She imagined her grandparents’ lives during the war: working, eating onions and sawdust, bathing, sleeping, working. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As some sociologists and marketing consultants see it, the commonly accepted big three—the upper, middle, and working classes—have broken down into dozens of microclasses, defined by occupations or lifestyles. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then his plan started working a little too well. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He winces at the taste, but he’s working his yellow-bearded jaws until the leaf begins to break down. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Our father was working at the Spreckles Sugar Factory, five miles from town and could not get off, or perhaps didn’t want to, for fear he could not stand the strain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she noticed, there were countless chained slaves working the docks, lifting and sweating, holding parasols and pouring water, eyes on the ground or the sky—never on what was before them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Since he's spending all his time either with Sien or alone working, he has let his appearance go. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Despite their close ties working together in New York, their relationship became rocky. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After the storm he had set up a makeshift office in Baton Rouge and was already working with prisoners brought to the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe working in the garden will make some people smile. We have to try to get along the best we can,” my mom says, her voice uncharacteristically meek. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“You and the other newbies are working hard. I bet you were definitely going to finish at least fifth.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s shrinking a little every day, and so the parts aren’t working well anymore.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then I ran out to the garage where Dad was working. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had spent hundreds of hours in the bakery with him, playing board games and working out puzzles. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Various civil rights groups, including the NAACP, immediately began working for their release and succeeded in having them all set free by the middle of January 1925. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Kaira’s suite was bigger than his, with three rooms and a working fireplace. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hall and some of his fellow guides also began working with government ministries in Kathmandu to formulate policies that encouraged climbers to keep the mountain clean. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess it was my unlucky day, because inside, the same bald-headed dude who’d been working the last time I’d come down to the Shack was propped behind the counter. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Eurynome and the nurse together laid soft coverlets on the master’s bed, working in haste by torchlight. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inner heads were working their way around to him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My favorite part is when we thank God for working “miracles for our fathers, in days of old.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Over the long haul things would have a way of working themselves out toward an essentially good position. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the great brute was just working up an appetite by talking about food. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still working, despite the cracks on the screen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She and William also came up with basic working practices that they would use for the rest of their lives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the next Thursday, Mama was still in a good mood, and she had both me and Jay working for her in the kitchen from the time we got up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not working. I always hang out in mansions with hidden movie theaters.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What was happening was only the working- out of a process that had started years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If you are working in a more unusual clef, have your teacher check your answers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He saw Billy working on the last of the haystack. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So one day I was working at the bank when an American man came in with his family and a group of students. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not seen Osha. since they'd taken her captive in the wolfs- wood, though he knew she'd been set to working in the kitchens. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shadows to each other, they flowed gently through the velvet air, momentarily at peace, working together, in tune. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still working in the fields, still serving the overseer at night. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing him working so hard to move us forward made me realize I was not alone in my desire to have more freedom. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Wild accusations were flying around, including one published charge that Smith was deliberately working the horse slowly in order to get long odds in the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she returned, the two boys were there, busy working with sails on the deck. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he was always working toward a bar mitzvah because he wanted one. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even now it seemed to want to get back at him and finish the injection which was now working through the flesh of his leg. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks I’ll be delivering telegrams at the post office, working like a man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say much, but showed Thomas the ropes until he could start working on his own. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But later on, once he started working full-time and taking care of me, people started showing him respect, saying, "W's up, Ty," when he came home in the evening. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t see any white folks, just all kinds of colored people, some rushing past bringing books in, some bringing books out, some working at the front desk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

That year I started working for the school newspaper, The Maroon Wave. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You might say I am working for Civil Defense doing research by learning to live off the land. Tell them not to be afraid, that crayfish are delicious and caves are warm.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had Lazlo just said, that no one looks that haggard from working hard for a couple of days? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We are going to get some money back because your mother stopped working, and I hadn’t claimed the single-earner head-of-household exemption. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because of the months he spent absorbed in working on the clock itself, the circus feels familiar, comfortable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the past he had lectured Nancy on the dangers of working with Ebola in a space suit, and now he was leading a team into an Ebola hell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m in debt to a dangerous person. I could use every penny ...” I trailed off, my mind working. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t they? Tsar Kazimir is working with me to turn them into a monastery. That way, we can provide a place for study and prayer, away from the business of the city.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For the past week, Rose and me had been working on this last Lego piece together. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

For the rest, Naomi shopped at Mason’s on afternoons when she could count on Henry to be working late. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I could feel the spiders working in the corners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But every day, whether I was on the headland or gathering shellfish on the rocks or working on my canoe, I watched for it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to start working up some fresh material.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“And, you know. The way it’s all working out. It’s more.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“My mom’s working all weekend, and I got tired of playing video games so I thought I’d walk over and see if you were here.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Banner came to our table then, to see why we weren’t working. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was then working at Howard University as a research librarian in the Moorland- Spingarn Research Center, one of the largest collections of Africana in the world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Windy waves good-bye to me as the guy working the ride pushes them into a dark tunnel. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bianca dug what was going down and you could see her face working like something was trying to get out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was already someone at the other end of it working toward me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Taken together, they laid bare the workings of Conexco’s day-to-day operations. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Amari could hear laughter of men on boats and slow, sad chants of slaves working in the rice fields nearby, finishing up their labors for the day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first great strike of 1919 began on January 21, when thirty-five thousand Seattle, Washington, shipyard workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

With a stick broken from a nearby willow she searched through the reedy water, poking around and around the spot where the bag had gone down, working in bigger and bigger circles. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Engineers were working on everything from weapons to sound waves to X-rays. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Brilliant, cold, totally, absolutely, and maddeningly fair, all her inner workings shinily encased and hidden from view. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He starts eating immediately, working his way methodically through his food. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It’s the difference between working and pretending to work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Pattillo, you don’t like the idea of working in Oklahoma, do you?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We began homeschooling when Papa started working for a Japanese company. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I started researching her story, I had one question: How did she have the courage to stand up for the working poor against such huge and deadly odds? Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But the doctors were working on it, and I wasn’t supposed to be afraid, because I was her granddaughter, and I would be fine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With the weather getting hotter, I worry about how Amma and the others are doing, and if the fan is working. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the restaurant, Shadow could imagine Wednesday already sitting all his guests down around a big table, working the room. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He could go without breakfast, graze at lunch, and barely touch dinner, all while working twelve-hour days of constant activity, and still his weight never fluctuated. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I started working up a good apology fulled up with lots of sincereness for when I saw Ma. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The reason I couldn’t quit was that working at Smart Aid as your first job had long been a hallowed family tradition. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I blurted out, worried my sister might have told my former coach that I was working at the Dollar Store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So I'm going to spend today working on some mad science. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe by then they’ll have figured out a way of clearing the ash from the sky. The scientists must be working on that.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She changed it a few days ago, and when my grandfather saw it, he shook his head anti asked if she was working for the circus. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The paper had been written by one of the British scientists working with Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Crispin,” he said when he saw me standing there, broom in hand, “with the widow demanding two pennies a day for our keep, it’s good to see you working. Where is the good dame?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be a novelist, so she spent high school working to save enough money for a college with a good creative-writing program. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I continued going to school and working in the fields after school and on weekends. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We work hard together, Captain Smith always working the hardest, with some felling trees, some splitting wood for clapboard, some cutting reeds for thatch. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

After all, it wasn’t like working light crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly a year, he had been working incessantly, thinking only of putting aside enough money so that he could return to Spain with pride. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Velma T.’s working on some hot packs to help clear the lungs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stood up and stretched his arms over his head, leaning to the left, then to the right, working the stiff out of his back. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were too busy working to notice when he slipped on board. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when her mom was working from home, Grace leaned her head into the office. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He said nothing, and went on chewing the bread, his temples working, the vein on his forehead, full and angry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At least not when the medicine was working. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

After briefly training a few of Irwin’s old horses, he ended up working as a foreman for an old rodeo trick rider turned trainer named Harry Walters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He uses some of his drawing techniques in his painting, too—dashes and strokes, working to find the painting style that he likes best. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” I said, working hard to keep my voice level. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five years of working the fields as Baachan’s back warped and she grew old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He comes by Essential Baking Company when she’s working and orders coffee. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The chest alone does not seem to be working. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perch, meanwhile, was working himself up into a lather equal to his previous ones. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apple rolls in the dirt, but I can already feel it working on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m away working in the shop, see? These here men come to the house and say to Sissy, ‘Your husband’s just been killed, see?’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my little sister Mija. She was not feeling well for several days. Nothing the shaman did was working; she was just getting sicker. So I begged my mom to come here.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Marina stopped working while Tanya was a baby, but when her daughter was a year old, Marina found a new job. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I filled pages and pages in my notebook, working on just the right words for Mrs. Holton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But Professor Kylmer had already started working on a variation of the plastic—a thin, slightly porous membrane that you could filter water through. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t working on an article,” Bloom said, his voice literally dripping with false disappointment, phony gloom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the boy kept working up the girl’s shirt, and as much as she said no, he kept working it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Look! Some of them are growing fur on their faces! Why is it working so quickly, Grandmamma?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

That had happened years earlier when she first started at the Department of Corrections and was working the graveyard shift in Ogden. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some folks may not like the idea of working on a weekend, but it never felt like work to Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Talking about how well I was doing in class and working in the office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I hate to think of your working for these people.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to rowing and to watching the long-winged black bird who was working, now, low over the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German-born Communist trained in tradecraft in Moscow, Werner had spent the 1930s working as a Soviet secret agent in China and Switzerland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma was back to working on that sweater and Pa was whittling away. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Rafik was working on definitions for his English vocabulary list and asked Liyana, “When does a person go from being an acquaintance to a friend? Where is the line?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As in, he knows the workings of that hidden, rusty shelf. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But no amount of chanting “M-I-B” seemed to be working for the freshmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could have stated the obvious—I was working, wasn’t I? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But the breeze that moved them more swiftly was working on the other balloon, too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milwaukee put three steamers and their crews onboard a train, leaving that city with only one working engine. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you don’t want me working with Spencer,” Dad says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If the boys were working on-site, sometimes I’d go along to drive the loader or forklift or crane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’m not working four months like an escaped criminal. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The prisoners I had glimpsed that morning were working nearby. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the things I liked about Reginald was that when I left him to go away “working,” Reginald asked me no questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kiss last night was nice, but working up to another will take some forethought. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I put it on and did up the buttons, starting at the top and working down. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they leave here, they'll be at the Games Headquarters, hopefully madly signing up our sponsors, working out a strategy on how and when to deliver the gifts to us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, there was hundreds and hundreds of men working along the river too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas spent the morning with the Keeper of the Gardens, “working his butt off,” as Newt would’ve said. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This let them measure not just focus, but his short-term, or working, memory. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Clayton comes over every week to talk to us about how he’s working things out for me and Rosaleen back in Sylvan. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one server, but there were two women working behind the counter where people fill orders for takeout. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw mud balls until Yellow Kettle gave her hoe to him and told him that if he stopped working just once she would take away all of his play warrior weapons. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Why I never saw fifty dollars until I was twenty-one years old, with all the other boys with the afternoon off and all day Saturday and me working in a store. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was working as well and as hard as ever. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I begin working on the first drafts?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Rileys’ cook had heard the whole thing; she just kept on working in the kitchen and watched Betty Jo and her lather. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I’d been busy working on my fourth initiative as First Lady, called Let Girls Learn, which Barack and I had launched together back in the spring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were tubes and organs and the redness of working parts that no longer worked. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to not kill myself today, even though I was working with high voltage. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the second, we were working at balancing chemical equations. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Ready to walk?" she asked Canton, who had been working nonstop on his assignment. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She would be working on a sketch of something familiar but drawn at such close range so she could attach a special nozzle or handier handle, the thing looked peculiar. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

August was working the honey into Our Lady’s face. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Faulkner was excited to be working on a plot that starred men and women flying together to defeat the Nazis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

How could mortals be working with a monster? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some “dropped out” to join communes, groups of people living and working on farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My husband was working late, as he did most nights, and the apartment was silent except for the click of my heels on the polished wood floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In its former life, this trail was a working railroad. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Although, as Stanley had expected, the other boys didn't like to see Stanley sitting around while they were working. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Bad enough I’m confined to this miserable job, working with boys who don’t even believe!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s complicated, just like June. She couldn’t get over me working as a maid in your mother’s house.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While it’s working, I worm my way into each of my teammates’ accounts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of face that gives you a bad feeling because I thought everything would be okay now that we’re working on the chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re out in the field working and the speculator is ready to take off their children. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derby was imagining letters to home, his lips working tremulously: Dear Margaret—We are leaving for Dresden today. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still working at the tailor shop in Kraków, hoping that would save me from the Deportations. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Decorum can be seen as the ethos appeal working at the level of the language itself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine him high on a gantry, lying on his back like Michelangelo, working with a wrench on the fuel lines of one of his rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Papá felt better, he started working for Ito again. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I thought he should probably know that already, since he was standing in the Kasteevs’ doorway and working on their TV show, but he asked, so I told him. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Minerva has long been working up a sweat on the Ojo de Agua side of the net. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was Hailsham, maybe a few years before you lot. Apparently she’s working in this clothes shop right now. A really smart one.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

How little his mother had known of the working world to make smocks for a boy who she knew was to become a silversmith! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started working family connections, trying to find someone to help me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When I was a college student, I had a job working as a musician in a black church in a poor section of West Philadelphia. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The awful smell stung my nose, but after working up my courage, I took a swig. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fannie heard seamstresses in Chicago and New York City had banded together and demanded higher pay and safer working conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I knew they’d want to think I was a good kid working his tail off to make the school a better place. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, my grandfather preferred to spend his mornings working on a modern Greek translation of the “restored” poems of Sappho. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They look like they might have been working on a boat all day and just stopped off to grab some brews. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, he too was working busily, passing tools and squirting oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The assumption was that everyone was working toward college, which meant that you never hid your intelligence for fear of someone saying you talked like a white girl. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jolly Roger, for one, began climbing up to the attic window of the track cook’s house to try to catch Seabiscuit working at night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Principal’s office for both of you,” Mr. Baker said, still working to corral Garrett. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As Professor Ross Miller notes in his book American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago: “Subsequent ‘antifire’ legislation disproportionately penalized the working poor who owned their own wooden homes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They met on the job when they were working as private security guards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Charlotte, vaguely, “I don’t really know. But I’m working on a plan.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

One day, in 1849, when Harriet was working in the fields, near the edge of the road, a white woman wearing a faded sunbonnet went past, driving a wagon. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God and his angels are here, working right alongside us. They won’t let you be hurt.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Some new project my mom’s working on,” Pearl had told him. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you must know, I’m sorting herbs for a big project I’m working on.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The demigods of Camp Half-Blood have already been working with Camp Jupiter,” Percy said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I grin because I figure he peeked through the door and saw me working on my awesome craft project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Violet remembered her promise, and thought of Klaus, whose bruised face still looked sore, and Sunny, dangling from the top of the tower like a flag, and began working faster. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But another shield would not harm me, and is helpful if the other one stops working.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lieutenant,” I responded, “we dispute the charge. We have been working and, in fact, we have evidence that we have been working, and it is essential to our defense.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have been staying there, working late, perhaps getting some last-minute things done before the people from Washington came, when the bombing began. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Under the glare of floodlights, no doubt powered by the generator that was thudding just outside the door, half a dozen men were working on a long, slender boat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The radio isn’t working,” Briana said, trying to turn it on. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When she used to come home from school she felt good and was ready to start working on the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The posters were so good that word of mouth spread, and soon Lori had such a backlog of orders that she was up working until one or two every morning. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around Small’s, I’m always working or hanging around listening to the hustlers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, she had told him that when she was working on the house with Bill. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Clearly, the mysterious killing force was still in Philadelphia, still working its way into households despite every precaution, still infecting at an alarming rate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The people working behind the repair counter called out to Somkit as he approached. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Selden supported female suffrage and never charged Anthony for the time he spent working on her case. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I said “no way” to working at our house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth opens her own front door and I fear Aibileen might not be working today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I can see it even when I'm working. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The saboteurs were working for the German government, not the Gestapo, which was a separate entity. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Sierra sharpened her mind and allowed her vision to slip alongside the spirits as they, thundered through the old anthropologist’s inner workings. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Malcolm Henderson, working on the cyclotron in the next room, was used to hearing the X-ray workers shout to make themselves heard over the thrum of the tube’s oscillator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The other thing that made me doubtful about all this had to do with the actual description given by Chrissie and Rodney: their picture of a woman working in a nice glass-fronted office. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Kino gripped the handle of the big working knife and took a sense of protection from it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you know, since the girls are here, I’m not working today. Tomorrow, okay?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thought of little Tidbit sweating and working in the dangerous swampy water made Polly feel ill. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a boy of twelve then. I sang in saloons for the drunks and they threw pennies at me. Then I started working around saloons and restaurants...waiting on people....” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Moshe did the same, working in a furrier’s shop outside the camp. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie, a boy working on a math assignment, kept his head down and slid farther away from them, almost like he didn’t hear Chip’s greeting. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The moon really isn’t working out, I said. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that what you were working on in your sketchbook?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Even if don't talk to anyone, sound of people working almost like conversation, all around. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, one day, while I was working on a construction job in midtown-Manhattan, I found myself at low point in my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Alec in the lead, then the woman he said he’s had the pleasure of working with for a dozen years: Lana. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No one dared go near him while he was working—which is why so many jaws dropped when Reynard Muldoon was spotted walking toward him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After feeling the cotton to make sure it was completely dry, the contratista told us to start working. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He asked her how long they’d been at it, and when she answered all afternoon he said she must like working. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know she does, Elizabeth. We’re working on it. Before I leave this afternoon, we’re going to get her an appointment with the doctor.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The old adage “Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer” didn’t apply to Bobby since he had two high-profile lawyers working for him pro bono. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, working earlier than we usually did, we even worked houses that we hadn’t cased. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pulled myself off the cot and wandered outside, I found the tallest Negro man I’d ever seen working on the truck, bent over the motor, tools scattered around his feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been cheated, but like all North Koreans working in China he was in no position to protest. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Chiron galloped over with his medical pouch and began working on the pegasus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They’d been working for her, sure, but they hadn’t thought she was going to actually pay them for it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was too early to visit Mom—I was only allowed night visits because Mom was supposedly working on her rehabilitation during the day—so I headed back to Bat Lady’s house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should try working on the rest of the face, I thought. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people shopping, the people working behind the counter, the models in the advertisements—all white. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Near the end of the day, John telephoned his wife from his office at the manufacturing plant to tell her that he would be working late. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you—what are we—working on today?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, like Dolly, working at home in the Salt Lake City area, taking reservations —in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels, and cooking dinner. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’re trying for a return to our hilarity, but it isn’t working. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adam and Lee hung over the exposed insides of the car while Will Hamilton, puffing under the burden of his new fat, explained the workings of a mechanism he did not understand himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They are working from there. There are many sick now. The fighting is over.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She says the best way to get through working the fields is to make her head be still and quiet as a pond. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Of course, to be perfectly balanced, we have plenty of teachers and counselors who are fair and would bend over backward to help Andy, but lately, even his behavior has been working against him. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that, with my mother working, I could I now afford a few books and a uniform, I continued wondering what I was being educated for. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

William and his team spent the next week working hard—“almost day and night,” he later said, trying to wedge open the crack in the cipher that Gene Grotjan had found. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We got that tablet working, the one Dr. Cable was carrying. Mom was yanking the phone part out so they couldn’t track us through it, and she got it to display Cable’s work data.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We were working at the laundry when a delivery boy came from the Rexall drugstore around the corner. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right where I’m working, naturally. Well, get a glass. Not no clean one neither. Use that jar.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I actually like carrots, so I ate some too, because I saw that Erin’s plan was working and I don’t really care that people laugh when I eat those orange vegetables. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shut her eyes and became instantly aware of the many spirits working for her, as their vision was hers. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“In our conversations, it was clear he understood the workings of nature,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The new paradigm of collaborative research pursued in the ramshackle Rad Lab surprised visitors bred in the insular working style still prevalent in academia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I walked over, and she held me out at arms length, an expression equal parts sadness and acceptance working across her dark features. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Joe was still working on the shackles on Mom’s legs that bound her to the chair, but he hadn’t even managed to pry away the first one. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You do not have guest-*,” she said haughtily, really working over the final s. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deydey’s gun required his concentrated care, and he liked tea at his elbow while he cleaned the workings and barrel. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

To get a license, one had to know somebody in the State Liquor Authority, and Jews working with Jews seemed to have the best S.L.A. contacts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was doing this a lot these days—checking to see if the phone was still working. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They were working together in the garden, loosening and turning over the packed soil of the beds. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was freelancing then, working at home, and just keeping up with the few book cover assignments I’d taken on was a major effort. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the possibility of my not being paid in the forthcoming year for working on DNA was only annoying and not fatal. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The whole time I was working on him, I was talking to him. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Just for a second. My man been working on a trick and he wanted to show us." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in the attic yesterday afternoon working on our French when suddenly I heard the splatter of water behind me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The organizers started working on the problems immediately. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My job here in prison is working in the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Something she never wore and I felt she owed me for everything I’d been through working for her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Arnold insisted that he could protect André, claiming him as an agent working for the Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Larkin had been working Jinx pretty hard, making him weed her garden and clean out closets of her husband’s old papers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“After I got the wax off my fingers they were working okay so I folded some tissues into a wad and shoved them up between your upper lip and gum. That’s what stops a nosebleed.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

“As friends. We had fun as friends. So I think we’ll be okay working together.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Although we were working very little at the time, he had approached us as human beings, and we agreed to assist him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want anybody to know we’re working with a stand-in. Duke will be back on the job in less than two weeks.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Both of us were working a lot, and Charlie dated a few more girls. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were no working boats, just pleasure craft. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the past two years, Kermit had been working in South America, where he was currently supervising the construction of bridges for the Anglo Brazilian Iron Company. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“We have pledged billions of dollars in economic aid; we are working with your government on providing electricity and gas, but your country faces a lot of problems.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t that down for working with Marge but it was something to do. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The officers in charge of it got it into working order, and in the pauses of the inrushing mist swept with it the surface of the sea. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I felt Scrappy’s temper working its way from the tip of my toes to the top of my head. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then her brother moved in, so you had three adults and two children in a two-bedroom apartment, which was just not working out. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy air seemed to slow the working of my mind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is my intention that by the time of my next Hajj pilgrimage, I will have at least a working vocabulary of Arabic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued working in the main-house kitchen, kneading dough and sewing on the sewing machine, daily growing more deformed by her maternity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Short stories, so far. But I’m working on a novel.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, I was working on a new story in my head. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Successive waves of immigrants filled its factories, working for little above minimum wage as they cut, sewed, and hustled the garments into trucks to carry across the country. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had been working in one of the new colonies for ten days straight and now he had two days off and was on his way to a party. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks will find a excuse to strap you even if you’re working as hard as you ever did in your life. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison sat at his desk, working on his computer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So working out DNA’s chemical structure might be the essential step in learning how genes duplicated. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

So, the little ones went off to school and I kept working. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent has been working hard at his art for almost five years. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what his diagnosis was, probably that I was working on some act. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And goes back to working the land, pulling from it all we need and more than that. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had been delivering an old print from one of the science labs to the guy with the big eyebrows, who was a publicity man working for the university. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad that she’s now working so hard to stay clean. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Does Pop know Officer Moore gets paid for not working? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Brew was trying to increase his vocabulary and was working on a quiz in Reader’s Digest. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entire buildings of people, it sounds like, all of them working too many hours to count. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Harriet, wearing her first bandanna, working in the fields, thought about him, brooded about him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Set atop these odd beliefs and quirky traits, however, was the mind of a supreme genius–though even when working in conventional channels he often showed a tendency to peculiarity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is not a working chimney at all. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I have to say I’m a little bit impressed at how hard he’s working. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I was working on it—” “Did you get her number?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s a close-knit community, but fine. I can ask later. So...what are you working on?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The pay from Roberto’s part-time janitorial job and our earnings working in the fields on weekends were not enough to get us through. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She had physically recovered from the shooting and was working to become a successful bodybuilder and had started a magazine focused on women's health. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My left leg was so short, it didn’t even have a working knee. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Most of the teachers aren’t in it, and none of them has ever been killed — well, unless you count Quirrell, and he got what he deserved seeing as he was working with Voldemort.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This whole thing, he knew, was crazy and had only a small chance of working. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the medicine is working, when from nowhere the thought appeared: The medicine has made you complacent, and you forgot to change the Band-Aid this morning. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know how hard he’s working to pay back Dr. Friendlich. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It’s so enticing, like I’ve been working in the sun and have come home to sink into a feather bed, knowing nothing will disturb me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance ot a gill of beer a day. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Brian had moved out ahead, down and to the right of Derek, and was working closer to the edge of the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nation and I began working after school as well as weekends in order to help feed our family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He said, “I'm working on it. Liyana, don't worry. I’ll be out soon. It’s a big mistake. Take care of yourself! Go home! Stay safe!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t love it, and mostly ignored the other boys working alongside him, but he didn’t hate it nearly as much as what he’d done for Winston at the Blood House. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I think Jessica is too beautiful to be working at a dreary clinic with rubber balls and rusty gym equipment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She had often gone home alone late at night when working on the night shift, she explained. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been working for white people all your life,” I said, “and they have never given you as much as a rag. You yourself always said that.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran it again and again, faster and faster, working on the timing of it all. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Our cheerleaders are working on annoying chants that end in lots of buzzing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wrestling team and gym class situations aren't working out as slick for me as everything else. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time they sat at tables with their one-on-one teacher, working on whatever challenge had put them there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mama and Papi are either always working or always tired—Papi with his two jobs and Mama with us and the housework. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was working on a small wine cup. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

People came and went, working at various jobs, arguing loudly. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his watch to see how much time was left — it had stopped working. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The reverend says he is working on that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Darin nodded, but later that night, I caught him working on it in our room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He blinked, swallowed hard, and began working again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know all that working out has turned you into a hunk.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next day Miss Hattie decided she had to disguise me as a working man—wearing coveralls, a denim jacket, and hair tucked up in an old, floppy hat. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now he tried to sense the workings of this ancient building. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The daily walk is no longer prescribed, to keep her abdominal muscles in working order. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we called and asked about the progress being made to catch the bombers, we received the same answer: “The FBI is working on the case.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Buphead, I thought for sure when I got up this morning that my Ups was working fine, and now when I feel ’em like this they still seem like they movin’ just right. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew he was proud that I was working hard for something I believed in. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the poor soul still working on Lucinda’s banner, all the black men slip through the canvas and out of sight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I don't know what happens to people when this ride is working, but when it isn't, the passengers hang in the air at odd angles, harnessed into legless metal love seats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One in four working Americans—ten million people—had no job and no prospects of finding one, and only a quarter of them were receiving any kind of relief. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My mom did this several nights a week, from Sunday to Thursday—after working all day at the factory. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Annabeth got a tingle down her spine as she realized the boys were working as one, summoning the sky and the sea to do their bidding. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was studying political science at St. John’s at night, working afternoons for a caterer and volunteering whenever he could for John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost forget I’m working for a drunk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I've been working downtown," I said, feeling a surge of gratitude. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers, working largely with monkeys, identified a powerful, multifunctional type of neuron in the prefrontal cortex. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, not too long now, but that’s not exactly where you want to go. See, they working on the levee between those towns, probably a good six- or eight-mile walk from either place.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out over the class, I remember some of the other poems I heard people working on. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I had met no resistance, I might have decided against working for such a poor-mouth-looking concern. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I separate my chores at the stable into two parts, the working part and the enjoying part. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The valuable things were books and records, surgical instruments and optical glass and such things that a practical working burglar wouldn’t look at twice. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were constantly in motion, pulling tools from his belt, working controls, tinkering with his beloved Archimedes sphere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He thinks I will be here, but I will be working against him, working with the father he despises. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even a prison chaplain, one of the “good guys,” faces the underrecognized moral dilemma inherent in working in a jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t you rest better up on your bed or something? I’m—I’m going to be working in here. Making a lot of noise.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Fiks, who was working toward a law degree, was a bright, resourceful fellow who had become the head of the prisoners’ committee in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor who gave me that said he been working with our mother for his whole career and he never knew anything about where they came from. He said he was sorry.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A while back, though, he started working part-time as a clown for children’s birthday parties. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He had made shutters to keep out the rains when they came, and he was working on a surprise for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jordan, who was working days now, had gone to work, and Gerald had found a part-time job at the fried-chicken store around the corner. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I began working at the institute, I recalled my adolescent dream of wanting to be a medical research worker. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poets survive in gulags, in detention blocks, in torture chambers. Even in that misery hole there is poets working, Merdegate, no, where in the hell, on the Channel, I always am forgetting...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Doc was in the basement working on cats when Henri burst in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if weren’t for Faizah working with me, supporting me, and keeping me sane in the midst of all the craziness, I wouldn’t be in Rio. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Christmas lights glowed in spirals of color around the porch, and all the candles were lit, even though the sun was still working its way down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had dreamed of dying any number of ways since her lull stopped working. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hank’s hands were going by this time, like an Italians, and you could tell by his face that he was working hard to come up with the facts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Many of the writers on the project were members of the Communist party and they kept their revolutionary vows that restrained them from speaking to “traitors of the working class.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on it, baby,” he whispered back, and searched the table for the lamp. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I kept working all day and felt let down when I came home with only four Zim dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Harry had never met either of them, but knew that Charlie was in Romania studying dragons and Bill in Egypt working for the wizards’ bank, Gringotts. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, he’s been working hard at learning French, even studying in bed until ten-fifteen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So that’s what I was doing when Rain fell—working on a vocabulary lesson. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I made a gesture with both arms as if working a forge bellows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Very likely as many as a dozen people were now working away on rival versions of what Big Brother had actually said. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She said that different members of the family were working in good jobs, and some even had small businesses going. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, we still need leaders with Fannie’s courage, commitment, and compassion, leaders who will not flinch but will keep dreaming of and working toward fairness for all. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, working for half pay must have disheartened her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it seems to be working. Is Madam not comfortable?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

For example, Stone Age farmers did not proceed directly to extracting and working iron, which requires high-temperature furnaces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Richard, you know if I become friends with your mom and I’m working here at school, that means she’s going to know every single thing that you’re doing, because I’m going to tell her.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It pleased her to imagine her grand goals, but she was deadly serious about working her way up to be the fine lady her mother had dreamed she would be. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, sure. If there’s fifteen people working for me I should consider them. But I don’t know what you mean specifically.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Nelson,” he would say, “what do you have against us? We are all fighting the same enemy. We do not seek to dominate the ANC; we are working within the context of African nationalism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture him, working at his laptop in our sunny kitchen, but the image was spoilt by encroachments from his new life. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just like home. I’m always telling Mrs. Dalton that this is the only home I’ll ever know. I wasn’t in this country but two years before I started working here. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately upon their arrival, they would follow the contractor’s directions, start working—rarely resting—seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work which had to be done was best done as quickly as possible. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she slid her fingers back and forth across the rough grain of the table’s underside, letting her skin drag over the unfinished wood, working out a kind of counterpoint to Henry’s rambling. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá was saving to pay the moneylender, she was working in the fields to help, and Salvador was thinking of buying a motorcycle! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“If this horse keeps working, his coffin bone will rotate until it punctures his sole, and then you’ll lose him,” I say unequivocally. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Nawsuh. You see, mister, I did what they told me. I was only working for ’em. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You get one of those things working, man, talk about energy. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Or it could be that the pills are working,” Olly says. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They might be in perfect working order for all I know. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Wu Tsing and Fifth Wife arrived home, my mother often stayed in her room working on her embroidery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his days away from everyone else—working with wood and metal and oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Evrybody looked at me when I came downstairs and started working in the toilet sweeping it out like I use to do. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shin was fifteen and working alongside thousands of prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working with him for years and, honestly, I don’t think he’ll change. He seems to go into a trance.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"No, it’s for this other thing I'm working on," Rich said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the things that happened to me were working together for good. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Will went in, holding his clipboard as if he were working, and sat down in a gallery hung with paintings. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am working hard and making good pay. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Luma knew that Beatrice had been working a night shift at the box factory. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Shazam!’s been teaching Mr. Ram this handshake for almost two months now, ever since he started working here, but Mr. Ram still can’t get it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But working on stuff the teachers in the regular classes assign is just plain awesome. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Now that Tree-ear was no longer working off a debt, Min was obliged to feed him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And after Punkin' was placed in an institution, Mary had put in long hours working at the Duke University switchboard, a tedious job that paid low wages. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But since he had a working son, he could receive only a small portion of what he would get if he had no living relatives. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But Diomedes raged on, working havoc in the Trojan ranks until he came face to face with Hector. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

David was working another door, his powerjack thrust into a small slot at floor level. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s mighty big,” he said, “and looks to me—and sounds to me—like the Devil’s working every day.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Was she already working for my mother then?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Standing by the door, I asked, “What are you working on?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There are three drivers working, and we manage to time ourselves so that only one of us is in the shop at a time. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would much rather be with my friends or working out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It is now more than a year that I have had the honor of working for you.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Look here,” he said, “while our boy Ned has been up in shady Honolulu we’ve been down here in the sunny South Pacific working on our tans.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

While his buddies were baking out there, Milton was sitting under a ceiling fan, working out a mathematical proof. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they’re working for him. Are these things smart enough to take orders?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It would have been okay in the daytime when I was working. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea hissed like sandpaper working on wood. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan was working in the fields, and I sent one of the boys to call him in. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he’s been working out lately, he’s almost too big for the furniture. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m supposed to be working on scholarship applications. Plus today I have a chance to tutor a kid in chem for some good cash. He called me, desperate.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Stepping into the boat light as a cat Ged set straight the warped boards and rotten pegs, working both with tools and incantations, as he had used to do with Pechvarry in Low Torning. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached the hidden grove, Quinby was working hard to escape the wheelbarrow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Jam’s father, Aloe, was the one who was good at getting through to his wife when she was working. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A few weeks earlier they had installed listening devices on two phones, and one device wasn’t working. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Over the next two years, many southern blacks found themselves out of work or working for next to nothing, earning barely enough to cover basic necessities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lenin’s vision of a better future for the working poor was so ambitious that he hoped World War I would inspire everyone in Europe to get rid of their old-fashioned governments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’s standing by the tool bench but not working on nothing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I will keep working on this, Moose. I promise you I will. But I don’t want to give you folks false hope.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Rommely wanted to hear every word of news and Katie told her everything, starting from the end and working back. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, it was a big cafeteria, but I’d been working my way up to that position since the very first day of sixth grade. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Look at him working away in the lunch hour,” said Parsons, nudging Winston. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Cynthia was working hard to iron out any extra meanings. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s working on his new message,” Sticky said, finally understanding. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gey and his wife, Margaret, had spent the last three decades working to grow malignant cells outside the body, hoping to use them to find cancer’s cause and cure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even after her mother married Henry, sometimes Naomi slept next to her when he was away working in an oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing that my father is working on one of the booby traps we planned out a couple of Saturdays back—which I’m sure will turn out awesome. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If I’m working he comes up to tug at my jacket or works his way up my leg until I take him on my lap.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That all assumes I can get the lander's radio working at all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woody thought about White Boy, his boy from the neighborhood, who picked up a job working at a restaurant called Poor Folks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The friend had been working on the car when he mistook a container of gasoline for a container of water and tried to use it to douse a spark. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty people were working on the Huaricanga mound, shoveling away the obscuring loess. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dad was working as hard as he could, but as in many black families, life had ground down to a bitter struggle for survival. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Englishman was fascinated with the part about the progress achieved at the crystal shop after the boy began working there. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what I could use some help on is the Trivia Contest. I’ve been working at it for twenty-five years and never even come close to a ringer.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After supper I wrapped the toady-frog in the sweater Ma had been working on and put it in her knitting basket and ran ’cross the road to hide in the drainage ditch with Cooter. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was dark out, but there were still men and women working, tucked away in their cubicles, their eyes glued to their computer screens. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Tommy Pothead is working but must have done one too many bong hits, because he’s unable to comprehend the map. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I need it working to get from the airlock to the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, while the good friar cared for him, rubbing his legs and back, working the muscles of his hands and arms, he said, “I was tired, but now I feel better. You are very kind.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m working a double at the restaurant, so you’ll have to look after Mother tonight.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All that night helicopters flew over the working- class neighborhoods, humming like flies from another world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Bois described as “the public and psychological wage” paid to white workers, who depended on their status and privileges as whites to compensate for low pay and harsh working conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was working eighteen- hour shifts, and when he could finally lie down on his cot, he was often unable to sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robot and the gosling liked to spend afternoons up there, working on the finer points of flying. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bolles was working on his master’s degree in history, and it seemed unlikely that he would want to leave the university until he finished it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The boys are working on an impressively large Lincoln Log house that’s made out of pretzel sticks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, there were men working in the fields, and women carrying water in yokes across their shoulders. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You get to know the real life of a place, working there,” Sam liked to say. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When he wasn’t working at his main hatchery, he worked at a different one in another town. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have it for you—my mom’s working on it, and I’m helping. If you give me a little more time, I'll raise the rest of the money. I just need a chance.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“When the street on your block is being repaired and the pneumatic drills are working all day, what does everyone complain of?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He mentioned that there was a working phone on Claiborne, and this was a godsend to Nasser. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Depending on my cab shifts, I continue going back to Glory Road, and though it’s obvious this family is working hard to make ends meet, I still don’t know what I have to do. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Not if we keep your brain working. Being bedridden shouldn’t hold you back.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to make that type of call from Cuba, especially now that Papa wasn’t working. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“By order of the Department of the Dead, working in conjunction with the foremost representatives of Afterlife, I declare before the full moon that this month’s All-Souls Festival is now in session!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s working beautifully! Oh my, what lovely soup this is!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But maybe that’s why it was the best thing. It was a lot of fun, I mean,” he says, “working with you and Jasmine.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Dad compromised by taking moving pictures of each of us, first with colored fingers practicing on the paper diagrams and then actually working on the typewriter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got busy working on our paper prototypes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It means, Jacob, that in order to accommodate less than a dozen performers, we will now have sixty-four working men sleeping under wagons on the flats.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

So the only advantage of working here as opposed to freelancing is that you don’t need a clientele or even a car. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan was wearing the bow guard, but because it was still pretty bright outside, it wasn’t working. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He also promised more jobs, which appealed to the unemployed working class—and would resonate strongly with Dasch. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It is a weekend so he is not working. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of not working his way down the row of buttons on her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered around the building until she finally found a young officer working in a filing room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She wasted four whole years with him—from the age of eighteen, when she started working at the office, to the day she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He’s got some kind of business thing he’s working on, a sporting goods store or something, trying to get it off the ground.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad stopped attending due to working on the weekends. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

My mom stands at the front of the room in a dance skirt, a leotard that’s working a little too hard, super shimmery nude tights, and black character dance shoes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Jesus, I sure needed one. Say, you working now?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You told me you would be working at a mushroom farm, but I didn’t think you’d be doing this.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She stared nervously at the tattooed girl who was working the window. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Doreah washed her hair and combed it out, working loose the mats and tangles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When that didn’t work, he became methodical, working in such a way that the wheel could not possibly escape him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Shreve working the pump, then he came back with the basin and a round blob of twilight wobbling in it, with a yellow edge like a fading balloon, then my reflection. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were crowded with fishermen working their boats. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank and Jim would really get to know one another as they circled the earth more than two hundred times, eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom, working—all within inches of each other. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my fingers around it, then walked on my knees over to Rosaleen’s bed and placed it alongside the pocket mirror and the brush, moving them around like I was working on a collage. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake’s mom was still home because she was working an event that night at the hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dubonnet could stop the machinists from working for me if he wanted to. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other faces came up, their mouths working with soundless fury. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their fathers were off working in a mine somewhere, able to come home only during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was late at night, and the only person to receive the breaking news was a lone botanist working on the floor below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were probably already working from a prioritized list of possibilities, entering them as fast as Sorrento could type. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They'll need us working men then to build their ships and their guns. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be killing yourself working. This flat will be standing here long after you and I are dead and gone.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you weren’t working; you were on the phone with Dad. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Morrow made cryptic announcements, saying the company was working on an ambitious project that would move them in an entirely new direction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty, but more so is a working water mill right across the road. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because neither set of grandparents has a working telephone, their only link to home is by telegram, which Ashoke has sent to both sides in Calcutta: “With your blessings, boy and mother fine.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I there,” Uncle said, “working on Central Pacific.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another elderly black man pointed out that his people had tried working within the' system for years, with little result. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tony and I have known each other for years, working on projects and joking around after class. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The tide had turned once more, and it was working against him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It truly seemed as if nothing less than fate herself was working against them, somehow had it in for the Bronchos, who simply could not beat Permian no matter how hard they tried. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began working even harder at my game because a few youngsters in Alexandra saw me as someone worth emulating. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was in art class, and we were working with oil paints. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a tall grandfather clock, also not working. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Tony had stayed in school through high school, although he missed so many days working in the junkyard that he wasn’t able to graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Five nights a week the working people of the Pantheon quarter danced there. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were wearing bright-red space suits, complete with helmets and goggles—at least they looked like space suits—and they were working in complete silence. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Everything you been working on, Titid,” says Marcel, in a sudden silence. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, I spotted all three Baker sisters sitting at a round table with several other girls, working on lanyards under the direction of a community center worker. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Fred sprawled himself on the floor and began working on a new page in our field guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

First she told of the children working for McGarrity’s, and how the money they brought in was keeping them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early fall, I was working V-gallery, on the flats, just downstairs from W, when above me I heard a commotion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked me if I was sure I wasn’t working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But I wondered if I’d have time to hang around with them, since I was working from sunrise until dark. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so guilty for working in Quito, leaving you alone with Papito and his temper.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here she could envision a man’s skeleton, his musculature; she could describe the workings of his lymph nodes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would end up working on the farm as well. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I enjoy working here and things are going well. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With Esme off caring for her father and him working full-time and taking care of Ruby by himself, I can’t imagine he’s had time to do anything that would cause any harm.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When he got frustrated, which happened about every five seconds, he could hit stuff with his mallet and the other crew members would figure he was working, not throwing a tantrum. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sorenson took it and began working his palm with her thumbs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was Pumpkin who earned extra money working at the Lytes’ stable. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to understand, Grandma is a very proud woman. A very smart woman. She had a really hard time working at Ford when she graduated.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Before he can ask I add: “The trucker who killed my dad and brother fell asleep behind the wheel. He’d been working three shifts in a row. They settled with my mom.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Monday is a full day working in the city I pick up a lot of people and seem able to weave nicely through the traffic for once. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You could earn a lot more than you do now, working for me. I’d treat you so nice,” Neil told her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"What do you think? He wanted me to make sure you were okay. Why d'you think I moved in with you? You think I like working at the deli? Promises were made, cuz." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But there was so much on the Maple Hill side, it was really ridiculous—like “Live cheaper in the country” and “The Chrises” and “Could live on government pension without Mother working.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like exactly the kind of detective I wanted to have working on the case of my murdered parents. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Six boys came over the hill half an hour early that afternoon, running hard, their heads down, their forearms working, their breath whistling. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was Galileo, when he invented the hydraulic press, working on some new, practical problem that only a competent engineer could tackle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I popped around to everyone, working, chatting, telling jokes, making deliveries. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He lights cigarette after cigarette; he hardly stops working. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But since I was working for her she figured otherwise and didn’t really bother to look at me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days I wondered if indeed someone might be working the voodoo on me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pictures her son working in a crisp shirt and shiny shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He reminded us to keep working on our long-term project. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The thought fills me, but I can still feel the darkness working its way up, through my fingers, trying to grab hold. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Miss Winthrop and Mrs. Dalton both came over, and they stayed working late into the night. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did two years of night school at City College in upper Manhattan—working during the days to make ends meet—signed up for the army, served his time, and applied to Harvard Law School. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The crowd was working in and out of the stores like ants around spilled sugar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d fought for tax cuts and credits for the working poor and was focused on cutting prescription drug costs for senior citizens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

People would see me working hard at their neighbor’s and then stop and tell me to come to their house next day when I was done. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I played it with Carlos and my younger brothers, Trampita, Torito, and Ruben, on school days when I had no homework, and on weekends when I was not too tired from working in the fields. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I am known for my work ethic. I am not afraid of working hard or staying late if that’s what’s required of me.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes. They must be working into this tunnel from the other side now—I think.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He leaned back and grunted, to show how hard he was working. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The preparations for Hate Week were in full swing, and the staffs of all the Ministries were working overtime. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re working for me now, and nobody on my payroll sleeps late.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mentions the paint I spilled last night while I was working, but I don’t hear all of what she says because her voice has trailed off and is muffled behind the closed door. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Within days of arriving in Kansas City, Jack had a job working for a clothing-distribution wholesaler, sweeping floors and moving boxes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bongo shifted from foot to foot, something she did when she was working out a problem. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We tunneled into the swirling white blackness, listening to the beat of the fan working to defrost the windshield and the odd airy crinkle coming from the bag in the back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

How do you, another would-be user, then design something similar for your own use, knowing that other people have already got their own model built and working? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clyde stuck the fork in Vendor Reilly’s muffler and ordered him out of the garage, threatening him with dismissal if he didn’t show up early to begin working the French Quarter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't see no woman working in the store. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her I can take her to where Marv’s working, but she asks me to stop at a nearby playground. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I turn on the drum and cha-cha beats, and I move into a jazzy, funky piece that I’ve been working on. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

As usual, I'm working with stuff that was deliberately designed not to burn. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked away, and I continued working as if nothing had happened. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was a Twelve now, and all Twelves would be working hard this year on the preparation related to their Assignments. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We would spend a lot of time working on our technique, practicing a series of footwork or a particular move over and over again, so at game time, we would instinctively be able to execute. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On most days, by the time I am awake, Pa and my brothers are already gone and Ma is busy sewing clothes for the family or working in the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ferret jumped backwards as the shoring burst and the tunnel workings caved in with a dull rumble of earth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dad would sometimes joke that Mr. McCracken lived a double life, working as a dentist by day and preparing for the end of the world by night. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jamie was working a wedge of coconut cream, and he didn’t take his eyes off the pie but jerked his chin in the general direction of the dwindling crowd around the dwindling fellowship fire. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

One day that September, the undercover operative who was pretending to be an insurance salesman stopped at a filling station in Fairfax and struck up a conversation with a woman working there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was like the entire girl had just disappeared, her ghostly abilities working even though she still rode Penelope’s body. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I'm met by a gaggle of cast and crew in various stages of costume, and for once they are quiet, working away on each other's makeup. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I asked her a month after she had been working. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This place is rich with natural resources. And The Corporation is working hard to bring those comforts to America, where they belong.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Joyce’s father, in fact, was well on his way to working himself to death. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jody was working at the Coop that summer and taking a lunchtime course in sociology. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was probably working hard to make enough money to send for me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They’re both working in the hospital tonight, though, so there’s no way they can miss the drill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“What the hell are you working on that you need two computers going?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His take on the boredom was that it “beats working a gallery.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I, even in my more histrionic moments, imagine that I am a member of that oppressed working class. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I'm her only child, the reason she was working so hard, and I went out and did something stupid. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She continued working until she got too unwieldy to dust under the desks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even her one true magic item, her New York Yankees cap of invisibility, had stopped working, and was still back in her cabin on the Argo II. You've got your intelligence, a voice said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Someone else would be working steadily at filling fuel cans, and someone else would carry them out to the planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The chief danger is that a policeman will notice your suspicious activities and arrest you—in which case it is quite difficult convincing your own authorities that you’re not working for the enemy. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I was working on the seam of a dress, when it’s like the room shook me, that’s the only way I can describe it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My father would be working as a chicken sexer, which he told us is where you separate the male chicks from the female chicks when they’re still wet from being inside the egg. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This system turned out to be more reliable than working out complicated arrangements with the nervous ambassadors of the foreign democracies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe kept stubbornly lying on the floor, working the screwdriver against the shackles. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Kochu Maria, in a bad mood for no particular reason, was in the kitchen standing on her low stool savagely cleaning a large fish, working up a smelly blizzard of fish scales. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ears listened to his words, but my tired brain was working on something else. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Thank the guys who got all this stuff working." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did she understand the attitude of the armed forces, most of whom came from the middle and working class and had traditionally been closer to the left than to the far right. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I’ve started working on my bar mitzvah stuff,” he tells me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The boys from earlier reminded her of a short story she’d finished working on this morning, something for her eyes only that has kept her distracted in the quiet times at work. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s because she doesn’t like working with Lena, or because she’s mad that Michael picked me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As he’d sat simmering in his chair, his mind had been working overtime. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He hardly felt proud of them, nothing like the books his parents had chosen for him or the bizarre knitting he was sure Hyacinth had spent hours working on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“As you say, I’m working for Mr. Wednesday.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The tiny sip of the drink I took is suddenly not working. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Being caught between black and white as a working adult was far more unpleasant than when I was a college student. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I should stop till I get to a hundred. I can feel the sentences working. I think I need the whole punishment to make me stop spitting.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was in the laboratory working without me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She recruited working women, set up lecture tours for British suffragettes, and brought in a number of wealthy supporters to the cause. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In its heyday MGF Drilling had had about twelve hundred people working for it and about fifty-five rigs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she marches off to scattered applause and whistles from the working men’s side of the tent. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

William passed peasants working the abbey’s fields, and their little dark hovels, lining the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

All of us had seen him working for Mr. Crane. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It meant that all family units were to be dismantled to make way for barracks housing only single men and women working in the white world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Eric was working—and his job at Andersen was actually a little livelier than Jesse’s, with more young people around—-he was still feeling bleak, it seemed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There. Take the pic. I’m working toward this anyway. One day this will be me full-time so shoot away.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s because your father had been around and working,” my mother said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various teams of Indians who had slipped across the twisted passes of the border undetected were working for Jean de Satigny. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he worked, he remembered the men he had trained: Keeler—Johnny—Owens—Lem...When he thought of Lem he stopped working and pounded his fist on the desk in helpless rage. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Help me kill the giant,” Percy said, “and this will all be over. A god and demigod working together—that’s the only way to kill him.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After working with Jake, I realized that circuit training was the piece of the puzzle that I had been missing prior to 2012. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“They were working with Golan, weren’t they? And I saw the eyes of the one who shot at us. There’s no question.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Let him tell it, if Trey isn’t coming home sweaty and grimy, he’s not working hard enough. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He tried to keep everyone happy and working together—the teachers and the parents and the school board and the superintendent—not an easy thing to do. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

But in my own head I was working it all out: it was a movie scene that became suddenly, terrifyingly real. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move with the crowd, working my way toward my locker, and I think I'm finally starting to relax. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Before we left the relative safety of earth orbit, we wanted to make sure that our navigational equipment was working properly, and that meant using our sextant to sight on two stars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don't worry, me and Charlie are being good, I'm having a good time working with Rock, and I even started a new business with a girl from my school. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The rooms upstairs had grown unbearably hot; the air conditioners had suddenly stopped working, as though they had decided, in unison, to pay tribute to the end. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She could say they lived back in the hills with their momma and their momma couldn’t come in because she was working the farm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, I would don overalls and begin working at one of the factories ringing Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian attended the educational sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was empty except for built-ins all along one wall and a long table perfect for working on projects. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

No more being stuck inside whitewashed buildings all over the world as doctors try drug after drug, treatment after treatment, none of them working. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed that both Joon and Ben had stopped painting to stare at the other end of the table, where Nat was working in utter silence and concentration. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

AH these tilings, working together with the unconscious dread of Elaine’s arrival with his son, broke his happiness without allowing him to escape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the early 1990's I was living in New York and working for a housecleaning company. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Here, in short, was a man with an authority problem, with a strong sense that the system wasn’t working, who had been the recent target of humiliation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, how do you like working here? It’s been a while, right?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes to find a small gray mouse perched on his elbow, working its way toward his wrist. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Still, although Stone dedicated the rest of her life to working for women’s rights, Anthony never forgave her for what she considered a personal betrayal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Three thousand years ago in Delphi the Oracle became ecstatic every single working hour. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My mother looked so worn out, I thought, the result of her working long hours for white people who she said “worked her like a mule, treated her like vermin, yet paid her noth- mg. “ Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not sending away for classical music CDs by mail, working his way methodically through the major composers that the catalogue recommended, and always sending his payments in on time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Only three minutes earlier, it was working fine. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on the crew for the musical!” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would have thought you’d know that, working at the Ministry!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We were instructed to take off our clothes and give them to Siberian men working at the door. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’m tired of working in the school office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he’s not worrying about Anna—or as she sees it, getting in her way—he’s spending time with his little brother Cor and working on some sermons. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You seem to think that the Ministry does not desire what you—what Dumbledore—desired. We ought to be working together.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, the same engineers and chemists who explained the inner workings of the Alcoa plant to the saboteurs had supervised the construction of them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Three women, all in T-shirts and knee-length shorts, were working on the hair of seated customers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Teller saw the lab as a reflection of his own brimming self-esteem—as a huge laboratory staffed with name physicists working in lockstep according to his handcrafted research strategy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Watching him through the glass, I could practically see his mind working: he had discovered something wrong." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a man who had violated federal law—a fugitive, technically—actually working inside Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reject Roman training and try to follow the older Greek style—like being solo heroes instead of working as a team the way the legion does. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And the things she dreaded worst about working in New York was the crowded El trains. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his early twenties, unmarried, and working at a nearby cafe. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time they descended into the Violet hall, the only people who hadn't peeled off to shop at the upper levels were the working classes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Right before I went in to work, I stopped off at the drugstore where Dante was working. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The teacher blinked rapidly, his face like a cash register that wasn’t working. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has stopped working on his canvas, the painting we all thought was going to be this awesome, earth-shattering piece of art that would be auctioned for a million dollars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even having resolved the Zed thing, and working as I was to fix the Bruiser situation, I felt like there were just too many problems. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Might as well starve striking than working,” some said. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She still didn’t feel like working on her blog post, so she texted Dahlia. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“They don’t grow on trees. Plus, his grades weren’t good enough. He was always working too much to finish his assignments.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m working that day at the arts center, but I’m free after 1 p.m. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I left them working, the car looking disgraced and empty with the engine open and parts spread on the work bench, and went in under the shed and looked at each of the cars. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The man working the vat grunted, “How much?” and you answered, “Five kwacha.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I showed him how to make a living working for himself as a fur trapper, prospector, carpenter, woodsman, horses, etc. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well — Scabbers — I mean, this — this man — he’s been sleeping in Harry’s dormitory for three years. If he’s working for You-Know-Who, how come he never tried to hurt Harry before now?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell him that his crazy idea was working. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The storage room, Harmonee, working on our two cities...it helps. I still think about doing bad things sometimes. I’m not completely better, but I feel like I could be better.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My dad was working for the same nursery he works for now and my mom was an actress. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it waren’t working, all his bumping and jarring couldn’t make me quit thinking. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then he stuttered, “Aber...but are you nicht in Belgium? The officer, the auto, they were not coming? Your escape was not working?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

These kinds of bizarre mind games were commonplace working with Sam. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Beckendorf and his siblings were working on a line of defensive spikes and trenches. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Papa, who was working on the ledger. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I had been working as a feature writer at the Boston Globe, a great job for a twenty-four-year-old reporter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked between the guys working on somebody next to me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was working to get the book back, to do a good deed, to win the contest, to bring her father home. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I do not move, do not touch the necklace hidden under the bodice of my tunic, the one that I hope will stop any glamour from working. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That kind of genius status means that he gets a cushy job working in the science lab as a teacher’s assistant for his community service. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I’d committed myself to spending three days a week working in my capacity as First Lady while reserving the rest of my time for family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was only the steady creak-creak-creak as we took turns working the handle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We owe it to them to stay strong and keep working to create a more fair and humane world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The rise of a middle class - and a growing, wage-earning working class, as London’s industry expanded - was to have a greater effect on changing musical tastes in Britain than the whims of aristocratic patrons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, she was back at her desk, working to save her husband’s legacy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Looking at his baby, he was working on a revolution. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They demanded improved safety and working conditions and compensation for anyone injured on the job. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tired of poor living and working conditions, they wanted a simple but drastic solution. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A rustling motion, legs working awkwardly beneath her and white heels flashing, her skirts held high. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody cracks on this and the whole Carver team moves away and it’s just Brothers and Ice working the show. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Must you distract me at every level. I am working on something with wonderful movie possibilities. Highly commercial.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our working relationship, I am sure, would be made a great deal easier.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the troupe knew my father was working on a song. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said it would toughen up my hands, but it didn't seem to be working. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

While Susan B. Anthony was becoming energized to begin working for women’s rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton had less time for reform work as her family demands increased. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you working for the phone company now, or what?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle decided to finish building a house we had been working on since I came to live with him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Welcome,” he said, leaning to shake my hand, and in his voice I heard the enthusiasm and condescension of a man accustomed to working with adolescents. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The muscles in his jaw were working fast. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I grab the book on top and open to a song I was working on with my teacher, Ms. Nancy, before I had to stop my lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

By working straight through supper and then by lamplight, I was able to enclose the whole yard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

All those long days and nights of working finally paid off. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The cost of this trip keeps going up, but I’ll make it back this summer working in my dad’s office, and anyway, it’s a small ransom to pay for Margo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

His daughter was working at the same office as my daughter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“With upcoming deadlines, I’ll be working all weekend and late nights,” Mom said. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her dad had been beheaded by a sharp piece of slate when the tunnel he was working in collapsed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But they were just ordinary men working blindly, pretending to be able to bring light into the darkness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Generally he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn't working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working with her for months. But she told me not to tell you.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Big Ma thought Bible school was “working on” Fern and that Fern had caught the spirit. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He had grown up in Idaho during the Great Depression, working summers as a miner to pay for college, and was eager to jump into the ranks of the G-men. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The Sixers have a huge advantage over all of us. They’ve got an endless supply of money, weapons, vehicles, and avatars. There are thousands of them, all working together.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His eyelids weren’t working and his lips weren’t working either; the words sounded garbled even to him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We were over Australia now, exactly one hour after liftoff, and all our machinery seemed to be working perfectly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With this fish I was retaliating against the sea, against the wind, against the sinking of ships, against all circum­stances that were working against me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She must’ve been working hard for years to convince herself that both her parents were completely insane, Sierra realized. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

With a full calendar of child care, family commitments, and volunteer activities, she was as busy as a stay-at-home mother as she had been working outside her home. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I want you to keep working,” Mom says, “but I need to know if you’re having dinner with us.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I remember what he said on the first day, about working in the control room, where the Dauntless monitor the city’s security. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Like most Saturdays, she would be working the whole day in Brooklyn. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“My gag reflex is working his way up.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She realized the men, mostly draggers and diggers, would all be working, and she felt relieved, remembering how they had grabbed at her the day of the weapons. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since 1988 he’d been working hard to make a go of it as a freelance photographer, and he hoped reaching the summit of Everest would give his career a needed boost. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not the point. I love working at the Idle Hour. Anna and Richard count on me. It’s part of my life, and I won’t let you take that away from me, too.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Also, she had seen the working party gnawing industriously at the base of a tall poplar. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He spent the soggy afternoons working on homework projects and reading a cowboy novel. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was working in a tequila factory and living in a two-bedroom house that had electricity and a water well. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom started working less and sleeping more, and she wore pajamas around the house, which she’d never really done before. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Garfield's Ohio political friends had been working toward winning him a seat in the U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No? But you figured an easier and more accurate way to check longitude. Astronomers and scientists have been working on that quite a while—for several hundred years.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell killed about five hot dogs each, mowed through half a pack of beef jerky, some donuts and were working on our second six-pack of beer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jessie peeked over from where she was working on her fruit battery experiment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Me too, honey. But listen to me—they’re working some trouble out there, and it’s aimed at you—don’t ask me how. Is this the boy with the knife?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, I see the doctors working feverishly on Peeta, their brows creased in concentration. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I’d rather be working with him on this, too,” she snapped at the antlers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But other times, she’ll notice I'm exhausted and say, “Simone, it’s not working today. Go home. I think you could use some rest.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Since she was dressed in sweatpants and an oversize flannel shirt, I thought maybe we’d go straight to the yard to start working, but she led me through the house to the kitchen. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She just stood out on the porch in a faded apron and broken boots, working her hands. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m working a fatality. I think the driver who caused it was texting.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Three fights and four innings later, I conceded that the experiment wasn’t working out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After making a number of telephone calls, I finally located Mr. Jones in a town in England, where today he is working as a veterinary consultant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned from Cape Town I started working part-time for the BTF. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Israel Israel did not choose to step aside and let the workings of the city government continue as usual. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I think that I might be able to get one working computer from the three. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

One day last December, Pap come home in a turrible state after he spent a afternoon working on the Tanner plantation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

What about the exposure to those people who had been working on the air-handling system? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drained like I had been working on a chain gang, breaking rocks in the hot sun. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Twig and I are working together,” I explained, even though I think he’d already figured that out. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I was working on S’meggs a little more and I added just a few tweaks. We didn’t test it from the height it’ll actually be dropped from, so I adjusted the angles a bit.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It allowed him to get paid for the same job twice, and to salve any guilt he felt about working for a demonic multinational corporation like IOI. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In Chicago, there was cash in your pocket and a steady stream of new job openings if the current one wasn’t working out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At noon Mr. Gonzalez looked over the stack of papers on which he was working and said, “I wonder where Miss Trixie can be.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Erik that he “had heard about him already from the coach” and that he “was looking forward to working with him.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchs explained that he and the British team were working out the details of how best to separate U-235 from U-238. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

That night, I slide next to Mom, who is working on her computer. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

This warm, devoted circle of people was always on the front lines of the struggle, working to ensure the rightful equilibrium of human rights—not just domestically, but globally—“by any means necessary.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Washington, D.C., the Public Allies founders had mustered a fledgling class of fifteen Allies who were working in various organizations around the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was working at the table behind the window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Answer: Doing anything other than working during company time, anything at all. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he doesn’t like her friends, so nobody gets to visit her unless he is working. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been working upstairs with a blanket over her knees and a little naphtha stove at her feet, so she hadn’t lit the sitting room fire all day and it felt chilly in there. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I asked this daily, and I sure couldn’t get over that it seemed to be working. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate them as he walked, cracking the shells one by one, working the nut meat loose with his tongue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I will have to point out how different things are now - that the days of working with a grand staff at one's beck and call will probably never return within our lifetime. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to have a team of eleven working for me.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lon was supposed to be working on his letters, though he’d memorized the alphabet before the end of his first week, and now found these exercises dull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Leave it in the hands of God and the police, who are working hard.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were two young white men in overalls working with the horses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his days in a borrowed office, working on a study of recent international crises that he hoped would be useful to government policymakers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If the gardener stops working, nature takes over. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The engineer corps was working on a new arch that would commemorate the victory over Polybotes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“A hundred pounds a point if you get them in. A hundred hours working for me if you don’t. What do you say?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I so scared then,” she told Mia, fingers working the soft paper of the napkin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps my kidneys were listening in, though, because just in time, they started working properly again. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Daddy sat in the brown leather chair, reading his newspaper and working his crossword puzzles. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They skip forward several years after that: suddenly Megan is twenty-four, living in London, working as a waitress in a North London restaurant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a subtle limp to her walk, maybe, but if I hadn’t known what had happened, I would have just assumed she was coming in from a long afternoon of working in the Garden. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She had enough of working on a farm when she was younger. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Here I’d been trying to second-guess Father, working out the garden business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And both were working for big companies with lots of benefits and possibilities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the gymnasts’ regular coaches also attended the five-day camp, working with Martha’s staff to help push us to the next level. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then he said the items, starting with girl and working back to cockroach, and I swear he looked just like a great big baby that had just made a superduper mud pie. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She flipped it open to the drawing she spent all afternoon working on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“A modest bodice is what I’m thinking, with a minimum of frill. Simple and plain. A gathered skirt. You can wear that pinafore on top when you’re working. Do you have more than one pinafore?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will he the merciful thing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who fought this war between America and the Soviet Union maneuvered in secret, often alone, working in the shadows of Berlin, Moscow, and Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the professor working with him on his master’s thesis. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” she continued, “I’m working on something. I don’t know what yet. But something. I need you to not get kicked out of school so you can help.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, sir, I must say, you’re certainly looking fit and trim. Have you been working out?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Some men later admitted they’d had “great misgivings” about working under a woman. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s true he was often working for weeks at a time on construction projects in Quito. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commanders here are working off Plutarch’s holograph. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year- olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m wary of the Bureau and everyone in it, I can feel the quiet hope of the sculpture working its way through me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t seem possible. For three years I’ve been working under the direction of androids. Why didn’t I suspect—I mean, enough to do something?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then I told her the harder stuff, about how Mom stopped working and I thought she’d been fired, but really she’d just stopped. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before that an older woman, Mrs. Linden, greeted him when he came home each afternoon, sipping coffee from a thermos and working on crossword puzzles while Eliot played on his own. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Low Cuts stood outside, stared at the building for a moment, working up the nerve to go in. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The rocks were small enough to position with just the four of us working on it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had been working on the hill for two hours already when they saw the bright yellow school bus go by on the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It will be the working base for an action program designed to eliminate the political oppression, the economic exploitation, and the social degradation suffered daily by twenty-two million Afro-Americans.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quilt ladies were still working as I marched by real quick down to the kitchen. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next 15 minutes, Mr. Stoker lectures us on being honest and working hard and having principles. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were now hundreds of gunter clans, some with thousands of members, all working together to find the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When she had been working in the fields beside him she had been planning all this out! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Hephaestus’s kids weren’t pretty, and there were only four of them, but they were big and burly from working in the metal shop all day. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The old ways were simply not working anymore. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“This fear we are whipping up in our people. Bombs in women’s bras! Bombs in tins of baby milk! Saboteurs everywhere! Watch your children because they could be working for Nigeria!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Andrew, you see, was working with things he did not really understand; most magicians are. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I slide open the drawers, starting with the top and working my way down. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, sir, I have been working hard. Our crop wasn’t great, but we did all right. We are thankful for that.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary working people wouldn’t walk on the sidewalks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I picked you,” Davis said to Katherine that day outside her classroom; two men, then working as principals in other parts of West Virginia, would join her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His case was one of the flood of cases I'd found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He told you he was working the night shift and had to leave in a few minutes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There it flopped, in the bottom of the boat, its jaw working, its gills fanning rapidly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This medicine they got her on..He studies his seeds. “I think it’s working. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s going to be working in the kitchen for quite a while. Why? Are you afraid I’ll fire Mrs. Linfont and start cooking myself?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Yellin had every spy he’d ever used working day and night and not one of them had come up with anything about Guilder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many of you get up in the morning, deal with whether or not an elevator is working, you may dress a brother or sister, may stop at the store to get some breakfast. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, working in the mines was almost as much of a rite of passage as circumcision school, a myth that helped the mine- owners more than it helped my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t quite figure out why things weren’t working, her periodic distance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He’s working on it,” Gabriel whispered to himself, lying all the way down on his back and staring at the ceiling to see the all-too-familiar rough whiteness sprinkled with the tiniest flecks of gold sparkle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I watch the whole thing in motion—everybody busy; hundreds of kids banding together, working side by side to accomplish a single, worthwhile goal. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There, outside Cut Bank, he crossed paths with Wayne Westerberg and by the end of September was working for him in Carthage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One night soon after we arrived, I was working on the puzzle and Grandma was drowsing in her platform rocker. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now that he wasn’t working, he said he would audition for roles. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I took Akira out to the fields and left him alone while I was working,” Mama said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

May I suggest that from now on, we simply make a special point of communicating important information during the course of the normal working day. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Half the time they were supposed to be working they were just yakking away. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My father was often away in those early years, working at different jobs to support the family, including a job in customs and immigration at the port. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The black brothers moved through black shadows amidst black rocks, working their way up a steep, twisting trail as their breath frosted in the black'air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s like some part of me knew,” I tell him, working the bend of her elbow. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Nok's father and Mark were working together to organize an election the next month. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It came in the form of a smile working at the firm corners of my father’s mouth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She repeats this process over and over, working until the cloth burns without charring, remaining bright and white within the flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The radio had stopped working consistently a year earlier; it would come to life only if I hit a pothole or stopped suddenly enough to violently shake the car and spark a connection. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Anyway... the giants were hard to kill. According to prophecy, they could only be defeated by gods and demigods working together.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jake was working on his phone, slicing watermelons in a game app called Fruit Ninja. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He named thieves and quoted statistics, working hard to relate what he knew of the far past and the near past to the present. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workers enriched the soil with one thousand carloads of manure shipped from the Union Stock Yards and another two thousand collected from the horses working in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They turned off the main path toward the working area of the hunting camp where the horses were tethered, and Kaisa said, “I hope that you enjoyed yourself today.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep food in their bellies, she has to spend most of her time away from them, working. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

An attorney assisting the prosecution explained to her, “We are all your friends and working for you.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Percy could almost see Octavian’s mind working, calculating whether or not Percy would be useful. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The Cougar just got throwed off a horse he was working and busted his leg,” he sobbed to David Alexander. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t said in the tone the kapos used to taunt us or goad us into working harder. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And through the Firebus ride to the game, as the mirrored softball spins, so does my brain: Maybe he was working on the cure for some disease. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It was even worse with my gramps once we started actually working. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra could see the intensity in his body, saw his jaw working, and then saw an authority descend over it, calming and relaxing and clarifying. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see his mind working, stone-cold, grinding like a millwheel. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I am now a productive fake member of the working class, it’s because I haven’t been working, in any hard physical sense, long enough to have ruined my body. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I’ve been working like a slave, much harder than I’ve ever worked in the onion fields, but I feel as though nothing mattered except just to be alive right at this moment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

McGarrity waited a few days until the children got used to working for him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries, they supported research and maintained in the library a working environment for the best minds of the age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After negotiations for better pay and working conditions broke down, the Marx & Haas Clothing Company locked out one thousand workers, including United Garment Workers of America Ladies’ Local 67, of which Fannie Sellins was president. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“I told you nine years ago you were becalmed, didn’t I? And you are. Your indenture’s almost over—but what can you do? Keep on working in a chandlery, like as not.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps his lips sealed as he chews, his jaw working in an exaggerated motion. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I was compelled to lead this sort of life, I made a public statement in which I announced that I would not leave the country but would continue working underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the genius of these institutions. They want the working classes, laborers. Boys who aren’t stamped by”—Herr Siedler frowns— “middle-class garbage. The cinemas and so forth. They want industrious boys. Exceptional boys.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dell Duke looks at me, and whatever my face is doing seems to be working, because he shrugs and says: "Okay." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sofya's hand froze to the propeller blade of the plane she was working on. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I guess Mister Johnny’s not working today either. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He rocked his head, working to keep the pencil from slipping off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixty days hence, at the festival of the High Nile, Queen Tiy will wear about her beautiful neck Pharaoh’s newest gift. Aye, it will be complete by then, if I keep working.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It turned out that my mother had once spent about a year working for him as a secretary, taking dictation and maintaining the legal department’s files. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mainstream groups such as the Durham Lions Club also bridled at the idea of blacks and whites working together to smooth the path to integration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So, here I am working my fingers to the bone for this baby.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many of these vehicles had been in working condition when they were abandoned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Been working for the common good? Splendid. I want you to do that every morning." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Sisters and senior nurses had been drafted in to help, and five or six doctors were working on the most urgent cases. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Try working it out,” she said, sounding like she was getting an attitude. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t only his positive attitude and willingness to put in the time that made working with Akhi so different, he was also showing me a whole new approach to the sport of fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

While working on her Surinam book, Maria painted a beautiful series of seashells on commission to bolster her dwindling funds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As I chased after Ema, I saw Ms. Owens, who was working as cafeteria monitor, move quickly to cut me off. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

As president, Roosevelt was known as the champion of the working man. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

If anyone asked, he was to say he got his tanned skin from working outside. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sana’s speaking too softly for me to hear, but whatever she’s saying must not be working, because even through the screen, I can see the Tribesman shaking his head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Of Marina Raskova’s original three regiments, there were men now flying and working in both the 586th Regiment and the 125th Guards, and those units were now led by men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The men spent a lot of their other time working on their new identities and rehearsing their cover stories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t just a monster on the loose—there were witches working with it—working against them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Treason against the Fatherland—what was I doing working for the enemy, the English? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The working people were dressed muchly as we did out in the country, but there were a few gentry who stuck out of the crowd like peacocks wandering in the chicken pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second the idea glittered before Sefia like one of her Visions: the Five Islands working together in concert, all the warring kingdoms united, their turbulent histories smoothed over in a single decisive victory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All that fall, the Welch Daily News and the Bluefield Daily Telegraph were filled with stories of our American scientists and engineers at Cape Canaveral in Florida, desperately working to catch up with the Russians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk is full of people working their way in. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went chronologically, starting with volume one and working their way toward one hundred and fifteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Government officials working for the Office of Indian Affairs were also concerned that Mollie was slowly being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We restocked the coolers, but by the time we got back to the beach another hawker team was working our territory. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent afternoons working in the store or reading aloud to Abuelito. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at her narrow shoulders and wiry arms working over our dinner, and I realized that I had always counted on her for other things besides food. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“My mirror isn’t working either! It’s just showing my face—” She frowned. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I am 20, white, a child of the working class. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believed equally in both, so I volunteered for Vietnam, delaying my dream of working on spaceflight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tells the man her husband is late tonight, that he’s probably working overtime, and would it be at all possible to get'a few things and she’ll be sure to see him tomorrow? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on everything he asked me to do,” my mother said with a self-righteous attitude. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I mean, sure, I talk to my laptop sometimes when it’s not working, but it’s never spoken back. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Looking in his refrigerator—the compressor had long since ceased working—he found a dubious cube of margarine. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I never saw anyone working up at the church cemetery,” said Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this was what it was like for Oppenheimer and his team of scientists when they were working on the bomb. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She must have been working in her greenhouse when she heard about us. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would never do to appear for his first working meal dressed in mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And I'm being too adversarial, considering they spend all day working on how to save my life. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she kept working with Chinese codes, she would have this problem over and over again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

You don’t expect to hear rock and roll guitar in Shostakovich or a bluesy sax solo in Bartok, even though these composers would have heard both, often, during their working lives. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If he's trying to be undercover, it's not working well. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It would be a great honor for me to continue working for the potter.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I stopped working on it three years ago, when he married Linda, his administrative assistant. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was working pretty well most of the night. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I miss working, I would miss this more. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Major strode with dignity to the rear of the orderly room without glancing at any of the clerks and typists working at the desks and filing cabinets. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think I won’t knock you a good one to keep you from working any more of your devilry.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Outside, men were working in an open trench, up to their knees in muck—a common sight in the months to come. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would have killed me, so I continued to hustle, working at the school and I also picked up a second job coaching the fencing team at Columbia High School. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mom’s not working today, so she’s wearing a pair of black leggings and a white T-shirt decorated with shiny purple hearts. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here? Who are you working for?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Freckles is working himself up a little, the top button of his white shirt straining. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And I can’t exactly say that I’m working off my scholarship debt, either. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He also was working to secure employment for his trained cyclotroneers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Uncle, we still need to find the Nightbeast, but we have a theory. We think someone is working with it,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“English’s been working on his range,” I said. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory, echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

The way he was moving his ratlike mouth, I knew he was working up another loogie to spit on me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Flossie supported her mother and brother by working as a turner in a kid-glove factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom thinks they’re all out to steal from her so she rifles through their coats and shopping bags when they’re working. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb the iron stairs to the first one shabby enough to house working men and slide the door open so violently it bounces closed again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Also in 1870, Victoria Woodhull moved to Washington, DC, and began working as a lobbyist for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It said, “I am fine. I got a job working as a clerk in a store. ” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep nodding off between reading the problems and working out the solutions. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clary was always kind to her, and working with the plants took Lina’s mind off her grief. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of terminals could be built, all linked to the mainframe by a telephone line, and everyone could be working—online—all at once. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The ancient wisdom was discarded, and scientists began to divine the laws that governed the workings of nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that’s what Mama was talking about, with woman trouble. I get bullied every day for working root, but you’re my brother, and no one gives you a hard time.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were five minutes of instruction that day; students spent the remaining fifty-odd minutes working on various stories they were writing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t working right, so I threw it in the garbage.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

When she’s not working, she stays in our room, making sure he eats. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Life improved for Milkman enormously after he began working for Macon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Wintergreen was a snide little punk who enjoyed working at cross-purposes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward the edge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For a while, we said and did nothing beyond working out the cricks and kinks from the awkward positions we slept in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"You already have sales experience working at the luggage store." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jay came in from washing more bottles and placed the box of empties on the table next to where I was working. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With Pierre Michel actually working on that train, the chance was too good to be missed. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the media, there are more than 2,000 people working at Star City, and 30 percent of those jobs are critical to the space agency. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Katie, at seventeen, had only been working four years when she married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to see what section he was in,” said Ron, who’d had enough of working. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Did she know about me working for Johnny Cakes? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always doing extra so he was the last one to lay off working. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Following them came long sections honoring working women. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When Rondon wasn’t working on the ranch, he went to school. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she’d noticed how much they were helping him, when he ought to be working out how to do the task alone? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So for the rest of the day, at fifteen-minute intervals, he picked up the phone to see if it was working. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Seems as if they're working on a condensation trap to purify some water, and though I’m thoroughly impressed that they even know what a condensation trap is, they’re going about it all wrong. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He read this book call Invisible Man. When he done, he say he gone write down what it was like to be colored working for a white man in Mississippi.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her expression grew distant at times, the same thinking expression she had worn earlier while she was working. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember this as the scar Luke got from working the Shear; however, it might have come from a roofing accident. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He told everyone who would listen that his grandfather kept Belgians, huge working horses, and boarded horses for others. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We are also working to determine any accomplices or known associates who may still be at large. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You think you ever going back, Miss Saunders? Back to working in a big company?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“For how long has he been working there?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There didn’t seem to be any logic to taking a man brought in for gasoline-siphoning and placing him with four men suspected of working together on crimes varying from looting to terrorism. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I was working strictly free-lance. And I didn’t kidnap her; I saved her from others who were doing that very thing.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The synthetic music plant was working as they entered the hall and left nothing to be desired. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell them it isn’t working. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I was afraid to call home because of Tateh, but I knew Dennis was working for Aunt Mary, so I somehow ran him down in Harlem where he was staying. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he goes right on working there half the night. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He went into the kitchen, sat down, and watched Neeley working. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a reporter for El Diario/La Prensa working on an investigation of a drug lord in East Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But then, one day, a boy working on a group project with Annie managed to snap a photo of her showering in the privacy of her own home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stop working. When I stop working, I hurt. My head, my back, my legs hurt. I get dizzy. I can’t stop.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your writing shows promise. If you’re able to overcome the difficulties like the one you describe in your paper and you continue working as hard as you have, you’re going to succeed.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My mother at this time seemed to be always working- cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning, and fussing over us eight children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group from the Dance Theatre of Harlem was spending six weeks at her school, working with talented young people. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But white sports officials across the country are working around the clock to get the government to act fast.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been working on the Large-Billed Puffins all September, and most of the time I was working on the stupid fading foot, because an artist doesn’t draw two-dimensionally, in case you didn’t know. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My staff and I had spent the past two months working to turn my idea for a garden into reality, which hadn’t been easy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I knowed it was a baby ’cause it was tied the same way all the Settlement women do when they’re working and want to keep their children with ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

That summer, Adam was working at the center part-time while going to community college, where he was studying business. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even after months of working for the elderly woman, she still called Ophie everything but her given name most of the time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

How long had he been working with computers? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If possible, she looked even buffer, like she’d been working out. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Men working in the fields wore goggles and tied handkerchiefs around their noses to keep the dirt out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were already working on November’s orders and here it was only the middle of October. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nice and smooth. Remember when you were closer, the pressure of your partner, knowing the steps, working and moving in unison." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

One day, while he was supervising us at the quarry, I was working next to Fikile Bam. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “Don’t you worry, son. Things has ways of working theyselves out.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I peer around from where I am working in Jordache, hoping to see her go splat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been other times, of course, when Johnny stopped drinking but that was when he was working. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father used to work behind those double doors, working hard to find new ways to combat the plague. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“This potion is the only thing that helps. I am very lucky to be working alongside Professor Snape; there aren’t many wizards who are up to making it.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My dad tells me he started working for the resort about nine months ago. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Not all of them will. Some clans are working with the Dust hunters.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey and I slipped out of the kitchen and parked ourselves in front of the television, which still wasn’t working. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In her novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison captures this distant relationship between the black working class and the Mutual. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t step out because Dray’s words working with the cops are like a giant brick wall that’s been placed in front of me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working. We discussed this when I took the promotion. It meant full-time hours. And then writing this grant proposal, which I told you all meant extra hours, was temporary.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You thought if I knew that it would fix my mind about you keeping on working.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little old white-headed woman working in a flower bed. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way he could maintain his own independence and creativity was by working very late at night, when he could have the run of a great laboratory almost to himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I am working for it! I just spent an hour googling some random dude who likes paninis and didn’t go to band camp.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Clergymen who had seen it were working the fair into sermons and lectures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

From that point forward, there was a great divide between Stanton, Anthony, and others who backed educated suffrage, and those who supported working for African American suffrage first and female suffrage afterward. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s not for school. It’s just...something I was working on in my free time.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While I was working there, two American wars raged on. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After she returned with the scissors, Omakayas quietly took up the deer bone from her mother’s skin bag and began working on the moose hide without being asked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

About the same time that the Soviets began working on putting another woman in space, they also began talking about a space station, built from separate modules. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mother was too ashamed to take it out so the baby got an airing only on weekends when Joanna wasn’t working. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now thoroughly unnerved, I tell him I’m not working an eleven-hour shift, not without time and a half after eight. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alas, beautiful girl. We all are working for Gaea now. I fear these orders are from our father, Boreas himself.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After working at Gertrude’s Pets, me and Winn-Dixie would go over to the Herman W. Block Memorial Library and talk to Miss Franny Block and listen to her tell us a story. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you spilled something dangerous on yourself while working in the hoods, you could simply pull the drench’s handle and rinse yourself clean in a stream of cool water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He tells me stories about the summer, during college, he spent working on the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Leah went first as always, Goddess of the Hunt, her weasel-colored pixie haircut springing with energy, her muscles working together like parts of a clock. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of spending my days underground, I was studying or working in a law office where the only physical activity was running errands or putting files in a cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I heard Mrs. Galley’s voice saying, “Instead of agonizing about the things you can’t change, why don’t you try working on the things you can change?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kick a piece of balled-up loose-leaf paper as if it’s a soccer ball, working on swiveling my feet around the front as I go. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Your dad hardly gets to see you since he started working for Yellow Cab.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Members of the hoity-toity Mount Zion Baptist Church mingled with the intellectual members of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and the plain working people of the Christian Methodist Episcopal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One study indicates that as late as 1970, more than 70 percent of all blacks working in metropolitan areas held blue-collar jobs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this comparison was made with regard to the conditions, where hospitals were not open or working, where clean water and other basic services weren’t available. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"Now, these fine boys have been working hard. Don't you think it might be possible that they might have taken a drink since you last filled their canteens?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The apartments weren’t designed for that many, but that was what Harlem was about, working people doing the best they could. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was working full-time, but it didn’t pay enough for both rent and food. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby was very small and contained only a desk at which a female Attendant sat working on some papers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If you kept me from working that long, I’d fall ill from shock.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was a dangerous player who was always working an angle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Are you still working at the store?” she asked me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A clergyman, who must have borrowed his voice from Mr. Edel, concluded by asking God to take care of the Jews, all those in concentration camps and prisons and everyone working in Germany. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Funny, because I spent all weekend working on that, too.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All of us did our part, but with the Depression on, working hard simply wasn’t enough. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was somewhat younger, working on my famous Dresden book, I asked an old war buddy named Bernard V. O’Hare if I could come to see him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even start writing his own book, bout being a colored man living and working in Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That’s why I was happy I was working at the Dollar Store in Irvington: I was less likely to be seen there. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The smell of azaleas and the sleepy smell of sun working with chlorophyll filled the air. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For single, working members of the community, like those at the Hatchery, the requirement was set aside. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since being tapped by Arthur Compton in June to supervise the theoretical work on bomb design, Oppie had been working out of his Berkeley office with a small group of trusted colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

You could look through it and see Maniac calmly working on the other side. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard Baba tell Rahim Khan that a judge had bought the land and that an architect was working on the design. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few months after Mom had started working as a teacher, Brian and I passed by the Green Lantern. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Morrison warned that if anyone discovered he was working for the feds, it would mean his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I kept working my way backward through the parade so I would not be carried to the boxcars. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Kenny was working in the small building they had put up near the tannery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice to see someone working around here,” Hoagland said, rubbing warmth into his hands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede was working in the cliff garden when she received the summons. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On my last afternoon, I try to explain who I am and why I’ve been working here to the women on my team for the day, a much more spirited group than Holly’s usual crew. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy would recover, but he wouldn’t be working anytime soon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m, uh, working on a project at this other kid’s house.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Woodwell is about a million years old now, and mostly retired, but once upon a time about half the working boats in Spinney Cove come out of his shed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He instituted a regime of “compartmentalization” in which physicists working on one aspect of fission were denied access to research on different aspects, even if they might be relevant to their own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Seeing as how you’re still working on your dinner there,” he said none too casually to Chronicler as he wiped his mouth on his sleeve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Boat, waves, water and wind: through the wood she felt them working for her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, working the saw carefully beneath a low branch. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Henry wasn’t around much, because he spent most of his time working and trying to launch a political career. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And only now, after working this same land for ten years, am I coming to understand the length and breadth of outsiders’ failure to impose themselves on Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hélène had the day off, and Clarissa was working double time to finish a new app update before Christmas, so it was just the two of us in this enormous house. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli kept Rachel and me there fencing with each other for the next hour, and I began to get the hang of working with my new weapon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For the next fifteen minutes he stood there working busily, at what I could not see but only guess. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What are you supposed to be working on?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Didi was about my age and spent most of the week working as a domestic worker in a white suburb of Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I want to leave you with one thing to think about: Instead of agonizing about the things you can’t change, why don’t you try working on the things you CAN change? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could do the multiplication table through ten and read and write simple sentences by the age of four as a result of all those long nights working with her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came opposite, working and puffing even on the level, and I saw the engineer pass, I stood up and stepped up close to the passing cars. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All right but it’s bedtime now and we need a good sleep before working on it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other committees are working all around the room, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Matthew and Mark stayed out of school to help Dad bring the crops in, the three of them working some days from dawn until midnight. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

At night, people are home in bed, which makes them an awful lot easier to reach than if they are off on errands or working in the fields. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The series they were working on when I showed up was for the Disney Channel and called Higglytown Heroes. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“First we will take you into the mine, to show you where you will be working,” a kapo told us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that he was working on a sequel set in the Netherlands—maybe Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Man end up moving there and trying to start a new life. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Here was a woman, she thought, who had understood that she was lucky to even be working, that there was always something, something else, that they could take away. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No sense letting your brain go to rot. You know anything at all about working with wood?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The toilet paper seems to be working OK, though.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even big things like when my dad, a cop, started working longer hours and could barely stand to look at me when he finally did come home. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“And I wanted to be the first librarian on Mars. Ask me how that’s working out. Now go play something else.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got twenty-five Negroes working my fields and if anyone so much as laid a hand on them, or any of their families...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he were working for them something would happen and he would get some of it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Had he already been working for Voldemort when this picture had been taken? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started working with poor children and families in Black Belt counties across the South. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He remembered his father’s stories about his poor childhood and how at Nicolas’s age he was already out working to support his mother and sister. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men like me were working on the shore. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have always hung out at Amanda’s house because I lied and said Uhmma and Apa owned a restaurant that kept them working long hours so there was usually no one home. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

With virtually every academic lab in the country working under government contracts, Kamen could not find a research job anywhere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They had him working the crew, so they let him eat good. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We want a do all kind a stories. Good things and bad. She working with... another maid right now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But he managed pretty well and kept working on his college degree as hard as ever. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being the man of the house means no more school for me and certainly more working hours. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Merriam looked at me, then went back to whatever she’d been working at to let me know that I wasn’t worthy of Her Majesty’s attention. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s that they had a skill that they had been working on for years that was suddenly very valuable.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Unable to catch Seabiscuit working, the newsmen took a page from the Wise We Boys and staked out tactical positions around the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This happened often enough that it interrupted the proper workings of Mig’s olfactory senses. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Doreen was still working at the Waffle House and couldn’t find a person to pick up her shift, so Luke brought the boys, nothing but toddlers back then. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He tells Mr. Banerji that some darn fool scientists are working on a square tomato, which will supposedly pack more easily into crates than the round variety. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wake up before dawn to start working in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, not working on “Pirate Medley” would be—what had Ms. Platt called it? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you're curious, that balance point was a sweltering 41°C. I did a full diagnostic on the regulator and the oxygenator, and I'm happy to report both are working perfectly. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids working behind the counters of the food places who looked like they hadn’t had the will to live for hours. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day she was working tomatoes on the black iron range, and her kitchen was hot enough to steam the calendars off the wall. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her lips working and then tears came down her plump cheeks. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One summer day, a rare one when she wasn’t working, Mom had taken me to the local pool. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On my laptop, I open our folders of notes and sort through all the ideas we were working on before last April. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Daniel Ellsberg was working late again, his boss’s office was dark, except for a faint light coming from the open safe in the wall. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

While I was working on my letters, my cell started buzzing like crazy. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa didn’t quit working nor look ’round nor act like I’d talked to him, he just said, “Is they white?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m not running around; I’m a working woman!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The wages and working conditions of the farmworkers in an organic field aren’t much different from those on non- organic factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The boxing club working out in the gym, maybe, doing calisthenics or the other stuff boxers did. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of smart people working on that project, and I guessed they’d figure things out, sooner or later. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But Captain Candless was working for him, too. Up until just a couple days ago—” Knot stood abruptly. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she was working on a plate of it, and made me have one, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On July 1, after a week of working out and relaxing in Poughkeepsie, the boys packed up their possessions, loaded the Husky Clipper onto a baggage car, and headed for the 1936 U.S. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I stand in Stella’s doorway again, watching the steady rise and fall of her bandaged chest, her new lungs working perfectly. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we start working on the music,” Mrs. Hidalgo said, “and give Malú time to get the lyrics down, all right?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Now for the eyes: I had left them to the last, because they required the most careful working. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The two of us spread out the paper, and we started working. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

This might mean working with broad categories of Chinese, Indian or West African music, or narrow sub-cultures such as hip-hop music, Motown sound from the 1960s, or even the sound of an individual singer. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, the bar he was working on looked unchanged, but he’d pulled enough iron from it that the cloud between his hands was nearly black. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was working on my famous book about Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida smoothed her hand over the piece of trim she’d been working on. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, it wasn’t working. I could tell it wasn’t working, you know?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Is he simply working the Lover Boy angle he initiated at the interview? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Been working on myself so far,” he said. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the government did not unban the ANC, as soon as I was out of prison I would be working for an illegal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round after round, this strategy seemed to be working for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

How can she manage it, working across from the building she does? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Blacks working on behalf of the company-sponsored Efficiency Clubs could be seen walking through the neighborhood, posting signs on trees declaring the riot to be over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his side with his knees tucked tight to his chest as if he was already working at not freezing to death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They made little money and the working conditions were poor, even dangerous. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And she’d been right under my nose, working through Donna with all her talk about hair, jewelry, clothes, and beauty. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was probably working through some ventilation problem, and I doubt if he even heard me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A ballad seller was working his way through the crowd, crying out his wares. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of robbery going on; we weren’t the only gang working, we knew, not by any means. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's been working for him for five years, and he always jokes that she somehow makes people want to wash even their clean clothes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Holmesy here is the friend. Were you working the day Pickett disappeared?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first officers to respond had been working undercover, thus the “hippie” clothes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The air-handling equipment still wasn’t working, and the temperature in the place seemed as if it was above ninety degrees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or anyway I’m not having enough. I’m working too hard for what I’m getting, and I don’t have to work at all.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, I see,” said Travers, looking down at Bellatrix’s wand, “yes, very handsome. And is it working well? I always think wands require a little breaking in, don’t you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“So, I did my part. I quit. Now we have to keep working on your learning how not to quit on everything and everyone because they disappoint you or hurt you or make a mistake.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I know from my own personal experience working as a team can bring a lot of pressure, especially when you are a star athlete. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I bought clothes with the money I made from working as a tutor at the rec center over the summer. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But he was used to working on humans, since he had six kids. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He made good on his threat and doubled the number of men working on the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When they had eaten, the merchant turned to the boy and said, “I’d like you to work in my shop. Two customers came in today while you were working, and that’s a good omen.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there it was, working in their faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For probably the hundredth time in less than a week I had to remind myself that working at this school served a purpose besides a paycheck. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Our staff was overextended, but I was thrilled with the talented lawyers and professionals we had working with us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Been working on it all weekend and I’m heading over now to do more before morning. Just a li’l piece for Javier.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was working in a pub or something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't answer, boo'ful," she said, her voice coming through suddenly, out of time with the working of her mouth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t started working at the club yet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mary taught nursing at the school, which Dad said was just about as brainwashed as a person could get, to be working for the Medical Establishment and the Government both. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Dad said I should ask you about Dr. von Braun working for the...Germans and all.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tried rubbing her muscles to get them working again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There are whole lives being lived in this place, sleeping and eating and working, bearing children and raising families and dying. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If it gets too cold, the electronics will stop working. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They became quite popular, which could perhaps be attributed to their down-home personalities, or to the fact they had one of the few working indoor toilets on the street. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor, working on the knowledge that his students either had taken it before and flunked it, or had already had it in high school, sluffed over the preliminaries and got right down to translation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I do,” she said, working to get herself to a sitting position. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he wanted to get out of working in the store, he wouldn’t show up after school until almost dark, and Tateh would scold and punish him by making him work even longer hours. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

President Ronald Reagan signed tax bills that benefited the wealthiest Americans and also gave tax breaks to the working poor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

One customer right now, and old Cup working the grill. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Richard had not been born in Maryland, but he was working there, the summer that she met him, as a grocery clerk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Seriously, I don't know what in God's holy name you're talking about, because pretty much nothing seems to be working out the way I want it to. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That evening, I was working on Shona verb conjugations when my father arrived with news. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When she opened them and stared at Toby, he realized she’d been working up the resolve to say something he wouldn’t like. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Innocence Project lawyers were working with him on that. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, were not working,” Harry told him brightly. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Vincent still can’t make the paintbrush do exactly what he wants, so he will keep working on his craft, diligently, tirelessly. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Andrew Peckleman was working near the motel sign, pouring a sack of birdseed into one of the feeders. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were only three men working on the small ship. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mark’s mom took the call and then told them both about how the police had found nothing but an empty office and some ladies working in the kitchen. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy had been working for years on a way to distill pecans into liquor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The magazine where I’d been working two days a week had offered me a full-time job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“During World War II, when many American men had either gone to war or were working in industries that produced equipment for the war, there was a shortage of farm labor,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I started working on the mule some more and pretended I didn’t see that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we moved to Dallas in 1928, I was working for the railroad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d spent the afternoon at the courthouse, working out the final settlement of the Coral Queen case. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He tucked the pages away and, back in London, continued working on the problem of finding a place for his growing family to live. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Gale’s been down here working with Beetee a lot, but I assumed they were messing around with bows and guns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He keeps working on the scim, shining it, then sharpening it with a whetstone until it gleams. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

George Hyatt, a Navy doctor working with the National Cancer Institute, had experienced this phenomenon firsthand. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In 1957, working with others, Hoyle showed how the heavier elements were formed in supernova explosions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A male Eleven named Benjamin had done his entire nearly-Four years in the Rehabilitation Center, working with citizens who had been injured. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In her career as a Marine wife she had failed in her efforts to train her husband to call when he would be working late or not returning home at all. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to be proud of working in this tejas place. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shooting that pistol wore Ma right out; when she brung it down she looked more beat than she would working the fields from sunup to sundown on a hot July day. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the men were working as fast as they possibly could, but the machine kept right up with them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse performed better, but he still wasn’t working hard enough to get himself fit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting attention is part of why I love working at the bookstore. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She cleaned an area six inches back, working her way right round the wound. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tou really must be top-notch working in a place like that. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But still shebeens thrived, for they were an irresistible and indispensable way of making ends meet, providing much-needed income to augment slave wages received from working for white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also working on his new book, Pathologies of Power, of which he had a completed first draft. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Barrel-maker John Flynn was also working in the building and had just stepped out on the platform for a breath of air when he was startled by a tremendous noise behind him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“When is date number two?” he writes, and I smile, glancing to my notebook at what I’ve actually spent my day working on. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t see why, if I’m out here working every day, I can’t have a television in the bedroom so I can watch my programs in the evenings,” Moms said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It made a very loud noise, as if it were a broken rocket ship working to escape the earth’s atmosphere. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And for a couple of weeks it seemed to be working that way. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“So basically,” he said, as though he just wanted to clarify a few points, “you’d like to give the impression that I’m working for the Ministry?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Some scientists are working very hard to find out ways of testing substances without using any animals at all. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could cycle each day over to Ole’s lab, knowing it was clearly better to deceive the fellowship electors about where I was working than to force Herman to talk about biochemistry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I entered the immaculate little shop, redolent of freshly sawn pine and oak, and found him working at a shrieking band saw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Small shops like Emco, often started by techs who bristle at the idea of working for big corporations, are magnets for local geeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher laughed and said, “Brother Leroy, you’re just working yourself too hard. You’re strong as a mule. No one who was sick could swing an axe the way you do.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was still working when Jenny came out to find him shortly after she and her father returned from their work. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s at least a year of working at the Chili Bowl. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

To the boys, he said, “Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Gitney will be working in the experimental chamber until later this evening. Tell the cook she need not prepare them anything. They wish no intrusion.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the past Mrs. Cripe had a fry cook and another lady working the counter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It never would have occurred to her that she would be working this hard and still have to choose between paying the phone bill and paying for her daughter Ishtar’s prom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I do not think he liked to empty his house of his sons’ wives, but he knew that when a curandera was working a cure she was in charge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then Ted pops in to watch with me, pausing the video to underscore a particularly dramatic moment: “See how she’s working around the vase? That’s an accident waiting to happen. ” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X promptly did begin to pay me two- and three-hour visits, parking his blue Oldsmobile outside the working studio I then had in Greenwich Village. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Kuiper belt was actually theorized by an astronomer named F. C. Leonard in 1930, but the name honors Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch native working in America, who expanded the idea. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m just working out the details,” I say. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I think this is what my father would call working from the outside in rather than the inside out,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that I am insane? Do you suppose that some stupid psychiatrist could even attempt to fathom the workings of my psyche?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one person working behind the counter, a young boy who did not recognize Mrs. Sen as he handed her a bag reserved under her name. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance’s Christmas party had ended in such a free-for-all of destruction that a whole fleet of servants working ’round the clock for a month would be hard- pressed to put the house right. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Alter, you’ve been working on it for weeks now. Have some confidence or you’ll end up running the printing presses forever.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She peeked out the window, near the one Nigel was working on. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

These Janis served one after another, banquet-style, more because she had only three working burners and two hands than for formal effect. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not unless you want to. I’m not working till later,” he says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My mind is working hard trying to figure if he’s lying or tricking me or just likes books as much as I do. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Don't think about my leg so much. Since I started working for Mr. Donatelli and helping train you, it just don't bother me so much. Sound weird to you?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia’s been living and working in New York, finishing out her gap year before college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The living room was dark, unaired, and she imagined the whole building steeped in months, even years, of accumulated urine, and herself working every day in this urine cloud. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘But I wouldn’t be working then. I’d be in school. I just want to work during vacation and then go back to school.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She alone, the “too young and too white to be working here” teacher is going to reform a group of helpless “sure to drop out” kids from the ’hood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So when I wasn’t in school, Daddy kept me busy working ’longside him chopping firewood, clearing brush, fixing things ’round the house needed fixing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When Trey started working here back in high school, Sal became the Italian aunt we never had. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I only want white people working on my house.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He and Eric had the grit and skill that had propelled them out of Idaho, but grit and skill weren’t working so well now. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both were working after hours; they were found in the back war room, huddled together, trapped, overcome by fumes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all because she’d discovered, by herself, a secret — that working was enjoyable. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generose hadn’t thought that living in the United States would force her to decide between working and watching her children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on getting it lighter,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The kinds of scholarships a kid like me needed when Ma was working night shifts over at Uline. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To many German people, the vast army of working young people looked impressive. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s just working on summoning up courage until she talks herself into submission. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I sigh and start working on the bumper. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Another instance of James Parker working behind the scenes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A week later we passed the broth shack, and there was a sixty-year-old woman working there, hard as nails, dishing out consommé. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I guess he doesn’t believe I will Get It and sometimes I’m not so sure either but Mrs. Brook is confident so I’m going to keep working on my finesse. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teams killed most of the monkeys this day, working straight through until after dark. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray went on to tell me that when Mr. Price found out his lung cancer was terminal, he started working on what he thought would be his best role ever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It upset her that they had served their country for most of their working lives, and yet now they had to fear for their future. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

MDR had claimed the life of a close friend, a priest named Jack Roussin, who had been living and working in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, the capital of Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I sit on my can of flour, fingers working a bag of dry rice. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Aleut ship was still there, but men were working on the deck and canoes were going back and forth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I continued working for my boss and his wife in a gambling house they opened. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radiator boiled, of course, but most Model T experts believed that it wasn’t working well if it wasn’t boiling. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a reason he hadn’t spoken and it had nothing to do with gray cells working. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Security is tight, cameras monitor the doors, and if you are working for American Express, you cannot get into the building that is managing services and research for General Electric. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Chess couldn’t remember his own brain ever working that way, thinking he got to choose whatever he wanted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It dictated almost every working moment of every day. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“We can stop. I understand completely if you want to stop working on it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking that maybe in the fall you could keep on working nights and go to high school in the daytime. I know it’ll be hard but it could be done somehow.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later he began working at the tannery, and before long Thambi, my second son, had joined him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you have any idea what Halliday was working on all those years he was in seclusion?” another reporter asked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But, Moose...she’s doing so well. Carrie Kelly thinks we shouldn’t change one thing, because being out with you kids and working one-on-one with her is the best possible—” “Something happened.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osh went straight to his easel, where he’d been working on a painting of Mouse curled up in a lightship basket, her tail hanging over the rim. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His authority bolstered by a title on the door and personalized office stationery, York set forth a “working philosophy” for Livermore calling for “always pushing at the technological boundaries.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Generally he wore a gray business suit if he was working in his office, or a white lab coat if he was working with animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working all these years, and I am tired. You alone can make me happy in the twilight of my life. Take the Simba job when you finish school, child. Promise me you will.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we started working, I got some sense of what life was like for other prisoners on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, I heard about it—not because people were unhappy that he was here, but because the police presence in the neighborhoods they were working in was extreme. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My take on it, working in a place where physical confrontation was always possible, was that most men, meeting other men, instantly asked themselves: Could I beat him in a fight? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all potential playmates either in school or working in the fields, Christine entertained herself by joining in the lessons in her mother’s classroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t any need for shelter at this temporary airfield, because everyone here was awake and working all night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One of the women was working a pattern of twining ivy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone wants to just pick their own partner, but Mrs. Fisher tells us we’ll actually be more productive by working with a partner she chooses. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that meant he was working over Jewish neighborhoods now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At first, they were working on a desperate plan to get a probe here before Sol 400. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are working with those villains the Taliban,” grumbled an older man with a cane. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The schools led to a marked decrease in use of Indigenous languages, but in recent years, Indigenous people have been working on language revitalization programs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

People working near me around the small mountain of corn laughed at my blisters and told me I was being initiated. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was only twelve, it might seem that I was young to be working full-time, but I didn't think of myself as a child anymore, nor did anyone else. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He cowered behind the Abbot’s chair, his mouth working convulsively. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Like what? You think we'd send people to Mars without being sure everything was in perfect working order?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naylor had been working the farm for more than thirty years, since he took it over from his father in the mid 1970s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most nights he kept on working till long after I was home and sleeping, but this night we started walking together out of Mrs. Holton’s field. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One of the people working with Rutherford was a mild and affable young Dane named Niels Bohr. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I could throw together a rudimentary dish out of metal I find around the base, but this isn't some walkie-talkie I'm working with here. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, when I’m through working and sit down on his porch to finish the water, Judd talks a little more than usual. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lenny never has time to drive me, and this washing machine isn’t about to start working again.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Pearl is working at the college level already. But I can’t afford private school.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was working myself up, madder by the minute, when I heard Andrew Carr, the boy behind me, shifting his feet on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The watch would be especially nice, except it isn’t working right. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This happened before," I told her, my brain finally working again. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Lucky ladies, having Joaquin for a brother. Yeah, he’s working in the pottery booth.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m not thrilled about working up the Hill,” I admit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent most of the day in a space suit, working in his hot lab, putting together his tests. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I do. But I’m fourteen now and I can get my working papers easy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We see locals working in the fields who straighten up to stare at us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

By a strange quirk of fate, this ambitious choral composer found himself working in the one building in the world which, by dint of its architecture, was responsible for a new style of choral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You earn two annas,” he asked, “after working all day?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she gets a good size hole in the tape and starts working it larger, until she can get her hand in and rip a whole flap off the top of the box. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Working in a rice field is ten to twenty times more labor-intensive than working on an equivalent-size corn or wheat field. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I saw prototypes when I was working with a gunsmith in Novyi Zem. Multiple guns in the turret, and that big barrel out in front? Serious firepower.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

LaToya leaves to get Mama, who she says is working the afternoon shift in the library. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There’s something else working against my mood of muscular elation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then spend two hours working on my hair. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It saddened my mother to learn that some relatives forced their children to start working right after high school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Einstein urged the government to start working closely with physicists to explore the possibilities of building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aha! I thought I had diagnosed the case. My treatment is working,” to which she answered:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When I was working with horses, Johnny liked to follow along. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surgeons who had amputated my leg were now working on the skin, bone, and cartilage they had removed. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But there were also factors working against the acceptance of firearms in Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no light in Mo's bedroom—he was probably still working—but one floor below Meggie saw Elinor standing at her lighted window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For her, that meant working to end slavery and to promote equality, including attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I’m still working as a waitress, as I mentioned in my previous phone call. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the runners are washing cars, some are working the bake sale tables, and some are holding poster-board signs and shouting at cars from the corner. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there’s an adverse drug interaction. Something keeping the new drug from working as it should?” she fires back, her eyes practically frantic. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I might have stuck myself on the mountaintop working hard all summer if it hadn’t been for her.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sargo was also working to overthrow the governments of Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, and Brazil, so that pro-Nazi leaders could be installed across South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In front of the tiny hut, a bent and white- haired old woman was working near a lush flower garden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The examination was scheduled to take place on a Monday; I had been working steadily and I would be too tired to do my best if I took the examination without the benefit of rest. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, he didn’t know just what they were right now, but he was working them out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m working hard to keep my anger from boiling over, but maybe Safaa is working hard too. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So, what experiment are you working on this time?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I kept working the shutter, getting angles we didn’t need, even though I’d long run out of film. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Playing here, working in the Fishery, and with a wealthy patron on the horizon, I’d no longer be forced to live like a pauper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I’m still working on the Spanish-language formulation. Tweaking the protein mix.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If New York didn’t have electricity or working phones, neither would San Juan. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Wait. How did you know I was working on a puzzle?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And the more he enticed Joe to talk, the more Pocock began to plumb the inner workings of this enigma of a boy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She continued working as a domestic, and also tended other people’s children. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After working on the school paper for four years—and working her way up to coeditor in chief by senior year—this seemed not only possible, but inevitable. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he did, he would've won because my legs were barely working, but he wouldn't test me, not after what had happened at lunch. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"I can't believe this. You dirty little rats. But I like the fact that y'all are ganging up on me. That means my plan is working." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Two men stomp over to the exit doors, working to force them apart. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Though we don’t know if she flew combat missions, she was without a doubt working as a pilot on the battle lines in a war zone. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The man was shaking a gold-toned watch: it had stopped working and he wanted his money back. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would see her on the porch working at the sewing machine, which she had learned to operate with admirable skill, and he would not even speak to her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This is certainly no ordinary craftsman here, and we may also wonder whether this is really his working outfit. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Finn, maybe we should take turns working on this code,” Chess said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Three people, working on an archaeological dig in the blazing sun, smiling together for the camera. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If all went well, what you made working barely kept you going. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had noticed a stout boy with a blackened face working near him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irene said she was the one working the shovel when they first found it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

By April of 1972, her application to join her husband in heaven was still working its way though a vast, celestial bureaucracy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I would come directly home from Bible school and spend two hours working on math problems with Frank. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Why, because he’s Mexican? Actually, we were working at the mayor’s house. Maybe you think I got stoned with the mayor?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were six well-trained efficient men working on each giant and within ten minutes eight out of the nine giants had been trussed up like chickens and were still snoring contentedly. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me guess. You were working on your car.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You better stop this nonsense, before others hear about it. That’s not how it works around here, and our whole existence depends on things working.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Only in the new bed where she’d just been working did the soil look tom up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept me busy doing anything but working in the garden. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast Then us got her move to the mayor’s house. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What was that piece of wood you were working on when I arrived?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night when he was working with Moore he blinked, shook his head, and stared at a figure again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia screams for her mother, throws herself onto the backseat and shoulders open the car’s only working door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Elizabeth went outside and greeted her neighbor, the Reverend Simon Hosack, who was working in his garden. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And after spending the entire summer cleaning houses with Amá, I’m almost happy to be back in school, working my brain instead of my hands. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By fall, we had a cohort of twenty-seven Allies working all over Chicago, holding internships everywhere from city hall to a South Side community assistance agency to Latino Youth, an alternative high school in Pilsen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that I wanted to make the Olympic team, and he saw how hard I was working, so he did what he could in Akhi’s absence. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Tony D. has his hands on his hips and his punkster pals are trying to get closer, working through the crowd. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a new trick I’m working up. All about levitation. My parents bought me a chair suspension kit. You want to come see it?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They made a lot of noise putting the bramble thing in and I’ve got an idea it wasn’t working properly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I found out I was going to be working the project with her I thought it was just the way things were but maybe she worked it that way. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their working conditions look like those at your average insurance company. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We were working,” Shifre begged, her words tumbling out in a rush. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another day, I was working upstairs with an older officer named Robinson. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Park was under orders to follow Shin around, every working day became a marathon session of whispered escape preparations and motivational stories about the fine dining that awaited them in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had been working at the mill more than eighteen years—it was all he knew how to do. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Standing at the checkout counter with an armload of sock monkeys, I told the cashier, "These are for a piece I'm working on. It's a performance commissioned by the art museum. I'm an artist." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Hey, freak,” Shay whispers, glancing over at Mr. Daniels, who is working with someone at his desk, to make sure he can’t hear. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some days her hands or feet would grow numb while she was doing normal everyday things like driving or working with the kids on their homework. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Gregor knew he had to say what had happened, but all that came out was, “Henry was working with the rats. He made some deal for the throne.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thank God this girl could converse with a rock, because my brain isn’t working. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When his left wing was sealed to the straps, Daedalus began working on the right. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes indeed he was uneasy working even such lesser spells as the Summoner taught him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Experienced seamstresses could keep their machines in working order, but those who were new, inept, or very ill could not. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In 2009, he accepted a position as United Nations deputy special envoy for Haiti, working closely with United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If Jonas received bread for working indoors on shoes, we must certainly be getting an entire turkey, I thought. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now the ideas in Emma’s brain were working like a tidal wave, everything flowing together and growing by the minute. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I start working on one of the workbook exercises, and then Mom pokes her head into our room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“All right, then, I’ll go with you. The light’s not good for working this morning anyway.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophelia had vague ideas about going into medicine one day, and for now she was working as a volunteer for Eye Care. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At the top of the list were horses, because every farm needed working animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It had stopped working overnight, and that wasn’t something she was prepared to deal with. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She traveled from city to city, telling people about the low wages and unhealthy working conditions at Marx & Haas, and asking them to support the striking garment workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure! How convenient! Let me tell you, it’s horrible working here,” she stormed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immigrants nowadays were bandits, beating up store owners and stealing from them rather than working. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At six, when their working day was over, the two Groups assembled in the vestibule of the Hospital and were served by the Deputy Sub-Bursar with their soma ration. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times her pupils were dilated and she moved slowly, but she continued working in the hospital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, he claimed that Rihanna was his cousin and that his mom was on the road with her, working as her hairstylist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The padlock snipped off surprisingly easy, Jamie working one handle and Michael pushing the other. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Chloe’s brother, Hunter, is paid a little for working part-time at the rendering plant, but the Marshes have told us they’re not giving us any of his wages in rent. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe this could be the topic of the story for the film Amelia, Serenity, and I are working on. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Today he was supposed to be working quietly at home, but here he was, come in for an unexpected visit to his staffers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unties the ribbons slowly, working the knots out with her fingernails. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Peaches’ mom was working with Big Joe and they looked like a cool couple. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Darin was fifteen, he fell from a tree while trying to draw Scholars working a Martial orchard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In September 1919, members of the Boston Police Department had many reasons to be unhappy with their working conditions. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Ever since Roberto started working at Main Street Elementary School, Mr. Sims told him that he could take the school Christmas tree home on the day the school closed for the holidays. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“He sure don’t like working in that store,” Elizabeth once observed to her aunt. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I know it pained him greatly to see my mom working when he could not. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The welding torches of men working on the steel cofferdam flickered on and off, glowing orange and electric blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the front porch every day after school, working at it again at night when his schoolwork was finished, he patiently and painstakingly taught himself to play each instrument proficiently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Don't take this personal, C.P. But her teacher’s been saying her mama’s a fool to be working with a Klansman. Other kids been fighting her over it.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to work as a bookkeeper, keeping the same schedule she had when Keith died, working Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Luke has no memory of who dialed 911, but says there were men working in a nearby mill, and he suspects that one of them called immediately after Shawn fell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We're standing in the kitchen, and she's got a sponge mop in her hands, slowly working on a little spilled ice cream. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl who had been making two dollars per week in Meridian wrote home to say she was now working in the Chicago stockyards and making two dollars per day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This black box of genetics was pried open, almost accidentally, by an unlikely scientist working on an unlikely organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The power’s out, and the backup generator’s not working. If the incubators cool off for too long, they may lose part of the hatch.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since the mid-1960s, he has been working out of a ramshackle Victorian townhouse at the University of California at San Francisco, where he holds a professorship. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He apologizes to Theo, tells him he appreciates his help and friendship, and keeps on working. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

De la O was born in Texas, part of a large Mexican American family making a living working in the fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After that, we reach the most baffling chapter in Elizebeth’s working life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we were working right up to the last minute on our float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, in this moment I see a dung beetle, working with all its small might. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Independently of all this, my sister Ella had been steadily working to get me transferred to the Norfolk, Massachusetts, Prison Colony, which was an experimental rehabilitation jail. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t got months—it’s after one now, and the wedding’s at six tonight. What parts can we hope to have in working order in seventeen hours?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I walked about outside to get my legs working, leaning on a staff I cut from the peach tree. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Caesar asks Peeta how his "new leg" is working out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So I kept working my way through until I was up against Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People always felt bad for me at games because of Dad, and Ma was always working, but I liked being on my own. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A majority of the nongraduates are young men, and some come from towns where the factory work ethic, to get working as soon as possible, remains strong, even if the factories themselves are vanishing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’ll be fun, fishing on my own, and when Dad hears about me working the traps, it’ll shame him into helping. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In another pocket he carried a sketch of the island bridge, which Reynie had spent most of two class periods working on from memory. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He started swinging his head side to side, like he was working kinks out of his neck. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My sister Viola was working at an electronics factory on Long Island. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The instant he stepped down into the parking lot, though, he started working his nose and sniffing at the breeze. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You go around to Headquarters and the boys will take it away for you. Suppose Francie wanted to get working papers but was too young.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t mention that misguided trip to Baton Rouge. That incident, I believe, caused me to form a mental block against working.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was working out of a casual labor agency—we regulars called it a slave market. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I took an intensive EMT course over the summer and now I’m working with a hospital ambulance. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must be working a completely different angle. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A slight flush was working its way into her cheeks. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was working with Jacobi today, who was showing me how to improve my footwork. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

While No. 46 was working on Brown, another operative, No. 28, learned a seemingly vital secret from a young Kaw Indian woman who lived near the western border of Osage County. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Is this connected to that ‘science project’ you were supposedly working on this afternoon?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t too gassed about working at a bank, just because it seemed like it would be boring as hell, sitting behind that thick glass counting other people’s money all day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Paul Stewart took charge of the rehearsal that day, working with the sound engineer to incorporate sound effects and music with the actors’ voices. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They both started working on the dead girl’s rings, tugging them from the cool flesh, trying to get them off. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Dregs were outnumbered, and there were men working their way around their left and right flanks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And what about working in Pennsylvania? Where your wife and kids live?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I like to think he's working so hard that he can't write. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He’s been working since then for a firm in midtown, with celebrated large-scale commissions to its name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But while I’m working on the computer, he prefers to sleep on my lap, which is gross and adorable. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing really made me feel pretty sick, working that hard from sunrise to sunset and never being able to get ahead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I couldn’t do that. I made them. Been working on them since March ninth. My sewing machine died, so I had to stitch them by hand.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He began pulling stingers out of his face, working down, and taking his time looking back up the bluff at Toomer’s bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three other working men leave the line from in front of us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

“How can you be going out with somebody who’s working on Vietnam?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Cuban women of a certain age and a certain class consider working outside the home to be beneath them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, after working at the plant and attending English class, Lefty was the one to pick up the lamb and vegetables, the spices and honey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could see that Mrs. Odom’s rutabaga trick with Howard’s brother Cotton wasn’t working too good because there were lots of drawings with colored markers along the bottom of the walls. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He had been working, because there were bowls of root cuttings and such on the table, but there was no sign of him now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That won’t help anything. You need to keep working. Learn from this and don’t make the same mistake again.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When I am working here, I think of Señor Santos, who probably never used a curse word, not even exclaimed “¡Ay Chihuahua!” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He, Ron, and Hermione kept to themselves, working late into the night, trying to remember the ingredients in complicated potions, learn charms and spells by heart, memorize the dates of magical discoveries and goblin rebellions. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The chief says by all of us working hard to grow rice, we will soon be able to feed the country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love to see them working, so faithful to the task. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had to buy my own uniform and meet all other expenses; this I tried to do by working part-time for the Smiths. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But working against this fear was their longing and need to find more does and the knowledge that there were plenty of does in Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he has heard about a group of Communists working underground who have connections. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now he hung by his armpit from the cross spar, bleeding and listening into the fog, working his knife from its sheath. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But their Christmas ended in late afternoon on Christmas Eve—I saw department store clerks working against time to replace a holiday window display with deathly white piles of towels and sheets. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nightmare — Dad was working overtime for weeks.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We knew that because he was working on his car, throwing tools around the garage, and he didn’t say anything as we walked into the house, even after my mom said, “Salaam,” three times. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Fifteen years later I found myself working for a housecleaning company. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke set Robin down beside him on the oaken bench in his own particular place, where he could spread out the pages of handwritten manuscript on which he was working. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Doris was okay with this mainly because she was always working late, and I would never get to hang out if I had to wait for her to come home first. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He lay face forward, the crowd working around him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working on the painting ever since Dad took over the mine and we moved into the Captain’s house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rats had finished digging the new hole, and all twenty of them were working near the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He has stayed for nine months for free, working and saving money to continue his journey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Men who’d been working together, now a tangle of body parts and broken pieces. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

You'll probably either drown while working the water turbines or get steamed to death in the power plants. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Dad was up at the mine all that evening, inside working with his foreman doing safety inspections. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Lavey’s husband took the examination for letter carrier three years ago. He’s still working on a truck.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately I began to wonder whether it would be possible for me to join Wilkins in working on DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Any true progress in the workings of a prison ought to be measurable in changes in the tenor of that relationship. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Given the odds, “my staff refused to do anything more with it. They said it isn’t worth working on; there isn’t enough material. We can’t do anything with it.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“How long have you been working with the view camera?” she asked, and when Mia told her, she said, “Would you like to show me some more of your photos?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a spell in Worcester working for a milliner, Sybil and Molly made their way to Indiana. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The color-striped candle would burn down to the fuse at six-thirty; whoever was working there would be at the other end of the room. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the chili was still in the ice chest and he ate it cold—it didn’t smell bad, or any worse than chili always smelled—working around the yellow hunks of fat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell him I’ll be working in a few weeks delivering telegrams and getting big tips at the post office and ready to pay my own way. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a rich fee, considering that all Burnham wanted them to do was provide working drawings and make a few visits to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“It says here the FBI is working with both the border patrol and the Mexican Federales to try and find us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although my mother—having a master’s degree in psychology and working on her doctorate—is a trained listener, she sometimes over-listens, especially when it comes to me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really need to talk to her. I just need to make sure that she’s all right. She was called in Wednesday night. Can you find out if she’s there, if she’s working?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

These books and such only get the brain working too fast. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One will be on the wall Alice and Miss Turner are working on, the other will be inside.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her jaw was working, grinding, but it took me walking over to the table and sitting down for her to find her voice. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to, either, but your mama’s working hard to give you the same thing I wanted for my daughters—a better life. You will both figure it out.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At least something in this horrible world was working right; Otto was getting tickled. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed taking the food out, working with it and cooking it and serving it and eating it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We really hate to let you go. But if the Red Guards found out, they would accuse us of exploiting working people.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1932, the bureau began working with the radio program The Lucky Strike Hour to dramatize its cases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like many South Siders, my family maintained what was an admittedly dim and limited view of the university, even if my mom had passed a year happily working there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, ma’am,” said Viola, “I believe Captain Tate is working in the shed out back.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Trapped between these two spreading arms of dark fog was Fela, who had been working by herself at an out-of-the-way table in the corner of the shop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On our way to school, we saw men working. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The group encouraged researchers to use protective measures, like working under hoods with suction that pulled air and potential contaminants into a filtration system. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When my skin glowed pink and clean, I began working on my hair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had been working his father’s land since he was a boy, so he had not had much formal schooling. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, for no reason, he started shouting: that Shawn had taken too long at lunch, that he wasn’t getting the crew up early enough or working us hard enough. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m still thinking about it; nothing’s really jumped out at me. I wouldn’t mind working with you on your idea.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I guess the heat doesn’t bother you people. You’re fortunate that you can just keep working. It’s too hard for us, especially when we get older.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rounded on Harry and Ron, who had been working next to Neville. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The complex workings of living beings can be perceived in terms of these layers: physics enabling chemistry, and chemistry enabling physiology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The first floor becomes too crowded; Marie-Laure paces the staircase, up and down, up and down, as though working her way up and down the spire of an enormous seashell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So when they started working again, Sammy land I kept busy bringing them coffee, scratching their backs, lighting their cigarettes in the break room, and so on. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But one day, working on the ninth floor, we knocked on a door covered by graffiti. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Dad was frequently away from home, either trying to find Heritage or working. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to play dumb, but that wasn’t working. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Ang Dorje had been working well beyond the call of duty for six long weeks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the homelands, the firstborn son almost becomes the father/husband by default because the dad is off working in the city. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All these small creatures are working — working in sun and rain, during the hours of darkness, even when winter’s grip has damped down the fires of life to mere embers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I got to tell her how hard I’m working to pay off the debt. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

You could be working the fertile fields of Brazil or the hills of Jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He would point me out to visitors and say that I was an example of how hard his Jews were working. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Living with the poor miners’ families, Fannie had become weak from working so hard and not eating enough. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I find my legs are working enough to get me down the stairs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The thought of turning my ideas into an actual song, with a melody and harmonies, and the lyrics I’ve been working on, sounds exactly like what I’ve been dreaming about for weeks now. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Our lease was renewed, and my family started working with a contractor for the expansion almost immediately. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His hands are working the face from behind and he’s talking in Spanish, his words growing more and more hostile. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My father is working and I don’t care. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were working on our projects for Main Street, which is a scale model of a city block that were constructing in the back of our classroom. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe while he was working, he thought about his stories. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Shortly after marrying, he began working as an apprentice machinist in a small factory that produced handblown glass bottles of all sizes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He fixed the mechanical creatures that had stopped working. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It closed with the ominous observation that German scientists might have already started working on such a project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But George kept working on the rope, trying now to break it away from the crate. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had to be the firefighters working to come get them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I’m thinking of Prim, who was not yet fourteen, not yet old enough to be granted the title of soldier, but somehow working on the front lines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Now she would be working here, at the Hatchery. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were times—whenever, in fact, the Lord had shown His favor by working through her—when whatever Sister McCandless said sounded like a threat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At the moment I’m reading Emperor Charles V, written by a professor at the University of Gottingen; he’s spent forty years working on this book. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was a super position, and I began working my way along the shelf until I was directly above the big empty silver basin they were going to pour the soup into. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I call down to Pouncey, who’s working the hand crank that keeps bucket after bucket of chain rising up the rounded side of the silo and spilling in through the opening. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She just kept raising her kids, working various jobs as a barber, notary public, chemical mixer at a cement plant, grocery store clerk, limousine driver. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Seven explained her theory to her father: Someone was using the cucos, or working with them, to sabotage the vote to help Spares. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

See, while I was working with the brigades in one of the mountain villages, I met this really cute soldier. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The stress of all those months working on the Argo II might’ve finally made him crack. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His next assignment was working chemistry boot camp at Velma T.’s house to make up for blowing out the chemistry room windows during science class. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a while they talk about the projects they are working on, the architects they both admire: Gropius, van der Rohe, Saarinen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need nobody working with me,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Stewart came around to tell us how we had to look good because we were going to be working with the marines. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet had to tend our place and walk the plow on his too, while I went from Bear to Crossland to Goshen working. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally found him in the garage, working on Mom’s car. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Your mom’s working. What are you going to eat for dinner if you don’t eat with us?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One morning, after a month of G working at the place, we were hanging out on the wall, and G came out in his slippers and his socks. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had to go back to a storage shed to swap malfunctioning equipment for barely working equipment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are meant to be working separately, not in this...this debauched juxtaposition. I have warned you about collaborating, it is not the proper way to exhibit your skills.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they’re working on their books, Esteban finding the English words for his dad as he writes what he sees. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Sharp effort from Beta! Penn’s been working on his defense!” an analyst shouts over the noise. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad says, “Weekends off. The perks of working for the man.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She yells at us all the time because Dad is from the North and he never sends money home from England where he is working in a munitions factory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was strewn with papers now, and my father was working intently over his old Underwood typewriter. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z