The yard and house haven’t changed except for the walls, which are now made of cement block instead of earth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That they were crossing through yards in the opposite direction at this very moment. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fishpool was in Miss Rachel’s side yard, and it was surrounded by azalea bushes, rose bushes, camellia bushes, and cape jessamine bushes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When he gets to the house, he pulls into the yard and finds a shed with two stalls in back. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard was filling with the chatter of neighbors and the shrieks of children running around under the kuka tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

R.C. walked across the yard and out through the bushes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When it had gone a few yards, the stern swung slowly outward until it was broadside on to the stream. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passage came to an end a few yards farther along, and before them was an opening like a great empty doorway. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am leaning over the balcony of my tower watching Signora Divino gather fat orange slugs in her yard. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Tell him to wait in the tilt yard,” he said. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Mama moved her thom bushes to that side of the yard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reyna’s tent sat in a grove of trees about thirty yards back from the road. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I could scarcely see three yards in front of me where I was. And then the things went off out of the blue.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Laila kept shuffling between the house and the yard, back and forth, carrying stacks of clothes and dishes and box after box of Babi’s books. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They started before, when all the hibiscuses in our front yard were a startling red. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, Desdemona walked out into the yard and crossed herself in the Orthodox fashion, leading with the thumb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet, there was this tree growing in the yard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat extended out two hundred yards and then there was a line of heavy weed-crusted rocks before it dropped off to deep water. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

BlackclifPs students dominate the yard, but there are other faces here too. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some ten yards behind came the cat, whose attention was frequently distracted, when he would stop for a few minutes and then catch up again. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it is answered by a yipping only a few dozen yards to my left, I sit forward abruptly. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Just a few weeks earlier Aunt Xi-wen had complained to the school because some students had climbed into her yard to pick mulberry leaves for their silkworms. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard was bounded by a once-white fence against which Pauline’s mother planted flowers and within which they kept a few chickens. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the houses were far apart from each other and there were yards with big trees in them and black shrubbery. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They’d made their way through the woods another few hundred yards when it became obvious that there was a source of light up ahead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From what I can see in the darkness, the trestle drops down to a rocky riverbank twenty yards below. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, he jumped up like a grasshopper, ran over to a small pepper tree that was a few yards away, and yanked off two branches. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his head from the table to look down into the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The next morning Brian’s pogo stick was lying in the front yard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We would angrily bring them out again in the yard, cursing whoever had taken them inside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We even saw a mad cobra in the yard. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squirmed out into the yard, glancing around warily as she climbed to her feet-. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Creville Heights was all one big area, instead of each yard having its own bubble with its own sun and seasons. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way around the edge of the yard, staying in the shadows, keeping an eye on Dragon. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each green was divided into playing strips about 5 yards wide and 32 yards long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The boats got off cleanly at the start and stayed clustered together for the first hundred yards. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Smoke rose from the front of the yard, along with the delicious smell of oregano and garlic, rosemary, fennel, toasted annatto. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

No one followed me into the yard where the late afternoon sun had tenderized the midday harshness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even this one easily executed task, retrieving the wallet of a man they’d held in a cage a few yards away, seemed, in the context, an act of great courage and empathy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Several hundred yards to my right, I see someone emerge from the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

That evening, when the tide was low and the muddy sandbars appeared among puddles of water, as far as a hundred yards out, they gathered clams. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after it was all over she would stand in the dark yard with her hands in her pockets and think for a long time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Francie was in her yard one mid-afternoon when a little girl came out alone into the school yard and importantly clapped two blackboard erasers together to free them from chalk dust. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third day they woke to find a man that looked just like their father sitting on a stump not fifty yards away. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To counteract any evil result of that bad conjunction he walked quickly past the ranch house, through the chicken yard, through the vegetable patch, until he came at last to the brush line. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys I’d said “Your mama” to in the school yard because they’d said it to me first in a battle of the Dozens. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The school is a refugee center now. I sometimes teach the children in the yard.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her fingers caught the strands of a wire fence, the fence that separated Miss Rachel’s garden from the Finch back yard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ted was picking up plums from the ground and tossing them over the fence into the neighbor’s yard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men in her yard, yelling and laughing, were the kind of white men who had beat up Tommy Williams just because he accidentally looked the wrong way at a white lady from Atlanta. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Later that day, Ira was cleaning up the station yard when he found a green bathing suit, a pair of white sneakers, a pair of white socks, and a shirt in the hedges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The day he was to put in the new floor, Papi dragged our belongings out to the yard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ekon nodded to their sacks, still sitting just a few yards away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I pinned Malik down, and while sitting on top of him in his front yard, I suddenly wanted to kiss him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When we stood next to each other in the school yard that morning, our stars and stripes echoed the flag waving from the pole above us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She kept a good yard between them, ready to run quick as a snake if he made a grab for her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With just a few yards to go, Pollard broke out of his limbo. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the summer of 1971, Attica was jumpy; it took only a small confrontation in the yard between two inmates and three officers to spark the violent inmate takeover that would make history. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone hardly ten yards when the bottom fell out of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The railroad yard was a desert now, except for a hospital train marked with red crosses—on a siding far, far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the yard, men were buckling on swordbelts and cinching the saddles of their horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not very impressive compared to Gibraltar, but in front of the island, jutting from waves about a hundred yards offshore, were two white Grecian columns as tall as the Argo's masts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was heavy for them, even in this way, so that they had to stop every twenty yards or so, to change over. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baker unlocked the barn door, opened it a little, with Booth invisible just a few yards away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Young Men stood about in the yard, watching us go. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She took her books and went into her yard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma liked having her around so she’d know whenever someone was coming in the yard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Once they positioned themselves across from each other, Genie glanced at the yard in front of him, the rickety birdcages all cracked and mangled and peeking from just behind the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He put in a nice new privy, and had a new well dug right by the back porch so you didn’t have to go in the yard to draw water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They were scaling a low ridge between two snow-capped peaks when a shadowcat came snarling from its lair, not ten yards away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But at least now it smelled fresh, and the chickens clucked with what she hoped was appreciation when she let them back into that side of the yard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The gates of the airfield appeared before them—only a few hundred yards away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

One hundred and fifty yards and they were stuck twice. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I yanked on a pair of sandals, sprinted the fifty yards to the communications tent, and grabbed the handset as I fought to catch my breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the air glistened misty grey, and in the dark recesses of the yard, toads and tree frogs still serenaded the night. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At work the day before he’d installed a sprinkler system in the front yard of a house. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was his last carry of the night, giving him forty-nine yards on twelve carries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

About three o’clock in the morning Mr. Hull came into the yard below our window and called to my mother. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

God, I hope Dad’s driving them home tonight, wheeling into the side yard sometime between now and the next school year. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing her standing there, I remember all those times when I used to look out the window hoping to see Oscar in the yard. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards away from him, the grass was being flattened by the still invisible quad as it made its next charge. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She cultivated zinnias in her front yard and, finally, she cultivated a friendship with her black American neighbor, Edna Whaler. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lynds’s prisoners, under threat of the lash, put up temporary barracks, a cookhouse, and carpenter’s and blacksmith’s shops and started filling in shoreline for the prison yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked out about a hundred yards, stopped, and then turned around. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Yet Tommen put his spurs into his pony and galloped headlong across the yard, shouting with glee. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a well in the yard and Piani was getting up water to fill his radiator. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They called Bubber in the back yard and in the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ten yards from the exit the first bat swept in front of him, knocking him flat on his back on the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A small boy’s standing in the yard and won’t answer me,” said the old man, trembling. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even get out of the school yard before Byron and Buphead caught up to me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I went to the laundry yard to help a young slave named Tess to beat and boil the dirt out of a lot of heavy smelly clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could actually see it, and feel it, and smell it swirling over and into our yard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards down the surf, two men were fighting. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In this contraption she wheeled around the room, from bedside to dresser to the balcony that opened out the north side of her room or to die window that looked out on die back yard. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Might as well put up a neon sign in our front yard saying: WE ARE DIFFERENT! A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as we pull in, I look around the yard cautiously. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

You go out in the yard and watch dudes play basketball—better put on that mask. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He drove it up across the yard toward the house, and then out the road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Everything came tumbling down after Palm Sunday Howhng winds came with an angry rain, uprooting frangipani trees in the front yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took me 30 hours, 50 sheets of paper, 2 yards of ribbon for the binding, a pack of 12 markers, 100 stickers, and 1 ruler. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the ground with our knees bent, at the edge of Julia’s yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Beautiful,” said an older, female voice, and Celaena pivoted, the yards of cumbersome fabric twisting with her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Serves them right,” I thought and continued into the yard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You heard me. Where your socks? You as barelegged as a yard dog.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that game, he threw for 250 yards and 5 touchdowns. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the one o’clock sun, she rebuilt her house, populated the yard with her father and brother and Calpurnia, put Henry across the street and Miss Rachel next door. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I stood nervously at the far side of the yard, wondering whether to approach. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen the yard man since my mother replaced him three years ago, and Mr. Barron had vanished from my life after eighth grade. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Not ten yards from the door, Rowan dropped her empty pail, and her sisters did likewise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The trees broke and opened into her front yard. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No allowance for a month, you’re grounded for two weeks and we have a list of jobs around the house and yard with your name on it.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the jalousies beside my bed and look out past the patio to the yard beyond. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A few of the younger kids trailed us as far as the edge of the yard. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I looked—tried to look; the yard was crowded with students—at home plate and imagined Danny standing there, grinning at me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even need to keep him on a leash out in the yard anymore. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She’d come out the back door of the house, through the sweet-smelling grape arbor, and across the terraced yard into the low, thatch-roofed hut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The tears that had slipped down my dress left unsurprising dark spots, and made the front yard blurry and even more unreal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returns to the yard, wanting to say a prayer, thinking to say goodbye, at least—but her parents’ bodies have disappeared. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dub had mowed the yard that morning, and clippings still littered the concrete carport. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The grass in front of the pool is covered in yard rakes and hand tools. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had to walk about a hundred yards north to find the place where the trail went down between two big pinon trees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look at her, and she looks at the ground about a yard or so from my right ankle. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now the bus was only a few yards away from me. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He makes one wide run around the yard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He gave it about fifty yards and then tied the string to the stem of the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

First we opened the shutters of the window which looked out across a narrow stone-flagged yard at the blank face of a stable, pointed to look like the front of a miniature house. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She stopped dead in the middle of the yard, groaning. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The demolition of uptown Alexandra had resumed, and it seemed the landlord wanted to make as much money as he could before his yard, too, was razed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked across the expanse of what we considered our yard, then through a thin collection of birch to the tool shed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

Mrs. Baylor went out to the yard and then backed through the door with a mound of peaches in her apron a while later. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They paddled into the yard and asked the doctor if he needed help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He would not come,” the people in the yard said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still loved hiking the blue trail with him, him in his red bandanna and combat shorts that I could smell from a yard away, but we didn’t get to do that much. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when we reach the back, we find that the yard is enclosed within a brick wall. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They snuck back to the classroom to pick up coats, then hurried out the door and across the school yard to a nearby store. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thirteen yards to Robert Brown for a first down to the 40. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen it out the window: an ugly, vicious mongrel that was tied up out back and got stupidly and disproportionately worked up by any noise or movement within a hundred yards. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Two or three times an hour I would sight him just ahead, fifty or sixty yards away, vanishing into the trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We cheered, the boys and Anatole and our neighbors all jumping and screaming in our yard, when the radio said the planes had come into Luanda. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At other times, when the afternoon was almost over and disturbing shadows crept across the storage yard, a different kind of theory went the rounds. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while she began to raise chickens and a small vegetable garden in the little yard beside our house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Back at the ship-breaking yards, the old tankers and freighters were nothing in comparison, just rusting dinosaurs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It can’t be more than a thousand yards from here to there.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boy stops in the center of the yard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I gesture to our yard full of birdhouses. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Above her, Horse and Archer were on the yards with little wooden pails, tarring down the rigging. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There he was, fifty yards behind me, seeing me safely home, trying to look like he wasn’t following me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Arya climbed up on the window and sat beside him, to a chorus of thuds and grunts from the yard below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Ford continued its climb for several more yards, then came to a halt. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Ma and Pa drove the cattle onto the slope toward the river, I stood in the door yard, waving madly with my coat and John’s to shoo stragglers toward the road. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Jeremiah added another with a cannon shot from fifteen yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Taking what might have been measured as a halting half step and then pulling a stiff, dead leg forward, dragging a foot turned sideways in the dust, the man limped into the yard. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro was awakened by the general confusion when Shadrach at last drove the team up in front of the yard gate. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, there’s school and working at the salvage yard, and friends, like Jack. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled up ten more yards, to where Maya and Nita were standing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A garden hose snaked from a dripping faucet to a hole in the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We were only a few hundred yards away now. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The horned goddess gestured for them to follow her into a clearing several yards away from the hut and the yumboes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Always several yards behind, he panted for breath as he stumbled gamely on. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was in the library in August that the seeds were planted that grew into the Egypt Game in September in the Professor’s deserted yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word was passed out among the neighbors where they stood close packed in the little yard behind the brush fence. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in an alley just behind Capricorn’s yard, surrounded by empty houses inhabited only by cats and rats. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ten yards away, he saw a figure emerge from the woods. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I wish we could look behind,” Lyra said when they were a few hundred yards away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is the excess of snowball bushes that lends a semblance of green to every yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You turned my yard into some kind of a sideshow,” Hilly’d said. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As Dede walked up the driveway, assessing what still needed to be done in the yard, the boys raced each other to the door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen colored people are gathered in the front yard of the house, holding trays and bags. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In a square perhaps fifty yards on a side the ground was carpeted with broken human bones and scraps of thousand-year-old fabric. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was already disappearing behind the hedge separating the Bernoffskis’ yard from the Connellys’ when she called out, asking if I wanted a drink. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Of course, you’ll have to enter on the other side of the yard now,” the Professor said. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ripping off his helmet, Alvarez could see that he was a few hundred yards from the coast. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Rowing stroke for stroke, they remained tightly bunched up for a hundred yards. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Both of yous better get out of my yard before I call my brothers. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like us, their families moved to big houses with big yards to tend on weekends, they owned fancy cars that needed washing and waxing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure climbed off the doghouse, padded across the yard, hopped the fence, and ran around to the back of the van. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Chunking up the dirt in Miss Sadie’s yard, I could feel it grinding into the scar above my knee. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

About my family: Did you see they have birdhouses all over their yard? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I walked down to the edge of our yard and sat down facing the house. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their crossbows were deadly over five hundred yards, and an archer could load and fire fifteen bolts a minute. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The nearest ones are about a hundred yards away, swarming over what I’m reasonably sure was once a horse and rider. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I have this real clear memory of us wrestling in Malik’s front yard. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was enough that she could walk in the yard, pick flowers in Myrcella's garden, and visit the sept to pray for her father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But one night, in a railroad yard in Memphis, as Bull and Lucy slept in an empty freight car and Edward kept watch, trouble arrived. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Tommy also found something extra that day and beat me by at least five yards. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now they were busy tearing down more of the yard fence. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as Goblin was stabled there, no one was suspicious if Johnny hung about the stables, the yard, and the kitchen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the armory, Iron Emmett was still urging on his charges in the yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Prisoners, orphans, Kidnapping Clubbers, and guards all scattered out of the way as Magdalys’s three armored trikes thundered across the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was the raids, the reason they were in the yard digging. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They left Mrs. Weasley and headed out the back door into the yard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and tried to imagine their entire clan milling around the yard, a whole exiled family gathering together so far from home. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They were in the stable yard of another inn in another fishing village, unpacking their gear for the night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Only a few more yards to the creek and I had the game. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was a small man and he covered the yard with a familiarity that would have allowed him to walk in the blackest darkness with the same certainty. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to take my wash to a gal out by the truck yard,” he had said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Violet asked if 1 wanted to walk out in the yard for a minute, and I said sure, so we went out. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others set up dozens of tables in the yard, spread a tablecloth on each. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A match absently tossed into the airshaft by a drunken teamster under the impression that he was throwing it into the yard or street would set the house afire in a moment. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was flowing into his yard at an astonishing rate. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Not only that, he went all the way to the center of the yard, turned, folded his arms, smiled, and called “Who’s keeping time?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched Pet out of the corner of her eye, the way it was skulking around Hibiscus, only a few yards out, sniffing, watching, gauging its prey. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the yard rang to the clangor of steel on steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes caught one of those spots a few yards away from her, and she went cold. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Austrian trenches were above on the hillside only a few yards from the Italian lines. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Min picked it up and tossed it on the rubbish heap at the side of the yard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Manicured hedges and a fish pond added character to the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On April 30, 1945, as the Russians advanced to within a few hundred yards of his bunker, Hitler shot himself. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He ran the ball five times for fourteen yards and seemed even more tentative than he had against Abilene High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had heard the talk in the yards,- a direwolf dead in the snow, a broken antler in its throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I sit on the ground, a few yards from the blaze set off by the fireball. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was at least fifty yards across and shaped like a bowl. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly carried the scraps bowl out into the yard, walking past the privy, all the way back to the stable wall where straggly holly bushes grew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is an apple the same as a mango?” asked Cirila, whose yard was shaded by mango trees. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wait in the strange darkness of my make-believe yard, listening for the silence that will allow me to escape to where I belong. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The mouth of the cave is huge—fifty-five yards wide—and it opens out even wider beyond the entrance. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after Teacher Sarah was murdered, we all woke up to what sounded like a bomb exploding in the yard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke had collected the fuel in five-gallon buckets, which he began to haul across the yard to Dad’s flatbed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She nodded in the direction of the trap at the edge of the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

While Fern was in school, Wilbur was shut up inside his yard. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Did she remember the trail my heels carved in the dirt as they dragged me across the yard? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"True," Tyrion agreed, "yet you still hold his daugh-ters, don't you? I saw the older girl out in the yard with Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He stood up and walked back through the kitchen and out into the yard and stood looking at the house. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Out back is a small garage for the car we don’t own yet and a small yard that looks smaller between the two buildings on either side. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five Arctic Cat quads were parked, lengthwise and haphazard, out front, and men, all wearing identical white parkas with round, red logos were scattering about the yard. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The corpses are buried in the prison yard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Down the porch steps and into the yard, Grandpop barely held Genie’s shoulder, except for the occasional touch for balance. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We were standing alone by the yard door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis went over to Tallow’s place and pounded some of the corn to meal with the hollowed log and great round stick that Tallow kept in her yard. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“First of all, Your Highness, I didn’t lose no race. Second of all, you’re in my yard.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sloppy rows of expensive cars sparkled under the decorative lights strung from the palm trees that kept vigil over the yard. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We come to our first crater, thirty yards wide and I can’t tell how deep. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He worried that his mother would judge the yard, the lack of grass, the condition of the neighborhood. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The wind had picked up, bending the bare trees in her yard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A minute later I was hiding behind a bush maybe ten yards away from the black car with the tinted windows. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was not in any of the lower rooms; he was not in the yard, the stables, or the grounds. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Well, there I was, a hundred yards offshore with Donna baying over me like a pack of white-whiskered hounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the drums of breakfast porridge were wheeled into the courtyard, the warders commanding the work crew ordered the men out of the yard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson raked a pan of cold ashes out of the stove, and together we strewed them all around the hard-pan-dirt yard outside the chicken house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards from Booth’s camp, Jones dismounted, walked slowly, and whistled the secret signal as he came within earshot of the assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards beyond him stood another statue, in blue and white; this one never moved or glanced our way all the time we talked with the first one. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We ran around the yard a couple of times to throw them off then sneaked into the oregano bushes that grew thick and fragrant behind the outhouse. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At noon I sneaked into the yard and walked among the aisles of damp, cleansmelling clay and came to a barrow full of wet bricks just taken from the machine that shaped them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was pale pink and had rose-bushes in the front yard. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A man’s home might be his castle, but the four fences of that yard became my mother’s prison. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mark left the woman in the front yard and followed Alec inside only to be stunned by what he saw. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The cat, not finding that apples were good to eat, batted the small ones across the yard, imagining they had ears and tails and other parts that made things worth chasing. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hanging clothes to dry in the yard and I saw his eagerness in the harried way he finished the job. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were so exuberant, so full of life, while just a few yards away from them I was exhausted and depressed, struggling to survive another day. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

With just a few yards to go, Woolf was frantic. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare down onto Sagan, at the trees that look like they belong in the yard of my micro dollhouse village. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chairs were set up along the walls of the house, and into the yard, and people from the neighborhood, and some I’d never seen before, sat quietly sipping coffee or talking in whispers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Varys caught up with him as he was crossing the yard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Our eyes meet like the yards between us are nothing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Immediately Nick’s mom appeared in the Rael front yard and started winging pebbles at the state cops, who paid no attention. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was still, and far-away noises seemed near and clear: fowls chattering in a yard, someone closing a door of a distant house. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To his right, the jungle’s trees still loomed like sentries; to his left, a barren expanse of russet dirt stretched several yards wide between the city’s edge and the jungles border to create a no-man’s-land. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell took the cast to the auditorium to practice onstage, leaving the remainder of the fourth grade in the school yard with Mr. Jackson to form the crew. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Luke’s gonna get it now,” Mitchell said before hightailing it to the boys’ yard. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The old man opened the gate to his yard next door and ushered them through. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dogs, all happy, bent-legged cripples, barked and danced ferociously as he entered the yard: Nancy opened the door before he knocked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen of them were walking down 121st Street when I suddenly found myself walking just yards from them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He ended up buying a fifty-dollar car for seventy-five dollars out of a young man’s yard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to race up and down the strip of front yard between the house and road, braying with an excitement that he couldn’t understand. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made quick work of looking in the yard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I see the force field almost immediately, even before a nut hits it, because it’s only about fifteen yards away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Odessa High received the ball on the kickoff, gained five yards in three plays, and punted again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had the best game of his life—seven for nine passing for 194 yards and four touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we played soccer in the yard, the babushkas would suck their teeth, because Ali Shekari was a high-flying acrobat with the ball. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He has two children, and a more serious criminal record that includes a felony drug conviction for selling near a school yard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

August and Zach had already extracted most of the honey from her bee yards, but there were still several stacks of supers on pallets sitting around. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when she wept riding, she liked the boy to saddle the horse and bring it to her in the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a small bench beyond the grove of bushes, sheltered from the rest of the yard and the house. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bright now had an advantage that looked, to Pete’s eye, to be several yards. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I turned away from her and walked toward the front yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He galloped across our yard into the Betts’ yard, pulled the horse up, and shouted some more orders. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I help push him around back to the dip in the yard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards from the fire, I realized we had forgotten the coonskins. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought Poseidon would deflect it or something, but it landed on the outer comer of the yard and exploded, sending mermen tumbling through the water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even when we were out playing, he’d excuse himself, draw water from the well in the yard, wash up, and dis­appear into the hut. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good yard for hiding things. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would stand outside in the yard and put his hands in his waistcoat and look altogether superior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Mom and I’d even gotten out of the front yard last week, she blurted, “So, Daddy is taking me away for the weekend.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He and Esther spoke in the yard again as spring was just beginning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The summit was still a hundred yards above. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, six ofYezzan’s slave soldiers were squatting in the dust, throwing the bones and passing a wineskin j from hand to hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As they neared the yard, they heard the inhuman groan again, the same sound they had heard while exiting the basement, only louder than ever. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A month before, she could have walked through the yard in her chemise and he wouldn’t have noticed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m terribly sorry. I forgot. We don’t have any string. We’d need hundreds of yards of string to make this work.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The buzzing of grasshopper wings came from the weeds in the yard, and the sound made his backbone loose. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only 3 percent of Shenandoah’s two million annual visitors go more than a few yards into what is generously termed the backcountry. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his yard when he was picked up by a passing Humvee. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then he set up his staff that Ogion had made him for a mast, stayed it with spells, and fixed across it a yard of sound wood. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Grinding engine noises from passing trucks only partly drowned out the mournful bellowing of some doomed cattle just a few yards down the road. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front yard—a rare thing in any house in the East Bay—was freshly manicured, the blades of grass practically uniform in height. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was in charge of the younger kids, having been told to stay in the yard and out of the house until Doña Ana, our next-door neighbor, came to get us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nervous, but not really scared — I was only a hundred yards away from the sanctuary entrance, and if I sprinted, they wouldn’t be able to catch me before I got to safety. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the broken toys were gone, and there were never any strawberry blond kids playing in the yard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In the center of the yard, two cobblestone paths intersected, making a cross. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Reaching down inside the sticky mess, he pulled out the body of Maria DiStasio, the young girl who had been collecting firewood in the freight yard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

April herself led the procession; and when they had gone twice around the yard, she lined everyone up on the edge of the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them wore oil field gear and had probably been tipped off by rig workers who’d gone back to the yard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was only a few hundred yards away when the sphere turned lava-hot and the helicopter exploded, shooting flames in every direction. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We both knew which was the good side: the side facing the big magnolia in the next yard. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped their bikes in the yard and walked up the steps. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The yard is thick with trees and bushes, and surrounded by a tall metal fence. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Graves sprang up in front yards, complete with scattered bones, headstones, and shovels. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver opened his eyes and looked over at the brownstone across the yard, where his friend was waving from his bedroom window on the second floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was walking across the yard, his Wellingtons covered in mud, grumbling to himself and holding a piece of piping. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We quickly assembled in the yard, standing in rows, and I could tell immediately that something was wrong. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sofa bed is never folded up, the desk came from a yard sale. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Before I headed off to do some yards, I turned to Allen. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With blooming roses—yellow, red, white—planted in their yards. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Now, with the recent attack, the Justice Building sits about ten yards away from the edge of a new crater. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The shade of the mango stretched all the way across the yard, and I realized it must be afternoon, a fact that surprised me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally catch it and she lets go and the poker flies into the yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tinselly points up into a tree in Henry’s yard and snaps, “Look at that! I think he’s lost his mind for real this time. Why would anyone do such a crazy thing?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Now the origin story flashed into her mind: Her parents in the front yard of a pretty little house at the end of a cul-de-sac, in that tiny Alabama town. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She appeared only a few hundred yards away, through a swirl of mist and smoke and water. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m here,” replied Fiver, from a few yards away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed at the far end of the yard with a group of hobos waiting for a train. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat came very fast indeed and although both of them had been braced ready to move on the instant, they were barely out of the yard in time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after that, they skidded to a halt in the yard so that Fred could run in for his broomstick. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Under cover of darkness, Shin went with other traders from the truck to a part of the rail yard where freight trains were assembled and dispatched. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I walked to the station on the comer, bought gas, brought it back, filled the tank and mowed the second guy’s yard. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

They found good schools, safe streets, neighbors they like, and a big house and a yard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then, only a few yards away, footfalls vibrated along the edge of the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifty yards, they reached a fork. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted to drink from the school water fountains in the yard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hundred yards long—quite enough for twelve. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly behind us, about twenty yards away, was a line of trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama put some cane chairs out there along with a crate with an ashtray so they’d stop littering her yard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get up and walk to the edge of our yard and then back to the garage. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, we went over for the dance at Manderley, it was great fun. I wonder Giles was able to run a yard.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We sail in silence waiting...waiting—then suddenly the whale, wrapped by the clinging body of the squid, does a full breach, barely fifty yards to starboard. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Anatole half hidden in the cane thicket at the edge of our yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a new blue silk hat, draped with half a yard of spotted lace for a veil. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We stop near the greenhouse, below the southwest corner of the rec yard wall. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only a few more yards of stony ground and then the two sides of the island came almost together so that one expected a peak of headland. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Just five yards more and he would have launched himself over the edge and down to the rocks below. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He got into the game in the second quarter and gained four yards on his first carry of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched them as from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Soraya sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the same green shade of a snake I had seen once, slithering across the yard near the hibiscus bushes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I open the door that leads out onto the school yard. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He tossed the box at me and looked around at our sorry yard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And I could see the old tomcat from here, stretched out in the yard. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked a few yards away, turned, and appeared to be studying the building, tapping his chin with his hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then Angelo came over and pointed to a spot no more than a yard from where I stood. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lorne went to the window opening on the shop’s back yard. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so excited about the book that I ran hooting and hollering across the orphanage yard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember one time he got so furious that he picked up a ham my mother had prepared for dinner and heaved it into the front yard. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There were two little reddish blond kids playing in her yard, even though it was kind of cold. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When the teacher in the yard rings her brass handbell we have to line up in twos by classrooms, girls in one line, boys in another, and file into our separate doors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bell tolled again in the yard below. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad buries the soup in the back yard next to our dead beagle, Ariel. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

"He hit me in the face with a yard of chitterlings!"—bending double, roaring, the whole room seeming to dance up and down with each rapid eruption of laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved Ruth May to her own bed while we moved the big, heavy table out into the center of the front yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the house and inconspicuously parked next door, just in front of their neighbor’s fence, away from the lights strung on trees and all around the dead man’s yard. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called “bee yard etiquette.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, there were shouts of "Fire!" in the yard, screams, running footsteps, the whinny of frightened horses, and the frantic barking of the castle dogs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With just a few yards remaining, Lash began inching up, drawing even. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The one tree in Francie’s yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t care, I’m too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him no time at all to dress himself and pack his bag and join us again in the yard. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

While we worked, a customer came in and Holly cut her two yards of pale green flannel. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In the drawing, she was standing on a green lawn that looked exactly like the yard she’d spent the past twelve years playing in and running through. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Still Ged did not stop, but went forward, though there were only a few yards left between them now. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to get my stuff ready for the yard sale,” I said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The remaining Apollo campers had almost made it to the end of the bridge, except for Michael Yew, who was perched on one of the suspension cables a few yards away from me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ren shoots me a dirty look from where he’s regenerated several yards away from me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is not known exactly what length a stadium was, but it may have been about 200 yards, which would make Aristotle’s estimate about twice the currently accepted figure. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have chores. And you have a new world to explore. The day is fading, go make the most of it. But stay in the yard.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She meowed out goodbyes to her brothers and sisters as we crossed the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She glances around, captivated by the grim awesomeness of our yard. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He trotted off for about a hundred yards, then he stopped. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rig was perfectly assembled, but sitting in the middle of a warehouse yard, it looked as if someone had put it together to use as a toy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons he comes to sit in our yard and listen to our stories. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lissa called out from her room, and the outside light flooded the yard. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the little boy and his huge plush octopus at last popped free into the yard, the girls turned to inspect their discovery. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hundred yards away, people were already streaming toward us, smiling and excited. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Neighbors and acquaintances eat outside in the yard and in the street, and the family eats indoors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Several men with shovels had begun another line, heaving dirt from the Spencers’ front yard onto the flames that were creeping into the grass. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the crowded yard, there was always a cleared space around her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasions that Min dismissed him early, he would hang around the house, looking for little chores to do—pulling weeds in her vegetable patch or sweeping the yard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I cried and buried her in the back yard and drove a barrel staving into the ground at the head of her grave. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was told, there were some three hundred inmates in the yard and four officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, lights flooded the yard, cops swarming, gathering drunken revelers as they came. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She stared at Bob’s back as he led them toward the wall of darkness, now only a few hundred yards away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He could see a few yards into the wood, and between the trunks of the first trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Previously the making of these yard signs, which looked like miniature Broadway marquees, had become quite competitive. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next play, a pitch to Comer, went for seven yards and a first down to the Carter 41. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lightning were awarded a free kick from fifteen yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The men walked the edges of the yard in a semicircle, their hands outstretched like the stiff figures I liked to cut from folded newspapers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The girl’s hands covering her mouth, she backed away a few feet, then turned, ran out of the yard and down the walk. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed about an hour later and called me out into the yard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sam sat a few yards away eating rice and doughnuts. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m easing in along the shore, about a hundred yards from the Crofts’ big floating dock, when a boat pulls away from the dock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A man wearing a stained white caftan walked into the yard on a Saturday afternoon, and Olanna hurried up to him, certain that he had come with news of Ugwu. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turned away and went toward the water pump in the yard, filling the bucket we used to give water to the chickens. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew the Carter home was a station—only a hundred yards separated it from the river—even when raids came up empty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His feet took him to Lucky Press, which was locked, and then across the tiny yard to Comrade Pillai’s house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve only got like ten more yards to go,” coached Haley. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In the yard, Aziza lay in a wicker bassinet, dressed in layers of clothing, a winter muffler wrapped snugly around her neck. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Out in the yard, the eastern sky had just begun to lighten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then, after it had already sailed quietly out of sight, he realized that his yard was being invaded by Pacheco’s pig. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, a column of thick black smoke roiled into the sky from a much larger crater. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had once been used as a junk yard for old automobiles. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One of Halleck’s followers had already cut off a builder’s ear in the yard, and like as not that was just a taste of the bloodshed to come. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The yard below was crowded with refugees and chaotic with their noises, but beyond the walls the rivers flowed clean and pure and endless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Looking down the hill, I could see a corner of the A-block yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see him good in the dark yard. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they bothered to look closely, they’d see me farther above; they were peering straight at me, though their vision was focused a yard closer. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a single story, with a thin strip of yard full of sparse, scrubby grass in front. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

About four o’clock, the flats in the tenements across from Francie’s yard came to life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a squire he could sleep ten hours a night and still be yawning when he stumbled out onto the practice yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The small heads watched him come from their spikes, their tarred and flayed faces looming larger with every yard; between them stood little Beth Cassel, noosed and crying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Twisting frantically, she managed to free her arms enough to reach for and grab the loose board that formed the door to the storage yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise got up from the yard chair she was sitting in, walked to the corner of the lot, and vomited up her Sunday dinner. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At night, when I heard the cries coming from across the yard, I’d turn my ear toward my parents resting on the other side of the curtain. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train rolled past scrap and recycling yards, men and women’s backs sheened mirror bright with sweat as they stacked hand carts with purchased scrap and moved it to weighing platforms for sale. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I died a hundred yards downhill, and now my spirit is trapped here, doomed to haunt this place, reliving the climb, and the thirst, and the flames for all eternity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We can make some food and have the party right here in your yard.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards in from the beach, what had seemed like a walk in the park had turned into a swim in a sea of fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

How had he become a guy who was willing to bleach other people’s toilets and mow their yards? Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t going to invoke the devil’s name in my own yard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in every stitch of clothing I could find, I suspect I looked like Mattie's rag doll, shuffling my way down the icy steps and across the snowy yard to the well. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two or three hundred yards away and directly across their line, a belt of trees ran straight across the down, stretching in each direction as far as they could see. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting ready to cross back from the bathroom to the closet to bed when I heard someone moving around in the yard. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We began going up a steeply climbing path, and we could see—maybe a hundred yards further up—a kind of viewing area right on the cliff edge with benches facing out to sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticky pointed several yards off the path toward a lush green bed of ivy—or something like ivy—covering the ground near a cluster of boulders. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s torturous getting to the top of the ridge, even though it’s not all that steep and it’s just a few dozen yards ahead of us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

To rinse the clothes, you’d repeat the process without soap, then let the water drain into the yard to help the grass grow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It struck me as peculiar that the crack trade was flourishing openly perhaps a hundred yards from one of the most famous maximum-security prisons in the world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had heard of a secret market in town conducted in a yard behind an abandoned house where otherwise unavailable food items were sold to civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She waltzed them to the yard then danced them around in circles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You crawl for one hundred yards. The passage narrows.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It responded quickly, while the creatures were still a few hundred yards away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There is a stable next to the lavatory where they keep the big horse from Gabbett’s coal yard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His short dreadlocks are bed-tousled, and he’s standing yards away with the city at his back, holding his knees like he’s been running. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He bowed again to her and scampered through the yard toward the stream. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He could tell from the yards, which were infested with weeds and litter and looked like tufts of greasy hair on an old man too weak to comb it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma had been walking me ’round the yard near our truck patch, and I must’ve been mighty young ’cause I had my arm stretched way over my head to hold on to her hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"We have a fine yard that lots of other children would give their right arms to play in." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Twenty yards, ten...Now he was staring straight into the eyes of the rider, saw the man’s uneven teeth as he smiled, still gripping the flamethrower. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s not going to come within a hundred yards of those cedars anyway.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a whole yard o' guts you've got,” the man added, studying me some more, “goadin' my boys from this side o' the gate.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They walked about twenty yards away from the group. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, we saw the light from the cross perched on the chapel’s roof, which was only fifty yards away from our barracks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The hooks were attached by a yard or so of leather cord to a bell-shaped iron weight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty yards below the summit I passed Neal Beidleman and a client of Fischer’s named Martin Adams on their way up. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It shunted onto a new series of tracks, dipping down to a barren zone of rail yards and slum shacks, before shunting again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I traced the string to a kid standing about thirty yards from us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fog has moved in on us, the body of it less than a yard away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun had not yet cleared the walls of Winterfell, but the men were already hard at it in the yard below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She says it wouldn’t be fair, that a dog needs a real yard to run around in. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It dawned on me, as we ate lunch in the prison auditorium, that there had been no particular need for us to go into that yard, or to linger there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo stopped at the edge of the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I felt I had crossed into another world, that little pieces of my old self had been left behind on the black asphalt floor of the school yard alongside the shattered lens of my glasses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not ten yards from where he stood was the ideal refuge, a hollow in the base of a dead oak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I trotted across the yard to our screen door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The trike had barely slowed its roll, and now was bearing down on them with renewed vigor as more shooting erupted at the far side of the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was a narrow side street just a few yards away from them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the front yard I looked over at Lucas, and he was chewing on his bottom lip. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A man stepped out of the shadows into the well-lit yard. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The yard was like a private park, without swings of course, but green, and scattered with trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came into the yard and called Luster. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself getting up in the moonlit quiet, leaping out, running until he got back to the yard in Umuahia and greeted Master and Olanna and hugged Baby. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The chickens weren’t in the chicken yard, of course, because I had shut the gate when I chased them out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They was all angry about some new lady that moved in and paid more for housework and yard work than they did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my window and went out on the roof and then swung down over the ledge, caught the windowsill, and dropped into the yard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you right here, now, this minute,” he whined happily, thrusting his hands up under her sweater, but she wrenched loose, trotting a few yards away like a cocky pony. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slowly turn my back to the hospital and find Cressida, flanked by the insects, standing a couple of yards in front of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Flickers of gold-orange flames were visible, and even several yards away the acrid stench of smoke and burning grass stung his eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walked out to our closest row of cotton, a good fifty yards from the back porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Another man was a day from home when he espied the slave patrol approaching upon the road; and he repaired into a yard and split wood until they passed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards away, at the bottom of the slope, ran the brook, no more than three feet wide, half choked with kingcups, watercress and blue brooklime. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swallows had begun, and I could hear the sparrows beginning to swarm in the trees in the courthouse yard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved to within a few yards of where I lay in the bushes near the edge of the clearing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wind swirled through the yard, cutting through the thin cloth of the filthy rags he wore and raising gooseprickles on his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Your best kicker gets an unobstructed shot at the goalie from just twelve yards away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding two swords—long bronze scimitars that glowed with a weird greenish aura, boiling wisps of vapor that smelled sour and hot even across the yard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I became alert again as he mumbled something incomprehensible about "nostalgia for Harvard yard." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knelt within half a yard of her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then came brick houses set well back from the street, fronted by yards edged in shrubbery clipped into smooth cones and balls of velvet green. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BMW slid to one side and fell the few yards into the trough. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Campion meant the crossing point of the two bridle paths, which was about fifty yards away, among the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked her why she was wasting her candies, she said she was burying them like the box her Mama and PapS had buried in their yard that was bad to touch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Ashoke points out that even his chairman shops at yard sales, that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A guard marched Hickey out of the prison and across the yard to the gallows, his uniform dirty but buttoned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to get to the central yard and meet one of the bulls, I joined them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the police came, everyone was screaming, and 1 was just too scared, so I cut through some back yards and walked home. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t have gotten in the way. I was tossing it into the yard. Besides, what are you complaining about? At least the water cooled you off.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been so wrapped up in dealing with jail and covering my tracks I’d forgotten that the proof of my crime was right there in the yard, the red Mazda missing from the driveway. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Like playing the Dozens in the school yard. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I take one look to check the Drinker yard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I joined her in the corner, sitting on the other railing, facing her and the yard behind her, where I could see Guzzo nudging Paul and pointing at me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, we know our protective charms hold, then, don’t we? They shouldn’t be able to get within a hundred yards of the place in any direction.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A few yards ahead on the towpath, just visible through the reed stems, a man in a gray raincoat and trilby hat was standing under an oak tree. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He came to a pig-run, followed it for perhaps a hundred yards, and then swerved off. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ernie slammed the door, and Tess came darting across the yard, squealing, looking over her shoulder at the squawking storm of birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The stairs leading to Father Olufemi’s office were down a corridor only a few yards away; she just had to find a way to get to them unseen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was in the Reilly kook’s yard just an hour ago. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in a corner of the yard, and as she trembled in the sun, she clung to the Madonna. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The door closes behind me with a click, but before I get three steps into the yard I see them. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards or so out on the calm water was a diving platform. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gigantic powder-blue carriage in which they had arrived had been parked two hundred yards from Hagrid’s front door, and the students were climbing back inside it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Standing on end in the yard was a tall length cut from the trunk of a big hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle’s BMW was parked a few yards away, separated from the other cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A screech, a knee bend, and away they race over the fifty yards of open country. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to the barn and led Night into the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Petey looked over at the horse, standing some yards away next to a tree. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I already had a bike stolen outta my yard a couple years ago.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“When I was out in my yard. My granny said it was elves.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the outer yard, passed under a portcullis’ into the inner bailey, and was walking toward what he thought was the Tower of the Hand when Littlefinger ap-peared in front of him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A woman from the refugee camp dashed into the yard, shouting, waving a green branch. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad complained about how much yard work has to be done. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t noticed before, but a line of identical statues ringed the city at intervals of about a hundred yards. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I’m within twenty yards, my heart speeds. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Panic overtook them, and the next moment all the animals together were chasing them round and round the yard.They were gored, kicked, bitten, trampled on. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a redheaded guy chasing a toddler around the yard. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll prove it to you. As soon as I can walk across the yard without near passing out, I’ll get a torch and cut off another tank.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The beach was small, only 200 yards long, but the bluffs made up for it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always go across the yard to the big house. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The kids in the yard ignored George and Kelly, but Mrs. Fields didn’t. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I ran out of the kitchen and into the back yard. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am watching from the cave, but the fire he built—outside the house, in the yard—has burned down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stood in the yard and watched her go down the road until she was merely a black spot in the field of white. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We figured that if we were all in the yard acting like the fighting was no big deal, maybe the neighbors would feel the same way. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a while the animal stood up, stretched, sauntered casually across the yard, and disappeared into the henhouse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waddled across the yard almost at a run mid crowded into the back of the castle sept as Joffrey fastened white silk cloaks about the shoulders of the two newest members of his Kingsguard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I like being the first in the classroom each morning so I can walk through the school yard and hallways ’fore most everyone arrives and ’fore the trouble starts. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The last thing we did was decorate the yard all up. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pink’s mother was in the yard, hanging out clothes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was slow moving—the water was about two or three feet deep and some twelve yards wide. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed her arm and we ran out of the school yard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the chicken flapped her wings, erupted from Finn’s grasp, and half ran, half flew across the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They found pipes and other bomb-making materials in Herbert's car and front yard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was surprised, and even a little disappointed, at how small the crater was—only about fifty yards across. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door of the old Victorian mansion was boarded up, and there was a mailbox just a few yards away from me, at the end of the walkway leading to the house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And do you know?—Mary and I turned around and walked stiffly across the street and into our front yard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve called ahead, just like the site said to do, and John is in the yard waiting for us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was a good eight feet across to the next building and maybe a yard down. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in the yard below, holding this old rabbit foot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Himmelstoss was thrown down, he rolled five yards and started to yell. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t get back in without going to get his mother, so we decided to run around and play in the yard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All over America, kids were walking into school yards and classrooms, and the American flag was waving. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I staggered into the yard, but there I stood. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow pulled up outside the bank, stopping the car about fifty yards down the road, well out of camera range. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have much of a yard anyway, even though her house was way bigger than Conor and his mum’s. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A few yards from her tent was a bed of soft grass, and it was there that Dany drew him down. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

You know how in the middle of the yard there’s that huge flagpole? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“When I’m out here,” he said, “there’s no place to go but in. When I’m indoors, there’s no place to go but out in the yard.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Another bomb tossed onto Dr. King’s front yard somehow failed to go off. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“We all have. When the hunters bring them in.The other night, remember? They brought them in after the hunt. There was a huge pile over by the butcher’s yard.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few seconds later—so fast does the crow fly—they were gliding to earth a yard from her front door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Tali came out to the stable yard to fetch their breakfast supplies, Kaede was sweating and famished, her right shoulder aching, and still the arrow had not struck the target. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With the young birds and the old ones, the white gull and Rontu, who was always trotting at my heels, the yard seemed a happy place. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the yard, there was no room for games. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have calluses on my hands from yard work. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the yard, a uneasy crowd of men, women, and children had been pushed up against the wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to some of the older boys so I take my time walking down the stairs, through the school yard and back to the apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The play yard doesn’t have much to play with except a chewed tennis ball. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The girls of the family took turns sitting between yards of velvet draperies and Oriental rugs hanging at the windows. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lili shut the door behind her, making her way out to the yard. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By day, Helen moved self-consciously through the yard. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did; whereupon began a heaving, stamping, clattering process, accompanied by a barking and baying which removed me effectually some yards’ distance; but I would not be driven quite away till I saw the event. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Dad had told me not to leave the house, but I figured it would be okay if I just stayed in our yard. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked across the dark back yard for some reason she felt funny. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When we dug our foxholes in the yard, the monks did not seem upset or displeased, though the younger one performed a washing motion with his hands. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke filled the room, commingling with the warm scent of the river that spilled into the marsh seventy yards from their window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie was once again in the yard, this time intent on catching fireflies, and at first she didn’t notice him. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the yard he sees a cluster of men. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ours was a baby blue Pontiac Trans Am, which flew past, then screeched to a stop on the shoulder a hundred yards or so down the road, in a cloud of gravelly dust. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They rushed over the path to the bank of the river and skidded down the last yards of incline, muddying their shoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watched by her they stood in bliss in her little yard by the kitchen door and drank. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I stood in front of the window and watched, stiff with nerves, as most everyone else rushed out to the yard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I came to within a few yards of the rear door and still saw no sign of either. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Back in Raleigh, we’ve got a fence around our yard, so he can run free back there,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mary Toy was playing hopscotch in the yard and like to had a fit to know what we had. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Before I could say anything in reply, she was across the yard, she and the cow squelching their way through the gumbo toward the sheep camp. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Iron Emmett’s lads were well at it in the yard, blunted swords slamming into shields and ringing against one another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The males were defending their nest on a cactus not a hundred yards from where Frightful had sat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We needed the cover of dark, I guess, because I wasn’t sure we could approach the yard during the day without being seen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I wait a full minute or so before climbing to my feet and going to the back of the yard. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Raising his chin, he passed within inches of me, through the hedges to his side of the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As the afternoon wore on we could run into the forbidden places—the boys’ big yard, the boys’ playroom. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been sweeping the porch after school when Wash walked by the yard, and she wanted to run to him and soak up his smile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He bit his lower lip until the blood flowed, carrying the old man a hundred yards, then halting to rest for five minutes, then starting off again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow they’d landed several hundred yards from the banks of Acheron, which flowed through a channel cut into black volcanic hills. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?” demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the gloom, I see a makeshift wall about ten yards away and assume Peeta's behind it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I recall an auction not twenty yards from here,” Mr. Robert said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a minute he had squeezed through the fence and was standing in the long grass outside his yard. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was a hole in the cobblestone street about a yard wide and twenty feet long. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we couldn’t afford to build the Glass Castle quite yet, but certainly we could put painted tires around our front yard to spruce it up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He made his decking fast to close-set ribs before he closed the side with longer planking, then cut a mast pole, and a proper yard, and shaped a steering oar to hold her steady. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, a ball of mine went into her yard. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the predawn summer gray, vehicles, most of them old pickups with their lights on, pulled out of the hard-packed shiny dirt yards and began threading through the town’s narrow back roads. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole cabin, about twenty of us, filed into the commons yard. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And when they saw the great golden peach floating past them not fifty yards away in the sky, they gave a yelp of surprise and dropped their shovels to the ground. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

After unloading us on the beach, our alligators were supposed to crawl inland another fifty yards to form a line of fire protecting the men who came after us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my favorite place to be that summer was in Gloria Dump’s yard. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She found the boy standing alone in the yard with a terrified expression on his face, the old withered mushrooms uprooted at his feet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock in the morning, at a handsome whitewashed farm three hundred yards off the main road, they finally come to a halt. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I want some twilled silesia, a paper of number nine needles, and two yards of narrow lavender ribbon. Have you got your thick boots on, and something warm under your cloak?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was similar to the dozen or so shacks strewn irregularly, like lumps on a leper, upon the cracked greenless piece of ground named yard number thirty-five. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After walking a couple hundred yards, we stop. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In some yards people were already trying to collect things and clean up the debris lodged against their fences. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat wrapped in the blankets and looked out at the yard. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The veil of security I thought the uniform provided had been lifted, and now we hustled in our black dress shoes and stained wool pants through dirty fields and grassy yards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Their job is to ride the yard’s dusty streets, spotting sick animals and bringing them into Poky’s three “hospitals” for treatment. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But the whole time I was checking the yard, trying to see if Eddie was hanging by the weight bench or around the fence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’m only a few yards away from the cemetery, so I keep going until I reach Grandpa’s headstone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Honeysuckle spread over the screens of the porch, and its long fingers reached for the trees in the yard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abe’s grandma used to have a yard full of flowers you could smell a block away. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lily and a small boy play in their front yard, and even though our eyes meet neither of us acknowledges the other. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My fingers bled from scraping out the rocks and it seemed that a square yard of ground produced a wheelbarrow full of rocks which I had to push down to the retaining wall. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bed of red hibiscus on the footpath behind the yard. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The artist was discovered at the bottom of the yard drawing the nursemaid Milagros's boy with a brown and a gold and a purple crayon. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She swerved into Grandma’s side yard and drew up. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The yard seemed to be full of men. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A square yard of it was indicated with Magic Marker. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he crossed the dark yard, the great skeletal thestral looked up, rustled its enormous batlike wings, then resumed its grazing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stood up and stepped down from the porch onto the desert—for his back yard, except for the shed where he kept his digging tools, teas the desert. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Axel looks at his own front yard, where just behind the fence, among the fallen branches, Byrd, Frank, and George are so wrapped up in planning that they haven’t turned to see Dr. Martin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You’d see him playing in the yard and so forth, usually alone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

After sprinting a hundred yards, we ran into an enormous boulder that completely blocked our path. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A gust that came on howling at the same instant broke his mast in two, hurling his yard and sail far out to leeward. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon the houses and the yards were smaller. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They were sitting outside, on the ground beneath the pear tree in Laila’s yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I stumbled to my feet and waded toward the cawing raven, which had landed on the bank a few yards away. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She rubs the steam from the window and stares into the back yard. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A set of steps led down to the lawn on whose border Robbie still worked, and which extended to the Triton fountain fifty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was out in the front yard, pulling up dandelions for the chickens to peck at, so I waved. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I sat on the verandah, with the book on my lap, watching one of the children chase a butterfly in the front yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced up and saw the rim of the cliff only a few yards above her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was monstrous, with two alabaster angels guarding the gate, and a dome-shaped fountain sputtering in the front yard. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ropes were strung from hall to hall to help men keep from getting lost as they crossed the yards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rain poured from the black sky upon the empty door- yard, into the canal and among the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lifted Booth from the floor, carried him under the trees a few yards from the door, and laid him on the grass. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room faced the yard and overlooked the long, sloping garden, which was filled with flowers: bright red geraniums, sweet-smelling mignonette, and purslane with red, orange, yellow, and pink blossoms. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was the pitying chuckle that bubbled in my throat when I watched a fat duck waddle across the back yard. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he’s not supposed to be out of the Drinker yard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It rose about twenty yards, fuzzily gleaming, then whizzed straight back to earth only a few feet away, hitting with a hard thud, but it didn’t break. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rains came then, pouring down in strong sheets that made it impossible to see the garages across the yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred yards from the bus, the Gray pulled Red Pettus to the ground. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra led him away from the pool through the garden to some flowering shrubs on the outskirts of the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Later, when I saw all the other women in the yard, I realized that they wanted to make them look like crows, like men. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

With no companies like GE buying scrap for their manufacturing operations, or shipping companies like Patel Global Transit looking to buy scavenge to sell overseas, the ship-breaking yards were idle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hill was flat across the top, about thirty yards of flat rock, an occasional tree, but the ascent on all sides was steep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found an opportunity to exchange some words with him, the others rushing out into the yard, waxen clogs a-thumping, to place bets upon a battle royal between a mongoose and an asp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A couple hundred yards away, Grover and Zoe came out of the coffee shop loaded down with pastry bags and drinks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Abel had been berating one of his workers in the yard, and my mom had tried to get between them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty yards away, a dark figure in a stocking cap was reaching into the trash can. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And when they turned away from the house, they saw another chain standing against a huge oak tree in the yard. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted them away and inspected the view: a small back yard, with a few fruit trees and an empty clothesline. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two yards from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a yard across. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards out, a shimmering white figure floated on the water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On a Sunday afternoon in early June, the fifteen members of my team met with our gym instructor in the play yard of our school. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She steers the wagon out of the yard and down a road along the back of the houses. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Out in the dust-clouded yard, Riker’s tyrannosaurus leaned down and gobbled up a man in a prison uniform, then swept its tail in a wide arc, clobbering two knuckleskulls and sending their riders flying. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I judge it to be several hundred yards to my right. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the yard until Mr. Baker, the principal, emerged from the school. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The snow coated everything—houses, yards, treetops, churches, cars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now something stands up a few yards distant. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I’ve seen you in the yard when you shoot hoops with your friends. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyte, in his effort to play both ends against the middle, did take the Observer and every Thursday Johnny habitually crossed from one stable yard to the other. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children’s eyes widened when they heard the cabin had two lamps, two stoves, and grass growing in a yard with a fence and a gate. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve forgotten there’s a man sitting at the window, watching the street and the yard through the crack in the curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But Min had already gone back inside, and it was Ajima who waved to him from the yard, beckoning him to return for a lunch bowl. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The four girls followed Jerome gingerly into the side yard. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Across the yard, the man smiles at me, showing a mouth with about two teeth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Milligan lifted his tranquilizer gun and drew a bead on the man, now only a few yards away. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did not object when I planted it at the end of the yard, away from the maple. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Somehow that thought was almost more scary than the possibility of the Professor’s actually entering the yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the yard and pushed open the door, still holding the gun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I dive around him back to the middle of the yard, but the man is too tall and too fast and I’m getting slower. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for Just a moment lyrion Lannister stood tall as a king. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She turned and went across die yard into the kitchen saying: "Miss Brent and I are getting you breakfast. Can you—bring some sticks to light the fire?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The wagon yard had wagons on top of wagons; teams, buggies, and horses. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the sun-splashed ground over an area of perhaps fifty yards from where he lay, and as he watched, the sunlight in every patch blinked at him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not more than a hundred yards away, through the tall trees in the garden, across the mown lawns and the tidy flower-beds, the massive shape of the Palace itself loomed through the darkness. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, having a larger yard than most to work with, planted a rose garden. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The yard was still, the great castle lost in haunted dreams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Dad took my trash can to sell at the yard sale.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once everyone was back in their cells, he terminated rec in the gym and the yard for good measure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were watching the soccer team’s “informal practice,” which was taking up most of the yard. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I just shove my hands into my pockets and cross my front yard with dread pooling in my stomach. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a fog that one would normally take with any great seriousness but a clear-eyed man could not penetrate it any deeper than fifty yards. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over my shoulder, I spotted a third harpoon leaning several yards away from the catwalk, loaded with another acoustic tag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

El Paso Austin was held to six yards in three plays, the hapless Austin running backs suffocating under a pile of five or six raging dogs in black shirts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin walked to the freight yard at Gilju station and crawled aboard a northbound boxcar. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was an unwritten rule that if the fruit was on the ground, it was okay to take—even if it was in someone’s yard. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Turner, Turner skipped across the front yard and through the picket gate. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Outside, she decided to cross the school yard like an emperor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I walked all the way to the back of Gloria Dump’s yard. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You awake?” he said again, reaching over and switching on the princess lamp he’d bought for her at a yard sale. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

By the large round door at the top of the steps from the wide yard stood Mrs. Cotton and Rosie, and Nibs in front of them grasping a hay-fork. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then she sheared off the tops of the hedge that borders Phoebe’s yard. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There were iron brackets every few yards, holding blubber lamps, and in their flaring shadows it wasn’t always easy to see where she was treading, either. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She spit into the yard and chuckled as if remembering a private joke. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At a distance of twenty yards, they halted altogether. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Hermione’s voice came out of the blackness for the third time, sharp and clear from a few yards away. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley started up the engine and they trundled out of the yard, Harry turning back for a last look at the house. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The rest idled along, hopping a few yards and then pausing to nibble or to pass droppings on the warm, sunny grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They continued pulling Lana across the yard until they reached the sidewalk, where they threw her legs down violently. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Black smoke billows and swirls in the morning sky, and below it, maybe fifty yards ahead, is a single car that has caught on fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He ran it at top speed for about three hundred yards—he was obviously trying to see how fast it would go, though I did not know why. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Rain, mixed with sleet and snow, came stinging across his back and his left cheek, and he could not see more than a hundred yards ahead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt kept up a steady pace now as he crossed the tall bridge that stretched over a railroad yard and a narrow river. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The following week he was on the front page of the Tangerine Times sports section for making kicks of 40 and 45 yards to beat Flagler 6-0. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were only twenty yards from it, and the back of Lazlo’s neck prickled. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Burl and Lenny brought aluminum lawn chairs in from the yard for us and nearly knocked each other over trying to sit next to Jackie. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Pike lives all the way in Melville. I told him he must be mistaken about seeing you in his yard the other day.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mikey is still on his back, jerking and twisting around the yard.The ambulance takes him off to the hospital with a broken shoulder and his tongue in ribbons. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We duck down—a cloud of flame shoots up a hundred yards ahead of us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as we walked out, following thirty yards or so behind all the seniors, I was nervous about what I was going to do that night. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted Moonface, out in the yard, pushing another prisoner to the ground and kicking him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He must have borrowed clothes and shoes from a friend and gone off to the yard with the others. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very nice, Baby. Maybe it will still be standing tomorrow, if the goats don’t come in the yard in the morning. Now, time for a bath.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m quite proud of my home. Except the yard. As I explained to the others, it’s like junk falls from the sky.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Naomi walked as lightly as she could across the muddy yard of Henry’s house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The people had beautiful yards, and took care of the houses. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why the typical chicken yard quickly winds up bare and hard as brick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was a clatter from the coal shed and, moments later, the mother cat dashed across the yard, flushed out by the noise of the gun. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Just after sunset, they left the road to rest in an overgrown yard beside an old stone well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Dorothy”—he was screeching—“you let him out at the railroad yards.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Anya thought he was going to run past the house, but instead he turned into the yard, throwing the gate open. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I sat there numbly watching the naked prisoners with their hands on their heads being lined up in the yard, poked with rifles, and shoved around by troops who behaved like Nazis. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Finally it was settled that the cats would have the run of the house, while the yard and driveway would be Grover’s domain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three boys sat on bikes at the edge of the yard, right beside the holly bush. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then one day Laura saw a patch of bare ground in the yard. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he used to do yard work before the sun came up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I scan the yards around us to see if anyone heard, and my stomach flips. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Playing in Matt Drinker’s yard with nobody else around. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Sam was down at the bottom of the pasture about a hundred yards away, charging up at me as fast as he could come. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All by his lonesome, he sent the yard down. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Groups moved in color patterns across the yard, up the stairs, down the hall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The West End, a huge building of two stories, fronted with gnarled poplars, divided the play yards called girlside and boyside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was some way behind; the Cleft a couple of hundred yards ahead, or less. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But she swung the rucksack onto her back, left the car, turned into the Banbury Road, and walked the two or three hundred yards up to where Sunderland Avenue ran left from the rotary. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of war even filled our schoolhouse soddie, with boys shoving and shouting in the yard, the girls egging them on with taunts. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

On her elbows, she tries to crawl to the door but pants in frustration after a few yards. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From far away on the north side where the Italians lived and kept chickens in their yards, came the crowing of a rooster. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you hear Rose and June cackling in Rooster Jim's yard? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were mere yards from the front of the worship hall, the statues of the Six rising to meet them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Shin was desperately cold as he left the yard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The grandma-like paper was a meadow of watercolor flowers, held together by yards of Scotch tape. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The only disturbance during the evening was the noise of a tremendous cat battle out in the yard. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up at the yard wall again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island was not far—maybe eighty yards. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was a rustle in the yard, like pieces of tin scraping the moist dirt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At Gachet’s, Vincent takes his godson around the yard, introducing him to the eight cats, three dogs, hens, rabbits, ducks, and pigeons. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As I drove up to my house on my lawn mower, I saw that our driveway and most of the front yard were packed with rusted-out pieces of automobiles. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lumbered to the front yard, where Patrice was directing the staff as they unloaded metal cages from a truck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sure ’nough, there, sitting astride his horse not ten yards from us, was Cap’n Buck, his eyes crinkling up in a horrible smile! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He would not think of the tea ships, but of those logs in the back yard he would practice on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the yard nearby another cockfight had begun. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It sways In the tree In the yard, This paper pig Bloated with Candies, this Pinata my father Bought and hung On a low branch. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if the diverse butterflies she saw in the yard were among the species Grandpa Sorenson had imported. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“If this is what it’s like to be free,” he thought, “I believe I’d rather be penned up in my own yard.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

By the time the water had left the yard and street, most of our downstairs, though smelling more like a crab shanty than a proper house, was at least cleaned out. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The album was like any other, complete with a few childhood photos of playing in the yard and by the pool and things like that. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The heat wave had broken Saturday night, and citizens of Greenwood were in their yards and on the streets savoring the first day of fall-like weather. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was an old man in the front yard, very old and thin and weak; he hobbled forward, glaring with feeble, toothless rage. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The savage stopped fifteen yards away and uttered his cry. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Koffi nodded a few yards to the right, to a small body of water glinting between the trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In those few yards my ears were turned red and raw by the wind. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man guided us to a lean-to in the yard and bade us all wait while he requested his daughter heat us some mash. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock in the recess yard, and it was only twenty to twelve, so I had quite a lot of time to kill before I met old Phoebe. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn't heard that word since childhood and immediately recalled a mismatched pair of Japanese schoolboys standing alone in a deserted school yard. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The yard, overgrown and long neglected, stretched out behind the house to a large tree, and beyond that to woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he got back to his feet, he thought he noticed something on the ground, maybe fifty yards away. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They came upon the next door about twenty yards farther along, and there were three more past it, then finally one facing them where the hall ended. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had Farhad and Muhsin dig a deep hole a hundred yards outside the circle of willows and built an outhouse over it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I put on a loose dress and went out to the front yard. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge scanned the yard for Sherm and spotted him at the far end, standing against the fence with a few other kids. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The entire operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one's yard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screens give the green yard and fields a hazy look. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I have to put Moonie in for the night and make sure I get back in the morning to let him into the yard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The boyish shout rang across the yard; Joffrey had seen her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Boys played stickball in dusty yards, while girls strolled in giggly groups of two and three. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Joe spit the cigarette butt from his lips and, swinging the crowbar like a baseball bat, expertly caught the butt, lining it across the yard at his antagonist, missing him only by inches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got off at the edge of the Los Angeles yard, I heard tell that I wanted a train to Arizona to keep me in the right direction to Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got the world at your fingertips, the world of fashion, of art, and the world of thought right in your own back yard. Going would only confuse you further.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mamou and Babou had planted the tiny white blooms along the perimeter of their yard, in little wooden boxes painted a soft blue. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A new chore included letting the chickens out into their yard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Comer had rushed for 135 yards to up his total to 1,221 yards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards away two coyotes stood watching me, their tawny coats blending with sand and sun. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people in the hospital yard are staring through the rain across the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For twenty years I held the Tangerine County record for the most passing yards in a single game. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned, he changed into old clothes, whistled assembly, and led us out into the yard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more apt to sulk these days, to fault her cooking, to complain about clutter around the yard or point out even minor uncleanliness in the house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not only were fairies real, but Grandpa Sorenson had hundreds in his yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was, he reported, a huge flash in the Hickams’ yard and a sound like God Himself had clapped His hands. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge yard and I had never been all the way back in it. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the middle of the storage yard, he dropped his high-priest expression. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They formed a nice little barricade against the desperate fighting in the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe even cuter than the girls in my front yard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run outside to pick a couple of daisy flowers I saw blooming in the side yard and ’range ’em in the skinny glass vase. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached my own yard, there was no rider—no sign of any rider—that I could see. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She could never imagine herself past the edge of the yard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The night is so black, so quiet, I can’t see stars or a moon or even a dog in the yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Five dogs barked as he entered the yard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The yard is empty, the pier is empty. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The quarryman's son wrenched off his helm and threw it across the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I slipped on a pair of shorts and a T-shirt and headed into the yard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

Staffers were burning documents in the embassy yard. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He crawled on for several more yards, and then suddenly—bang—the top of his head bumped into something extremely hard blocking his way. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Wash strolled into the yard, they had pulled Naomi down the porch steps. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat a few yards away, fixing his eyes on me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only person not participating in the game was Nico di Angelo, “Pluto’s ambassador,” who had climbed an observation tower about a hundred yards from the fort and would be watching with binoculars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The budding sky made her want to dance and skip down the halls before they entered the main yard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We camped out in the woods, a hundred yards from the main road, in a marshy clearing that local kids had obviously been using for parties. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Osha joined them in the yard a few moments later. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Baba had had a stage built on the balcony that over­looked the garden and planted speakers throughout the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most often I unrolled my prayer rug in a comer of the yard behind the house. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We pulled up to Warren Kent Charter School, behind a line of other cars waiting to drop off at the big fenced-in yard where all the kids gathered by grade before the first bell. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom was running around, tying up more balloons, her hands still stained with dark dirt after planting all of the new, pale flowers that flooded over what once had been a yard of plain grass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Little Hobart Street was too high up in the hollow to get any flooding, but the rain washed parts of the road into the yards of the people who lived below us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two boys played in the boat works yard until a cat climbed the fence. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was music, whether of pan-pipes or of recorders, and the light in the churchyard was so clear, without being dazzling, that one could have picked a pin out twenty yards away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Davey Cantor kick at the asphalt floor of the yard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A growl tore through the sky and caused everyone in the vicinity—the Algerians of Bloom’s village, the Egyptians and Persians and every visitor within one hundred yards—to halt and stare at the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I could see a group of colored and white running across the yard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I probably didn't go more than twenty yards into the woods that day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As they approach he sees that after a certain expanse the yard falls away, and then he sees the lake, a blue a thousand times deeper, more brilliant, than the sky and girded by pines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was learning from books what my father had learned by doing, but we worked together to master challenges of converting metric measurements to the equivalents in inches, feet, and yards. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So Gwen comes out of the house and pushes the hair out of her big brown eyes and she goes, "Kevin, go play in the back yard, okay?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, that hole, it was five yards wide!” said Billingsley as he came off to the sideline, his eyes ablaze. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I see the sculpture, a few hundred yards away from the doors we entered through yesterday, gloomy and massive and mysterious, like a living entity. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the far shore, perhaps eighty yards away, Katz spied a continuation of trail and a white AT blaze. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re mad ’cause we lost,” Nuah says, leaning back on the sole tree in Dad’s front yard, a birch, not even trying to peer over at my ongoing voodoo job on his photo. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They were across the river, no more than twenty yards away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He ran out into the yard and saw what was happening. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows of the house were open and the overwhelming ammonia essence of cat stood like an invisible wall between me and the front yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tents in the yard were half-buried, sagging under the weight of the accumulation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All the children ran out to the yard in their shorts, twirling and dancing, because this was clean rain, the kind that did not come with dust, that did not leave brown stains on clothes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without answering, Dandelion slipped along to another crack, gathered himself a moment and then broke cover, running across the yard to the opposite shed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the front yard there was the sound of low voices. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The velocity of the burn was such that it flung the door open, blew the stovepipe loose, and sent white smoke gushing into the yard, along with us and the dogs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the castle yard, when King Pelles had gone dot-and- carry downstairs, there was quite a crowd of castle folk standing round the Wild Man in admiration. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mulch was not one bit surprised that his recyclings had managed to hurl the elephantine Mud Man several yards through the air. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And now the grove was only a few yards away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Like you said, with a bit of courage, creativity and fifteen”—I eyed the pink and mauve striped drapes in the living room—“thirty-five yards of upholstery fabric, anything is possible.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was movement behind the tangle of shrubs that separated the yard from the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Twice a receiver ran under that heave and kept on running, 95 yards into the end zone. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if there was a yard in back, because the small, square front yard didn’t look big enough for a good game of tag. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From across the yard, three enormous stone men-monsters are staring at me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, the smell of pine trees wafted in from the yards of the houses that bordered the back of the school. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

If I were on the tree next to Libby, I’d have fallen into the yard below. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She walked on, past houses with wide front yards in which moved green-thumbed ladies and slow large men. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There, only a few yards away from him, stood the Witch. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards or so from the house I became aware of another set of footsteps behind me, even swifter than my brisk pace—some fellow player late for morning rehearsal, I guessed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He dripped down the hall, across the stoop, through Mrs. Cobb’s front yard, past the picket gate, and most of the way home. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He went out in the yard and walked around in circles. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Left to themselves, they would hop slowly about the shed and the yard until the cats got them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s maybe fifty yards to the cafe, maybe less. When did I ever take the car?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down front to the right, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, who only a few hours earlier had crumbled in our front yard, defeated by the cotton rows, now sat on the edges of their rickety-rackety chairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clusters of daffodils and pudgy little purple hyacinths had sprouted up all over our yard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

End of the second week, I find Johnny alone in the yard, building a structure out of Lego pieces he must have found at Red Gate. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The school yard has been more packed than usual with guys from around the way. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even a marten would break all his bones if he fell into the paved yard from this height. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Stay till I calls you, and don’t leave the yard.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Walker ended up with seventy-one yards on fifteen carries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the yard held darker memories as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They lined up dozens of borrowed chairs in our front yard. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were a few broken toys in the yard, and a giant Rottweiler was asleep on the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

That the sounds of playing in the yard had stopped. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left my bike there yesterday, in her front yard. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Outside there was a shout, and a man fell out of the sky, to land with a sickening crash not five yards from the entrance to the cave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Momma was admiring the yard, so I joined her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine standing right here. Is Lizzy Sobek, the girl who rescued all those kids in the Holocaust, buried in your yard, yes or no?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Only, about a hundred yards away from the Wart, there was suddenly a Mack creature standing on the edge of the clearing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside them, in the yard, someone played a country tune on a whistle, a melody redolent of orchards and sun. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The drove of pigs started up; and at a range of only ten yards the wooden spears with fire-hardened points flew toward the chosen pig. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

I am literally a few yards from the door of the cement house when I pull up short. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Selling your stuff at a yard sale is a weird experience. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Thirteen yards to Hill for another first down to the 29. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the yard was an ocean of green grass, punctuated only by a clothesline, a barbecue, a hedge along one fence, and an assortment of fruit trees and vegetable patches. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the center of the yard, a doomed ash tree was green with new leaves. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Remember, there’s a storm coming. If it rains, keep your pans covered and dry. Wait till we’ve got fifty yards between us, boys, fifty yards or less, fifty yards or less!” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we arrive at the halls that lead into the firing squad yard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Suggs, who had set up their canning apparatus in their front yard, saw her running, dancing toward them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The coal yard has been hard. Men are dropping with their shovels in their hands, and Max doesn’t eat enough for the work. I think the camp will be worse.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg and three other soldiers were walking point, about fifty yards out in front of the other men. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now Day and I struggle through the rain back to the rail yard where we’re going to set up camp. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

What a dumb kid I must have been to spend hours burying them around our yard, waiting for them to sprout. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The others gathered round, praising him, but he cut them short, looking round the dark yard as he tried to get his bearings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quaking with fear, Chickenhound held his breath as the woodland juggernaut thundered by within a couple of yards of the hideout. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The yards were dry and overgrown, and lighted reindeer and inflated snow globes from Christmas still littered some of the front lawns. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to the school yard, the spider was up around my elbow. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard gate was open, and I went in and sat on the jungle gym for a few minutes, letting myself feel how strange it was to be there alone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She directed our little sister to a chinaberry tree with giant overhanging branches a few yards away. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He started to move along the bank, and did well for fifty or so yards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We played “lorry” inside the many stolen, scrapped cars strewn about the yard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards offshore I let the hook go and it plunged down and grabbed bottom, and the Fayre Eleyne straightened and raised her bow and seemed to sigh with relief. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The palm tree in my yard is mine. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then there had been a movement of willow branches twenty-five yards away and downwind, so that no odor of fear came to the rabbit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the last night of his spying he saw her empty a bucket of kitchen scraps not fifty yards from where he crouched. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Teeny hints of spring are trying to sprout up already in Dad’s yard. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I yanked the refrigerator door open and took out a foil-wrapped slice of meat loaf and ran back out to the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a big tree now, and while it’s never been great for climbing, when it blooms late in the winter, the white flowers make the whole yard smell pretty. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I have to honk to get his attention, even though I’m only a few yards away from him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He designed a house for John Walker, president of the yards, and met Walker’s daughter, Mary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One day, someone had left some Post-it notes on one of the benches in the yard, which is what gave me the idea. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

"There, across the yard, at the door of the armory, do you see the boy squatting by the steps honing a sword with an oilstone?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’s on her side a couple yards in front of me, not too far from the room’s right wall. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Next they heard the sounds of the freight train’s engine as it pulled out of the yards, leaving them behind. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We hurried back to the house and found the guests all stand­ing in the yard, looking up to the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It seemed miraculous that the fire had stopped only a few yards away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Each target got smaller the farther back it was placed, and because the room was so long, the final target was nearly seventy yards away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He’d also kill cows in the kosher faith for the Jews in town to eat, and we often kept a cow in the yard behind the store. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, watching Cotton jumping onto a milk crate in the yard with orange Popsicle juice running down his chin and onto his bare stomach. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When she stepped out into the darkness of die yard, the guard on the door nodded at her and said, "Storm coming. Smell the air?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

An oak tree in the front yard shaded almost the entire house. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The crowd parts as four unfamiliar Masks escort Elias across the yard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ten yards below the cave mouth the hunters halted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So finally I get bored in the down under and I'm hanging out in the so-called back yard, your basic chunk of chain-link heaven. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I recalled the bare trampled ground around the tree, the fireplace of rocks filled with ashes, the wood chips from the making of my bed, and resolved hereafter to keep my yard clean. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now he’s pushing open the back screen himself and going down into the yard, then comin’ back and tapping on the screen with one paw, so we’ll let him in. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow around was splashed with red and trodden down for yards into a crimson mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He told the boy to push the cart and he walked out through a yard to where he could see back down the road but now they were gone. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards to port, a massive cruise ship glided past. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So I slung the keg of rum over my shoulder and followed Mr. Heron up the road to his house, which was only a couple of hundred yards away from the tavern. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did nobody else care that there was mess all over the yard? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Every red mud house squats in the middle of its red dirt yard, for the ground in the village is cleared hairless as a brick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself, that’s what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl’s front yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He’s the man you want to face in the yard before you need to face his like upon a battlefield. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Olanna knew the tranquil flatness of the yard would change soon, when the children came back from school. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the sun was high in the sky, there came the miller running into the yard. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The taxi passed within a few yards of one who was sitting at the edge of a lake washing his feet, but the driver didn’t panic. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your father told me you like to fish,” Rasheed said as they were crossing the yard to the house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I ran back across the yards and sneaked around the pony pen to the back of our garage and opened that half door Dad had showed me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re more chicken than all those chickens in the yard—waving and smiling at those girls who are laughing at you. What do you think they call you? Certainly not Vonetta.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I walked a few steps farther so that I was about a hundred yards or so away, and then I spun around. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Three untidy banana trees grew in the little front yard that had been fenced off with panels of woven palm leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Someone out in the yard? Are you sure?" Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s true there’s a little door in each shed leading out to a narrow grassy yard. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was summertime, very hot and dusty outside, and I could hear cicadas crying in the yard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five yards away the savage stopped, standing right by the thicket, and cried out. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then we came out to the yard again and Jupiter smiled and laughed and she waddled around my parents. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Would he be able to practice in the tilting yard, or go ahawking? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The battle-strewn yard whirled around them dizzyingly as more screams and roars sounded. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He set off down the lane, and after a hundred yards or so, he took a key from his pocket and opened a door in the wall on the right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Coming home from school one day, I saw a dark car in our front yard. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He burst into an all-out sprint, booking into the street, his feet pounding the pavement as he headed for Lana and the strangers now dragging her across the rock-filled yard of the house. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One by one we would be called home to fetch water from the hydrant in the back yard, to go to the store and buy greens and meal for tomorrow, to split wood for kindling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a hundred yards the river moved straight, then curved hard to the left around a small hill, where Brian quickly found that a log raft is not the same as a boat. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then from a few yards away, comes a voice of salvation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The grass in our new yard was as brown and crunchy as peanut brittle. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I still get a big knot in my stomach when I even look at her yard. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the yard of the Afric Queen, peach trees were already in blossom. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He once came upon Pete in their front yard, in a standoff with another boy. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The finish line, on the other hand, ran straight across the water, just about intersecting the bridge on the California side of the racecourse but intersecting the Washington side several yards short of the bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In two plays, I had passed for 190 yards. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d helped them clean up the mess in the yard, me stacking plates and cups and Zach folding up card tables. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t got ten yards into the woods when all the sudden ray heart quit beating and my blood ran cold! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I heard about the yard sale,” his father said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She thought that previously, when God did not make the same traps out of the months and years that the Turks used when they measured a yard of percale, things were different. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finn scrolled through pictures of perfect yards, the kind grown-ups had when they didn’t have kids. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Abby and I hopped off our bikes and walked them through the front yard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“When I was a boy, gangs were everywhere. I saw my brothers gunned down in the yard. I swore I would never expose my children to danger like that.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there in that empty back yard, I was afraid, and then I thought of the Old Ones. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s only response was: "The dog stays in the yard." Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They proceeded in silence for a few hundred yards. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She was a blowsy woman with dyed yellow hair, and from time to time we saw her out in the front yard, chopping wood or filling a scuttle from the coal pile. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kids of all ages still ran around playing in yards and riding bikes on the street. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It angled from the corner of their yard to the front steps. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The young man, he remembered, Carl junior, had driven into his yard that morning in a sky blue Bel-Air, scattering chickens before him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To the west again was a shallow, dry downland combe, perhaps four hundred yards across and overgrown with weeds and rough, yellowing summer tussocks. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After telling the storekeeper how big my mother and sisters were, I bought several yards of cloth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road past the rail yard is lined with poles, and beyond it are houses, which I can get a better look at now. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, R.C., I was trying to chase that old tomcat out of our yard; he gets into Gramma’s garbage cans.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

That night, she set up her guard post near the window to the side yard where she thought we were most vulnerable. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got within about fifteen yards of the gun. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A half-moon brightened the sky, and the school yard was laced with the ghostly shadows of the parasol trees. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. She wouldn’t do that. She wouldn’t leave us out here all alone,” Velia said, their voices getting closer and closer, until I knew they were only a few yards away. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Now that is bad. Would have been better if you had a tussle in the front yard. Get it outta your system.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

TaShon slides around the halls, keeps still on the school yard. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And in the yard at least, he was sure—or as sure as he could be—that no one was watching. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell you how much I appreciate everything you’ve done for us,” Mamá said, her eyes misting over again, as she stood just inside our fenced yard, shaking Special Agent Gonzales’s hand. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he looked up again the boy was standing in the yard just a few feet from him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“He said that the men have hair a yard long on one side of their head and the hair is shaved close on the other,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That weren’t no reverend looking at me them mornings in the yard,” she had said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The woman kept her left hand out, pinching the air with clawed fingers, keeping Luna in place from several yards away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Lefty stands up, nothing broken, and watches as Zizmo hurdes crazily on into the darkness . . . sixty yards . . . eighty ... a hundred . . . until suddenly another sound is heard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As Pax kept watch, he thought of doing favorite things with his boy when he found him: tumbling together outside, playing hunting games, exploring the grassed yard and the bit of woods behind it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“On second thought, it might look better with a little bit of color. You know, Jubilee, we should seed this yard. Soil’s blowing away because there’s nothing holding it down.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The horse moved quietly out of the inn yard. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my last weekend at the yard, we actually won the second prize. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then if he hadn’t, the next morning she was bound to know, for people began to gather in the big yard under the palm and china-berry trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We were more than a hundred yards from the docks when Mom stopped the car. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat rising from the ground outside, through the wheat brown, splintered planks of the outhouse in the yard, up through the walls and into her room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five yards behind him came my dogs, running side by side. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found her house, which was a little house with her parents’ upcar parked outside it and some kind of a sculpture in the yard, with some hoops or loops and a floating, spiky ball. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of sea and rot and crushed humanity was strong, much stronger than in the ship-breaking yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s take him to the play yard in the back. You can get to know Murphy.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had landed nose-first full bore against the only rock outcropping within a hundred yards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We said good-bye to everybody, hitched up the oxen and pulled out of the yard onto the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the yard, she turned around. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a farmer’s wagon in the door- yard. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a floating white cloth, flat, taller than the huge avocado tree in our yard in Enugu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gone several yards along the loamy vein before he realized no one was following. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

All about the yard, dead men hung half-frozen at the end of hempen ropes, swollen faces white with hoarfrost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Just go into people’s yards and steal fruit off trees?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew exactly how long it would be before the big wagons would pull into the front yard and load on the cotton pickers at daybreak to carry them to the remains of slavery’s plantations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest onager was a hundred yards downhill, encircled in spiked trenches and guarded by a dozen demigods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the third morning, Laila began moving the piles of things to the yard and depositing them by the front door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

You cant even sit in the courthouse yard for them. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, he went to a dry-goods store on Hester Street and bought a hundred yards of gingham and fifty yards of white crossbar. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Down in the yard below, a rider in a winged helm urged his well-lathered horse under the spikes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Crossing her yard to a large rust-colored stump, she quickly drove the two nails side-by-side into the block, then sat down on a nearby sawhorse to sharpen her ax with a file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds scuttled away and the sun blazed, turning the yard into a garden of jewels. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lugged the bush to the opposite side of the yard where there was a mound of dirt, and they replanted the bush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The rest of the yard could care less too. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Says he heard an intruder in his yard. Says he was creeping toward the house, but was ambushed by his dustbins.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That’s when he started running his workshop out of our yard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The fire lifts a hundred yards and we break forward. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zach braked at a stop sign next to the Dixie Cafe, which sat practically in the front yard of the Tri-County Livestock Company, and for some reason this made me furious. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the railroad yard dipped and swooped around the colonel, he tried to hold himself steady by staring into Billy’s eyes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought back to her moments in the Fullers’ yard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sorrento stepped forward into it, positioning himself directly opposite us, just a few dozen yards away, on the other side of the shield. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But who would marry that monster Yitzchak, who leaves his precious children outside like yard goods? Besides, the ribbons will look beautiful in your brown hair.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the crew were on the yards, furling the sails; some of them, down below. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I forced myself through a couple more books for school and shot a lot of baskets in the side yard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Arthur tried to borrow Ministry cars for us,” Mrs. Weasley whispered to Harry as they stood in the rain-washed yard, watching the taxi drivers heaving six heavy Hogwarts trunks into their cars. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I said to the old man, in a trembling voice, “Is there any quick way out of this yard beside through the gate?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who knows what the crowd might do. They’re probably already gathering. As for you—you’ll probably be inside. Leading Day to the yard. Commander Jameson will tell us more when it’s time.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Paper cups, crumpled napkins, and empty bottles of soda littered the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I was out trimming the laurel in the front yard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped reading when Fraber’s horse and wagon came into the yard next door because watching the beautiful horse was almost as good as reading. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After his prayers, he paddled out over his flooded yard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lupin dived for the back door; Harry leapt over Hagrid’s legs and sprinted into the yard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The window had a view of the yard and the house where Joe the builder lives with his family. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She would not go outside, even into the yard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes working white men in their uniforms or their navy striped suits drove up and down the gravel road that ran alongside our yard, making the dust and small rocks grind under their wheels. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From the windows of condemned hotels, from fire escapes and balconies, from behind cars jacked up in front yards, they extended the barrels of their assorted guns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He led the boy out into the yard trailing the black smoke from the lamp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Junior was in front of me and his hands didn’t swing as they used to when he strolled across the yard on his way back from school. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mrs. Lambert doesn’t like baseballs going into her yard.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are we going?” she asks once we’re in the yard. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A few days later a net was put up and suddenly we had our own Wimbledon in our front yard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason thought he had zeroed in on Cupid’s voice—at the edge of the amphitheater about twenty yards away—but he wanted to make sure. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was the one who pulled his brother Willie out of the line of fire by the hood of his jacket when gunshots rang out in the school yard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And—” “And when he found Mondragon irrigating that beanfield with the dead sow off in a corner he stopped and ripped off a chamber load 4t our hero from a distance of about thirty yards.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys split, diving into the yard, each ducking behind some large, odd piece of junk. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The yard was alive to the clack of wood on wood, punctuated all too often by thwacks and yowls of pain when a blow struck leather or flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We walked up Gloria’s sidewalk and around back, through her yard and into her kitchen. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

That noise wouldn’t do, so they kept moving through other yards, around playhouses, and past trampolines until they were back to a road far away from Flux. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The girls were up the road about forty yards sitting on a stone wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I know Mom misses being around all her science buddies, and she likes having company in the yard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He took his bowl to the back of the hall and found a place on an empty bench, yards away from the nearest torch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A rural black family guilty of a small infraction of “social custom” would awaken in the middle of the night to find a cross burning in their yard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later I walked into the yard for the first time since Eddie’s execution. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then the video cuts to the yard, where the firing squad lines up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Anya had never taken the trail farther than a few yards off the road, so she hoped it was passable farther north. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Conversely, you could be within fifty yards of it and not know, as we had seen at Pleasant Pond a few days before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then she came back, dressed for the street and, without a word, passed him, walking down the short steps into the yard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They ran into the yard and within minutes had blended into a group of children their age. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sailors pull on ropes and pulleys, lifting barrels to swing from each ship’s yard arm so they can be loaded onboard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He could not believe what he saw several hundred yards ahead. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he stepped out into the yard under the sun, Seth wondered how much of what he had heard had actually been something chasing him, and how much had been invented by his flustered imagination. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I stared at the downpour and pictured all the da-zi-bao in the school yard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I saw the executioner strip off the man’s shirt and lead him into the open yard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind pummeled the balloon as if it were an inverted punching bag, then tore it to pieces and cast shreds of its nine thousand yards of silk as far as half a mile away. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They came to a gentle rise, where the main chamber widened to more than a hundred yards across—wider than the length of a football field. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the very same day, a man loading finished bolts of cloth onto the railroad cars in the Lawrence mill yard had been run over and crushed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had a neat yard but was so small that dwarves could have lived there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the only time the police in Sylvan got to use their guns was when they got called out to shoot rattlesnakes in people’s yards. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A square hedge divides Tyler’s front yard from the next. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His rifle was ten yards above him, leaning against the rock up there, useless. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A big house to play in. A yard. Two rooms full of toys. Her mom can’t give her that kind of life.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I hear you working ever yard on the street.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The aqueduct is shaped like an upside-down trapezoid, with a steep downslope that abruptly levels off for twenty yards, then slopes upward again. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

The position was more than a hundred yards long, Chamberlain could see the end of it, saw the 83rd Pennsylvania forming on his right. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the left, two hundred yards away, Pettigrew’s men were slowing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had slid and not fallen, and had come up with a jolt to his feet on a wider ledge not many yards lower down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the distance, more breaks in the walls led to other paths, and farther down, maybe a hundred yards or so away, the straight passage came to a dead end. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There were some trains in the yard and I looked around. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I first sensed the vitality of English intellectual life, so completely absent during my initial days in my Victorian room several hundred yards away on Jesus Green. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There had been some changes made in the storage yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every thirty feet or so there is a neat, paved driveway going fifteen or twenty yards to nowhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I ll have yards and yards of it. What a decorating job lies ahead. I’ll have to get some close friends in to help me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Any bruises they take in the practice yard must come from truebom swords." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Victor was standing just a few yards away. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back to drag Day out into the yard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Carl slowed down because there was a police car in the yard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The squirrel jumped to the ground, and dashed back across the yard, intent on his cherry tree. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The palm tree in my yard keeps trying to stand up in spite of a cold couple of months. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She waited and watched them cross the yard toward a clump of cedar trees near the fence. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the degrading nosebags, were thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We put about ten yards between us and the fog when Finnick stops. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, looking around, he saw a pool of water less than a hundred yards away from where he was standing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A shelter was only a few hundred yards farther on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Course Is happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The dog had gone back under the building, so the boy entered the yard and moved toward the children. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie kept playing, and through the window, Ivy saw Mr. Bishop pushing the lawn mower up and down the front yard. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards down the slope, something rustled through the woods—snapping branches, crunching leaves, hissing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It hit the top of the backboard and bounced into the yard near the grill. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were used to having their own house, their own yard. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tidbit, who was busy chasing a chicken in Inez’s yard, waved good-bye. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Winchell was only 2 of 16 passing for 42 yards and 1 interception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed down quietly from the cinder block and ran silently across the yard to the shed. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Down in the yard the woman had stopped singing, but the faint shouts of children floated in from the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Out the window behind the aquarium, I see Mom in the yard talking to the mailman. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled forward, and the wheels rolled easily over the thick grass of the yard and onto the blacktop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Crew members hid in the woods at a distance of about fifty yards and filmed him using a telescopic lens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't gone twenty yards when I heard my name and Gatsby stepped from between two bushes into the path. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She’s got so many azalea bushes, her yard’s going to look like Gone With the Wind come spring. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Catching Harry’s eye, he nodded covertly to a point some fifty yards away. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go far, just around the perimeter of the neat yard in a slow shuffle, watching the sky, clear now, a billion stars spread across it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A drenched and angry-looking Mr. Flux was knocking aside any and every piece of yard junk between him and the front door, on his way inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not like a sickly child, too small and slouched over in someone’s yard in black Oakland. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Dan walked off a few yards, stretched his body, and dragged his claws through the soft bottom soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First thing in the morning, Parrelli got a call from a man in Pigeon Cove, complaining about a horrible fish odor coming from his neighbor’s yard,” Dad said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The white SUV reappears, less than a hundred yards away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had moved a yard or two away and was facing him, revolver in hand. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Our amphibious boats turned around, roared back down onto the beach, and churned their way out into the water fifty yards or so. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was happier when I returned to the pre-K classroom with the fenced play yard and tubular slide. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She could still hear the hum of cars, but mostly it was crickets and breezes through the tall grasses of the cornfields and the big front yards in need of mowing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was watching some of the boys roll a volleyball net onto the yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boy carried a liver while the dog dragged yards of intestine at the end of which a stomach dangled. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Guess maybe it was round four hundred yards.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

So just now, I took the queen of hearts, slipped it out the window, and watched it sailing down to the yard below. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Across the yard, she could hear men dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kabuo could not see the surface of the sea more than five yards beyond the bow of his boat from his place at the wheel in his cabin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards back we had noticed several corncobs along the shore of Fitches Brook. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was located, of course, about a hundred yards below the tennis courts on the Dancing Trout grounds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the final moments, Jeremiah fired a shot from ten yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He cries with relief when he wakes up from an afternoon nap to hear his children’s voices in the yard and realizes that I am alive. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nick began to bark, then Lottie, and the wagon clattered into the yard and stopped by the steps. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

He caught the next cut on his shield, then lurched back to his feet and drove Arron across the yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t go up in the dern yard because of the dern cats, of which there were eighteen or twenty at least. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Triwizard Cup was gleaming on a plinth a hundred yards away. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cousin Charley was a big boy, going on eleven years old, and he could jump from stump to stump all over the yard. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gorgons were only fifty yards away now—leisurely gliding toward him as if they knew the hunt was almost over. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He lets me handle the float out of the yard and into the frosty streets and I wish I could drive forever and never go home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Katherine and I are just in time to see Jackson tackled by the three men a little ways down the street that leads away from the rail yard. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I lean on the porch railing, look out on the three mossy oak trees in the front yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dwight was tossing a basketball into the hoop on the streetlight pole at the edge of the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards into the clearing, about halfway to the hut, a massive oak tree jutted from the ground at a forty-five-degree angle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Another shell passed close, fifty yards to the left, clipped a limb, ricocheted up through the leaves. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I set the hook, it smoked thirty yards of line off the spool. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Joe trotted inside, returning to the yard a few seconds later toting a package of Chinese firecrackers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, just below one of the guard towers in the yard’s corner, the prison designers had installed a basketball court. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As my mother's mother moves toward it, she closes her eyes, then opens them to look out over her yard. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

We’re out in the yard naked dousing ourselves with icy water from the tap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ma and Aunt Polly worked in the house and all the cousins played together in the yard till dinner time. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accident happened only a hundred yards from a slope where Roy and his father were sledding. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard was packed thick with a dry bed of sand-like dirt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The entire yard sparkled with diamonds of frost that quickly melted into millions of drops of water with a gentle kiss of the sun. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Days, weeks afterward, there were ashes, paper bits from wallets, purses, floating into the school yard.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I sat on the steps in his yard reading my book. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I recognized Duncan from B-block—a short black man with dreads who apparently was a perpetrator in a recent fracas in the B- block yard in which officers had been injured. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has his arms around a live turkey he has stolen out of someone’s yard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It had moved stiffly, that first time, with a reluctant rusty yelp and they peeked through into the hidden and deserted yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy and Lazzaro and poor old Edgar Derby crossed the prison yard to the theater now. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She located a large pie tin, the kind Dale used to leave milk around the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A stable stood in one corner of the yard. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road is very quiet: just one woman walking in my direction a few hundred yards off, no one else. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the group of enormous giants about three hundred yards ahead. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed very small, and they tried to efface themselves in outside neglect, and the wild overgrown front yards tried to hide them from the street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They occupied the town; and we, yards from the shore, heard tales of skirmish and indignity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He refocused the lens and started clicking just as the sun fired a last burst of golden light over the yard before fading into the horizon. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There's no moon, the sky is dark and empty, and the back yards are so lonesome it feels creepy and exciting—the truth is, I've never been out alone at this time of night. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And suddenly a claque of women crowded to the door and overflowed into the yard. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two older guys, Mitchell and Homes, never say much but can shoot the dust off your boots at fifty yards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was a long, rolling clang, as though the washtub had been flung across the yard, and then a confusion of angry shouts which ended in a yell of pain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My sheep taxi started plodding up the hill After a hundred yards, my hands and feet started to hurt from holding on. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He walked through the yard, slipping on a loose piece of bark, picking himself up and stomping on the treacherous thing, then sniffing the ring of ashy stones where the man’s teakettle had heated. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was sitting in the sun outside the screen door when they came driving into the yard. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes open and I strain to catch a glimpse of someone in my family, but the yard remains deserted. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nagged at me for reassurance for a good five minutes, with me turning every few yards to glower at Lamar and Sam Houston to make them keep their distance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

An old hand-pump water well stood at the far end of the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred yards beyond the clearing, the lights of the Zhang mansion glowed through the trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fort itself was a tiny structure, actually— only about twenty yards square. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were too many people in the yard; a family of sixteen lived in the room next to Mama Oji. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The middle of the yard was cleared and swept for a dance floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

That afternoon the girls and Marshall got to the storage yard first, and they were all sitting on the edge of the temple floor just waiting when Ken and Toby arrived. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The explosion was on the far side of the road, more than a hundred and fifty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looked down into the yard, feeling miserable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warblers fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Casting a last nervous glance around the school yard, I hoisted myself through the window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once we were out of the yard, the train picked up speed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lill was eight, she submitted a bid of forty-seven cents to paint a long, high fence in the back yard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I barely saw August except in the mornings when she crossed the yard headed toward the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve also seen him squatting in his front yard surrounded by other old men, every one of them falling over from drinking palm wine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 1946 Plymouth was parked in the front yard, its bumper pressed against the porch, its taillights blocking the brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. This will be dangerous. There’s someone I want to visit, and to do that I have to get into the yard behind Capricorn’s house.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They would be able to catch up with him before he could cover a dozen yards. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In actual fact Dandelion covered three hundred yards to the cattle shed in a good deal less than half a minute. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Crowell stood in her front yard in her nightgown, screaming as loud as she could. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they made shore a few hundred yards further down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, except for the Plymouth and the weathered cross and the mum-mified banana tree, the tiny yard was completely bare. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake making flower beds in Janie’s yard and seeding the garden for her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the pictures, at the fire hall, the school yard, the grange, and the rodeo, only had white people in them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on: “There was, at that time, little attempt at cleanliness. The yard was littered with debris.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lissa and her father were sitting at a sagging old picnic table that had been in the yard as long as the trailer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I watched the lights of the station and the yards as we went out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond them was the stable yard, with stalls opening onto the yard on three sides. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First let’s make sure there aren’t any other statues in the yard.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Half the yard was eclipsed from my view. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Alone in the corner of the school yard I saw a little wildflower. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rustling behind them and Dustfinger spun around, but it was only a mouse scurrying over the quiet yard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When it drew inside of one hundred yards he gave a single blast on his air horn. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yard by yard, puff by puff, the breeze hauled the figure through the blue flowers, over the boulders and red stones, till it lay huddled among the shattered rocks of the mountain-top. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, when Mama Oji fought with her husband, her voice tore across the yard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I do need someone to help with the yard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Neb’ mind ’bout all dat cleanin’ round de front yard,” he told her as she straightened up from fixing the bed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He looked in panic around the yard and toward the house. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the back yard With three red Chickens, the goat With a tin can For a bell drinks From a rain puddle. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally decided that I was more afraid of losing Winn-Dixie than I was of having to deal with a dog-eating witch, so I went through the gate and into the yard. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded Hazel of the cat in the yard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a hundred yards or so he turned back, sniffed the plate again, and lay down not far from the tent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Zoe is right, Percy. Things get thrown away here for a reason. Now come on, let’s get across the yard.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The yard in New Orleans is a big one, all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthills had risen in the newly softened red soil in the yard, like miniature castles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only bridge was a formidable one of wood and stone several hundred yards downstream. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m impressed. You’ve earned your first bonus. Two yards of any fabric you like, on the house.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

These are the things I had to do: Let the chickens out of the chicken yard. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gallop turned out to be a good forty yards wide, mown to less than six inches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly and indirectly nearly one-fifth of Chicago’s population depended on the yards for its economic survival. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lenny and Burl helped us drag everything to the woods at the edge of the yard, and then Howard wanted to sit on the porch and draw a plan for the fort. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Around the hall were broad grassy horse yards fenced with high hedges, firepits, and hundreds of round earthen houses that bulged from the ground like miniature hills, covered with grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I woke Piani and we started, moving a few yards, then stopping, then going on again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tess couldn’t set it up in her yard either—she wasn’t worried about her mother wondering what it was, because her mother never left the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sitting just a few yards from the door to the president's box, Dr. Charles Leale jumped up from his seat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Perhaps fifty yards in front of them, a brown-gray creature was pushing his long snout into the ground and snorting like he had a sinus infection. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Behind them were about twelve guys from the yard crew. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra began to unwind the fabric, turning the object first one way and then the other, yards of deep red falling in folds around her knees. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

We circled and sang a school yard rhyme: When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In another quirk of Sing Sing, the yard was way down the hill and across the tracks, next to Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For there, lying in the middle of the beach, was a great dragon, perhaps five hundred yards long. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as noisy and busy as a chicken yard. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the Common, the almshouse yard was thick that morning with Tory refugees fled to the city, groping now through the palings of the fence and clamoring for coin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And there, in the cleared yard behind it, like a great L upside down, was the gallows. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five thirty, the Union artillery opens fire on the grassy hill from just four hundred yards away. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Emilie moved forward, trying to follow the guards taking the body into the yard. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I wandered back into the yard, sick to my soul. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have run all the way, in panic, but after he had gone perhaps fifty yards his brain took over and slowed and, finally, stopped him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hundred yards out, still in the open field, they would come within range of skirmish, aimed rifles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some, he heard, were trapped in the railroad yards of the great city a hundred miles to the east. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon the Art Lesson came running from the house, Doña Charito leading, cousins on stockinged feet, the old woman in tow, towards the muddy heap in the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the boys had stayed late to pitch horseshoes in the school yard, but Tony joined her. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They spent much of the morning putting up hundreds of yards of black bunting from house to house, along the route to the church. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He peered through a porch window alongside the door and then returned to the yard, shrugging. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually she went out into the yard, picked some of the fruit from the thathana moratho tree, and gave it to the child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They stood in the yard studying the facade. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As I went by, I scooped up a stone from the yard. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Their children were everywhere underfoot, and the yard teemed with their cows, sheep, and chickens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the yard was empty, and Meggie was too furious to feel frightened of someone when she knew nothing about him other than his name. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Behind the woman’s small house there was a bare dirt yard, and in the light of the lantern that Con held, they found the woodshed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

La Llorona had been right; there was no way of missing the pink house, not with a party going on in the front yard. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Like a greyhound coursing game, you take off from twelve yards out, winding for the kill. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He catches a fleeting glimpse of something—something enormous and dark—flying across the yard of the inn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“That was mean, Daddy. You had no call to say that,” she said, running toward the front yard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty yards from the nearest monsters, Bob turned to face Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was in the little washhouse across the yard. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Choking out a cough, Mark sought more places for his hands and feet, dropped another yard or so. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The campsite was only twenty yards ahead when, without warning, the forest around her went silent. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We’d go out in the yard and feed up to five hundred feet of string through a mixture of ground glass and glue. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Upstream about a hundred yards, the stream gushed through a rock gorge, calming as it flowed into the still pool. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mama also made sure the entrance to our tent was always closed to keep out the smoke and odor from the camp’s garbage dump located directly in front of our tent, twenty yards away. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A yard in back where she could sunbathe; a basketball hoop just above the garage door for Brian. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In his greatest vote of confidence, he asked Burnham & Root to build an entry portal for the Union Stock Yards that would reflect the yards’ growing importance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Parking lot is on the other side of the school yard. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lee and Grumman were six hundred yards above them, and not far from the entrance to the ravine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was their first time to that part of the yard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The dark-haired boy is at least fifty yards in front of them, but immediately the pack begins to gain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He stopped in front of a gray blue house with a willow tree in the front yard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t get to me from down there, not without first having to go maybe fifty yards down the draw to find a place to get out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had walked perhaps 400 yards, out of sight of the camp, when Katz stopped me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the wagon stopped they were in the yard of a stable, and it was broad daylight. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen yards to Hill for a first down to the Marshall 42. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Styx led us to the train yard, a part of town we didn’t know. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could hear music coming from the truck radio, Sam Cooke singing “Another Saturday Night,” then May calling across the yard to Rosaleen, something about getting the sheets off the clothesline. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a light mounted on the bow, but all it lit up was the fog a few yards in front. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized, of course, that he’d worked at forty houses, at least, and couldn’t remember every plant in every yard. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“That sounds scary. Everyone who even steps foot in that yard disappears.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Looking across the yard at them, Dandelion felt a sudden clutch of horror. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mist surrounded them again suddenly, and his grandma’s yard faded away. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The film in his camera still contained pictures of Shoba, in the yard, when she was pregnant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And, of course, Howard, studying his fort plans like he was building a castle, then heading out to the edge of the yard with that up-down walk of his. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As Arya crossed the yard to the bathhouse, she spied a raven circling down toward the rookery, and wondered where it had come from and what message it carried. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear waited in the yard; Min had not yet emerged from the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Anything. Rake the yard. Mow the lawn. Whatever they need.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Across the yard I saw Principal Long, Wang Qi, and the two boys coming out of the gym. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On first hearing Miss Leep’s news he merely rolled his eyes, as if two dogs in his yard had reportedly been caught whistling “Dixie.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top of the climb brought several hundred yards of bare, gently sloping granite, like walking along a whale’s back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly Academy stuff, in other words, along with what to do during a red dot emergency and the ways in which officers were made vulnerable by the antiquated configurations of Sing Sing’s exercise yards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the outline of the mango trees in the next yard; some of them had fruit drooping down like heavy earrings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He strolled across the yard and down a flight of steps, to a wine- sink called the Lazy Eel, underneath a warehouse full of sheepskins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was dark when we finally pulled into the yard, the headlights of the car flashing across Ob’s old Chevy sitting in the weeds. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

We left Our Lady in the yard while we ate, then returned and washed her with water the same slow way we’d washed her with honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had begun moving all of our furniture into the yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon when they reached the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As I step into the yard, I glance up at my mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later Harry’s feet slammed onto hard ground and he fell onto his hands and knees in the yard of the Burrow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Until then, the yard belonged to their squires, who ranged in age from ten to forty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The mighty groan resounded across the yard, nearer and louder. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The halls become packing yards, their floors strewn with straw and sawdust and twine. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They crossed the yard quickly and went to the cabin and entered. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steps aside and lets the prisoners pass one by one through the recreation yard door until only the guard is left. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jackie and I helped her set up some card tables out in the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They came to the prison railroad yard again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a last despairing effort Frodo raised himself on his hands, and struggled on for maybe twenty yards. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stopped when he was about three yards away, and he stood there leaning on his stick and staring hard at James. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

On his signal, the wagons started up again across the last few yards to the market. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of his run through their yard made his heart beat fast, remembering fear and pride. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They marched around the back yard, slashing at foliage, occasionally pausing to pick off a stray elephant or fight a tribe of cannibals. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So we went to play in the yard, and later whenever I mentioned tearing it down, Stick would say, “We’re keeping it.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can hear the rain coming in, though, pattering on the leaves a few hundred yards away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of running to the door, she went around to the back alley, which connected to the rear yard, her hands fumbling as they unlatched the back gate. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As he raced across the yard, however, their tires caught and, jolting clear of the gooey rut, the car plunged down the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought we were going back inside, but they passed the front door and headed for another part of the yard. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This time I let them loose in the yard, where they hopped around hunting food, perching on Rontu who by now had gotten used to them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a plot three yards square and the hearty stuff that sprouted from it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In a prison yard selling pastries to help raise money for a little girl who had donated a kidney. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody put it over the fence and left it in our front yard. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I bet this year he’s letting them know who’s really the boss of the yard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Pushing her way through the saplings and fallen branches, she found the arrow thirty yards into the trees, its red fletches bright against the mottled green understory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A torch sailed spinning above their heads, trailing fingers of fire as it thumped down in the dirt of the yard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A red ball roll a few feet in my yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After we had finished eating, my uncle showed me his carpentry tools and his worktable, which was outside, occupying most of the little yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The black-glass beach stretched inland about fifty yards, then dropped off the edge of a cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Comer had already gained 125 yards on nine carries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his front yard, he saw the two men about twenty feet away, standing under a cedar tree. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grip my toes, and with each heavy push, I move faster and farther than before, so that soon I’ve made another two loops around our yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I am in shorts and a T-shirt, throwing balls for the dogs in the yard. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When Macon walked out of the yard, the sun had disappeared behind the bread company. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked out at the yard, at the kids playing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And there was the chicken coop Linda and he had built together, and the chickens wandering in the yard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing at limbs with her feet, she fell several yards before she got a good grip and flapped herself upright. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Choking, stumbling, he moved like a broken toy around the yard. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my satchel and make my way fast down the stairs, through the school yard, past block after block of the cracked sidewalks of Chicago’s South Side. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had lifted Campbell Junior up to the window so he could watch a hen leading her baby chicks towards the front yard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In Indian villages people could only be summoned by shouting; once a canoe had gone a few hundred yards, it could not readily be called back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The J V race began at 3:45 p.m., and for all intents and purposes it was over a hundred yards down the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“There were about 40 girls waiting in the yard. The foreman came out & looked at us as though we were so many cows.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The problem was that the incident took place probably 250 to 300 yards away from the post. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wooden stables and other storage buildings were common, and trees lined the streets and filled the yards. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Last night, I fell asleep to the whir of her sewing machine through the yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As the two of us went about the large yard, I raked leaves and watered the flowers; Granny weeded the lawn. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was blood within a hundred yards, he would find it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I would look out the window into the yard and watch Hassan and his mother kneeling together, picking tomatoes or trimming a rosebush, talking. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dalio and I got off the ground, looked at each other, and broke into a sprint, running away from the car now sitting ominously a few yards from us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Scarcely daring to breathe and glad that his feet made no sound on the sandy floor, Matthias went ahead, remembering to mark an arrow every few yards. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She led me past The Baron Weasel’s den and down through the woods about fifty yards to the enormous old white oak. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

School is a few yards away, in two classrooms next to the common area. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The school yard filled with kids on Monday morning. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

That night when she heard them out there, she opened up the bathroom window and dumped Jacqueline’s dirty bathwater out into the yard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People still made their yards look like something from an ad for minivans, life insurance, or weed killer. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sharitz would cross her yard with the news from Mom and pass it on to Mrs. Todd and so on down the fence line. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom came to pick me up, she found me crying behind the Dumpster in the play yard. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As she made that comment a history class that met a few yards down the hall did not have a teacher. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been with the Twenty-first Marines, dug in on a small hill just a hundred yards past my own foxhole. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of her fenced yard were planks, a sawhorse, and a big circular saw. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The little green squares around each look-alike house seemed more like carpeting that had to be kept clean than yards to play in. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The heavy snow paralyzed the railroad yards of one of the large towns south of us on the Boston and Maine line. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fifteen men, with half a dozen guns between them, and they opened fire as soon as they got within fifty yards. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He got out of his pajamas and into his jeans, pullover, and sneakers and was dashing down the stairs and out into the yard to stop the takers. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Lolo and the twins are in the yard picking grapefruits while I try to write something. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s whole house and yard and her whole Maple Hill were in those words, just the way Mother had described them ever since Marly could remember. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy looked hopelessly at the rotting Celtic cross in the front yard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked back through the bushes and into our yard. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now they crouched together at the edge of her parents’ yard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was in the front yard digging a hole with my little red shovel. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The Games had no mile race, so milers ran the 1,500 meters, about 120 yards short of a mile. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cat-like, it was fascinated by the rabbits and could not leave them alone, but it evidently had no stomach for another fight and as they crossed the yard it stayed where it was. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Wayne stop in front of the house, the cloud of poison still five yards behind him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to do yard work at the big houses where he had gathered weeds behind his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn saw a crumbling porch first; then a weedy, overgrown yard; and then the tall fences blocking off the houses on either side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, now,” Mr. Galanter said, “there isn't much time. The rules are each team practices in its own yard.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She shot a worried glance down to the bottom of the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

To the left of the desk, along the bookcase wall, was a window that looked out onto the alleyway and back yard beyond. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Theirs was the only property for kilometers where a grove of tall sundari trees provided shade for the house and most of the yard. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sookie hung over the ocean, yards beyond the boat with the harpoon in hand, waiting for the white shark to swim underneath him, so he could tag the fish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Not the terrifying buzz of nightmares, not the low buzz of sleepy bees, but the buzz of the people of Bone Gap, all of whom seemed to be gathered in Finn’s front yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes, tomorrow,” said Kate, standing guard on the hilltop, a few yards up the path. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The yo-yo attached to Alex’s belt spun, trailing out thirty yards of specially designed advanced nylon cord. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We bumped along past an oblong pond fifty yards across, ringed all around with tall cattails. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bad weather meant no recess in the yard. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They would wheel round, climbing rapidly, and be gone from sight Twenty yards up, they were invisible in the dark. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, she wasn’t even allowed out of our yard! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gathering murmur, people in their yards talking across the fences, coalesced outside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Macon and Freddie approached the yard, the women from the rooming house were hollering answers to Porter’s plea. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, they were taking everything out into the yard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He turns without waiting for Garrett’s answer, and we see a Jack in the Box a few dozen yards ahead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They accused us of picking cherries, grapes, or figs from the trees and vines in their yards. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’d already plunged into the yellowing, crisping plants, dying plants, he’d already stumbled forward several dozen yards, when he began to feel stupid again, wrong again, worried again. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I looked around the yard, unable to see what might be spooking him. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had closed one of the yards and was trying to get rid of that house with the ceilings as tall as a cathedral’s if he could somehow find a buyer for it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her window, she watched him in the yard, securing his lunch in the rear carrier pack of his bicycle, then walking his bicycle across the yard and into the street. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She walked the path of the Governor, toward the city, covering a hundred yards with every stride. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Looking everywhere, I could actually see us changing the yard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Last week I puttered around in my yard, had some visitors over during the day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gates opened, and soldiers marched into the yard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they sure had made a wreck of the yard fence. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could picture him striding across the yard in mail and plate, or sitting at his accustomed place on the bench in the Great Hall, joking as he ate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We pulled into the yard of one of the shabbier places. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a very distressful thing,” he wrote, “to walk into a yard in May and not hear a bee buzz.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had just transferred into Sing Sing from another prison the day before; it had been his first time ever in the B-block yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The referee blew the whistle, and Blue Springs quickly set up for a direct kick from nearly twenty-five yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I saw the cat sleeping in the yard.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bushes and small trees decorate the yard, and a cobblestone walkway leads up to the front door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I half expected Babou to wheel a Ping-Pong table out, like the Rezaeis had in their yard, but instead he had me drag three fabric-topped card tables out from the shed in the corner. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Unsure of what to do but knowing if I stayed there debating my options, the mother cat might well come and blind me, I left the coal shack and lingered about the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Genie wasn’t sure what his brother was up to, but he was so glad to be out of that creepy house that he jogged out into the middle of the yard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Before the half, tiny Qendrim dribbled through the defense ten yards out and tapped a slow roller past the goalie’s left foot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When Rasheed opened the front gate, Mariam found herself in a small, unkempt yard where yellow grass struggled up in thin patches. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It spoke to Lefty of jazz-age frivolity, gin cocktails, cigarette girls; it made him slick his hair back with panache . . . while, out in the yard, Desdemona heard the singing and reacted differently. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Our play yard had metal fencing and weeds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Partway up she stumbled and fell, rose, then fell again ten yards farther on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Girls and boys with their yards and yards of ease, each group knotted tight around their belonging. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the beeyard was not dark the way that the other yards were; a small fire glowed in the center of the circle of hives. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The turtle was already a hundred yards behind them, its head charred and smoking. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was not unusual for the owner of a beautifully decorated and well-kept yard to wake up in the morning and see an empty bag of Lay’s potato chips or Cheez Doodles drifting through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The offensive line started pushing Cypress Bay back, letting Antoine move the ball steadily down the field—five yards, six yards, five yards, seven yards. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne’s neighbors had begun to gather around the edge of the yard or loiter in the road nearby. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m about three yards away when I suddenly turn back. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A flamingo in the wild won’t mind you if you stay more than three hundred yards away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The good deed and the height made her feel superior to the boys and girls playing stickball in the yard. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s attached to our mailbox in the front yard, bobbing lazily with the breeze. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards away he lay in the surf pleading in a soft voice for help. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She waves me off and shifts her focus across the yard. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Really, I can just see him. Standing out in a yard wearing some kind of stupid apron.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Stand right here, right in the middle of the driveway until they look up from the creek, across the front yard, over Byrd’s raised garden beds, over the fence and see him standing here. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So for our final exam, our teachers sent us into the break yard to spend an hour with no adult supervision to see what would happen. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We worked our way in as far as we could, stopping about twenty yards from a small stage. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like they had gone back to that day when they were little kids and were standing in the school yard with the September light shining down on them and kids running all around. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Over the past few months Kelton’s family has assembled an over-the-top surveillance system, set up a mini greenhouse in their side yard, and lined their entire roof with some kind of unregistered, off-grid solar panels. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I ought to chain you up in the yard and let Bran take a few practice shots at you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I pulled loose and ran, and she chased me into our yard and through the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I've been preoccupied with watching the boy from District 2 send a spear through a dummy's heart from fifteen yards. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We ran off, dodging the chickens milling around in the yard, tuck-tuck-tucking a food call to each other. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Who said the mess hall would have an exit to the yard? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the school yard before class, and the day was surprisingly warm. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it wouldn’t have been so bad. We could have slept in hammocks. Learned Spanish. Lived in a little house with chickens in the yard.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They would throw the softball around in the yard. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tobias and I stand yards away from each other for a few seconds. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance of thirty yards, he looks small to me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the slates, a block away and thirty yards below, twelve German officers smile for cameras. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bewildered white women scuttled indoors and bolted doors, simultaneously unleashing vicious dogs to patrol yards, seemingly misconstruing the busloads of black boys and girls as a prelude to a black invasion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after I used that shovel to bury him in the yard. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after moving in, Samar began sneaking into the yard once her parents had fallen asleep. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Craggy rocks and black volcanic sand stretched inland about a hundred yards to the base of a high stone wall, which marched off in either direction as far as we could see. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before her lay a pristine pond, a couple of hundred yards across, with a small, verdant island at the center. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She almost expected to see Dustfinger, but there was only a blackbird in the yard hopping over the stones, which were wet after the rain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Diane and Sage step away from the table and, with clipboards in hand, lead the group toward the other end of the yard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He staggered backward across his front yard, which was the size of a bathroom mat, and flopped onto his back. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The rest of the pack is still fifty yards away and moving like elderly folks, hunched over and slow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The other three Roman cohorts were in a defensive formation several hundred yards away and seemed to be taking the brunt of the attack. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When they were about fifty yards from the base, a thunderclap rattled Hazels bones, and a curtain of ice that would have covered Camp Jupiter calved away and fell toward them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Emma was in the yard “looking at my poor darling’s little garden to find a flower of hers” when the messenger drove up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hall, the porch, even the yard were crowded with silent guests. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Quasimodo’s mother comes screaming through the door, What in the name of Jesus! and the kitchen light fills the yard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The pine tree was still way too far—a hundred yards uphill at least. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mohammed’s red sports car was parked in front of the sprawling sandy yard but what held Olanna’s attention was the house: the graceful simplicity of its flat roof. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when he caught sight of her below the McCullys’ farm it occurred to him to slow to a walking pace and follow along at fifty yards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Back then, I had Adria under my complete control, taking her everywhere in the house and yard with me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Using wheelbarrows, we moved the stones to the center of the yard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he was ten whole yards behind me, and had his gun aimed right at my back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards away, at the entrance pool, the Cupids were still filming. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The previous week, in a 35-14 win over Amarillo High, he had had the best performance of his life, gaining 141 yards in ten carries and scoring three touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma had me help her clip their wing feathers, which neither the chickens nor Fern appreciated, but clipping their wings made it easier to keep track of them while they strutted about the yard. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Gone was the bland acceptance of people minding their own business, replaced by a visible, angry resentment that became gossip, and taunts and name-calling in the school yard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had never entered a noisy school yard. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To Alyce it sounded all the more frightening and strange, as if a goose had spoken, or an egg, or the dung heap in the yard. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a mermaid fountain in the middle of the yard and, beyond it, a girl sitting on the porch, wrapped in a white blanket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I wanted four bedrooms, two and a half baths, and a basement,” Kathy Link said, “and I had to have a yard.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rain seems to be following him; whenever he thinks it is about to stop, a few yards on it gets worse. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hatch, mowing the lawn some thirty yards away, nodded and raised a hand at us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Only two hundred yards away from our final destination. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He wrote that he and Danny got into a terrible fight at the wrecking yard. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Osha kicked open the door to his bedchamber and set him in his window seat, where he could watch the yard below. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On that particular afternoon, the girls had built a dungeon out of cardboard boxes in the corner of the storage yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Dad didn’t allow the boys to come calling on school nights, but there was always a chance Ernestine might be out in the yard or standing by a window. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His older brother, Ernie, was luring the mutt to a cleaner spot in the yard with a big pot of leftover chicken, bacon, grits, greens, and whatever else was for doggy breakfast. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This interests me, because, with a heavily armed wall tower just a few yards away, this has got to be one of the safest places to leave your car in Westchester County. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no fence around the school yard and the school grounds were grass and not cement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His yard is full of the crucified Buddhas. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The beast. The one in the yard. The one at the other house. The hideous one that almost ripped out my throat.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was a dilapidated swing set at one end of the yard, towels and jeans hanging from it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They found the tiger about two hundred yards from the river. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A squad of Arabs stood on the bank a few yards from where I hid. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Ezeka’s driver arrived hours later when the yard was emptier and quieter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally the fairies deposited them in the yard, where Dale stood waiting. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Half of the tiny yard was a cement patio and the other half was another patch of grass that our imaginary cow would devour in two bites. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They lined the men up against a wall in the assembly yard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The newly married couple picked up an inexpensive painting at a yard sale—a blue-eyed, blond princess standing next to a dark, bearded prince—and hung it in their living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He grew up very suddenly and quit hanging around the back and front yards with kids. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Men are walking or cycling toward the coal yards and Rank’s Flour Mills and the Limerick Steamship Company on the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It thunders across the yard—just a thunderhead of black robes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Looking across the yard, we could see Mrs. Wheeler putting something in her toolshed. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We all followed, naturally, to find her in the middle of the yard with her l ands on her hips, staring back at the house. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to suffer the embarrassment of blanking out in broad daylight, nearly naked as I was, on the grass of my front yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Further on in the yard, another white man, also with a gun, was supervising a group of about ten black policemen as they rounded up half-naked black men and women from the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the prison yard, I held the Madonna tightly against my chest, so close that I could smell my mother’s scent on the statue. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He wanted to cross through the back yards—go to see that Rab—but thought better of it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they flew down the last few hundred yards, their eight taut bodies rocked back and forth like pendulums, in perfect synchronicity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Wooden stalls contained under a thatched roof stretched for several yards in every direction, full of the temple’s varying livestock. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I plunged into the sea and willed the currents to take me far, for away—a hundred yards, two hundred yards. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Booth stayed on his horse under the cover of a tree in the yard. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized that Mom and Dad were about to go off onto one of their standard quarrels and eased back into the darkness of the yard and stood with the dogs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He takes me with him but it’s dark and all the coal yards are closed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Step away from the door and into the yard or you’ll be dead in five seconds.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

That close—twenty yards — and I could see the delicate latticework of the leaves, the texture of the soil, the browned needles beneath the pines, the configurations of geology and human history. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if the other chickens have flown over the fence by now and Imm Janan has returned and the soldiers are circling our yard?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few hundred yards beyond the summit was a campsite with a wooden shelter in a big grassy clearing against a backdrop of dark trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta has found a good tree about ten yards from the narrow strip of beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cat, a tabby with white chest and paws, was at the further end of the little yard, walking slowly and deliberately along the side of a pile of logs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In almost every yard, a mutt or two was chained to a tree or to a clothesline post, and they barked furiously as we walked by. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure the Señora would rather find upon her return a parrot, however bald, than Toscanini with yards of straight black hair. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The proof lay in my own front yard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It poked up straight from the water and then went under and poked up again a few yards farther off, and then it sank fast. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beaten down in the middle of the yard,” she whispered. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He goes back inside the trailer, me waiting there in the yard. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front yard was decorated with what looked like a DIY glow-in-the-dark bowling set made from plastic water bottles with glow sticks inside them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I noticed she always stayed in one place of about twenty-five yards, never leaving that small area. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hazel, there’s a cat in the yard outside!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched the house burn from the back of the yard. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were about to head to the work yard as always. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning, I found the butterfly dead in a corner of the yard. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We rode on for several more minutes, pounding against the prairie, until we pounded right into Perilee’s yard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the yard, small groups of indfgena women are stirring steaming pots of beans and chicken broth over fires, and peel- ing an enormous mountain of potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together we climbed the fence into the front yard. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At the end of our street in Eden Park, right in a bend at the top of the road, stood a giant mulberry tree growing out of someone’s front yard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The car, which had driven up the lane and over the brow under the elms, came on a few more yards and stopped. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to now, Bran had only ridden her around the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Halinka carried her fairy bread to the back door of the kitchen, which stood open to the unfenced yard and wildflowers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sky was broken now into scudding patches that dragged their swift shadows up out of the shabby garden, over the broken fence and across the yard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing that this man, dressed like a white man, was a Navajo made us look around the school yard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church when she knelt, in the yard when she beat rugs, beneath the peach tree when she picked fruit, Desdemona’s feminine elaborations escaped the constraints of her drab, confining clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His expression of horror and distaste was almost comical as he started swimming towards the young dog who waited for him a few yards out. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tore the lower part of his jaw clean off, so that it flew through the air scattering blood drops in the snow many yards away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, it was almost a year before I could approach to within one hundred yards, and that is not really very close. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as I collected Prim and started for home that afternoon, I found him staring at me from across the school yard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now the dozen panels were spread around the yard to dry. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

This second night they sheltered in a small stand of pines, a few yards from the road, and within sight of a big brick house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of town, only yards away from the modern buildings made of steel and glass, streets of painters, ceramists, and sculptors had sprung up on the side of a steep hill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily stared into the dark yard as she spoke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Lord Nestor Royce, High Steward of the Vale and Keeper of the Gates of the Moon, was waiting in the yard to greet them, surrounded by his knights. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A stag stood ten yards away, feeding on bark. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was still about fifty yards away, but Stanley was pretty sure it was the right hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

No, thought Bran, but all those yards are upward. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The morning bell rang and the mass of students in the school yard formed into a series of lines. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory came running in from the yard and the women from the porch crowded around. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fortunate that the “boys” didn’t ride into our yard that evening and insist that Momma open the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma came the next day, in the evening, when the orange trees started to cast long, wavy shadows across the water fountain in the front yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he was at the railroad plant and yards, he asked the foreman, "How are these poor people keeping alive? They appear to me to be starved." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t stop until I get to the back of the house, and then I look around the yard for a decent-sized stick. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses; tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Antoine Thomas was the whole show last year. He was the go-to guy on every play. He ran for over a hundred yards eight times.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could drag himself fifty yards, they could not get him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After running almost two and a half miles, the youngsters rebelled and fled into a private yard beside the road. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked out into the yard with him, and he crossed over to the Betts’ house and went in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our first Friday evening there, after prayers were finished and orange and pink swirls still hung in the sky from sunset, I went with August to the bee yard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car had gone no more than twenty yards when it began to slow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The black hen left through the backdoor, and scratched abstractedly in the yard, where woodshavings blew about like blond curls. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Lily flick the cigarette butt across the yard in expert fashion. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The groups of people in the yard and on the porch stood with the same quiet attention as did those in the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

From Gram’s front yard, you can see the church—with its wobbly steeple and ancient bell—to the left, and the village hall—with its cheery red brick and bulletin board—to the right. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Reaching the bottom, I had about twenty yards of clearing to cross, but the grass and bushes were pretty thick. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always wants to get down the hill to Matt’s yard for a pickup game. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then, about a hundred yards out to sea, three white lines appeared on the surface. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They broke us up, made us form a line, and led us towards a building a few hundred yards away. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as soon as they were in the middle of the ford it turned upstream and waded till they were about a hundred yards further inland than the cottage. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I look behind me, and Kalinda is still standing in the yard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z