“It’s just as important as your team or your friends. You are an example for the younger kids.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Yet even with the diversion of a young lady and her family, he still is homesick. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In her case, she was able to show that young people playing off-the-shelf, shoot-’em-up video games showed an improved capacity to sustain attention, even after the game was over. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Locke relinquishes me to the youngest prince, as is expected out of deference. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

With a new young wife, Grandpa might still get him a boy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“A little bit of mayo. Just a little bit,” a young guy said to Mike the sandwich maker, whose name also wasn’t Mike, but Tahir. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Since young Siddhartha was in the hut, the old men had shared the work. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were teenagers and crazy from drinking,” says my viejito, “and just crazy from being young.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was his mother—younger than he remembered her, but very much alive. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But their coats weren’t all that opened: their faces opened, too, like empty shells, and out of the old empty fluffy round bodies stepped two young women. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Not in the DNA tests done by the National Audubon Society of a feather found by a young girl and her dog. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“No, Met Bong. We were farmers living in the countryside. I was too young to remember, but I know they died fighting for the Civil War.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung was made uncomfortable by it, and he looked at the young girl doubtfully, not caring to anger Lotus, but still moved, because he had always a soft heart. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The next hallway is packed with Dauntless traitors, tall and short, young and old, armed and unarmed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were young, with phones and fast cars, and, adding to all of it, the emergence of social media. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I heard the sound of a heavy bolt being drawn back, then the door opened, revealing a young girl with straight, strawberry-blond hair framing a pixielike face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Salvador and the young woman clustered together with the rest of Tomás’s party, all save the old man who lay on the hillside a distance away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

‘But since these, astronomy and natural philosophy in general have, for so little time, been extraordinarily advanced...Natural Philosophy is therefore but young.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The eager young Sherpa wasn’t chosen that year, but he remained in India and was hired by Shipton for the 1935 British Everest expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

From it in the early dawn two young men came and stealthily found their way to the temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wielding the sword, the young mouse backed off. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were mostly African American, with a sprinkling of Hispanic-looking kids, as young as kindergartners and as old as high schoolers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looks at me then and says, “How sad for you to have lost your mother so young.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Parents picked their children’s hair, girls played singing and clapping games, and some of the young soldiers played soccer with the boys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I’m a young woman now, like Pop Pop said. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The younger men were gathered at another table, where Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Think of all the stories you’ve heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed. He sets out for vengeance. What happens next?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In my last letter I casually asked if the young lady in the blue outfit in the foreground of your religious picture was Mary Magdalene, the sinner. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Whatever, I’m young, I’m still growing. I hope.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Even when I was younger, she never used baby words or talked to me the way grown-ups usually talk to little kids. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A Jeep and two Japanese cars say some of the younger generation are also here. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As she flew over the woods, she saw the young goshawks with their parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When Bobby, as was typical, arrived past two o’clock, the restaurant would be sparsely filled: perhaps a Danish hippie, two American tourists, and three young local girls preoccupied with what they thought was important gossip. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to share it,” he said and Ugwu wondered how he managed to get it, how a child so young seemed so flexibly in control. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hannah made fast the thread and sat with idle hands, her eyes never leaving the young sailor’s face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world, a place where the sick were treated and young doctors learned their craft, as well as a fine ob- servatory to track the heavens. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Momma and Ms. Rosalie’s youngest daughter, Tammy, were best friends growing up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and Jinjoo saw her father appear with a young man she recognized as Mr. Pak from their watch store. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At window four, Apa doesn’t speak, just hands over my green card to the young black man in the same dark blue wool sweater. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They made sure that young people conducted themselves in an orderly fashion in public places. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His pale eyes looked briefly at the young woman, and then back to Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when Father and I were talking about sex, he said I was too young to understand that kind of desire. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She's young, and when we came in, she was still adjusting her wig. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I had one of the young men in my office call the airport,” she recalled, “and there were a possible two planes for me to get that day.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He looked sternly about at the young children. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Biographers of great authors always try to track down the books their subjects read when they were young, because they know these sources hold the key to their development as writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Fights on campus are serious business, young man.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure. He’s in a picture with my granddad and some cats from around the way, but like...he’s just a random young white dude. Just seems kinda odd.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were as young as nineteen and as old as eighty. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I be younger, I pick the tomato, the cucumber, the bean, the cotton. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, now, I was the peer of the other young hustlers I had admired. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera kept showing the youngest boy, but he wasn’t the one I watched. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“A very commendable ambition, young man,” said a small voice from across the cell. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I can see is a woman with two kids who are much younger than me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I am not sure if it is my favorite anymore, but when I was younger I would read it over and over.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then had a visit from a young college instructor of English—a born Southerner of great breadth of understanding. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do we honor the drunken death of a young married couple? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the young soldier tired—which was soon—he flipped the shovel to Jonathan and climbed out. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two young men in plain brown kaftans were running across the lawns and toward them with purpose, their silhouettes blurred against the blood-orange glow of the roaring fire at their back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The younger ones went to school, and that was my dream too: to go to school and learn to read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of young men—mostly immigrants, a few blacks—roamed the docks, looking for jobs as cooks and sailors on ships, or work as stevedores loading and unloading goods on the docks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She got a job working at the stables, teaching the young kids to ride. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

You’re still young, yet already you know a different reality about white people; namely, that they are of two kinds—good and bad. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wade was hitting its late teen years—the years during which young men enter their criminal prime—the rate of crime began to fall. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I used to have dreams of reading there when I was young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I am sure he would and more since he is young and strong. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of a young woman drawing water was too much for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m clumsy again, just like I was when I was younger. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The elderly woman and the young girl stepped forward, their faces also smiling with delight. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then the old war­rior would walk to the young one, embrace him, acknowledge his worthiness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before she left, she said, “You are a strong young man, shinálí. You are going to get through this mood. But you don’t have to go through this alone.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The youngest looked sixteen and the oldest, thirty, and all were swarthy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had two younger daughters, and Alice, the eldest, was seventeen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Study to look at possible benefits of musical training on brain function in young and old. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I knew I was making a pest of myself, but I could scarcely believe this nice young lady could be so un-sympathetic, so insolent when she discovered I did not come in to buy something. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frog, the squire, was the youngest of the three, and the least impressive, a solemn, stocky lad, brown of hair and eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the tall young man with the gay laugh, and the merry whistle, had been replaced by a hostile stranger, who glared at her as he said, “You just start and see.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Reynolds, the exec, was giving last-minute instructions to Lieutenant Snell, the youngest man in 367, and fresh from flight school. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mend your ways, my young friend, mend your ways.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see all the way through the house to the back courtyard, where the figure of a young girl sat on a bench, a small pond of fish at her feet. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Here she’d been dressed in black like a grownup young lady, and she didn’t know the first thing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expect that might of been because Uncle Henry and Aunt Mary were so young, and because of their children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah, young sir, the Szekelys—and the Dracula as their heart’s blood, their brains, and their swords—can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We loaded up with every available weapon, mostly bows and arrows pulled taut with young wood and reinforced with repurposed wire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Without question, I knew that the young man back there was the one sent to the theater. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I peddle in e-mails because Mom thinks fifteen is too young for my own phone. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

One for the police, one for Internal Control, one for Military Intelligence, and one last one the young man sends along, not sure where it goes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the castle, for the first time in her young life, Mig had enough to eat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The young guard, the one who shot her, comes back to his post. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he pursued, “you remember what you’ve undertook, and you remember that young man, and you get home!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

So were the young stages of several thousand steelhead trout and other species of trout. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Andrew’s mother, who was just getting home from picking up her younger son from school, had not been aware that her son had not gone to school. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to understand totally the bewilderment and fear that so often overwhelms young children who for the first time in their lives are herded into a classroom and told to obey orders. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re young. You’ve got so much time ahead of you for more adventures. But I’m old. I’m tired. I want to settle down.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When she was eighteen, Baby Kochamma fell in love with a handsome young Irish monk, Father Mulligan, who was in Kerala for a year on deputation from his seminary in Madras. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a young filly, spirited and splendid. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before Ork has finished, the younger priest drops to his knees and throws his hands up, shaggy lips smiling, wild. fourth priest: Blessed! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

That dwarf had already planted enough doubts in his young head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Robin Bergland, a young florist who moved here from Manhattan, has stopped providing flowers for weddings. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Joffrey feigned a yawn and turned to his younger brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And, by the way, what did he mean with that “young Mr. West” comment? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I know this is a difficult thing. You’re young. But maybe you could get more specific about your feelings.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alicia, who inherited her mama’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For by rendering feelings in words that a stranger can understand—words that belong to the public, this Other—the young diarist no longer need feel ah alone or eccentric. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gates opened again, and this time a young warrior came out. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The children he was selling were too young to know what was going on but when they saw their mamas crying they began to cry, too. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed her role as the confidante of young wives and the envy of the wives her own age. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But that’s not fair,” I said, sounding younger than I felt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Since charity had not produced any tangible results, the distraught young Baby Kochamma invested all her hope in faith. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just if, for instance, I can’t convince my mother to drag three young kids into the wilderness in winter.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was just a boy, younger than you, it began to come to me. But it wasn’t the seeing-beyond for me. It was different. For me, it was hearing-beyond.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young boy wasn’t crying, or at least I couldn’t tell if he was because he had his shoulders hunched over and seemed to be keeping his head down low. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Momma was kind of old when I met her too, she wasn’t young like this picture at all. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I told Trademaster that I wanted to be younger, and handsome. I wanted Stocktender's widow to fall in love with me." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I'm the youngest, and my parents are moving to Harlem after I graduate. Mom got an offer to teach at some exclusive private school in Manhattan." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas might be several years younger than Metias and a subordinate on his patrol, but he’s more disciplined than anyone I know. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She called it after her young niece, who had died a hero in the camps: CHAYA. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1924 Anderson was offered the chance to give a recital at New York City’s Town Hall, where young artists often were presented to the city’s audiences for the first time. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It looked like a comic drawing of a young Indian boy in an embroidered kurta, holding something—a sword?—above his head. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were young employees whom I could have mentored better than I did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course you haven’t. That was a silly question. Your parents were probably as young as you then.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He turned himself over to two of his young assistants, who bled him and administered the purge. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Like the guys had told us, they were either very young or very old. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Volleyball? Did someone say volleyball?” the young scholar asks. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She takes you out drinking all the time, and you’re a year younger than me.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Whatever the case, the mouse was bitten by a young viper but devoured—and immediately—by an adult. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked through the window to see a pleasant young man who showed no hint of animosity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Percy could be heard telling the other prefects, “My brother, you know! My youngest brother! Got past McGonagall’s giant chess set!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The young keeper instantly leaped forward to put his hand restrainingly on the cub’s neck. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The young woman winced at the mention of the Russian. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was the youngest of seven children and had three older sisters who adored her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Celaena had once met a young woman from that cursed land, and though she’d turned out to be both cruel and bloodthirsty, she was still just a human. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Nogtail will creep into a sty and suckle an ordinary sow alongside her own young. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began as a movement led by a few “young turks” against an “old guard” who dominated the profession. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Hmm, maybe not...you were so young. Anyway, they are a good family, Rishi. Solid. From the same part of Mumbai as us. Give it a chance, toh, beta. And if you don’t get along...” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Another mockingjay, a young one by the look of it, lands on a branch before me and bursts out Rue's melody. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Look—‘Male feeds female and young, and leads enemies away from den at risk of his life.’” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Jenny Yen. This young lady to my left is my assistant and niece, Abby.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I meet Arthur by the door, and even though it’s impossible, I’m relieved it’s two young women and not Hudson and Harriett. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was also why he had organized the house on an efficiency basis, so that it would operate smoothly without supervision; so that the older children would be responsible for the younger ones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crossing Fourteenth Street, an unmedicated psychotic would brandish a toilet brush, his mouth moving wordlessly as, in my head, the young people of France requested a table with a view of the fountain. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’d been promptly picked up by a police officer who accused him of stealing it, unwilling to accept that a young black boy would have come across a new bike in an honest way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And the girl whose twin had died; she was younger than the yellow-haired one, just toddling, but she giggled and shrieked with the others, playing catch-me-while-I’m-running. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cause young dudes are subject to change the rules.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a very stupid young man, do you know that? You think this is some kind of game?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Inside was a young man with red hair that sprang up all over his head in spurts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t even need to ask, Bill,” said the younger man. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went like this: Rather than taking a nap in the dirt, the two young girls looked for a clean, quiet place to sleep. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Venus was interested in something that seldom came her way, a new kind of lover, and she determined to help a young man who could be enamored and yet original. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess that’s possible. But we don’t know if he even knew Siobhan. He could have been ten years older. Or younger.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The majority of these inmates are young men of color from New York City. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bowed to Father Cham, who drew a braided strand from his robe and tied it around the young man's wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

William Smith was a young supervisor of construction on the Somerset Coal Canal. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But she was happy not to be there today, in the audience, watching as other young girls heard that they too had been found fit only to breed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I see the important young blonde woman behind the check-in table talking to the mother of the girls who bumped past me before. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote, “What’s happened?” and showed it to a young businessman watching the television, he took a sip of his coffee and said, “No one knows yet,” his coffee haunts me, his “yet” haunts me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he tossed her up and she landed in his arms, Ammu saw on Rahel’s face the high delight of the airborne young. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man does not bring a young girl to dress her hair unless he loves that young girl, I am telling you. It does not happen,” she said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he grins, with sandy hair falling over his face, he seems younger than I am, but I’m sure he’s not. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once, one of the warders, a very pleasant young man named Warrant Officer Brand, actually took me to his family’s flat and introduced me to his wife and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the younger children were able-bodied seamen who, presumably, ate hardtack and bunked before the mast. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in a very small apartment complex, so Uncle Joe, my younger brothers, and I all slept in the living room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The The Milky Way from slightly above the plane of its spiral arms, which are illuminated by billions of hot, young blue stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want the younger ones to look up to me when I was a loser. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The youngest of the black brothers shifted uncomfortably in his seat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I hate it when he does that. autumnlands: My parents are always comparing me to my perfect younger sister. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As the youngest, still only sixteen, I was the obvious choice. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The image of Remedios, the magistrate’s younger daughter, who, because of her age, could have been his daughter, kept paining him in some part of his body. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had married a lovely young girl but before they could raise a family she had died. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She introduced him to her cousin, a gorgeous young woman named Manuela Hudson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, now, children,” he said, “what are two upstanding young creatures like yourselves doing in a place like this?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Angela and I were the last to arrive, and, as Eric said our names, I noticed a younger boy sitting on the stones near the fire glance up at me in interest. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even though I was so young at the time, I can still remember a lot about that experience. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A young man in his early thirties, neither short nor tall, came into the room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He spurred Smiler and followed at a trot, but what he found was only the carcass of a young elk . . . or what remained of it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lily is Jackson’s younger sister, sweet as sugar and as pretty as a summer day. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was also during that time that a starving young artist, who had been given lodging in the house out of pity, paid for his stay by painting the only extant portrait of Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she had ever spoken to a young man. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A generation of young biologists was now rifling through Darwin’s works to find clues to the theory that had gone missing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is young and nimble on his feet, stripped to the waist, a knife in one hand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They talked about digging a well, fashioning traps, felling trees, warming orchards with fire when spring weather was bad, breaking young horses, training dogs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shrank again from the touch before she saw it was one of the young women who tended the looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And let me have none of your tricks here,” said Mr. Trabb, “or you shall repent it, you young scoundrel, the longest day you have to live.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fire moved faster than we did, we the young and elderly shepherdesses of dead insects. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Sam wondered what such young boys were doing in an army of mighty men. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He gave a coughing or husky noise in his chest, like a young lion making its roar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess and Emma followed, as Ms. Morales answered Natalie, “For your information, young lady, I was working right up until I had to pick you up from school. Would you have preferred taking the bus?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There aren’t so many cars or people out walking around or young people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"You are too young to be burdened with all my cares," he told her, "but you are also a Stark of Winterfell. You know our words." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was young but poised and had a knack for making her feel good even when she was inclined to feel otherwise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She no longer looked like a young girl. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these young people had left the country to join our own military movement, and then smuggled themselves back home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This here young lady was just looking for him,” she heard the landlady say. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was high time I got over my tomboy phase and started acting like a young lady señorita. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

To the young people who founded those first co-ops, the word organic meant more than a method of farming. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even though she was a year younger than her brother, she had long been his keeper. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They have heard stories of bands of young men who will look for them to beat up or murder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olive raised her hand, but Bronwyn told her to forget it—she was too young. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“This kind of conversation depresses me more than you could possibly imagine,” the young man told him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over in Indiana, the young Klan leader D. C. “Steve” Stephenson was the government, ruling the Hoosier State from his plush offices in Indianapolis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later the car rolled past a group of twelve young men in loose black pants. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Venkatesh would occasionally try to discuss his survey, but the young crack dealers just laughed and told him how stupid his questions were. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The young, photogenic Yale-, Oxford-, and Harvard-educated lawyer had learned just how confounding the problems of urban America were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Richard beckoned to a young woman carrying a tray of boiled groundnuts that he didn’t really want. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced away before the young knight could voice his outraged protest, and addressed-the villagers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had shaved off the beard he had grown during their journey, and it made him look younger and more vulnerable. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And it begins — and ends — with my young friend here.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The author encouraging young people to plant trees in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What can I get for you, bud?” the younger man asked. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my brother and I divvied up the world when we were younger,” I tell him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“When I was very young. Though they wouldn’t let me explore—the Master Scholars were too afraid I’d ruin some valuable manuscript.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He's eleven years younger than I am, and by the time he reached high school, the rest of us had all left home. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A young boy squatted at the riverbank, tending a campfire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Mind your manners, young man,” the mom said with her eyebrows raised. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So often these books for our young people do not enforce a moral. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, may I ask if the young lady in the foreground in the blue outfit is Mary Magdalene? Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It isn’t easy to keep yourself clean on the street, and by this hour each of those young women smells in the places that count like a very ripe, soft French cheese . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I joined Farmer on the Brigham’s radiology floor, in a quiet room where he was discussing various patients with younger doctors, mostly residents, who were his students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My image of these women was fuzzy, since there were none in Macún, where all the females were wives or young girls who would one day be wives. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Muddauber wasps build columned nests of mud under the eaves of houses and stock them with insects on which their young will feed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A lot of young girls studied this in order to take part in the big obon festival held every August, a festival honoring dead ancestors, asking them to bring good crops in the fall. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cat purring against his chest and the young dog curled at his back were wakeful and alert most of the remaining night; neither moved from his side. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, Sister McCandless,” said Elisha, “look like it ain’t never but us two. I don’t know what the other young folks does on Saturday nights, but they don’t come nowhere near here.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She is forty-eight, older than Claire, but she looks about ten years younger. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

To the supplications of reason they eventually added the insult of imprecation, calling him a young cur and a scoundrel and, moreover, a fool. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Athena stood nearby to give him bulk and power, while the young suitors watched with narrowed eyes—and comments went around: “By god, old Iros now retiros.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was young and beautiful and seemed nice, but when the marriage got into trouble—and with her speaking only Portuguese it didn’t have much of a chance not to—she changed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a painting of a young man and woman in ancient Greek attire, both brandishing swords. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was a fighter, and had been since his youngest days, when we wrestled in the basement and he actually bit through my shoe until I screamed in pain and let him go. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Oberlin College in Ohio, a young woman watched the people in her dorm become unglued as they listened to the program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Five years later, a handsome, apple-cheeked young man named Andrew would look back at that conversation as one of the most validating moments of his life. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the Fifties and Sixties. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He’s like a grandfather who wants to fix up two young kids that he just knows would make a great couple. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When a woman approached, the older men tipped their hats; the younger ones opened and closed their thighs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman who had been weeping fled on hands and knees from the awful sight. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a slip of paper in Donny’s hand—the letter inviting young Petey to the Turing Unified Research and Development Institute. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Following Chandresh is a young man he would not recognize even if he were to look him in the eye, but still the man keeps his distance. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then he accosted a young man in a trench coat who was wearing a lady’s hat, but the young man had slapped him across the face and dashed away. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took to himself a wife and before long had two fine young sons to whom he taught everything he knew so that one day they might rule wisely. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand what you mean. There was a girl once, long ago. I was younger than you, Matty, but I was at the age when such things begin.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Through the French windows I saw Squelch playing Twister with two younger kids and a man I guessed was their dad. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This young guy had a metallicky suit and a paisley tie. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ralph took in the thumbnail moon, the young trees like tracery, edging the indigo sky. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Commander Kurt Meyer noted, “The magnificent young grenadiers look at us with laughter in their eyes. They have no fear. They are confident. They have faith in their strength and the will to fight.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I told my psychiatrist about the book and Bill and about Sam and Patrick and all their colleges, but he just keeps asking me questions about when I was younger. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where Father got the idea that his youngest son was itching to step into a cage with a ferocious carnivore. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked with the morbid curiosity of the young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And yet, this is something of a mockery because of her lack °f maternal instincts or the ability to care for her young. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karl accepted the invitation and showed up, right on time, even though it meant breaking the curfew set for young people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The name meant nothing, but Perry at once recognized the face in the photograph of a young soldier with crew-cut hair and round, very earnest eyes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, young lady. We have had nothing but trouble since you came into this house, and I am so over it. I mean it. I am so. Over. It.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

To a young person living in this community, it looks like a fourteen-story cemetery. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since this is not the story of two young lovers meeting by the river, it has no particular place here, and I will keep it to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Can you really turn the mileage back with an electric drill?" young Michael asked. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lily was the youngest of her parents’ nine children and the only one born in America. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just at this time, the young Andreas Vesalius was completing his medical education and beginning to make a name for himself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The young man was riding mournfully through the fen country—which had not been drained in those days and was probably the wildest part of England. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is difficult for me to believe that the untroubled young man in that photograph is my father. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The youngest champion, you know ... to add a bit of color?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When the young dog would have skirted this too, the old terrier suddenly turned mutinous. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the library after dinner and read the evening papers together under the droplight, while the younger people went into the drawing room near by and talked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You, Mohammed Aziz, rookie botanist, actually found the flower of eternal life and didn't know it. You coulda been rich and famous at a young age, if you hadn't..." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, however, virtually nothing is known about how the young guide met his end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part, the followers were young, out-of-work men, who proudly wore the brown shirts of Hitler’s private army. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been too young—only two years old when it happened. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The youngest daughter's temper flared easily with all she'd had to drink and eat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What about Elise?” the queen said, indicating a blond young woman clad in lavender. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The leaders forget what they looked like themselves fifteen years ago,” the only young man in the group pronounces. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the widows were old, but many were young, some even younger than I was. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And she almost looks younger than my own mother! Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stay, madam. I just brought this young lady to find her father.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s when grown-ups write letters to their younger selves and give advice and stuff,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

When Axel was younger, he would find his way into Byrd and Frank’s bedroom nearly every night. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My mother’s rhubarb pie. She made it every June when my sisters and I were young.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It peeks curiously over the bigger moon’s shoulder, like a younger sibling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the sight makes him feel strange, lightheaded, weightless, and somehow younger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ari-Eil had been unmarried; this was his family home, and his younger sister nodded at his side, asleep at her vigil. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, young man, I’m not angry,” he said. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They had also grown accustomed to the youngest daughter’s prophecies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several young black boys walked up to shake my hand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Seven sons had been born to her, brave and beautiful young men, and seven daughters, the fairest of the fair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred wasn’t a psychic, but he knew what his new young friend was thinking. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I was the easy one when I was younger. Now I’ve got three kids and I’m alone.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The anger and frustration directed at young black men returning home from prison is understandable, given that they are returning to communities that are hurt by joblessness and crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the year, a parent had come in to meet with her and had brought along a younger sibling. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He saw more young rabbits than he could remember. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got the balloons, young ladies,” he says, placing the box on the counter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He looks no younger then, but there is an openness in his face that I have never seen. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was a gaunt young man with nervous hands and a feverish look in his pale lilac eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When he had once more laughed heartily, he became meek again, and told me that the moment he began to realise Capital, it was his intention to marry this young lady. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She believed that young people just starting out in their careers should not feel burdened by obligations, no matter how unselfish the offer of help might be. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Eighty-one days after being approached by two young girls about where flowers might be found, George Stinney was pronounced dead. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The bus driver called back and asked the young Negro man and the middle-aged Negro woman to sit together so the white women could have one of the seats. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured when Ma Charles didn’t have a name handy, she called any woman or girl younger than herself “daughter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

At the new tremor in his words two night riders, young bucks both, stepped forward to crowd Ridgeway. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Your son is a clever young fellow,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next two girls were pretty, even younger than me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She glanced over his shoulder and caught the eye of a young nobleman in pale gray silk. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was sure he was tending a sweet but abused young girl at first, but when she bit him, he said, Oh, she’s wild. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember the young woman with the dangling wooden leg and the single oxford? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always had problems with his maverick youngest, and her running off hadn't helped. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s that vicious dieting cycle, like when I was younger. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get rid of Lyra so that he could talk more privately with the young woman; Lyra could tell that easily. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even old Master Hyrrokkin felt it, and glanced uneasily between the two young men. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I took on the disguise of a polite young lady, I could often escape her closer scrutiny. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell me more about him, Auntie. Tell me how he dressed as a young man, how he walked, and what he did for his amusement. Tell me everything you can remember.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many European leaders worried that Hitler was preparing Germany’s young people for war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really. It was to keep me safe, I think. And to make me pay attention. I was young and I didn’t want to work all the time.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a very young wizard,” the dragon said, “I did not know men came so young into their power.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Both lost a parent at a young age. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even at a young age, there was something about my grandmother’s silence and passivity in her relationship with Dandy that got under my skin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like Cheryl, I had witnessed, been through, and experienced too much in my life at such a young age to give up on my future. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It be like meeting other women—older and younger, living and no more breath. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sure no one in the world can understand a young boy like his grandfather can. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re running a makeshift school for the younger kids, but as of yet there is no Mobius High giving out diplomas. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The young women of Marina Raskova’s regiments treasured the thought of finishing the war and living ordinary lives, drawing heavily on Marina’s model of perfection as a soldier, a woman, and a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Keep moving, cousin," I mutter under my breath as Tess stops to laugh at some young gambler's joke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The young physicist reddened, “We didn’t really want to do without the robots, sir, and besides we weren’t certain exactly how such...uh...minor complaints might be received.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“What do you suppose your mum and Basil are up to, Sam?” asked the young fieldmouse, whose curiosity was aroused. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The young nurse cleared my breakfast tray away and left me wrapped in my white blanket like a passenger taking the sea air on the deck of a ship. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Was it just because Dad had died when all three of them were so young? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Halmoni, who is old and has a sleepy blanket face, says that a long time ago Apa was young like me and she could boss him around. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Most young Soviet women found themselves struggling against the inconsistency of the Communist Party’s approach to gender equality. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The young man got to his feet, grinning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most young seamstresses working with her at the garment factory in St. Louis never had the chance to go to school. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Teachers don’t know that he makes it a point to pick on the younger kids walking home. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Nina had been too young to fight in the Ravkan civil war, and she’d been desperate to be part of the rebuilding of the Second Army. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You watch your mouth, young lady. I can still whip your butt, and don’t think I won’t.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chasing after their lost ball, a pair of teenage boys ran to the base of the centaur, followed by a young girl. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Laleh was young enough that she didn’t technically have to wear one, but Mom thought it would be a good idea anyway. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I had hoped to get hold of the young people’s edition.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a young girl, I never knew my oldest brother, Heritage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As clearly as they could, the badger and the young mouse related the incident of the rat-infested hay cart. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She thought for a moment, trying to picture what this life in the Edifice must have been like for Thomas, brought here very young. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to balance military discipline with human kindness to help the young women of the 588th manage enormous physical and emotional stress. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Baby was with the younger children, crowded near the banana trees, listening to Papa Oji telling a story of how he shot down an enemy plane in Calabar with his pistol. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’ll be “too young” to know stuff again, even about my own life. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As a young woman, she had played a key role in code breaking during World War I. She later cracked the codes of American mobsters, smashing their crime gangs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He lost his mother when he was young. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the planes were refueled, Aleksandr and three other fighters took off to support the two young women who were already in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Volpe and his younger sister, Rosemary, were exceedingly close as children, and still are. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I was young, the capital of Norway was not called Oslo. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get a bunch of bright young fellows, and they’ll learn it all,” he advised York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Already that child seems much younger, poorer, farther away, a shrunken, ignorant version of myself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was speculation that during the world’s fair he might have killed dozens of people, most of them young women. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"A young lady señorita," her mother pronounced the first morning Carla set out by herself, her heart drumming in her chest. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Twelve years old and already a beautiful young lady.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said slowly, “I thought one day I might have them set in earrings,” and fearing his laughter she said again, “I could have them for the younger girl when she is wed.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Still another accused Teacher Wang of attempting to corrupt a young revolutionary by buying her some bread when he learned that she had not eaten lunch. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man must know these cases are never quickly resolved. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a young woman, Elizebeth had dreamed of being a writer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He took the bags from the young woman. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were lots of kids at the house, and I became best friends with Shiva, the youngest boy there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young scientists’ expectation was that Swann would escort them around Europe, introducing them to his friends and acquaintances among the eminent figures of European science in a sort of belated and truncated Studienreise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her youngest child was heading off into the wild. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You have a most peculiar way of talking sometimes,” said Bernard, staring at the young man in perplexed astonishment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t relate to her as a teenager; he has more success if he regards her as a young actress. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I examined them, the youngest, one of the Cullens, looked up and met my gaze, this time with evident curiosity in his expression. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Jacob is not that much younger than I am,” I reminded him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was lovely being high up there in that conker tree, all alone with the pale young leaves coming out everywhere around me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if every adult felt compelled to give us young people basic instructions. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Answer carefully, young king," the emperor said in a menacing tone, "for your life may depend on your answer. Who is to blame for this empty pot?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

From my desk within the walls of Sing Sing, I see daily the constantly increasing numbers of boys and young men who are committed to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering the delectable meal the fisher had inadvertently provided for him, the young dog determined to repeat it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, a boy wearing a fuzzy white Kangol cap, who was slightly younger and shorter than Train Ear but definitely older than the twins, squeezed himself past the lanky teen and into the car. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“You know, sweetheart,” Mrs. Reilly said to the young man, “me and my boy was in trouble today. The police tried to arress him.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably about eighteen, but so skinny and sickly pale, he could’ve passed for younger. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And she smiled, at least initially, as a seemingly endless train of young women entered the store, each insisting that only direct consultation with Dr. Holmes himself would suffice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

These two talked together, and the woman laughed lightly and looked at the young man from the corner of her eyes, her head turned aside, and they did not hear Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Just imagine how it must have been for an impressionable young girl. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I would prefer one who is reasonably young, with as pretty a face as you can find," he had said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When he was younger he was always the kid who thought there were monsters in the closet. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Although I felt myself to be a sophisticated young fellow, I was still a country boy who missed country pleasures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no slowing down when your youngest son was missing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The younger boys were adolescents following fast in the path of their older siblings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was too young to be a girl friend. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the bars, I saw an escorted group of B-block in-mates coming back from the hospital, among them the young man I had sent again that afternoon. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the twenty-some young men who were waiting at the station for their dates to arrive on the ten-fifty-two, no more than six or seven were out on the cold, open platform. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His mother tells him that she is a year younger than he is, that she has a much younger brother, that her father is a renowned chemist with a patent to his name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, wasn't that a younger sibling's primary reason for living? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Was war das?” the young soldier said to him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I want to welcome the prettiest, smartest bunch of young ladies our staff has yet had the good luck to meet," the plump, bald master-of-ceremonies wheezed into his lapel microphone. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two girls are in attendance, one of them is young. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t sound like the answer of an intelligent young man,” Ali said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Now she said to him, “You were the handsomest man in the world when you were young!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“In his family? Or in him, my young madam? Which is it?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I mean, being gay is one thing. Kids are coming out much earlier than when I was young. It won’t be easy, but we’ll deal with it. But being that kind of gay?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He put his arm around a young man’s shoulders. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance from us, two young boys are heading into the park. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But something always fell through: the mother changed her mind; a father or a cousin or a grandmother showed up out of the blue; the agency decided another, often younger couple was a better fit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A young man rode up to join them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Could I borrow this lovely young lady for a moment?” he asked Muff, nodding at Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Millerick was a very good young trainer, but for his new yearlings and the hundred-grander-caliber horses he planned to have soon, Howard wanted the best. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s been an increasing swell of support from young women,” Olivia says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The young man glanced down to the Chartres Street end of the alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Rodriguez recalls, six migrants along the tracks asked a young man from the neighborhood for some money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then slowly the cloud settled, disclosing a large black and grey Dolphin with a young one at her side. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Once again, they grumbled that he was too young and small, that he might slow them down or start crying again, as he had in the desert. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The document revealed that in the early 1930s, the Gestapo had ordered the arrest of a young scientist named Klaus Fuchs because he was a member of the Communist Party. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three of them had entered together by the lord’s door behind the dais—one tall, one plump, one very young, but in their robes and chains they were three grey peas from a black pod. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My mother, especially, grew very fond of her and came to see us often, although it meant travelling several hours in a bullock cart, which is very tiring when one is no longer young. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young king examined her critically, top to bottom. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I bumped into a young black man and said, “My bad.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was completely bewildered by the fire, too young to have any good strategy for danger, but old enough to need to put on a show. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger children would bother him; they would ask a lot of questions like “Why is Sounder dead?” and “Will he stay dead?” and many more that he would not want to answer. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes travel on and flit across the young black woman in 8C. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My daughter has a young man coming for dinner, and I’ve got to get this place clean.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

How he felt humanity squeeze his hand, and how he let that hand go — shook himself free of it, even, like a young boy confronted with an overardent admirer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she finished her pilot’s certification in 1933, she became an instructor herself—mostly teaching young men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The brilliant young organizer was experimenting, and always hoping that a misstep wouldn’t cause the entire enterprise to blow up in his face. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Old men and young ones draped themselves in front of the Elmira Theater, Irene’s Palace of Cosmetology, the pool hall, the grill and the other sagging business enterprises that lined the street. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Look like,” he said sullenly, “that won’t none of these young men be satisfied till they can go off and get themselves crippled or killed.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The remains of the Cold Storage fire were still visible as a party of schoolteachers arrived from St. Louis, accompanied by a young reporter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I could use my personal experiences as an athlete to train and inspire this younger generation, truly making a difference in their lives, including in the life of my sister Faizah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He said, “Do not be despair, young bahss. Someone will fin’ us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Abbes and his SIM were dragging young men off the streets, and farms, and from offices, like Herod the boy babies in all of Judea. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theoretically, it can do this indefinitely: grow old, then young, old, then young, and never really die. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“What are you giving to that young mind?” he asked. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I saw one young fighter salute his opponent—and five peasants hit him from behind with scythes and hammers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her younger brother, Rana, studies for a physics exam on the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you think it necessary perhaps you would see about it for me,” I said, avoiding her eyes, “some young girl perhaps, wanting to train.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him is a crowd of men—mostly young—jumping up and down, trying to get on TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph Lister changed other minds, too, particularly those of America's younger doctors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I take care of the young ones for many,” said Dulcet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance she could hear some young boys shouting as they played some sort of game with a ball. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No, because you were already grown, already two syllables when you came here. But I was young; I was still Tom when I arrived,” he said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger.... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were conversing in low voices, perhaps arguing, and the young wife appeared worried at what her husband was saying. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I start a small fire in the outdoor fireplace, wrap the primrose and artichoke in maple leaves, and clip some young shoots of a pokeweed. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t look so surprised, young one. Your face is an open book to one of my years.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I am a young man with one bad eye, who hobbles, who has left his family, who has lost a tooth and been broken by bandits to reach this place to find honest work. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Tom Smith’s younger days, the Indians would watch him picking his way over the open plains, skirting the mustang herds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, he pointed out, Fujiko wanted to go: she was young, nineteen, and wished to see something of the world beyond the sea before settling into her married life. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She dreamt of a young, handsome man dressed all in white, with patent- leather shoes and a straw hat, walking across the desert bathed in sunlight. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, when I was young and foolish, I thought I was the last gorilla on earth. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He added that it could become a source of inspiration for young freedom fighters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witches were democratic, up to a point; every witch, even the youngest, had the right to speak, but only their queen had the power to decide. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dave Burdow did not grin; neither did another red-faced young man who had put his foot on the rung of a chair and now leaned forward a little, looking coldly at Jethro. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A growl from Pantalaimon prompted her, and just briefly she saw someone there on the very top, looking down over the battlemented rim, and not a child either, but a young man, with curly hair. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the tracking had predicted, that young family and hundreds of others had somehow figured out the government was hiding something out here. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

More like a young man who spent all his time in the library of the university, or the private archives of the local magistrate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You go right back to sleep, young man,” she ordered. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of your eye, you see the young man in the next car over gesturing for you to roll your window down. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

What little instinct she once had had for feeding the young was entirely gone. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The City of Sassinoth with equal liberality sent their young physician along with me, for I was not in very good shape yet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

What I saw of Frank was an extremely mild-mannered young man, even when he was drinking beer, which he did a lot. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

How could a brave, handsome young man be as dead as that? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I was so young. I was still in tenth grade, and he was giving me more freedom than I wanted,” Wayne says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The youngest child to the oldest, grumpiest elder would come daily just to see it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now he was sure that what they all felt Isannah had been young enough to say. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see her, young and small and scared, coming into Saint Grace’s for the first time, clutching that ratty panda bear. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As Salva crouched on the bank and watched, a young man near him plunged into the water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young king and the old man talked. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well,’ said the young man pleasantly, ‘even if it is personal, you’d better tell me what it is.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nymphs grumbled, but they parted to reveal a young man kneeling at the edge of the pond, gazing intently at the water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A young priest came in and started saying the rosary with everybody. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helps me realize how young she was when she died. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

If he lost a man, he must answer the faces on the wharf when he returned: Lupe’s young bride—Denny’s wife and the two boys... Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considering how many young Spokanes have died in car wrecks, I’m pretty sure it’s my destiny to die in a wreck, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In April, a group of young blacks were charged with tossing firebombs into Duke Forest, just outside of town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Parents love Ben. Girls don’t, but parents do. It’s like sending their daughters out on a date with young Jesu, the carpenter,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young.... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Striding along the sidewalk under the Martian sun, tall, smiling, eyes amazingly clear and blue, came a young man of some twenty-six years. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what do you do if you’re an athletic young Czech with the misfortune to have been born in the last part of the year? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The young man frowned as if trying to remember. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The other three detainees in the young man’s cage were visibly annoyed by him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s very young, Harry. He’s got a conscience.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Inside their cedar tree, for nearly four years, he and Hatsue had held one another with the dreamy contentedness of young lovers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hitler believed that young people had a “duty to serve,” or Dienstpflichten. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said softly, “Lupita, you and Salvador cannot earn enough money here in Ensenada, young as you are. So something must be arranged for you.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Oldest victim: eighty-five years old; the youngest: two. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Come down this instant, young lady,” the Witch hollered. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, her husband had shot a girl young enough to be that daughter whose hair she had dressed to kill. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was too young for school, his mother often left him alone in the house in the morning, and came back from the fields at midday for lunch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Generose was constantly shooing her younger children out of the kitchen, and allowed only Alex, the eldest, to cook on the stove. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“While the third circle provides a comfortable privacy for young lovers, its view of the stage leaves a little to be desired. I didn’t know you played.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Certainly are,” said a third, a younger man, huge and Nordic blond. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was a young woman of about eighteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, miraculously, the scales fell from the old woman’s eyes and she became young and beautiful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he was now a young man of nine. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He said that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who were already grown up. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Now, young man, what can you do to entertain us? Sing songs? Tell stories? Compose sonnets? Juggle plates? Do tumbling tricks? Which is it?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The four youngest of us started sobbing, not only because we’d lost Grandma Caye, but also because our own mothers were crying. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Everything okay with you, young man?” the man in the gray suit asked. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I asked Morrie why he hadn’t moved somewhere else when he was younger. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1936, the same year that Hitler Youth membership became law, other young Germans were tired also of the Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still holding it, he kneels, putting himself eye to eye with young Hamlet, and bows as if offering allegiance to him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Honey, you are too young to understand, but someday I’ll tell you all about it.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Since I was very young, maybe six or seven, I have wanted to be a football player. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The young man could not help remarking that Beowulf's body had shrunken with age. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet looked into lean young grinning faces, bloodstained clothes, saw bodies bloated in the fields, dead horses everywhere. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Aunt Hinda, his mother’s spoiled youngest sister, who used to stay with the family. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was bom in Ireland. My family came when I was a young girl.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three young boys in ratty shirts walked by. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was the youngest, not yet six in a class of seven-year-olds, but she flawlessly read cat, pan, bed in an accent that was like Olanna’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The young man wipes his hands on my apron and goes to the curtained window of my bedroom, where there’s a full view of the street and anyone who might approach the courtyard. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Captain responded with the dignity of a young teen who is being pestered by a child whose parents he is determined to impress. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One young woman lost her footing and nearly fell out of the train in the middle of a toilet break, but fortunately her friends hung on to her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

With every word, she put more and more pressure on the Assassin’s wrist, until the joint began to buckle and tears welled in the younger woman’s eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been overworking you, and it’s not fair,” Mami said, stuffing a tip in the young woman’s pocket and practically pushing her out the door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

These young people showed an indifference toward the war, disrupted youth service obligations, and listened illegally to foreign radio broadcasts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The night at the hospital flashes through my thoughts—my disguise, Metias watching me as I entered the hospital, the young doctor I'd held hostage, the bullets bouncing off the refrigerators. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’ve been a vice president at a hospital and the director of a nonprofit that helps young people build meaningful careers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Though he would rather have spoken to the men, he talked to his young friend. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I was twenty-two years young then. Came back a month later feeling like an old man." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"And now I, too, shall be young again." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the start of this service, I was informed that, despite a credible eyewitness account, the police department has no intentions of arresting the officer who murdered this young man.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But Psyche kept faith; she told them only that he was a young man, away now on a hunting expedition. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of the room sat half a dozen women, all in white; they were much occupied with a beautiful baby, who seemed to belong to the youngest of the women. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Even the opinion of her father, the youngest son of the Patriarch, did not matter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

With one arm around Maybeth’s shoulders, holding Sammy’s hand tight, Dicey led her family back to where the young man stood waiting. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because my parents were so high up in the government, my brothers attended one of the best private schools, and my younger brother and I had our own baby-sitters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The young man from whom he'd taken the mazer was a small, one-eyed youth—he wore a patch over his other eye. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

An older man and a younger man, both wearing green vests and baseball caps, stood behind the counter, chitchatting. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The youngest one this time had been a little boy, an indentured servant no older than twelve, found alone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Geese, young ladies,” returns Uncle, in a tone that keeps us quiet till Flo settles down to enjoy the Flirtations of Captain Cavendish, and I have the scenery all to myself. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was something of a fashion plate, always well dressed and forever drawing the eyes of the young women around him, though he did not seem to have a steady girl. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was the youngest one but I knew it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Klaus walked over to the lump of curtains to wake up his younger sister. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Cordelia tells me that when she was younger she broke a thermometer and ate some of the mercury in it to make herself sick so she wouldn’t have to go to school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant who was their guide was a dapper young man named Pitzer, who liked to gossip, to show that he was privy to great secrets. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had put the puzzle aside, thinking Candice was too young for it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We looked at the viewing patterns of young children, and we found that they were watching Laugh-In,” says Lloyd Morrisett, who was one of the show’s founders. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young Hindu couple, the wife cradling a boy, the husband dragging a suitcase, passed between them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She would kneel in her kimono and speak very softly in Japanese, while her young assistant would gracefully swing closed knees or bend her swanlike neck to the old geisha’s instructions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaranta, the younger, was somewhat graceless, but she had the natural distinction, the inner tightness of her dead grandmother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, ladies, sometimes...young ladies...Sometimes an old priest or bishop, maybe. I think they come here for a rest.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You sly creature! Of course we meant the young man,” exclaimed Miss Belle, laughing. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes,” whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie’s black head towered above the rest. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Calvin regarded him with interest, “You sound as if you were not sure, young man. Don’t you know whether you were the last to see him?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes follow a certain Youn in a green camouflage uniform as he openly approaches a young Khmer woman in black pajama clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had almost the same dispiritingly drab quality and the same bottom fine: an inhospitable place for a bright young lad with no friends to be living. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were footsteps in the hall, and a young man stepped into the room carrying a bowl of stew that steamed and smelled of pepper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had been a mighty wrestler when he was young and later became a judge. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should jump from the horse and run,” she said, waving at a young man, who gaped at what he thought was a court lady’s attention. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Not even the wealth of the Martins could save them from grief: the youngest boy, Lon, survived his bout, as did Sarah, but their mother, who was a faithful nurse to both, did not. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Back then, California’s juvenile facilities were notoriously harsh, violent, dilapidated, dull, and overcrowded, with young wards routinely subjected to solitary confinement, and some forced to exercise and attend classes while locked in cages. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She passed young saplings clustering around the bases of the tallest trees like children surrounding their mother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was that about him, young as he was, that made men uneasy with him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They went away and sat in an arbour, from which they could watch the young people practising their shots. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was remembering the times when they were younger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sends me his phone number and I’m tempted to call it to make sure he’s the one who picks up, and not some creep who’s paying him to collect addresses of young vulnerable guys. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So the papa of the young boy brought home a box of chocolate-covered cookies, and he proudly set them on the counter and went upstairs to wash.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

They are not feelings that can be understood by a young girl. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the daughter, Blanca, who looks a few years younger than me, plays there with her little brother. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger, a young man wearing a black suit, white shirt, and bow tie, set his briefcase on the bar and asked Shady for a glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I've been reading all this stuff on hypnotherapy and repressed memories, and I really want to find out if something happened to me when I was younger.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Obinze shook hands with the men, most of whom he knew, and asked the server, a young woman who had placed a wineglass in front of him, if he could have a Coke instead. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The other, a young fellow like ourselves, won’t have it done. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I especially didn’t like to see the young ones this way. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Afternoon, young man,” he said, with an avuncular chuckle, as he passed Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Three young women with nothing in their hands stood in the road looking at him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey, it’s time I got married. I’m not getting any younger and you know Joe’s really sweet.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enmity between them was the younger, and smarter, boy’s fault. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young dogs were even wilder than the old ones. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young cook’s arrest became the immediate and popular cause that triggered the riot. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These girls just arrived. They’re from your side of the family, I think, abuelo,” the young man said, turning around to face the other man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Guitar, being older and already in high school, had none of the reluctance that his young buddy still struggled with, and was the first one to speak. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

An oil painting of a raven clawing its way out of a young boy’s chest caught my attention. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He’s just a tyke,Thomas! He’s much too young for a hunt!” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said Lord Jon had been reading more than was good for him, that he was troubled and melancholy over his young son's frailty, and gruff with his lady wife. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A natural question in a city as young as Mica. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A boy—a young man, really—with olive skin and dark wavy hair was left holding a catfish hooked on a line. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dark hair, his face young but full of wrinkles around the eyes, as if he’d spent each day of his life worrying about how to make it to the next. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On the school playground, the youngest children delighted in interracial games of tag or hopscotch or jump rope. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You remember that Arthur wanted to catch his knights young, to train them for the Round Table, and that he had noticed Lancelot at the feast, because he was winning most of the games. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a pair of young girls chatting in the kitchen doorway, avoiding their work. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Will you look at that! Our youngest champion is quickest to get his egg! Well, this is going to shorten the odds on Mr. Potter!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We passed Rosie’s house and at the clothes line right at the edge of the cliff there was a young girl hanging out brightly colored garments. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Rachpaul, you are a brainy young man, but there’s some things you’re keeping to yourself. Which is very dumb. I want to help.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Even for young kids, though, it was a tough contact sport. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When he lowered it over the face she loved so well, a tall young knight sat on his grey stallion where her son had been. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Said I was too young to hear such. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“What a shame. Seemed like a nice young man.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s different for you children. You’re younger, the world is changing.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi was her present self, but in the dream she was shrunken to the size of a young child. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was young, wearing long denim shorts and a white tank top. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Billy looked up at all the young people in bright elastic clothing and enormous boots and goggles, bombed out of their skulls with snow, swinging through the sky in yellow chairs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea what Quinton was doing. For all we know he got caught up in the same mess as so many of the young men from around here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The young dog slept in fitful, uneasy starts, his muscles twitching, constantly lifting his head and growling softly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a villainess, also in love with the handsome young minister, and out to get the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Demeter did not refuse, poor comfort though it was that she must lose Persephone for four months every year and see her young loveliness go down to the world of the dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked a bit younger than Miig and addressed him as older brother. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The young squirrel suddenly began to relate the saga of the Late Rose Summer Wars to the baby mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At first, the youngest basks in fatherly love. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Emily trailed her fingers along the varied book spines and thought about young Garrison Griswold, freshly moved to San Francisco, and how this bookstore and its owner had been an inspiration to him. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The youngest of her family, Ten Snow had no little sisters and, as yet, no children. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I was young, I didn’t understand what any of this meant. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Yet one stood there still: Dernhelm the young, faithful beyond fear; and he wept, for he had loved his lord as a father. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As young animals grow up in such a herd, they imprint on the animals that they regularly see nearby. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The year before that, a young man’s forehead was beaten in with a metal tube. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

‘Behind us in the caves of the Deep are three parts of the folk of Westfold, old and young, children and women,’ said Gamling. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, something would bleed through—her father, younger, throwing her a baseball. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he began a practice he had learned when he was very young. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young knight in the blue cloak was nothing to her, some stranger from the Vale of Arryn whose name she had forgotten as soon as she heard it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To these young people, a sight of Arthur as he bunted in the greenwood was like seeing the idea of Royalty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be no dog in this house as long as you take this attitude, young lady.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you came off like a sensible young man,” she replied. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I think of my youngest son often. My boy that died. I’ve often wondered what kind of man he would have been. How I wish I could see him just once more.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to walk on stilts. I used to be a whiz at it when I was young.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dee-Dee was too young for that, but me and Sam weren’t. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A newspaper account described typical Levittown home buyers as “young persons of moderate financial circumstances who had small children and might expect others.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"These boys around here too young in the mind." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was young and lovely and surprised and dead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I asked endless questions about Grandpa’s pension, but information was always denied me on the grounds that I was too young to know what was involved. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we went back the young woman, still with the child at her hip, was straining the rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She straightened for a moment, and I saw a hint of the young, beautiful Lucinda. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked you a question, young man. Why am I so stupid? Didn’t she get that little book out of her college library, or what?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was Lord Hoster's brother, younger by five years, but the two of them had been at war as far back as Catelyn could remember. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the young woman said yes, she realized, she would have some explaining to do to the Hatchery director, who was at this very moment expecting his posters back. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the party walked towards Cavern Hole, Cluny could sense hostility emanating from the young mouse who flip-flopped behind him in overlarge sandals. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Don’t come any closer, son,” she said, and her voice was still intact, just as he remembered it, the healthy, songlike voice of a young girl. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucks my hair behind my ears like she used to do when I was young. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She is young and can find work now, but women over the age of twenty-five or twenty- eight are no longer considered for many jobs in Honduras, something made clear in newspaper employment ads. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They deliberately sought young kids who were slipping through the cracks and had been written off as their personal crusade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung laughed bitterly and shortly when his son said this, and he threw the desire of the young man aside for something worthless and not to be considered. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

At his side, like a useless appendage, is his wife, twenty-seven years younger and equally poor, whose arms and legs are loaded with real and fake bracelets and rings left over from more prosperous days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I hurt a lot of Indian kids when I was a young teacher,” he said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

These young men were untrained and undisciplined and became involved in activities that were unbecoming to a liberation struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to play games when I was young—it might as well be a thousand years ago. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Frightful was watching the young peregrines learn to hunt, Mole’s run-down farm had been sold. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Next to her is a dark-haired young man in a captain's uniform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Babies, bawling, fatherless, for bread, and girls in the gutters, sick with sin, and young men bleeding in the frosty fields. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His younger self gazed back up at him every time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What choice does any young child have but to do as the adults say? Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced again at the scratches oh the young man’s smooth brown arm, and quailed for a moment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter who the young man was. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, she was young and lusty and would defend herself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Now the young man had waited patiently enough for his father’s anger to pass, for he had something to say, and this Wang Lung saw clearly when he shouted, “What would you have me do?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“What a beautiful mouse!” said Miss K, who was young and enthusiastic and eager to give her pupils learning experiences. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of them spots us and approaches, a younger official following close be hind him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

These colorful bandannas were worn by young women; they were a symbol of maturity. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a young woman at a nearby table. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Luke was younger, sometimes they’d go on little day trips—Doreen called them vacations—to state parks that had waterfalls, malls that seemed to last for miles, and even a zoo once or twice. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe, she thought, they had gone off and seeded the land and growed up in these young people in the dime store with the cash-register keys around their necks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We rode in silence for about fifteen minutes before the young woman’s husband suddenly stood and did something I’d seen many others do before him: He kissed Baba’s hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Casually, the young soldier stood and lumbered after. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw some young birch, and they were springy, but they lacked snap somehow, as did the willows. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faces looked so young to him: braces, acne, retainers, the very first bristles of a beard. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I got a young guard to take me around and show me the prisoners asleep. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Enough sweets for you, young man,” she says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She looks at the boy sitting on one of the bottom bunks—he is a fewyears younger than we are, and he’s trying to undo a knot in his shoelaces. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He now spoke softly; I could feel the young girls start to swoon. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was lying on the bed, his arms thrown over his eyes, his bootless feet dangling over one end. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't notice it when I was younger, but then I did. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Lupita is too young to go around with us. We take out girls our own age. Lucky wouldn’t want to take Lupita. It is his car.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Children are able to discern the timbre of a sound from a very young age, including the vocal timbres of peers, relatives, and teachers, as well as the timbres of different instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The younger ones would do the raking and weeding. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odd as it might seem, old Hoarfrost Umber had once believed his youngest son had the makings of a maester. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mother’s brothers, Uncles Tutti, Tom and Ira, were well-known young men about St. Louis. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a story told to young people in my village once a year. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Once a young man gets involved in gangs there is no returning—there’s no way out but death. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A centaur was standing over him, not Ronan or Bane; this one looked younger; he had white-blond hair and a palomino body. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

One of the young marines was holding a prayer book and looking toward heaven, which was a sure Hollywood sign he was about to die with a slug to a vital organ. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Washington had spent his young manhood fighting with the British to expel the French from North America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The people let out a great sigh when they saw the snake arrive and immediately the young men pinned it to the ground with sticks. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She walked up to one of the waiting passengers, a young woman reading, and tapped her on the shoulder. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I pick a blade of young wheat and stick the end in my mouth, not quite looking at him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You are a beautiful young woman. You will do amazing things. Please just make sure you look after my daughter.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In this way a number of rash young men met their death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who this young lady could have been in her fine bonnet and shawl, Tristran could not say, although her eyes flooded with tears at the sight of him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was only twelve, it might seem that I was young to be working full-time, but I didn't think of myself as a child anymore, nor did anyone else. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Somehow, blessed by some spark, she started telling the truth, or trying to, at a very young age, when all the influences were telling her to go a different way. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her face is very young, very serious, even pretty. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That very day he shot a young antelope, the kind called a topi. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home in St. Louis even the man at the grocery store remembered the day a very young Liyana poked a ripe peach too hard and her finger went inside it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the hall a silver curtain parted and two young women stepped forward. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Get in and start this thing. Oh, my God. Don’t stick that guitar in my face like that. Why can’t you just carry a purse like a decent young lady?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are young, but you will learn. Beautiful women lie, just because they can. It’s a sickness, really.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Under wild conditions those are members of their own species, but captive young herd animals also see humans nearby and imprint on humans as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, Don Victor, when he can get away from his young girls, will stop by to see to things and give me my monthly wages. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They spared fertile females and young lambs in order to safeguard the long-term vitality of the local herd. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, a young naturalist who was currently traveling around the world collecting specimens just as Charles had done. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the younger children are already playing with water balloons. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Being timid and young, they prefer a bottom on which there are many caves and little crevices and lumps of mud where they may hide from predators and protect themselves from the waves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins, Leanne and Lorraine, were twenty-two; and their youngest, Sammie, had just turned eighteen and was still in foster care. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“There is no necessity for my calling this morning,” said the young man; “another day would do as well; but there was that degree of acquaintance at Weymouth which—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Everything was changing too fast and the young were different. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Polio. Tuberculosis. A schoolteacher died from meningitis that year, remember, Gloria? She was so young. Pretty thing, too.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His half-brother Charles, only a little over a year younger, grew up with his father’s assertiveness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three young women he knew and would have enjoyed as companions had jobs and couldn’t get away in the middle of the week. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like she thinks I’m too young to handle it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And the young man turned himself away stormily and made as though he would knock his brains out against a twisted pine tree that stood there in the court. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

No, Sean would mutter something about their father being dead for years, about Finn being too young to remember, and what was the use of bringing it up? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Your father has many good qualities,” she said to me, “but he’s not the most stable role model for a young man like yourself. He’d be the first to admit it, Noah.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In Johannesburg, we toured the Apartheid Museum and danced and read books with young children at a community center in one of the black townships north of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It might have looked a little like Mrs. Klein when she was younger, so perhaps it was a brother. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was fit enough, and young, but I hadn’t been in the saddle for years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The guard was a young man; they should have sent a grizzled old warrior. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kia was probably the youngest person at the concert, but I wanted my last night with my brother and parents to be memorable. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All day Alyce shook the young trees, climbed into the old ones, and gathered the hard-shelled bounty that fell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, they would lock me up in the closet because they wanted to get high and beat up on each other. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was too young for Maxim, too inexperienced, and more important still, I was not of his world. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you with that young lady from across the street?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When your grandmother was sixteen years old a young man knocked on her door. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Clarke, I was just going to ask you to send that boy Jasper up, so he could demonstrate to these young gentlemen the correct technique for getting their trousers on.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Marina divided the young women into pilots, navigators, and technicians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The two complaints were not helping the old firebrand Malcolm X image any, nor were they generating the local public interest that was badly needed by his small, young OAAU. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time she recognized anew the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one thought she would survive her injuries, but here she was, a young woman now with such strength. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Spring was young and the drizzle was chilly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the young girl went back to the window and looked down, the damp patch on the gravel had evaporated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a young crow from a late nest. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two young mechanics in loose jumpsuits smoke cigarettes with oil- creased hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hire one of the master’s slaves, preferably a girl, and young, because she couldn’t pay very much. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the tiny office, they found a fat young woman seated behind a big wooden desk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen boys and girls younger than this beaten and had done nothing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They taught us that physical contact is powerful, so I have been wary of it since I was young. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Soon the young fighter pilots at Engels were practicing shooting at targets and working on aerobatic loops and rolls. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Most of them were our age and younger during the war. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I see a girl maybe a little younger than me—the daughter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Jasper: Jasper’s insolent handsome young face, and silver-clasped grey cloak, and stiff stride. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There we studied, talked, and even danced until the early hours in the morning, and it became a kind of headquarters for young freedom fighters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you roll your eyes at me, young man,” the old woman huffed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I whirl around to see Metias, the young captain from the hospital's entrance, facing me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself as the young Winston Churchill covering Kitchener’s battle at Omdurman, a battle of superior versus inferior arms, except that, unlike Churchill, he sided with the moral victor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With that she departed, leaving the young man full of ardor and decision, all his former uncertainty and hesitation gone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So young. Oh, he’s cute as a button, isn’t he, Nell?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Four dogs guarded his bed at night, one at each corner, and a young pig named Pinkeye was given the task of tasting all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Once again, the young women’s morale and nerves were badly shaken. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The younger of the two was a stranger to me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My brothers and I played with her when we were younger—freeze tag and street hockey with iron pokers and crumpled paper. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’ll always be around, young lion, for as long as the land of Zimbabwe exists. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They turned to see a young Chinese man wearing jeans and a polo shirt. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind I saw them cutting, spearing, shooting Sylvie, her boys, the young and old of the congregation. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is ten years younger than I am now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Look! Another bomber!” a young man said, laughing, and pointed at a vulture flying overhead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next to me in the water, a young woman floated silently in a life vest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was struggling to think of something appropriate to say when a younger woman spoke up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It would be managed by the young master’s guardian, Dr. Anthony Thompson, a minister in Bucktown. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In overall appearance he came on like a young, good-natured cowboy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t pleased when she found that the young women she’d assigned as sentries had made a cozy bunker for themselves in a pile of mattresses! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The young man said that he was happy to do this, but that he had no house of his own. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On one side of the young mouse the gifts from Squire Julian Gingivere, Captain Snow and the shrews were piled high; on the other was his sword, reflecting the rays of the afternoon sun. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He waved to a young man they passed and called out, “Ugly as usual, Rogbert!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In sleep, my mother looks younger, still worn but not so beaten-down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Amid such a picture of death and destruction, the young salmon themselves could hardly have been expected to escape, and they did not. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And now anyone could see that the air of that young world was really doing the old gentleman good. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Staggering slightly from sleepiness, the young soldier came to the door, looked out, and saw that it had become dark. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then an old man came out of the meadhall, went to the young king, just clear of the bear, and spoke to him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heels scraped across the floor in short stints, hobbled by links of chain, as it is said that the young gentle-ladies of Japan walk, hobbled by subservience and feminine humility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, the members of the senior class invited their younger brothers and sisters to the Commencement Dance, held the night before the Junior- Senior Banquet, which was always the last Friday in May. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I placed this young man with you,” she says to me in a terrible quiet voice, “in the hopes that you might provide a civilizing influence. It appears that I was gravely mistaken.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt had had polio as a young man and had lost the use of his legs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Ruth, and this is Elisha,” the heavyset young woman says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was young and enraptured, her joy infectious, especially to Dr. Cigrand, the dentist, who saw so little joy from day to day as he reduced grown men of proven courage to tears. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He used to say to me when I was young that his gohpsul muh-rhee showed the great vigor of the blood running through him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie Ray, Mr. Ray’s younger brother, was the MC for the funeral, kind of like how the preacher is when you have one at a church. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was young, he was blond . . . and he was handsomer than any movie star I’d ever seen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

To her disappointment, it was the younger boys drilling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From John, age thirty-seven: What this really means to all my fellow young geeks out there? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Work will stop on the bridge on Route 28 until the young peregrine falcons are fledged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My uncle Velile, my mom’s younger brother, lived with my grandmother, but he spent most of his time at the local tavern getting into fights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Your eyes are younger than mine, young man,” she said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mom told him, ‘Just hold the door for us, young man. We’ll be fine.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I am the youngest son of my mother. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was young and brown with smooth, round, muscled arms. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A couple of the very youngest children dragged the tempo a trifle, but in a way that only the composer’s mother could have found fault with. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Unbelievable. I thought I had a team of young men, and what do I have? I have a bunch of whining crybabies. I should have us forfeit. Is that what you all want?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The young priest was nearly weeping with pride. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Dimple was younger, she’d go running downstairs, heart pounding every single time, terrified something awful had happened. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The young voice, frustrated, would end up saying, ‘Never mind’—the subject was closed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman—dark tangled hair, sea green eyes — runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was strange to them that I should be so young, but what was strange to me was how young they seemed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered how she could have a baby this young. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came a beautiful young Yugoslav who identified herself as an optimist, saying that she loved everything that life had to offer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And not one of us liked it, except perhaps little Nina, who was too young to know. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Willis, you got you a young daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Now I want a promise from you about this spying, young one. Will you give it?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I knew this one was the youngest and her two older sisters had probably put her up to it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had felt very fortunate to have found a slender young cedar that broadened at its base: just the right potential for his plan. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like the young people were more fed up with the local situation than were the black adults,” he recalled. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The personality of Mr. Tuffett was less inspiring: he was a disappointed man, a frustrated professor of education with no sympathy for young people. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, young men from Burundi would come to the camp with bikes to see if anyone wanted to be taken anywhere, and my brother Alex managed to befriend some of them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But, like a great many other officers who worked the Visit Room, Eveillard found one aspect of this duty really galling: the number of attractive young women who visited in-mates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young girl disappeared through the door without a word. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With one of its forelegs ripped to the shoulder, it turned and made off, the younger one following. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fang looked like a younger, more battered version of Steven Tyler—the fern lead singer of Aerosmith—but minus the strut. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

With a chill, I realized I was looking at the Oracle of Delphi, back when she was alive and young. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Craig and I were very young, we pulled a brand-new carton of Newports from a shelf and set about destroying them, snapping them like beans over the kitchen sink. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Not when she was really young, like Fred did. We had a good science teacher in junior high. That might have been the turning point.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I have gloves made from the hide of a very young cow, but I did not use them to hoist her, carry her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The way young people speak about one another’s bodies says a great deal about our society. In today's world, boys are much more likely to objectify girls’ bodies than the other way around. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The nurse is young and pretty, and wears a graying white uniform. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s serious—a chance for lots of young musicians like me to show off their skills. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

After the trees leaf out, young lovers often hide in the shadows of the trail. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I was very young I felt mortal—but not any more. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the original signers of the Declaration of Independence, “You are the youngest and the most energetic in mind and body,” and therefore most likely to be the final survivor. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The cops had been lifting some young dude through the front doors and he had fell, I guess. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Freed of normal constraints, some of the young let go of their inhibitions and, under cover of darkness, caressed one another, without any thought of others, alone in the world. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Berkeley, Birge assured him, “the younger men now are being appointed and advanced on an entirely different plane from that of the older men.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When the young victims arrived in Crete they were paraded before the inhabitants on their way to the Labyrinth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she is young: There is nothing he can do for her and for that he is relieved. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s voice on the other end spoke to me as if I were a young child. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you are young enough to be my daughter, and I don’t know how to deal with you,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius looked up and saw the young man who had bought his mother’s hat in the Night of Joy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Olive seemed unfazed by it all, perhaps because she was still so young—or part of her was, anyway—and the distance between stories and real life did not yet seem so great. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Today, facing Kira, she was once again preparing to destroy someone’s young. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not there, but in a corner sat Russell, the young man who had been campaigning around the village, begging the Eskimos to vote “No” on requests for liquor licenses by the local restaurants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young bull raised himself and as he turned, his small eyes shone fiercely red. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Option looked too young and uncertain to be a librarian. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Kami, being young and cocky and inexperienced, didn’t think it was really necessary to clip into the rope. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Momma knocked on the back door and a young white girl opened it to show surprise at seeing us there. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I checked out the Hudsons, who were younger and more like what I had in mind. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So what was Albus doing, if not comforting his wild young brother? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“What should they call it, young man, eh? What do you think?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One old man grills sausages with the help of one young man with wild hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We hope for the best, young man. We always hope for the best. Come. We must call your father and get you ready to leave.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The young gentleman seemed to find this an amusing thought. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother, Roman, can't explain why paint melting on his tongue feels good. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen young women in black trouser suits stood nearby, comparing notes on their tablet computers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People everywhere, young and old, were already dreaming of heroes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now as a young adult I’ve realized that love is more important than material things. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was young, with a prominent Irish accent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Why, she wondered, was a young, inexperienced attorney chosen to handle an estate of such importance? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

To which the evangelist replied: “By faith, young man, by faith alone.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized a young woman was standing only ten feet from the base of the boulder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“One, two, three—six, Monsieur. The old American lady, a Swedish lady, the young English lady, the Countess Andrenyi and Madame la Princess Dragomiroff and her maid.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When researchers have controlled for joblessness, differences in violent crime rates between young black and white men disappear. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She clapped him on the back briefly and went on to her duties, knowing very well she had said a thing that pleased Matt Creighton’s youngest boy. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not something that good young women from Virginia did. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I believe it is the Count, but he has grown young. My God, if this be so! Oh, my God! my God! If I only knew! if I only knew!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You put that back, young man,” she said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I squint my eyes and see a parade of small children, and two of the young women I’d seen working in the nursery with Mina. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While I was still on my first cup of tea, the young lady I had been watching and listening to in the choir came into the tearoom. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

For a young man like me, the invention of the Internet was the invention of space travel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Years later I would acquire a horse who had mistakenly killed his owner, a young woman who was checking his back feet, when a dog came too close. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But when she smiles, her skin pulls back like a curtain, stretching her features until they are as lineless as a young woman’s. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was seventy-two last month, but Jean Louise always thought of him as hovering somewhere in his middle fifties—she could not remember him being any younger, and he seemed to grow no older. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Nielsen, turning to Mrs. Murphy, asks, “And can the young lady cook and clean? Is she hardworking?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was clearly respected here, and had probably killed many people judging by the number of fingertips on his necklace, but he also looked too young to have been doing this for long. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly paid with two of the bills the young man had given her and, as she swayed past Miss Lee, she said, “We know when we not wanted. We can take our trade elsewheres.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know exactly where I am. I am speaking to a young man who does not have the good manners to be polite to a lady!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It starts out when they're young and all, and the girl's parents don't want her to marry the boy, but she marries him anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“They will find out what it is to run a comb through tangled hair,’” Elsa quoted Trujillo’s reaction to the young rebels’ capture. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed a lovely young woman across the floor and politely asked her to dance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His life now revolves around counseling young people and helping them digest their issues. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the top of the spruce tree sat four young goshawks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Humiliating Cedric turned him into a very angry young man, and then he became a Death Eater and—and—it all went wrong. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Dunstan shook his head, as if to clear it of a dream, and turned back to the young lady. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

My other uncles had tried everything to cure their youngest brother. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olakunde deposited the young child on the dock, where he no sooner had stood than he began to scream shrilly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A young woman with a buzz cut throwing two fingers up at the windows of the Daily Mail. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I was young, the village was tidy, the water pure, and the grass green and unsullied as far as the eye could see. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen everyone,” Magdalys said, reaching the mass of kids, “we’ve got to split up. I’m going to take all the youngest ones.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It is simply taken for granted that, in cities like Baltimore and Chicago, the vast majority of young black men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system or branded criminals for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She ended up with four young men instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She knocked gently on her younger sister’s bedroom door. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Later in the night, though, a young medic named Mark Fossie kept coming back to the subject. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another group was trying to groom one of the younger scythes for a position on the selection committee, so that he might sway gleaning choices when they needed those choices swayed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I met the queen of Belgium, Queen Mathilde, who looked young and elegant. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma dropped out of elementary school to care for her younger sisters. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I can hear noises from the street below: a police siren, young girls shouting and laughing, bass booming from a passing car. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pony’s tracks were plain enough, dragging through the frostlike dew on the young grass, tired tracks with little lines between them where the hoofs had dragged. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was waiting for Phoebe to tell her about seeing the nervous young man at the drugstore, but Phoebe didn’t mention it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They walked through the Smoke, past cook fires being extinguished with shovelfuls of dirt; windows coming alight with candles and electric bulbs; and a handful of young uglies pursuing an escaped chicken. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He’s having convulsions,” one of the men grappling with one of the young lieutenant’s limbs answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Slowly the young mouse rose to his feet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But one night soon after I began to get better, Auntie Fatmata made one of the younger children go to the bathroom on my hair and face while I was asleep. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway, emerged from the fair a rich young man. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was about to leave when a young man walked up and nodded to the broadcaster. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only the young would work in the factories. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The characters, then, of the younger and older generations are of this kind. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Horner girls were clever young women, well-read and educated, with promising intellectual futures. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Especially those good memories of your brother, Lolly. But you’ve got to move ahead. Your life is young. Move ahead, brother.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I guess Mister Johnny didn’t have the heart to send him home for somebody younger. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But, Aglavale, I am trying to make a new law in Britain, by which people don’t have to go on shedding young blood for ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re young. Too young and too foolish to understand what’s happening here. We have no rights and no power, and no one in this family is going to take any risks. Do you understand me?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember lots of stuff about what happened when I was young. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The harried young man rose on one elbow with alacrity as they approached. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You are so young, Grover. So good and true. I think I chose well.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked down the fence and saw that it was no hen at all, but a young crow, flapping in the grass, acting most odd. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been over twenty minutes, young lady, and for such a simple and easy task. Why?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Other workers were just young men: irresponsible and living for today. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Chango, she said, once asked a young lizard to take a gift to the lover of a rival god. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made an effort to speak calmly: “He said Mister. Didn’t you, young man? Anyway, my name’s not Bloomburg.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like most young Lackses, Day didn’t finish school: he stopped in the fourth grade because the family needed him to work the fields. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But eventually I was going to have to translate the play into ordinary script, and then the gaps would be as ostentatious as the slashes in the clothing of those young dandies I'd seen. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

All the Dukes were involved in the family business in varying degrees, but the real force behind the company was clearly the youngest son, James Buchanan Duke, known to intimates as “Buck.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Philip was the youngest, the most princely, and the one furthest removed from his father. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, Mr. Russell Allen, a young engineer, was a guest for supper. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

William Thomas wiped his forehead and felt the touch of his son’s hand on his arm, like a young tarantula, thrilled. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl was crowned Strawberry Princess; the hakujin put on a salmon bake; the Volunteer Fire Department played a softball game against the Japanese Community Center team. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Korty was young—the youngest guidance counselor at the school. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The boles of the trees glowed with a soft green like young grass: early spring or a fleeting vision of it was about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“A messenger has come for young Robin from his father,” he said. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“No, no, no. I take that back. Keep your hands to yourself, young man.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Kiyo and I were too young to run around, but often we would eat in gangs with other kids, while the grownups sat at another table. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was standing on the porch, staring into the distance beyond the shed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, on the path, two young boys rode by on their bikes, laughing at something, and waved to them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Where did that young man put my bags?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

His younger brother Sandor had left the same day to take service with the Lannisters as a sworn sword, and it was said that he had never returned, not even to visit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ever since we were young, James used to say those exact words to me every time I’d get frustrated or down. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was one of the younger Star Children. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I would see a young man who resembled him, and for a split second I would feel a surge of hope. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Winnie looked at his young, strong face, and after a moment she said, “Why didn’t you take them to the spring and give them some of the special water?” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just know that time heals all wounds, and that you’re young and strong and resilient. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My impression of her as she made her way to the front of the hall was this: here is some young girl who has to take her little brother or sister away. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all she knew, this big young man smiling at her with such cordiality might be a sheriff—or— “Do you know who that is?” she asked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though banned, Winnie picked up where she left off, and the authorities were dismayed about her popularity with the young radicals of Soweto. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who warned young girls away from hooch joints and the men who lingered there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was once a slave girl,” the tall, handsome, and very young Roberto Vega said calmly in Spanish. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"What Mister Bromios thinks or does not think," replied her mother, the former Bridget Comfrey, "is neither here nor there. That is a most improper occupation for a young lady." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Henry walked at a distance from the palms and the shade because he was too young to keep himself out of the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The younger children remembered not to ask anything except, looking in the empty box, one said, “Nothin’ in here?” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna, in the youngest group, learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse listened to the excited young Cheyenne warrior. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Do you feel any animosity toward the parents of the young men for allowing them to do such a thing? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, any deep-rooted resentment I had for being trailed my whole life by my younger brother came to the surface. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was younger than Ba — the gray of his hair was wiped away with the cloth as well — and his beard and head were as glossy black as Minli’s. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

With his newfound sight, the young Roosevelt was ready to take on whatever came next. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“When you were very young. The two of you stayed in bed together for a month.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He slammed the magazine down and glared at it as I said of course I knew he was the youngest, and the magazine did the captions, not me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She felt kindly toward the tall, awkward young Quaker for taking care. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jo saw and understood the look, and she stalked grimly away to get wine and beef tea, muttering to herself as she slammed the door, “I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Conrad was young enough to have his self-esteem and hope, I was already sad about being trapped in oppression. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One evening in early May I returned home from work and found my two youngest sisters waiting for me by the gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls were a little younger than me, and they seemed to adjust to me pretty quickly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They were the kind of eyes that shut you up fast if you were a young man inclined to challenge something he had just said. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He also had become friends with Kyung’s twenty-something children: Eunice, a human rights activist he had met in Seoul, and her younger brother, David, a recent Yale graduate also interested in human rights. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If I could go back in time, I would never have married him. I was too young. I could’ve done so much better,” she says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It could be a difficult journey for someone so young.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After the War, Cudn Vanna married three more husbands and lived to bury them all, even the one that was forty years younger than she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I got the fowl in and most of the pigs. Cept Bubba. He young but getting big, Mr. Henry. Big and mean...” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were pictures of Rat Kiley and Kiowa and Mitchell Sanders, all of us, the faces incredibly soft and young. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was half reclined and it wasn’t long before he had drunk himself back into his deep slumber, trusting in the shackles and the sleeping forms of young people for his sense of security. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Would Russ, the young man in the car in Chicago, have ended up dead if he had been confronted by just one officer? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve held office a long time. About one more term will be enough. You know, young woman, if this were fifteen years back I’d do some checking, and I guess I’d find something pretty nasty.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I found out, there was no use protesting: I was in the suite; young Dr. Azzam was gone; there was no one to protest to. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very nearly what’s going to happen to you young men. I was on the point of being sent to an island.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is, and the young man sits there rinsing his hand through his hair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Once the hogs disappeared, Georgina and some of the younger women took the children to the barn for games and sing-alongs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I think about the immortal jellyfish, the one that can grow younger. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The young man walked in the shadows, checking this way and that to see if anyone followed him. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I gave my suit and jacket and striped shirts and club ties and wing tips to a young guy who was looking for work. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You’ll do nothing of the sort! You young scallywag, I could give you a ten-second start and still beat you to the top of the wall! D’you want to try me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Harriet,” Smith said, “I have brought all my young cousins to see you. I want you to make good abolitionists of them by telling them the history of your life.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“No, they are too young,” Ma pleads with him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how do you pronounce your first name, young lady?” she asked. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When young people around here are touched by violence, it changes their whole persona. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, I don't think any of us can blame you. It'd be hard not to fall for that young lady," says Caesar. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was too young to drop everything and rush over to his house back then, but I remember when he came back to school, his eyes empty of the light they usually carried. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

They sat there in the fresh young darkness close together. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She saw the fear in his young eyes then, but there was a strength as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He told me when he was much younger that he would go looking for his past.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’s younger than me by years, and when she sees me, she doesn’t look away. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dicey couldn’t look at the faces of the young men. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the young women wore no bras. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1951, long before James Watson would become a household name around the world, the novelist Doris Lessing took a three-hour walk with the young Watson, whom she knew through a friend of a friend. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be. It was not a party for young people. As caretaker, your grandfather would never drink, but I can’t vouch for the satyrs. We’ll have a proper party before you leave us.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I am filled with loathing,” she said, looking away, “I am filled with loathing and I hate them all. I hate all young men.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Another woman, a younger version of the Matron, stepped out from behind the stall carrying a tray of raw chicken to add to the roaster. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But he was still young and couldn’t fly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The bed number is looked up on a chart; a young man with his arm in a sling lies in it now, otherwise in good spirits, talking on the telephone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each pinecone bounced off its target with annoying accuracy and whipped the young bears into a frenzy. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“She’s coming,” he said to the younger children, and they crowded around him and pushed their faces against the window. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thrilled to realize that it was only one of the tremendous rebuilding tasks under the direction of young Dr. Azzam, who had just been my host. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was fifty, but seemed both a decade older and younger at the same time. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This youngest child was the dearest of all to her, after two sons whom she had never been allowed to be close to. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were ten of us—my father, the silverback; my mother and three other adult females; a juvenile male called a blackback; and two other young gorillas. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this short, straight-backed young girl hummed under her breath, or sang, while she hoed the com or tugged on the reins when a refractory mule refused to budge. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel’s mother and his sisters were all traditional, stay-at-home moms, and Abel and his younger brother, who was a policeman, supported the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But Ulbrickson knew that, in the end, it wasn’t gods but young men who had to win crew races, and, unlike gods, young men were fallible. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Although the time of peregrine courtship was over, and other males and females were feeding young, this male was seeking a mate. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Only in one area have scientists discovered younger dung balls: on several Caribbean islands, in particular Cuba and Hispaniola, they found petrified ground-sloth scat dating to about 5000 BC. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad begged the soldiers to take him instead of Heritage, arguing that his son was too young, but they didn’t listen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, let me tell you the way it was, why Light Hair rescued that young woman...” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were older women, younger women, men Walter's age, and several men much older. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, as yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A young man drove the second wagon, a redheaded fellow with Irish features. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“What’s their big interest in colored people all of a sudden? The young men gave out already?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine adjusts her gloves and ducks her head in respectful acknowledgment to a young fellow that can’t seem to stop staring at her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Yishan saw the disgusted eyes of the young boy that the Sea King had been, the great hero who had refused to hurt anyone, even to save himself. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hugo had heard stories about the accident from the time he was very young. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Fat Barry has brought his son, who is the only person in the room younger than I am. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

As she quieted down, she seemed younger and more childlike. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You may think of love and adventure, or maybe you remember some young man here in San Antonio and think that you might like to return to him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tuffett gripped the edge of his desk and said between clenched teeth, “For that bit of impudence you may remain one hour after school, young lady!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Amid so much turmoil it was understandable that the work of a young and handsome doctor would go unnoticed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Now, as I was trying to explain, young lady, your boyfriend has not sent any reports since we voted him into exile.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go out of hollerin’ distance and leave the young ones. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young scythe reached into one of the many secret pockets of his yellow robe and pulled out a small dagger, placing the hilt in Goddard’s hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The young man said, “I want to see Mrs. Win-terbottom. Is she here or what?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She is young and dizzy to hear so many sweet things in one day, even if it is a bum man’s whiskey words saying them. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He says he put a sign on the door,” the young man says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

"My lady begs that you excuse her absence. Her babes are still too young for such a journey, and she was loath to leave them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chinese dresses at that time were dartless, cut as if women did not have breasts; these young doctors, unaccustomed to decorations, may have seen their chests as black expanses with no reference points for flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also decided she didn’t like this young man with the dark eyebrows, the sneering smile, and the repulsive need to spit so often. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two beautiful people, a young man and a young woman in evening clothes, were at the rail in the stern, loving each other and their dreams and the lake. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And an old buffer was pleased to describe us as “young heroes.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In general, they do not seem as young—do not present at all like kids you often see on school stages, in grown-up clothes, who have dressed for the part but cannot quite inhabit it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some adults were excited too, but to be certain the whole young population had come down with graduation epidemic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This handsome and brilliant young woman, like her students, despises the idea that in America any man has to “earn” his rights to first-class citizenship. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny tried again, this time whipping the tail speedily at the young mouse’s unprotected legs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I think so, too. He certainly has no gift for scholarship. They should’ve apprenticed him to a painter when he was young instead of sending him to all those expensive schools for learning disabilities.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A young girl runs out from the crowd, touches me, and dashes away before I even know she’s been there. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

These young rabbits...must move out if they are to survive. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After unloading the car, my mother began to tell my grandparents about what she had seen earlier, the woman buying the drugs from the young boy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Like Mr. Clutter, the young man breakfasting in a cafe called the Little Jewel never drank coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Methuselah embraced the young mouse as if he were his own son, and as Matthias ascended the ladder, the old mouse called out final instructions to him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Though she was young, Rat said, Mary Anne Bell was no timid child. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing which did happen, was that a young damsel came in with his dinner and asked him what cheer? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street young men were calling out to her: “Baby, you got so many curves you make a car crash!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They tested each other constantly, with scuffles breaking out every time some young pup hit a growth spurt and dreamed of moving up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She sounds tired, too tired for sympathy, too tired to be moved by young love. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody but a freak like a deaf-mute, cut off from other people, would ask a right young girl to sit down to the table where he was drinking with another man. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Downstairs I see kids my age, some younger ones too with their mothers, sitting at smaller tables, looking though books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to rally up the energy because this attorney, a young woman named Maya Whitmeyer, was definitely there to talk business, or law, or whatever, but I just couldn’t. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I worried that perhaps she resented me because I reminded her that her youngest child had died. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If Ob and me had been young and strong, why, maybe you wouldn't've felt so necessary to us. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

A young man, an Avox, stands at attention by the spread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her youngest daughter, who was about twelve, had reduced most of our staff to tears because she refused to let go of her mother the entire time she was in the office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was once a king who had three daughters, all lovely maidens, but the youngest, Psyche, excelled her sisters so greatly that beside them she seemed a very goddess consorting with mere mortals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging on to their femininity was something that remained important for most of these young women throughout the war, and often something that brought them together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The three Hessians were standing together, deep in conversation, the younger one still holding the rope. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Harriet is young and she is quite pretty. She is considered one of the best dressed girls in this town, too. All her clothes are tailored specially for her.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ugwu stood around while his little cousins and siblings, the younger ones naked and the older ones in oversize shirts, said their goodbyes and listed what they wanted him to bring on his next visit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The young killer said, “Aw, come on, pops. Let’s toast some marshmallows.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it’s about how an old woman taught a young family something about sharing. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also learned that our house had been raided and the police had detained a young relative of Winnie’s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two young people had spent a lot of time earlier looking all around as if they thought they were being followed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was amazed at Jamie; she thought he was too young for that. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached fourteen, many young people were pulled out of school and called upon to earn their keep as messenger boys, door openers, office girls, and seamstresses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Griphook here told me, he heard about it from Bill Weasley who works for the bank. One of the kids who tried to take the sword was Bill’s younger sister.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And looked at his younger brother, through the mirror. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She said that apparently the tabloid rumors of his extramarital affair with a young black woman were true. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She longed to see a most beautiful statue of the goddess of Argos, made by the great sculptor Polyclitus the Elder, who was said to be as great as his younger contemporary, Phidias. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are so few opportunities for young people on this island,” he began. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as they were going to swim off on their tour of inspection, a timid young roach appeared from between two waving bottle bushes of mare’s tail and hung about, looking pale with agitation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, muttering curses under his breath, the young man stormed away. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that it had the word man in it didn’t really help, because the only word that mattered was young. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The family was sitting around, watching the final episode of M*A*S*H, and I’ll never forget it even though I was very young. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In between sales, some of the young market workers sniff glue. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In another way she was angry at these young men for taking over their lives, for telling them when and where to eat, for leaving her out of the conversation with James. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This arrangement went on for seven years, with Bobby sending greeting cards to the young girl signed “Daddy,” and having mother and child visit him later on. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the others—a brown-skinned young man in glasses—says, “Go on. Tell them. There’s no reason to keep secrets anymore.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to young Mariam to ponder the unfairness of apologizing for the manner of her own birth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When they more or less gave birth to the systematic education of young people, it is worth noting that their first compulsory seven subjects were grammar, rhetoric, logic, maths, geometry, astronomy and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some of the older men were concerned that a young woman was speaking for our tribe. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

An Osage scholar once observed, “Walking through an Osage cemetery and seeing the gravestones that show the inordinate numbers of young people who died in the period is chilling.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Well!” said the pale young gentleman, reaching out his hand good-humouredly, “it’s all over now, I hope, and it will be magnanimous in you if you’ll forgive me for having knocked you about so.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why can’t the Americans see the Communists in their own backyards, in their universities, bending the malleable minds of the young? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a summery, watermelon pink, just the sort of color that a carefree young lady with her life in front of her might pick. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize one of the voices from the crowd of young people. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Older married couples are less likely to divorce and more likely to die than younger married couples. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do think we’re too young to be dating. I mean, I just don’t see what the rush is.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He took it in the way a younger brother takes the hand of his older sister when he wants things to be okay. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Duma Nokwe, the young and good-natured barrister who was then national secretary of the Youth League, was among them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, young man,” was all the general said, leaning with both hands on his cane, looking at Sohrab the way one might study a bizarre decorative item at someone’s house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Earl said that sometimes love drove people crazy, but Sadie, Peaches’ mama, said the girl was just too young to know better. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his own part, Milton was unable to discuss the birds and the bees with his young daughter, and so I was left, in those years, to figure things out for myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His last match of the day was against the younger Royce. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kote grinned, and for a moment his face showed how truly young he was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to have a nice scar, young man, to remind you of this particular adventure.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But my parents became citizens when I was much younger, so I don’t remember it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Stillborn? This young woman here told me the baby was fine and healthy. What’s going on?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here comes Ned Moffat. What does he want?” said Laurie, knitting his black brows as if he did not regard his young host in the light of a pleasant addition to the party. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, there was an element of autonomy in the younger girl’s unhappiness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t reach her with his hands; she was backed deep inside the cave, and his body wouldn’t fit beyond this spot as it had when he was younger. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was from one of the young animals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He also told him that children were healthier if they were born to younger parents and Charles wasn’t getting any younger; he was nearing thirty. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl said, “That’s a strange name, Bud-not- Buddy,” and even though she was kind of young and scrawny to be teasing folks I could tell that that was exactly what she was doing. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stetson Kennedy grew up in a fourteen-room house in Jacksonville, Florida, the youngest of five children. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Those were probably Los Angeles boys—they had picked up their hairstyles from the Pachucos, who were some of the young Mexican American boys and men in Texas and Los Angeles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

You looked younger, too, with your wide eyes and snub nose. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Pretty lady. Dark hair and blue eyes like Henry, mink coat, too much lipstick and stuff if you ask me. Awfully young. Henry’s her only chick and she adores him.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Hello there, young lady. How can I help you today?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the front door he almost knocked young Tom down carrying in a bucket already filled to the brim. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any young boy's death is a slice across the pristine circle. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Some beg. Some steal. Lots o’ young girls taking up the trade, the way girls always do when it’s all they got to sell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But it takes young men or women of extraordinary character as well as extraordinary physical ability to pull it off. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It showed me how any country’s moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women—especially its young women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a long way. With respect, you are not as young or as fit as you were.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the instruction of the elder brother, Olakunde picked up the younger and carried him without. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The young mouse decided to fight fire with fire. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was the headliner, performing after six other gifted young pianists. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He waits, a plump young man with the eyes of a hurt puppy, glancing from his watch to his newspaper to the clock on the wall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And they were so young and loved each other so much. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the young man?” said I. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was so young, the Black Panther leaders—Huey Newton and Bobby Seale—made him get his mother’s permission to join. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while I was running my eye over the young woman's letter, she sat there at the table before me, looking down at her hands. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry wondered whether it was a young Doge, but before he could check the caption, the door of the office opened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the young man had evidently not heard the question. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a young reporter, he went to many corners of the country, following a story or, in many cases, following a job. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

D.B. got sore when I said that, and said I was too young and all to appreciate it, but I don't think so. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She was interviewing him in our apartment, in the middle of a poker game, and there was a young blond lady sitting next to him, patting his hand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton also chose Tim McCarthy, one of the seamen who had remained cheerful and steadfast through all their troubles, and who was young and strong. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Take good care of yourself and young Catherine.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At the base of the steps, several Amazons in camouflage were having a heated argument while a young woman— Queen Hylla, Hazel assumed—watched and listened from her throne. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Be you on yore way to Newton, young feller?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating part of the root will only make me younger, he thought. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Besides, many young girls would be afraid of having a wild beast for a pet. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I stared at them so intently that I was not aware that the young man was watching me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was forty years old and a grandfather, we were told, but he looked much, much younger. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman sat at last and murmured, more to herself than to Johnny: ‘I must talk to you, Jonathan Lyte Tremain.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless, of course, the strong old man rebuilding the Wallace house was the handsome young coward who had left nearly fifty years before. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her aunt welcomed him cordially, and in a few moments put her head in at the parlor door, her understanding glance taking in the two silent young people. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But I was only like six or seven, and the truth is, Doris would've never left me in charge that young. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“What is it, young man? Why are you looking at me that way?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy being the youngest guy in the band, by the way. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I sold it to that young man.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using his tusklike teeth, he ripped a long gash in the young bull’s side. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two young guys in line behind her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I see a Chagall sensibility with a Gauguin palette, but the point of view seems wholly your own at the same time. And you’re so young. It’s extraordinary, Noah. Just extraordinary.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was holding the burning stick high, making the shadows on his face long and severe, as if his head had been stretched; Jonathan saw him in a new way—powerful and evil. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been sitting in a worn old arm chair, but now he surged out of it like a young man, his cane a blunt wooden sword before him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were five young ones in this settlement, one almost grown and the others somewhere in between, and being smaller than the adults, they could not manage the seedpod wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This sensation of being someone else, of changing into someone else, of being beautiful and young and crossing this famous bridge to something big—it was why Jule had come to New York. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After severely beating the young black man, they hanged him from a nearby tree, where his lifeless body was discovered several hours later. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were four men along the bridge: New York and Illinois, two of them very young. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing up her arms, she chanted, “Almighty Set has promised his servants, the crocodile gods of the Nile, the bloody heart of the young Pharaoh, Marsh—uh, Marshamosis!” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya’s parents always wanted to talk about her adoption, especially when she had been younger. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As Louie prepared to start Torrance High, he was looking less like an impish kid and more like a dangerous young man. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She took off, a young sixteen-year-old, by herself to study in Canada. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The advertisement also stipulated that the young lady had to be tall, setting off all kinds of speculation, both polite and otherwise. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

While I was desultorily attending graduate school, I met in the coffee shop one day a Miss Myma Minkoff, a young undergraduate, a loud, offensive maiden from the Bronx. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mom pasted dozens of words on it, but I was still limited to only a handful of common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some names, and a bunch of smiley faces. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the younger man, said the judge, was “lean, Cassius-like, and copper-colored, he seldom smiled....All he asked of life was an open field and a fair chance. He was strictly business.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"As I feared. Ah, well. I believe I was younger than you the first time I got truly and sin-cerely drunk." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He never talked about it, so all I have to go on are hints from my mother, who told me that, in his younger years, Grandpa-down-the-hill had been violent, with a hair-trigger temper. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The younger face was at variance with the music of its voice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all of us children, Dee-Dee had the worst of it, because she was the youngest. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's a young lady that I have offended with my behavior," said Tristran. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

So, she thought, there’s one young man who doesn’t think me stained. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This one was of a young couple sitting on a cot with a baby in the woman’s arms. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was accustomed to rising early to care for my favorite mare that had a young filly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had a young baby, worked full-time as a cook in a cafeteria, and had a husband who was a handful. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No need to get uppity, young feller. I thought I’d best shelter the Voles and see ’em safe to the Abbey later. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“My mom thinks we’re all too young to be dating anyway,” she answered. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me come along. I can sell tickets. Russ can do anything—he’s young. Give me his job. I can still count, and I don’t short-change. I know you don’t run a grift show.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A young man leaned over his wife, fanning her face with a paper fan. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Believe me, young Cyclops,” Hephaestus said, “you can’t trust others. All you can trust is the work of your own hands.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

TimeStar said, “When Petey stopped his younger self from creating Mr. Flux, it must have sent a ripple through time so none of the terrible things we left behind ever happened.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was a widow, fairly wealthy, fairly young, and to my inexperienced eyes, fairly attractive. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, he got sick, really sick. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was Tom and James and a man named Switchman, another named Butterfield; he was the town mayor and the young girl Judith and the husband William and the wife Clarisse. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the younger lieutenants and several of the captains had never attended a Mess Night; they had only heard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with Evers’s wife and young children watching, De La Beckwith shot him in the back. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They’re too young to be good at it, and Security officers are quick to intervene. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

I immediately recognize one of them as a young Hideo; the other must be his brother. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Oh-my-father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

At his feet were a group of twenty children, some few my age, most younger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was caught in a familiar trap for young women and girls—the fantasy that she alone could change her man. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like me, or any of the kids younger than him either, but he didn’t like me in particular, because while most kids my age played mute around him, I sometimes mouthed off. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We were young, focused only on the future—though of course we knew nothing of what lay ahead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I drew their pictures for you, the black man, the young girl, the one with the mustache, and the man who owns the New York Café. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A young man sitting on a chair tilted to the wall pushed his hat back from his forehead and let the front legs of the chair hit the floor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it felt as if Pearl were simply one of Lexie’s friends, there to celebrate her marvelous daughter: a promising young woman Mrs. Richardson might mentor, and nurture, purely on potential. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was not, the young man said, but he invited them in eagerly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m really too young to go out into the world alone,” he thought as he lay down. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jinx walked past the tented booths, through the open field near Shady’s place, and watched Paulie Santoni explain the rules of bocce to a group of young men. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb,” she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounds so young and vulnerable, like Teddy used to sound when he got the stomach flu. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea how clear that makes everything,” the young man said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The young woman barrels through the thick crowd. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The young lady can tell them to go wherever we say,” Sir Aubrey said. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They looked so young to her now, especially the just-arrived new class, who gawked at her like she was an old pile of dinosaur bones. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He could see, across several fields and through a few young Chinese elms to Joe’s house, the jumble of outbuildings and rusted machinery and the ten-foot-high piles of pinon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We tried to get an interview with young Eddie Ball,” the sports guy said. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a spell, it was broken by the young one. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had seemed for months as if Ulbrickson had been quietly favoring the younger boys, but it had been subtle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It had a large number of fairly well dressed young men hanging around out front, not drinking or gambling, not visibly occupied with anything except paying close attention to passing cars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors at the end of the hallway open, and a few people rush in, carrying a young woman—Nita—between them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All the young men got stung so badly, they fell to the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh Ethyne,” the Sister named Mae said, linking arms with the young mother. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"I have one bottle left of a color that’ll be just perfect for you. It’s a little more red than what you were asking for, but it’s just right for a young lady growing up." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"It's you young folks what's going to make the changes," she said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, she wouldn’t have hesitated to plague Hayva with dread visions of her dead brother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been there very long before Officer Lopez, a young woman, came into the room and said, “Gonzales. The mother’s here.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes even children can be targeted. I pray that times get better for your young ones. And for theirs.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It is also unclear whether the younger Cleopatra went into exile with her father. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I have known this guy since I was very young. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Before the rebellion, the old knight thought him too young and untried; afterward, he had been known to say that the Kingslayer should exchange that white cloak for a black one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because of this he was disliked by young and old. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told George to tell the young man that he was getting a Thembu princess. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that a young Jewish man, grief-stricken over the Nazis’ mistreatment of his parents, had shot and killed the official, but the riots were not spontaneous. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was usually the only Korean in a room of young Jews and Chinese and Hispanics. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I spent more than a hundred years trying to fade into anonymity, but even the youngest of children know of me. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He wants to talk, but Sherrie just drinks and broods against his shoulder, slumped like a young girl in the backseat of the family wagon. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a perfectly healthy young lady,” Dr. Howard says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sister Ibinabo started the Student Visa Miracle Vigil on Fridays, a gathering of young people, each one holding out an envelope with a visa application form, on which Sister Ibinabo laid a hand of blessing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rashid didn’t answer as he sent a silent prayer to Allah to take care of the teacher and young girl who should not have been caught in a war zone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Every time Mom introduced me as her youngest, I died a little inside. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Two young men had joined a ball game. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Soraya came to us, tailed by a pro­cession of young female relatives. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A young Osage man then typically wore fringed buckskin leggings and moccasins and a breechcloth; a finger-woven belt held his tobacco pouch and tomahawk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Wire-brush eyebrows, dusted with snow, rested atop a pair of eyes that looked thirty years younger than the face in which they were set. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The surprised look in the young maid's eyes confirmed my suspicion that I had done something I would get punished for if caught, so I added, "Don't tell, Gladys, okay?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The young ones are still in love with their uniforms. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I knew it must’ve been an old picture because she looked much younger than the woman in the casket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lupita’s youngest sister kept looking up at the sky as if she expected to see the special star that was Papá’s even by daylight. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

As I looked out, a young coyote came slowly out of the trees, delicately lifting and shaking each paw before gingerly putting it down again in the snow. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The research shows you can take older people who aren’t functioning well and make them cognitively younger through this training,” Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told me. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I was young and trying to get away from my family and plus I discovered Harlem. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morrie is older than most of the teachers, and I am younger than most of the students, having left high school a year early. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here she was, a young Norwegian in a foreign land, suddenly having to face all alone the very gravest problems and responsibilities. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the way, a woman who looked a little younger than my mother welcomed us into her tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Lads, I’m in a betting mood. I’ll wager two jots that our young Kvothe makes it into the Arcanum before the end of his third term.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Others would begin at B-block, get turned off by the greater chaos factor—the younger, more transient inmates or the higher incidence of gang violence—and head back to A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always so with young ladies.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When the young Dawn came bright into the East spreading her finger tips of rose, Telemakhos, the king’s son, tied on his rawhide sandals and took the lance that bore his handgrip. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I named him after a young man I liked who had been killed by the Aleuts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man standing before her was tall, lean in build. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Let me see it,” requested the young woman, entreatingly. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps the mother feared to lose the son. The boy is very young." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Two young boys, the only children there, were going from fire to fire shaking grain in shallow pans and stirring it with paddles as it parched. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark well, young man, the name is Orestes.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Pittsburgh the young steel engineer became more convinced than ever that his challenge to the Eiffel Tower could succeed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You’re young,” said Ruby, who was fixed on him with uncommon interest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It is a pleasure to see young people interested in books,” she said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

At that moment a young man came into the bunk house; a thin young man with a brown face, with brown eyes and a head of tightly curled hair. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the porch was a young man who looked about seventeen or eighteen, although I am not as good at guessing people’s ages as blind Mrs. Partridge is. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My opponent was a few years younger than me, smaller, and looked like he’d only been playing a year or two at most. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The younger two sets of twins laughed and pointed at Ivan on the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That group of young geniuses came to be known as the “Termites,” and they were the subjects of what would become one of the most famous psychological studies in history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Normally the films had talking dogs or kids who were younger—but already smarter—than us. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, she didn’t tend to speak much to us when we were younger. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were young, the sons and daughters of the first wave of Puerto Ricans who immigrated to El Barrio in the late forties and the fifties. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I came to tell you that the Germans are taking a thousand of us away. The younger men. To work in a labor camp.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m close enough to see their faces and to register that most of them are young—younger than me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Clinton gave the silver ball to Daniel Taylor, a young officer, promising that Taylor would be promoted if he got the message to Burgoyne. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young boy, about sixteen years old, on his way home from school, had been strangled with what was believed to be a rope, and his head was bashed in. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no telling whether Cecilia was familiar with this name, or whether she was displeased that her younger sister was training at the same hospital. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A man cries all the time that he’ll never see again, he’s too young, his children are babies, he’ll never see them again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ernie asked, looking at a young boy biting into the mystery sandwich, his eyes closed in delight. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He wanted to protect his young daughter, shelter her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All of the young male captives had sustained some type of injury. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacioli was not only a friend of Leonardo but also of Alberti, with whom he stayed for some months as a young man. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A man comes who owns a store that sells cars and wants to train one young man to be a mechanic. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Who is this young man who is seeing her niece? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At intervals the young mouse drove spikes into the joints of the stone. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One so much older than her, one younger. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It is an amazing sight to see as many as thirty young chimpanzees all gathering around the Congolese staff for their morning mugs of milk or their evening balls of sticky rice. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was far too young and shades darker. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him sat a younger woman with a headscarf, her hands around the man’s waist. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was still young enough to roam woods and fields in stolen moments, and to keep caterpillars in boxes and jars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And on the night before his funeral, the Ravenel Officers’ Club filled to capacity as old pilots told stories to young pilots of Bull Meecham in the Pacific and Bull Meecham in Korea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man informed Michaux that he had the back rent money, but would turn it over only after certain repairs were made. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although this position would result in a draw in most cases, the two young American colleagues searched for hours for any possibility that Bobby could squeeze out a win when play resumed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Once you were young. Now you are old and sick, and need your sleep." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The youngest was also the quietest, the one who seemed reluctant to wholeheartedly embrace his friends’ air of impunity. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bush pigs can be dangerous too, but only if you threaten them or their young. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Baxter is the youngest of them all, maybe thirteen, but Mark can tell he’s a tough little sucker. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In 1934, a visiting American reporter commented on German youth: “Children and young men no longer loaf on street corners,” noted Kenneth Roberts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To feed her young ones, she would have to take a job outside the home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What’s the matter with that? Why such a look, young man?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The last time this young man had seen her outside the Night Zoo’s walls, she’d been a runaway. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her younger stepsister paused and gave her a skeptical look, but she did not ask again. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha reached the long river in the wood, the same river across which a ferryman had once taken him when he was still a young man and had come from Gotama’s town. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony had studied public speaking in Athens as a young man and had developed a keen appreciation for the Greek customs practiced throughout the region. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You better watch your step, young man, or you’ll end up on the gallows.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently there came a loud ring, then a decided voice, asking for ‘Mr. Laurie’, and a surprised-looking servant came running up to announce a young lady. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young Washington doctor had a different idea about the bullet's location. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, grossed out by my efforts to educate a young mind, I sent him outside to play with the kids next door. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waves her hand in the air and you find yourself thinking of young chimpanzees. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Father and Mother are out and Margot has gone to play Ping-Pong with some other young people at her friend Trees’s. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was getting tired of being the young One and losing every game except when we felt sorry for him and let him win. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or worse yet, that I’m too young to be taken seriously? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the younger kids snickered before being shushed by his older sister, who looked to be around my age. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Garfield is fine, but he’s new—and young. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But there’s a man coming on a horse, Hazel-rah,” said one of the young rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she did have an elilith, she wouldn’t want a serpent swallowing its tail like Tzara and many of the younger women had who’d come of age after the liberation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Crazy, isn't it? All these strangers? A lot of them are really young, too. I saw, the other day, two fifteen-year-olds under the canopy!" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As I think about my impetuous brother, I can imagine him being that young man who made a run for the forest, doing everything he possibly could to try to survive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And then a young man, the agents clerk in his neat suit and cravat, appeared at her side and asked her to come with him to the agent’s office. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ben took a young lieutenant’s joy in being saluted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very pretty young girl with long blond hair rushed up to him and pressed a warm cake into his hand and he was embarrassed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, stiffly, the man got up and went over to where the young soldier was sleeping. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

If God really aims to punish you, you’ll know it when He sends you not one but two sisters who are younger than you but already have memorized the entire dictionary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ritu auntie reached in her bag and handed a dollar bill to Dimple, a common practice for elders when younger people were entering a new stage of their life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A young physicist named Herb Anderson walked in, yawning, and helped do a few last-minute checks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not alone in this feeling and I joined a group of young men who engaged in secret evening expeditions to the university’s farmland, where we built a fire and roasted mealies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as though there was not enough trouble with the women of his house all awry, there was Wang Lung’s youngest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Nine,” said April, with a cool smile, “is a lot younger than eleven.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chest voice feels like the sound is emanating from the chest, which tends to create a lot of tension in the throat, particularly in younger singers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There was a woman sitting in a chair, her sideburns and chin smeared with dark golden wax, and there were two beautiful young women lying naked from the waist down, having their bikini lines done. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He's only younger than Needles by a year, so it's more like they're twins, but the kind that look different. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They were too young, with their soft, slippery little-kid tongues, lacking the hard consonants they needed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“They need to learn empathy at a young age.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Milkman was young and he was friendly—just the opposite of his father—and the tenants felt at ease enough with him to tease him, feed him, confide in him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behavior that had seemed clever and precocious in childhood would have been considered uncouth in a young woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His passenger list included one of Egypt’s foremost practitioners of the danse du ventre, the young and lushly feminine Farida Mazhar, destined to become a legend in America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Victor was the younger son and brother— with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was too young to understand the problem. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy to amuse her; she laughed like a young girl. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then everybody climbed into rickshaws, the younger children sitting next to their amahs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her expression was a mixture of the very young—when she first tasted the cola—and a kind of deep, sad wariness. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year younger than Bobby, his notable accomplishment wasn’t in chess—he was a tournament player but not of championship caliber—but in law. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sure, a rabbit toy,” said the younger man, and he turned away. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I acted the part of the young page when needed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In its habits: It appeareth that Deus omnipotens reproduced not with a female of its own species, but by engendering young upon a female Homo sapiens of a tender age, viz. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We were so young, so confused, that Inge and I did what kids do: We teased Alex about the girls’ clothes he was wearing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He patted the good shoulder, forcing the younger man to fill his glass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she died, her remains were to be burnt in the prison yard, to prevent her spirit from wandering into any young innocent bodies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And ‘Mei,’ this is common mei, as in meimei, ‘younger sister.’ The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She married young, threw herself into motherhood, and had to adjust to a new culture and language when she moved to America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were stretch marks on her belly from the children she had borne, and her breasts were not as firm as they had been when she was younger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The young man returned C.P.'s stare and flashed him the peace sign. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a young light-skinned Hazara woman sewing a shawl in a corner of the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They be all very well for comers and trippers, an’ the like, but not for a nice young lady like you. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Day Two, tomorrow. Now your Daddy and this car both aren’t as young as they used to be so we don’t want to push either one of them too hard.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, inside the barn, the scrappy young puppy, Tater, is leashed to a post. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The image of Pita looking so innocent and young made me think of the dead man’s children, sitting at home, wondering what happened to their papá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then, just as he reaches over to pull his younger brother closer to him, to see if he’s real, he pictures a dark shadow covering them entirely. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A very young maid opened the door to us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pressed up against steel ribs and timber blocks young boys strangled when the oxygen left them to join the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg watched a young girl pull something from a pile of rubble. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The one picture I had seen of her as a young woman showed her in a shimmering blue dress, her dark hair framing her face, a fragile grace holding her in the studio photographer’s chair. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We miss him terribly and Geak, being so young, is the only one able to vocalize our loneliness, by continuing to ask for Pa. I am afraid for Geak. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do hope my scar does not bother you, young man,” Mr. Katz said, as though he had only just become aware of my stare. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, my dear young ladies, remember what your ma said, and don’t fret. Come and have a cup of coffee all round, and then let’s fall to work and be a credit to the family.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Add to these one more compelling reason for Clarkson to abandon his post: yellow fever had already seized his wife and killed his youngest son, Gerard. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He had come here with the intention of embarrassing a snide assassin, and had instead found a young woman pouring her secrets into a pianoforte. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A lemming burst out of the grass near her foot and she spun around to look for its nest and young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Lio had left, Mama would say, “What a refined young man.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I never considered . She took a sip of her tea. “Stephen is a lovely young man. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had four daughters, and I hung out with the younger ones at the party, even though we had some communication challenges. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"That's what you want to do. Travel while you're young. Mother and I always wanted to get over, but we had to wait a while." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Or did the lordly young man just not bother to notice small boys? The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw how they dodged Jon’s young falcons with twists and turns. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He scrambled as far up the young birch as he could go, and clung there, the slender trunk swaying under his weight. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was not jealous of this young girl who would now be called Fifth Wife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked to the wet scrape, turning under her talons so as not to injure the young. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Medieval princes went to war when they were fourteen or even younger. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The one who knew me looked just like your uncle Reza. He had a red beard. He was still very young, very respectful.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of Dad was a young, barrel-chested man wearing a shiny blue suit. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Why bother with driving lessons, her mother said, anyone as pretty as you can always find a handsome young man to chauffeur you. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so sweet and gentle and patient comforting his young wife. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still seems way too young for all that height. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And Edward realized that he was looking up at two men, one young and one old. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

They looked up at the young man as, perhaps, only people in deck chairs can look up at someone. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She never lost her feeling that he was young and helpless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other, who was small and red- haired, was Ron’s younger sister, Ginny. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All the while, neighbors and relatives popped in to say hello to the younger Obamas and to congratulate us on our engagement. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Mint, male, young, well,” the salesman informed him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But instead the young man’s face became reflective. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He blinked over the top of his glasses at the young mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What sort of people will they be, Merlyn?” cried the young man’s voice, unhappily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them was Gertrude, attended by an aged gentleman and a young lady I did not know. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He milled through the three levels of the Eolian, talking with everyone, young and old, musician and not. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was nighttime, and I’d just returned from a two-week trip high into the mountains, where, at about seven years old, I was the youngest person harvesting potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger monk used a yellow cloth to wipe dirt from a belt of ammunition. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young woman with a lavender pixie cut and silver earrings up and down her left ear greets us near the door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The cat transferred his attention to a hind leg; the old dog stopped panting and lay down; the young dog remained stretched out, only his eyes moving and an occasional twitch of his nose. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my young days in Monterey County, a hundred miles south of San Francisco, everyone was a Republican. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” the young man said in a voice heavy with boredom. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no need to flatter me, young man,” she said, even though the Grand Elder was much older than she. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I thought of the boy on the slab, the young boy with bruises and dirty fingernails, the boy who wasn’t Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the gravity of the young man’s foot in my hand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon another picked me up, a young man in his late twenties who spoke with an educated flair. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards seemed befuddled, but they could hardly consider these vivacious young girls a security risk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden she became once again a rather pretty young lady. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was only the famished young dog who really suffered, for he was not a natural hunter, and wasted a lot of ill-afforded energy in pursuit. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The young people so enjoy each other’s company.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder: Is it possible that there is more than one way to grow younger? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This left his young wife, Johanna, and three-year-old Maria in a precarious position. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘This is stupid. I’m too young to have a suitor!” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

An admittedly short though pleasant-looking young man against a scrawny, pimply, 4-F boy with circles under his eyes like a hungry wolf. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Senior, I know you tired, but let me tell you about your youngest son,” she’d say, while Dad wiped his face with his hand, from top to bottom, over and over again. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The boy looked so young, but I knew I could be only one or two years older than he was. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When his land was flourishing, he went back home and married a young woman named Susan. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He let his eye wander cautiously up and across the cabin and there on the other side sat a devilish young man, a dark handsome young man. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is that the reproductive capacity of the birds has been so lowered by some environmental agent that there are now almost no annual additions of young to maintain the race. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Here is a Black woman, uneasy about her role in identifying a young Black man, who still had the courage to testify before you and to positively identify Mr. King. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Retrenchment had begun at the factory—they were firing older employees and hiring younger ones, for less pay. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories from all the young warriors who told me, “Wow, you know yesterday we chased this lion—” bragging about it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heeding Myma’s counsel with the eager assistance of various young men, one of the simple lovelies suffered a nervous breakdown; the other attempted unsuccessfully to slash her wrists with a broken Coca-Cola bottle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him is a young female bonobo with an infant, also asleep. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers open, and the young woman with the rose waits patiently as the statue gradually closes her hand around the stem, releasing it only when it is secure. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

George was only a few years younger than the girls smiling at her from the glossy pages. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I warned him about the “foxes,” his expression for the aggressive, cute young females who flocked after him; I told Cassius that instead of “foxes,” they really were wolves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A successful quest for Olympic gold would require finding nine young men of exceptional strength, grace, endurance, and most of all mental toughness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She said, “Nicholas Allen, I have enjoyed having you as a student. Now you go out there and have a wonderful summer. And I expect to hear remarkable things about you, young man. ” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mamma,” said Herbert, “this is young Mr. Pip.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a love of a bonnet, but I prefer the face inside, for it looks young and happy again,” and John kissed the smiling face, to the great detriment of the rosebud under the chin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not look old or young to him then; she was like the rain and the wind; age had no relation to her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Any time after I’m thin again. We want to have a splendid wedding with every one thinking what a handsome young couple.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now, when I am no longer young, when my hair is fast growing gray, when strength begins to diminish, now I am beginning again like a child. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest of Goddard’s three junior scythes, he saw himself as the balancing force. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

According to the rules of the dynasty, Cleopatra now married her youngest brother, Ptolemy XIV, and resumed her seat on the throne as Egypt’s pharaoh. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But that’s all right: we need somebody in the kitchen to eat up the grub the young ones cant tote off. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hated when she called him “young man.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN Do you consider him an honest young man? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was opened by a young man wearing army pants and a pajama shirt. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the station, he boarded the number two downtown express train and sat down next to four young black men. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then in 1941, the SS sent Sargo a young German radio expert, who built powerful transmitters and radio networks that could reliably reach Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was young and I only wanted to think about the living. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“When I was young, we dined thus every night,” she said with a sigh. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Rufus thoughtfully, “you still look mighty young. You pulled me out of that river thirteen or fourteen years ago, but you look like you would have been just a kid back then.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Amari that the young men always waited until the last possible moment to fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was two years younger than the youngest orphan, not to mention Smaller and skinnier, and Lommy and Hot Pie took her silence to mean she was scared, or stupid, or deaf. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was like a younger brother to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly all the patients are younger than me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he is so young, everyone at the camp looks after Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Travis curled his back inward, a defensive movement of the young. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He met a young lady named Elise and they chatted on Facebook and hung out a bit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Oh, Jeth, it’s horrible to be so young. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But my young pupil here is a very exceptional reader. I shall pass the honor on to him.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Two young women stood back-to-back performing a slam poem called “Hir,” rotating to face the mic as they gave voice to a girl named Melissa and the boy inside her named James. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the rest of us but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast pocket of his gray tunic. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The merchant did not raise his voice, but instantly the young clerk was on his threshold. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be so young and have the trust of America’s greatest landscape architect, Codman must have been very bright indeed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was glad when Shay and David took her outside to the cooking fire, where a group of younger uglies hung out. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Examining rhythm and melody processing in young children using fMRI. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The voices of the younger of the Young Men burst into the night; and the laughter of damsels; a youth yelling, “There is the Negro boy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two children, one a girl of Lyra’s age and the other a younger boy, came out of one of the streets leading down to the harbor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day I was a young girl with my face under a red marriage scarf. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quick trot of ponies’ feet made him look up, as one of the little carriages, containing a single young lady, came rapidly down the street. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a frightened gawky girl and a young and doomed bridegroom, there were a handsome young man and a happy and beautiful bride. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The young man was not expecting this attack. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Xan could feel a little rattle, deep inside the young man’s chest—the precursor to loss. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So this is a pretty typical case, except they were a little bit young—most of the murders that I see are thirteen- or fourteen-year-olds killing each other with guns. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uglies might look goofy, but at least they were young. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought there had been swings, but I had been so young and the memories were so distant that it could have been a dream. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The professor saw drive and strength in the young woman, the voracious reader with the discipline, Terryl recounts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She claims I am her youngest now but she still is clutching her baby. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many young men accustomed to a civilian life with freedom and personal privacy, military life was tough and there was a lot of grumbling. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Have you heard what glory young Orestes won when he cut down that two-faced man, Aigisthos, for killing his illustrious father? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! when a gallant young man, like Mr. Frank Churchill,” said Mr. Knightley dryly, “writes to a fair lady like Miss Woodhouse, he will, of course, put forth his best.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Poor little thing! It was hard upon her when she tried so heartily to please me. She was wrong, of course, but then she was young. I must be patient and teach her.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko said, “Can I talk to you for a second, young man?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you feel?” the younger man says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Relationships between young men and women of his unpropertied class were fraught with restriction and inhibition. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Did Your Honor give permission for him to be alone with my young lady?” she asked sharply. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

One of the young bonobos was still there. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the sight of the young woman, the Savage started, recoiled, turned pale. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exuberant Mr. Hinkley worked a crowd of young boys who apparently had plenty of money to spend. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was an agent they were targeting at present, for example, who was reputed to have an unhealthy interest in young boys. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I told you she was too young for wine,” her mother said with a sigh. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, young man,” Garret Charles says, and then squints at the boy’s number, pinned to his stupid hip, and whispers something to Monica. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Looking for athletic young adult to play teen. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The young man explained that he had seen the old man living in a bush not far away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He touched the husk of his younger face and thought about his beloved Blanchepon. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Next to the dry fountain in the disused square, a group of four boys, young teenagers with fuzz on their lips, stand in a tight circle, passing around a cigarette. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She said that, of all the villagers young Chaya had come to the camp with that spring, only two were alive at the end of the war. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘My mother played on the floor of this kitchen. My grandfather was but a young man when he built this house, and I, a grandson, have better right to it doubtless than an elder brother.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In their presence,” pursued Pumblechook, “I will tell you, young man, what to say to Joseph. Says you, “Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortun’s. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Mattru Jong?” he asked, and called for a young man who was from that village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still eighteen, Ted Hall was the youngest scientist at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart, the young Canadian cardiologist, discovered that his crampons didn’t even fit his new boots. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

Although spawning occurs at sea, the young come into the estuaries and bays when a few weeks old to undergo successive molts and changes of form. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A girl that young wouldn’t go very far from home. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The youngest of the three scientists, von Tschermak had received news of two other parallel studies that fully corroborated his results, then waded back into the scientific literature to discover Mendel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The young soldier hears him and looks around, confused, for the source of this disruption. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday, in our attempt to best deal with the situation outside our administration building, a young woman, Hayley Simpson, was killed by one of our officers.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

John pointed at the young man who had thrown the rock at Eugene, then waited for the police to arrest him. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The fish were only seven or eight inches long, and when Joe was young they were all beautiful native cutthroats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they went the young mouse muttered to himself. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The young woman sat at the tiller bench quietly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He had a big future before him, you know. He was only a young man but he had a lot of brain power here." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I looked up long enough to see branches of trees on the far side of the sanctuary shake as the young bonobos disappeared into the surrounding jungle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A thin man who looks young enough to be a college student leans against a desk talking in a loud, nasal voice. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every Muslim minister is always hearing the problems of young people whose parents have ostracized them for becoming Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one skeleton’s pelvic area mountain bluebirds had built a nest, and in it the female bird, surrounded by peeping young, stared beadily at the startled boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His current household consisted of his most recent wife and his three youngest children. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m too young to get married,” she said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So Joe splashed over and fastened onto the bottle, tipping it to his lips while the old man squinted his eyes and watched eagerly, nodding happily as the young man drank. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We settle again into our cross-legged positions at Ma's feet, facing the young priest. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seems like when the children was young they got the fever or if it was a rainy winter, they got the cough. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well done, my miserable young spies,” said Mr. Curtain haughtily. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young guy who’d thrown his voice like a bear did a ventriloquist act that was so good I almost believed his dummies had come alive. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I was young, I knew I could be anything. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Please, tell the young ladies what I say, and if they don’t care to come, why, never mind.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She visited each young person in turn on their tenth birthday, but did not harm them outright. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The young lady who had met us downstairs earlier cracked the door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He heard admiration voiced for a brilliant young officer named McClellan, who had been put in top command of the army in the East. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hugged her as if she were a little child, years younger than I was. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone could feel how the creature was focused on the young girl, the way its edged protectiveness was biting through the air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One of the men was somewhat younger than the others and more elaborately decorated. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is not right to speak of young sea elephants as babies, for they are as large as a man. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile was playful, like a young girl’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Finally Oeneus called for help upon the bravest men of Greece, and a splendid band of young heroes assembled, many of whom sailed later on the Argo. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same young man stood at the threshold. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the table, the young waiter tucked the chair in for her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And so the youngest of our family, with the blond hair and the hazel eyes, had the chemotherapy and the radiation. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, in Paris, I was to meet Richard Wright’s widow, Ellen, and a younger daughter, Rachel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man in 7A peers over the top of the seat. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch noticed young people, no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing heavy fur pieces even though it wasn't cold outside. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And each was both old enough and young enough to actually believe she was a princess riding in a regal chariot driven by a powerful coachman. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be other Mrs. Van Hoppers, and I was young, and confident, and strong. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The young women of the Soviet Union who fought in World War II clung to their feminine identity with consistent determination, and if one single item could represent this individual battle, it’s underwear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m—I’m so sorry. I was devastated to hear of Travis’s passing. He was a wonderful young man.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Of her children, two sons and two daughters, only the younger girl, Barbara, had entered ordinary life, married, begun raising a family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from seven years old to death. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fleet-footed young men were always arriving to race with her and she always outran them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Excuse me, Sophia Morales, NBC News. Is it true that this department is responsible for the death of this young man’s father?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bombur was now so fat that he could not move himself from his couch to his chair at table, and it took six young dwarves to lift him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s not ours,” said a young man’s voice. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about it, the more concerned I became about all the young black boys and men in that neighborhood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You’d only have to spend one summer of your only God-given young life with Coach,” Todd said, fingering the ball out of the cup before downing his drink. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He was just thirty—young enough that he needed to draw a line of demarcation between himself and the boys he commanded. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gary approached the young man behind the counter and pulled a fat, intricately tooled wallet from his pocket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But then he said, “Gary was young. Very creative. Ambitious. We idolized the Beats.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She pulled in her lips, as if she was going to chew them, and she looked so much younger. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I do not blame my mother for warning me away from the sun when I was young. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He need be ’shamed of hisselfj scaring young folk with them nonsense stories.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see a young woman above me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She went to move her hand away but Lola tightened her grip and seemed to read the younger girl’s mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Teachers didn’t have to go fight in Vietnam. So a lot of young men who didn’t want to fight became teachers.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ruby was in her late eighties too, with a sharp mind that seemed decades younger than her frail body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The one closer to her was the younger of the two men. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Somebody said newspaper reporters with cameras would be at the sign up recruiting office to snap a picture of the first boy young man from our area to sign up to be a soldier enlist. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally she said, “After Ruth May you were my youngest, Adah. When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was young, and the terrible feeling would not go away with study. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One young man was killed on the spot. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned over the counter, palms flat against the wood, glowering at the young deputy who had allowed me to use the station’s phone to call work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And there was to be a nightly curfew for all Jews, young and old. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The young roosters who stood without waiting for the chicks who were waiting—for them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems like quite an opportunity for a hardworking young girl.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But, as the sessions got under way, there was a sense of looseness, bewilderment, and dissatisfaction among the writers, most of whom were young, eager, and on the verge of doing their best work. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her first thought was to pick a young teenager's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls, but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Although a few nests were found in the treated area, a few with eggs, none contained young birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But all those wasted years! Did you go on a cruise, look for exciting young men, buy new clothes...?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The older children of the family would have been surprised and, according to their several natures, pleased or outraged by their father’s consideration of these two younger ones. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

My prior experience with young men was to hear them swear “Christ almighty in the craphouse!” at any dress with too many buttons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man studies his face in the mirror. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

After the murder of Eric Morse, the Illinois legislature made a new law saying that children as young as ten could be locked up in youth prison. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right before I reached the Grand Palais, a young Muslim girl in hijab stopped me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And some four hundred young men, born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives on Vietnam’s steaming soil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When Marina was two years old, in 1914, Europe plunged into World War I. For the next four years, most of Europe’s young men fought, and millions died, on the battlefields of France and Belgium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When my friends and I were younger and we were at the mall bored out of our minds, we used to play this game. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

At the camps, the young inmates were guarded by police officers, soldiers, and freshly recruited Hitler Youth leaders. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Because there is talk among the citizens. It is shameful for a young man to die while drunk.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It portrayed the young leader as a happy, hug- gable family man. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was white and he was black; she was rich and he was poor; she was old and he was young; she was the boss and he was the worker. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What type of child was I was young? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about the owls and how the young played around the hemlock, and then we went to bed a little sad—all of us. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director’s heels. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a younger male showed his fangs as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were both tall and young and skinny. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I, younger and incredulous, would have liked understanding, comprehension, explanation. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the younger children couldn’t go past the pine clump toward the big house and the town, or the bramble patch where they picked blackberries in summer in the other direction. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked younger than I’d seen her in a long time, maybe since before the accident. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the page was a photo of a young Stephen Kellner standing in front of a bright green door. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If anything, the donations went back to being a subject to be avoided, but not in the way it had been when we were younger. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few gasp at the planet only the youngest of us here have actually set foot on. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I want them to be safe, to live, but I cannot send them away. They are too young and cannot defend themselves. Not now but soon.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger class had just finished, and the store was flooded with six-year-olds, prancing for their mothers in red velvet hats and skirts sparkling with sequins of deep scarlet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After a week of world-bruising a young man from home had come along and seen her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The boy and girl were even younger than they had seemed at night, maybe even sixteen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a young man. Forty-eight. And from the looks of you, from what the medical report tells us, we’re likely to have you around a couple of weeks more.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You want me to get married young and have kids, and I'm giving you none of that. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the young black man has an MBA from Harvard. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“As many young and attractive victors as possible,” Haymitch corrects himself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Once the younger students had filed out, Ms. Udell spoke to the fourth graders and the family members in the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

My mom and my older sister were all for it; my younger brothers were ready to live like surfer boys. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The photographer flipped the monitor around for us to see the portrait, and I was no longer seeing myself as a boy, but a young man—fifteen, maybe even sixteen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Many a younger son of the King in die North had made his seat there, many a brother, many an uncle, many a cousin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The young Izzy had stood guard under the funeral home’s clock, which freely gave the time to Madison Avenue, alongside his fellow Lords with their berets and empty rifles. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged man and a young woman, both Latinos, meet him and his clients after they cross the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Keenly, I fear, did the eye of the visitress pierce the young pastor’s heart. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Proceeds will go toward the purchase of Liberty Bonds to support our young men in arms. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As older brothers, fathers, and neighbors were drafted into the service, younger boys and girls took over various jobs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other young men—Frenchmen, Germans, Swedes, Greeks—all laughed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The oldest were making for the storerooms where the clothing was kept, and herding the younger ones with them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Elodin strolled up to a large desk where a young woman stood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My younger brothers and sister complained about the noise because they could not sleep, so I placed a towel underneath it to keep the clatter down. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I am younger and stronger, Professor. It must be me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw came out fresh and pert as a young girl on her first date. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished that he could be young and cheerful, too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The veins of the young girl’s legs suddenly appeared like worms on her dark skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young woman had come into the room. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were young and old, fat and thin, dark skinned and pale, surrounded by thick curls or bald scalps....But all of the faces were twisted in terror, and that made them all look alike. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were many healthy-looking young men lining the road and some of the men from Maine grumbled. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like hanging out with boys her own age, much less boys who were a year younger. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The frail young man was a gaunt man with white hair. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, 1 did not err in the making. You, my young friend, have been so thoughtless as to grow in the last month!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z