“All she does is spit on me. The day will come when I’ll set her precious wooden town afire. Let her spit on that, see if it puts out the flames.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Min used a pair of special wooden tongs to carry out the still-hot vases one by one, and placed them carefully into the cart, where Tree-ear had prepared a bed of straw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Rather than go back and down the three wooden steps again, Helene decided to spare herself some embarrassment and walk on through to the colored car. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the last is over, Afya curtsies and offers me a wooden coin with a sun on one side and clouds on the other. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, with not another word, she fled back down the wooden stairs. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shelter, a simple wooden affair, open on one side, stood in a snowy glade—a little winter wonderland—150 yards or so off the main trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In his right hand he carried a basket and in his left hand a wooden staff. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were sitting on small wooden stools. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Previously a golden fountain had filled the center of the hall, casting shimmering spots of light over the polished wooden floor and walls. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Papi builds me a wooden stand with little legs, so I can set the typewriter on it and type in bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She placed it on the table before Taisin: the wooden box that had come from the Fairy Queen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her heels clicked on the wooden hall floor, out the door, and down the steps. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It’s basically a wooden basket, open at the back, mounted on an axle between two wheels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men cheer as it’s pulled slowly over the wooden railing, writhing for breath. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ma put her wooden cheese hoop on the board, spread a clean, wet cloth all over the inside of it, and filled it heaping full of the chunks of salted curd. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Startled by the crash of the heavy wooden bolt behind me, I whirled around. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I set her on her wooden baby seat so her little hiney don’t fall in and soon as I turn my back, she off that pot running. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A thousand captives watched through the wooden bars of their stockade as the horn was lifted high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their wooden faces, frozen in their various expressions, stared down at Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One of them held in her wooden hands a stone cup. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The pilot climbed into the front cockpit, and one of the sergeants threw his weight on the wooden propeller. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose Long John Silver had suddenly appeared in your living room, striking out with his wooden crutch?” she whispered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Near the open doorway, the two older daughters stood pounding manioc in the tall wooden mortar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The windows have no panes, just wooden shutters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter flipped through the record albums that were stored in a dark wooden cabinet. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He slows and points to a massive piece, a wooden tiger mauling a man dressed as a European soldier, the sign declaring: TIPU’S TIGER. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had to stop and walk a few times, traversing rickety wooden bridges stretching across ponds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A map of the city covered the wooden planks, and I whistled silently at the amount of detail Chestnutt had managed to fit in. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Under a goodly pile of the Dakota Farmer, Popular Magazine, and Saturday Evening Post magazines, I found a serviceable empty wooden crate that was recruited as a bookcase. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He already had his eye pressed against a hole in the school’s tall wooden fence. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

I think of Grandpa and Dad, who always asked us if we were having a silver dollar day or a wooden nickel one. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I peek my head inside to see it’s a chapel, with big stained-glass windows and classic wooden pews. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The boys howled as the wooden plank split, their stupid excitement splintering Pia's skin. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was one of those weird roadside curio shops that sell lawn flamingos and wooden Indians and cement grizzly bears and stuff like that. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A four-piece band was playing a swingy number for couples dancing on the wooden deck. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At the center of the room was a great wooden table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hugo kicked free of Mendigo, sending the wooden puppet skidding across the floor, then rose to his knees and reached for Muriel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And he picked off several hundred sea cradles and put them in his wooden bucket. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama slams the lid down on the piano, creating a sickening wooden crack. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They sat on long wooden benches, and at the end of their discussions I would be called upon to recite Shakespeare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand at a painted wooden gladiator, then turned to a machine that looked like an oversized rolling pin studded with knives. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They walked past the faded banners, broken shields, and rusted swords of a hundred ancient victories, and a score of wooden figures, cracked and worm-riddled, that could only have adorned the prows of ships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Together they gazed at Thirty-six, who was seated on the floor, busily arranging wooden blocks in a stack. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had hurried out to the porch from the cooking hut and still carried a large wooden paddle in her hand, which dripped steaming water onto the floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed red barns and stone mills, small white houses with black shutters and houses with wooden fences around their sprawling land, everything silent and still. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When I got home I told my sisters and my mom about the party as we sat around our big wooden kitchen table. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Soldiers blew on whistles and the crowd quieted as men began walking up the stairs onto a wooden platform in the square. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was also a case of canvas with a tough wooden frame, lined with kapok, containing various instruments; and there was a pistol in a holster. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, the chauffeur had to slam on the brakes because a thick wooden beam had been thrown across the gate to the hacienda as a roadblock. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ob made you those little wooden people to play with. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

"We will speak no more of wooden horses and iron chairs." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a knife with a smooth wooden handle, and she used it to peel the skin of a round, red fruit; inside was juicy orange flesh that tasted both sweet and tart. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I serve myself on one of the wooden plates I carved when we were snowed in last winter. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I emerged from the wooden house and felt as if all the soldiers were looking at me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sound of the porridge thwuping into the crockery, the tock of the wooden spoon against the edge of the bowl, made me wonder who had named those things. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The shrieks of her laughter rippling through the kitchen with its wooden table and cast-iron pots, and her father standing at the stove grinning, a spatula raised above a sizzling pan. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ma's muffled voice comes through the wooden door. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

From her coat, she takes some small wooden thing and sets it in the water. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He laid his head on the wooden railing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the dark wooden staircase, Joseph noticed another black door open just a crack, nearly hidden in the shadows. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Because he hadn’t been in the citadel and seen how everything was mesarthium, he substituted rough wooden cribs—little more than open crates—like the ones the monks kept infant orphans in at the abbey. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The main floor was a huge open room with a polished stone floor, wooden furniture, a large fireplace, and windows. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The men shaved their heads and carried long wooden poles with a crook at the top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger got off her tall stool, and its wooden legs made a screech on the linoleum. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Semele bent down and pulled a wooden cage from the cluttered space beneath her bed, and she took the blinking dormouse from her pocket and placed it into the cage. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A wooden stroke: Iron sinks in the gasping core. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They each hung on their pole beneath the wooden canopy, and seemed to float. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he was under arrest, but when I saw Vera sitting next to him on the wooden bench, I knew he had been waiting for me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart winced at the words “black eye” and, without any apparent premeditation, hurled his slender onyx-and- ivory cigarette holder down viciously on the wooden surface on his desk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She drops the sheet and grabs the wooden spoon, grabs Byrd’s hand too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She visualized the mother braiding it, her fingers oiling it with pomade before dividing it into sections with a wooden comb. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She preferred wooden chopsticks, she’d said, the ivory ones were too slippery. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soggy wooden planks of the deck squelched and sagged under my feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My job is to move the caulking iron along the seam while Captain Keelson hits it womp! with his big wooden mallet. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The police had put up wooden barriers, but no one had begun to clean up the place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart began tramping back and forth reflectively in the narrow corridors left between his bushels of plum tomatoes and the desk and wooden chairs in the center of the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient wooden meeting hall there with a huddle of permanent dwellings around it, and wharves and jetties and an eelmarket. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with wooden scoops and knives, they took out the pumpkin flesh and put it in a cooking pot. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But she sat behind some wooden crates that served as the table and blocked my view. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think too much of it back then, but now I could see how the wooden crossing over the creek might have led to my great-great-grandfather’s undoing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He went to the end of the hall and flashed the light on a dirty ceiling and saw a wooden stairway leading to the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We could hear him clinking and sloshing around in there, and he emerged a few minutes later holding a floppy photograph with a pair of wooden tongs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had heard that sound before...the click of a high heel shoe on a wooden step...going away...fading into the distance. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our judge in the Rivonia Trial was Mr. Quartus de Wet, judge- president of the Transvaal, who sat in his flowing red robes beneath a wooden canopy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was black, with a wooden grip and a short muzzle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We got the fish at Loaves and Fishes, with its wooden sign, a fish with a smile and eyelashes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled his sketchbook out of his Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag—Dad was never far from his sketchbook—and stepped off the wooden planks onto the gravel to sketch the nearest row of broken pillars. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was the boy who’d tried to give Carl a fishing rod, the boy she used to see from her kitchen window practicing in the fields with his wooden sword. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I took the wooden shovel that I had carved from the board and dug around what I thought must have been the back door or possibly the woodhouse. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perilously positioned on the thin wooden headboard of the bed, a bottle of STA- WET gel. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The shelves of books, the wooden tables, the bright carpets. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He entered and found himself beneath old wooden beams that created a long triangular space. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The house's wooden walls and floor were as dark and slick as the inside of a turtle's den. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The wooden bleachers that circled the floor were full of family, friends, and supporters of the crop of graduates, who had yet to enter the room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Roots coiled around his legs like wooden serpents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were no books in Elinor's kitchen, not one, but they ate an excellent supper there at a wooden table that came, so Elinor assured them, from the scriptorium of an Italian monastery. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A wooden clock on the wall above him read 8:43. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

On top of the counter was a wooden block that held all of the large, sharp knives in the kitchen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He went to the wall, and felt about the wooden boards. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were only one wooden door away from them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Olanna ran the wooden comb through Baby’s hair as gently as she could, and yet there was a large tuft left on the teeth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We started making our way through the crowd into the fold-down wooden stands. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The gate became a landmark that endured into the twenty-first century, long after the last hog crossed to eternity over the great wooden ramp called the Bridge of Sighs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

White was led into Hoover’s immaculate office, where there was an imposing wooden desk and a map on the wall showing the locations of the bureau’s field offices. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Johnny carried a handful of pewter cups and the big wooden bowl. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped aside to allow passage for a bustle of men who dragged a wooden howitzer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The field was right up at the end of a dirt track, three wooden gates to open and shut on the way—“guards” of our own posted on each gate already. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We sat naked on wooden benches while an electric heater, buried under a pile of stones, heated the dry room to very high temperatures. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden desks of the younger children sat closest to it, but the whole room felt toasty. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There are two sets of barbells, a burlap sack of sand, a jump rope with red wooden handles, and a pear-shaped leather punching bag nailed to the closet ceiling. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the wooden doors opened, I could see him— Mike Costello. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out of the car and walked to the tall, wooden front gates of the house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had a pony ride, a wooden train that bustled around the parking lot, a few bedraggled parrots, and a surly spider monkey. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I sat at my desk and ran my hand over its wooden top. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy glanced up to find she’d forgotten to close the door and Robin was standing there, her hand on the wooden frame. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The lake had been formed and dug to a uniform depth of nine feet, with small wooden boat docks fingering out from its waterless shores where the most desirable concrete slabs had been poured. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The wooden horse had been made, he said, as a votive offering to Athena, and the reason for its immense size was to discourage the Trojans from taking it into the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candles flickered on wooden tables in the dimly lit bar. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Long strips of cotton fabric were hung over wooden racks so that their lower edges dipped into the water. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I follow Lily down the same path as last time—through the heavy wooden gate, the cemetery, and finally through the church that leads to the inner courtyard where I am to meet Ethan. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The blows of the cook’s wooden spoon, the harsh words of the schoolmaster, and my father’s neglect were evidence of the world’s indifferenceto my feelings and well-being. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Instead of wooden bleachers and a huge scoreboard, all I saw was a world of large paper birds hanging from the rafters and five- foot cardboard flowers lining the walls. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I slammed it against the railing hard enough that I took a chunk out of the wooden trim. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They all held dishes of food, and as the monks came to them, they spooned it into their wooden bowls. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

An old-fashioned crank telephone, a primitive-looking wooden mask and a treadle sewing machine. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let himself in and hid in the attic until his heart had slowed down, even though the wooden planks were so rotten he feared he would go through the floor at every step. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Genie immediately put his face to the floor, peering desperately between the wooden slats into the darkness downstairs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There’s a wooden sign staked in the corner. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The box she meant was a wooden thing of the sort that might have contained apples. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The man and Kanei walked away, and when they returned, they brought with them two men, who carried a wooden stretcher. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The floorboards sagged, and the wooden pews had been rubbed smooth by all the bodies that had slid across them over the years. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The wooden stairs felt flimsy under my feet. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was the man with the wooden leg winding his barrel-organ, and the tune of Roses in Picardy hummed in my head against the jolting of the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a vase filled with flowers on a small wooden table. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder was scraping the T back and forth on the wooden bench. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

While we stood there under gunpoint, an old man who had escaped from Mattru Jong was heard crossing a creaky wooden bridge leading to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Because of the wooden door the change in Gregor's voice was not really noticeable outside, so his mother calmed down with this explanation and shuffled off. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teeth Man lit up, shifted a wooden case two inches to the left. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was a scrubbed wooden table and chairs in the middle, and Harry sat down on the edge of his seat, looking around. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But most of all she remembered a piece of fabric, about the size of a pillowcase, which hung from a wooden dowel at the bottom of the stairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he smeared the wound with some dark stuff out of a small wooden box. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mike waved to the kids inside, who were turning whatever delicious creation was inside of their pots with long wooden spoons. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We followed the path—made of sun-bleached wooden beams—up a short hill. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the technosphere of the Andes, Lechtman explained, “people solved basic engineering problems through the manipulation of fibers,” not by creating and joining hard wooden or metal objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d managed to find a wooden box to stand on, so I wasn’t just looking at the backs of other Marines as sometimes happened. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just ahead, past a big piazza, a wooden bridge spanned one of the widest canals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And there on the battered wooden desk in the corner was James Halliday’s first computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I make out shapes: a small wooden table with a mug, a lamp, and some crumpled papers. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She flew directly to her mountain and landed on the wooden box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Each had on his shoulders a wooden yoke that Grandpa had made. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging from one of the upper-right posts was a crate with a wooden crucifix on it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We enter the barn not through a door but through one of several gaping holes where the wooden wall has simply fallen away. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t take my eyes off the wooden bat, which she was slapping from one palm to the other. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Your grandpa loved ice cream. He always said no one ever matched his vanilla kumquat recipe, which just goes to show that wooden shoe trees don’t help a bit when it’s time to vote.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear them as she walked down the back stairs, her hand sliding down the polished wooden banister. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat on the wooden bench and, while watching the dancers, spoke about Margie’s family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was a worn wooden block from a kindergarten class and read boys in thick green permanent marker on one side. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In her hands was a wooden breakfast tray with a covered teacup and a turkey baster with a bright yellow bulb. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The kerosene stove was on a wooden table by the window. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Uri threw open a wooden hatch, and we plunged into a dark, cool cellar. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He knew at once what had hap-pened; a wooden hutch, its slats shattered, lay on its side in the wet grass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The crowd sounds were close enough for me to hear individual voices mixed with the noise of horses’ hooves and creaking wooden wheels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon, on account of the heat, I guess, that water started evaporating and drops ran down the grooves carved in that wooden face so that the statue looked as if it were crying. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One of these had lain outside our barracks door, a first step below three wooden ones. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred took a step backwards, nearly knocking over an old wooden chair. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked farther down the wharf and found an old lady with a wooden cart to buy our souvenirs from. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whirl around, and now I don’t know how I missed it: a wooden observation deck, up a short ramp, overlooking the lake. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of the big wooden nutcracker Louisa puts out on her kitchen table at Christmastime. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The other—the big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room—was locked. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The third is the Quality of Working Life building, or QWL, a conference room with sliding glass doors and a wooden deck used for training, meetings, and parties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment is one room, with a giant wooden wardrobe dividing the living room from the bedroom. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been neatly dug and shored up with wooden supports. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We had plenty of shade under one of the old wooden buildings to eat lunch, but there were no grassy areas for kids to play on during lunch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He takes it to her on the wooden tray Ellis and I use for Mother’s Day breakfast in bed. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Support struts shored up the wooden ceiling and stones embedded in the dirt floor made her stumble. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Alby turned and pushed his way through the crowd, then headed for the slanted wooden building in the corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then he recognized a nearby utility shed and a wooden kiosk with a soda machine. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was rising, and they could hear the old wooden buildings creaking around them, and in the distance a heavy shutter banging, over and over, forgotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dillehay told Haynes his experience with stone tools in Arizona was useless in evaluating wooden implements in Peru, and then stomped outside with a supporter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I unknotted the cloth and found an object hidden within: a little wooden horse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden bowl burst into flames then, a huge gout of flame which singed the leaves of the oak tree far above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had curly hair and a paintbrush in one hand and one of those wooden things artist people put their thumbs through that has all the colors of paint on it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Alex was at the start of a long tunnel, the uneven walls and ceiling held back by wooden beams. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the top, two engineers helped ease it down onto a wooden platform and secured it in place. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden planks began to disappear, spilling sand into the pits of the hypogeum below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The beast dropped to the wooden floor of the inn, blood dripping from its side and from its eye and from its open mouth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They screamed for more and I obliged, squiggling my feet and slip-sliding across the wooden floor, jumping into the air and landing in a near split by the blackboard, shouting “Eeeee-yowwww!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led her to a row of wooden chairs against a wall. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The first pedestal holds a painting of a giant sea dragon crushing a large wooden ship. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Earlier this morning, in the pitch black, I bathed and washed my hair in the wooden shack out back, crouching, shivering, wincing beneath buckets of frigid water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I heave the bulky monitor into position, it groans and screeches across the wooden floor. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“An old cork and a tiny wooden baby doll, no bigger than a thimble and all painted up in bright colors.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the left-hand side of the field, facing away from the wire fence and the village, stood long wooden benches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, only by standing on a wooden box could I reach the controls of the machine I was assigned to operate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Daedalus had barred them from the inside with a wooden brace, but still they shook on their hinges. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time he got to the top of the creaky wooden stairs, Moss realized that Javier was standing at the top, waiting for him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Pulling this rickety, wooden wagon on its two wheels behind him, it seemed to him that everyone looked at him for a fool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, all right,” grumbled Fadi, handing her the wooden spoon while he kept the steel fork with the crooked prong. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He did so, pulling the crude wooden chair near to where she was. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Falling flat on my back, slamming my head against the wooden cupboard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Eagerly the two youngsters dropped their bikes and scrambled down the sloping riverbank to watch as the bargelike boat passed, its open deck heavy with wooden containers of various sizes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the dream I was alone in a small wooden boat, hooked up to a humongous tarpon that was dragging me out to sea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The car climbs higher and higher, groaning up the rickety wooden tracks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady holds up a little chalkboard in a wooden frame. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They laid her on a wooden board in the hallway. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the road past the handsome houses with their docks and wooden shingles. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blindly, she fumbled for the knob of her bedpost and began to unscrew it from its wooden leg. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In his wooden chair, Volkheimer reminds Jutta of an image from one of Max’s picture books: an elephant squeezed into an airplane seat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The trees hate us all, deep in their wooden hearts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A clear picture of that happening had formed in Kingshaw's mind, as he sat cross-legged on the wooden floor, among the others, looking out at the drifting snow. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Still in training, using wooden swords instead of live steel, unlike those who follow us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once on board, she stepped behind the large wooden wheel and pretended she was Josephine on a run through the islands, escaping from the British navy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Gerald sat on Aunt Queen’s back porch, idly rolling rocks down the wooden ramp that had been built for her wheelchair. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large wooden trunk stood open at the foot of his bed, revealing a cauldron, broomstick, black robes, and assorted spellbooks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan’s house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was a patchwork of odd-shaped wooden slats that rose in the middle and dipped toward the front and back doors, where they butted against shiny, worn thresholds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Later, when he got a job with an automatic pencil company, he decided to photograph us burying a pile of wooden pencils. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just rows of padded fold-ups and a wooden podium in the front. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sara is banging her wooden spoon against the sides of the pot so hard, some lentils pop out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

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

Here a fretwork wooden chef on his back, holding a board on which remains chalked today’s soup. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At that hour of the morning there was not a soul on the wooden platform, its roof eaten away by inclement weather and ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hanako opened the door, she saw a wooden lid on the floor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

An American Army captain and an interpreter also sat in the wooden chairs arranged beneath the couple’s sleeping loft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Two police officers carried a shrouded corpse bound to a wooden stretcher. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d copied the yard and house perfectly: the uneven wooden fence, the listing palm trees, the open scuttle window upstairs. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before him, tall wooden shelves rose up into dimness, crammed with leatherbound books and bins of ancient scrolls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jimmy and his grandpa stepped onto the wooden platform at the top. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The creaking wooden sailing ships were crawling with rats. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He could not walk, nor climb nor hunt nor fight with a wooden sword as once he had, but he could still look. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cans of food line a built-in wooden shelf. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

After the war young men from tenant farms all over the county flocked to Maycomb and erected matchbox wooden houses and started families. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas felt his blood turn to icy slush as he realized that the horrible sound came from the wooden building. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There is wooden furniture strewn everywhere, all the tables empty but one. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘This is Sting,’ he said, and thrust it with little effort deep into a wooden beam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once night came, we kids all lay in our rope-and-cardboard beds, reading by flashlight or a candle we’d set on our wooden boxes, each of us creating our own little pool of dim light. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel must use the roots of a large rubber tree to step up to her mother’s tiny wooden hut, which clings to the hillside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He rose, lifted his wooden chair, and moved it over beside the couch where he had napped that afternoon. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Fragments of wooden crates and barrels lay in piles in different corners, along with rusted metal chains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sisters held strands of wooden beads and moved them in their fingers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not some rickety wooden contraption you'd see in some museum, but the weird, outrageous vehicle of a god, built of sleek, otherworldly metal and shimmering with starlight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

I ask, Then how do you have all the blankets on the floor and big wooden doors? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I move silently to the wooden gate leading to Blackcliff s grounds and ease it open. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Edd cut three thick slices off a stale round of oat bread, stacked them on a wooden platter, covered them with bacon and bacon drippings, and filled a bowl with hard-cooked eggs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even if I’ve been on board this wooden relic of a ship for years, I’m still fifteen. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Sawl-e-nau mubabrak,” the kite seller said, taking the twenty and handing me the kite and a wooden spool of glass tar. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Manny stood on the sidewalk with a wooden baseball bat, waving it after them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Some windows were gone, replaced with wooden planks. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth’s face was pale, Laney was openly crying, Jessie was yanking at a loose thread on her T-shirt, and Oliver was grinding the toe of his sneaker into the wooden floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The heels of her shoes echoed down the wooden floor of the hallway and her long, thin skirt swayed about her ankles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The whole farmhouse looks like some kinda bird with the chimney as its head and neck and a shiny front and wooden wings stretching out behind, like a bird resting on the water or something. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We sit on the wooden bench in the church basement, in the dark, watching the wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I see what it is, my mouth goes dry: a wooden frame, a rope hanging from the highest beam, a noose tied in the rope. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At one point he stopped and stared at a small wooden house with a slanted roof. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Copper pots hang from a wooden rack on the far side of the kitchen; big spoons and ladles are shoved into ceramic holders near the stove top. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You can use that wooden crate in the kitchen for a bed,” said Birdie. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

My eyes ached in the harsh sunlight spearing through the office’s wooden blinds. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He swung the flashlight and saw a couple of wooden wagons that must have been used to carry equipment down or tin back up to the surface. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“A wooden hatch from a deck. Maybe from the Stinky Dog after it sank.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

There were two gates, each protected by a pair of square wooden towers, and wallwalks around the perimeter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He has no vendor’s license, so he keeps moving, darting between wooden carts piled with papayas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The motion shifted the wooden platform that the pulley was attached to, which in turn caused the ropes to move. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the way back from the fish place, near Toño’s home I see a viejito, an old man, on the porch of a tiny house, sitting in a wooden chair. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the day the fire started, over 55 miles of pine- block streets and 600 miles of wooden sidewalks bound the 23,000 acres of the city in a highly combustible knot. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s wooden and has dark blue curtains because the middle school colors are blue and white. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing fainter in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the high- backed wooden chairs, lifted it with both hands, spun in a circle, and flung it hard at the window. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ugwu saw Eberechi right away; she was with some men and women who were bent over a pile of palm fronds, cutting, matting, passing them on to a man on a wooden ladder. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One year, a girl dropped her token, a small wooden ball, while she was at her plate, and they literally had to scrape bits of her off the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Just a single steel-frame bed with a worn mattress, a ragged blanket, and a wooden chair in the corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In those days he could run down stairs, get on and off his pony by himself, and wield a wooden sword good enough to knock Prince Tommen in the dirt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But now, while he sat in a heavy wooden dugout made from a huge, hollowed-out tree trunk on the headwaters of the River of Doubt, Roosevelt was worried. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She ignored her sister and looked in every corner of the house until she finally found a wooden bottle. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Their swords were wooden sticks, broom handles from the look of them, and they were rushing across the grass, swinging at each other lustily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A doll in a red velvet dress and a wooden truck had been tossed aside by some children. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One time Mom went so far as to order Lori up to the front of the class, where she gave her a whipping with a wooden paddle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had kids collect shells, and we glued them on wooden cigar boxes that I got Johnny Cakes to donate. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Buying us time!” she shouted back, and then she pulled shut and locked a wooden lid that capped the well, closing out the last rays of light. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We go to tie up Mr. Prentiss Jr. with his own rope and find that the electric shock has blown the wooden stock right off of his rifle. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He would go back to the key pound, spend his evenings installing little sash windows in little wooden houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It opens to the sky and we climb onto a viewing deck that has a tall wooden railing, so that it seems like we’re standing in a gigantic wooden cup. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy wooden front doors gleam under the entrance light. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The two of us had sat down on one big wooden chair beside the boardwalk. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

You curled up on our mattress with your wooden doll, Marapachi. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Feels good to have a horse under me again,” Dywen said at the gate, sucking on his wooden teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her knife falls through what sounds like potatoes, the blade striking the wooden cutting board beneath. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The pearl buyers’ offices were clustered together in one narrow street, and they were barred at the windows, and wooden slats cut out the light so that only a soft gloom entered the offices. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel a wooden door inside of me close. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s the one Lorren was talking to, so you can go in now,” Wil said, getting to his feet and opening the door behind the massive wooden desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Collapsible chairs were poked into the still-soft ground and a large wooden cross was hung from the center beam at the rear of the tent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I miss you, too, honey. You know I do. How are things? More silver dollar days or wooden nickels?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

These were super-light wooden planes, specially made for Britain’s Royal Air Force. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elaborate wooden desk took up almost half the room, papers covering it like autumn leaves. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She went away, taking the precaution of bolting the door securely, and returned presently with a basin of water and a rough wooden comb. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Bill and I were sitting on wooden boxes, eating our lunches out of paper bags. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the water, the Crux rode huge and golden on the waves, sea spray sparkling along her gilded figurehead—a wooden woman holding a diamond the size of a cow skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a cart laden with bleating lambs rolled past, and one of the smallest creatures wiggled through the wooden bars of its cage and tumbled to the street. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Two wooden gates hung open, and from the other side of the road, Alex could see a shed with a security window and beyond it the tottering piles of dead and broken cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The only furniture was a bunch of folding metal chairs and wooden ladders leaned up against the walls. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Lelia gets a miniature wooden rack for earrings and rings; a striped silk tie for me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carved from the base of the Wall and closed with heavy wooden doors, the ice cells ranged from small to smaller. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Behind him was a rusty bike with a wooden crate lashed to the back, which he must have been using to transport the ape. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were on the wooden walkway behind the stores and restaurants. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were sitting with his grandmother on the elevated wooden porch that framed the outside of their house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

While we sat on the stiff wooden booths, Mother would dance alone in front of us to music from the Seeburg. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him, a fat lady played with a string of wooden beads. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Minho lifted it to reveal a set of wooden stairs leading into blackness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Alex’s hands freeze, and his head jerks back to his dad, who’s still stirring with his heavy wooden spoon, face impartial. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s too much to take in all at once—statuary and columns, balconies and staircases, oversized wooden benches. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is sucking on the end of an old wooden pipe that his not seen any fire for a very long time now. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The fly fell on its back to the wooden floor of the porch, righted itself, then flew off, buzzing loudly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Florida was sitting in the rocker, gently rocking, and on her lap were two of the wooden bird carvings from the mantel. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A wooden fence surrounds the backyard, and there’s plenty of space for Daddy’s garden and Brickz. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Lifting the aluminum urn out of the trunk, Amit leads me down the bank to the rickety wooden platform. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the wooden knockers on the tiller lines and began to bang them against the ironbark knocker-boards fastened to either side of the hull. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Susan is there, and some of our old neighbors, and rows of wooden tables as long as the room itself. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for a braided rawhide whip that hung in a coil on a wooden peg driven between the logs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the song, the wedding party was asked to join them, and Felix’s mom dragged him onto the wooden dance floor. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden footbridge over the ravine is torn down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie heard him trampling up the narrow wooden staircase that led to the attic. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stared at the crossed wooden boards of the bed above him, feeling the pull of sleep. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The guard squatted down and stirred the pot with a long-handled wooden spoon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wooden steps creaked down into a small hallway that led into the kitchen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father deliberately chose to work on one mound which stood under a wooden wall. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever might be in that wooden bowl, she had no heart even to taste it. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She fingered the vial in her pocket, and glanced at the two goblets on the wooden table. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah?” said Moody quietly, limping forward a few steps, the dull clunk of his wooden leg echoing around the hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear stirred and stirred the mixture with a wooden paddle until the clay and water were uniformly combined. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Now then, wooden head!” said the woman with exceeding sharpness, and Wang Lung jumped at the sound of her voice, so unexpected was its shrillness. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There were two small beds in it with wooden chests at the foot of each, and a large standing wardrobe. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man jotted down the digits, then disappeared behind a large wooden door. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the men in the Second Raider Regiment of our Third Marine Division even made a tall wooden sign out of spare planks salvaged from packing crates. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So I tried sealing the leak with pine pitch, and that worked all right, but then the funnel over the fire bed cracked, and I had to put wooden props under that. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hale's classroom was smaller than some, and he leaned back against one of the dark wooden panels on the wall. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They’d repaired their plane themselves, sticking wooden plugs into the holes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then the shadow of a wheeled wooden cart appeared. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, they block off a section of the sidewalk and put out wooden folding chairs, tables covered with white cloth, fancy plates, and wineglasses. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

General Peckem lifted a wooden pointer and swept the rubber tip cheerfully across Italy from one coast to the other. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted her blood to splash the paintings, soak the wall and the wooden stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stan passed Harry’s bed and disappeared up a narrow wooden staircase. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That handle was now knocking against my mind, like an angry fist on a wooden door. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Watch for splinters, son,” his mother warned as he walked over the gapped wooden slats to the dresser. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the steps she reached an old wooden door with an iron pull ring. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After several minutes, Trina finally stopped in front of a small shack that had been boarded up with three wooden slats nailed across the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A thick wooden cane coated with a layer of dust was propped against one side. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“To the charrette,” shouted Ann, her voice skipping over the polished wooden floor like a stone over the surface of a lake. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My bed has a wooden frame that creaks a little. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The old wooden door protecting the Great Vault is wide open. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The wooden screen door banged shut, and a couple of my brothers scuffled past in the hall. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They passed a series of wooden doors that she’d seen a few minutes ago. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The door opened and the Hermit entered, carrying a large wooden bowl in his hand. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Arya tapped her wooden sword against the side of her boot. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stir my coffee with the wooden stick. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We stumbled into a wine cellar—a bunch of dusty bottles in wooden racks—like we were walking through somebody’s basement, only there was no exit above us, just more tunnels leading on. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He knew it was made from a hollow wooden frame covered in ivory and gold, which explained why it was so light. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the far side of the yard was an old wooden smokehouse and a toolshed. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The woman’s hair flowed long and silver, and she held a beautifully carved wooden staff for support. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

On one wall, chunks of plaster had crumbled away, revealing the wooden ribs and pipes and wiring. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He showed him how they were drawn tightly to the upper arm of the harp by wooden keys which just fitted the tapered holes tightly enough so they stayed whichever way they were turned. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then, dressed in a rubber apron and wooden clogs, she lit her kiln, prepared her worktables, and pounded the clay for her classes, her arms up to her elbows in the coarse, cold mud. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wear wooden jeans, sandpaper socks, and anvil shoes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was reading a wooden signpost that was sticking out of the brambles on the left-hand side of the road. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They went on down through the kitchen and into the scullery, and found the wooden box where they’d left it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Again I was sent to a guidance counselor and sat in a wooden chair while he made a recitation of my faults. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I don't stare too long at the framed photos or the shiny wooden furniture. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My grandma’s garden feels like a wonderland, with trees full of bright lemons and limes, and large wooden planters overrun with leafy greens and all kinds of herbs. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Nah, I’m good,” I said, leaning back on my elbows, letting my head go against the wooden headboard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the farm, the boys get to sleep in hammocks while the girls sleep all lined up like sardines on a rough wooden platform made of bamboo trees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the sound of the janitor’s lackadaisical scrubbing against the wooden floor. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It had carved wooden beams on the ceiling and wallpaper decorated with hundreds of birds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the smoky light, Kaede saw men and women approaching with weapons in their hands; some held swords, while others carried long wooden staffs or axes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Stock-still on her wooden box, Clara could not keep from watching until the very end. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas heard the creak of an old wooden door, and then Minho was dragging a cardboard box across the floor; the scrape of it sounded like a knife on bone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Against the black of night, a single wooden cross blazed. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was an old man in front of the yard smoking a badly carved wooden pipe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The king sat up a little straighter in his wooden chair. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was in a cellar, which was full of wooden crates and boxes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The king was shaded beneath a crimson canopy, one leg thrown negligently over the carved wooden arm of his chair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jesus’ eyes had an inviting look, a calm demeanor, a divine patience as he stood outside the wooden door and knocked. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s figure rose up from behind the wooden chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Each wide-open empty bedroom in the house had a whole wall of built-in wooden cupboards and closets and a private sunporch. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She steers Felicia down an airless passageway lit on one side with red votive candles set on wooden tables coated with hardened wax. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under my nose she struck a wooden match with her thumbnail. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, with a child on each side, Henrietta boarded a coal-fueled train from the small wooden depot at the end of Clover’s Main Street. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Their mother’s birthday on the wooden marker that would turn into a gravestone for Cari. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the table, under a wooden bowl to protect it from hungry rats and cats alike, sits a perfect little goat cheese wrapped in basil leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Four little boats were tied to either bank, and there were several other doors—some wooden, some iron—that led to this exit. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Baba kicked a wooden tennis racket on our tarpaulin spread with the toe of his boot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She lowered the board and saw that below her was a track with metal rails and wooden crossbars—like the roller coaster, but much bigger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was an open space behind it and a wooden plaque hanging on the back wall with letters burned in: “Front Desk.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I asked as I hauled wooden cots into a line. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Between the first two rows is a long wooden table with chairs tucked beneath it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They boo’ed in the tubes of the corkscrew stairs, rattled the wooden shutters, whined shrilly through the shot windows, stirred the cold tapestries in frigid undulations, searched for backbones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relieved, I start down the wooden steps to the beach, but by the time I’m halfway down, I see Tressa walking out of the waves with a boogie board. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We were to do what he told us, he said, or we would feel the sting of the wooden club he carried. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The floor is dark brown tile, and each shower stall has wooden walls and a plastic curtain separating it from the central aisle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

With a scream, the woman swung a wooden log at them but instead hit her husband in the head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As they passed the wooden sign, Harry looked up at its two arms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gripping my wooden bowl and spoon, I run with my family to the communal kitchen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a fish from a pile of others heaped in a large wooden pen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The children in this neighborhood run around in thin shirts and wooden shoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Jack unsheathes a set of wooden chopsticks, breaking them apart with a clean snip. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At one house, a man with a wooden pallet called a “hawk” is scraping adobe mud off this hawk with a trowel and smoothing it against a wall. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamita is stirring the soup with a long wooden spoon, and I’m thinking what Modem Etiquette would say about this meal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk through rooms, opening heavy wooden doors, opening cabinets, taking inventory of my supplies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On my last Day of the Dead in Yana Urku, everyone gathered in the cemetery, as they did every year, among lopsided, blue wooden crosses on dirt mounds, where the dead people slept. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man was climbing up into the little wooden shelter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall opposite the bed was a big wooden clock with a forest and bears carved into it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the wooden bolt and opened it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon they reached the wooden ridge at the bottom of the roof curvature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We knelt at one of the long wooden benches. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Later, they would give us sleek wooden cases to hold our medals, but for now, my makeshift storage would have to do. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Stuck through the pile at various points were long wooden poles wrapped with a bluish-white metal called cadmium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth hummed quietly to herself, shelling peas into a large wooden bowl, and Becky chopped kale. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Fridays, after he has taught his last class, he visits the library, to read international newspapers on long wooden poles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adam’s father Cyrus was something of a devil—had always been wild—drove a two-wheeled cart too fast, and managed to make his wooden leg seem jaunty and desirable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was cool and dusky, and we stood in front of a long wooden counter with two women behind it serving drinks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They lined up along the raised wooden boardwalk in front of the newspaper office and stood for hours, some of them straining on tiptoe. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In between are rows of wooden tables with wooden folding chairs. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a knock on the door before he could reply, and Brother Louis came in with two glasses of chocolatl on a wooden tray. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A big wooden cross hung high up on the back wall, surrounded by the usual, big stained-glass windows. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Papa moved the wooden coffee table, lifted up the rug, and tapped the tiles underneath with the back of the screwdriver. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Another soldier gave me a pair of wooden shoes and a blue-and-gray-striped prisoner uniform made out of a thick canvas material. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A boy played with the wooden Doctor is IN Doctor is OUT sign on the wall, sliding the brass panel up and down. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they passed forward a sword in a worn wooden scabbard and a gun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A small bird hopped along one of the wooden floor planks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His show-stopping performances encouraged piano builders to adopt iron frames to replace wooden ones, because pianos simply broke under the hammering Liszt gave them on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"Wait till I show Jon—" Behind her the great wooden doors of the Small Hall flew open with a resounding crash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a small bare room with nothing in it except an old wardrobe, a wooden chair, and an iron bedstead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I ran to the entryway, slid the bolt, and pushed open the door just in time for him to carry a long wooden crate from the trunk of the car to the front hall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His friend disappeared for a few moments, then returned carrying a wooden door, which he positioned like a warrior’s shield between Anderson and the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I use a wooden ruler to smooth out the creases. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Thomas could picture it all: the creature’s metal spikes digging into the wooden sides of the Homestead, the massive creature rolling its body, climbing up toward their room, defying gravity with its strength. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

When Auntie Fatmata saw me hopping from foot to foot, she led me to an outbuilding with toilets, which were really only holes in the ground, covered with a wooden plank. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we entered a long, white hallway lined with wooden doors. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It dominated all, the pulpit: a wooden platform raised above the congregation, with a high stand in the center for the Bible, before which the preacher stood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When she tries to slide ofF the first of the three wooden roof panels, she finds it stuck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s our age. Blond. His left foot is propped on a wooden box. Blue scarf.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike the stucco row house I’d lived in in London, this house, fully detached, was covered with wooden shingles, with a tangle of forsythia bushes plastered against the front and sides. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In another corner were some wooden crates that looked more intact, and some wicker boxes bound with leather straps. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Why do I need ... ,” I began as I turned around to see Ada Taylor standing before me, a green wooden counter and a thick awkwardness between us. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her feet dragged over the wooden floor and her face held an expression of tense effort. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t until Axel hears the sound of round wheels on wooden floors that he takes a deep breath. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then everybody rocketed from their borrowed church hall wooden folding chairs to meet the next battle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Art handed out amazingly realistic wooden figurines he’d made in shop class. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The altar was covered by a simple linen cloth; above it hung a plain wooden cross. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand raised automatically, one finger extended as if to touch the large wooden cross, its dark patina contrasting with the lighter tone of the wall. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was holding on to a wooden beam, a collapsed roof support. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was a tall wooden fence all around the yard, and to the left and right of our yard were other, identical fenced plots. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She found five wooden boxes with matching covers in a cabinet and filled all five—she and Akira would need to share. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was tucked in a small wooden bed beneath soft covers that didn’t reach my feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Arranged around the columns on other wooden chairs, and sitting here and there on the stairs, are seventeen women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some rocks we tie with animal sinew to a wooden handle and make an ax. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the homes of the dead were safe as wooden grave markers burst into flames and some marble vaults cracked under the intense heat. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In moonlight, neatly stacked, twelve wooden crates gleam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Canoes and wooden motorboats darted in and out among the yachts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Anansi bowed, then studied the snake and the wooden pole, comparing the two. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I imagined the carpet hanging, like the sail of a ship, from two wooden masts, and my grandma slowly making each knot. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’d crossed the wooden walkway over the creek with Pa when we last came down for the Trotter funerals. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She unwrapped the long package and leaned four wooden crutches against the wall. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk over wooden floors, polished to a sheen with pine- scented wax, past stairs that curve up to a wraparound balcony that overlooks the gardens. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I marked an X in the box next to the letters ANC and then slipped my folded ballot paper into a simple wooden box; I had cast the first vote of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second I opened the closet door, Stradlater's tennis racket--in its wooden press and all--fell right on my head. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She raced down the block to the Medici Restaurant, pulled open the heavy wooden door, and flung herself inside. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked on the wooden door and stepped through into a yard that had very little in it save for a parched strawberry patch and a bare lemon tree. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She declared that Greeks were hidden in the wooden horse; no one gave her words a thought. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifty yards, we come to a small wooden house—a shack, really—unpainted, with a sagging front porch piled with junk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The cell had two doors: a metal gate or grille with iron bars on the inside and a thick wooden door outside of that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grady and I sat at a battered wooden table, each facing a burger on a dented tin plate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Shorty, the guy I met over bets with Fat Frankie, is in there corralling balls atop each table with a wooden triangle. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex lay there with his face against the hard wooden floor, his hands scrabbling against his head, unable to move, waiting for it to end. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She bought us tiny wooden boxes of cajeta that was so sweet and sticky, it hurt my teeth for hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He walked over and sat in a wooden chair next to the bed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We all stared at the crisscross of wooden walkways until Mrs. Gates asked, “What brings your family to Tangerine?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybeth scrubbed down the wooden table and Dicey polished it dry. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the wooden staves he heard men shouting, and once a horse whickered nearby. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The real Mad-Eye Moody was at the staff table now, his wooden leg and his magical eye back in place. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She sat on a long wooden bench and couldn’t think of any word that described her anymore. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Before long, the congregation had grown so large that he moved elsewhere and refurnished the house with rows of wooden pews and a tiled fountain in the place once occupied by the family’s television set. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rondon jumped out of his canoe and ran over to a wooden sign nailed to a post. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The establishment had been expanded with a gallery of wooden rooms where single women who smelled of dead flowers lived. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon sat heavily on the long wooden bench as the others left, oblivious to the looks they gave him, the silent promises of future retribution. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The town gave no indication of quieting for the night, shops open, citizens a-prowl on the wooden sidewalks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the room they used for an office. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was kind of soothing like that, with a dozen wooden knuckles massaging my back. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We emerge on the deck, and Quinton brings me over to where two large wooden captain’s wheels are mounted. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Along the wall Freddie leads me to, there’s a raised wooden chair with footrests where the guy will sit while you shine. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put small wooden chairs in the living room and established a nursery with other children from neighboring families. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Six hours later we’re in the Roths’ living room watching their twin sons play a game with a wooden top called a dreidel. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were suddenly right up alongside the enormous wooden bleachers on the north side of the course, not more than ten feet from thousands of spectators screaming in unison, “Deutsch-land! Deutsch-land! Deutsch-land!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The little wooden house is a bump against her ribs as she crouches. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A huge pile of twisted metal, wooden planks, and crumbled bricks lay in front. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

The Merry Midwife tied up to the end of a weathered wooden pier in the outer harbor, wefl away from Lionstar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He began scrambling up the wooden pegs nailed to the side of the tree, his back muscles working like a panther’s. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those on foot squeezed onto the narrow wooden gangways that hung suspended over the water on either side or the skinny alleys that crisscrossed the tracts of land between canals. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In the faint moonlight that came through a high small window, I saw only flags on wooden poles. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t budge at first, but when he put his back into it, he managed to slide it slowly across the smooth wooden floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ended up with pants that were too short and a shirt that was too big, but I was lucky to get a pair of wooden shoes that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The furnishings included a bunk, a writing desk, a chair, a stool, and the Halfmaester’s cyvasse table, strewn with carved wooden pieces. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They would live here in wooden summer houses until February 1943; the airfield itself was just two wooden huts and some dugouts that the women had to dig themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A wooden table stood in the exact center, eight chairs tucked in around it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

You rummaged in your bag, pulled out your wooden doll, and talked to her for a while. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She went back to the bookshelf to retrieve the wooden pointer Papa had carved after the one Babulya had brought from Sarkel broke. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Surely they don’t do jumping jacks in those wooden portables.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lamps were lit on all the wooden tables, and Dimple sighed happily in the warmth as she fluffed out her damp hair and sank into the velvet booth. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Robert climbed down and I fitted into the place he had saved on the one wooden seat that ran across the top. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gonzalez was about to search Miss Trixie’s area for his missing stamp pad when the door of the office opened and she shuffled in, scuffing her sneakers across the wooden floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A man came from behind an old wooden bar. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

An odd, dilapidated wooden building near one of the corners of the square contrasted greatly with the gray stone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As in the mica mine in North Carolina, long wooden planks and struts buttressed the walls and ceiling. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mom opened the door, and we were greeted by the sound of heels banging against the wooden floor. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

During these sermons I would try to melt into the gray seat cushions of our wooden pew. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But the cook was too busy moving the food from the fire to the long wooden table in the center of the room to pay her any mind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy ran to a wooden box and shoved it quickly in front of a gaping hole in the molding and then backed again to the door, holding the skillet ready. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome, guys” were the words Coach Gary Gaines used to begin the 1988 season, and hfty-hve boys dressed in identical gray shirts and gray shorts, sitting on identical wooden benches, stared into his eyes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of plain wooden coffins of all sizes lie in a trench surrounded by the small crowd, all that remains of the Jewish community of Kielce, once twenty-five thousand strong. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then you womp on the chisel with the wooden mallet and drive the cotton home. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ranks of folding wooden chairs have been placed along the right side, for the Wives and daughters of high-ranking officials or officers, there’s not that much difference. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd shout, and start running past women selling tomatoes or mangoes on the side of the road, dipping beneath the clotheslines that crisscrossed between the dozens of identical wooden slab shacks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The boy gave it an affectionate slap on the side and dragged the rough wooden stool across the floor to her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were four new Auks, complete with wooden nose cones. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to buy them each a wooden coffin so they can be lowered into the ground with some dignity. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some collectors had special wooden cabinets made to display their treasures, while some filled entire rooms. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The purse—sorry, masculine accessory bag—was rainbow tie-dyed with a peace symbol stitched in wooden beads and the slogan Hug the Whole World. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fishtail took off his big moose-hide mitts and Angeline dished up a wooden bowl of the soup, eager for him to sit and warm himself. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“And not with a wooden sword, it would seem.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Back then the shelves had been crowded with colored glass jars, wooden boxes, casks, and bags, all labeled with the spidery handwriting of Mr. Barrett. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they made long wooden arrows without a blade on the tip to spear the fish. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Nat had been in the chandlery—a long wooden building on Neptune Street, near Union Wharf. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then her eyes turned to a rickety wooden table that stood against the stone wall of the cellar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked almost as if she was flashing her trademark smile as she lay in the brilliantly polished wooden casket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I remember looking down toward the instructor’s feet as we circled him, seeing the white smoke as it began to swirl over the wooden floorboards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muthu and I flopped down on a smooth wooden bench and watched as Arul let you buy and light one more candle. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A makeshift gallows had been constructed and a wooden pole had been driven into the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The country was extremely backward: people used wooden plows and lived on a very simple diet supplemented by home-brewed beer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stout wooden door hung splintered and broken, as if by axes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many had died in a cholera epidemic and they’d been buried in haste in wooden boxes and the boxes were rotting and falling open. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Standing at the edge of the candle’s flickering light, he opened his hand and the circle of iron fell to the wooden floor, ringing dully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In spite of myself I pictured a father with shiny black arms pulling fish from the river and a mother with dark, heavy breasts pounding manioc in a wooden trough. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latrine was a simple wooden structure only large enough for one person, with scarcely the room to sit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sherm shoved the door open with his hip, revealing a carpeted hallway and a broad wooden staircase. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He has several of these wooden guns, and daggers and swords also, with blood colored onto the blades with red pencils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a Bible from behind his pulpit and plumped down on one of the crude wooden pews. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ten loose wooden building blocks lay scattered across my desk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

After a moment, the sound of someone climbing a set of wooden stairs in hard-soled boots echoed from the doorway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The lion-pawed table raked the carpet with its clawed wooden feet, as if it were impatient for something. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Wood paneling on the walls, a big wooden desk, and hardwood floors. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a grip of seals were scattered around the wooden crates, barking every once in a while and nosing each other in the stomach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Others had wagons made of a wooden soap box with solid wooden wheels. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just think,” Dad went on as he plucked out a small crab from the wooden bin where everything from each pot got dumped and sorted. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as we get inside, I see it—a beautiful, shiny, wooden upright piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hopped out of bed, put on my overalls, and headed down the narrow wooden stairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The grip of her wooden sword was slick with sweat, and Arya was breathing hard when she reached the turret stair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her mind functioned like a wooden mind, her body moved crookedly like a badly operated marionette, but she went steadily about her business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On its first level were big wooden doors over which had been set an open space, caged in with metal bars. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the cool wooden floor outside Mama’s bedroom, a bowl of black currants resting quietly in my lap. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He brought out a small wooden frame strung with thin rods on which were blue, red, yellow and green balls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something or someone had landed heavily on the wooden floorboards. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We went inside the cafe and sat down at a clean wooden table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the wooden blocks were metal letters facing backward. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deydey dragged a big kettle and more wooden troughs and paddles from the small storage house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Above the fireplace on a wooden shelf was a beautiful, dusty model ship, its sails billowing in an imaginary wind. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He scored a deep groove in the wooden floor, then broke a leg, an arm, more ribs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She says the only reason this hasn’t happened to us is that we’re on the bridge and the bridge is wooden. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the cemetery, there was a plain wooden box standing beside a deep hole. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire flickered on the wooden shingles of a handful of roofs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The hut sits on four wooden legs raised three feet off the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to a giant red cross was a small wooden table and on it were a folded Confederate flag, a Bible, a glass bottle, and an unsheathed sword. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a blue armchair with dark wooden feet carved like eagle claws. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Near the river, workers had erected a wooden platform for the Autumn Faire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Here in Bat Deng’s market, long homemade wooden tables display dried fish, slabs of pork, yellow naked chickens, green beans, white corn, red tomatoes, orange mangoes, ripe guava, papayas, and some precooked food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings were constructed from rough-cut lumber, some from little more than tar paper tacked over a wooden framework. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter opened the doors to the wooden cabinet with a fancy flourish so we could see what had been hidden inside. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She stirred the water all the time with a big wooden spoon, and sifted in the meal until the kettle was full of a thick, yellow, bubbling mass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He watched as some unfurled their branches while others curled theirs into huge wooden knots—fists. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But because they had called to her in a friendly way, Kira moved through the shed, through the clatter of the wooden looms at work, and picked up the scraps from the floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the rotting-plank road, wooden stakes were driven deep into the boggy ground; there the corpses festered, red and dripping. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are heavy wooden tables, chairs, and a bed piled with furs and brocade coverlets stitched with pomegranates. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The wooden ceiling was decorated with carved interlocking flowers and vines. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in a straight-backed red leather chair with intricately carved wooden arms. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’d constructed a wooden stage with a red curtain across the front. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a huge wooden building with a great slanting roof divided up into parts. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There are beds in it, or rather bunks—a couple of wooden beams over which wire netting is stretched. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they pushed me down into that hard wooden chair and held me firmly—as if I were a sheep about to be sheared. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He emptied it into the kitchen sink, then led me out to the shed and opened up a wooden trunk in the back marked toy box. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the time being, however, the city still stood firmly on its wooden legs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Doreah, see to her hurts. You do not have a rider's look, perhaps she will not fear you. The rest, with me."«She urged the silver through the broken wooden gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes down, focused on the slick wooden bridge we’re crossing. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were two mat­tresses on opposite sides of the room, a worn Herati rug with frayed edges in between, a three-legged stool, and a wooden table in the corner where Hassan did his drawings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a plain wooden santo with no name, and, contrary to the other carved or plastic saints, it was grotesque. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His second home was the wooden shack where he and his father lived with his father’s mother, until his father found a new wife and left. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I opened the door of a tiny ramshackle shed and saw more buckets, long wooden paddles for stirring the sap, scrapers for getting it out of the pans.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I dared her to saw down the yield sign on Strevell Avenue, one of the last street signs in town with a wooden base. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

When the train arrived, they found seats—wooden benches, really—facing each other and settled in. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A moment later he’s bounding into the kitchen fully dressed, as if he’d pulled on his clothes while careening down the steep wooden staircase of our drafty Victorian house. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know what time it was when I found a modest wooden home—a small place that was plain without extras. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I turned, finally, and went back through the apartment and through the door that led from my father’s bedroom onto our wooden back porch. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had fashioned the wooden hilt himself, and wound hempen twine around it to make a grip. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A wooden post smacked into your front bumper and snapped back like a toothpick. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Grabbing his can, he started for the door, almost tripping in the awkward wooden shoes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were dirty plates on them, coffee-stained mugs, wooden boards where cheese rinds lay, knives, sausages, empty bread baskets. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The skies started to brighten as I unwrapped an elegant wooden box. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

To build the flying buttresses it was first necessary to construct temporary wooden frames called centerings. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Will everybody please line up behind that far desk in front of the Children’s Room?” said Dr. Zinchenko, gesturing toward one of the wooden tables in the outermost ring of the room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

You pulled it close to your ear as if you could hear it reply, the way I’d seen you talk to your wooden doll. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, Father Time...danced through the battle with a wooden cane he twirled like a ninja’s staff. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They kicked the students, called them names, slapped them in the face, dragged them by the ears, whipped them, and struck their hands with wooden sticks and rulers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the market, a tall wooden pole supported a bell. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am just a wooden thing in Maxim’s arms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Three turtles each the size of a footstool came in a wooden pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old wooden houses looked lopsided on their foundations after decades of long winters; poking out of the snow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Next was the southeast corner, where shabbily built wooden fences held in several cows, goats, sheep, and pigs. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Later, he became enamored of Japanese interlocking puzzles and dimensional wooden puzzles shaped in the form of an automobile or an animal. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Ahwoooooooooooooo !” Without further discussion, Penelope shoved the distraught housekeeper aside, leaned her full weight against the great wooden doors, and pushed them open. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Beakers and bits of metalwork are strewn across a wooden workbench, and there are a number of strange, shiny steel things that I reckon are weapons along one wall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Over the tall wooden fence at the side of her house, a head poked up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Rachel Wood was setting out a pewter mug and spoon and a crude wooden plate. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He took his arm from her and she mounted the steps firmly and then stumbled loudly on the wooden porch. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dwarf feet are designed for spadework, not for the delicate intricacies of ballet dancing or balancing on wooden steps. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Behind it, and behind the enormous wall, they had huddled at night in wooden shacks, together wife their domestic animals. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the corner was our place, a narrow single-story building with a wooden zebra’s head projecting over the sidewalk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The floor was made of solid wooden planks, old and knotty. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Joe sang, dogs sat on their haunches on the wooden sidewalks watching him idly, scratching their fleas in the rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Stir them around with a wooden spoon until they get soft. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A patriarch with a long white beard, black skull cap and toothless gums presided over the vats with a big forked wooden stick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ann gave herself up to the pious delight that hymn singing had always stirred in her ever since she was a child in the small wooden church down the road from her father’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Older women would bring out pots and pans, and bang on them with wooden spoons. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

On one end she had tied a rock, on the other end, a wooden box cut low on one side like a scoop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their limbs stuck out at awkward angles through the wooden bars of the cage, and at the sudden sunlight they cried loudly, scrambling over each other to try to get out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in a creaky wooden chair near the window, and I could feel a terrible draft. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And he had strongly preferred a naval force, what he called “Floating batteries and wooden walls.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The wooden bridge is more askew, rottener than I remember. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Charlotte and Nettie, and the two little wooden men Pa had made, lived in the playhouse with them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side of the chamber was a heavy wooden door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The roof rocketed beyond the treetops, a geyser of wooden confetti. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A baker's helper stepped in front of her, holding a wooden tray. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With the flicker of a smile, Mrs. Sharpe reached across the wooden table to straighten a tulip. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It's almost dismissal time, and Helmuth is sitting on a hard wooden chair in the school auditorium. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was still food left, sizzling on the wooden spits, heaped on the green platters. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When it gets to the end of the day we stop again and put up our tent, heavy canvas with wooden poles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the heavy wooden door leading to the dining hall. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he did not appear early The lecture hall was full when he entered by the hall’s lower door and climbed the three steps onto the raised wooden stage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ballroom’s wooden floor gleamed under their feet. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The room is cheerful, filled with light, with a tomato-colored carpet on the floor and people reading the paper around a big, round wooden table with forsythias or cattails arranged at its center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In front of it was a weathered wooden bench. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Taisin lay awake on the platform bed, gazing up at the wooden canopy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Moushumi leans over the pan, watching the contents come to a simmer, prodding the pieces of chicken with a wooden spoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was leaning against a big wooden stand full of clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I expected it to be on a floating buoy, but the pole is actually a wooden post that drops into the depths, presumably all the way to the bottom almost seven miles below. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I see the glow of Amity headquarters ahead, the familiar cluster of wooden buildings with the greenhouse in their center. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on the wooden benches that ran along the outside of the cable car, facing the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The end-all mystery inside the bag was a small wooden picture of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Forcible and Miss Spink began juggling with huge wooden clubs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I took the large pan of potatoes that she was handing me and a knife and a wooden bowl, and I worked silently, sometimes peeling, and sometimes driving away the bothersome flies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were glass jars filled with strange liquids and stuffed birds and cats frozen midleap on a wooden stand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

As she had guessed, a thick hairbrush with a wooden handle lay on the shelf beside the sink. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that my mother takes the clothes outside and hangs them onto the clothesline with wooden clothespins. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead the ironwork brown with rust, the hammered rivets, the wooden sleepers and crossplanks. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She burst like an overripe fruit, but no fniit had ever screamed that shattering wooden scream. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Red wooden train cars lined the platform, stretching in links as far as the eye could see. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A wooden jetty showed her she was right. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I felt I could drink three cups of it But he pressed the wooden stopper firmly back into die keg, ignoring me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stepped into the house she sat down on a wooden bench positioned at the bottom of a narrow carpeted staircase. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I ran to the great wooden door at the center of the doorway and banged on it with all my might. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sullivan ambled down the stretch of land between the O’Learys’ and their neighbor, crossed the street, and sat down on the wooden sidewalk in front of Thomas White’s house. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

August had brought in chairs and arranged them in a semicircle facing the wooden statue of Mary. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could get so cold in these dugouts that sometimes your hair would freeze to the wooden planks of your bunk while you were sleeping. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The locker room was empty at this hour, row after row of dull green lockers separated by wide wooden benches. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on a wooden chair near an electric hot plate, her arms folded, boiling water in a battered aluminum pot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The other two had been crafted with a wooden frame hung with wool blankets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And then I heard the wooden kitchen door banging open and shut and the air filled with good rich smells. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small wooden knob and a keyhole were the only indications that something might be up. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance was a wooden door in the grass, and it shook and rattled against Ivy’s palm as she wrapped her fingers around the handle. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His heavy boots sounded hollowly on the wooden landing outside, then there was nothing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are large wooden bowls of steaming beans, peas and squash, platters of roasted fish and venison, baskets of bread and fruit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The flames illuminated a small city of wooden crates that had already been packed with personal goods and prepared for shipping. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A sauna isn’t really a bath at all; our sauna at Cape Kennedy was a small room with wooden walls, floor, and ceiling. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both stood watch beside the simple wooden coffin and accompanied it to the cemetery on that unfortunate morning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was dangling from a wooden beam in the rafters. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a wooden coffee table with hand-tatted lace draped over the top. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For three days and two nights we ride the ocean waves in the Gulf of Thailand, swaying and rocking as if in a wooden coffin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those fancy ones that sits in the wooden stand at the grocery store checkout. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At the front of the hall loomed the wooden ark containing the Torah, its velvet curtain adorned with ornate goldwork. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He paces the long boards of the wooden floor. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He took a step backward, raised his own wooden blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The flickering images were a far cry from Lourdes’s childhood home: a two-room shack made of wooden slats, its flimsy tin roof weighted down with rocks, the only bathroom a clump of bushes outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Like an actor with a wooden delivery, a writer who relies on canned verbal formulas will break the spell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Anya helped her pour the potion into a separate flask with a stopper, and Mama tied a tiny wooden spoon to the flask’s neck. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A second later, the wooden door opened, and Alma and an older girl stood behind the screen door. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I didn't sound wooden the way some people who weren't born actresses do, which I suspected I was—along with being born to write. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Behind him on a wooden table a small lamp burned. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby sighed and stared at her wooden hands, then reached behind and pulled the feathers from her back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He kept them hard with exercises, beating out the rhythm with a stick on his wooden leg. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie knocked her shin into a wooden crate full of Christmas ornaments and stumbled into a hatstand before she managed to gain her bearings. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Like spokes on a wheel, rows and rows of wooden shelves surround me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With a pang Kit realized that not once since they boarded the ship had she glimpsed the wooden doll. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the wooden door, then the screen door. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I scooted across the wooden sidewalk until I struck a lamppost. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the desk we found a wicker basket full of presents from the Genies: wooden shoes, an orange Holland T-shirt, chocolates, and various other goodies. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I turned against the walls, pounding the flimsy wooden planks until my knuckles bled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden parts were going to be sold. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a dangerous wooden dock, an old minnow tank, a flimsy tar paper boathouse along the shore. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the entrance to each pier was a tall wooden pillar, and at the top of each pillar was a sculpture. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

The very fancy oriental rug covering the wooden floor and the slate flagstones of the hearth only served to make the room seem even more imposing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Earl emerges from the shadows with a wooden crate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Outside teahouses, on carpet-covered wooden platforms, men drank tea and smoked tobacco from hookahs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to do but to pull the door tight upon its wooden hinges and fasten the iron hasp. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the women sat on the wooden benches and began slowly to take off their shoes and stockings. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear was making for a narrow wooden shed, raising his head to sniff this way and that, and when he reached the door he stopped and said: “In there.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A large, round cage set on a wooden base that has been carved into swirling white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctors shifted Anna’s head slightly in the wooden box. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The church was a zinc structure with wooden pews. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set a cigarette between her lips and thumbed a wooden match to light it, blew out the match and put it back in her jacket pocket. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been freshly whitewashed that summer, and flowers circled the wooden cross that stood in the front. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This room never had a wooden floor, just soil packed hard and smooth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ahead of her, the heavy wooden doors to the palace were closed, but a smaller door set within them was unbarred, and she went to the door and pushed it open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get home, pushing open the enormous wooden door with its looping ironwork, someone is shouting upstairs, as though in distress. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, a long wooden table was cluttered with scrolls, notebooks, tablet computers, daggers, and a large bowl filled with jelly beans, which seemed kind of out of place. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Drums beat insistently, and wooden flutes cast their haunting spells on the many people gathering in the field. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He had never thought to find a stone castle on the far side of the Wall, but he had pictured some sort of motte-and-bailey with a wooden palisade and a timber tower keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was so small that I had to stand on an overturned wooden box to reach the controls of the machine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The ship’s bow displays an ornate wooden carving in the semblance of a backward copyright symbol. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few grabbed the soldiers' boots and tossed their own wooden clogs at them in exchange. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She heard the overgrown puppet chasing her as she raced to the edge of the pond and hurled the wooden arms into the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, Ash picked up the wooden bucket and went to the pump, where she lifted the cold iron handle, creaking, to release a flood of icy water. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tapped the pieces onto the wooden board so fast it sounded like clattering teeth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A great wooden sign stretched above all three lanes of the road. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The chair Mom was in slid back and locked into place behind one wall of the wooden structure. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was closed fast, two great wooden gates, painted black and bound and studded with iron, closed upon each other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then, using a wooden blade, he scored the surface of the clay in the drainage bed so it would dry faster. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

‘Less talk about the wise men and the way the children in Holland put out their wooden shoes instead of hanging up their stockings.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was an old wooden grandstand at one side, lifted on stilts for the ladies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on the wooden benches that ran along the outside of the cable car, facing the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We’re living in a larger place now, the three of us: the upper two stories of a red brick semidetached house with a sagging wooden square-pillared porch, on a side street west along Bloor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first is a wooden box with no opening she can detect. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller suddenly appeared before them, a wooden cane in his hands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We picked up bricks, the rocklike broken bits of concrete blocks, the wooden boards. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to look to where she pointed—the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They galloped across a wooden bridge, a dark creek, then up a narrow farm road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Graffiti covered the elaborate wooden doorway of the old cathedral. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I knew her, before,” he added, settling himself into the wooden chair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wooden keep was gone entirely, rotted away a thousand years past, with not so much as a timber to mark where it had stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He darted behind the three-sided wooden structure that sheltered waiting passengers from the wind until he heard her wide rubber heels padding down the steps. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled back through the door into the narrow passage and lowered himself down the shallow wooden steps into the hallway. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The children took cracked clay bowls from a pile on the worn wooden table and sat down on stools. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you looked there was something startling: a stuffed squirrel, a kite in the shape of a dragon, a wooden cow with a spear piercing its side. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mom got up from the table, the wooden legs of her chair scraping across the floor, and dug inside the middle drawer of the cherrywood buffet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The wooden waves of her hair dissolve into the timbers of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A stove, a refrigerator, several wooden chairs, a sink, and a few rows of kitchen cabinets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the great wooden table where we had spent many a tedious hour studying algebra and the Holy Roman Empire, we now sat down to take stock. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men from the northlands closed the gates of their encampment, retreated behind their wooden wall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Up on the stage, a raised platform slid out, along with two large wooden structures. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One friend even gave her the bunk bed that Ashley and I would sleep on—I immediately started swinging and somersaulting from the wooden slats under the top bunk and nearly destroyed several of them! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The cord that came through the window was tied to a brass bell and the bell was fixed in a rough wooden jig that had been nailed to the window molding. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I imagined the plain wooden crucifix above the altar swinging back and forth as Father Amadi raised the host at consecration. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He headed outside, was on his way to sit on the grey wooden bench, when he saw something and he hesitated. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The king moved forward on the plain wooden bench. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, the authorities built in each cell a kind of stand- up desk, a simple wooden board that jutted out from the wall at about chest-level. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kindergarten through third-grade students filed noisily into the old wooden seats for the afternoon performance. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The dark wooden front door looked as forbidding as a tightly closed mouth, and Meggie involuntarily reached for Mo's hand as they approached it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But about six months later, the authorities relented and we were given three-legged wooden stools and the stand-up desks were lowered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery—our mere existence is punishment enough. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There are some wooden fish hanging on the wall and a poster of a Portugal map over the couch. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Even before entering the rows of wooden stalls, her heart would pound like the chiwoda drums of her childhood dances. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The schoolroom is plain, but the wall paint is fresh and the wooden floorboards newly oiled and the desks worn. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The white walls were now painted beige, and instead of the big comfy sofa, stiff chairs sat alongside a cement-looking couch balancing on tiny wooden legs. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They ran behind the counter and through a second doorway, which led to a rickety wooden staircase that they climbed as fast as they could. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, Heinck, Quirin, and Burger carried the wooden boxes, the bag of clothes, and the suitcase full of money up a sand dune. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In the tale, the archery teacher of the Pandavas had tied a wooden fish to a tree branch. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though we counted on getting plenty of fish and wild game, we had a wooden grub box full of staples. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Malloy has taken the white wooden chairs from the basement into the living room to make sure everyone has a seat. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The hollow wooden sound like to busted Pink and Lee Roy clear out of the hay. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I came again to the sagging wooden sign for Grovepoint Acres. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I made the reluctant decision to hide away before I was discovered, and slipped into a space between two wooden planks nailed to the entrance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sweaty hulk backed away, a light rain of perspiration pattering on the wooden floor. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is sorting through a chest that contains— believe it or not—more toys, when I see them: two old-fashioned wooden stick horses, one black, one gray, that sit forgotten in a corner. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I circled around until I was on the far side of the carousel, mostly hidden by the legs of the wooden animals. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“This is one of the training areas. We try for mostly organic materials, but this wooden set was donated, and it works; sometimes that’s the best we can do,” Dr. Martin says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I looked across to a lighted case of Chinese design which held delicate-looking statues of horses and birds, small vases and bowls, each set upon a carved wooden base. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, we were just in time,” he said, then started laughing in that way that made me so happy, his big chest heaving and causing the wooden chair to squeal. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Its beauty lay in its simplicity, the plainness of its curve; even its wooden scabbard was spare and plain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wooden tables had rotted overnight—one had collapsed into sawdust. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The mother’s feet, plump and polite, descended like white pigeons from the sea of pillow, across the linoleum roses, down down the wooden stairs, over the chalk hopscotch squares, 5, 6, 7, blue sky. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the first wooden foot any of them had ever made. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She raised her father’s wooden latch and pushed it open. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took my time making chai and arranging a plate of biscuits on a wooden tray. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, right,” Chuck whispered, staring at the wooden steps in a daze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

So they went outside and saw a small wooden building with what looked like a sheet of tin on top. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was twenty-two feet long, with a two-foot wooden bowsprit sticking from her nose, a stainless steel pulpit above it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to close up shop, lowering the front wooden grate, when Hugo approached him from behind. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He begins pulling open the heavy wooden drawers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then the great carts followed, rumbling with their spiked wooden wheels, drawn by horses or slow white oxen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an enormous black stove, and a metal sink, and every surface, every wall, was piled and strewn and hung with everything imaginable, from onions to lanterns to wooden spoons to wash- tubs. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stream of fans crossed the pontoon bridge at the western end of the course and began to fill the massive wooden bleachers on the far side of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He hauled the three huge wooden vats into the courtyard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They pressed on south and southwest, until the wooden towers of Deepwood Motte were lost to sight and the sounds of trumpets had been swallowed by the woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boys’ side had a wooden swing set, but the girls’ side had only a table and chairs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen boys sat and stretched out on wooden benches, surrounded by whispering men. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers’ housing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten o'clock the tall wooden doors swing open, and the courtroom falls quiet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the Assassin out of the corner of her eye, running beside her as they dodged through the throng, narrowly avoiding pull-carts and men rolling kegs across the wooden planks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He strained to reach it and placed his eye against a perfect peephole, through which he could see most of the bar’s seating area of small wooden tables and chairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had pulled the tall wooden door of Blessed Way Church toward him and was greeted by a wave of noise, all of it echoing off the high ceilings. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The water splashed down, filled her wooden box and lifted the stone, and she was back in business again. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the wooden clock begin to sing and Wu Tsing’s deep voice complaining of the chill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the wooden bench a few steps from me, the settee, but although I was tired, I didn’t sit down. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I cringed as she tossed a wooden spatula in the Tupperware drawer. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The impact bent the casement and shattered the wooden nose cone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Apa, I call out as I read a sign posted near some double wooden doors. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

My feet click...clack...click...clack to where the path ends at a wooden door three meters tall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Your head's as wooden as your teeth," Hake told him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On that table, I saw, was a gigantic wooden bowl full of water. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he blundered again at the door a moment later, again invisible and blind within and beyond his wooden avatar, Dilsey opened the door and guided him across the kitchen with a firm hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snowfall of plaster was gone; in its place was a long wooden table ringed by chairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The result of this new determination and new vision was the stratagem of the wooden horse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick red carpet covered its floor, and its walls were lined with glass-enclosed wooden bookcases jammed tight with books. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Carving on his wooden leg, he showed his friends how he would cut her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He scratched his chin, his eyes lifted to the plain wooden cross nailed to the wall by the choir box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A perfect cube five feet high, the altar in our camp was capped with a triumvirate of carefully selected pointed stones, above which rose a ten-foot wooden pole crowned with an elegant juniper bough. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She knocked on the wooden door, and hearing a gruff answer from within, she pushed it open, the hinges creaking slightly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra led him almost to the end of the garden, over a little bridge, to a wooden seat under a spreading, low-branched tree. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stared at the brick as it slid across the clean, worn, wooden floor, and at the glass that scattered about my feet. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the evangelists carried a wooden staff with a pair of tiny, shiny silver wings on top. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was thrown into the back of the wooden seat in front of me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dutch children should all stumble in their wooden shoes and break their necks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman, big with child, sat patiently at the curb in a stiff wooden chair. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung usually lay listening to it and moved only when he heard it approaching nearer and when he heard the door of his father’s room squeak upon its wooden hinges. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mummy and I walk across the island to Windemere, a short distance on a wooden walkway. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Near Block 28 some of the men who had been professional gardeners built a small park, with mossy nooks, ponds, waterfalls and curved wooden bridges. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden floorboards creak no matter where you step on them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The kindergarten students stared at her in wonder when she appeared daily for fifty minutes after lunch and stuffed herself into one of their miniature wooden desks. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the wooden door is up, the assemblage is transformed from a neutral into a loaded image, bringing out the nascent connotations of the target. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village was a shabby place: a huddle of wooden buildings, with paddocks containing reindeer, and dogs that barked as he approached. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mutti smiles and taps the wooden spoon against the frying pan rim, then rests it on the counter. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pong's neck scraped against the wooden bars as he jammed his shoulder between them, groping for the staff. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The shoemaker quickly lifted the wheel out of the strong wooden block which held it covered with a flat board and cloth. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

There was no furniture except the chair, the wooden bunk, and a bucket. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For Sul Ross there were several wooden pull toys and a spinning top. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Quentin grandly described it as an “irregular polyhedron,” but it was little more than a wooden shed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they opened the heavy wooden doors,-a small boy darted out, but one of the guards grabbed his arm and flung him back inside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My gaze tracks up the arm until I see that I am being held by the ship’s figurehead—a wooden maiden carved into the bow, beneath the bowsprit pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I hurry down the main street, which is lined with wooden houses painted white, yellow, blue, and red. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden partition separating the entryway from the rest of the house, with shelves covered in pictures and candles and phone chargers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Stacked chairs block off one wall of the Old Gym, but the other wall’s got a wooden frame you can climb. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My father reached forward to the only chair in the room, a small wooden one, and placing both hands on its back, brought himself to his feet. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s a fence right there,” she said, pointing to a wooden patch we’d hit just after crossing the parkway. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The three huge wooden beams have cracked, but none has given way entirely. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My foot grew numb and wooden from the cold, and while that worried some rational piece of me, my practical side was just glad there was one less part of me that hurt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boy carved the letters into a wooden beam in the wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Moments later, an old man and a young boy come by with a large wooden cart. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father set the brake, and as an extra precaution he put the wooden block behind the wheel. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right,” said Moody, sitting down and stretching out his wooden leg with a groan. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Once they were gone, I seriously thought about kicking my way out of that miserable wooden tomb. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the block is a house that has wooden slats for windows. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Roosevelt and the others passed the graves marked with wooden crosses, they raised their hats, acknowledging Rondon’s workers who had died. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But what she noticed first was a bright red wooden tray with a number of rings on it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A man was sitting on the floor writing on a small raised wooden board resting on bricks before him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly she was horrified at herself, and in mortified confusion kept her eyes on the wooden trencher before her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Papa-Nnukwu was on a low wooden stool, his legs bent into a triangle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her wooden needles clicked in her gnarled hands. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Breathing heavy, arms pushing the wooden raft—it’s not going to be enough. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here on a low table at the foot of the bed sits what he has been searching for, a wooden model of the city, nestled like a gift. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He opened the wooden door to his rooms, peeling off his clothing as he headed to the bathing room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A wooden walking cane lay in a corner. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The music came from a cassette recorder on the grass beside the wooden deck chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She brought out her old wooden board and cleaver, then chopped the ginger and scallions, and poured soy sauce and sesame oil into a shallow dish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students shriek with disgust at the sight of a tin pan hanging from the bottom of a wooden chair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wooden match flared, and he saw James, crouched like a cat, his eyes wide, sweat bubbling on his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo peered at the little girl on her wooden stool. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their great art, in the form of wooden statues and masks, is prized in museums around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Filch, who had been lurking unnoticed in a far corner of the Hall, now approached Dumbledore carrying a great wooden chest encrusted with jewels. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

What if Axel misses having the pillows on the floor and the wooden crosses that framed smaller sections to look through? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It stretched into a three-foot-long wooden staff with dove wings sprouting out the top. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

This time it was the constable’s wife, with a wooden trencher of mush. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s some steps over here,” said Miguel, climbing a wooden staircase. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

After pouring a little of each into a large glass beaker, he stirred the mixture thoroughly with a wooden spoon, watching intently as it smoked and steamed and boiled and bubbled. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

They walked down a wide wooden staircase to the end of a long hall hung with banners. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We then sat down to eat dinner around some wooden crates that served as a table. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A cupboard of heavy walnut put together with wooden pegs stood near the fireplace and held dishes, food, and cooking utensils. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet seemed planted on this wooden floor; they did not wish to carry him one step further. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Later in the night, lying on the wooden plank for beds, I keep Chou awake by tossing and turning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden grandstands were painted in scarlet and white. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They returned to an empty, dark house, and Ash and Gwen climbed the stairs to their attic room slowly, their feet heavy on the worn wooden floorboards. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After studies, Hanako was surprised when the teacher told them to clean the wooden floors of the school building, both in the classroom and out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dirt path going down to the wooden footbridge is dry, dusty; the leaves of the trees which hang over it are dull green and worn-out from the summer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Henry knocked on the wooden door of the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for about ten minutes, then we had the good luck to come across a little creek with a wooden bridge running across it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He listened, then turned a small screw on the back of the instrument’s wooden neck, then listened again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Once, years ago, for no particular reason, I wrecked the place; broke up the wooden gods like kindling and toppled the gods of stone. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat crowded together on the two long benches that Matthew had provided by the simple method of laying planks on rough wooden crosspieces. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia took out her key—her father always locked the house—but the heavy wooden door on its well-oiled hinges swung silently open at her touch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He slid Marmalade’s drink across the worn wooden bar top, where she caught it without spilling a drop. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His fingertips stroked a sleek feathered shoulder, then the sharp wooden beak, painted a bright gold. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maya goes to the wall of wooden slats. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I stared at her blankly and then passed out of the open door, stiff and wooden like a dummy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

While I browsed through one of the tarantula books, Zion continued moving the stacks of documents and boxes until he uncovered a large wooden desk buried beneath all the stuff. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I climb the stairs to the wooden platform where Four pulled me to solid ground and grab the bar that the net is attached to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Up in those big five-story apartment buildings and the narrow wooden houses in between people knock on each Other’s doors to see if anything is needed or can be had. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The ceiling was low and lined with dark wooden beams. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a wide wooden gate opening out of the wall into the lane. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jesus and Magdalena race outside, where their mother is already hobbling past the wooden front gate, her long gray braids swinging. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The speaker in the room crackled to life with the sound of a gong being struck This was our signal to funnel out again onto the wooden walkways. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Owens walked inside, looking dubiously at the shelves, and at the old wooden pews tipped up against a wall. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

"You better leave your things in the locker room," he said, opening a door through which I saw a room with low wooden benches and rows of green lockers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the wooden bridge, Roosevelt heard someone shout, “Good luck!” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I would rather be in a small wooden boat carved from an old tree, or even a floating nutshell. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A low wooden gate keeps us from entering. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

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

And farmholds spread over the land, first in the valleys and then up the foothill slopes, small wooden houses roofed with redwood shakes, corrals of split poles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling Nel by the arm, she pressed herself and her daughter into the foot space in front of a wooden seat. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was well-made, undamaged, with a pair of wooden benches inside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A tin choirboy hitting a high note, his mouth a perfect O. A wooden family of jolly snowmen. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dad was eating chips with a wooden fork from a cone of newspaper. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But they could only aim by looking at the reflection of the wooden fish in the water below them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Saloon and Steakhouse is the first wooden building you see when you enter Stagecoach Pass after parking in the giant dirt lot, which is only a quarter full on the busiest days. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My bare feet hit the wooden walkway with a strange echo. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was mosdy a skeleton of wooden poles, with canvas stretched only over the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually Marie-Laure can solve the wooden puzzle boxes her father creates for her birthdays. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When they clattered over the first wooden bridge south of the crossroads, Jonathan was still far behind. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I trample over a wooden bridge that crosses a small garden river, an offshoot of the Golden Palace River that runs the perimeter of the palace grounds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Their windows have glass panes instead of wooden shutters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A rough wooden ladder led up to a square house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I sit in a cold room at the end of a long, wooden table. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A big wooden table sat in the middle of their living room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The common room was long and drafty, with a row of huge wooden kegs at one end and a fireplace at the other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Deydey had tied two ropes into holes in the wooden beams, and between the two he’d fastened a warm blanket into a hammock. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I hit my toe on a wooden monkey, and almost trip over some long ropes and cables. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He laid everything carefully on the little wooden jetty and made his way back to the others. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big classroom,” I said, looking around a large room that held a few wooden tables and chairs. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

These pillars were painted red, as were the wooden window borders. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been sitting in a worn old arm chair, but now he surged out of it like a young man, his cane a blunt wooden sword before him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Franz followed suit a few seconds later, his claws clicking on the wooden steps as he raced downstairs to see why there was a commotion that he was not yet a part of. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I knew Papa kept her paintings in the corner of his study behind a wooden rocking chair. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a large, wooden rectangular building with high ceilings and small, square windows on the sides. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He takes the rabbits and places them on a wooden board. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there’s a wooden table and chairs and a space for all our bedrolls, that’s it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sherm crossed it to a wooden door that stood open, revealing a bright room: a big bed, a desk, a tall dresser, and under the window, a trunk. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She studied the grooves in the wooden table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I made him this wooden box in industrial shop class. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

By the time the flames engulfed the wooden hut and licked up into open air, Cole had lost all control. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The same question would soon be asked by the men who manned the North End’s wooden firehouse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Madrina grins at me as I walk down the crooked wooden stairs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He signs the letter and folds it, leaving it propped upright in the center of the table, next to a wooden bowl full of apples. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But by the time we stood by your bed, your own body was as stiff as a wooden doll’s and it was too late. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The wooden man she had glimpsed, though, and the boy with the wolf’s face ... they were his servants, surely ... his champions, as Stannis was hers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was an uneasy scraping and shifting of chairs on the dusty wooden floor. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The wooden shingles of the tavern were warm. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Z picked at the wooden door frame, loosening a splinter. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman balanced her finger on the long blade of the wooden dagger in Anya’s hand. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, it was a small, spare, wooden house, more like a cabin than a mansion. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I looked up toward the door but stopped looking when I saw the white, white frilly socks standing on the wooden floor in front of my door. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the density became more like the town of Saint-Denis—tall wooden houses packed side by side. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

After she dressed, Dr. Stevens pulled over a wooden stool. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She leapt to her feet and drew her wooden sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She returns the stone inside the model house and restores the wooden panels that make up its roof and twists the chimney back into place and puts the house into the pocket of her dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In his other pocket was the wooden key. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bricks were fashioned out of grass and clay, which was pressed into a wooden mold about seventy-five centimeters long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, if the wooden and graffitied boards over the windows and doors are any indication, nobody’s lived here for a long time. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I crossed myself as I faced the wooden life-size statue of a dying Christ, looking down on us from high above the altar. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Bodega left my words hanging and walked away toward a small wing that had an exhibition of wooden religious figures. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A slave knelt before him, offering a wooden platter full of ripe figs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few feet beyond is his privy—a hole with a wooden shanty over it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A silver whistle was protruding from under the mustache, and he was carrying a large wooden crate under one arm, his broomstick under the other. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In it a crowd of black men and women stood between long rows of wooden benches, singing, clapping hands, and rolling their heads. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They capped the number at thirty a week later, and moved on to filling the next wooden structure along the camp’s perpetually soggy and trampled main trail. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Both kids held long wooden staffs with iron spear tips, like old-fashioned harpoons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We went to the restroom and dried ourselves with paper towels, then sat in silence on a wooden bench, waiting for the bus. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a whole family would step up to the wooden fence overlooking the water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the very outskirts of the village, there was a large, simple wooden structure originally meant to provide cover in a rainstorm, then, when more solid buildings were built, to store things temporarily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A short brunette girl named Aspen Matthews is the first to be called onstage to shake hands with the Chief Director, who hands her a smooth wooden box containing her badge. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The wooden shutters bolted over the downstairs windows were two inches thick, and the doors were double-barred. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac stood behind a little wooden lectern, clinging to it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, he saw a pair of wooden steps leading upward. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He still wouldn’t tell me what was in the wooden crates, but he did teach me a few sword moves. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The drove of pigs started up; and at a range of only ten yards the wooden spears with fire-hardened points flew toward the chosen pig. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Inside its heavy wooden boards were names and dates going back more than a century. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the overhang of the roof were the long wooden dinner table and benches, the well, and the fire circle. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the start of the war, all navies had ships with wooden hulls. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

On a side table under a naphtha lamp lay a battered wooden box, certainly the right size to contain the instrument she knew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They swarmed through the house, their boots stomping on the wooden floors and stairs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At her forecastle stood a grotesque figurehead, some worm-eaten wooden eminence with a constipated look and a scroll tucked up under one arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stuck it into the wooden ceiling to steady himself as they halted to look for the next loft door. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She pounded the dough with a wooden spoon. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined standing in front of a firing squad or on a wooden box with a noose around his neck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

To the left, beyond a tiny living room with dark wooden beams, sits a girl with shoulder-length black hair and curly bangs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He stayed there longer than was necessary, crouched over the dense fermentation that was coming out of the wooden box until habit told him that it was time to start work again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The matches are wooden ones, in a cardboard sliding-top box, the kind I used to covet in order to make dolls’ drawers out of them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out and found my hand and placed her wooden fingers around it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The three of us squished into a tiny wooden booth in the corner of the restaurant. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He sat, watching the sea heaving between his hands, and hearing the wooden clatter of gannets on an island cliff. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Use this, my dear,” she said, and handed her a wooden spoon and a steaming cup of tea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He buried himself deep in his side of the straw tick; he felt where the wooden slats of the bed crossed under his body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gently took a bat out of the little wooden cage. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She tucked him tenderly into an old wooden cradle, and he lay in sleepy contentment, his dark face incongruous against a doll’s pillow. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In single file, they ushered him down a wobbly flight of wooden stairs leading to the basement and led him into a damp, gloomy room with a low cement ceiling and unfinished stone walls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

While she was psyching herself up to immobilize her ankle, she noticed some faded words on one of the wooden crates: hermes express. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two long panes of chest-high, dirty, gray-tinted Plexiglas lean against each other at an acute angle, held up on the other side by the wooden wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

From each end hung a chain with a hook, and on each hook hung a big wooden bucket full of hot maple syrup. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But right now there’s a little girl cross-legged on wooden bleachers peering at me from beneath a hand held aloft at her forehead, a smile on her face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Gilded federal eagles held wooden shields emblazoned in red, white, and blue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Beaver scooped up handfuls of the resin and smeared it all over the wooden foot and the vines until everything was glistening with stickiness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He imagines the vines carved into the lid coming to life like wooden snakes, lashing at him the moment he tries to lift it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Tacked on his door was a wooden plaque, neatly painted in red block letters. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He found his way down a pink-wallpapered hallway and into a room with a huge wooden desk that looked like the kind of place where a president might sign a bill into law. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Imagine colorful wooden doors in odd shapes and windows at wonky angles embedded into the rock. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His mahogany top split into four pie slices, which elongated into wooden blades. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man had paused in the road and hoisted the wooden jiggeh higher on his back, shifting the cumbersome weight. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Like a wooden box all carved with naked women. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Sunny banged on a pot with a wooden spoon, singing a rather repetitive song she had written herself. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden hall on a hill, a mile or so from them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Oriana stands there, a wooden tray in her hands with a steaming pot and three clay cups atop it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Under one arm he carried a large package, and in the other hand was a big, covered, wooden bucket. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The head made Kendra think of a wooden hockey mask, though that was not quite right, because it was cruder and simpler. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Nearby is a wooden table piled with small machine parts. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The fourth wall is a curtain of wooden slats strung together. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It was a little wooden fish painted dark green on top and light pink on bottom, with red lips and round eyes finished with cute curling eyelashes, all lacquered to a high shine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The dollhouse had two teeny wooden rockers with a little doll sitting in each: one with light brown hair like mine, and the other with pitch-black hair like Mom’s. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

This time the hallway is deserted, an expanse of dark blue carpeting and white wooden doors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on wooden planks and the weak morning sun streamed into the roofless class as she unfurled Odenigbo’s cloth flag and told them what the symbols meant. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I grabbed the wooden backboard to steady myself, I felt a splinter go into my finger from the rough wood, but I ignored the pain. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first project was a series of wooden vegetable crates I meticulously filled with my garbage. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Riccio jumped ashore and tied the boat to one of the wooden stakes sticking out of the water. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am trying to lull you into a false sense of confidence,” said Tyrion, as they arranged their tiles on either side of a carved wooden screen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Dunstan was taken into the Seventh Magpie and given a wooden settle on which to sit. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The man fell backward into the glass, which shattered at once, and the flimsy wooden frame went too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hefty ledger books waited on a huge wooden bookshelf that took up the far wall of the dim room. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Along each side of the cavernous room, long, sleek racing shells were stacked four high on wooden racks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Snuffy unwrapped one, holding in his hand an awkward wooden carving of a hollow-eyed and gaunt virgin squeezing a bellowing fat kid against her breasts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while of filming my front door—brown, wooden, three rectangular windows at the top, nothing special, really—they went and did their spiel on the sidewalk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He reached into the wooden drawer next to his bed and got a clean blue shirt with white stripes on it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The stone walls were whitewashed, and there was straw on the ground and wooden feed-boxes and water-troughs set against the wall. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They went through the wooden houses but they found nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tom pulled out six cans of Coke and shut the heavy wooden door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I at least had wooden clogs to keep my feet off the frozen earth, but without socks my feet were blocks of ice anyway. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A driveway climbs up a gentle slope before disappearing beneath a weathered wooden garage door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Long enough to see an empty wooden crate floating by her. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

A few days later I was put in a cell by myself, where I slept on wooden boards suspended from the wall. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I run to the top of the wooden stairs and look down at the beach. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I had been promoted from gluing on the bristles to fastening the wooden halves of a brush together with brads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only decoration on the plain white walls was a small, sketchy illustration in a black wooden frame. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She complains to Theo that Vincent is stubborn, irritating, “more of a wooden lion than ever and is very annoyed at the preparations.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I heard the legs of a chair dragged hurriedly across the wooden floor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But before long he came hurrying back, hitched the horses to the wagon, threw in his ax, the two washtubs, the wash-boiler and all the pails and wooden buckets there were. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone is standing around the hole now, with the wooden crate in the center. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I stab my wooden stake high into the dummy’s chest, feeling it puncture the body and hit the tree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went in and found Rufus in bed with his leg sandwiched between the two boards of a wooden splint and held straight by a device of rope and cast iron. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped over a Navajo sleeping on the shady side of the wooden steps. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yank on the ropes, watch the silly wooden soldier jump and twitch. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was changing the truss on the wooden dummy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The wooden cavalcade around them seemed to cut them off from the rest of the world. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the courtyard, she could hear the other slaves shuffling toward the wooden building where they slept. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He closes the cellar door behind him and bars it and sits halfway down the wooden staircase with a damp look on his face, fear or grit, it’s hard to say. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was hammering a wooden stall into place. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the other window, my favorite one, was the kind-faced Jesus, poised with his hand in front of a large wooden door. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the loose bottom of the wooden butter-mold was carved the picture of a strawberry with two strawberry leaves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played lawn tennis with homemade wooden rackets and soccer with bare feet on a field of dust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get the pitcher of water near the bedpan and splash some on the wooden planks of the floor and then some on my face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had been taken at night under a full moon, and it showed a wooden hut in the middle distance, its walls dark against the snow that surrounded it and lay thickly on the roof. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She dressed quickly, laced her sandals, pulled the wooden comb through her long hair, grabbed her stick, and hurried through the empty corridor to leave her new home and go for a morning walk. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Different smells kept luring Victor into the kitchen, but every time he tried to sneak a taste he got his fingers rapped with a wooden spoon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In her hand she holds a hammer, its wooden handle worn and splintered. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a rag and just as soon as she’d splashed one of the tin cans in the water and give it to me I’d dry it and stick it in the wooden box. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were wooden bins of onions and lettuces and turnips and cabbages. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Uncle made me a beautiful wooden box in which I placed her chewed-up pencil, a lock of her hair my mother had cut, her toenail clippings, and other really sacred items like that. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The night guard, an ancient Irish cat with a wooden cane, was staring intently at one of those seven-day medicine holders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Across the top of the parapet a ramshackle wooden platform had appeared as if from nowhere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Beside the door was a mirror and a wooden table on which was placed a bouquet of artificial flowers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third kind were large wooden houses with broad porches that ran around the buildings; they had odd shapes, round towers, octagonal bays, balconies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rode our bikes to Rado’s house and jumped the wooden fence, which turned out to be a real bad idea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were also two wooden privacy screens to change behind, some freestanding mirrors, and a worktable laid out with sewing machines and bolts of raw fabric. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The doors had been thrown open, she saw, and the queen stood at the top of the wooden steps, smiling down at someone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Still standing on the chair, she was able to get a grip on the wooden molding, and she pulled until the panel had come off in her hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then it glided down and landed with brisk sweeps of its powerful pinions, and came to a halt on the wooden deck a few yards from Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And she’s just standing there with a tiny delicate finger placed in the hinge of a big wooden door. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As a dining hall, it left much to be desired—it was dark, dirty, drafty, and hard to heat in winter, its cellars infested with rats, its massive wooden rafters worm-eaten and festooned with cobwebs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The broad wooden span of the bridge had rotted through, but some of the lamps that lined the way were still aglow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It contained a few rows of wooden chairs. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Among the supplies provided for her was a fine new frame that unfolded and stood on sturdy wooden legs so that it was not necessary to hold it in her lap. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bellingham knelt and checked for himself, knocking the wooden sides. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were hunched, and as I followed him to the shed to collect some dark wooden folding chairs, I noticed how slowly he shuffled his feet. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I laid her on the wooden cot first thing because she was heavier than she looked, and in my haste forgot to lift the blanket first to cover her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three sides of the big mews were wooden. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hermione was lying on her bunk reading, while Ron, after many nervous glances up at her, had taken a small wooden wireless out of his rucksack and started to try and tune it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He started up the wooden rungs and I began climbing behind, up to the limb high over the bank. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave viewers a basic overview of cell structure and cancer using diagrams and a long wooden pointer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The guards had been targeting Zoe, and before they could figure out that the kid with the pipes was the bigger problem, the wooden planks at their feet sprouted new branches and tangled their legs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The room is cavernous, with high, slanted ceilings and exposed wooden beams that give me the feeling of being in a giant barn. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As I lay on my side, staring at a pool of white moonlight on the wooden floor, a gust of wind blew the curtains out, long and pale as ghosts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

You have to see this, Teresa said to him just as Newt dismissed his helpers—they clomped up the wooden stairs, a couple of them grumbling about doing all that work for nothing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Gingerly the sparrow slid her claws along the smooth wooden ridge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Severed hands clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, she threw herself onto a towel on the wooden deck. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dyedka was up, his wooden legs thumping on the floor as he shooed the goats out of the house. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I followed him up a spiral staircase and into the clock tower itself, where there was a well-lit room with simple furnishings: two chairs and a wooden table. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were row upon row of these long, low wood buildings, each with an aisle through the middle and tiers of wooden bunks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He leaps to his feet, knocking over the wooden crate and cursing as he keeps the kerosene lamp from hitting the floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In its place, a wooden building loomed at my back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He enters a room and sits on an empty wooden bench at the back. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Always before, Jim and I had carried them into the mountains to bury them and to give them their last rites, a prayer over a rough wooden cross of birch twigs and twine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The machinery clangs downward and the lift clanks into place and Frederick pushes the wooden doors inward. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At bayonet-practice I had constantly to fight with Himmelstoss, I with a heavy iron weapon, whilst he had a handy wooden one with which he easily struck my arms till they were black and blue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several men stood guard, looking out into the sleet-filled dark with rifles at the ready, while others opened the wooden crate containing the bomb and made it ready for the cable. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I scraped my nose a bit on the old wooden door, and I hoped I didn’t get any splinters in my face—getting them out wouldn’t be fun. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The three girls moved to a mound of palm fronds, carefully removing them to reveal a rickety wooden trebuchet made of bamboo and counterweighted with coconuts. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Meliagrance, who had been overseeing some men-at-arms while they broke up the wooden sheds on the Great Court as a precaution against Greek Fire, lost his nerve. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I didn't know was he brought along a small wooden cross. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed, I sat up straight in the wooden chair and tried to look studious. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Next, the water set off a lever attached to a wooden rain stick, nudging the rain stick to sway back and forth like a lazy seesaw. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One evening he stopped by my workstation and observed me as I stood on my wooden box completing a casing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He takes a thin wooden block and slips it under my goodfoot, then checks my hip bones again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She looked forward to the task— they would take turns pounding the vegetable into a wooden bowl with a stick almost as tall as Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned her mistake when the lumpy indigestible mass was ladled onto her wooden trencher. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The artist carved it out of a humongous redwood stump, wooden feather by wooden feather. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He placed a set of brass knuckles and box of wooden matches on the table. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His cousins had left more toys scattered on the stairs: a wooden mouse, a toy theatre, some paper dolls. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly, he brought his wooden staff up. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We reach the end of the tunnel, and she nudges a heavy wooden door open with her shoulder. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As the walls grew higher wooden scaffolding became a necessity. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

We were watching the road while they shifted some of the explosive—she has a wooden bird whistle for warning the people below if she sees headlamps coming down the hill. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I ate watery broth and week-old bread once a night and passed out on a wooden pallet with no mattresses or pillows or blankets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the far side, a thread of smoke drifted up from another of those wooden domes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He would need someone to place wooden blocks on the trailer so he could offload the stack. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Freed from her studio work, Maria gathered glass jars and wooden boxes covered with gauze and set up a work space in an unused corner. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Luke and Nigel were inside eating from wooden bowls with what looked like wooden spoons. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were lifeless wooden sticks at the ends of my hands. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I let out my breath slowly but I can’t help looking at those worn wooden steps on the left side of the room that go up to the stage. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth struck one of the cage’s wooden bars, and quivered for an instant before catching fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Five Nations recorded the succession of council members with a combination of pegs and carved images on long wooden cylinders called Condolence Canes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A necklace of wooden beads hangs on his neck, the pendant disappearing into his white T-shirt. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Beyond was a flight of wooden steps, steep and twisting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Others offer to carry purchases of fruits and vegetables from stall to stall in rustic wooden wheelbarrows in exchange for tips. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was seated in a leather recliner in what looked like a dorm room, with one twin bed, one chair, a long-ignored wooden desk, and a minifridge. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Her stick thumped on the wooden floor and the foot of her flawed leg brushed the boards with a sweeping sound, as if she dragged a broom. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran was standing over him with upraised wooden sword, ready to whack him again once he regained his feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He slumped down on her settee, which had curved wooden legs so thin it looked like it was wearing high heels. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was clear that we had to sit there like wooden carrion until, if we were lucky, high tide would float us off. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Between the windows some ancient wooden santos, and a couple of newer ones that had been carved and painted by the expatriate Snuffy Ledoux, were hanging. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the castle lay the market square, its wooden stalls deserted now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His numb limbs felt wooden and stiff, moving awkwardly as if disconnected from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Two congressmen and future presidents, James Madison and James Monroe, would arrive after him and be compelled to sleep on wooden benches in the tavern’s public room! An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stoker pulls his wooden stool over and half sits on it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was seated on a folding wooden chair at a small, messy-looking writing table, with a paperback overseas novel open before him, which he was having great trouble reading. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He fixed up the room just the way he wanted it, with wooden shelves built in an alcove. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A roof of corrugated tin was supported in the front by a few wooden posts, and on the other three sides walls were formed by the tall boards of the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dimly lit and had dark brown wooden tables and chairs that were thick and heavy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When the slop becomes a firm brown paste, they slap it into wooden molds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Holding her aluminum tray, she moved from body to body, spreading maple-syrup-colored wax where it was needed with a flat wooden spoon, and pressing in strips of gauze before it hardened. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Polly sat down heavily in the wobbly wooden chair and ran her fingers through her own uncombed hair. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our shadows toppled over the sidewalk’s wooden slates, long and black, like soot marks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like Anne, who spent her adolescence hiding in the secret annex, Gerda sat perched on a wooden box in a windowless cellar. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jinny had to hunch, cramped, her head tilted sideways beneath the wooden planks. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m laughing at the movie reviewer’s imitation of an actor’s wooden personality when Rambo’s head turns, making me look at the stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Finally I saw a dark wooden sign saying welcome to turners station in the parking lot of a fire-scorched bar with pink tasseled curtains. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Just a small bank of mailboxes, a fake plant, and a single wooden chair. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It led to wooden steps built up to a lookout tower that gave a view of the deep valley and the surrounding hillsides. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But then, up ahead, on a narrow wooden bridge, she spotted the shine of a bare scalp. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Samuel lifted down his saddle from the big nail where it hung by one wooden stirrup and swung it over the broad back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A white wooden cross was erected on the grave mound with a placard that read: Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the heads were wooden, nearly human sized and huge eyed, but the bodies were of a wild variety of materials. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Annie grabs a couple of old wooden milk crates and hands them over. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Broken wooden poles ripped through the canvas as it flapped upward. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong held tight to his wooden life preserver as he drifted downstream. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting on a wobbly stool at a rough, wooden table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We heard his heavy footsteps on the wooden slats of the porch. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Harlem part of the river was dotted with ancient wooden piers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Their legs moved a little jerkily, like well-made wooden dolls, and they carried pillars of black fear about them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away, at the edge of the room, was a high wooden stage, empty and bare, a dim spotlight shining onto it from high above. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The women shouted at each other over the wooden railings on the front porch and their voices could be heard for half a mile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I know exactly what I’m getting, I take my time walking up and down the case, running my hands along the wooden counter. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now and then an ancient shepherd in a dusty brown cloak would pass Sitti's house up in the village, tapping a wooden cane against the stones. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Kehaar fly up from his perch and disappear over the wooden rails. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mourned the fact that he could not be a permanent soldier because of his wooden leg, but he could not imagine any career for his sons except the army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Drew, Marcus, and Todd sat at a round wooden table in the kitchen, Solo cups in hand. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

To those weapons, Atahuallpa’s troops, without animals on which to ride into battle, could oppose only stone, bronze, or wooden clubs, maces, and hand axes, plus slingshots and quilted armor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know that we have British furniture in our bungalow, like the upholstered wooden chairs in the sitting room and our large oval dining table and English china. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Soon, Czernobog was slamming his pieces down as he moved them, banging them down on the wooden table so hard that the remaining pieces shivered on their black squares. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

That there are white men out there hungry to hear about a colored person crossing whites, ready with they wooden bats, matchsticks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The doors buckled inward, and the wooden beams of the frame groaned like they were holding too much weight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Jaaxes’ house was the largest Victorian house in town, a pile of turreted brick with a slate roof and tall windows and a cupola and wooden paneling made of golden American chestnut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows to the living room, the foyer, and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Big Tony stomped down the wooden steps into the cellar. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were crammed against one another and, just like last time, I couldn’t stop to try to help them—my feet moved me past until finally I arrived at that same rotted wooden door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She rinsed the cooking pots but used ash and sand to get the wooden plates clean. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It only took me a minute to find it—a small wooden airplane, hand-carved, with a note taped to the tail. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gripped her wooden cane tightly and tried to stare back with no hint of fear. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the square wooden tub with a fire underneath it was very big. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At lessons, the knives remained Celaena’s favorite, but the wooden staff became dear; naturally, it had to do with the fact that she could freely whack him and not chop off an arm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden screeching cry, and a great flapping of wings, like wooden clappers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A few moments later three Specials were sliding across the wooden bar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We made wooden boats out of cigar boxes, devised wooden paddles to which we twisted pieces of rubber and sent the cigar-box boats sailing down the ditch under their own power. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the chaplain reading from his open prayer-book; the wooden coffin, the hastily dug grave. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rahel, breathless, holding a coconut, stepped into the temple compound through the wooden doorway in the high white boundary wall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I sat at the wooden worktable in the back of Ben’s wagon and chafed at wasting the day listening to him lecture me about things I already understood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a crash outside as a heavy wooden object hit the deck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a black geyser exploded through the wooden frame of the derrick. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Gramma had a wooden table in the middle of the kitchen where she did most of her “cutting, kneading, and rolling.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Axel races down the stairs, across the creaky wooden floor, out the front door. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He nods to the round wooden table that has so many scars running through it you could almost believe it had once been a giant’s battle shield. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The walking warmed me slightly, though my feet still felt wooden and numb. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ambrosio said, “Come again? When are you gonna learn how to talk, cousin? Why don’t you go down to the capital and buy some wooden teeth? Say that once more.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went another fifty feet down the alley and stepped into the wooden structure. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small, dark wooden pipe no larger than his hand. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He goes on toward the barn, entering the lot, wooden- backed. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z

I frowned at the paper on the unpainted wooden table. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He stuck the wooden pen in the ink bottle and wiped his fingers on his pants. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on a narrow camp bed with a wooden frame. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was off the path Alec had scrawled on his makeshift map, but Mark spotted several wooden structures through the trees, big ones. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I step forward and take the wooden spoon. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The first is a lacquered wooden cube constructed entirely from sliding panels. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lily pulls open yet another large wooden door, and this time we slip into cool blackness and the sweet smell of burning candles, mustiness, and age. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Other than scrubbing the kitchen tile and keeping a hard shine on the wooden floors, the work was not hard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

High on top was a conical wooden roof, topped by a wooden spire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mina finds an old-fashioned one with a carved wooden handle in Mr. de Vries's desk drawer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Grace and I sit on the wooden benches in the church basement, watching the illuminated slides on the wall, singing the words to the songs, while the piano plods onward in the darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch took from the oven a wooden salad bowl filled, to Jean Louise’s amazement, with greens. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He saw a wooden canteen, held in the big hand of Kilrain, cold drops of water on varnished sides. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her right, a set of wide wooden doors had been thrown open. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Little kids on pastel bikes pedaled furiously, churning the heat to butter, gasping stories of wooden crates piled higher than skyscrapers, of crates broken into, pigeons flushed and killed, security guards posted. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I discovered several small stone rooms with heavy wooden doors and tables inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the tiny office, they found a fat young woman seated behind a big wooden desk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the gate, the Yards was a labyrinth of brick walls the color of spoiled meat, smoke-guttering flues, and rickety wooden ramps crammed within two square kilometers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The strong soldiers lifted the horse in a wooden tub, while it danced to the stone drums and flute music. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Riley poured on the ground a small amount of white powder from each of two little paper bags she had carried with her and then mixed them with a wooden spoon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And you must never go near that,” Rivka said, turning suddenly and pointing way across the compound to a large wooden fence. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The calendar of events is full of committee meetings and baby showers, and I shift around in my wooden chair, hoping the meeting will end soon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was alone in the room, seated at a heavy wooden table, an oil lamp beside him as he wrote. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then he rolled up the long sleeves, pulled up the baggy pants, and laboriously climbed back up on the wooden sea horse, “These shoes are going to fly off my feet!” he complained. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We follow it past the Briefing Auditorium to the tall wooden door protecting the Great Vault that Agent Fiona says is impenetrable. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It had two wooden docks set fifty yards apart, which was a regulation distance according to federation swim rules. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He walks to the far shelf where the heavy weapons are kept and picks up the porcupine, a weighted wooden club with fierce metal spikes embedded in the rounded end. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A string of gray yarn stretched across them, and the last woman was working on a large wooden spinning wheel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It would have been cluttered if there had been more than the few sticks of furniture: a small desk with a wooden chair and a single shelf above it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Camp mostly swept the floor and put out stock, and in the wintertime broke up wooden shipping crates to burn in the stove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I got chicken on wooden skewers and brought it back to the table wrapped in wax paper. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall opposite the picture is a plain wooden Cross. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Steps led to more tables at the edges of the room, where caramel-colored wooden shelves reached up to balconies furnished with velvet couches and more alcoves of bookshelves behind. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Near the center of town was an old clapboard house with a painted wooden cutout of a bearded hiker standing on the lawn bearing the message “Welcome at Shaw’s.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the cots were made up—they were sturdy wooden ones with metal hinges and canvas coverings—Rita was allowed to lie down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He cut his thumb so deeply on the last piece that blood dripped to the wooden floorboards. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The wooden screen door bounced open softly with each of his knocks, and a breeze churned the leaves on the big oaks surrounding Vern Devine’s yard. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Behind them they had deposited a jumble of equipment: odd-shaped metal bars, pulleys, wooden structures that looked like ladders, other pieces of wood that resembled small logs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Brooke collapsed against the railing, her hands clutching the wooden bars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Opposite the cafe, not far from the main waiting room, there were two wooden tables covered in books flanking a door that read: R. LABISSE, BOOKSELLER, NEW AND USED. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A wooden cross, tall as a man, sits in front of the sign by a few feet, and behind the cross and the sign is a tiny white chapel with a tiny white steeple. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He goes to a battered wooden table and swings his leg over the bench. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The wooden seats were hard, and the train made loud noises, blowing its whistle and grinding its brakes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bod waited on the grey wooden bench, but there was no sign of Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Everything wooden is polished, the rugs are fluffy and freshly vacuumed, and you couldn’t find a single speck of dust even if you moved around the picture frames. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned away and looked out the window, where there was nothing but fields and now and then a falling-down wooden barn or some old, abandoned colored house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scanned the framed photographs on the walls, the old wooden floorboards creaking under my feet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

Each night, piles of cousins packed into the crawl space above a little wooden kitchen house just a few feet from the home-house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her howls echoed through the silent town, ending suddenly when the Tower’s great wooden doors slammed shut, locking her inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He keeps a permanent bottle of gin on a small, shaky wooden table in the corner, and a carton of Newport cigarettes next to it, along with a few military medals. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He nodded toward a large wooden trunk in the corner, its top open and leaning against the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He also built some wooden boxes to hold it all, cushioned with newspaper for protection. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The building itself wasn’t that imposing; it was only called the Tower because it stuck up like a broken finger in a sea of one-story wooden shacks arranged in rings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The newly polished wooden hand was now poised above the desk as it once was, waiting for Hugo to make it a new pen. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It’s the desert, and nothing is out here but empty land and what looks like thousands of acres enclosed by a simple wooden fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After a deep breath and a wish with all of my body that no one is in the yard, I carefully lift the latch to the door in the tall wooden fence. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

After he had helped them up onto the cushioned bench between the cart’s two huge wooden wheels, he clambered onto the elephant’s back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

First on the path is a big wooden barn, built as watertight and solid as the bridge, like it could last there forever if anyone asked it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The blind man was rubbing the polished wooden side of his instrument with a soft cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll fight you all I” Dobbs screamed back at them, and stood up on a rickety wooden chair, waving the gun wildly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He learns not to put wooden spoons in the dishwasher, as he had mistakenly done one evening when he was helping to clean up. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a rambling inn to her left, built out over the water on heavy wooden pilings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This time, she carried a small container that was camouflaged to look exactly like a wooden log, complete with real bark. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two wooden boxcars squatted on a nearby siding. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I admired the immense, steppelike expanse of the lady's wool-clad bosom as she retreated a few inches from my eye, down the creaking wooden stair, a sort of Siberian bitterness on her vivid lips. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He carried water to them day after day after he had given up the wheat, the heavy wooden buckets slung upon a bamboo pole across his shoulders. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A few had swords and knives; others brandished pitchforks and scythes and wooden spears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the squirrel doesn’t obey, Ma grabs a wooden cane that’s leaning against the wall. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The inside was horrible; it smelled strongly of seaweed, the wind whistled through the gaps in the wooden walls, and the fireplace was damp and empty. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She could see her chubby little hand spreading it into the cracks of the wooden floor. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple weapon, unadorned by any jewels or intricate designs on its wooden hilt, but Ekon’s breath still caught when he saw the name carved into it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Laying the necklace back down, Scoob picks up the wooden chest and takes it over to his desk so he can get a better look at it under the light of his lamp. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I slowly walk up the steps to the big wooden door. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the center of the altar is the picture I made of little Avik, now in a wooden frame. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Every window on its facade has been broken but the walls are hardly scorched; two of its wooden flower boxes hang on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This threw Valerian into such a rage that he cracked me in the back of the head with his wooden practice sword. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He snapped his fingers several times, pointed at various wooden crates around the workshop. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The solid wooden box had a thick metal plate on each corner. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the day turns into a wooden nickel day at snack time, when Mr. Daniels calls me up to his desk. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

At the front were traces of a wooden porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes it down into the ravine somewhere, in under the wooden bridge, and buries it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mamita and Mami and Tía Isa, not understanding that drumsticks are the only kind of drumsticks that will do on a drum, suggested pencils or the handles of wooden spoons used for making cake batter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That morning at Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard on San Francisco Bay, sailors on the USS Indianapolis watched a crane lower a fifteen-foot wooden crate to the ship’s deck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went into a little cafe, sat at a bare wooden table and ordered vermouth. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the porch, a shaky-looking wooden table, its paint shedding like snake skin. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We were sitting on the ribbed wooden floor, on frayed, stained blankets used to wrap furniture, feeling for one another with our hands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Old wooden signs with kanji, the most complicated of the three ways of writing Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a big block of roughly cut concrete, with one tiny, barred window and a wooden door that was locked with a menacing rusty metal latch, like something out of the Dark Ages. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He went on to the sagebrush line where the cold spring ran out of its pipe and fell into a round wooden tub. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why bother? I have a better idea. We can each take a packing crate from the attic and row with a wooden spoon.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When he was gone she stood there smashing cups and bowls and platters until the whole set lay in scattered blue and white fragments across the wooden floor. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My room was upstairs in a wooden shanty structure that had never known paint. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our mother headed for a gap in the wooden boards near the base, with us a few tail-lengths behind. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He and Robb had fought many a heroic battle on these steps, slashing at one another with wooden swords. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a ceiling, just four columns surrounding the wooden square where several strange plants and vegetables are growing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When the doctor changes his bandages I give Captain Smith the handle of a wooden spoon to bite on so that he can endure the pain. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The crank stiffened as if it were attached to a mill stone instead of a wooden bucket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse pushed his damp hair out of his face and plunked down on the wooden bench. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Graves were dug for soldiers, some still open pits, others marked with wooden crosses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Two of the Director’s security detail are stationed in the corners of the rectangular room, behind the large wooden desk. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It’s nearly dark when Werner is delivered to a musclebound captain dining alone on a sofa that consists of a wooden frame and springs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A thin beak-nosed man who skulks outside the telegraph office, whittling little wooden boxes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The curved wooden arms of the delicate sofas shine with polish. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was thrilled, because I much preferred the wooden matches that came in boxes over the flimsy ones in the cardboard books. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were wooden benches against the walls, and, sitting on them or standing beside them, perhaps ten people. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was made of gray stone, grotesquely solid, jammed hard against the wooden side of the house, with the insistent veranda holding it there. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Zoey’s sitting cross-legged and barefoot on one of the tan lounge chairs by the wooden planter boxes. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Mom breezed out of the kitchen holding up a cracked wooden board, cut in the shape of a pig. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They crossed a narrow wooden bridge over a rushing river, and a bridge that swayed over a gorge carved out of a granite mountainside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each schooner carried a bunch of wooden dories stacked on deck, and when they got to the fishing grounds the men got into the dories and rowed away, looking for cod and haddock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were walking across bare earth, dry and cool to the touch; overhead there were heavy wooden beams holding up the floor, and above those the floorboards themselves. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in the wooden house, the soldiers tore open my bag and threw all its contents on the floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie heard them running over the wooden floorboards above them, back and forth, jumping, sliding, giggling, and squealing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Johnny gravely pinned a couple of shirts on the line, his mouth, like Lydia’s, full of wooden clothespins. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women sat on kitchen chairs, dining-room chairs, stools and upturned wooden boxes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man settled in a working-class neighborhood, in a wooden shack that seemed like a palace to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Purebom heard her pleas from the great wooden seats of their ancestors, rising in curved tiers from a marble floor to a high-domed ceiling painted with scenes of Qarth's vanished glory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It looks like mostly rope tied into wooden stakes driven into the rock at either end, with tight wooden planks running all the way to the other side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I bit down on my lip, and it was then I felt the wooden picture of black Mary underneath my waistband. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was not too forgetful to see Wang Lung dipping the water recklessly from the cauldron into a deep wooden tub. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He stormed forward as best he could on his wooden legs, eye fiery with hatred. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A thunderous, splintering boom erupted through the chamber as the ridderak shattered the wooden door. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some are forty feet long with two levels, sturdy wooden walls, brightly painted roofs, and strands of colorful beads hanging over the doors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember his wooden swords with the orange blood, his comic book collection. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black tar paper covered the small wooden structure. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They kneeled over the board, and Muti threw the wooden dice and moved his colored bean with a sly smile on his face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Still looking straight at me, he reached into a wooden crate and pulled out the gun. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They are lovely against the sky, she thought, so straight and free; Luke was wrong about the softness everywhere, because the trees are hard like wooden trees. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But our end held only rows of cages on shelves, each cage with a tag on it, and each separated from its neighbors by wooden partitions on both sides. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They say that often Greek flowers are seen coming up from the bottom, and that if a wooden cup is thrown into the Alpheus in Greece, it will reappear in Arethusa’s well in Sicily. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kid grew up surrounded by wooden planks and fertilizer—the shiniest object in his life was probably an old pitchfork. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, we made a stretcher out of some wooden poles and a blanket, and we carried the round-belly boy. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo nodded, but now his eyes were on the ceiling logs where pouches and bags dangled from wooden pegs and squareheaded nails. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We eat Portuguese sweet bread and runny cheeses in small wooden boxes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Huge wooden vats lined the walls as far as the prince could see. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wooden door opened, and a thin man in a gray monk’s habit appeared. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t see him again until dusk, dragging down the dirt road, his wooden toolbox pulling on his arm, making his body list sideways. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was pulling wooden boxes out of a bag, as well as a whole bunch of glass jars, the kind that Genie drank sweet tea out of. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The letters weren’t reflective and the sign had been fastened to a wooden post. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

One-room cells, with the most rudimentary wooden furniture, housed the inhabitants on the second floor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Daughters passed around a wooden bowl full of something they called manna. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stomped her foot on the rough wooden step. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The small wooden door of the window slid open in front of me, and in the dark I could make out the head of Father Byrnes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the metal tools were made by a blacksmith, and the wooden pieces were made by skilled woodworkers. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems the crevices run deeper into her body each time I see her, that her wooden skin ages before my eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mirror I noticed that the side of my face that had somehow been firmly planted into the wooden floor was solid red and had two creases running horizontally across it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

One of the gravediggers then jumped in and covered the hole with wooden planks and a reed mat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

All Mom says is that the buildings in Havana are completely decayed, held up by elaborate configurations of wooden planks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the sun resting above the peaks, the wooden skeleton of the great ship stood out sharply against the mound which nearly enveloped it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Swords, swordbreakers, axes, bows, pikes, hunting daggers, maces, spears, throwing knives, wooden staves...While she generally preferred the stealth of a dagger, she was familiar with every weapon here. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The tower room had once been an indoor garden, with small trees in wooden pots. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on a tall wooden crate behind his cart. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the boiler was a pair of soapstone washtubs with a hinged wooden cover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire sprang up instantly: It gave the illusion of coziness to the stark stone walls and glistened off the long wooden table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then it seemed to take forever to come to a rolling boil and twice forever to fill six wooden pails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t know when my toes have ever been so cold, standing in icy mud, mid-November, in wooden clogs—thought so much of Jamie floating in the North Sea. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Rather than seek refuge from the cold inside the White House, the women paced back and forth on wooden planks to get their feet off the icy-cold sidewalks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After a series of formation drills, the graduates march to the wooden benches at the center of the field and draw scims, holding them high. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Allen fills the tank and I follow Russ inside, where there’s a worn wooden floor and a few aisles of food and camping supplies. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen people are gathered around a long, scratched-up dining table, smoking cigarettes, drinking Chianti from juice glasses, sitting on a series of backless wooden stools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sailor spoke more words, but to Amari they sounded like wooden buckets clattering together. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lights flickered out there, casting odd beams through the cracks between the wooden boards. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Every day he made his way to the Rad Lab in a seven-passenger limousine, which would remain parked next to the wooden building, attended by its chauffeur, while Loomis toiled inside. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some had ornate wooden double doors in front, with elaborate metal knockers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sansa leaned forward, her hands tight around the gallery's wooden rail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My brother, Conrad’s, bedroom was filled with strange trucks, glass jars of crawly bugs, and a wooden train Daddy made for him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a large wooden stake had been driven into my chest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The beacon-mast upon Beacon Hill had been removed, and replaced instead with a wooden turret; there was another fort stood opposite Carver Street, and a battery of guns atop Fox Hill. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, it sat in the display room along with the projects of his classmates, including wooden plaques and a plain box that someone called a telephone base. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Behind the big glass windows, on a narrow wooden stage, stood the prize to end all prizes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was smaller than I’d imagined, about the size of an average living room, with wooden benches lining either side of a narrow aisle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, she hurried and her heart was beating fast when she pulled the clumsy wooden door closed behind her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently, the witch appeared in her white fur cloak, holding her long wooden staff. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Papa carried the wooden ladder from the barn and leaned it against the hay. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Where it stood was a wooden bench, and a litter basket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He got up, left the room for a moment, and came back with two wooden rulers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next day we take our pumpkins to the wooden bridge and throw them over the edge, watching them smash open on the ground below. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pink paint was drying on a nice wooden shape. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Judith suddenly let fall a wooden bowl with a clatter. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Cement buildings with two stories rather than wooden barracks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom walked into the room at that exact moment and whacked me in the back of the head with a wooden spoon. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Shoulder to shoulder, we hid with our backs against the wooden slats and our knees tucked to our chests. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were eyes painted on the ceilings, and scratched into the grimy wooden floors. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the Trask house from the top clear down into the grain of the wooden floors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only objects in the entire room were two upturned wooden boxes to serve as chairs and a third box between them for a table. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

A call goes up through the congregation and two of the brothers do a shuffling dance down the center aisle, a wooden box containing a snake in each of their hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I watch them go through the fancy wooden doors. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I was lying in the middle of a rustic room, like the inside of a cabin or a wooden shed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She held a wooden spoon in her hand as if she had come straight from the stove. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Strings of cowrie shells were tied to the wooden staff she held in her varicose-veined hands, and she leaned on it with each step as she approached. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It had been four years since he and Emilio Segre had crossed the Berkeley campus with a bucket of ether infused with microscopic quantities of plutonium and suspended from a long wooden pole. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He showed them his carpentry tools, and whittled them each a little wooden spoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using both hands, she tugged one of the heavy wooden doors open, revealing a large, high-ceilinged room filled with long tables. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At first she holds me by my wrists, but then she pulls me close, embracing me with her wooden arms. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Cornflower rapped his paw with a wooden ladle. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kat had put flowers from the garden in a glass vase in the middle and a wooden board with stacks of bread. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they passed through a thick wooden door, which Michelangelo used a long iron key to bolt behind them, and out into a narrow alley. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Matty slipped into a group that had gathered and was standing nearest to the platform, a simple wooden structure like a stage that was used for many occasions when the people came together. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She grappled with the heavy wooden chair, lifting it a few inches off the floor and heaving it with some difficulty across the room until it was next to the roaring fire. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

All solemnity, therefore, was silent, the peals muffled; and bodies went unheralded to their final rest; and we shoveled dirt atop the dead and watched their wooden vessels sink beneath the earth without a cry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As I entered the living room early one evening, Grandma was setting up the manger scene, gingerly placing each of the crudely carved wooden figures that had been handed down from her mother. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden horses of the flying-jinny revolved in the circle to the mechanical music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wooden latch raised again and the door opened. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran put down his wooden cup of tea, and stood up, offended. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She held a little wooden puppet about nine inches high. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She has already run her hands over its contents many times: a wooden oar nailed to a wall, a window dressed with long curtains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At lunch and after school they often gathered at a wooden table in the hallway that people called the hex table, even though, as Ian pointed out, it was an octagon, not a hexagon. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Kearney who milled the town’s wheat and who always spoke softly and who made wooden toys for each Prentisstown boy’s birthday. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She put down the wooden spoon she’d been using to stir the stew and unfolded the letter. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several players were sitting on the long wooden bench beside the varsity lockers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just one room, barely large enough to turn around in, made of rough wooden planks. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After adjusting his wooden leg to make himself comfortable, he leaned back against White’s fence to enjoy the night. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Madoc trained me to be formidable even with a wooden sword. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She stretched out an arm and motioned at the line of eight weathered wooden buildings. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It will be good to have ice cream that you don’t eat with a wooden spoon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I see the wooden box in the little boy’s hands, President Snow drawing out the yellowed envelope. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the holy card was a picture of the little Jesus of Atocha sitting on a high wooden chair. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they rattled the wooden cubes and upturned their cups. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I tucked my lips in, closed my heavy eyelids, and held tight to the edges of the wooden bed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"A wooden kitchen tub does not seem fitting for a creature." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the bookshelf, the wooden animals and books were presents from her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Three men drive wooden poles into the ground to hang sheets of plastic on. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Make any wooden book ends lately?” he asked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it,” Grandma had said, her voice, shaky, coming from behind the old wooden door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Twenty cauldrons stood steaming between the wooden desks, on which stood brass scales and jars of ingredients. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the hallway, Ms. Udell sat in the blocky wooden chair—the one that matched her blocky wooden desk. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Policemen also stood tall, holding on to their wooden clubs. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street from the school the police had set up wooden barriers to keep the crowd back, and they paraded back and forth, ignoring the jokes called to them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth muted the noise of the wooden stick on the tiled floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big enough hole in the roof for the winter sky to shine though, showing a dappling of snow on the wooden floor. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The room seemed as empty as the old market, except for a small wooden bed Florent and Frankie’s father had brought downstairs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Flops were not allowed to carry guns, but each had a whistle and a wooden club as long as my arm. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

You stared at the waves before settling down on a wooden crate and starting your beadwork. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She is propped, dazed and damp as a newborn, on the saddle of a wooden unicorn. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, and what do they know or care of that?” said the old man scornfully, peering under the wooden lid of the nearest cauldron to see if the water bubbled yet. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Dust motes danced in the light, the brightness setting off the dark, heavy wooden desk that dominated the room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The wooden rocker where Pa sat and smoked his pipe by the fire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His footsteps echo on the wooden boards of the walkway as they move away from me, and I test my bonds to see if there’s any way to wriggle free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They went on board a riverboat, the wooden wheel of which had a sound of conflagration, and whose rusted metal plates reverberated like the mouth of an oven. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sitting on straw mats or wooden stools and chairs, we listen to Pa’s instructions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed for batde in an armored shirt made from tree bark and twist ties, with his wooden cudgel and his reed pipes hanging from his belt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

All manner of household goods could be had, baskets and straw sleeping mats and wooden chests. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Running down the wooden steps at Seaside, I see Ronan at the water’s edge. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It is ten forty-five when Booth pulls back on the reins once again and canters up to the wooden drawbridge by the Navy Yard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Seven and Thorn ran into the protective magical safety of the Twilight Square gazebo and nearly collapsed onto the wooden floor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Letting them push me into riding down some hill on this wooden, bumpy, hotrod roller. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We moved into a wooden building on the edge of town that had once been a railroad depot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We came to a rickety wooden bridge—just thick plywood laid over a concrete foundation—over Culver Creek, the winding rivulet that doubled back over and over again through the outskirts of campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

At once the king’s soldiers fell upon them, their swords smashing the men’s wooden staves like twigs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her hem caught on a loose nail in the splintered wooden bench and ripped as she fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought back to how Miss Simpson had taken such pride in the wooden apple he had carved for her desk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The millet was reaped with stone knives, piled into haystacks, and threshed to obtain the seeds, which were then stored in skin bags or wooden dishes and finally ground with millstones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We climb all the way up to the rafters above the great hall and perch on heavy wooden beams. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mama and I sat on a wooden bench at the front of our home and watched the flames that were being spread by the strong Harmattan winds. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had wooden legs that he got around on with the help of his walking stick, which leaned against the wall nearby. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It’s all white picket fences and white wooden homes with flowery yards. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The dust cloud expanded, and with it came a clatter of wooden wheels and the clip-clop of horses’ hooves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On opposite ends of the pit were two wooden doors notched and spattered with dried blood, and behind them, in narrow stone chutes, were two boys. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sounds had apparently come from two boys mock sword fighting with wooden singlesticks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she stirred the cat with a wooden spoon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, they started up a soccer game with crude wooden goalposts and a flabby ball. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we cross the wooden planks laid over the stinking green ooze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the stone doors was a small antechamber with a more ordinary set of wooden doors inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pick up the wooden easel with one hand, fold up the legs, and bring it over to my closet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And then before anybody could stop her, Louisiana opened the warped wooden door and went back inside. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Gat was lying on his back on the wooden walkway that leads to Windemere. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Pong picked up the little wooden box and brought it to the monk's bedside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We had to stand, still chained, in the hold of the old wooden ferry, which was difficult as the ship rocked in the swells off the coast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was filled with branches and wooden boards and other wreckage from the storm. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a tiny closet with a wooden seat that had a hole in it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The trick is to hold the rope on your left and right while stepping over gaps onto wooden slats. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He waved his hands at the weathered gray wooden houses, set close together, that lined the street. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands chase each other in circles on her lap as she takes a wooden rocking chair in the darkest corner of the study. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The spoon is wooden, stained after years of use, but thick and sturdy just the same. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The hinges on the heavy wooden door squeak when I exit, but she doesn’t follow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He evidently fears discovery or interference, in the state of helplessness in which he must be—confined as he is between dawn and sunset in his wooden box. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Witch planes can be anything: a wooden basin, a clay pot, a simple hat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Toby sipped the water and leaned his head against the wooden railing of the porch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the second floor there were some offices and three empty lecture rooms, all with rows of wooden chairs, old oil paintings on the walls, and elaborate leaded glass windows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs hold of the wooden pole holding up the tent, and instantly everything around it disappears—the orange cloth, the stool, the reed mat, and the bowl of golden mangoes. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a sound now like a wooden club repeatedly slapping a side of beef. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mamou and Babou had planted the tiny white blooms along the perimeter of their yard, in little wooden boxes painted a soft blue. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Naked feet swished dryly across the planks in the wooden floor and the clang ceased abruptly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To my left, under the windows, was a dark wooden counter the length of the room. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They broke apart wooden crates and stooped over smoky campfires, feeding the flames. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The pier had burned down years earlier, leaving tall wooden pilings that Lawrence and his friends liked to dive from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The wooden steps were bouncy, with a loose railing to one side. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he’s very strong, but I do wish that we had some real weapons of war—swords and daggers and such like. We won’t kill many rats with wooden staves.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She led the guards to the other side of the stage, past the large wooden structures of the judge’s podium and the empty jury box. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I was eight years old, a flock of wild, green- rumped parrots moved into the fishtail palm tree by the back wooden fence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

David rubbed the wooden boom with one hand. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grappling hooks were flung out, iron rams crashed through wooden hulls, boarders swarmed, flights of arrows whispered through each other in the drifting smoke, and men died . . . but so far, none of his. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Let me show you something,” the mayor continued, rising from his wooden seat and moving toward the wall. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On the floor along the sides of the plank counters there were kegs of nails, and kegs of round, gray shot, and there were big wooden pails full of candy. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a wide blue tarp hidden beneath an old wooden slat on the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the edge of the wooden platform and pulled out a filthy handkerchief. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hidden behind the organ, I carefully pulled the lid from the small wooden box and removed the top layer of straw. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo was noisily slurping broth from a carved wooden spoon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She wore a spectacular outfit: close-fitting pants, a layered tunic studded with whorls of iron, and knee-high boots; she carried her wooden staff, which stretched as high as her head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The woman returns carrying a long, satiny garment bag on a wooden hanger. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

We set it down in the wooden wagon Ali built Hassan last win­ter for his birthday, pretend it’s a giant steel cage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had a sleek head feathered in gray and talons that clacked on the wooden dresser as it sidled back and forth along the edge, as if to get a better look at me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They sat on the outer wooden floors, each with one leg hanging over in identical fashion as they laughed together. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wind whipped through the spaces in between the car's wooden slats, making me shiver. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The object was a painting on a wooden panel about twelve inches square. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a second or two he was able to see the hand-laid and hand-finished wooden floor in a huge hall, and at its farther end a wide staircase spiraling up into the dark. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He likes the solidity of its plaster walls, its dark wooden floorboards, however battered and stained. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The monkeys were then put into wooden crates and flown to Amsterdam on a specially fitted cargo airplane, and from Amsterdam they were flown to New York City. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children lean against a wooden wall in the last light of sunset. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fear is so powerful that I can’t do anything but stare straight ahead, gaze locked on the wooden post in front of me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He spanked me so hard with a wooden spoon, the handle broke. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a chilly night and the desert breeze was blowing, making the old wooden ceilings creak and the curtains swell like black sails on the high seas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wooden door with odd characters carved into its surface was set into the west wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

An older man stood behind a wooden counter. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crates began to slide over the wooden floor. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The horse nearest Jake had a splintery wooden crack in its dingy rump and the eyes walled blind and frantic, shreds of paint peeled from the sockets. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Old black-and-white pictures hung on the walls, and a weathered wooden shoeshine stand sat in a corner, collecting dust. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The hotel room was basic: two double beds separated by a wooden nightstand with a gray lamp on it, across from a chest of drawers that doubled as a stand for the TV and coffeemaker. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In a mixing bowl, use a wooden spoon to stir all the ingredients until they form a thick dough.* Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When the lady's heels have tapped across the wooden porch and down the steps, Mom turns around and calls softly, "Bobby?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least all those bodies provided a little body heat, because the nights could get very cold and our wooden barracks were unheated,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then we constructed a wooden railing around the floor and that left only the roof to be built. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“There are breads ready to bake in there,” she added, indicating a wooden chest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

If he lived closer to the town, he could watch each day, and when they took his father away in the wagons where convicts were penned up in huge wooden crates, he could follow. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth now jams the wooden music stand he had seen earlier into the side of the door so that it wedges the door shut from the inside. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When he came close enough, she lunged, right between his legs, so hard that if her wooden sword had had a point it would have come out between his butt cheeks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She used a twelve-inch lead pipe to roll the dough on a flat piece of board atop the wooden boxes that served as our dining table. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there, looking at the people on the wooden benches, saying nothing for longer than Shadow could believe someone could comfortably say nothing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A thick wooden door awaited, covered in cobwebs and dusted with golden Alkean greetings, and I eased it open, flinching as something tickled my head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She took the food from the basket and handed out the wooden boxes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It arrived on an enormous wooden tray, scented and gleaming, with a sprig of parsley in its mouth and a carrot protruding from its rump, the whole reposing on a bed of tomatoes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Shin’s brother looked gaunt and frail as guards tied him to the wooden post. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Will we ever go home?” she asked Poppy after an evening walk up to the small grocery to smell the air and buy new wooden clothespins and a box of loose tea. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tag Farmer, leaning against an old wooden filing cabinet in the corner, nodded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on a wooden bench against the wall and thought about Saidu’s words. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was windowless, like all Egyptian dwellings; but just over the level of Ranofer’s head the walls ended, and widely spaced wooden posts rose from them to support the ceiling several feet above. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She climbs four wooden steps to the door of Yacobow- ski’s Fresh Veg. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud drumming like the beating of many wings against the wooden floor filled the air. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But walk we would, some in bare feet and some in odd-sized wooden clogs, in our thin uniforms, in the middle of winter. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had one small wooden window and dirt floors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a wooden hut like the others, but surrounded on all sides by a picket fence to give the prisoners a place outdoors to walk around in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The massive staff sergeant Frank Volkheimer comes down the narrow wooden stairs and ducks his head beneath the beams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The knives are put away into their wooden rack. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have had to work through inlaid wooden floors and thick carpets, to creep up the grand staircase to the second floor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I left the wooden walkways Joey fell into step with me, and we jogged together to the fields. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manny shifted his considerable weight on the little wooden chair and fussed with his skinny goatee. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The house was small and wooden like it had been built without machines. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He doesn't say anything until I sit down next to him on the cold wooden bench. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She curled up on the hard wooden seat and fell asleep. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes into the show, popular ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wooden dummy Charlie McCarthy finished their comedy skit. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room is a big wooden upright piano. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There were various other wooden chairs and rockers for the rest of the family to sit in, but only Aunt Rose sat in that brown leather wing chair. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were bolts of fine silk, trays of gemstones, wooden toys. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They stood around or sat at wooden tables drinking. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s smaller than I expected but nice, with stained-glass windows and rows of polished wooden pews. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We reach narrow wooden staircases that draw us deeper into the forest. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bidders sat on wooden benches sipping fruit drinks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

President Johnson sat at the long wooden table in the White House Cabinet Room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She turns onto the wooden walkway that leads to Red Gate. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Antonapoulos tasted the dishes with his wooden spoon and they drank glasses of red wine. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or the bagel shop that sells cups of ice cream that you eat with tiny wooden paddles. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the bed, Werner can just make out a low table upon which scaled-down wooden houses crowd together to form a city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were standing inside a wooden booth, and their sign said it all. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z