单词 | woods |
例句 | “Yes, Kay, that’s right. It would appear that the body was buried here in the woods, possibly for some time, and that it has been uncovered by the heavy rains that we’ve had recently.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something beautiful about the way the woods were now. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Dangerous as they could be to me, somehow, they did not seem as threatening as the dark shadowy woods with its strange sounds, its unknowns. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z As they emerged from the woods, Dicey saw the boy and the girl who had talked to her on the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined we would go to the woods and hike and swim, then go to sleep in a bed in a house. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They should have known those silvery widows in the woods who would get up from the dinner table and walk into the trees with a customer with as much embarrassment as a calving mare. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I was following a mockingjay through the woods. For a long time. It was Rue, really. I mean, when it sang, it had her voice.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When they felt that, the rats would scramble out the back exit, past the sealed-off cave, emerge as noisily as possible in the blackberry bramble—indeed, show themselves—and dash off into the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I open my eyes, take a deep breath, and start walking to the other side of the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I could swear I’d even heard a rattling sound echo in the woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The whole point of exploring the woods was to find strange things, so he left the path and walked toward the ivy square. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Seem like now that Robert was gone, I’d feel better, but I was feeling like a fairy story and the children heading into the dark woods. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z You were always afraid that you would lose the dude in front of you, that you would suddenly find yourself walking through the woods alone. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We were so scared for you! We thought it was strange when he took you to the woods, away from the base. We kept our eyes on you, then you disappeared!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We tromped through woods, pushing our way around thick shrubs and stepping over pricker bushes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The spot she had chosen to spread her blanket was under a handsome black walnut that grew at the edge of the woods bordering the acres of cotton. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The train stopped in Vevey, then went on, passing the lake on one side and on the other the wet brown fields and the bare woods and the wet houses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In the woods on the right, the Hunters sent a volley of silver arrows into the enemy line, destroying twenty or thirty dracaenae, but more marched behind them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z All of a sudden Henry emerged from the woods in a flurry of underbrush, wiping his dirt-caked hands on his trousers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z By the time my father made his offer, however, Chapter Eleven had begun to tire of the woods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I can die like quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Bonnie and Twill, the women I met in the woods from 8, were right about its existence and its defense capabilities. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I think about hightailing it into the woods, but I’m frozen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z From all sides comes the whir of tiny wings, which I used to confuse with the sound of insects in our woods at home. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Engulfed and burning alive, they ran out into the woods, sure to set the whole forest on fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “We met them by accident in the woods,” Kendra assured her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “And wait a minute,” he says and we can hear him edging his horse off the road and into the woods. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Away from him though, the woods come alive with animal sounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As he led the way through the woods, I swear, the breeze blew just right to open the path for him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We grabbed up our poles and hiked through the woods to see if Styx wanted to come along. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes Mameh and I would walk down those dirt roads behind the store and so many of those roads dead-ended into woods. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Again it came, dashing in and out through the woods quicker than a rabbit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When he came out the back door of the store, Naomi had already reached the edge of the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I stopped looking at the ground and began watching the black woods. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We emerge into the woods, and my hands run through the leaves overhead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then they turned and headed into the woods just a few feet from me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We set off over hills and through woods, until at last we came upon a narrow, winding path. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The meat and plants from the woods combined with the exertion it took to get them have given me a healthier body than most of those I see around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I planned on running deep into the woods. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z On the front of the wardrobe somebody had painted a picture of Indians coming out of the woods, carrying bows and arrows, wearing warpaint and bright headdresses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Was the scene of our wedding in the woods a false dream? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The line began to move forward into the woods, forward toward the great yellow light of the open fields on the other side. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Would news make it to my hometown of Biržai, to the dark bunker in the woods where my brother and father were thought to be hiding? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The snow was largely melted on the macadam and in the southfacing fields and woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The woods were silent because spring had not yet come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Looking like I could be headed for the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We ducked into the woods, following the faint path around the lake until we came to a dirt road. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z We broke out of the woods and there in the dark sat the train. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The grass was dry and withered, and the cows must be taken out of the woods and kept in the barn to be fed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was high in the sky, painting the woods beyond their back door in silver and shadow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods stood a Roman legionnaire in full armour, holding a pilum. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “How did you and Jack end up at the edge of the woods in the first place?” she said, pouring the milk into a tall glass. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He turned abruptly on his heel, and made towards the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The mosquitoes weren’t too bad yet, but every once and a while, a whiff of something foul would roll out of the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sure,” Jesse agreed quickly, relieved that there was no need to plunge deeper into the woods. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The other spirits started to crowd forward, but Bianca raised her arms and they retreated into the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I ran the lines of disapproval every time I drove through town to my office at the edge of the woods. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z With the mountain spewing liquid fire, and the meadow offering no means of concealment, the remaining thirteen tributes—including Haymitch and Maysilee—have no choice but to confine themselves to the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe night noises scared them—the barking of foxes, the shrill screech of owls, the rustle of unseen deer in the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Lets the music of the woods outside—chirping crickets, hooting owls, wind in the leaves—fill his head. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z From somewhere way down in the woods, a bullfrog croaked, sending his deep-throated call echoing out into the cool evening air. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I felt a little jumpy, so that when a shot rang out through the woods I leapt a foot in the air and dove into my hole. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the school grounds and in the woods and in backyards and in every corner of the county, pumpjacks continue their slow rhythm, humping at the earth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I just needed to wander the woods. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A current of warm air, rising from the woods, was carrying them along. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The stump of an elm guards a bottleneck in the path through the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Mark looked around and saw nothing that distinguished that part of the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes I thought Georgie was following me, spying on me from a hiding place in the woods, but he didn’t give himself away. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It looks like a regular church in the middle of some pretty woods. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Ten yards away, he saw a figure emerge from the woods. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He pointed past the woods, away from town, toward the country road and its endless cornfields. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Mostly, though, there was no one around and the woods were calm and peaceful. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods, I glanced back to make sure Katz was following. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The eastern woods teemed with flora unknown to the Old World, and there was a huge eagerness, from scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike, to get a piece of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It crept across the countryside suddenly to expand and burst forth over all the peaceful woods and meadowland. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He held the boy’s hand as they stumbled through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I pictured the snowflaky, Grandma Moses villages, the reaches of swampland rattling with dried cattails, the ponds where frog and hornpout dreamed in a sheath of ice, and the shivering woods. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Beyond the gym and the fields began the woods, our, the Devon School’s woods, which in my imagination were the beginning of the great northern forests. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In the grudging light that passed for day he put the boy in the leaves and sat studying the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled soft around our shoulders. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a ghostly figure some would see walking the woods at night, a faint rattling sound accompanying the movement. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She made them walk along the edge of the road, dangerous, but going through the woods was too slow. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Home’ was the entire territory, with its hills, streams, woods and open sky. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The stretcher bearers moved off slowly through the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We would have three days of limbering up and a chance to resupply at Monson before plunging irreversibly into the deepest woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They went into the woods and the man squatted and looked at the gray and wasted figure under the tilted sheet of plywood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There was a sound out in the woods, twigs snapping. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "What are you doing? You're supposed to be here, not running around in the woods!" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The second time, the Oracle had come out for a little stroll in the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t going to use a hole in the middle of the woods, he said, even if he had dug it himself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Not just dropping them like an animal in the woods.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Or how many of them might be hiding in the woods? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “That encounter is a frightening example of why the woods are forbidden. It could have been disastrous. You ventured toward a very hazardous area.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At another practice, the Under Fifteens had gathered in a circle at midfield to stretch, when they heard noises in the woods—snapping twigs and the crushing of dry leaves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z These woods are not as empty as you think, he had said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As I looked around, a cloud of crows flew over me, straight for the woods in back of the barn, cawing their heads off. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z To confirm I got electrocuted by the fence or trapped in the woods so they could take my family in for questioning. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She glanced over her shoulder into the silver woods. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Just over the river and through the woods.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Because bumping into people is all I seem to do in this neck of the woods. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignoring all of this activity, Grandma dragged me out the side door into the dark woods. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z While she fastened it to his collar, I took off through the woods, planning to get to the terrace before she did. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I wonder if Gale is in the woods yet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I think of Gale, who is only really alive in the woods, with its fresh air and sunlight and clean, flowing water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The woods thickened briefly, then the leaves opened up and the sky returned in all its midsummer glory. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The woods were all around the field, and there were snakes in the oats. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of the woods made him bold, and Wash took a step forward, then another. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There were witches in the woods, they stole beauty from swans and then rotted from the inside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z On three sides the woods pressed upon it; but eastward the ground fell steeply and the tops of the dark trees, growing at the bottom of the slope, were below their feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A few of them surreptitiously moved up past Snakeroot and built shacks along the fringe of the woods, hoping someday to be rehired. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt safe, like I was camping in a tent in the woods and surrounded by whispering trees and peaceful bears, like the stories Uncle Bill tells about taking Boy Scouts to Bear Mountain. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z We found an old man lying in the woods one morning, near one of the jeep trails not so far from here, and he was dead. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was like the deep, quiet woods made them timid, and they walked softly along the bank beside the creek. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Jack looked at her, and then back at the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “I was not entirely honest about why you needed to stay out of the woods.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He had walked through woods, and sat at night beside a campfire. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z They bathed in a curve of the Susquehanna and then wandered in a southerly direction, keeping to fields, woods, stream beds, and little-used paths, headed, they thought, for Virginia, where Macon believed they had people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The light of Quentyn’s torch washed over scales of dark green, the green of moss in the deep woods at dusk, just before the last light fades. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Just so you didn’t set the woods afire and weren’t Gypsies, nobody minded. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After a while there was sunshine in the woods and the air sparkled. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Call that the Deadheads. Graveyard’s back in that corner, in the thicker woods. Ain’t much else. You can go there to sit and rest, hang out, whatever.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to be anywhere in the woods when it came to be dark. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She took him out into the woods, tied him to a tree, and left him there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Actually, the chaplain was learning to love it in his clearing in the woods. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And then, now a trio, we set off into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “It was my fault. I could have sworn I sensed something. Like a tiger moving through the woods, but not, you understand. Well, of course you know what I thought.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “We could go back to the woods, camp out, wait until morning,” Juanita suggested as she stifled a yawn, laid her head back, and closed her eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “It comes out in the woods, in a blackberry bramble. It’s got a longer tunnel than this one.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They camped that night in the woods on a ridge overlooking the broad piedmont plain where it stretched away to the south. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods, they flung themselves down in the pine needles and waited for Wash to catch up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "We were hunting in the woods one day. Hidden, waiting for game," I whisper. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The sound of the explosions stung the air and the birds rose unseen from the woods around the house and made an echo with their clamour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In this place, the woods went on farther, the trees becoming cruder and less treelike the farther you went. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He tried to remember what he’d heard, once, about attacks in these woods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods in the valley were still leafy and full of colour, and seemed peaceful and wholesome. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Come on, Basil, head for the woods. We’ll make it together.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We drive down the dirt road and pass numbered wooden signs marking unpaved driveways that bend and disappear into the woods. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Gray limped from the woods and flopped to the riverbank beside Pax. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They headed closer to Kilkenny Pond and the woods behind it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was a threshold and a magical woods, and you thought they might make you a hero. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “So, what brings you to this neck of the woods, Minister?” came Madam Rosmerta’s voice. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Once there was an article on wood pigeons, and as I read it aloud it seemed to me that once again I was in the deep woods at Manderley, with pigeons fluttering above my head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The woods just beyond the property were full of bears and cougars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She would never feel at home here among the hakujin, and at the same time she loved the woods and fields of home as dearly as anyone could. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He hadn’t found the first bit of evidence that there were any snakes in the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “We’re happy to help. And you’re not the first girl we’ve rescued from the likes of him. Girls come into these woods thinking they can make it on their own, but...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z When, thirty minutes later, he heard the noise of distant helicopters coming from the west, he struck out away from the timber trail and into the woods. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It was just an idea that was already beginning to fade, to become part of the drunkenness in the woods of the night before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With every one she met, the woods became worse. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Someone had come out of the woods in the night and continued down the melted roadway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I continue running until the woods have hidden me from the other tributes then slow into a steady jog that I think I can maintain for a while. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z By day four she said we were out of the woods. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He waited in the road and when the man came out of the woods he was carrying the suitcase and he had the blankets over his shoulder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The scream had come from a little house tucked back in the woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I found this path in the woods and met this weird old lady who lived in a shack. I think she’s a witch. A real one.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z According to local legend, the woods were crawling with snakes, raccoons, and wild boars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “You may not know it, my friend, but there is a witch in the woods.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I’m about to bolt back into the woods, when, in my periphery, I catch some kind of movement on the other side of the building, then hear the same crunching noises as the footsteps retreat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He would never be able to cope with being in the woods alone. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z But when Old Yeller and I got well and took to the woods again, we wouldn’t have time to wait around on a fool pup, too little to follow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z We dashed across the road, to the path to the lake in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We crouched behind a boulder, but it was only the Stoll brothers tripping through the woods and cursing. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A fog was rolling up from the sea, and I could not see the woods beyond the bank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In the woods around the convent must be all manner of roots and wild berries and plants unknown in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Around it on the plateau were scattered a few shacks, and at the far end was a small patch of woods, but we paid no attention—our eyes were on the tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Everything came into sharper focus—the glow of the fireflies down in the woods, the smell of the strawberry fields, the sound of the waves on the beach. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z We had to haul all our empty tin cans and other trash at night out into a hidden place in the woods quite far from the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He thought he could hear cries and calls from the woods near the shore below. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "Two of our brothers butchered almost within sight of the Wall, yet your rangers heard nothing, saw nothing. Is this what the Night's Watch has fallen to? Do we still sweep these woods?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The garden place lay at the end of a short path through the woods, and on the way they walked without a sound, each lost in her thoughts. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I’m not saying we necessarily went around the whole time at that age worrying about the woods. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel moved softly toward it, conscious of advertising her presence with every step to all the watchful wolves of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Once the Stolls had passed, we forged deeper into the west woods where the monsters were wilder. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She went off to the woods and I sat at the table and slowly paged through the Norvelt News. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They watched him march his reluctant detachment away toward the woods where the machine guns waited. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But still there were patches of woods here and there, so as I plowed along through the snow I kept looking around for woodlots to run to if something happened. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, I was going to come looking for you. What do you say we go down to the woods one last time, look for something to fight?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The dark shape from the woods lay flat on the ground outside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Every now and then, he perked his ears up at the sound of a rabbit or something rustling down in the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Jeanne looked from her mother to her father and then off to the woods. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She could fly over the woods to rescue Jack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I checked the woods for telephoto lens flare and didn’t see any. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “We’ve got a bogatyr and an imperial fool in this village,” he hooted, “and it took them hours to find my granddaughter being chased by a maniac in the woods!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There were parts of the woods that Jesse did not like. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Not a girl passed from puberty to adulthood that he did not subject to the woods, the riverbank, or the wrought-iron bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Vola would save her feathers, would make her puppets all alone in the woods, more and more and more of them, and tell that soldier’s story to no one. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Somewhere Ben, the one person in the woods who would come when she needed someone, heard the call and was coming. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She need fear no harm from the free folk, he hoped... but both of them knew too well that wildlings were not the only ones waiting in the woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Uncle Jos and Charles sent the letter to Dr. Darwin early in the morning, and then Charles went out shooting in the woods near Maer Hall. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And even as he thought of that he saw a battery moving out of the woods to his left, being rushed up to support the line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Entering the woods, we take a deer trail to the bottom of the mountain, then cut over to Mrs. Strawberry’s field. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We plunged into the woods as the rain poured down, the bus in flames behind us, and nothing but darkness ahead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He found just what he wanted in the misty woods surrounding Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then the white ones were everywhere, covering the floor of the woods thicker than the bloodroot flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “You sure you know where in the woods?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A cuco emerged from the woods, its snout up in the air, its beady eyes snapping to Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Donal, please, just take it in the woods and bury it,” said Shady. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Eldridge would not allow the sick man in his house, but he did let Piercy stay in an abandoned log cabin in the woods. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Ever since I staggered home through the woods in my underwear, I have been trying to feel nothing about what happened. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Grinning with satisfaction, I follow her tracks into the woods where they soon disappear on the leafy trail. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed ahold of his mane and looked hard at the woods. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Catelyn was content to wait, to listen to the whispers in the woods and the faint music of the brook, to feel the warm wind in her hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And soon enough, he was there in his mind, in the place where trails wound through the woods, and where a boy could throw anything he wanted and it wouldn’t get him in trouble. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The boys are running in and out of the woods, throwing sticks and small logs into the fire. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He hesitantly stepped off the edge of the lawn into the woods, half-expecting werewolves to leap out at him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Uncle Louver says there’s critters of all shapes and sizes out here. He tells quite the tale about goings-on in the woods.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I’ve been sitting in the woods, waiting for dark to fall so that I can go out safely, I have thought about my book. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She was right: there was something else there, something different in the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It had a picture on the lid, of woods in the autumn. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z For some reason I believed everything he’d said in the woods. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Emmett and George’s woods beyond the barn are crisscrossed, leaning, too big to go over, too scary to stay in one place for too long, so Axel races deeper and deeper, under and through. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She pointed toward the far edge of her garden, where the woods began and there seemed to be a narrow overgrown path. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd scattered, a few heading for the woods with sticks and clubs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Marching them through the woods, across the creek to dig up trouble.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The question doesn’t fill his brain long because, just as they emerge from the woods, there in the clearing, Axel sees Byrd in her flower garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Do you think maybe there are snakes in these woods?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The woods are more menacing than I remember. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The first line of ogres burst out of the woods and barreled toward the airfield—five hundred yards away, four hundred yards... The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Chet mentally crafted a series of clever texts as he walked through the woods with his stick and pillowcase. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Through the dark woods, I made my way by a little-used path until I came to the cottage of the wise woman Mechtild. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Lydia ran upstairs and returned a few minutes later, having donned a more appropriate outfit for tromping through the woods. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Travis trained his handgun on Miig and moved forward quickly to kick the hunting rifle away from reach and just into the shadows at the edge of the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I was lost in the woods and I couldn’t find Pita or Chencho anymore, but I could smell his putrid eye socket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The chaplain lived in a clearing in the woods about four miles away between the officers’ club and the first of the four squadron areas that stretched away from Group Headquarters in a distant line. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Breaking curfew, being in the woods at night, those weren’t offenses for the review board. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He got up and walked and came out of the woods and into the Imadas’ fields. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They know I was in the woods and should be trapped there now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And as if it couldn’t have gotten any stranger, now crazy people surrounded them out in the woods, making animal sounds and laughing hysterically. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps the direwolf and the lion were not the only beasts in the woods, and if that was true, someone was using him as a catspaw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Well . . . these two Cherokee hunters were out in the woods, right? Each of them was under a taboo.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My senses were so misaligned that I was nearly killed in the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Snow had also sent a dozen archers to the top of the Wall, should any foes be hidden in the nearby woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And wouldn’t those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort had needed a place to lie low, undisturbed, for ten long years? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Only the sweet call of a solitary white-throated sparrow pierced the cool of the woods beyond. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The woods were dense and that wasn’t so easy as it sounds. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And then a shadow appeared in the woods, and when the Uncle went to confront it, they took his hat,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Ha! Perhaps Ashton got it all wrong! Perhaps she’s the one they found howling in the woods!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z My bow is a rarity, crafted by my father along with a few others that I keep well hidden in the woods, carefully wrapped in waterproof covers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As I walk through the woods, I see an owl circling overhead. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Or figuring out ways for people to live in outer space, so they wouldn’t be too crowded on Earth and chop down beautiful woods just for houses. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods, he pointed down the slope to the clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She did not even try to evoke the woods where she had shared the joy of love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the woods are where people found each other. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z As usual, Georgie and I stayed in the deep shadows near the edge of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The woods were as empty as the villages, Dywen had told him one night around the fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I’m searching for something to hang on to, some sign of the girl and boy who met by chance in the woods five years ago and became inseparable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Leaves blown by a cold autumn wind sailed across the sky, baring trees in the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z For some reason, I badly want it to be my moon, the same one I see from the woods around District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He was panting as he approached the little house set back in a clearing of the woods, indistinct among the shadows and the veils of fog that enveloped it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he pointed to the woods where the others were hiding. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Could he have taken that animal trap and set it in the woods, for Mama or Doc or even me or Jay to step on? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Right after I turned the first bend I could hear a wagon ahead, so I ran through the woods to where they were gonna have to pass. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z And sure enough, the boy held the toy soldier aloft and then hurled it into the woods. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I was home from a day in the woods with my father. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He’d dug too many ditches, cut down too many cottonwoods, foraged in the cold, wet woods for too many berries and mushrooms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The fire was definitely slower now; the air of the woods was clearing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I look toward the woods, watch all the trees crash down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Then I stepped into the woods, heading off in what I thought to be south and trying to keep a straight line. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he’d jump up and let out a bark at a noise down in the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The sound of the alligator’s jaws snapping together on nothing but air encouraged all three of them to run wildly into the edge of the woods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran straight for the woods with his backpack over his shoulder. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Reluctantly I led her down a deer trail into the woods, one of Georgie’s and my favorite paths. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s also great luck because I know the woods like the back of my hand. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She even slept and fasted in the woods for a name, but the spirits were stubborn. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Genie also had the crazy idea that maybe the tweeting birds were telling the other birds to look out because crazy Crab was in the woods. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I been hightailing all over these woods looking for you. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Across the prairies, through the woods, over the brown water of the creek, there was a sound of crying. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Finding it was slightly more difficult than usual, as there were so many other, fresher odors in the woods. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z That, or he went hiking through the woods and either got lost or got eaten by a bear. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I’ll float downstream, come upon his campsite from the riverside while he’s out in the woods looking for me, and I’ll rescue Viola. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “I’m thirsty and Mama will be awful upset if she finds out I was clear out in the woods. It must be near midnight.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The city had not developed along this part of the shore, but had grown northward along the inland river, leaving a few acres of woods untouched. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I must have passed out again, because the next time I opened my eyes, the woods were darker and the air was cooler. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But when he emerged from the woods, he stopped. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z After a short while the brush thinned, and I ran through the woods until I reached the banks of Burden Creek. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We were crouching behind a tree, staring at the donut shop in the middle of the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z As the two men tramped through snow-covered woods, several “French Indians,” as Washington called them, suddenly appeared. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But how did she come to be in a cave in the woods with a lot of poachers and common thieves? It doesn’t make sense.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I turned and went back out of the house, out toward the woods. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Does Indiana still raise any boys who roam through woods or fields and might even explore the margins of a river? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For a long time the thrashing in the woods continued. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The air was warm and heavy with the scent of flowers, and the woods here had a gentle beauty that Sansa had never seen in the north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then, wouldn’t you know it, a car came roaring up the road and whizzed past us and that dog darted off into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The hobbits had heard just such a cry far away in the Marish as they fled from Hobbiton, and even there in the woods of the Shire it had frozen their blood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In the woods the sun was rising in the sky, but the iron hands pronounced the time as 5:43—probably about the time it was back in the real world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Then the group moved as one machine, setting up the main camp, stringing the woods with traps and alarms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The truck passed on and the black diesel smoke coiled through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Dad stayed at the door until Charlie walked back into the woods, muttering to himself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Think of it this way: If a tree falls in the woods, but you miss it because you’re lost in a video game on the phone, did the tree fall? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That was how Joseph heard for the first time that he would never see Madeleine again, never touch her again, never talk to her again, never walk through the woods with her again. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z How many nights had they both been out in the woods at the same time? I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z The sweetness spreads through my mouth, down my throat, warming my veins with memories of summer, and my home woods and Gale's presence beside me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Harry looked down at the boards planking the porch, then raised his eyes and gazed off into the dark, wet woods over Joe’s shoulder. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If Georgie had been in the shed when I woke up, if I’d met him in the woods, if we’d made up, I might not have left the shelter of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The steam engine had been nearly whisper-quiet, the hiss low enough that we didn’t attract a single shambler from the surrounding woods. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Naomi was walking out with her laundry basket when he’d driven up, and when he asked, she told him that the twins were off running in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re going into the woods for weeks and weeks with a person you have barely seen for twenty-five years. Have you really thought this through?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The racket echoed from the house and the woods, setting off a flock of crows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was dusky in the path, and dark in the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And the two of them took off, running through the woods, leaping over logs and dodging branches. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Once, Grandpa led Zack and me through the woods until we came across a huge piece of green foam that was half buried in the thick brush. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The only thing I was worried ’bout was Stanky being out on her morning run through the woods. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The stream begins to curve to the left into a part of the woods that's new to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Alice didn’t see you go. She said you just went into the woods and didn’t come back.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Tally took one last look around, taking in the ruins splayed out below them, the dark woods, the pearly strip of river stretching toward the glowing sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Run, it says again, and I do, into the woods, down the far path, away from the party, away from the other voices, away from everyone. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I...I take notes on things. The woods. The animals. Changes.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “He’d die of exposure if he tried to five in the woods in this weather.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Not to go too deep into the woods behind the barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Some kids got a hold of it and kicked it even farther away, into the woods. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow had been walking south, or what he hoped was more or less south, for several hours, heading along a narrow and unmarked road through the woods somewhere in, he imagined, southern Wisconsin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The fox fell, lit on his feet, and ran into the woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Doesn’t try to interrupt the important observations or thinking time that the woods offer. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Frightful saw me start off through the woods, for I had to see this winter display, and she winged to my shoulder, glad for a good perch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he imagined the Tripps wheeling out of the woods and flying around them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It was all by itself in the woods, with no other houses nearby. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z My fingers trace the circle around the little gold mockingjay and I think of the woods, and of my father, and of my mother and Prim waking up, having to get on with things. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Was that why he had told them about the ticks and made rules against venturing into the woods? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They left the cart in a parking area and walked out through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z After we had lunch in the main cabin, we all went on a two- hour guided nature hike through the woods. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “You have a good place to live and you found your dad. There’s so much to learn here. What could going back into the woods possibly do?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But before Teresa could answer, Newt was running out of the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The woods are awfully dark now, and the rain is really coming down and it’s still thundering. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z There will be no mansion in the woods for President Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z After several repetitions of this pattern, Jethro tethered his team and, taking up his rifle, walked into the woods. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew her family back into the cover of the woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We were digging in a small clearing, surrounded by woods. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As Frank had feared, a loose ring of campfires glowed in the woods, completely surrounding the property, but the house itself seemed untouched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The smell of rain mingled with the sweet scent of honeysuckle, and crickets chirped in the huckleberry bushes along the edge of the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She’s not staked out, so I look for her in the woods. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He hoped that, after, he could begin to dream of the fragile joy of the months before the explosion and of the family that they had made for themselves in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I leave her staring after me as I run into the woods. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The woods were dark, but there was a gray light on the snowy path, and in the sky there were a few faint stars. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That was what she sang as she sauntered through the woods, and her voice hardly trembled at all. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I remember all those years in the woods, listening to Gale rant against the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The march was strung out through half a mile of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘Some time ago I began to wonder how Orcs dared to pass through my woods so freely,’ he went on. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The kids on the sidelines made way as McNab stomped off the field, past the dugout and into the woods between the field and the creek. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked five miles over low hills through the woods to the town of Etna, where I sat beside an old cemetery and ate my sandwiches, then packed up and walked home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A cloud passed overhead, blanketing the woods in shadows. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Presently we enter a dark woods of very old yellow birches and again lose Crystal. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she saw a man with a heavily scarred face walking through the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The second time, I saw it run out of the woods, screech to a halt, and start eating, just like that roadrunner in the cartoons. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Then I fling it all in the woods, dismantled piece by piece. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I could change my mind and run back to the woods, Mr. Morrison took my hand and drew me inside. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I think to my own brief ballistic history, right after those men attacked us in the woods—how I took Kelton’s pistol, and how I was fully prepared to use it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z "We have white shadows in the woods and unquiet dead stalking our halls, and a boy sits the Iron Throne," he said in disgust. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They found a marshy beach, nestled back against the piney woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And how the woods were so dark that you couldn’t see anything around you, and you’d look up and see a billion stars in the sky. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z "Thus far hunting seems indistinguishable from riding through the woods, my lord." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had gone only a few yards into the woods beyond the creek bed when Leslie stopped. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She did, and saw what looked like a wide, fearsome snake, blue-green in color, coiling through the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Nothing but woods and another hill to climb. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He carried his brother back toward the trees, and both of them vanished into the dark woods. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I looked around, trying to see the familiar woods as Lissa saw them. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Light spilled through a crack in a red-rimmed cloud, and I walked toward it along a path that led from the honey house into the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the two men from the rusty bug-out come out of the woods in front of us—and I know where Henry went...and exactly what he was thinking when he went there. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Low clouds wreathed the peaks of the Miiggelberg above the racecourse, and fog filtered through the woods down closer to 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 staggered into the woods, collapsed, and either fell asleep or fainted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know it’s private property, but we love the woods.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z With each passing year the character of the woods changed perceptibly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z This wall is old, built of rough, square lumps of hewn granite, and it comes from the woods and goes back to the woods once more. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Five minutes after they picked me up, we were bouncing through the woods. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Luke didn’t want to joke, didn’t want to leave Toby in the woods alone with some woman he didn’t know, would never trust no matter what Toby said, but he still walked away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Tell him how good it was to see him on Monday, when we went to the woods. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘We have walked long and far. Shall we look for some place in the woods behind where we can lie hidden?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Their holds were packed with trade goods, wines and silks and spices, rare woods and rarer scents, but the ships themselves were the true prize. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It starts fires and lives in the woods. If it didn’t have something in its head that made it want to put out fires, it wouldn’t survive very long.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The place looked like a typical summer camp, log cabins in the woods, kayaks strewn on the beach. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When he yells a third time and Ray doesn’t listen, Axel kicks his running into high gear and goes into the woods after him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She left as if headed toward Protection Point, then circled through the woods to the South Beach trail and followed the path to the cedar tree. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We set off into the woods together and chatted a little about where we had come from that day, where we were headed, and so on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Play all day, stay up as late as we wanted, roam the woods and fields, tease and play tricks on the living. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Then she made a sharp coughing noise, and her cubs obediently dashed off into the woods. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was novel to have something firm underfoot and exceedingly agreeable to be out in the open, in warm sunshine, after weeks in impenetrable woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “So either he climbs over his own wall, or else he walks through the woods down to the river and leaves from there, right?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z We all spread into the woods and sneaked up to see what had happened. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I walked along the ridge and through the woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “But, Bear,” I said, “the steward tried to kill me. Twice. And when I was hiding in the woods, he came along the road. I’m sure he was searching for me.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Richie and Ben, who were just as guilty as we were, scampered off into the woods lickety-split—as if they hadn’t even been there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, there’s an idea. Maybe the Rattler is dead and buried and left us that note. Remember Uncle Louver’s story about the ghostly figure moving about the woods.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With Nero at our heels, as faithful as a dog, we made our way through the fields and woods to the trailer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was always talking about the woods, the berries that grew there, the strange haunting cries of some of the birds, the loud sound their wings made when they were disturbed and flew up suddenly. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I lived in the woods, suffered heat and cold. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But you can’t lug a passed-out person through the woods, across campus, get her up through the bathroom window, and not want to collapse. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I galloped like a thunderstorm across the field and disappeared into the woods on the other side. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Arya had started to roll it up when the colors caught her eye: the blue of lakes and rivers, the red dots where castles and cities could be found, the green of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Once he was gone, the woods seemed to close in around Bran. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z No sooner had he done so than the light in the woods began flashing a message with extreme rapidity: Go at once. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This place, though, didn’t feel like the canoe lake back at Camp Half-Blood, or the streams in the woods where Piper normally met nymphs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Soon as I’m out of sight, though, I race through the woods, heart going thumpity-thump. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone in the woods, out of earshot of my fellow mushroom hunters, I found myself, idiotically, talking to the morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Gatlinburg is a shock to the system from whichever angle you survey it, but never more so than when you descend upon it from a spell of moist, grubby isolation in the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As the woods give way to the clearing, I see paper lanterns hanging from tree branches, illuminating the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I could see the woods at the end of the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I scanned the yard, the woods, breathing hard, cursing myself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z When we got back to the pink house in the woods, it smelled sweet again, because Betty Allen was baking another one of her seventeen cakes. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z No way are you going in those woods, I told myself. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Once he and Mother had discarded filling stations as a possibility, the only alternative was the woods. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z On Thursday at noon, we met Styx Malone in the woods behind our house. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He came to the edge of the woods. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He stopped climbing; he listened; he watched. liie woods gave answer: the rustle of leaves, the icy rush of the stream, a distant hoot of a snow owl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I make it across the stream and keep following my parents and Connor down the path, deeper into the woods. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “What? Because I live out in the woods, that makes me a murderer?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Dryads armed with bows and arrows talked nervously at the edge of the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It felt like swimming through the woods, my arms fleshy paddles against the cold air currents. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The yard, overgrown and long neglected, stretched out behind the house to a large tree, and beyond that to woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She had followed him through the woods and though he moved quietly himself, he had not heard her, although she was close behind him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt prepared for the military: He’d spent a lot of time as a teenager hunting and fishing in the woods, and competing in rifle competitions near his home in rural Maryland. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A few other girls came out of the woods— and when I say out of the woods, I mean straight out of the woods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z All that day they walked about, in the woods with him, singing, and laughing; for Quickbeam often laughed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z With the sea and woods at hand, they were in their element in a way they could never be in Manhattan for all its glitter and glamour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Fiona stayed behind to watch Claire, who was still sleeping, and with Grunt and the emu-raffe loping after us, we crossed the plateau to the little patch of woods that grew at the far edge. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He hoped the wind would not be blowing in the woods tomorrow. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We wove through the dancing crowd, then out past the rock and into the darkness of the woods along the ridge of the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds in the field now, all making for the woods on the far side. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I bet she writes about us—the spies and thieves in the woods,” Georgie said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A migrating Cooper’s hawk dropped into the nearby woods for the night. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The woods became our savior, and each day I went a bit farther into its arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I remembered something she’d told me in the woods: If you are to understand your enemy Luke, you must under- stand his family. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s nowhere near as cool as our real bug-out, though—a hidden safe house our family built deep in the woods in the event of a nuclear attack, or EMP, or any other end-of-the-world scenario. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Into the woods they went, at a steady walking pace, as the Wall dwindled behind them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The woods played on our imaginations the most after dark, in our dorms as we were trying to fall asleep. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat there and looked at him, until he bounded away into the dark woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “You need a compass to find your way in the woods. Out of the woods, too. Everyone uses a compass for that.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He whistled, and Mrs. O'Leary came loping out of the woods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Last night I dreamt I visited my sisters at their boarding school and they took me horseback riding in the woods. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Baby sheep, lost in the woods, must immediately search for their mothers—no distractions from strangers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It seemed to me I stood again by the cottage in the woods, and I heard the drip-drip of the rain upon the roof. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I tears through the woods—knees up—and over some fields. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It must have been two hours before we glimpsed the low sheds of the sawmill, arranged in a half circle in a clearing in the woods. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could smell the smoke of something cooking while we were still in the woods making our way over to Miss Trotter’s. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z There were no pheasant-shooting proprietors then, to see that the undergrowth was thinned, and not one thousandth part of the number of the present-day timber merchants who prune judiciously at the few remaining woods. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Those birds being eaten by the other ones, those were birds Crab killed just because all the other animals in the woods had outsmarted him? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He said the Austrians had a great amount of artillery in the woods along Ternova ridge beyond and above us, and shelled the roads badly at night. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He had stridden through the deep woods with no thought of danger; he concentrated only on finding the pair that he had seen so close to death. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She thought, he already knows it, probably word got to him in the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The only problem with spending time with him in the woods all day is that there’s so much space in there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z So much of the divorce, and the other man, had bothered him, but coming close to death in the woods had led him to understand some things about himself and other people. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z What if these two strangers in the woods were wiindigo people? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Dad followed us through the woods to Styx’s house. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Just wait here. I promise everything will be okay. Nothing’s going to hurt you. I’ll be back—” A brilliant golden flash illuminated the woods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The woods gave way to the outskirts of Tyler. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He woke in the dark of the woods in the leaves shivering violently. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Daniel wanted to stay so much, wanted to catch Pokémon longer, and run in the woods and be with him, that he got angry when his mom said it was time to go. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The next morning it was a larger group of villagers who followed the hoofprints to the woods where the broken-toothed Jack and his friends were clearing brush from Roger Mustard’s field. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And on that happy note, he readied his bow and galloped toward the woods, leaving us to follow as best we could. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The closer we get to the edge of the woods, the more each step feels fraught. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z All in their boots and stomping in the woods. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So we ran again into the deep woods of Salisbury Park, the damp smell of pine thick in the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “If you saw the entire country,” Royal said, “from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the great Niagara Falls and the Rio Grande, would you make a home here, in the woods of Indiana?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The trolley even smelled damp, like the woods after rain, fecund and rich. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “That freaking graveyard’s back in the woods for a reason. Nothing kills happy time more than being reminded of your slaughtered friends every day.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We snuck out late at night and took the path through the woods to the boys’ camp. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z She took them through the woods, and then along a road, heavy woods on each side of it, more like a country lane than a road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearer to the rosebush, on the edge of the woods, stood a hickory tree, its scaly bark like a ladder inviting her to climb. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z We grabbed our bikes from the woods, and I never pedaled so fast in my life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z For two nights we had shelters to ourselves, and on the third we were just exchanging congratulations on this remarkable string of luck when we heard a cacophony of voices approaching through the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Because it’s going to be hard, with the kids and all. I don’t want to get five miles into the woods and have you—” “I’m sure. I’m completely, entirely, one hundred percent sure.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He said he lived back in the woods, but had six kids and only two rooms. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At supper time Pa and Grandpa came from the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeremy flew away to the woods, and she entered her house, taking the three doses of medicine with her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I think of that counselor telling me I was the house in the woods with no doors or windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “No, I never saw him again. Well, the men in town used to tease me about it. They used to say, ‘Miss Franny, we saw that bear of yours out in the woods today. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I debated following her, but she quickly veered right and vanished into the woods. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The way he climbed the path through the woods not looking behind him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I should have written about a prince raised by wolves after he lost his father to the woods or whatever, something less transparent, because teachers always thought everything was a cry for help. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And if she thought too hard about her, Hazel would just stop right there in the woods and wait for herself to take root. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They sought the warmth of the wind-breaking woods to wait for the cold front to pass. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She stayed either at Anatole’s school or out in the woods having a bow-and-arrow contest with Nelson to see who could shoot a bug off a branch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t go away—not even when I’m out of the woods and crossing the street to Kaori’s house. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Will threw one long branch into the woods behind their house and followed after his dad. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z As the Model T bumped down Eagle Rock Way, heads popped out of the windows of neighboring houses, dogs raced into the woods with their tails between their legs, and babies started to scream. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It only gets me closer to the dark woods. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For family delicacy, Dad coined two synonyms for going to the bathroom in the woods. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Up and up it came, until we were standing in our path in the woods by the Rio Grande. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The boy held no interest in Leon’s prime passions—sports, junk food, and cable television—and spent all his free time roaming.the woods and swamps. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I could go live in the woods like a hermit. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z By walking through the woods, had I accidentally moved farther from my destination? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The Commandant told us to finish them off before they left the Gap, and you go running into the woods like a scared little girl—” “He stabbed me, all right?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z When they found the cove, they left the manager in charge of the boat, crossed some railroad tracks, walked gingerly across a narrow trestle, and headed uphill through the woods. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They cut through the woods rather than going down the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z From here, the woods were a totally different creature than from Dr. Hyde’s classroom. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A party of foot soldiers sprang from the woods behind the companions. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The walk back through the woods was a slow trek. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A house bewitched, carved out of the dark woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I kicked at dirt and yanked on leaves and hurled gravel into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I heard whoops and yells in the woods, the clanking of metal, kids fighting. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later a light began flashing in the woods. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We were walking through the woods, Maxim and I, and he was always just a little ahead of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Mixed up with the scents of Doc’s and Gran’s handmade potions, the whole place smelled like spice-filled woods after a hard rain. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In back of us were the woods, below a stretch of meadow, then the sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They sat huddled together wrapped each in a blanket over their coats and after a while the rain stopped and there was just the dripping in the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Milagro and I volunteer to feed the horses in the stables, and then we ride them through the woods and the lemon groves, the horses all buckteeth and happy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But then the shuffling sound receded and disappeared, and the woods were quiet again. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Tense as a deer at the edge of the woods, I stared at Lissa. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The woods were dark and silent and the trees stood still as though they were listening. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “She lives in the woods. Come on outside, and I’ll tell you how to get there.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She liked to sit by the train window and watch the thick woods sliding past, the grassy plains unfurling, the cattle swinging their tails as they were herded by bare-chested nomads. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It is an extraordinary experience to find yourself face-to-face in the woods with a wild animal that is very much larger than you. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The woods were full of unpredictable happenings—snapping creatures, falling branches, stinging insects. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Three days later, his jacket and knapsack were found abandoned, miles into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She looked around as though she’d just realized that we were half in the woods, half leaning against the back of Bat Lady’s house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z When they come, some villagers try to hide their fathers by sending them off to the woods or having them be conveniently gone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That I'm ashamed I never tried to help her in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods I call out for Mango. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It was strange to wander into the fairytale woods and come upon a place that felt so real. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He stood with his arms out, like a challenged bird, and he kept moving around in jerky little circles, bent forward, peering at everything, at the tree, at the woods around, up into my eyes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, the woods must have extended further, because you could see here and there ghostly dead trunks poking out of the soil, most of them broken off only a few feet up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel like a child, abandoned in the dark woods; not even my mother's image comforts me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The instructors ushered us down to a small shack off to the side of the range, near the woods. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran off to our room while Jay ran toward the woods. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Then why did you two go into the woods? I warned you there would be consequences.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The albino deer leapt into the woods ahead of me, his antlered head high. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The journey this way was easy, though she suspected the woods could lead her wherever they chose. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In fact the woods has quite a lot of paths. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When night fell, we were once more beset by woods on either hand, and no settlement in sight before or behind. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They had been walking for over twenty minutes now, the woods thick and dark despite the daylight that must be approaching outside it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I was in the left-hand passenger seat, and for a moment I thought about jumping out and making an escape into the woods, but I would have been shot in a matter of seconds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z And I turn back to her to see her looking all around, the Noise still whispering all around thru the woods and the rain, the fear still on her face. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z What brought it to me was a dream I was having of my mother carrying a wicker basket, walking across a field and into a woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As we sat there, we heard voices, and two young hikers, hippieish and very fit, emerged from the woods behind us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It would be deep in the woods, a lost place. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I left it by the back door of the police station with a note saying I’d found it in the woods. I don’t think anyone saw me.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was always a chance that our work would be to dig graves in the woods—and then be shot to fill them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When I came home from work on a Sunday afternoon in late May, I looked into the woods and saw Charlie sitting on his newly finished Amazing Octagonal Deck, binoculars in hand. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When a person moving through the woods breaks a branch, it makes a short, sharp snap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Well, I took a short cut through the woods, and I nearly ran into a big bear. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In a pair of baggy pants that used to belong to Mr. Potter and a sweatshirt he’d found in the woods, Georgie looked smaller than ever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I could look down through the woods and see, far below, with the sun on it, the line of the river that separated the two armies. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “The woods are all abuzz with news of his abduction,” Muriel said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The hike wasn’t too long, though I hated to lose the sky in the woods. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The last old woman, returning from the outhouse, scurried as fast as she could from the woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The woods were deathly still, more forbidding than I had ever seen them—green and black and stagnant, dark with the smells of mud and rot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And, best of all, every other Saturday is his time in the woods with Daniel Berrios. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I wanted to run to Mama or out in the woods to find Doc, but I couldn’t. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Seven flew through the woods and out into the road like the Cursed Forest had literally spit her out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I walked back farther into the woods and sat down. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It made him think of crickets in the woods at night. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z There are campfires and s’mores and long walks through the woods. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z We cast about through the woods, noting the disposition of houses around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Opening the window, she noticed Dale walking along the lawn at the outskirts of the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The streetlights gave off enough illumination for us to reach the edge of the woods. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I bought an old Ford truck with a dog box on it, found a shack in the woods in northern Minnesota, and tried training there. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She no longer carried it with her because she feared losing it during her long walks through the woods and her long days hard at work with the dyer. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I hunted humans down in the long woods and shadowed them with my blackness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I know all the paths in this part of the woods, I thought. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The puddle of light wobbled as she came through the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He is not a forest ranger, wise in the way of the woods. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I turned again, towards the woods from which I had just come. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A worn footpath brings us into the woods, and soon I smell the smoke from cook fires. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Zizmo drives through the gloom, past the octagonal gazebos and the monument of the Civil War Hero, and into the woods where the Ottawa once held their summer camp. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “My father was too wild for the Court. He liked the deep, feral woods far better than my mother’s intrigues. He left, and then she died. Now it’s just me.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was hoping that we might find ourselves in the sort of country we used to know—meadows and woods—but we didn’t. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods were quiet, no gunshots, the morning air cool, the rising hills misty, and the only people we saw were a few more refugees going the opposite way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Sadly I turned my back on the steamy kitchen window and trudged across the field toward the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Even Summer could find no game in these woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It is the flight from us that sent them sprawling into the subdivided woods. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Entering the woods at night is a haunting experience, especially for someone with a vivid imagination. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the sun reached center stage, a punctuation mark in the cloud-lined sky, I was miles into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She could do the woods in winter, and the grimness of a castle wall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He loved the woods because Hunter taught him how to. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He must have been living in the woods up near there, waiting for David to come, eating what he could catch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Well, this morning I pulled the trap deep into the woods to open it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I scrambled down, unused rifle on my back, I sought out Rose, spying her and Wab embracing in the dirt expanse between the woods and the road. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They went through the woods, along an old road, called a rolling road, though she did not know it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We entered the woods, and though it was pretty easy walking, I noticed Ruth’s breath coming less and less easily. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother told her stories about the Witch in the woods—stories that she was never sure were true. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They all followed the path as it fell down between the sharp halves of a cracked boulder, came into pine woods again, and finally rounded into a sudden clearing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Every day we explore the hills, the valley in between, the ravine, the woods. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He was about to turn off into the woods when the first truck sped toward him, tossing up a cloud of red dust and catching him in its headlights. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I could see farther into the woods than I ever had before, picking out the tiniest movements. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I was out”—Hangman stopped “skating”—“er...last January, when the pond in the woods froze over. Messing about with some other kids. I had Granddad's watch on. His Omega—” Hangman blocked “Seamaster.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Taran shouted and gestured for his companions to take cover in the woods. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Usually it is the only thing in the woods that isn’t woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll excuse me, but the people in this neck of the woods are mighty suspicious about that kind of declaration,” Bernabe said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And is 500 certified attacks really such a modest number, considering how few people go into the North American woods? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods, where the grassy roadside banked above the macadam, they stopped to wait for an opening in the traffic. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the mist jutted a row of cavernous wooden structures that must be warehouses, and beyond that the dense, dripping green of fields and woods. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The route led down into a wooded valley with a chuckling stream edged with brittle ice, which the path followed for perhaps half a mile before taking us steeply up into denser woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Why had she said that odd word, male, as if she had given birth to a creature of woods or fields? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She worked fast; the sooner she finished, the closer she’d be to a chance at meeting Wash in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As they walked, the whining of the saw grew louder and louder until it seemed to make huge circles of sound through the woods. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The two satyrs and two children charged recklessly through the woods for a few more minutes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When she was almost to the lodge, a great horned owl saw rabbit and falcon, sped silently out of the woods, and sank her talons into the food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When I was done in the woods I passed Byron, who forgot again about his promise not to talk. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Foraging in the woods and rubbish heaps, gathering fallen grain-heads in the autumn—these were honorable ways to gamer a meal, requiring time and work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z There was something in the woods, all right— I could feel it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Over the months, Hazel and her mother had worn a path from the beach into the woods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Malaga Island was still forbidden, but he began to explore the paths into the woods above Phippsburg and to hike along the peninsula’s Kennebec shore and climb down to its barnacled rocks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z With Nero racing ahead, we fled through the woods, tripping over roots and ducking branches. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The man took the tin from him and slung it into the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I pressed my face against the window and watched him lope along the side of the road and then turn and disappear into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Standing, he looked one way and then another, tracing the fencerows that had more oaks than other trees, the far lowland woods and the foothills. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods the Object stopped. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I could try to cut through the woods, but around here, they were thick with briar bushes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I looked to the woods and whistled for ’em, but nobody answered. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Jinx ran away from the festival grounds and into the woods, fear rising in him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For east or west all woods must fail... The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Back past my pool and into unfamiliar woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “If we can draw this group into the woods, we might sneak through without alerting the others.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Far back in the woods there was still fog in the trees, caught in the branches like fragments of white summer, and Lee remembered: Bow down Thy Heavens, 0 Lord, and come down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy liked the woods when they were quiet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice belonged to a boy, and only one boy would be foolish enough to call her name in the same woods that held a dragon and a murderous Varangian. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Another fifty or sixty in the small stand of woods across the field. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I look at the dirt path leading into the woods and remember that I left Ma behind in the jungle. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Could I get off in one of those towns, stay off the roads, and just walk through the woods?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No one, riot even Violet, knew what it was that permitted him to leave his fields and woods and secret lonely valleys. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I could just remember a ‘find path’ song, we could get out of these woods!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I watched the two of them vanish into the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She beckoned with her fork to the woods. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He staggers through the beautiful woods, holding his intestines in, while she stumbles after him, carrying the ax that should deliver his deathblow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I ran up through the thick woods behind the garage. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "He's coming. We need him in the woods, and his job's done here anyway. No one can touch those supplies," says Cato. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He swore up and down that he hadn’t seen any creature in the woods that night—even though I’d shined my flashlight right at it—which is just what he told the cops. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He knew he’d be dragging the sled through the woods soon, and after a winter of doing not very much, he was ready to get out. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He would follow me into the dark woods, where he could see better than I could. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She sprinted toward the woods and melted into the snow and shadows. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Concealed. by woods, but using the tracks for guidance, they made it to the outskirts of District 12 two days ago, where they were forced to stop when Bonnie twisted her ankle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z No woods, no cover, no rabbits: and night setting in. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked upstream for half a mile and entered woods again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Morrison leaned on his elbows and smoked, gazing at the fields and woods as if they were his own personal estate. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I looked at it for a moment too long and began to think of the frosty remains of small animals I’d find in the woods just as the spring snow thawed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They drove through the woods and headed north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Yes, they give the battalions in the front line as much as they can but the ones in back are very short. They have eaten all the Austrians’ potatoes and chestnuts from the woods. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But as they approached the parade it vanished; the rats, their purpose accomplished, melted into the misty woods, and this time they did not reappear. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I’ve already stowed my bow and arrows in a hollow log in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Then the road was clean-packed snow and led through the woods, and twice coming home in the evening, we saw foxes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z All through the night, the woods had felt secretive, things had lurked and hovered, eyes had watched, there was something fearful in them, an air of suppression. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I saw his back walking away from Miigwans, out of the safety of the woods and into the unknown of the city. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She led me past The Baron Weasel’s den and down through the woods about fifty yards to the enormous old white oak. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Katz was liberally covered in blood from his fraught stumble through the woods, and there was tiredness all over us, even in our eyes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Chiron cantered out from the woods and blew the conch horn. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same direction, like a pair of dogs catching a scent on the wind. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In the woods, I find a pine tree and strip handfuls of fragrant needles from the boughs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Just when I think I’m lost, I come to a fourway intersection that sits surrounded by woods. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z With the instinct for ordeal that characterized the age, scientists set off for more than a hundred locations around the globe–to Siberia, China, South Africa, Indonesia, and the woods of Wisconsin, among many others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Kids in bright orange T-shirts like Grovers were chasing each other around a cluster of cabins nestled in the woods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They would not carry me down that steep path through the woods to the grey cove and the deserted cottage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When we finally climbed into the car and headed back up the mountain toward home, I scanned the woods and yards along the way, hoping I’d see that stray dog again, but I didn’t. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I've been in the woods three hours, but as I've made no real attempt at hunting, I have nothing to show for it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He’d been afraid of touching a dead bird, and honestly, he was pretty scared to touch a living one too, especially knowing he’d have to then walk it all the way back through the woods. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Beyond the woods and the strawberry fields, the Long Island Sound glittered in the last light of the sun. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The squad lit up the woods with fire as Sergeant Simpson barked into the radio. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Though we stood in Denmark’s woods, there floated as on abreeze the imagined scents of the distant Bible lands: myrrh and aloe and henna and cinnamon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z My mother found me and carried me back through the woods, across the fields, and down the long hill to the house. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He squealed with delight and ran to the edge of the woods, where he came face to face with a grizzly bear. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And our last resort would be to go in the woods. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Bonnie and Twill, the District 8 refugees who I encountered in the woods last winter, weren’t so far from their destination after all. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Meaning to keep you scairt of the woods. There be no beasts.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The camp had started to look the way it should look: the meadows were green and lush; the white columns gleamed on the Greek buildings; dryads played happily in the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t the woods we had been taken to, or another factory. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The time when Axel and Ray first come from the woods. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Might get some of that flab off your butt,” Katz muttered privately, and stepped into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, after we’ve dropped off the birds and volunteered to go back to the woods to gather kindling for the evening fire, I find myself wrapped in his arms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z My attention floated away from the woods and the hunt. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We went into the countryside, into what was still woods and farmland, and found a few of the old houses. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z We got about five minutes deep into the woods before we remembered. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The woods are dense, with thickets and patches of poison ivy that we have to make our way around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He leaned and kissed him and got up and walked out to the edge of the woods and then he walked the perimeter round to see if they were safe. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The big boy watched from the woods, and I could just about feel the envy and insecurity rising from him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z From the way Pa had warned me, I’d always pictured these woods as having so many bears hanging out of the trees that the sunlight would’ve been blocked off from hitting the ground! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She walked briskly through the woods as the shards dashed ahead. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I keep glancing up as we find our favorite log at the edge of the woods. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I decide to head into the woods around ten thirty. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But the witch—who was the only person in the woods who wanted nothing—was not what Hazel had to defeat. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Our pond was nestled in an unusually dense section of woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We plowed through the woods, lugging the gunnysack, passing it back and forth between us when it got heavy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We would leave early in the morning and hike farther into the woods than usual to a small lake he’d found while hunting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The tracks came down out of the country on a banked rise and ran through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The woods fell away and they came to scattered groups of birch, and then to bare slopes where only a few gaunt pine-trees grew. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Sukey and Rosie, the cows, were turned loose in the woods now, to eat the wild grass and the juicy new leaves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernie shouted to Grandma as he and Genie headed for the woods, leading the way like he always did. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I plunged into the woods beyond, and there I discovered the gorge and the white cascade splashing down the black rocks into the pool below. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, after she had disappeared into the woods, he lay in the water for another ten minutes feeling the kiss many times. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And then they were in front of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “They dumped us into the middle of the woods with nothing but a wristwatch and told us to find our way out,” Dri said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Past the flashing-lights door, behind which the other Misses Spink and Forcible performed their show forever, and she set off into the woods. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z We crossed the crossroads by the Black Swan and went into the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing to be nervous about. I fly over the woods a dozen times a day.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Wings rustled like taffeta as the birds lifted themselves out of the woods and continued their migration. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We keep to the woods as long as we can, clambering over fallen trees and beating our way through thorn bushes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Outside, the brook swam quietly through the woods, and up above them the warm wind blew through the newly opened leaves of the big oak tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A tinge of pink and purple colored the sky above the woods, and he felt suddenly sobered by the cold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We walked our bikes out of the woods and mounted them, ready to ride the rest of the way. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Swim across the lake in the woods, climb the quarry down Pig Lane, go nightcreeping across some back gardens. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I thought of the hours spent in the woods with my father and I knew how we were going to survive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The song swells, pushes through woods and sky, and they’re singing now as if by some lunatic theory they had won. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, as she came out of the woods from Mr. Ages’ house and reached the farmyard fence she thought about Timothy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Their course had been chosen to leave Woodhall to their left, and to cut slanting through the woods that clustered along the eastern side of the hills, until they reached the flats beyond. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was almost impossible to tell who was who from a short distance, except, as I continued to look out from the woods, I recognized two silhouettes in the clearing, and smiled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “There are things in the woods, Glerk. I found a chimney. And a wall. And a small house. Or it was a house, but now it has a tree in it.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In an hour the woods were full of steam again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Without looking back she fled away from the stream to the woods and ran with all the speed her fear gave her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They were on their way to the cottage at the edge of the woods where Bryn lived with her fisherman husband and their little girl. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They were turned outside, where they swept the woods quickly, back and forth. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They rejoined the small footpath when the sun was near its peak in the sky and the woods was in full-on spring. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I keep my head down and, looping her arm through mine, walk toward the woods. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was in deep woods and didn’t have any matches, couldn’t make a fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleven bodies flattened against the ground at the edge of the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z By the time he reached the woods, his left pocket was stuffed with them. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Warriors, spearwives, raiders, they are frightened of those woods, of shadows moving through the trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Chiron appeared out of the woods, looking grim. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He took me along the railroad tracks to the bend by the woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “There’s a big affair going on up in the woods.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z While prowling the woods, I had seen the big tree many times. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s warm and smells of grass and deep woods. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And then he began to drive very quickly, and after that there was the dirt road and the woods and we jumped out of the car and began to run. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z However, opposite it a sign pointed to a dirt road running off into sparse, piney woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Wedged among mattresses, bed frames, chests, tables, and stacks of cardboard boxes, a big golden dog panted and lurched around, excited by the smells of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z From time to time, I believe, he glimpsed that there was something—some elusive, elemental something—that made being out in the woods almost gratifying. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z While they squeal and screech and bump into each other, I silently sack up my dead and withdraw to the woods. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin scurried up the riverbank and hid briefly in the woods, where his wet feet began to freeze. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I headed into the woods in the direction of the glow. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I’d spent lots of time sneaking through the woods, mostly at night, but I didn’t recognize the way the Preacher started leading me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “All I’m saying is, Tall Man went off to live in the woods for a reason,” Cal said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “So if we don’t go into the woods or the barn, and don’t bother the fairies, we’ll be fine?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Styx stalked toward the woods, madder than a hornet and all alone. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Although the road had been brightly lit with the sunshine of the morning, the woods were shadowy and dim under the thick canopy of trees. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He had thought about doing this himself, but he didn’t like rummaging around in the woods and it would take far too much time. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I ran back out into the crowd that was tearing through the woods. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Inside the woods they roam freely, and there are added concerns like venomous snakes, rabid animals, and no real paths to follow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z That night he dreamt of wildlings howling from the woods, advancing to the moan of warhoms and the roll of drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, something terrifying lived in the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But the way the darkening woods absorbed his shouts without a response made him uneasy, so he stopped. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As he sat, terrified that his lie would be discovered, he watched as the SS marched other Polish Jews into the woods. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the field they crashed through a stand of dead cane and out into the road and crossed into the woods on the far side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z From where he’s standing, he can see the sky and a well-trod path that he knows will lead him out of these woods no matter which way he follows it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z We go back up the hill and down the other side, the last of the swamp really starting to disappear around us and turning into regular woods. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z ‘They were out hunting in the woods all day. The only things they caught were squirrels. At night they made camp, and the guy who could eat squirrel meat started cooking it over the fire.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I wish the tub would expand so I could go swimming, like I used to on hot summer Sundays in the woods with my father. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Somehow Daniel knows it’s time for something unexpected, not an eyebrow or a dance move, not a plan for what they could find in the woods, but a friendly dose of the truth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z You could tell it waren’t no forest from ’round here ’cause these woods had monkeys hanging in the trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “In these woods and cottages there are no envious eyes, no carping tongues, no gossip or lies,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Me and old Redtooth were keeping our eyes on the fox here, when suddenly Redtooth hears a noise in the woods, so off he goes to investigate.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Paul grabbed Nate by the arm and they tore through the woods. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She must of run across the cemetery and gone out through the woods at the back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Scattered trees, unevenly cut grass, the row of cabins far off to one side almost hidden by the trees, the fields, the woods. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The Preacher said, “If it was me, I’d circle around and come from the south. You all go look north. I’m not expecting any trouble. These are my woods, I know what’s what out here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He stared into the woods so that he wouldn’t have to see the smile he knew was still plastered on his father’s face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z At first it was grey, then faintly yellow, then golden, and the floor of the woods was rust-coloured, where the dead leaves lay. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z At night we crouched at the edge of the woods and covered ourselves with palm leaves so the soldiers wouldn’t spot us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They hurried across the field, past the sharp edges of the palmetto palms, and deep into the darkness of the woods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I dan’t get down here but once a year in the fall. Forage for the hogs makes it worth moi while, but only just. There’s strange things in these woods. Especial off tae the north.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Dicey hurried to open the windows, one over the back yard, and two to the piney woods that closed around the house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And so am I. A few steps into the woods grows a bank of wildflowers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Just glimpses of them, wild and ragged, flitting through the woods or standing by the gate late at night. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A small caption appeared under an image of a reporter standing before a patch of swampy woods. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “And so, the princess became lost in the woods. She wandered for many days. Finally, she came to a little hut, and she knocked on the door. She said, ‘Let me in; I am cold.’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Well, I agree that you didn’t tell us the whole truth. No way would I have gone into the woods if I knew there would be dangerous animals.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And then it was a very steep descent—3,000 feet in three miles—through dense, cool green woods to a back road that led through exquisitely pretty open countryside. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They pitched their tents somewhere in this tranquil grove, then hiked the short way through the woods to Skyland Lodge, another commercial complex, to eat in its restaurant. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I probably didn't go more than twenty yards into the woods that day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He sounded just like Luke when he’d tried to kill me in the woods at camp four years ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I run and run, finding myself heading for the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Above the long grass in front of the woods the Sparra warrior could be seen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But now, when they've probably been combing the woods for hours looking for victims. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The road went up a hill and we got into thick woods, and the road kept on climbing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I want to grab him by the wrist and head back into the woods, tell these guys, sorry but I found him first. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He was anxious about the copse and the woods. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We are as interdependent, especially in our cities, as bees or ants, yet we can detach if we wish and go live alone in the woods, in theory anyway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She stepped over spongy leaves and moss, into the woods where the sparrows sang nesting songs in delicate relays. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I ran across the field and into the woods, eager to see what she was doing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The two-mile stretch of woods road was just ahead—the hardest two miles of the trip if one considered the terrain. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’ve seen the children, too. Just glimpses of them in the woods or at the gate. They say they’re evil spirits.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Forgetting their fatigue and frustration, Ma and Ba began to run through the woods. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Styx had no more claim on the woods than we did. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She lingered, her eyes searching the woods, whispering our names again. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Even though my dad grew up in those woods, Askar knew the best part of the woods to find pheasants. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The fens and wild woods of England were alive with them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I’m confessing, I also love the view of the woods from the great-room window, the gleam of the hardwood floor in the family room, and the soft-peach colors of my bedroom. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I threw down my books, ducked his bear hug, and scampered up the mountainside and disappeared into the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Genie eyed the woods nervously, until, thankfully—and animal-attack free—they came to a part of the trail that opened up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “It was originally discovered in the town of Lyme, Connecticut, not too far from here. You catch it from tick bites. The woods are full of ticks this year.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When she came back from the woods, we hooped and hollered and ran to the porch and just jumped up and down and pulled her inside by her shirttails. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Being out in the woods with Gale . . . sometimes I was actually happy. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The woods that surrounded Grace Turner’s old bungalow were still there, and as the drive cleared a last stand of beeches, the main house came into view. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The alternating pattern of light and dark suggests sunlight falling through the leaves in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A gang of them cornered him in the woods after the World Cup and took all the gold he had, and it still wasn’t enough to cover all his debts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They were talking again, taking a stroll through the woods. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I gained a profound respect for wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Just as he started to rise, he caught sight of a deer, which bounded into the orchard from the woods beyond. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had been hiding in the woods that night. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z So they passed into the northern marches of that land that Men once called Ithilien, a fair country of climbing woods and swift-falling streams. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We walked on a trail through some woods that run right up against Thread Crick. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z We dashed around the building, into the woods, running until we were sure we wouldn’t be caught. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods looked dark and scary on the edges. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it interesting,” Mr. Birkway said, “to find both? Isn’t it interesting to discover that snowy woods could be death and beauty and even, I sup-pose, sex? Wow! Literature!” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z When the girl’s stepfather, Henry Smith, noticed her disappearance, he suspected foul play and set out to search for her in the woods near the Negro community of Egypt Town just outside of New London. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z This is the girl Gale met in the woods today. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Our war games in the woods steered clear of the building. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z These and hundreds more were collected in the American woods, shipped across the ocean to England and France and Russia, and received with greedy keenness and trembling fingers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z No matter how cold it gets, no matter how extreme the conditions, they must be prepared to hunker down in the woods until the coast is clear. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, in a burst, I recalled my mothers death and burial, my leaving the cemetery and the priest, my plunge mto the woods. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “At first because he just wanted to get used to being outside again, so that he wouldn’t be afraid to go in the woods when it was time for you to learn how to shoot.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We left the stone giant behind and set off through the woods toward the foot of the bluff, our clothes drip-drying quickly in the heat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby walked slowly home, keeping to the edge of the woods, keeping out of sight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She had reached the far corner of the garden, and there, at the edge of the woods where it met the fence, was a stump. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z "We have to follow this road along the ridge, cross these hills, go through the woods on the far hills, and come down to the Irati valley," I pointed out to Bill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He made two more trips into the woods, dragging armloads of brush and limbs to the bridge and pushing them over the side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Seth glanced at his compass to confirm that he was heading west and ran into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The singing didn’t stop as they marched through the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He ducked and dodged under vines and around trees, flashing in and out of sunlight, his war paint blending into the woods like camouflage. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He thought he’d seen it before, back in the Glade when the beetle blade had scooted past him and into the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Nothing cleared George’s mind quicker than being in the woods. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z He pointed into the woods, away from the clearing, and he didn’t need words to communicate what he meant. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I know Grandpa’s soul isn’t wandering the woods like the ghosts I sometimes think I glimpse between the trees. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z We slept again in the woods, if our uneasy watches, gruesome dreams, and hours plagued by bites and bleeding feet might be called sleep. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z At a point near the north end of the woods road there was a bridge spanning the ravine that cut a deep, jagged gash across the road and through the fields beyond. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In mid 1943, the Soviet government established “Laboratory Number 2,” a secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Said what? I never said we’re going to hide out in the woods.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And so as we plunged into the steep, dense, covering woods of Shuckstack Mountain, I stayed closer than usual to Katz and carried my walking stick like a club. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Matthias started to slide down the rope on the Mossflower side of the wall, where the woods came close up to the Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Every step she took in the woods was one more bit of string left to time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z More of the free folk chose the woods after that—one in ten, perhaps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They sat on the green edge and looked out over the woods below them, while they ate their mid-day meal. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The woods weren’t safe, especially so far from the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It would be nice if there were chimpanzees in these woods, but that seems highly unlikely. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z One of the girls blew a silver dog whistle, and a dozen white wolves appeared out of the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Not my old room, but Auntie Venus’s, always considered to have the best view in the house, over the lake, the driveway, the woods and the hills beyond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z So Dad would stop the car, and Mother would take the girls into the woods on one side of the road, while Dad took the boys into the woods on the other. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aim for that old house back there,” Ernie said, pointing into the woods. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I made it all the way to the edge of the Styx woods before I realized I was walking toward nothing. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Rit kept giving her a hot and bitter brew, made from the root of a plant that Ben brought back from the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Flapjack left the road and turned off into the woods just after we crossed out of the Settlement and passed the Preacher’s house. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She looked out at the crick and the woods on the other side and said, “Isn’t this romantic?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z For the most part she survived on what she could gather, trap, and hunt; and when she wasn’t setting snares, weaving lobster traps, or bow hunting in the woods, she was teaching herself to read. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Separating the Meadow from the woods, in fact enclosing all of District 12, is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I pedaled down our soft dirt path through the woods, all the way down to the river’s edge, where I hoped I might find her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The summers were warm, and there were creeks and inlets and streams in the nearby woods where they could catch fish, surreptitiously, of course, because they weren’t supposed to. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They led around the lake and up through steep woods to the summit of Piney Mountain, which wasn’t indicated on the map and isn’t really a mountain since it barely rises to 1,500 feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, what I saw in the woods, when you...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I must have walked a mile into the woods until I found a stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay listening to Rachel’s even breathing and heard in her memory the sounds of birds in the spring woods. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Alec continued to head for the heart of the blazing section of woods, not slowing down, as if his one final goal was to run to a fiery death and end it all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The fields and woods all had shallow ditches dug around them to drain away water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z So me and Howard and Wishbone went behind the garage and followed the narrow trail that snaked through the cool, damp woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z And you didn’t live in the woods without getting a smear of dirt here and there, no matter how often you bathed up in the stream. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The clearing was quiet except for fires burning in the woods, and the cries of the wounded. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was strange—he should hate the new houses for replacing his woods and forcing him to stay indoors. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the cucos, the smallest, was dragging itself not in their direction but in the direction of the woods, a trail of dark, gooey blood in its wake. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Even the wild things in the fields and woods hardly noticed their passing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I ran to the woods, where I saw his tracks — this big — and the mud he scratched bottom side the trees. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Far below lay the fields green with wheat, the flat pastures grazed by horses, the darker greens of the woods. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The shepherd’s got blood on his mouth and jaws, and as Dad takes another step forward, it leaps over the fence, same way it got in, and takes off through the woods. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A forest fire in the dead woods, and then it rained and the smoke stopped. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “They wanted to keep her, I guess. The woods does funny things to people.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z My head began to feel unnaturally light, and the vague rustling sounds from the nearby woods came to me as though muffled and filtered. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Crew members hid in the woods at a distance of about fifty yards and filmed him using a telescopic lens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I am suspicious of the stillness in these woods. A great tension rests upon Fablehaven today.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “What are we going to do in the woods?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Me and Clarence will wait for you in the woods. I got to keep a low profile. I can’t let nobody see me skipping school.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They had learned a little about the woods, when they were up above the stream. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And in the garden, and in the woods, and down in the stone cottage on the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The fields and woods were shut in under it, emptied and subdued. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They left the cart in the woods and he checked the rotation of the rounds in the cylinder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Instead, news came of the Battle of the Wilderness, a horrifying story of fighting in a blazing woods, with losses mounting by the thousands and with Lee still holding firm. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she had come into the woods and slipped into the life she was supposed to have had, if no one had wanted to give her up. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Moreover, they have been heard to produce, while hanging at rest upside down in the depths of woods, strange, solitary, and lovely bell-like notes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned my back on the open doorway and the warmth inside and ran across the field toward the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The woods on the other side of the barbed wire fence burst with birdsong. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “You mean you live out in the woods?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z George was wrong yesterday in the clearing: Those were not the pathless woods; these are. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As our eyes got used to the dark we could also see the picnic table and behind it that black woods. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As Dicey emerged from the pine woods, she saw the two figures standing far off, across the road by the mailbox. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The bluebells had not faded yet, they made a solid carpet in the woods above the valley, and the young bracken was shooting up, curling and green. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The sun set, and the woods grew darker, but before the last of the twilight was gone the moon rose. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I got outside, I ran up into the woods, pushing tree branches and wild grape vines out of my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Hazel might have plunged into a mysterious fantasy woods after an evil witch with a pack of wolves at her disposal, but at least she’d brought a compass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They knew how to dodge their pursuers with twists and turns and disappear in the woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “What, you want me to give you a philosophy bingo card for your trip? Like: When you smell honey in the woods, run because the bear can’t be far behind.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I had been struggling along on my own for about six months when I first ran into Gale in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I walked faster, moving into the woods alongside the road as soon as I passed Weylin’s fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Some of the villagers know about the path, but few use it, for it passes too close to the dark woods. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack still said nothing, and there was nothing to do but trudge through the snow to the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z As I marched into the cool shadowy woods, I heard the driver call to me, “I’ll be back in the morning, if you want to ride home.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z With shaking hands, I clutch the blanket more tightly around my shoulders and let Locke lead me into the woods. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A low thrum came from the woods behind them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We did not even walk in the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Is that cyclone why the woods around here are full of uprooted pine stumps?” the Methodist preacher said finally. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “This looks all right,” Henry said when they came to a small clearing deeper in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And once again they headed through the woods toward the strange yellow house, swiping limbs from their path and jumping over thick roots bursting through the earth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z So back through the woods they went for the second time in one day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z With Ambrose Spike trailing in her wake, Constance crashed through the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “You try to go back, try to run back to the woods, and you’ll never run any more. You go on with me or you die.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As Roy rode away on his bike, he pondered the possibility that Mullet Fingers was better off roaming the woods than living at home with a witch for a mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it were merely a fine house richly furnished,” said she, “I should not care about it myself; but the grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the country.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z They were unquestionably different from woods further south—darker, more shadowy, inclining more to black than green. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My feet took me out toward the lake in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z My mother told others that followed swordswomen through woods and palaces for years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aye. I have squandered a third of my life trying to teach the rudiments of swordplay to churls, muttonheads, and knaves. Small good that will do me in those woods.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “There’s no one. Not anymore. And, anyway, she’s not from that world anymore. She’s a creation of this place. I’m not sure she could...you know...he outside of these woods.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Whether this statement will be enough to quash the rumors that several bodies were removed from the woods an hour later, remains to be seen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There are 1,500 types of wildflower in the southern Appalachians, 40 rare types in the northern Georgia woods alone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “If you hear me shout, don’t wait, run for the nearest piece of woods you see. They won’t come into the woods on horseback in this snow.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Three weeks before the baby was due, I was out in the woods beyond the farthest field. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The woods were dark; the clouds were getting thicker. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes the two limped together to the edge of the fields, or wandered off into the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For that guard they chose mostly archers who knew the ways of Ithilien and would lie hid in the woods and slopes about the meeting of the ways. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “You have to come see what I found in the woods.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z So I hang my rug over the banister on the deck and walk a few steps toward the woods. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He thought of the grizzly bear his mother had intercepted at the edge of the woods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then I called “Bye, Wishbone” into the woods before I hurried up the road to make things right with Bertha. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The water in front of him was dark, and the woods beyond were darker still. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He’d crutched over field and woods, through mud and gravel, up hills and down rock faces, over stone walls and under fences. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The Berg had taken them a lot farther from home than they’d thought, and they ended up camping in the woods for two nights, resting just long enough to feel strong again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They stood under the boughs of the woods again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Even the little towns like Franklin and Hiawassee and even Gatlinburg are just way stations scattered helpfully through the great cosmos of woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought to myself, I ought to follow them, maybe take up residence in the woods for a year or two. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The whump of the falling trees and the low boom of the loads of snow exploding on the ground set the woods to shuddering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I hesitated on the edge of the fight and the edge of the woods, too tangled in my mind to enter either one or the other. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was almost done when Lizzie appeared from out of the woods. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Those are the kind who play loud music in the woods that can be heard for miles, just to see who it attracts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I'm not getting stoned with you two in the woods.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene handed Styx the third fishing pole and we traipsed into the woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Other than a cottage or two, thick woods edged up against both sides of the road. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He dropped it without slowing down, then flew over the cliff, over Frightful, over Drum, over the woods, and out of sight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Snow was falling in earnest now—big silent petals drifting through the springtime woods, white bouquets segueing into snowy dark: a nightmarish topsy-turvy land, something from a story book. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As for the ghosts of the kids, I guess Chelsea's brother saw Diana and Georgie running around in the woods the way they always do. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said, joining us in our squinty examination of the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Where the grass gave way to the woods, I found a stone wall crudely cemented together, not even knee high but nearly fifty yards long. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The new snow lay in skifts all through the woods, along the limbs and cupped in the leaves, all of it already gray with ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He had been across to the woods to satisfy his curiosity about what the rats were doing there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “You’ve told us so many versions of why the woods are forbidden.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z These were the woods through which she had wandered on her way home from Mrs. Shigemura’s lessons, the woods where she had cultivated the kind of tranquillity- Mrs. Shigemura had demanded. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I walked in the woods in the afternoon when I was sure August wasn’t out there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z An older model Civic was parked off the shoulder, somewhat camouflaged by the woods. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z We headed through the woods along the North Shore until a low ridge of hills appeared on our left. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I have some really nice runs down by the beach and the woods on Bainbridge Island, which is where we live. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He was so beautiful and at ease in the woods. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This was not the Belgian Army, official conscripted protectors of white people, but a group of young men who held secret meetings in the woods behind our house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Toward the end they came over to strafe the woods, but to no effect. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We finally know the name of the girl who we watched the Capitol abduct from the woods of 12, the fate of the Peacekeeper friend who tried to keep Gale alive. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She turned and watched the blackberry bramble in the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Cabin eleven was too nervous to have sword class with me after what I’d done to the Ares folks in the woods, so my lessons with Luke became one-on-one. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then they turned south again, following a dirt road through open woods and into a marshy area fringing Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And then a deep, booming gong sounded somewhere beyond the woods, and at once, green and red lanterns blazed into life in the trees, lighting a path to the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I remembered how the Hunters had stormed out of the woods when they fought the manticore, and I was prepared for something like that—1 one huge charge that could overwhelm us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure if they were fooling, but right then, in the darkness of those same woods, that image hung before me like the ghost itself. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I glided as we went into the woods again, and stayed close while the trail narrowed and skittered through some thick underbrush. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The doe takes out across the meadow, heading for the woods. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We started for the woods behind Bat Lady’s house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Could I live in the woods eating berries and nuts, sleeping out in the cold? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Or Sandy was killed and dragged away by a gator while he was walking through the woods. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I flip it over before he can see himself, then get up, motioning for him to go back into the woods so no one inside hears us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z One day, in April, she went deep into the woods* to gather firewood. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would hold out her hand and birds would fly out of the woods to settle on her arm—lorikeets, parrots, doves. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Campers were having flying horseback lessons, swooping over the woods on their pegasi. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They went through more woods and then they came to a clearing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to have disappeared into the woods like an enchantment I rode downhill, hoping to come upon a river that would lead me to a village where I could ask the way. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You kids remember the rules about the woods,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I led the way to where the woods began, but then, faced with three distinct paths through the trees, had to stop to consult the sheet of directions I’d brought with me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There are still voices in the woods behind me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It would lead him out of the woods and right back to the fort. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He left her with the gourd lying on the ground and went over to the edge of the woods. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She said it was smart to know what the poisonous ones looked like, especially spending so much time in the woods. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then we’d disable the drivers or allow them to run into the woods, at which point we’d tie them up so they couldn't join the ranks that would be sure to follow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I remain at the window long after the woods have swallowed up the last glimpse of my home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Go to the house in the woods. You can tell me where it goes.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I showed Mr. Leroy the quickest way to get to Cooter’s through the woods. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z No man in Castle Black knew the woods as well as Dywen did, the trees and streams, the plants that could be eaten, the ways of predator and prey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I know I haven't been in this part of the woods before, there were no sizable rocks like the one I'm sheltering against on my earlier travels. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Even after the twins had gone, Naomi kept watching from the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I am a babe in the woods, abandoned at the foot of a tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I had contrarily become something of a devotee of them because they are tough and give good protection against thorns, ticks, insects, and poison ivy—perfect for the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Remarkably, the cat stands up, looks around stunned, and shoots back into the woods as quickly as it came. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The only trouble with this plan was that there usually weren’t any woods close to the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The hall was decorated with ornate plasterwork, cabinets in precious woods and tortoiseshell and gold, statues of marble. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When Dad showed concern that I’d be in the woods by myself, I wiggled my cell phone and said, “I’ve got you on speed dial. Plus, I know those trails better than anyone.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The clearing in the woods was home to the small forest creatures. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I swerved around them as they dashed into the woods, graceful as gazelles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The workers, who had been content to wait until then, went into the woods with no other weapons but their working machetes and they began to sabotage the sabotage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The prospect of an afternoon in the fields and woods was tempting—until I thought of Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She pointed into the woods and took a few steps in that direction. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z But if I tell her I’m going into the woods to feed a stray dog, she’ll freak out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The air was fresh, delicious, smelling of new leaves in the woods, just-popped-out mushrooms, the pelts of young deer. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But your timid fellow, your nervous poacher—the woods of Manderley are not for him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I want to stay home. I’m not going to the asylum. I never seen you. Never before. I never seen you and she in the woods.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But the men were smoking over there, so the woods seemed like a better escape. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The woods pressed close around them, and the steady pattering of rain on leaves was accompanied by the small sucking sounds their horses made as their hooves pulled free of the mud. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was born and raised in the woods; it’s the only life he knows or cares to know. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A boy sat waving at me from a tree stump at the edge of the woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I barely saw August except in the mornings when she crossed the yard headed toward the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Food plants close to camp had been picked clean by the baboons, but she could forage in the woods as they did. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I got to the lake in the woods and remembered the game of British Bulldogs we'd played here when the lake froze last January. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z August had us load up the empty supers and haul them out to the woods so the bees could come and do the big cleanup. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave birth in the woods behind my house and put the infant up for adoption just as soon as I'd cleaned myself off. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I needed to get her out of there. There was a woods about a mile away from our house, and we were going to hide there for a night and then get a bus.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We climbed the grass bank above the lawns, and plunged into the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Apollo’s and Hermes’s cabins were scattered in the woods with bows ready. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z As the chariots lined up, more shiny-eyed pigeons gathered in the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Boy, you are some kind of jinx. I was just going to tie up Junior here and leave him in the woods until we was gone. Now look what you done.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For instance, the greeny-looking clintonia flower bells became beautiful blue berries, but there were so few of those you could search the whole woods and not find enough to string a bracelet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Now is the time to run away to the woods, to hide in the trees until the patient is long gone and in another part of the Seam the hammers make the coffin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “All the fuss down there might get people looking toward the woods.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “After she died, they ran off into the woods and went wild. I imagine there are hundreds of them out there.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was hiding out in the woods about three miles from Storch’s house. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I drop my head in my hands, feel the heat of my cheeks on my palms, reliving what happened in the woods with Fry and Zephyr last winter. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The wind had blown the ash from the ice and the ice was black and the creek looked like a path of basalt winding through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Theirs was the last house in the neighborhood to be built, but when they moved in the area was still so new that local maps showed it as woods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Others of us followed our fathers out into the woods, carried guns and rods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The woods terrified her, and whenever I shot something, she'd get teary and talk about how we might be able to heal it if we got it home soon enough. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Being springtime, the leaves were out and the woods stretched as far as I could see. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still light out, and I could see our porch through the woods. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The woods had a way of grabbing bits out of pockets and scattering them for other people to come across. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Leaning on her stick, Kira made her way to the place where she ordinarily turned from the village and entered the woods on the path. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We cleared brush from the edge of the woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z After their mother’s death, the two boys were sent off to a small hotel in the Connecticut woods where several families shared a large cabin and a communal kitchen. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, what’s the deal with that yellow house back in the woods?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z No wonder Lissa had been scared when I stepped out of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was beyond the old pasture, near the woods. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She was still dizzy and sick with fear, but she and Jason crashed through the woods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We walked a little ways into the woods and sat on a couple of stumps whilst folks cleared out of the carnival. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Then we heard the sound of a chain saw in the woods, flying down the track, straight toward us. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Did Zephyr tell her what happened that day in the woods? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But it was lovely walking in the woods. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She made a line with her hand connecting the two dots and continuing into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Behind the Bolls’ property, we crept out of the woods. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yes you are. If a bear attacked you in the woods, you'd be too stupid to run away." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I’m in a new place, I’m not used to woods all around, I hear birds and squirrels and think they’re people. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She would disappear here in the woods and no one would even know she’d come. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t rightly know, suh. He done heard all the noise, and I guess it scared him. Maybe he run off to the woods.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She relinquished the location to the house in the woods when the slave catcher put his pistol to her eye. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z That I was angry about my childhood left to wither and starve in the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Lola was convinced the woods teemed with snakes, but Virgil was certain that he could find five stones here. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z We turned to watch Silly running into the woods chased by Daniel. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The clouds would hide moon and stars and Mormont's Torch, turning the woods black as pitch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We followed Styx through the woods till we hit the county road. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He steadied himself and tried to see about him in the gray woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She spent a good portion of the following day with sweaty palms and a racing heartbeat, and kept one eye fixed on the passing woods. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He saw a Union battery firing to the south, saw sprays of men rush out of the woods, the smoke, and envelop it, dying, and then the smoke drifted over it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The swineherd said everyone knows there’s something dangerous in these woods. They probably just assumed it was a demon or some nonsense like that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And now on top of everything else I was quaking as if I had never been out in the woods before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When I turn around and the dog sees me coming, he goes off into the woods. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I discovered that as late as it was in the season, the spring beauties were still blooming in the cool pockets of the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything in the woods around us was steaming and glistening. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Once he got out of the stable he’d head straight down the road afore he cut off into the woods heading for the lake he first took me to ’bout a year ago. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z When she was being quiet as a shadow, she could sneak past all of them, flitting out by starlight to make her water in the woods where no one would see. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When he looked at her, she motioned with her head toward the woods.Then she got up and announced she had to use the bathroom. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We started up the road and then went across a meadow and found a path that crossed the fields and went toward the woods on the slope of the first hill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z We take him back to the bug-out with us—because if we just let him go, he’ll probably die before he gets out of the woods, and I don’t want that on my conscience. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I got good at ignoring Charlie and Jenny or whoever else he brought into the woods for pot parties and sex, or whatever he was into now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z That he’s sorry Ray was hurt, and he’s sorry he said Ray could come, and he’s sorry he broke his promise about not going into the woods behind the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I went to the woods this morning and dug these up. For her,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Keav takes my hand and leads me to the woods so I can go to the bathroom. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The two men have their weapons drawn and are looking all around them like something’s going to jump out of the woods and grab them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “We borrowed it one night to take a ride, that’s all, but Georgie crashed into a tree and wrecked it. We were scared to bring it back, so we hid it down in the woods.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Neither of them ever discussed the reasons why it was desirable to be able to go through the woods soundlessly. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still light when we got into the woods, but the shadows from the trees made it feel like midnight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The river was a bright sheen of sunlight disappearing into the thick woods beyond. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And then it picked the rat up in its mouth and carried it off into the woods, behind a tree. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z They ran, laughing, out the door and disappeared into the woods out back. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A search party of graduate students found him hours later, wandering in the woods in the outskirts of Austin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When you’re a demigod and you find a sweet little girl alone in the woods—that’s typically a good time to draw your sword and attack. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They panted as they ran, the promise of something terrible rushing behind them all the way to the edge of the woods. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z There were birds in the woods, and they had things to sing of. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It had been evening when she crossed into the woods from the park. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The bear dropped to all fours—stopping my breath momentarily and nearly stopping my heart—made a loud “whuffing” sound, then turned and disappeared into the woods. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z That is the way it usually goes in stories: the young man has to prove his dedication to the old hermit in the woods before he’s taken under his wing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The story of the escape and their own account of the fight in the woods did much to alleviate Fletcher’s dismay. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z From each summit the panorama was sensational—for as far as the eye could see nothing but heavy green woods, denim-blue lakes, and lonely, undulant mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Not here, not in Henry’s house, but in the woods with Wash, with the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The woods, Miguel, and love were lost in the deep well of her terror and she resigned herself to facing her fate without subterfuge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunter refused to leave; he was more in the woods than in his cabin anyway, and seemed to look forward to spending his last days in the places he felt most comfortable. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At first they proceeded down the trail, but fearing the soldiers’ ability to track them, they took off back into the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see a long way down across open fields to a road, a farmhouse, a long sweep of wheat rising up to green woods on the far ridge, at least a mile off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He would call for Pax at the spot where he’d left him, and Pax would come bursting out of the woods and probably knock him down in his happiness. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sweet, cool smells came out of the leafy woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Technically, Gale and I could be whipped on a daily basis for poaching in the woods -well, technically, we could get a whole lot worse -except all the officials buy our meat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I fought off the irrational worry that Denna might have wandered into the woods in a delirium, and that I should go look for her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was quiet in the woods, but here the quiet was right, and it was broken by the sound of wild things, which seemed a promise. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z More lights glowed in the woods, and weirdest of all, a fire flickered in the attic window of the Big House, where the Oracle dwelt, imprisoned in an old mummified body. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I continued for another mile until the forest began to give way to trailers, a few small homes, and finally, an entire community hidden away in the woods. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I look from the hilltop to my left but there’s just woods as far as I can see and more hills that move like hills shouldn’t. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She did not need to defend her actions in the woods that night; no one had the right to call her to account. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In a minute he came out of the woods looking confused. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z But if I could see things almost no one else could, it explained why Ricky hadn’t seen anything in the woods the night my grandfather was killed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Now I longed for darker denser woods that I could lose myself in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z After the farmer shot them, Shin lugged their carcasses out of the woods for slaughter and commercial sale. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We knocked on their tough green flesh to be sure they hadn’t gone soft, then we scooped up one each and hightailed it back toward the woods. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what does he want us to do? Live in the woods and starve? We have food here, and shelter, and the ghetto must be nearly empty now. We’d probably have an apartment to ourselves.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They moved through the woods in good order, past the silent guns. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Year’s End the few survivors were rounded up in the woods, and those that surrendered were shown to the borders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and — that’s when I start crying. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The woods were not as totally dark as they had seemed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a dim new moon, which he hadn’t seen while he was in the woods, and Jethro watched it dully as home came closer, step by step. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time, as she walked back to camp through the woods, she heard a small sound, a word or two, muffled under the snow and leaves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I run to the edge of the woods and wait for her to look back, but she doesn’t. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Remembering a sandstone ledge I had seen while prowling the woods, I went there. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Woods always brought to his mind City Park, the tended woods on Honore Island where he went for outings as a child and where tiny convenient paths led you through. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you talking about”—I swallowed—“the man in the woods? The man with the bees? He's over there.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I can tell he wants to return to the woods, but they keep pointing at the sky, which puzzles me until I realize, Of course. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then all at once the road came out of the woods and Laura saw the lake. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked slowly and asked himself ruefully what new misfortune could possibly befall him a moment before the mad hermit in the woods leaped out at him without warning from behind a mulberry bush. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You just followed a strange fire into the woods at night?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A visit with my father in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We got to Zeus’s Fist, a huge pile of boulders in the middle of the west woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I knew the woods and every canyon by then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let's go,” Tucker said to the guys, leading them back the way they'd come—in the other direction, not after Aileen, so I stomped off into the woods to find her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he cut off into the woods in the other direction. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z They were out of breath and sank down in the green-and- purple grass on the edge of the pine woods. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In the woods beyond the rose-garden the birds were making their last little rustling noises before nightfall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Coming out of the woods was a glistening amber insect, tenfeetiong, with jagged pincers, an armored tail, and a stinger as long as my sword. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We cheered and shook our swords and followed her down the path to the south woods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Color was splashed through the woods as if it had been thrown about by some madcap wastrel who spilled out, during the weeks of one brief autumn, beauty enough to last for years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard fighting to my left and right, somewhere in the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I walk deeper in the woods in search of them, give up the hunt, and return to the other side of the road to wait for Bando and Officer Conklin. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods seemed a long way off, and anyway, he had never been down there in the woods and wasn’t sure he would like it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Then I, too, went down the steep twisting path through the dark woods to the beach below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Which reminded him of an uncle of his that got mad- dog bit down in the piney woods of East Texas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a bird somewhere in the woods, beyond the broken and infrequent slanting of sunlight. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Was there enough magic in the woods to make her belong? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He loved getting back into the woods and cutting timber. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Naomi pointed out a sunny patch just off the path in the woods, and they spread an old sheet over the pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Without waiting to see what would happen next, we fled into the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She thought she could go into the woods and cut a branch off a tree, probably, but hadn’t yet. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Your cart is no good in the woods,” Mama said. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with an S maybe, S for silent, for stupid, for scared. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yep, birdcages,” she confirmed, “back when the Harrises lived in a different house, way back in them woods.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I decide that’s going to be my focus today as I cross the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There was no grand puff of smoke or anything, but he appeared as if from nowhere, right in our very own woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Jack’s body tensed sharply as they entered the woods, and Hazel ignored it and moved on. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I slid off Jingle Boy and ran out of the woods and down the road to Cooter’s home. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I closed on the hellhound, which was now pushing the satyrs back toward the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Mama would’ve roasted us a big turkey, even if she had to go out to some remote woods and kill the dang thing herself. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z For weeks at a time Harriet swung a broadax in the woods as part of Ben’s crew, cutting half a cord of wood a day just like a man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice was distant, his eyes having strayed to a certain blank spot in the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He gathers up the sheet of blue plastic, careful to trap the berries inside, and goes to toss them into the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He steered Henry toward the path that cut through the woods to the Humble camp. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She strode forward into the woods, then bent over at the waist and hoisted the rifle off the ground. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She scrambled through the woods, breathing so hard she couldn’t muster the air to cry for help. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z At an early practice, as the boys were scrimmaging, a gaggle of geese took flight from a pond on the other side of the woods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z At least my death will help pay for the life of the boy in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It really was a wonderful day, with a bright blue sky, and the fields and woods all a soft green. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Halfway through the woods, I’m thinking that what I’m about to do could get my dad in a whole lot of trouble. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z As I stood in this state of indecision, there was a dry crack of wood and a careless disturbance of undergrowth perhaps fifty feet into the woods—something good-sized and unseen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It is surprisingly easy to get lost when you’re deep in the woods with your head down, looking for wild mushrooms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z If stopped and questioned, he could claim that he was on his way to feed his hogs, which ran free in the woods. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The road climbed steeply going up and back and forth through chestnut woods to level finally along a ridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But when she went through the garden gate she found herself in a clearing in the middle of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He found two right away, just a few feet into the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z We didn’t know when the abduction would take place, but one thing we felt convinced about was that the woods would come into it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I tried going alone,” Mother said, “but I never really liked it. The minute I got into the woods it felt lonely, and I got scared and hurried back to Grandma.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z It would lie always in its hollow like an enchanted thing, guarded by the woods, safe, secure, while the sea broke and ran and came again in the little shingle bays below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But walking in the woods, my body relaxed and I moved easily, like an animal that belonged there. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There must be dozens of different kinds of trees in the woods in the back of our house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Eventually there are only a few cars on the road, no signs for tourist facilities or campgrounds, just more farms and woods, the fields full of blue and purple flowers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The only sound was the rush of water from the falls above, through the woods to the side. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then I take Twill out in the woods and try to explain the basics of hunting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But it all went wrong when the other two scorpions appeared from the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z From his waist pouch Crane-man took a handful of green herbs he had gathered in the woods earlier that morning. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A soft green light bobbed deep in the woods. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z So far, we’d come across a black-capped chickadee in Pigeon Cove and a spotted salamander in a rainwater pond in the woods. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Both times we hie off into the woods, Viola with her hand round Manchee’s snout and me trying to keep my Noise as Prentisstown-free as possible till they pass. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Anyway, honey, you have to promise me you won’t forget to put on the bug spray, okay? On the legs, especially when you’re hiking through the woods. It’s right here in the front compartment.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Folks that are trying to hide in the woods that ain’t real comforted being there always make the same mistake. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “You keep off the streets, or I’d see you. Who do you play out with? Are you hiding out in the woods with one of those dam slick-headed jellybeans? Is that where you go?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy fell into step beside her, strangely silent, and together they stole away into the woods. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was a winter house, such as some field mice move to when food becomes too scarce, and the living too hard in the woods and pastures. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Daisy snuck out of the house one morning, dragging her muscles and bones with her, and crept into the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We sat on a big rock, drank our Cokes, and watched the sunlight in the woods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Already the hunters were stealing away to do their business in the woods or down by the rocks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Aaron, who fears me not one little bit, will go off into the woods toward the smoke to finish me off once and for all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z If angels guided her safe through the woods and she made the north edge, she’d have to get past the guards watching over King’s Bridge, where New York Island touched the rest of America. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps under the shadow of the Unnamed some of the beasts of Mirkwood are wandering hither to our woods. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He pitched the sweatblackened piece of leather into the woods and sat holding the photograph. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Here, the mountains and woods were just backdrop—familiar, known, nearby, but no more consequential or noticed than the clouds that scudded across their ridgelines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Georgie and I followed them through the woods, silently begging them to turn back, to stay near us as we’d stayed near them. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In the woods, the cloud of dirt settled. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Finally, to Seven Nightshade Salazar, I present your very own pendant of the woods!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Armistead rode with him back into the woods along Seminary Ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s gone into the woods to draw out the poison with oak-leaf acid.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He tucked his tail and lit out in a yelling run for the woods. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s no crime to be in the woods on a spring afternoon,” Henry said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They sat for a while, listening to the sounds of spring in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun came out once before it went down and shone on the bare woods beyond the ridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry, I’ll bring enough water back for all of us,” I say, and I follow him into the woods leaving Chou and Pithy behind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he turned and walked away, disappearing into the woods and leaving Virgil alone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the relative quiet, the birds take back the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He had gone there with Yossarian and Dunbar after the two had come unexpectedly to his tent in the clearing in the woods to ask him to join them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Sending the sketch to Theo, he describes “a blond, soft effect, and in the woods a more sombre, serious mood. I’m glad that both of these exist in life.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They lit no torches either, Asha had time enough to think, and they know these woods better than we ever could. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods I turn for one instant to survey the field. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It’s a long way, mostly uphill, and more daylight’s seeping out of the woods every minute. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Of course my first period would wait to arrive until I was sleeping outside on the ground in the middle of the woods, surrounded by boys. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She sang when she was in the fields or working in the nearby woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They rushed through woods and over mountains uttering sharp cries, waving pine-cone-tipped wands, swept away in a fierce ecstasy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was because of the woods behind their house. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where are the fields? Where are the woods? Where is England?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Once she was off the plantation, she took to the woods, not following the North Star, not even looking for it, going instead toward Bucktown. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone in the woods, Matthias felt a bit wobbly upon his legs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “What if the dragon in our woods is a nice dragon?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A decent woods with sturdy hardwood trees, plentiful food, game that isn’t creepy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But these were not woods like the kind they have in Central Park: these were real woods. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The woods are still covered in a shallow layer of snow, and though everything is dead and brown, there are birds and squirrels making it move and sing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z As a cover for illicit sex in the woods. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Arranged all in a row were several of these animal bushes—fantastic creatures as tall as the house, standing guard against the woods—including a winged griffin, a rearing centaur, and a mermaid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “They have run out into the woods. Mrs. Clarke said you might help look for them.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He took my hand, and we kept walking, stepping over May’s wall, walking into the woods without speaking. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the woods, branches swayed, and dry weeds rustled. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z We set up our tents in a semicircle, backing onto the woods, midway between their fire and the cliff. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The air held a damp chill, as if the sun that had given a pale, late-winter brightness to the streets in Newton had been too weak to penetrate the dense branches above the woods road. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate a can of white beans, passing it between them, and he threw the empty tin into the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Got us a babe in the woods,” Burton said as a few hooded figures gathered around. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She thought of the death of newborn things, lonely roads, and strangers who appear out of nowhere simply to hold one’s hand, woods in which the sun was always setting. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the pictures that show Axel and Byrd with Aunt Nancy, George, Emmett, and Ray on their special property, in these special woods in Pennsylvania. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As she runs through the cool, dark woods, she begins to realize how alone she is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He had made steady progress through the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They all returned from time, at the edge of the woods, and RON is in a lot of pain. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I had found an old junker while snooping around in the woods behind Bob Fenton’s gas station. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was a path through the woods, with a high hedgerow to one side, and he followed the path. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Now batteries were in position behind him, beginning to open up on the woods near the cupola. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He lost his daughter, he came into the woods, he made some cursed dancing shoes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She remembered his great strength, and his love for his broadax, and the stories he used to tell her about the wonderful things to be seen in the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They live in huts scattered along the sunken roads, in the woods, and against the slopes of the hills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There’s a framed print of the woods in winter and another of ducks in flight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And she turns in time to see Aaron coming outta the woods behind her. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The real question is what he thinks goes on in the woods beyond District 12. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment I'm silent, as I remember how the sight of this strange pair, clearly not from District 12, fleeing through the woods immobilized us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He remembered her coming out of the woods, saying that she’d given a mama grizzly bear directions. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In order to pen their disobedient toddlers and chickens, the women would turn her out of the village to be devoured by the beasts that waited in the woods to forage the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The path crossed the stream on another foot-log below the ford, and joined the road, and we went into the woods. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Just out of the woods on the other side of the hill, there’s a meadow, and I slump down in the grass to rest. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z These woods were dense and dark and dreadful. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd sort of clearing in the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a white wooden church with a pitched roof on a hillside in North Little Rock—a town nestled deep in the woods, almost two and a half miles across the Arkansas River. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Brook trout also appeared among the dead fish, and along the roads and in the woods birds were dying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It does smell an awful lot like bacon. Maybe it’s some old codger who’s living in the woods and he’s making his breakfast.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Again she heard Hushpuppy growl from the darkness of the woods, quietly but with menace. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z M’Dear was a quiet woman who lived in a shack near the woods. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve never lived in a place like this. No neighbors. Just woods and fields and that scary old house. I don’t know if I’m going to like it or not.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Ben taught her how to pick a path through the woods, even through the underbrush, without making a sound. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But you couldn’t go off and leave a six-year-old alone, in the woods, in a strange place. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z At that instant, all three foxes perked their ears sharply to the same spot in the woods. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z That cocky young seaman, striding back through the woods without even a proper goodbye, thinking about a bird! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z So I went back down on my hands and knees, and I crawled around in the dark woods looking for the letter and the sandwiches. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Ghosts of Might Be run riot in the woods, and stationery shops and messes of stars. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “You've got to be joking. I grew up in the country, but I never chased any kind of wild animal into the woods to take home and eat.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Styx parked the moped in the woods behind his house. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I know this is no time to argue, so I grab the money and head off to the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were larger tracks, like dogs’ tracks, where foxes had run, and there were the tracks of a deer that had bounded away into the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’d be skittish too if we were on the run in the woods.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They crossed the field and entered the woods on the far side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z About then, we stepped at an opening in the woods. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She noticed that just inside the entrance an electric fan whirred quietly, aiming inward, pulling fresh air into the room from somewhere out in the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He believed he had once seen an Elf in the woods, and still hoped to see more one day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Last year her class had taken a field trip through the woods in some state park or other. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I know that from my days in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I begin to ache for them, for my district, for my woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The Company now turned aside from the path, and went into the shadow of the deeper woods, westward along the mountain-stream away from Silverlode. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They lost her in the thick woods and they separated in order to double the chance of finding her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She went into the woods one day, and there the blackness was real. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “This is a sight for sore eyes, sore, tired, traveling eyes. I saw you two running into the woods hand in hand when I drove by in the cab. It was like a time warp.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Hunting in the woods surrounding District 12 violates at least a dozen laws and is punishable by death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After supper Pa took his gun and went into the woods, and Laura and Mary went to sleep without any stories or music. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas had charged thirty or forty feet into the woods, dodging and ducking and losing ground with every second, when the beetle blade jumped onto a particularly large tree and scooted up its trunk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The study was too close to the children’s bedrooms for a late-night talk, so the headmistress and I adjourned to a little greenhouse that edged the woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z This was a woods for looming bears, dangling snakes, wolves with laser-red eyes, strange noises, sudden terrors—a place of “standing night,” as Thoreau neatly and nervously put it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces with wide white dirty flowers and he looked out to see a battery working steadily, firing into the woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And were there poisonous spiders in the woods too? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In an effort to avoid her probing eyes, I looked across the lawn toward the woods, still hoping for a glimpse of Georgie. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Indeed without their gaiety we wouldn’t have known it was there, a sobering reminder of how suffocating the woods can be. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z These woods seemed as if they must have been there since the beginning of time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Besides, there were the woods themselves to be reckoned with. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The three children stood wordlessly for a moment, watching it, then, realizing their danger, darted into the darkness of the woods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Often you will be plodding through the sanctuary of woods when suddenly a car will sail past through the trees only forty or fifty feet away—a perennially startling sight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I spun around to see a young man about my own age, shivering at the edge of the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Running through the woods north of her house, it amazed me how green things grew on top of green things that were still green and growing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “And I took Melyngar from the stable. They are hidden in the woods outside the castle. It’s all done now,” Eilonwy said gleefully. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Sometime during the day the crates in the arena had disappeared, and I had a feeling whatever was in them had been emptied into the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We mucked through the woods and across the field. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Through the woods, across fields and streams, uphill and down, we ran and she followed, calling us again and again. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z As I had expected, the men led me to a small log cabin in a moonlit clearing in the woods. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They slept behind the campsite rather than in it, in the woods nearer the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evening they stand again at the wire fence and the wind comes down to them from the beech woods. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe, instead, you and I could just, like, go out in the woods that weekend and hang out. Like build a fire or something and go camping.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z When he barked treed a couple of minutes later, it was in the woods the other side of the corn patch. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “You might find somewhere to stay in Tal Al Karama, a village near the Roman road. You should reach there this evening. A quiet road through pine woods and bare hills.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I read of chalk streams, of the mayfly, of sorrel growing in green meadows, of rooks circling above the woods as they used to do at Manderley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘Down in a clearing in the woods not far below. We got a sight of them through the tree-trunks. They are very large!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Gordievsky took off through the woods beyond his apartment complex and broke into a run. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That she would spurn me for leaving her alone in the woods. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Most of the woods will offer insufficient cover. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “We are looking for Mr. Frost. I believe this is his neck of the woods.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Ignoring her injuries, Constance called into the surrounding woods, “Over here, he’s over here!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The first day we came to the farm, there was someone in the woods spying on us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z We camped out in the woods, a hundred yards from the main road, in a marshy clearing that local kids had obviously been using for parties. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z "I don't want to escape. It's better here than it was in them woods. I don't want to eat no worms. Here, sprinkle some flour on the board." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z People who plucked bluebells from the woods were vandals, he had forbidden it at Manderley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He could not even talk to Ellis Spear, who was down in the woods with the other flank of the Regiment, where it joined the 83rd. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The man, furred from his toes to his ears, walks through the moon-and-snowlit woods, silent as an owl, huge bow on his shoulder, his eyes on the dark tracks. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He was crossing the baseball field at the edge of the woods when he heard something moving through the brush. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z This brought to mind the woods in the Wizard of Oz, where the trees have ugly faces and malign intent and every step seems a gamble. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There was a guy named Jerome who would meet us at some gas station and we'd follow him to his place in the woods. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Sheriff Jackson said, “Little Charlie, I hope you won’t mind riding ’long and showing me the place in the woods where this tragedy befell your pa.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z When the troops came out of the woods the artillery would open up. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We tromped through the woods to meet Styx and Pixie for another afternoon at the pond. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But they were not to be seen in the woods this grim March. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “And he got in the sled and drove into the woods. And I called after him, but...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z When she finally did leave it was well past dusk, and she walked out of the woods and into the open with the intention of not looking back again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z So the Americans put their weapons down, and they came out of the woods with their hands on top of their heads, because they wanted to go on living, if they possibly could. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She knows that there are also cougars in those woods. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Rex dangled it some more, laughing, and then tossed it into the woods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Joe noted the scant dozen of shame faced houses scattered in the sand and palmetto roots and said, “God, they call this a town? Why, ’tain’t nothing but a raw place in de woods.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Chiron said, “The woods are stocked, if you care to try your luck, but go armed.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t crazy about the idea of holding something that had touched Chet’s sweat, but I’d already littered the woods with my mother’s old bowls. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Who made him Chief, anyway,” Slopper moaned, kicking rocks as we started into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But the list of suspects likely to be trespassing into the woods is probably very short. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Tonight, I ran through the same woods looking for safety, but in the other direction. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In 1850, New England was 70 percent open farmland and 30 percent woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the shade of the trees, he almost felt like he was back at Camp Half-Blood, heading through the woods toward Bunker Nine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Poaching, trading on the black market, mocking the Capitol in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z All seven of them, not back into the woods to safety, but out of the woods, toward the stubble of the rosebush, toward the men. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They drove us several kilometers through the woods until we arrived at the bank of the Angara River. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And I thought of the dark steep path through the woods, and how, if a woman stood there behind the trees, her evening dress would rustle in the thin night breeze. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was late and the moon was playing hide-and-go-seek with some puffy dark clouds, making the woods and the shadows slide twixt different shades of gray. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z What she wanted now was her tree in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was watching from a place only a little way up the hillside, a path in the woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I couldn't walk into that room with the smoky fire from the damp branches I had scavenged at the edge of the woods after the coal had run out, my bands empty of any hope. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The line of the River grew nearer; and the Black Riders began to seem like phantoms of the woods now left far behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We listened to the cracking branches in the woods until we couldn’t hear him anymore. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was no way I could let her stay there in the woods. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “So I hid for a couple hours in the woods behind the hardware store,” he went on quietly, “and then I made my way home.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Now, though, we were headed for the woods to spend some time together. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z That also meant that he wasn’t paying attention when I got into his backpack and emptied a tube of fire ants from the colony I’d found in the woods. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “I went for a walk through the woods.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They are wild; they live in the woods and are very fierce. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Silently they slid Plumpen out of the open door into the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We walked through the woods in a comfortable silence. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Even in the darkness of the woods, the intensity of her gaze was piercing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Not scared to taste weird stuff, or walk through the woods, or explore scary places, or even fight, especially if any of those things had to do with Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A girl lost in the woods cowered; she reached for a knife or a gun. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z By hoarding this small stock of food, she could make it last a long time, and with the berries and edible roots she could find in the woods, she wouldn’t starve. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Once within the woods, I decided to go to a high rock which stood near the forest edge and overlooked our village. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Back there in the woods you were angry.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Ready to go now, I followed Miig’s lead and walked behind the newcomers into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Brevis expected the billy goat to bolt for the woods or down one of the roads, but it stayed where it was, as if frozen into position. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The murderer had to get out into the woods before Hugo regained his senses enough to raise the alarm. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The people of the woods did not delve in the ground like Dwarves, nor build strong places of stone before the Shadow came.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But I had forgotten Bombadil, if indeed this is still the same that walked the woods and hills long ago, and even then was older than the old. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Emerging from the woods near Hampden, into an expanse of snow-covered meadow that sparkled in the light, I saw twin threads of smoke coming from the age-blacked chimneys at either end of Commons. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We was headed north...but my heart was somewhere out in ’em woods with Stanky. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z A barking runner, who is more than happy to go on an early adventure in the woods with Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They were coming on foot through the snowy woods, with their lanterns, and they were driving up to the door in sleds and in wagons. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, his bag swinging in one hand, the object his father had pushed into his hand in the other, Tristran Thorn set off up the gentle hill, toward the woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I have to be down the hill at CSA in an hour and now I can take the streets, for once, instead of tearing through the woods, trying to give Fry the slip. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I have never seen a live monkey—there’s nothing like that in our woods at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Martin asks, like Axel may know the secrets of these pathless woods better than anyone else. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It had been his greatest worry—how Crane-man would eat while he was away Of course, his friend could always go back to rifling rubbish heaps and foraging in the woods. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Until it’s turned: one day he found out through Arthur Smith that the woods behind their house had been bought by a Chinese developer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will say this: His name was not unknown in these woods. And if you are his widow, that puts matters in a different light.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Besides the workday was lightened and shortened by moments of fun, by words of praise like those of Ben’s, by the endless wonder and beauty of the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to remind myself that he's still not used to the woods, that it's the scary, forbidden place beyond the fences of District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then he took the boy with him into the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I mean, he lives by his wits in the woods, so he isn’t exactly wagging his tail twenty-four hours a day. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Don’t forget to grab the ones you left in my folks’ house back up in the woods.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Our snares had done well enough and the woods were flush with greens, but this was really no more than our average Friday-night haul. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z From the back door, Naomi could see a flare close by in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z These deaths must not be cried about the town till we can slip away to our own woods. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In a moment, he was gone, swallowed by the woods as if he were more deer than boy. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The barn was gone now and one year they had cut the hemlock woods and there were only stumps, dried tree-tops, branches and fire- weed where the woods had been. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They shoot and kill another man in the woods when he drops his slops to relieve himself. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It was through these woods, and toward this bridge, that the members of the newly formed Mysterious Benedict Society were headed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The breeze dropped and the little valley lay completely still, held in long beams of light and enclosed on either side by the lines of the woods. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way, I stop to pick mushrooms, so it will seem as though I had a reason for being out in the woods. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Once upon a time this girl lived in the real world, and she came into the woods looking for something. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Eighty years before his walk, a villager traipsing through the same woods had stumbled across a buried, six-foot-tall stone sculpture of a human head. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were now on level ground, and the road after much winding lay straight ahead through grass-land sprinkled with tall trees, outliers of the approaching woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Without Styx across the woods, ready to open up the sky, our world had shrunk to this house. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Now she remembered it, so instead of continuing to her house she turned toward the far corner of the garden and the stump at the edge of the woods beyond. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He knows that George will say, “If you have ever gone into the woods with me…” He knows that Ray will cover George in kisses. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We hiked through the sparse woods, making our way carefully down the beaten path we had created that summer, the summer of the mariposas. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z You could wake in the dark wet woods at any time. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But the hoots and hollers of the boys in the woods behind us rushed ahead of them like ghosts clearing the path before an army. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She lives in the country and likes to hike in the woods, so she says that the neon colors are necessary to keep drunk hunters from mistaking her for a bear. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there were all the diseases one is vulnerable to in the woods—giardiasis, eastern equine encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, and shigellosis, to offer but a sampling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One girl, Missy Samuels, swore Skeleton Woman lived in a broken-down shack in the woods near Loomis Lake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Then we collected Katz, who announced regretfully to his adoring audience that he had to go—there were mountains still to climb—and stepped valiantly back into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z That old quiet moss smell would linger in the air, and bees would come, and crickets, and herons build their nests in the deep dark woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The rhythm of it matches the thumping in my head and I start to see me in the woods with Ben, him and me racing to see who could get the first smoke. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They left the houses behind and stepped into a small woods. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He said he found it in the woods. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack who got lost in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z His only salvation was the protection of the woods—he plunged among the trees. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I tell her about Mrs. Grote lying in bed all day and Mr. Grote in the woods and the snow dust on my face in the morning and the stained mattresses. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I change into the blue shift I packed in the woods outside Madoc’s grounds, despite being so tired that my joints hurt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “So do you think it’s your business to beat innocent children and turn them out to starve in the woods, Mr. Zielinski?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Overnight, the satyrs and nymphs disappeared into the woods for a convocation of the Cloven Elders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z With a Coleman lantern to lead him, Toomer secured the boat and then plunged through the woods until he came to a row of dunes covered with sea oats. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good luck. Your daddy’s done planned out your whole life. You cain’t go off to no shack in the woods; you’re going to the Tuskegee Institute to get learned.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Only when I reach the woods do I turn back for an instant. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There are so many deaths to show the first day that a tribute trekking through the woods isn't much to look at. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The road ran through thick dark woods that were probably full of good places to hide. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They soon realized that the woodland on this left bank was lonely, thick and overgrown—denser than the nut copses and bluebell woods of Sandleford. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods were empty as far as he could see, but that was not very far. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I hate that idiot poem about the snowy woods, and I hate it when people say the woods symbolize death or beauty or sex or any old thing you want. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Anyway, he decided to walk home and get one; it wasn’t far, if he cut through the woods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She steeled herself and stepped into the woods. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He lifted the handles of a flat-bottomed barrow and trundled it out into the woods behind the inn, his feet crunching in the fallen leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A hundred yards down the slope, something rustled through the woods—snapping branches, crunching leaves, hissing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z So when he emerged from the woods facing Elm Street, he immediately veered left, even though he could’ve walked one block right, crossed the street, and been at the Tanakas’ in no time at all. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Then Jonathan met you, at a stream near the woods somewhere, I think he said...” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Not as good as disappearing into the dark woods, but a clear escape. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A shot would come from the woods, and you’d return fire, killing a lot of the vegetation without ever hitting the sniper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Smarts. Wiles. Trickery. Cunning. That’s what counts in our neck of the woods.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And then, after a few miles, there was some thinning of the woods, and we were suddenly in a small meadow, or was it actually a lawn? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Strange, then, that she never dreamed of Sean, but of woods and bees and honey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Kira sipped at the strong hot tea and thought again about the ominous stalking sound in the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From simple things like tasting the weird foods first, to being in the front when they were walking through the woods. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Not nightmares so much as reliving dreams of the crash and his time in the woods. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I searched those woods till it was almost dark. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The Preacher started talking but never looked at me di-rect, he was too busy eyeing the road and the woods. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Me and the Preacher walked through a patch of woods toward the sounds that were cutting through the night air. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Crafty-eyed, wicked as an elderly wolf, I would scheme with or stalk my imaginary friends, projecting the self I meant to become into every dark corner of the cave and the woods above. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, we’ve been to the ocean and to the mountain and to the woods. So I thought this time we’d try...dinner and a movie.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z There were still wolves in the woods, and grizzly bears that stood ten feet tall. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s a long walk through the woods, longer because I give the encampments of the Folk here for the coronation a wide berth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Andeg also hunted in the woods for seeds and nuts cached by squirrels. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z My ma packs us a lunch and lets us eat it out in the woods. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the bank we were almost fully exposed to the sun, though the thick woods continued to stretch for miles around us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Here’s the thing: every time I bring Sacred food in the woods, I plan to return the bowl, wash it, and put it back in the cabinet. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I have to face my demons, and I can’t do that from a cabin hidden in the woods. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They came home flushed and laughing from the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Deeper and deeper into the ancient woods I went, past thick bracken and stately oaks, until I tripped and fell again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He was staring at the view—the usual verdant infinity of woods and lakes, shimmering slightly in a heat haze. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We followed them through the woods, around the pond, along the creek, to every place we used to go. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z From somewhere far away, in the woods, I heard the faint, inane laughter of a woodpecker. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hunter had spoken to her there twice, he said, but Joe knew that those woods were not her favorite place. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After walking a few kilometers we arrived at a clearing in the woods. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The tiny squirrel hopped and shuffled a short way into the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The Gypsies fled back to their wagons or into the woods. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They came out into the open again, in front of the point of woods from which Lee would watch the assault. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was about to give up when the door slowly opened with a creak noisy enough to echo into the woods. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The bear ran away into the woods, not hurt at all. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Different woods, different merits. Basswood’s easy to carve, holds fine detail, and it’s light. I use it for the marionettes’ heads. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But quiet was better in the woods than it was in the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z George knows the best poems, like this one about thinking time in the woods, and others too, like the one about the golden eagle soaring above the mountains in the morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I thought about jumping in the woods to hide, but frankly, I was just too tired. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at this place,” Genie exclaimed, stepping out of the woods and into a crazy overgrown yard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Hugo, take this pumpkin and throw it as far as you can into the woods.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But Mark could hear fingering catcalls and whistles haunting the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Kanue, Mandela, and Natnael had come through—new faces were arriving from the footpaths through the surrounding woods—though there had been some confusion about the start time. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He was the boy of this place, of these woods, these beaches, the boy who smelled like this forest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I can honestly say a guy has never taken me to the woods on a date before.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z His body had been found two days later, up in those woods, tied to a tree with the hands and feet chopped off. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke could still feel the weight of it in his hand when they went running back into the woods, his entire body shaking with either fear or excitement. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Up the hill and over in the far woods. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z This was what Guitar had missed about the South—the woods, hunters, killing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Three of his young men were afield, pasturing herds in other woods; one he had sent with a fat boar for tribute into town, the boy to serve while the suitors got their fill. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Naomi of the woods, the Naomi on the twins’ wooden Christmas ball, Wash’s Naomi, she would stay in the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Immediately the bugs in the woods stopped chirping. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “The Witch prowls the woods on padded paws. She ate the heart of a sorrowing tiger long ago, and that heart still beats inside her.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Once you were in the woods and bereft of bearings, you could easily miss it by a mile. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I spent the rest of the afternoon hunting alone, walking the ridge, searching the shadows for signs of pig, looking and listening as hard as I could to will another animal out of the woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The path bent around the base of a hill rising in the woods. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z At home, he and Oppenheimer would take long walks around Berkeley and into the bucolic woods of Northern California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There was another sort of trash in the woods, apparently. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A long line of villagers snaked from the fountain to the edge of the woods, where the fire appeared to be heading. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Birds cried out merrily from the woods and the tops of the trees danced to rhythms all their own. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The last real thing that had happened to him was being called inside when the woods were coming down. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Over in the woods, Coach Hedge muttered to himself as he wrote. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z After we passed Castaños, I took the nearest country road to the left and drove into the woods. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He found a new route along Willoughby Run, followed it down through the dark woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari, feeling bereft and empty inside, held the child and stared at the thick woods on either side of the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The men had taken their dinners to the maple woods, so for dinner they did not set the table, but ate cold venison sandwiches and drank milk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 At the edge of the woods, before we turned onto El Indio Highway, I paused at the stop sign long enough to turn around to look at the twins. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The Ghost tucks the note into his jacket and doesn’t unroll it until we’re out in the woods, with only moonlight to see by. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I waited until I thought the coast was really clear, and then one Sunday, without telling anyone, I got up hours before dawn and took off for the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Always carrying his gun, he went on grueling horseback rides and punishing hikes through the woods and fields, keeping a lookout for wildlife specimens to add to his collection. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She makes him go back to the night of the firebombing and reenact it, starting at his house, working his way down across the Meadow and through the woods to the lake. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then we rushed back to the starting line, and we all screamed like crazy when he ran past in the top ten and set off for the woods again, the second lap. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And then she's doing her odd little dance back out of the circle and scampering into the woods again, safe and sound. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And I see, lurking in them woods, a white dog, wif a copper blaze down her snout. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “She is far in the woods, but the path is safe, and she can finish the teaching that your mother started. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night she made her way through the woods, crouching in the underbrush whenever she heard the sound of horses’ hoofs, staying there until the riders passed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ray goes right, which takes him past George and Emmett’s house, through the wide open field, and to the woods. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z All at once we’re outside in a large field surrounded by woods, then we rise off the platform and become wrapped in clouds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They came out of the woods onto the road north of town. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It had been built some fifty years back, hidden in the woods, right near the river just in case somebody needed baptizing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She can move through the woods like a shadow, you have to give her that. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As they crossed the street and entered the woods side by side, Gen tugged at Renee’s sleeve. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The house came right up against the woods. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z About half an hour after he left they heard the braying of the mule at the edge of the woods. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z And without remembering the steps in between or the light in the woods or the sound of the river, Naomi found herself at the back steps of Henry’s house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Walking through the woods behind the wagons, the girls kept jostling one another for the place of honor by Hannah’s side. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be pretty hard to conceal his excursion into the woods if he came home looking like a pincushion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z On the eve of this experiment I had just moved to northern California, far away from the New England woods and fields I knew. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They passed the last line of houses and came to the dark fields and woods. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I left them there, resting sedately under the shade of a tall ash tree, far off into the woods, out of sight of anyone driving by. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Despite the night, the heat had lingered on bad as ever, and I could smell the hot dampness of our bodies as we combed the woods with a spot of light four inches across. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Autumn had come, the Conclave had declared, but the gods had not seen fit to tell the winds and woods as yet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Who ever told you that we were going to hide out in the woods?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He laughed at that, louder than I was used to — bell-like echoes bouncing back to us from the empty woods. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His eyes swept the clearing, then up the edge of the clearing, and in those two sweeps he knew—he knew the clearing and the woods. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I don’t mind the task, but I hate having to roam around the woods barefoot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hog jumped off James and ran away into the woods, still squealing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I get it every time, but I refuse to be driven out of the woods. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Far in the distance, in one direction, there seems to be a woods, in the other, a snowcapped mountain. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She told the runaways to hide in the woods, not to speak to anyone, not to make a sound, not to move. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She was as delighted with the introduction as she was with the melodic sounds of her language sprinkled over the woods, even if the words were said clumsily and even out of order at times. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z We take a bumpy dirt road through the woods and I get a little nervous, because if we break down out here, there’s nothing around for miles. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of the things that had changed about him from the time when he was in the woods. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z They bivouacked in the woods much nearer to the road than he would have liked. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Four crows flew out of the woods and chased the red-tailed hawk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Was this the mother with angry eyes he had met in the woods long ago? Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z We grabbed our bikes from the woods, and I never pedaled so fast in my life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In the deep woods they could hear no sound except the slow flowing of the water and the songbirds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “That’s not possible! The whole woods, and half the monsters come at us?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Kira pointed down to the area below the window, a small piece of land between the Edifice and the edge of the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The edge of the woods was a few hundred yards away, up a slope of grass that was horribly exposed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura watched him till he was out of sight in the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The ARVNs were up ahead of us, pushing through the woods. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ophie picked her way out of the woods she saw them in the yard; the pastor and his wife were standing near their big car, holding Ophie’s mama in a comforting embrace. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z This time it was the smell of food cooking that drew us to the edge of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is still an imposing presence, but the stony mass that rises from the New England woods today represents, at most, the stubby bottom one-third of what was ten million years ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I followed the man, staying on my high woods path. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The woods were dark, with fireflies popping in and out of view. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I parked at an information center at its base and set off into the welcoming green woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “She came into the woods on her own,” I said. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We ran like venadas, frightened deer, fleeing all the way down the hill toward the safety of foreign woods and eerie dirt paths. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Disappeared into the woods and never came out? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Bare woods stalked along either bank, and they could not see any glimpse of the lands behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z With the pan in her hands, Vonetta curtsied and we started back through the woods and over the creek. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It was a relief to arrive back in our own woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z What was I doing sitting out here in the woods? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them rose the woods and the mountains; to the left Mrs. Frisby could see the big stone in the middle of the garden, near which her children waited. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was still night, but the first red glow of dawn was rising in a faint crescent over the pine woods. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And nestled there, right on the edge of the woods, is the shack Khalid told me all about. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Dicey went back to the woods to get needles and dry branches of quick-burning pine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And so we walk through the woods, ragwort steeds following. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They moved about a mile closer, heading deep into one of the thickest areas of woods they’d crossed yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z From the bug-eyed way that Jasper Jr. and Bull were staring, I knew they recognized the coin as the one that Grandpa Bobby was wearing that day in the woods. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A gust of wind picked up in the woods, and the snow in front of it began to stir. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The village men say the Khmer Rouge soldiers are all around us, some even hiding in the village or in nearby woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Riders seemed to sit upon their great steeds like threatening statues upon a hill, dark and solid, while all the woods and land about them receded as if into a mist. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Kaori told me she lives on the other side of the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I tried to keep up better this time through the woods, so naturally I fell a few times. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It gave the woods a more ominous, brooding feel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The hounds would be baying after them, snuffing through the swamps and the underbrush, zigzagging through the deepest woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the road there was a big empty field of grass, and beyond that a fringe of pine woods. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Well, I was real thirsty, you know, and it didn’t look too far. So I plunged off into the woods. Not real smart, right?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The fairies holding Lena paid her no heed, passing out of sight into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z To his left, golden hills rolled inland, dotted with lakes, woods, and a few herds of cows. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Leshiye were silent in the woods, and they rarely harmed people. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When Mother had said Alice would be safer in the woods with me than out on the mean streets, she had won. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of boys waited for him in the woods. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the woods she fell in love with a shadow who tricked her into believing he was a man. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I want to move higher into the woods, climb a good tree, and make camp for the night, but Peeta resists. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The herd startled in unison and peeled away into the darkening woods, their white tails flashing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z If she saw her out in the woods, Kendra worried she would just curl up in a ball on the ground and let herself be taken. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Laura and Mary heard the gay ringing of sleigh bells, growing louder every moment, and then the big bobsled came out of the woods and drove up to the gate. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We went up past the cottage and struck into a path through the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Even on hot days, the woods are normally cool, but here the air was heavy and steamy, almost tropical. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Amazingly, however, they had heard no voices, met no other humans in the woods, nor were chased by patrollers who were looking for runaways. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground fell away from the woods into a shallow dip. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was so near the woods that she could hear the ring of the axes, hear the crash as a great tree came down. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance around at the seemingly peaceful woods. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This is the first time we’ve seen each other since the woods except for the kabillion times I’ve seen him in my mind over the last few days, which included Christmas. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I stood there frozen for a second until I could just make out a man in the woods wearing a camouflage hunting outfit and a black ski mask. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I skirt around the hole and enter the woods at my usual place. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Guards on horseback patrolled grassy fields outside the moat and the woods beyond. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “What are we going to do in the woods?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As she rode through woods and streams and heather, her brain was awhirl. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They'd been collecting booze and stashing it in the woods around the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z As she flew over the woods, she saw the young goshawks with their parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We were in the woods again, and it was day this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The only way is for each of us to do what we can in our own little neck of the woods. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z That night they wound their way through the woods up to the ridge by a wood-cutter's track. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Sansa heard it too, floating through the woods, a kind of wooden clattering, snack snack snack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Nobody was hurt. What was I supposed to say? Rumors that several bodies were removed from the woods . . . well, there certainly will be rumors now she’s printed that.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My stomach grumbled when I finished, but there was maybe a day and a half of food supplies left in my pack and I was heading into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A narrow, winding path through the woods led there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the sun. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He walked out through the woods to where they’d left the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Why were you forced to flee your island after your house was bombed? And why did you run into the woods instead of following the coast?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Let us pass over the time I spent alone in the woods that evening, playing games that children invent to amuse themselves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Finally the woods fell away and we broke into open bogland. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They stood there together, looking at the woods and the moonlight. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They had arrived at the greenhouse by a faint trail through the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Thrust into vases they became dank and listless, and to see them at their best you must walk in the woods in the morning, about twelve o’clock, when the sun was overhead. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Driving back into remote corners of the woods where there were barely roads, we would come upon twenty-five beehives up on slats like a little lost city tucked back in there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Grandpa Sorenson doesn’t want us in the woods,” she protested. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z By the time he was eighteen he was full-grown and he killed, alone by himself, a great lion which lived in the woods of Cithaeron, the Thespian lion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My job is to search for wild vegetables and mushrooms in nearby woods while Chou guards our tents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Furthermore,” said Eilonwy, “you’re mistaken if you think I’m going to go marching through the woods in the middle of the night.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The woods were on the move, creeping toward the castle like a slow green tide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Men burst out of the woods—dozens and dozens of American soldiers running for their lives. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Chased through the water and the woods by men and women and hounds, they were running. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As they broke from the woods into the open field, lightning slashed across the clouds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There were free Negroes living in their own cabins on the edge of the woods, not far away from the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They hurried, leaving a maze of tracks and then they set out back north through the woods keeping the road in view. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled-looking woods—a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I stared off into the woods, down the worn path that led back into town, wishing we’d stayed home today. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He daydreamed at school, imagining quiet places in the woods or how cookies were made or how trees grew. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Hen Wen raced across the field and into the woods. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z At the pond, out of his sight, I put down the can and ran up the hill, staying safely in the woods on the far side of the stream. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And pitching their dead bodies into the woods. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Even the most secluded hermit in the woods was not one and alone; he also belonged to a class of people. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman, a boy, and a girl, hanging on to one the ’nother’s hands, stepped out of the woods and started heading slow toward us. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She had only to lay her head on his chest and he would lead her away to the sea, to the city, to the woods . . . forever. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aw, it’s all nonsense,” I said as I gathered some dry wood and piled it near the edge of the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked toward the church but went into the woods so I could come at it from the back and no one could see me eavesdropping. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Several hundred yards to my right, I see someone emerge from the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We circled around so that we could come up from the woods side rather than the roadside. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hunter and stalker and slayer, and he belonged with his brothers and sisters in the deep woods, running free beneath a starry sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I turned toward the woods to see if his grandmother had emerged. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We whooped and ran off, past the plump, squawking chickens roaming the yard, away from the house, and down the soft slope of farmland that ran along the woods. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She had been watching me then as I stood at the edge of the woods bathed in that white wall of fog. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The birds, the whole earth, the expectant woods seemed to wait for her to understand something. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z After they had eaten and drunk, sitting upon the grass, Celeborn spoke to them again of their journey, and lifting his hand he pointed south to the woods beyond the Tongue. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She celebrated all the Jewish holidays and, when she grew up, had an unorthodox bat mitzvah ceremony in the woods upstate. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She looked, taking in the large stone I was sitting on, the ring of trees, the path leading out into the woods. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “There were falconers here in the woods. I saw them. They left about an hour ago, soon after the nice woodland coyote killed one of their birds. “I have some good news for you. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Captain Flume recoiled when Doc Daneeka sought him out in the woods for help. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It led through a vast talus field and then, a mile or so farther on, into woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When Danny disappeared into the woods, followed by the dump of eighth-grade runners pretty far behind him, we ran back to the first bend—for the fifth time—and waited for the sight of Danny. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “What else did the old man in the woods say?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But then I am in the woods again, and the snow is falling, and everything alive is fast asleep. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z For several heartbeats she'd been terrified it would head toward her, but in the end it had gone off the opposite way into the woods. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z On his return they adopted a more shallow track in the woods that permitted them to barely see houses through the brush. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was a peddler and mender of toys, the red and gold wagon was his shop and his home, and he had driven into the woods to camp for the night. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And knows Axel for Pokémon battles in the woods, and playing games with Ms. Dale, and eating strawberry ice pops at the picnic table on hot days, and making silly faces, and being kind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Skeleton Woman is in those woods,” Missy went on. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z They came for us through the woods—lanterns and dogs—and we ran as best we could. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Matt was correct, she should not go into the woods now. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But he hadn’t seen it and I couldn’t speak to tell him, frozen in place as I was, my dying flashlight flickering over the blank woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods I said, “Matt, I have seen that boy.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In the still woods, the only movements were bars of sunlight glinting like green glass through the leafy canopy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Every once in a while, the view out the window changed from woods, thick with pine trees and ferns and moss-covered rocks, to a wide-open view of the mountains stretching on forever in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I went to the woods and hunted the entire day, haunted by the gruesome leg, memories of my father's death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Thank you, sir. Sir—” “Don’t mention it. How do you like living out there in the woods, Chaplain? Is everything hunky dory?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was a daring plan, for the woods were full of many dangers, but the little frog was determined. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It takes a little while, a horrible little while, for Manchee to find the scent again once we’re back in the woods but then he barks, “This way,” and we’re off again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They found Joey in the woods, not far from O-Hall, at about three o’clock that afternoon. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Gus was quiet, shifting a toothpick from one side of his mouth to the other while he scanned the roadside and the parking lots and the woods as he drove. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z We were whipping along so fast it was hard to hear or see anything, but Tyson pointed toward the woods and I saw what he was worried about. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They sought Artemis everywhere over the hills and in the woods, but when at last they caught sight of her she was on the seashore, making directly for the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The goat’s dawdling was stretching Anya’s time in the woods, and she really wanted to get out fast. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I hadn’t got ten yards into the woods when all the sudden ray heart quit beating and my blood ran cold! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I don't even stop to wonder at a pack this large roaming the woods so close to Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I know sinister evils lurk in the woods, but they have never crossed that boundary.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I see the top of an old elm tree growing out in the woods. But what is unusual about that?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The woods about the lake they left behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He was living in a shack in the woods like this. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had his own furniture there, brought out from the country house, but he’d chosen it carelessly and it was an atrocious mix of styles, upholstery, light and dark woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “My teachers didn’t go easy on me. If she ends up chased through the woods by a mob of peasants, will you tell them to go easy?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z No point in being in the woods after dark if you don’t have to. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I wished Georgie would step out of the woods and stop me from walking across the field to the terrace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I could hear the crickets in the woods and an owl hooting. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Yes, for me, and for the one or two other Jewish children who had not gone into the woods. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Sure enough, in about ten minutes he came up through the woods, wagging his tail. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would stay out in the woods past lunch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still young enough to roam woods and fields in stolen moments, and to keep caterpillars in boxes and jars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the woods, a crow called and another answered. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up the edge of her heavy skirt and hurried through the woods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His fur rose bristling, as the woods dissolved around him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There’s some woods next to where they set up the market. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Stucky says his dog, Bumper, can sniff out spies just as well as raccoons, but after sniffing around the woods, both dogs came back with nothing but a shank bone to show for their effort. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z At the edge of the bush, they stopped as if in confusion, ran to the left, ran to the right, then fled back into the woods again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z "I'm not sore. Senlis is a good place and we can stay at the Grand Cerf and take a hike in the woods and come home." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Feasting on juicy peaches, Minli and the dragon walked through the woods for many days. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I walked across the dorm circle, and then straight through the soccer field, bushwhacking through the woods, until I ended up on the banks of Culver Creek just down from the bridge. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Lissa was certainly right about the farm and its woods and fields—anything could happen here. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps she and Twill can carve out a life somehow in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They had even-set the woods ablaze where they could, though the leaves were still green and wet from recent rains, and the fires had not spread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He turns his horse this way and that, trying to find where exactly we are in our little strip of woods. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I could smell the gas from across the woods—the horrible smell of sulfur. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Dawn is just breaking as I retrieve a set of bow and arrows and begin to force a path through the drifted snow in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She was covered in mud and scratches from their flight through the woods, but neither the pastor nor his wife seemed to mind much. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z From here he kept the guard over the blue woods towards Wales. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoisting their packs and taking their staves in hand, they passed on into the woods of Ithilien. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had worked in these woods that were so close to the road, swinging an ax just like a man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Skip around, run toward me, slip in and out, in and out, in and out! Make for the woods! Twist and turn!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It was hardly surprising then that we assumed the woods would be central in the plot to abduct Miss Geraldine. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I was living in the woods like anyone else lives in a house. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s an eight-sided tower that rises up and out of the woods. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, from the woods, his howl is answered. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When she was over the pine woods where she had been held captive, she flew faster. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Mechtild’s small house with its thatched roof huddled at the edge of the woods. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Among the familiar evening sounds of the woods, my ears register a low hum. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The first drive was forgotten, the black, herded woods, the glaring rhododendrons, luscious and over-proud. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She said that Grandpa and Uncle George were already at work out in the maple woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We headed into the deep woods for the last time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean rainwater, things that might’ve once been in these woods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Sticky did so, and at once the light in the woods began flashing a response. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z So when we left Circe’s big house we didn’t have no place to go, so we just walked around and lived in them woods. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Witch in the woods? The one who insists that we sacrifice a baby every year or she will destroy us all?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He sat there a long time weeping and then he got up and walked out through the woods to the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A crunching sound from the woods made her turn. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z This is not our woods or our mountains or our way. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “We can take him to the woods to kill him if you want,” says Sir Haye, shrugging. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She wiped her mouth on the back of her wrist and said nothing to him as she exited the woods. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Abruptly, it turned tail and dashed for the woods. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z They could not go to the woods to hunt, the way men did. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will find some obscure village or cottage in the woods.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The holes were spaced roughly five feet apart and followed a generally straight line, passing the barn and eventually leaving the yard along a narrow path into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He heard the crack of breaking branches out in the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Give MacDuff some water,” her father said, “but keep him tied, Lissa. I don’t want him running off into the woods.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes during the day it jumped down and darted off into the woods, but it always came back to him, once with a wood-mouse it had caught. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Just walking down the hill toward the woods made something warm and liquid steal through his body. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “What really happened, that night in the woods?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to go out in the woods,” I said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The hawks beat a fast retreat to the woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I hear you,” she called softly back, as she ran towards the empty road and the patch of woods beyond. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He called Thomas At-the-Bridge, who knew the ways of the woods and the tracks of the animals, to help him discover what sort of beast had been prowling about while they slept. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going for a stroll through the woods. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Whenever he wasn’t traipsing through the woods, which was less and less scary each time, Genie would pop in and out of the inside-outside room to keep up with his duties. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I wasn’t remotely spooked by the murder, but even so I felt a vague, low-grade unease at being alone in a silent woods so far from home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The noise was coming from the woods to the East, and soon there was a noise of horse-hoofs mixed with it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Then I heard a clear, piercing sound: the call of a hunting horn blowing in the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She was in the woods, not far away, coming toward us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The little ones explored the little patch of woods while Dicey studied the map. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For though the cat was number one, there were other things in the woods that chased mice. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They dragged boards and other materials down from the scrap heap by Miss Bessie’s pasture and built their castle stronghold in the place they had found in the woods. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The movement and noises in the woods continued. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “So you have until tomorrow morning to get back home, Nate, before, like, the FBI is involved. The whole thing is actually like E.T., all these guys running around looking for you in the woods.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Then silence, a very long silence, and—wait, shhhhh...yes!—the unutterable relief of realizing that the bear has withdrawn to the other side of the camp or shambled back into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Each morning we rose at first light, shivering and rubbing arms, made coffee, broke down camp, ate a couple of fistfuls of raisins, and set off into the silent woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z You've heard some of the fellas talking about someone rattling around in the woods at all hours. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s now at the far end of the lawn, stepping into the woods beyond. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He believed that there were better things in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z For Schubert, the birds, the bees, the woods and the trees came into their own above all in song- writing, at which he was simply unmatched before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Even though trespassing in the woods is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties, more people would risk it if they had weapons. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Lizzie held close against her grandfather as the people of Malaga Island came out from the pine woods, gathering around their preacher on the shore to hear what had been said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And there’s a part of me that’s worried, too, because I’m not sure it’s just a coincidence, the power coming on the very day I return to the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He might grant a tour to a visitor, a distinguished neighbor or curious planter from another neck of the woods, but it was rare. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This went on for many minutes when suddenly the bike bolted on a beeline into the woods beyond. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I stared out into the dark woods below us and sent my laser thoughts zipping through the trees and over the creek and down into the streets of town to wherever Wishbone was. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The more north we got, the more life was left in the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She knew the answer, sensed it the way other people could sense which way to walk home after a stroll in the woods. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She would be alone, in the dark, in the silence of the deep woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned and trudged off into the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He looked around at the deep woods and the darkness within them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something about the food, preparing the food, looking at the food—there was so much of it compared to what he’d had in the woods. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I had no place to go except higher up the hill and into the woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Not only did I wish to meet this strange woman, but it had been months since I had left Elsinore and I longed to be in the woods again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Between roads the woods and plains moved too; the land was peopled—the Han people, the People of One Hundred Surnames, marching with one heart, our tatters flying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was sinking behind the mountains, and the shadows were deepening in the woods, when they went on again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “When I was hiding in the woods from that bald guy, I spotted something behind the garage.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z A sandy road led down to the ford and beyond into the woods. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z As soon as the pickup was out of sight, she put the cat back in the house and made a beeline for the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He gave a salute and jogged up the path and was already almost out of sight by the time Beto made it into the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So Genie gave a last glance in the direction the swallow had flown, and then he and Ernie dashed through the woods. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Maybe that's why the policeman said I shouldn't be wandering in the woods by myself. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 Something stirs in the woods behind the house. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was like when your brain recognizes a snake in the woods before your eyes see it. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Back when I was ’bout five or six Ma told me to fetch a bucket and go into the woods behind our home and pick her some blueberries. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The woods were lit with lanterns, and far below in the bay, through the interstices of trees, she could make out the deck lights of moored pleasure boats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But if anyone is in my part of the woods, they ignore me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He found Dolorous Edd at the fire, complaining about how difficult it was for him to sleep when people insisted on blowing horns in the woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was one thing to be seen camping in the woods; that might be kids having a night out with their parents’ permission. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z While a large window giving a view of the backyard and woods beyond takes up a decent portion of the rounded wall opposite the door, every other inch of space is covered in pictures. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z One time, she made me do this guided meditation where I had to imagine myself walking in the woods and tell her what I saw. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She decided to tell Sam about the fight in the woods. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Home, where the backyard always beckoned, always safe and protected by the house and the barn and the woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She could take a safer route, along the driveway and back, before it entered the woods—and still give the impression of a serious search. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Bracket, the chickadee, spent most of his time chasing the young chickadees through the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a dirt road from somewhere in the woods leading up to it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Everywhere the woods were still and preternaturally quiet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We move through the woods until the view of the fence has been obscured. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The young mouse ran, pushing the vole in front of him and calling out: “Run, keep going, Mr. Vole! Try to make it to the woods and hide.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She imagined her great-grandfather Clive Marlowe tramping through these very woods alone when he was just a few years older than Jess. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Disappear into the woods like I did that day they brought the burn victim to our house. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He wasn’t allowed to explore the woods alone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Eight white men going into the woods in the area where the Greenwood cabin was supposed to be. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, how cold could it be in the woods at night, right? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She even had latrines built in the woods, and she posted signs shaped like little hands with gentlemen and gentlewomen written on them pointing to two thin paths that led away from each other. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Thomas squeezed his eyes against the blinding light of the sun as he emerged from the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He wasn’t supposed to go exploring in the woods, but he knew that was the best place to find good stones. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Baseball bat clinking against the heels of my Converse, nighttime breeze brushing against my legs, I trekked through my backyard and into the woods of Hannibal’s Rest. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Yet I was sure that, if I took it into my head to slip off into the dark woods, he would know at once. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The wolf was just where she’d left him, standing sentry by a tree, watching out for intruders in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Tuck them in the woods, closer to your house. I won’t even watch.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The cabins there, paneled in exotic woods, were spacious, with built-in vanities, plush upholstered furniture, Persian rugs, bedside telephones, and private bathrooms with hot and cold freshwater showers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I think of a hundred moments in the woods, lazy afternoons fishing, the day I taught him to swim, that time I twisted my knee and he carried me home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She and Omakayas carried the light papery pink-brown rolls out of the woods, down a trail to a special place near the water. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I walk my bike around the skeletons of dead trees and desiccated vines onto the dirt path into the woods. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Every square inch of this road, of that lake, of these woods, is Charlie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a rustle and a slight, deprecating cough from the direction of the woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Ghost came streaking out from the woods to meet them, licking his chops, his muzzle red from prey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z White people, terrified for their lives, fled from their homes, locked themselves up in public buildings, hid in the woods, and some even left the state. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain saw gleams in the woods to the south. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned to the woods ready to throw. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Sweeping down from the high ground, General Meade’s infantry pounces on the terrified Confederates, who abandon their wagons and race into the woods on foot. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Mark was just about to consider his next move, trying to focus over the moans and groans coming from Jed, when new sounds arose in the woods behind them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z For a moment she thought back to her secret hideout in the woods, the one her daddy had helped her build. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He seemed like someone who was very comfortable in the woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We got up and walked around the Pond, and stopped at an outcropping of boulders that fell out of the woods. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The woods were full of frozen streams and cold black lakes, and Meera was as good a fisher with her three-pronged frog spear as most men were with hook and line. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘For tonight we go to the woods on the hills above Woodhall. It is some miles, but you shall have rest at the end of it, and it will shorten your journey tomorrow.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Even on this trip, she suddenly fell asleep in the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z How I looked forward to catch the first view of the well-known woods! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He wondered if he would ever see the star again, and he stumbled over roots as the way led him between old trees into the deep woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z She turned and looked into the black woods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then they climbed back up the steep hill, to hurl apple cores into the woods and go to bed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They crossed the crown of the hill, had a brief glimpse all the way out across Pennsylvania, woods far away, a line of batteries massed and firing, men moving in the smoke and rocks below. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always wandering through the woods, tinkering with a discarded two-stroke engine, chopping wood, or carving a block of wood into an animal head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "We can go hunting in the woods soon, wait and see." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There they sat for some while, looking through the window at the bright stars above the steep-climbing woods, and talking softly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I’ll explore the woods and take notes for my zoological diary. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They seemed far away, but sound traveled strangely in deep woods, and distances could be deceiving. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He plucked a beggar’s lice—endemic in West Virginia—off his pants leg and inspected the tiny fuzzy seed that hitched rides on anything or anybody who walked through the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I scooped it up with an old tin can we had found in the woods and brought it over to show Liz. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s harmless. I take care of him sometimes. He lives in the woods.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I took another step, and quick as lightning, he ran off into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Then I hurled it as far as I could and made my wish quick before that penny hit the road and bounced into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I waited a while, but when Lissa didn’t come back outside, I slipped into the woods to find my brother. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Sam took a circuitous route through the woods to the county road. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Rumors were whispered in the streets: that shootings in the woods were too much trouble for the Nazis. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The structures were built practically on top of each other in this section of the settlement, and there was no room to cut through and escape into the surrounding woods of the mountains. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The only time I really get to see Gale now is on Sundays, when we meet up in the woods to hunt together. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They ran through a clearing, followed by five of the Hunters, leading them deep into the woods and away from Thalia. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Because right now he could be the boy I ran into in the woods years ago, the one who accused me of stealing from his traps. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d remind her of what the policeman had said about the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In the woods, I climbed an oak, singing my mothers song: Oh, don’t fall in love with a sailor boy, a sailor boy, a sailor boy—I climbed higher and higher. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Walking through the woods is more dangerous because there are no adults in the woods, just other kids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was too big, of course, and too long, but there was no time to change it, and we set off together across the lawn to the woods, Jasper running in front. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They’d all hoped to see Wash, but they’d been in the woods for over an hour, and there was still no sign of him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I believe there is magic in the woods, Uncle Martin had said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It vanished into the nearby woods, properly defeated. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In the early darkness the halting, hesitant swing of the lantern marked the slow path from fields to pine woods toward the lowlands. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was back in the woods watching her eat. She was comin’ down from the hills the other way. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z All things in the woods, from insects to fish to bears, were always, always looking for food—it was the great, single driving influence in nature, lo eat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They dreamed of finding abandoned mansions in the woods and vanishing into secret chambers in ancient castles. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The first edge of autumn had nudged its way into these woods; the leaves of some of the trees were rimmed in scarlet or gold. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Imagine how unlikely it is for two creatures of any kind to see each other—through the shadows of the woods—eyes connecting, attention ready. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I hold him as close and careful as I carry Becky when she’s asleep, and I start off up the far hill into the woods, carrying my dog. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “She gets a lot of the stones from the river that runs through the woods back there. She’s been working on it ten years or more.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And I'd stop the car and he'd jump out and go running into the woods and come back minutes later with a raccoon he done caught. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The gray squirrels have the most meat, he tells me, but are hardest to see in the woods. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We took off, scrambling up through the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then you had to walk out to the woods behind the station. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With Booth’s injured leg, even working together, he and Herold could not dislodge a board so they could escape to the woods. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course: he and Merry had run off into the woods. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The woods were dark, but she could still see the path, feel the cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “You did, too. You said, ‘Who ever told you that we’re going to hide out in the woods?’ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He would like to have taken some coffee beans—a man lying out in the woods all night needed a hot drink; but that item was one he would not take. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Pender’s whole force was streaming forward across the fields, into the woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the road, where the farm itself lay, overgrown fields stretched back to meet a thick woods of pine trees, oaks and tall, topheavy loblollies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and again we made our way through open fields and woods. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “I am not going to sleep in the woods at night. I’m not a goat,” Delia retorted. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She walked the creaking drawbridge, over the teeming, monster-filled moat, past the stone-faced falconers, under the soaring raptors, and into the woods beyond. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The cool high shade of the woods was a relief, the sculpted intricacies of the tree trunks enchanting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At about four o’clock, tired and overheated and streaked about the face with rivulets of gritty sweat, I stepped from the woods onto the broad shoulder of U.S. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Nor the back part of the woods on a whiteman’s farm. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z America’s botanical possibilities excited Europeans inordinately, and there was both glory and money to be made out in the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The view was not of the backyard—it was too close—but of the former woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Then literally an hour later in those same woods, Scoob fell into a creek, and she had to save him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z In the woods, they built hideouts and sang forbidden songs, making up irreverent lyrics for the Hitler Youth songs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And nestled between the woods and the creek were the same cabins—a crazy assortment of twelve buildings, each representing a different Olympian god. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Deep in the pine woods, along a deserted logging road, the boy and dog came to a small open space where there had once been a log ramp. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa had made a deer-lick, in an open place in the woods, with trees near by in which he could sit to watch it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Lenny and Burl helped us drag everything to the woods at the edge of the yard, and then Howard wanted to sit on the porch and draw a plan for the fort. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Father ran off to a hut in the woods he was calling the New Church of Eternal Life, Jesus Is Bängala. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think it’s time we moved on. It’s about to get dark, and I don’t want to see what kind of wild beasts roam these woods after dark.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His rescue took you coming back for help, and George bringing him from the woods, and getting to the emergency vet quickly. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers’ club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I have continued on through the cold, misty woods, breaking a path that will be unfamiliar to Gale but is simple for my feet to find. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And once you were lost in these immense woods, you would die. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Nothing good could be planned by these people so deep in the woods. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Were we really being taken to the woods to be shot? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I just, I just feel kind of bad—just kind of bad—that we left her out in the woods on her own.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They’re not going to be watching movies on the couch when I come home or looking for meteorites in the woods. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z As Henry talked on, she traveled in her mind to the tree in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And orangutan comes from the Malaysian word orang- hutan, which means man of the woods, but dranghutan isn’t Malaysian for orangutan. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The noises of the surrounding woods were muffled inside the tent; all Harry could hear was Ron’s breathing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Axel is never truly alone in the woods, even though he feels completely alone with his thoughts here. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Why do you live in the woods if you belong to the squadron?” the chaplain inquired curiously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We packed up our tents, breakfasted on raisins and Snickers, and set off into the deep woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It took General putting a hand on his shoulder for my dad to release me and let me run into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Underwood, who’s the freaky old man? The guy in the woods?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z All Bran could think of was Old Nan's story of the Others and the last hero, hounded through the white woods by dead men and spiders big as hounds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We keep to the woods twixt the river and the road but we don’t even see any caravans. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z For if Sauron of old destroyed the gardens, the Enemy today seems likely to wither all the woods. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sky was thick and gray, smelling of heat and rain; long mists drifted down between the ridges, lay in pools in the woods, rose toward the sun like white steam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were hungry and cold and living in an abandoned shack in the woods not far from the pig farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We’d been passed out so long in the cave that night had fallen, but the woods were thick and the full moon was somewhat obstructed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A red Maserati soared over the woods, glowing brighter and climbing higher until it disappeared in a ray of sunlight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She knew, like all of us, that the woods were where you went to do things you didn’t want other folks to know about. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z You shouldn’t light candles in the middle of the woods, especially if it hasn’t rained in days, but we’re standing in a small clearing and Kaori insists it’s vital to the ceremony. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “How all those people, including the children, would have hidden in the woods with no food ...” He paused. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grandpa is hiding a beautiful park in the woods,” Seth blurted. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Bender comes through the woods, making a show of his golf club, swinging it more than he is using it for balance on the hillside. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It was an area where the woods had started to reclaim the land. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z But I could think of one person who would have been walking in the woods after being called to the Cybulskis house to help deliver a baby. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I figured I might be able to drive the cattle down there through the woods. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was ... I was walking in the woods up by Harlem Meer. And I felt this tremble in the ground, like something powerful was near.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The scholars said they found her in the woods all alone. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They stumbled and fell through the woods the night long and long before dawn the boy fell and would not get up again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Wet mist flowed softly by; dew dripped from the leaves, pattered in the woods, but the morning was already warm. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Daisy grew up in a house with a stream in back, and behind it were some woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z As the sun sank lower in the sky, the tall trees at the entrance to the woods looked dark blue. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “But the real question is this: Would you go into the woods?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So now I’m left to stumble through the woods, no vehicle, thirsty beyond belief. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When it came to women, I was lost as a lamb in the woods. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The fact that he seemed scared of the lady he had met in the woods legitimized his story a lot. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They trundled over the bridge and pushed the cart out through the woods looking for some place to leave it where it would not be seen. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Seanie said, “I saw Annie this morning. She said you got sick from running in the woods naked in the rain. Did you really do that?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then, as I sit in the woods in a corner of the world, hiding from a war I know little about, I hear Pa’s voice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was nothing, nothing but the tumbling dark mass of the woods just discernible against the grayish-blue of the western sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I scrub off the dirt and sweat from the woods and even wash my hair. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Orcs were roving in the hills and woods along the roadside. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They traveled dawn to dusk, past woods and orchards and neatly tended fields, through small villages, crowded market towns, and stout holdfasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Beyond, the road flattened out and I saw woods and steep hills in the mist. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Just an hour ago, the Crepuscule was fired upon from the woods; a bell was sounded, and we were rallied to stand to our arms upon the deck. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They take off in a V and I turn tail without looking back, back through the woods and the Pepsi-Cola sign, past the Brooklyn Bridge to my porch. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Blackavar, do you know that earlier this summer, before we had the benefit of your experience, we went for days across every kind of country—fields, heather, woods, downs—and never lost one rabbit?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was movement behind the tangle of shrubs that separated the yard from the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Every once in a while, a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers attacks a random village, raids the houses, kills a few people, and then ducks back into the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was breathing almost normally, he began to wonder what he was doing sitting in the middle of a woods in Blue Ridge country. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In a woods full of wolves there were woodsmen, too. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a woman came tearing through the woods from the right just ahead, the fire a glint in the madness of her eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z No one could move through the woods as silent as Will, and it had not taken the black brothers long to discover his talent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She stayed in the woods where all the hidden creatures were, and the trees feared her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Even the woods and the meadows have been stripped of disorderly life forms and forced into a uniform made of concrete. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get out of the wagon and as deeply as you can into the woods.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But I forgot about the little kid and the snake in the woods. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The footpaths we followed spent a lot of time in the woods but also emerged at obliging intervals to take us along sunny back roads and over stiles and through farm fields and hamlets. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z You have to call her back sometimes, otherwise she’ll drift away into the woods and disappear. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z There he sat in his high, stiff collar, no more than twenty or twenty-one, a young logger on his day off from the woods. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her feet moved of their own accord toward him, then past, back to the woods. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Axel asks, looking out over the woods before them, woods that look more like one of Emmett’s bowls of spaghetti than any forest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The search party was out in force, guns loaded, galloping into the woods. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “We’re soaring. There’s usually one over this stretch of woods in the evening.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “You know when you showed me the map back in the woods,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z In the mornings we sometimes went out on long hikes into the woods, and at night we played Scrabble or listened to records or sat reading in front of his big stone fireplace. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I found the field cress and dandelions, and beyond, where the woods began, the poke, just out of the ground, young and edible. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When he doesn’t, I hide the stand and stool in some bushes for next week and head back into the woods toward home. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It’s about a brother and sister, Jack and Sarah, who go out to play one day and find this old train track in the woods. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She had stepped into the woods in the park and landed in an entirely different place. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At the end of a year he never spoke at all, unless he was forced to it or found himself alone with the foul old old peasant he met in the woods sometimes, his counselor. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once upon a time there was a witch who found a baby in the woods,” Xan said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Once I’m out of the woods and on the main road, a full moon bathes the fields around me in a shimmering, pearly light. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Look. I’m always here. If you need me...if something happens...you signal me, okay? If you’re in the woods, I’ll hear you. You can yell, or...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We walked down to the woods and kicked around for some kind of monster to fight, but it was too hot. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Do you get”—Hangman loves giving me grief over this word—“nightingales in January, Dad? I might’ve heard one this morning. In the woods.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z And when they came out of the woods at the top they could see thousands of lights in the valley down below them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “See you tomorrow in the woods by the school? I’ll find you all.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “You know who you look like, sitting there? You know that picture in your kitchen, of the girl and the lady sitting in the woods? You look like that lady.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When she closed her lids over those mirror eyes, I turned to the woods and invited the dreams in, hoping they’d include the last face I memorized in profile. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Georgie stepped out of the woods and stopped, clearly astonished at the sight of me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z With Henry suddenly tired of daddying, the twins melted back into the woods with Wash every chance they got, taking Edgar along for their adventures. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “In a nice house on the other side of the woods. He goes to Boyd Middle.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The familiar woods lay ahead, their leaves swaying in a summer breeze. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Keep an eye on the nest, and on the woods. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z "I've known English witches", she went on, "who have turned children into pheasants and then sneaked the pheasants up into the woods the very day before the pheasant-shooting season opened." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The familiar smell of woods and grass and the silence, broken only by birds chirping and tiny twigs breaking underfoot, reveals the spot even before my blindfold is off. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Killconey lay watching the gate from behind a sycamore in the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She told them about the hollow tree in the woods and how Ishmael and Hatsue had deceived the world for a number of years successfully. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In just a little while the trees would be putting out their baby leaves, all rosy and yellow and pale green, and there would be wild flowers and birds in the woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Each stole a twenty-pound bag of rice, and they met in the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I smooth my hair, suddenly conscious of what a walk in the woods will do to wild a person. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Same as a hunter lost in the woods will walk in circles, if he don’t have a star to guide him, or know that moss mostly grows on the north side of trees. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Gale says I never smile except in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z These days, the woods are a pretty quiet place. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She isn’t the outdoorsy type, which is pretty pathetic considering our house is surrounded by fields and woods. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z For a moment I thought she was going to follow Nero and find me, but instead, she stood where she was and watched the spot in the woods where Nero had vanished, her face sad. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z There were several people in the woods that night. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I straggle behind the film crew and the bodyguards, feeling their presence to be a violation of my beloved woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He moved on, slower now, stepping from the woods to the edge of the field. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The woods grew quiet now; even the beetles stopped rubbing their smooth shells on softened bark, even the wind picked around the branches instead of rattling straight through. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z They passed into the woods, following a narrow, periodically invisible trail. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Through the village we traveled, stopping at the edge of the woods. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I grab hold of Mami’s hand as if she were a little girl lost in the woods. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Places like the caves at the narrow end, and the breaks in Lalao’s fence, and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We had barely an hour before the dark tumbled down into every nook and cranny in these woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Being in the suburbs was really unsettling Mark—he’d grown used to life in the mountains, in the woods, living in a hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Especially being surrounded by the woods and spending most of his time studying the land for clues and traces of their friends. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But the three of us set off into the woods on my first frog-hunting expedition. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With one huge effort, he broke free of me and ran into the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z As we drove through Gray Horse, we came upon a clearing in the woods, where there was an old cemetery. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Miss Lilian’s bedroom was at the end of the hall, the biggest and brightest, with a view of fields and woods and the road beyond. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z As usual, the fence was not charged and it was simple to slip into the woods and retrieve my bow and arrows. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z All I can do is follow the others, the rabbits and deer and I even spot a wild dog pack shooting through the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The May apples were ripe, and I stuffed on those as I went through the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped into the woods, looked around, could not see the crow, but noticed a big stick nest in a scrabbly pine. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Not till she was out of the woods herself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z What if I just dropped the egg in some grass and ran into the woods? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z You can’t leave anything sitting around in the woods or someone will get it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not big on woods. I’m from Chicago.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Full of birds and animals but hushed, too, like a church the hour before Mass. Back in San Antonio, there were no woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Over there in the woods where nobody would come and mess it up.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The girl answered in a quiet voice and pointed out toward the woods behind Mark and the others. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But he knew that it was coming, leaping after him in the dark woods behind him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She wandered through the woods, searching for children, whose bones she used to make her magic powders. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The field at Indian Creek was a free-for-all in the afternoons; there were no fences around the property, and neighborhood teenagers were constantly popping out of the surrounding woods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Stella headed for the woods, trying to think like a six-year-old. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I may have said hide out in, but I didn’t say the woods.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sign of anything else—the woods, the hills, the storm. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Leroy let me off Jingle Boy a ways in the woods so’s I could walk up to our house. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She had expected the letter writer to be a guy with a wild beard and unruly hair, like those men who lived in the woods and didn’t use technology. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Once in the woods I circled to the left as I ran to reach a spot from which I could watch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Maybe I’d better check on you first. Are you the Brian Robeson who survived alone in the Canadian woods for two months?” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead of which I must go back alone through the woods to Manderley and wait for Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere, hours from here, a cracked Junior Explorer compass lay on the floor of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Darkness came early to the silent woods, and before the fall of night they halted, weary, for they had walked seven leagues or more from Henneth Annûn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Muffling her cries, she ran from camp straight out into the woods. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “But I warn you, Miss Lumley! If they behave like wild animals at my party tomorrow, I will implore my husband to set them loose in the woods again, where they belong!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Do you know the woods around here quite well?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you finding ‘pleasure in the pathless woods,’ as Lord Byron would say?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Lewis Powell, starving after three days of sleeping in the woods, instantly realizes he has made an error. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z 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 The sounds of voices, small and whispery, still floated from the depth of the woods. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warblers fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He spent free weekends instructing C.P.’s men in combat techniques and firearms training, strutting around in the woods outside of town, barking orders and wearing an 8 mm Mauser strapped on his hip. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The two guerrilla shrews melted back into the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Okay, coach,” he called, heading back into the woods. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z We started up the road into the woods. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I played in the cement drainage area because Tanner told me someone had killed a kid in the woods last year. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Couldn’t figure out what was going on in those woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I was scared of the city—do you think you’ll be scared of the woods?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t go too far from the trailer,” he said “There’s no telling who might be hanging out in the woods. And stay away from the old house.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Somebody was setting off firecrackers in the woods,” he said, and I closed my eyes tight, the ineluctable fact of the matter at hand: I had killed her. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The woods begin to evolve, and the pines are intermixed with a variety of trees, some I recognize, some completely foreign to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On this day, one crone came in from the woods, carrying a stoat, its throat a splash of red. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Blind boars of wind crashed through the nervy woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The boys didn’t see the plane at first and were ecstatic just to be in the woods. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It’s this cluster of boulders in the middle of the west woods that, if you look at it just the right way, looks like a huge fist sticking out of the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z We’d watched the men from the ambulance bring May back from the woods on a stretcher, then listened as the two policemen asked August and June all sorts of questions. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And the escape across the field became this whole long adventure through a cornfield maze and into the deep dark woods. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Behind them was the backdrop of dark woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They trampled through the woods with renewed energy, going faster than ever. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But what was lovely was the fall to go hunting through the chestnut woods. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He had shot her in the cottage in the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As I look down, I remember why Gale and I always waited in the woods rather than try to tackle the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I had an idea that this was all part of the boys’ plan, the woods, the shack, the cots, the drugs, the sharing of saliva. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Katz tumbled from the woods a few minutes later, looking wild of hair and eye, and I hustled him across the road against his voluble protests that he needed to sit down immediately. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We heard single shots, bursts of machine-gun fire in the woods, the whooping of boys right after. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Let the wolves have back their gloomy woods and retake the open sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Now everybody be careful,” Crab warned as they entered the woods. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Not in the woods near the White River. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “You two sure make life complicated for yourselves up there in the woods.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The satyrs and dryads worked to repair the damage to the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “When we come to these woods in our humble clothes, I am no prince, but a man who may have my will,” he said, his words full and rounded with yearning. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There were woods in front of them, to the left a gray farmhouse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Did they murder each other more gently because in the woods sweet songbirds sang? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled her around the corner of the boathouse and we sat with our backs against the far wall, facing the woods. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Women’s faces were flaked with mud and ash, camouflage from the Russians they’d applied while trekking through the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z My eagerness to escape into the woods, if only for two hours, overrides my current concerns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Soon’s he disappeared on the road north, we made a sharp turn east through the woods, toward where I’m thinking the river was. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The woods had buried it under fresh- sprouted leaves, the kind that shoot up overnight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was a witch in the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Today, skittish because of the woods coming down, he scrambled up faster than usual, dashing for the door to the back stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I threw her arm over my neck and waddled her through the woods to the path back to the small clearing at the far end of the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She fixed her eyes on the woods in the distance, but she didn’t say anything. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I didn’t actually know what was in that direction; I had always assumed more woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z My gift in the woods that even he looked up to and he was the best there ever was. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got lost in the woods,” I mumbled. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We would have run for the woods outside of town and never looked back. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “They don’t make me hear everything clearly, the way you do. I have to fit the sounds with the shape the lips make, like a puzzle,” Renee said, looking from Gen to the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Once upon a time there were three bears who lived in a wee house in the woods. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Even in summer, when heat waves rose from the land, there was a fresh smell from the woods close by. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods, always a menace even in the past, had triumphed in the end. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He’d trained him to lie in the woods like a fawn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They walk together in the woods they know so well. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The killer, bird in her mouth, ran toward her pups in the woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Thank goodness it did not spread to the woods,” said the Abbot, “otherwise all of Mossflower might have gone up in flames.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She turned away from the window, away from the woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “What if I threw a burger into the woods and the Lazarus, if it existed, flew down and took a bite out of it?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I shrug him off and walk to the edge of the woods. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "The rangers say it's just woods and mountains and frozen lakes, with lots of snow and ice." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Jack-Jack shouted some sort of command at Petey and they both shot into the woods to gather more sticks for whatever game they were playing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We ran past the soccer field and into the woods, running uphill and with only the vaguest sense of direction. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They’d led me nowhere but to the middle of the woods. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Jack had been in these woods many times, but they had never been like this. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “If you really want to see it,” he said, “keep going past the bog and through the woods. It’s a big old place. You can’t miss it.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The Witchlings got up, but before they stepped out into the woods, they hugged one another. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Outside, a curl of mist floated above the ground at the edge of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Even though every step hurt, he willed himself into a sprint toward the woods that lined the road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He couldn’t answer, so he just kept on walking, a step at a time, on and on through the woods. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When James was eighteen months old, a fast-burning fire spread in the nearby woods. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She ran as she had not in a long time, sticking to the side of the road and darting into the woods at the sound of a traveler. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The rest of the day we played with the dollhouse while I dreamed of a tiny house in the woods. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z This might be a magic woods, but there was still a north here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Garfield called to Lucretia, using an expression common during his childhood in the Ohio woods, "Why, the child fell like a log!" Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the distance I could see the first grey roofs of Kerrith, while to the right, in a hollow, lay the deep woods of Manderley and the sea beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But the thing about being a Yellow Shank is this: once you move into the middle of the picture, you’re that much closer to the dark woods. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Haymitch has his own troubles over in the woods, where the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They were finally gone from it all, in the thick trees and fresh air of the woods, which helped drain some of the tension and emotional ups and downs of those last couple of hours. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Finally, there was a stand of woods that looked like a solid wall of darkness after the moonlit fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Almost like toys abandoned in the woods for years, recently discovered by the next generation of kids ready to play war. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I left them without saying another word and wandered back into the woods. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z From this height, the red boxes crept up on the uncleared woods in impressive rows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There is tannic acid in the woods in oak trees, but it took me several weeks to figure out how to get it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked my foot out of one shoe and threw it as far as I could into the woods to the right. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "That's all done. Let's get you cleaned up. Keep an eye on the woods for me, okay?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Now, through the memories, he had seen oceans and mountain lakes and streams that gurgled through woods; and now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z "Well," said Yoren, "maybe he will and maybe he won't. Good men have gone into those woods before, and never come out." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My mother and Prim can’t know I was in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “You aren’t doing him a favor by disappearing into the woods with him each Sunday.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Lissa folded her arms across her chest and frowned at the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z So I go on, back into the second stretch of woods, heading for that second field. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I went across the lawns to the edge of the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Deep in Canadian woods we met From one bright island flown. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There were twelve of them, nesded in the woods by the lake. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Booth and Herold looked at each other and, without exchanging a word, ran for the woods behind Garrett’s barn and waited. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The course I run is straight down the mountain to the county road, where I leave the cool shelter of the woods and trot over the hot asphalt to town. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And before I can decide whether to go on or turn back, out of the woods on the other side steps Judd Travers, rifle in hand. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate the last peanut butter sandwiches sitting on a low stone wall, listening to a few birds and watching the sunlight fall in bright, moving patterns onto the leafy floor of the woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “We tried everything. Drink, drugs, prayer, even small doses of poison. On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I was going for a walk in the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Roy didn’t think the truancy police would have an easy time tracking Mullet Fingers through the woods and mangroves, but the possibility made him anxious, anyway. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They agreed that she was to lead the way, for she was more familiar with the woods than the others. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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