sunshine, after weeks in impenetrable woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one was ever out in the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Gritting my teeth and squeezing my eyes shut even tighter still, I pressed my cheek against the cool wood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I change into the blue shift I packed in the woods outside Madoc’s grounds, despite being so tired that my joints hurt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just so you didn’t set the woods afire and weren’t Gypsies, nobody minded. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Dallas examined the piece of wood in his hands, wondering why he couldn’t see what was inside. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wall of wood and mud allowed only a trickle of water to pass through, and it had turned a narrow stream into the wide pond that many animals now called home. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But he also described machines for pumping water, sawing wood and performing other industrial tasks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then she walked to the pile of wood planks and picked two up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked in the kitchen, scrubbed to the wood grain by Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, there was a stand of woods that looked like a solid wall of darkness after the moonlit fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the stuff in the green rings is stuff that is trying to get out of its own place: so that a green ring would take you out of the wood into a world. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And—” Footfalls in the woods alerted Frightful to danger, and she flew for the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She smelled like cinnamon and wood smoke, and he thought he’d never smell anything that good again. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Aye. I have squandered a third of my life trying to teach the rudiments of swordplay to churls, muttonheads, and knaves. Small good that will do me in those woods.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with an S maybe, S for silent, for stupid, for scared. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It did not feel cold to her bare hands, and whether that was because it was really glass or because she was so frozen that ice felt like wood to her, she did not know. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

New sweet wood was going in, pine sharp with resin and velvety redwood and a new roof of long split shakes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a Coleman lantern to lead him, Toomer secured the boat and then plunged through the woods until he came to a row of dunes covered with sea oats. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen had red cabinets and wood floors. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually there are only a few cars on the road, no signs for tourist facilities or campgrounds, just more farms and woods, the fields full of blue and purple flowers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She then disappeared into the cabin, and Deydey spent the day chopping wood, hauling water, hunting, and talking to Old Tallow, who had come near in grim worry. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was no echo or answer though the wood seemed to become more crowded and more watchful than before. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Through the village we traveled, stopping at the edge of the woods. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Then we have to spray it with bleach cleaner. There are little bleach spots all over the wood,” said Patti. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mary sat to Lincoln’s right, seated on a wood chair. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed the smooth wood of the harp and how the strings were held with wooden pegs. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Me and old Redtooth were keeping our eyes on the fox here, when suddenly Redtooth hears a noise in the woods, so off he goes to investigate.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A herd of bare feet pounded against wood planks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Are you talking about”—I swallowed—“the man in the woods? The man with the bees? He's over there.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their holds were packed with trade goods, wines and silks and spices, rare woods and rarer scents, but the ships themselves were the true prize. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m standing in front of the cupboard, which has folding doors made of wood. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The low early sunshine was streaming through the wood and the grass was gray with dew and the cobwebs were like silver. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Under the sheet is a piece of wood that’s going to be the door once Dad and Devon finish the chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burned into the wood was a cluster of grapes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then, as I was gathering wood for the fire, I heard my father singing in the distance. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’m not saying we necessarily went around the whole time at that age worrying about the woods. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are questions to be unraveled back home, in the peace and quiet of the woods, when no one is watching. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His father had just lit his pipe, and the sweet tobacco scent of it was curling around the room and mixing with the smell of leather and polished wood. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Color was splashed through the woods as if it had been thrown about by some madcap wastrel who spilled out, during the weeks of one brief autumn, beauty enough to last for years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked our bikes out of the woods and mounted them, ready to ride the rest of the way. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He gazed into the room as though it were full of great art rather than pine boards and wood curls. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited in the road and when the man came out of the woods he was carrying the suitcase and he had the blankets over his shoulder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And so we walk through the woods, ragwort steeds following. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The house his father had built was spacious and well lit and smelled sweetly of fresh-sawn wood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The dirtiest jobs fell to me: water hauling, wood chopping, and chamber-pot emptying. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sairy reached into her own pocket and withdrew her whittling knife and a block of wood. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pender’s whole force was streaming forward across the fields, into the woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police found his body in a wood like this. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At first they felt afraid, away from the shelter of the wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had stridden through the deep woods with no thought of danger; he concentrated only on finding the pair that he had seen so close to death. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

With the words “extremely dangerous” fresh in the children’s ears, the car rattled out of the woods into plain view of Nomansan Island. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t catch him offering to chop wood or gather in a corn crop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a stupid rule,” I muttered, pressing my forehead to the cold wood. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were birds in the woods, and they had things to sing of. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Another was the use of so much wood in the construction of homes, offices, sidewalks, and roads. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said to me, “Sam Gribley, if you are going to run off and live in the woods, you better learn how to make a fire. Come with me.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following day they passed through the boarded ruins of a seaside resort and took the road inland through a pine wood, the long straight blacktop drifted in pineneedles, the wind in the dark trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nurmi was out in the yard by an old wood stove which she still used for boiling the vegetable dyes for her weaving, or peelings and scraps for the hens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tromped through the woods to meet Styx and Pixie for another afternoon at the pond. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Looking like I could be headed for the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It fell near the woods and a woman picked it up and carried it in with her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jeremy flew away to the woods, and she entered her house, taking the three doses of medicine with her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not grateful that we didn’t kill all of you? Come on carry those wood planks quickly, two at a time!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley jumped up and hurried to it; with one hand on the doorknob and her face pressed against the wood she called softly, “Arthur, is that you?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The path led them into a grey wood of thin, pale birch trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a winter house, such as some field mice move to when food becomes too scarce, and the living too hard in the woods and pastures. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem with spending time with him in the woods all day is that there’s so much space in there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This four-lane concrete highway slashed with speeding cars I remember as a narrow, twisting mountain road where the wood teams moved, drawn by steady mules. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May I ask you something?” he says as she looks at a collection of detailed figurines waiting patiently amongst curls of wood to be housed in their proper clocks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sleep in the wood last night hadn't been very good sleep. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

One day Brian and I climbed the hillside to try to find some dry wood while Lori stayed in the house, stoking the fire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be cries in the woods behind, but he did not heed them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They spend a few weekends taking the shuttle bus to Ikea and filling up the rooms: imitation Noguchi lamps, a black sectional sofa, kilim and flokati carpets, a blond wood platform bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, just so much wood and brick. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Just my bits of wood. They didn’t want me distracted.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby makes his jump, the wood groans—but miraculously, Bucci’s contraption does not come apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still, I thought about yesterday’s battle, and I wondered if I’d ever be able to walk in these woods again without remembering the horror of so much fighting. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They taught metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I stare at the rough-hewn wood until I hear his footsteps clatter over top of us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There's only one house in the woods so that's what we call it, the House in the Woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sam Malloy crawled out of the boiler and sat on his wood block and looked at the lightening east. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take another deep breath and taste the smell of fresh wood shavings. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It smells like wood chips and wet leaves. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There is tannic acid in the woods in oak trees, but it took me several weeks to figure out how to get it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had made new fire, which he now kept going using partially rotten wood because the punky wood would smolder for many hours and still come back with fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were under the thatch awning of the veranda, on a wood bench placed against the wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Let us pass over the time I spent alone in the woods that evening, playing games that children invent to amuse themselves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know what made me feel good when I was out in the woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the woods I call out for Mango. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then she thought that what she really needed was the lacquer without the wood, but she quailed at the idea of making another sheet; how could she make it flat without a backing anyway? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You want to go to the woods to live deliberately. You want to suck the marrow out of life.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The lane began on the far side of the barn and led into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When Sam and Alice came out of the woods, the winged lions bombed them again. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A number of well-dressed men and women were gathered in groups, some beside a grand piano, the others lounging in the pale beige upholstery of the blond wood chairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd tom the rags she was wearing half off her back, so I wrapped her in my cloak while Jaime chased the men into die woods. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The wood from the tatajuba tree proved to be too hard and heavy, and its lack of buoyancy contributed to the canoe’s demise. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Across her knees lay an ancient shield—a battered circle of wood and bronze, painted with the likeness of Akhlys herself holding a shield, so the image seemed to go on forever, smaller and smaller. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then she saw the eyes shining out from the wood, bright with reflected moonlight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The time when Axel and Ray first come from the woods. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The blue stuff on the end was not wood. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally hear his knuckles hit the wood, it sounds like bruises. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I followed the man, staying on my high woods path. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"How'd it happen? I was...I was working on a sculpture. Did I mention I carve sculptures out of wood? Kind of like the ones you see in museums. Cool stuff but lots of splinters." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty in Jack's departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was light gray with white trim, all sharp angles and expertly painted wood tiles. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the leaping light, as the fresh wood blazed up, Frodo saw many grey shapes spring over the ring of stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some kids got a hold of it and kicked it even farther away, into the woods. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By binding small, flat pieces of wood to newborns’ foreheads, they pushed up the soft infant bones, making the skull longer and higher than normal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He turned and trudged off into the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He placed his hands along the sides of the podium, preparing to speak, but his face froze and he gripped the wood frame as if he needed it to hold himself up. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is still an imposing presence, but the stony mass that rises from the New England woods today represents, at most, the stubby bottom one-third of what was ten million years ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As bad luck would have it, my bedroom window looked west to the haunted woods. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard something. Please . . .” Volkheimer does not move; he seems made of wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wood in the stove had burned down some, and it would be safe. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked around, a cloud of crows flew over me, straight for the woods in back of the barn, cawing their heads off. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

As I had expected, the men led me to a small log cabin in a moonlit clearing in the woods. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re a demigod and you find a sweet little girl alone in the woods—that’s typically a good time to draw your sword and attack. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rashid Uncle sat at the dining room table and carved some wood. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty of wood, and I must go back to school,” the boy told his mother several days after they had buried his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the road there was a big empty field of grass, and beyond that a fringe of pine woods. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A blackbird called one or two deep, slow notes and was followed by a wood pigeon. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dried and hardened over a slow fire of green wood, the bow was ready. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the freshly painted walls to the sparkling glass tables to the polished wood floor, everything looked new. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, being out here all by himself reminded him of the nights at home when he sneaked out into the woods while Papa and Phoebe were asleep. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

But they were plain, unpainted wood like the ones she’d resided in. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Four month ain’t long for wood all the way from Aryen, not with the roads being as bad as they are.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anyway, how cold could it be in the woods at night, right? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a flat, barracks-style building with splintered walls and windows boarded with planks of wood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The shout and the light had come from the woods by the river, a few hundred yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You, Luster!” she shouted, but he had already hurled the wood into the box with a thunderous crash. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to go too deep into the woods behind the barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I waited a while, but when Lissa didn’t come back outside, I slipped into the woods to find my brother. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Frodo stripped the blankets from Pippin and rolled him over, and then walked off to the edge of the wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And just then Carmen saw it: something big, made of wood. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He pointed into the woods, away from the clearing, and he didn’t need words to communicate what he meant. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was 4:30 p.m., sweet hour of opportunity at the Beach- wood Place Mall. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then I hesitate a moment, thinking of another day in this woods, when Gale and I watched a hovercraft appear out of thin air and capture two escapees from the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I look down, I remember why Gale and I always waited in the woods rather than try to tackle the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We found one at the edge of the woods, about two feet long, one inch thick, and still green enough to be slightly springy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was something beautiful about the way the woods were now. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He said he found it in the woods. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“When I came here so young, sometimes I was very lonely and frightened. But the feel of the wood was calming.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark shrapnel ripped through Krios and Hyperion, shredding them as easily as wood in a chipper. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We finally know the name of the girl who we watched the Capitol abduct from the woods of 12, the fate of the Peacekeeper friend who tried to keep Gale alive. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, evidently as a warning that he must keep silent, then parted the bushes and quickly led the way along the narrow track into the wood. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Its wood was a deep, rich brown, with bulbous bumps on its trunk that reminded him of warts. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They had reached the very edge of the wood at the top of the field, and here was an empty space, with a small sign hammered into the ground that read weezly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They agreed that she was to lead the way, for she was more familiar with the woods than the others. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slap her hand on the table, rattling the wood radio. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest was only about two miles away, but there was no trail to it and it was down a perilous slope through the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the library the floors change from wood to white tile, and the walls glow like the ceiling of the aptitude test room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Across the prairies, through the woods, over the brown water of the creek, there was a sound of crying. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to come see what I found in the woods.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A third ended with a cave-in of tangled wood and soil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lay back against the rough wood and threw my arm over my eyes, hoping the darkness might help dampen the headache. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But he hadn’t seen it and I couldn’t speak to tell him, frozen in place as I was, my dying flashlight flickering over the blank woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She pointed toward the far edge of her garden, where the woods began and there seemed to be a narrow overgrown path. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He staggers through the beautiful woods, holding his intestines in, while she stumbles after him, carrying the ax that should deliver his deathblow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tracy moved to Georgia to be with one of her sisters, who had decided to volunteer at Jubilee Partners, a Christian-run facility in the woods near Comer, Georgia, that worked with refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The familiar woods lay ahead, their leaves swaying in a summer breeze. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was no rooftop, simply a flat piece of land in front of the wood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But Yum Li looked around at his peeling wood paneling, laminated menus, and hanging plants, and said, “What, more classy than this?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My hand gropes farther, splinters of wood—now I remember again that we are lying in the graveyard. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went into the countryside, into what was still woods and farmland, and found a few of the old houses. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Where all had looked so shabby and grey before, the wood now gleamed with rich browns, and with the smooth black-greys of bark like polished leather. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With Henry suddenly tired of daddying, the twins melted back into the woods with Wash every chance they got, taking Edgar along for their adventures. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I led the way to where the woods began, but then, faced with three distinct paths through the trees, had to stop to consult the sheet of directions I’d brought with me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of horrible stories about the woods. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going up to the woods past the playground, long way around,” she said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t touch it, though I was curious if the aged wood would feel as silky as it looked. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Across the stalk land, into the pine woods, into the climbing, brightening glow of the dawn, the boy followed the dog, whose anxious pace slowed from age as they went. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made him think of crickets in the woods at night. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wood creaked as the passenger stepped off, leaving the charioteer to park the vehicle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The train stopped in Vevey, then went on, passing the lake on one side and on the other the wet brown fields and the bare woods and the wet houses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was the tantalizing melancholy in the tingling scent of burning hickory wood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was right: there was something else there, something different in the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Fig leapt onto the kitchen table and dutifully dashed across the wood into the tunnel. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the front of the wardrobe somebody had painted a picture of Indians coming out of the woods, carrying bows and arrows, wearing warpaint and bright headdresses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stamp, stamp, he went, striking the wood he trod on with a convulsive grip at every pace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at it for a moment too long and began to think of the frosty remains of small animals I’d find in the woods just as the spring snow thawed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z