| 单词 | blur |
| 例句 | His hands moved in a blur, and the bottom corner of the burning gash closed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As the bullet whizzed over its tiny whiskered head, shattering the toilet seat, the mouse took off—a squeaking gray blur that scooted out the doorway, between Curly’s feet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked again toward the door, expecting to see the white blur; but nothing was there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The snow was so thick that it blurred my sight. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I just breathe out and let the trees blur by. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Behind us, the hat spun out into the morning air in a white blur, like a miniature flying saucer, and landed right smack in the middle of the highway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Then with a roar and a blur of snow both bears moved at the same moment. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A scarlet-clad figure on a broomstick, moving so fast it was blurred, shot out onto the field from an entrance far below, to wild applause from the Bulgarian supporters. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I read the letter twice more, my eyes blurring with tears. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z All I could see was a grayish blur. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My memory used to be so good, but last night is all a blur. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I’m in an endless blur of exhausted days and sleepless nights. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She ran fast enough to blur the scenery in her mind. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I opened my eyes to the dark blur of it, and the larger blur of Kevin standing near me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But even at this far distance, she could see a blur of anxiety swirling around Glerk’s head like a cloud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It felt so good, the big car snorting and the steering wheel shimmying and the bushes and trees on both sides turning into green blurs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He never stopped long enough to talk, he was always on the run, a blur of speed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The party became a blur, a sweet, sticky blur. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see the grandmother-shaped impression on her own soul, but when she tried to get a sense of where her grandmother was now, it was blurred somehow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He tried to focus on her face, but it began to blur, to slide out of his vision, and then it seemed impossible to breathe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A blur in the mist, an unfurled flag. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The train cars whipped past in a blur. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Tanvi Ma'am talks to a bunch of policemen, and their voices blur like ocean waves, because all I want to hear is Amma's soft voice again. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It is now softened and blurred by thousands of years of Egyptian desert sandblasting and by occasional rains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was disoriented, as though my world were blurred and leaning to the left, like a photograph snapped from a twisted angle and out of focus. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Streaking down the homestretch, Woolf was a crimson blur on Seabiscuit’s back, lifting him, holding him together, begging him for more, dropping flat to lie under the wind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then both of them were on him, a blur of ringed fingers and cowboy boots going to work. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I saw an arm, a blur, and then—splat—something hit my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Everything in my head blurs and speeds up and I shout: “What happened?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The rest of the morning passed in a blur. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But he had not yet gone into that whizzing top gear of his, when the ground became blurred by speed and the wind howled and his feet didn’t seem to be touching anything but air. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, in his own time, Kepler was more famous as an astrologer than as an astronomer, although the distinction between the two was rather blurred. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The rest of the week is this exhausting blur. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Then, inexplicably, she was running alongside the Wall, crying, names rushing and blurring and bumping under her outstretched hand. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The comers of his vision began to blur, growing hazy as an old nightmare returned to him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He doesn't fit anywhere in the photo album of my life up until now, barely even a blur in the background or on the fringe of some forgotten frame. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His eyes blurred and there swam before him a vast array of red and blue and green and yellow cans stacked high upon shelves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The daily routine was blurred to me and I never quite grasped it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep my eyes on the city for so long that my eyes start to blur. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The street was full of cars, which all blurred together. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I mean, the dude exploded down the line in a blur, even faster this time, his silver shoes like sparks flicking up off the track. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z A blur of light streaks past us and rams right into Ren, sending both of them tumbling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They’d peer at the world beyond but would only be able to see blurs and splotches, and soon they would forget what it was like to see things for what they were. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The cool sea smell came through to me, constant and thick in the swiftly unfolding blur of anchored boats, dark water and lights pouring past. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You get it,’ he said in a blurred voice. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I hardly think she will confess to showing humans the Book. In any case, I mixed a slight amnesiac into her second injection. When she finally wakes up, the last week will be a blur.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Even the girl sitting on the couch next to him—with her perfect side braid and about five layers of lip gloss—gets lost to the blur that surrounds him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was blurred, but there was something in Forest that disturbed Leader’s consciousness and made him uneasy. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Afterward, when she thought about it, it seemed to Winnie that the next few minutes were only a blur. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Kendra stared out the side window of the SUV, watching foliage blur past. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The trip was a blur, and tougher than they had expected; the truck’s cab was smaller than they’d planned, so it was harder to rest. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She only had time to see its eyes and the blur of its skin before she drove Damaris through the ridderak’s face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then he leaped into the air and flew away, the girl's tears blurring her last sight of him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The night again blurred into sprints and slow walks up to the foul line. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Werner tries to pick out individuals as the cars blur past: a sunken cheek, a shoulder, a glittering eye. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The night wind in my hair, their indistinct talk, the songs on the radio all mingled and blurred in my dreams. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We walked into the night, into the blurring song of katydids, the thud-splat of raindrops on the umbrella, all those terrible rhythms that take up inside when you let your guard down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a big black blur coming at me and, at the same time as I tried to get out of the way, I throwed left-right-left hard as I could. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I was so furious that my eyes blurred. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Streets and buildings began to blur as the centaurs picked up speed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He bounded past Lyra almost in a blur and crashed into the Tartars, scattering soldiers, daemons, rifles to all sides. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Through blurred vision, he saw two prisoners removing the body of the man on his left, who had just died. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I fly into the courtyard and around the back in the dark, and if Mrs. Krajewska sees me, it’s probably only a blur. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Moss thought, and the blur of white rushed into his field of vision. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The faces and voices blur into a spinning mass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The writing blurred in front of Hazel’s eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We were moving at 18,000 miles an hour, but there was not the blur of speed that one sees from a race car. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I move in too close, it’ll be a blur. Let me think about this for a minute.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His uncle proceeded to install bookshelves on every inch of available open wall space in the room while Papa looked on in wonder at the blur of construction. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There was a great column, all down the front page, and an awful blurred photograph of Maxim that must have been taken at least fifteen years ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His fingers sped by in a blur, and his face showed the slightest of smiles, as if in a reverie. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The boy, trained in night-sight when the lantern was dimmed so as not to alert the wood’s creatures, picked out a blurred shape in the dark. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The flowers all start to swim together, the blues and the pinks and the whites all twisting and turning and blurring together, the colors coming off the page and reaching toward me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Fine blurs of mist were sifting gently across the still, lavender surface. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh. That. This morning's one big blur. The whole day is.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z All the way down the river with the rain lashing my face and blurring my eyes until I saw a whirring ambulance light at the landing in the distance. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z She’s out of breath because the crowd is picking up speed in the hall, the paper chain walls blurring into a cascade of color. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Dimly, from a nearly forgotten perception as blurred as the substance itself, Jonas recalled what the whiteness was. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But I loved those ugly little bats, the way they darted past, their wings in a furious blur. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The PSFs were black blurs as they stepped out of our way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After a few seconds everything blurred into hills of gray. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The city passes in a blur of gaping Plebeians, muttering auxes, and a riot of merchants and their stalls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The blur of faces along the rail thinned, then vanished altogether, and the din from the crowd quieted to a distant rumble. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The last thing she saw, through her tunneled view, was Ekon’s blurred silhouette as he marched away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I try to go over the meds in order of when I take them, shuffling them around on the cart, the names all blurring together. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The poles clipped by, blurring in the riders’ peripheral vision. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Magdalys flew backward and the city around them spun into a wild blur. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The rest of the room blurred, white and hot, until all she could see was Tanin, resting easily behind her desk, her lips meeting and parting, sending words into the air like sweet, toxic smoke. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My vision blurs, and I feel dizzy for a moment, but the moment passes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Maybe because my eyes were too blurred by tears to see much of anything. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Carine’s eyes blurred, and she felt the onset of tunnel vision. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I poised, uneasy, with a dry throat, the smooth white path from my feet to his feet blurred. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Ben’s vision had blurred and he had difficulty fixing his eye on a single point in the mayhem that had unleashed itself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All around, everything else blended into an indistinguishable, borderless cascade of blurring gray streaks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The images on the TV set blurred, and Moss’s eyes filled with tears. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Everything else was sharp and hard, but this Grecian sun evoked joy from every angularity and blurred with brightness the stiff face of the countryside. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A noise made him whirl; two green burning pools—pools of accusation and guilt—stared at him from a white blur that sat perched upon the edge of the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It swings so fast it’s pretty much a blur. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Powell grunted and shifted from one sheet to the other mechanically until his blurred sight focused upon a thin red line that wobbled its way across the ruled paper. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Servants help me into a bustling day dress that is a creamy blur of whipped frosting and sweetened milk sprinkled with gossamer ribbons. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Fuzzy at first and then it gets patchy with some things so real they are right here now in front of me, and other things stay blurred, and I’m not sure.... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere die gold cloaks found a litter, but the trip back to the castle was a blur of agony, and Ned lost con-sciousness more than once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The ring of mist that surrounded the island was looser somehow, so the sunrise blurred rather than creating its usual clear pictures. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Four blurred arms cross my face and then merge into a single foreshortened limb. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He felt his feet hit solid ground, and stood, shaking, as the blurred shapes around him came suddenly into focus. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z My mind swam in a fog of terror, my eyes were bathed in tears, and I saw only blurs as I tore through the yard toward what I hoped was the direction of the gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Will hauled himself up painfully, peered through the deep darkness, and made out a blur of white on the ground beside the man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He held my watch on his palm and looked up at me with his blurred rushing eye. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But since Letha ate their memories, that was all they knew of their time in the citadel—the vague blur of the ink on their bellies, and all that it implied. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In his haste the signs sometimes became blurred and he had to shake his hands and begin all over. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The noise around me muffles, and the image in my mind of the five thousand dollars starts to waver until it finally blurs into something I no longer recognize. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That he was meant to be a boy, or at least to live as a boy, to live in the blur between a boyish girl and a girlish boy. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He takes in all the dark suits and dresses, the tearstained faces and shaking shoulders, and the collective sorrow hits him so hard, the room blurs out of focus. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The figure was there, soft and blurred in outline, but a woman’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The fat droplets splattering the window blurred the trees around us, but Liam didn’t bother with the wipers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He was a blur of activity—pushing buttons, flipping switches and adjusting levers. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There’s not much else to look at, unless you count your blurred reflection in the metal mirror over the sink. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Her eyes burned to a blur she couldn’t blink away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And then the trees blurred as the mare ran faster and faster. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He watched the snow for a silent moment, the needles of it blurring past the leaded panes, then turned again to look at her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The day had sped by in the blur that was rapidly becoming routine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Hot tears began running down Petra’s cheeks, blurring her vision of the woman’s familiar face. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He was a vanishing-looking kind of a man as if there used to be parts about him that stuck out individually but now he hadn’t a thing about him that wasn’t dwindled and blurred. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Pong squinted at the city, making all the dots of light blur into one. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It's a close game, which means it's a long one, and by our last hand my vision keeps blurring from tiredness and the strain of seeing in the dark. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When I ran to the window, all I saw was a blur of black and white, streaking through the moon-tipped grass. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When I touched my feet to it, a terrible, prickling feeling came over my skin, my muscles cramped, my eyes blurred and I got instantly dizzy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I saw was a yellow swirl across a blurred, reddish setting sun. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The visions he and Voldemort were sharing had changed in quality; they had become blurred, shifting as though they were moving in and out of focus. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When I close my eyes, even to blink, I see pools of red and white, like a blur that never goes away. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Glass-fronted stores passed by in a blur, then James turned sharply and hustled upstairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The rest of the day was a blur. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t so much like she was ignoring him, than that she was trying so intensely to get through to me everything else had been blurred out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly her tongue was begin-ning to thaw; her words were less blurred. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z From there we saw for a while, away below and beyond us eastward, vague vast lands blurred with clouds and shadows of clouds and streaked with silver of rivers, the Plains of Rer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Now his voice was shaky, and tears were blurring his vision. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z My cheek slams against the hard, cold metal before I can grasp what is going on, and the voices and bodies blur around me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When Adria took the container from under the sink this time, we noticed a yellow blur seeping out from the eggs and clouding the water. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The aunts began to blur into one another as the days of the summer ticked past. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Jam froze with her hands tangled in a towel, her heartbeat spiking to a blur. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I blinked, and when the blur gave way to clarity, I met the horrified gaze of a man wearing glasses and a white lab coat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Scoob rotates back forward and a surge of tears blurs his vision as Dad pulls up in front of the place. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The family continued north, passing through Salt Lake City, things and places blurring—the auto mall, McDonald’s, Best Buy, the exit for the University of Utah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Exactly. The whole form of the foot starts to blur. The texture fades away. You can’t even see the webbing between these two toes.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s too hard to see what you have to Deal With if things start blurring together and getting mushy and turning into each other. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought that she was likely near the edge of the King’s Forest, where it blurred into the greater Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But affordable prices are only one reason the marketplace has blurred. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The contours of class have blurred; some say they have disappeared. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But now the doors were slamming all along the scarlet train, and the blurred outlines of parents were swarming forward for final kisses, last-minute reminders. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Days and days and days pass, until they all start to blur together, and I think that my brother might’ve been right—everything’s happening all at once, and there’s no such thing as time. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z A golden blur of light, almost too fast to see, rushed between Otto and the camera. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z An iridescent hummingbird hung suspended over the pie tin, wings a faint blur. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As for the boom, it had become a faraway blur, a kind of confused, powerful, contradictory dream that made some people chuckle and others wince in the retelling of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I got Ponytail by a nose—second place—then collapsed, people cheering all around me, jumping up and down in the stands quickly becoming a wavy blur of color as the tears rose. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Balee, of Tulane, is actually an anthropologist, but as scientists have come to appreciate the ways in which past and present inform each other, the distinction between anthropologists and archaeologists has blurred. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a blur, Violet passes me, hair sailing behind her like a kite, the sun catching it and turning it gold at the ends. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Next a string of cuss words which were too loud to be blurred by the dosed door. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Water is hard,” she said simply, when someone pointed out that a photo of a waterfall was badly blurred. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My eyes blurred with tears, and I searched the audience for help from my siblings, but none came. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We had so many happy days in the country that fall that from this vantage they merge into a sweet and indistinct blur. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I can remember a tooth—how it became wiggly and fell out. Everything before that is a bit of a blur, I’m afraid,” said the older Star Child gentleman. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z My sword was a metallic blur in my hands. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He swung wildly, a foot over Griffin's head, and the red blur was back, tapping away at his chin, his eyes, his mouth, his nose. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They reported that the Slytherin team was no more than seven greenish blurs, shooting through the air like missiles. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z When she turned to look at him, her features momentarily blurred into mist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the daytime, the hospital was a maze of teeming, angled hallways, a blur of blazing-white overhead fluorescence. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The rest of the afternoon was a blur. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a golden blur leaping past Sefia, landing on the second man’s chest, knocking him aside so the arrow struck his shoulder instead of his heart. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He managed to get back up, and then, with tears blurring his vision and desperately trying to reach the front doors of the station, he stumbled and ran in exactly the wrong direction. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Booth assumed that the day would unfold as the latest in a blur of days that had begun on April 3 when the Confederate capital, Richmond, fell to the Union. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But how can I make her look past the blur, if I’m a body she’ll never really see, in a life she’ll never really be able to hold? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z When Nailer looked down into the glitter refraction of the waves it seemed that all the light and shimmer of the water had merged, a blur of motion too fast to understand. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Through my blurred eyes, I pinched the skin lightly on the back of his hand like Papa did to me when we had no water. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I walked slowly on, blinking my eyes in the chill air, my mind a blur with the hot inner argument continuing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He expected the white blur to step before him at any moment and hold out its hand and touch the trunk and demand to know what was in it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked over at my mother, who was like a blur moving fast around the room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I looked into the side of one of her shiniest pans to see what I looked like, but I only saw a blur. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The rest of the trip blurs in my memory, leaving me with only snapshots—of Mother muscle-testing remedies for Grandma, of Grandma listening silently to Dad, of Dad sprawled out in the dry heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ifemelu thought the home visit unprofessional and odd, but this was a small magazine, and this was Nigeria, where boundaries were blurred, where work blended into life, and bosses were called Mummy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z You could see the blurring of the fine ink lines where skin had stretched and then shrunk back again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A blue haze of human breath and dust blurred the intricate bracing of the ceiling 246 feet above. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now that we were back among mortals, Tyson’s single eye had blurred from the Mist. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Steam was thickening, blurring the outline of Worm- tail tending the fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She’s the shape of a breakfast-link sausage standing on broomstick legs, her arms made from twigs, her face blurred with an eraser. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The great buildings of central Mishnory, government offices, schools, Yomesh temples, were so blurred by rain in the liquid glare of the high streetlights that they looked as if they were melting. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They rounded a corner in the lane, sleet coming thick and fast, blurring Harry’s glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They moved in a blur, without any weapons that Tally could see, leaving everyone in their wake lying on the ground, bound and dazed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z An entire nation of meerkats was on the move, their backs arched and their feet a blur. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z By then, Beatrice’s stepbrother was a distant blur, a bronze-colored wisp vanishing into a snarled tree line. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A black tree with a double trunk—two trees Grown into one—throws up its blurred branches. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Part-time work was meant to give me more freedom, but mostly it left me feeling as if I were only half doing everything, that all the lines in my life had been blurred. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Hound leapt at them, his sword a blur of steel that trailed a red mist as it swung. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But a few years after World War II, several black families bought houses in a whites-only Birmingham community, and the racial lines became blurred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As the vision fizzled and blurred, the last thing they saw was Thorn’s hand, grabbing on to something made of gold and throwing it onto the floor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Then a purple-brown blur blitzed in from the side, landing on the charging beast. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The blurred red glow at ankle level was the coal fire of the double range whose door was kicked shut just then with a great clang and an irritable shout. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And he bussed down the slope in a blur of petulant green. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “We could wait for them to leave,” said Horace, and then a bomb fell so close by that my eyes blurred and my teeth rattled. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The landscape sweeps past as a gray blur because I am focused on a distance somewhere between the window and the world around me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z That was when the swirls disappeared into a blur. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I scream louder than I thought possible, tears blurring my vision. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z From the corner of my left eye, I see a gray blur collapse to the pavement. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The page blurred because my eyes filled with tears too. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Ellie’s hands were a blur as she banged on the drums so hard, her red mane flailing like flames all around her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I glance at a silver plate on the wall, which shows only a distorted and blurred image of myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her features were blurred, her colouring indistinct, the setting of her eyes and the texture of her hair were still uncertain, still to be revealed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Yours truly, The signature was blurred and couldn’t be read. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z From that point on, everything was a blur. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I remember the evening as a wonderful blur of warm emotion, tinged in bitter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then, through the blurred confusion of the memories, she found that she was on the boat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now they squinted at the blurred letters and painfully repeated out loud: What patience Mercy had! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The blurring comes into focus after an eternity. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He knew that the scene must be even lovelier than it now looked to him, viewed as it was through a fog of exhaustion that blurred his senses and his mind. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z My eyes are blurred with tears so I can't make out their faces. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The next few weeks, months, is a snowy blur. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Below them, the blur of the meadow and the prairie stretched out like a green-gold sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The back of her neck ached from keeping her head bent, and occasionally her eyes blurred between the dirt and leaves she had to search through to keep focused. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Instead he recalled a blurred image of her in the kitchen in Nsukka, opening a pod of peppercorns. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His face blurred as it shifted between that of a dimpled, skinny man and that of a jeweled tarantula. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Granger jammed the whole day’s work into the last eight minutes, a blur of verbs and nouns and prepositions, and yes, there was another homework assignment. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His tiny legs moving so fast that they're a blur, he vanishes into the greenery of the park. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They lunged around Ephialtes, stabbing and slashing in a blur of gold and bronze, but the giant parried every strike. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After a few minutes, a chicken-sized blur went in, and I slammed the door shut. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Her vision blurring, she left the tomb and staggered up the stairs, clutching her bleeding hand to her chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The blurring gears slowed, came to a smooth stop, returning the room to silence. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z After careful positioning, I get one blurred picture of the whole thing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z For the people who loved Luna, time passed in a blur. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I heard him move toward me, saw a blur of gray pants and blue shirt. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I circled the block, over and over, the houses and trees and cars a watery blur. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Like I’d figured, she snorted and wheeled, so fast that she was just a brown blur against my gunsights. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z His body felt stiff, mashed into the ground, and the sudden movement made his vision blur. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Nat went to the window and stared hard at the ships until the blurred outlines cleared and he could see masts and rigging. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There, a blur in the left, is a crèche worker. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He had felt toward Buddy for an instant as he had felt toward Mary when she lay upon the bed with the white blur moving toward him in the hazy blue light of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And then I’m in Dakari’s arms, spinning, and my world blurs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A little later, it seemed to her that her eyes were blurring. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The resulting long exposure caught a bow-shaped blur, like the ghostly wings of a butterfly, then the bright line of the collar stay as it found its bearing and grew still. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I say and my throat is clenching and my eyes are blurring. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Rainy Spell The rain comes down all morning, beating against the shutters, blurring the sounds inside the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Something shoots up and out of it, so fast it’s just a blur. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When I was with him, the time and the place were such a muddled blur that I completely lost track of both. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The blurred tree towering overhead consumes the sun; the ground is dead; I gasp for rain and wind. scene: The Queen BesideHrothulf’s Bed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the Summer Tournament goes by in a blur. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His friends’ faces would blur, like photographs somehow being undeveloped, then disappear entirely. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Then a blur of something zipping across the room, and the next thing I saw was Karim slammed against the wall, his sandaled feet dangling two feet above the floor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The school day was a blur of chaos. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They traveled so quickly that the Wood became a blur of green and brown, moss and bark, but their horses did not tire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The world was a verdant blur of color all around her—hues of deep green colliding with browns and blacks, and the occasional pink or yellow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The voices from the radio blur and reach out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “It’s . . . it’s ... I don’t know,” Hannah said miserably, fingers in her mouth, blurring the words. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked from the dark noisy blur to Mr. Rice, but he was already turning to take a bow. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dismay,” I said, but the world was a blur. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I replay everything until it all blurs into a dream. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His sword was a blur, and the Small Hall echoed to the clack clack clack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In one snapshot he is not smiling; someone took it when he was studying, blurred in the glare of the desk lamp. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I woke the next morning with a blurred image of my momma left over from some dream I couldn’t remember. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Through the glass, they could see bodies passing by quickly, just blurs of color and shadow. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I could see someone looking at me, quickly fading into a watery blur. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “It’s kind of a blur now, actually,” answered Summer, still pulling at the zipper. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z They had used a mosaic blur on the upper part of his face so that he couldn’t sue them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the day was a blur of distraction. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Along these same lines, I think we should take the lead of European countries in trying to blur the sharp line that exists in our prisons between guards and other employees. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it went off too soon, thus featuring Dad’s blurred but ample stern as he climbed into the car. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Heat rose shimmering through the chill air; behind, the gargoyles and stone dragons on the castle walls seemed blurred, as if Davos were seeing them through a veil of tears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He swims so far, he’s just a blur. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But then she just goes past me in a blur. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z And suddenly I was so angry that my vision blurred. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I heard voices on the street, some shouting, and saw trees blurring past in the window. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Darkness was falling quickly, and their faces blurred into silhouette. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Flinging open the kitchen door, I rushed into the backyard, past the workers in the sugarcane fields, past the tractors, their noise blurring into the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Alex had felt the man rush past him but had seen little more than a blur. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She whipped it back and forth past the dark columns of tree trunks, shooting through them at top speed, so fast that her hands and face collected dozens of scratches from the branches blurring by. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And now he was whipping through the grass, which had become a green blur, hanging on with all his strength as the quad carried him back toward the footpath. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I can’t see properly—tears are stinging my eyes, everything is a blur. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I peer outside again as the world becomes a blur of light and color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But his voice, when he spoke again, was blurred and tired. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At first my head is a blur ’cause I can’t catch my breath, but then it gets clear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They let the other dancers, the swirling paintings, the whole spinning city around them fade into a colorful blur. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Instantly a blur of beige shot across the forum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They show him with a smiley golden retriever, with his pastor and some fellow deacons who are all blurred out, and then in his police uniform. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z That May there was a blurred photograph in the papers of a landlord in Palghat who had been tied to a lamp post and beheaded. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I dash for my trailer, tears blurring my vision while the horrible sound and image of Soheil on that fence engraves itself onto my brain and my heart. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She screamed, and a giant reddish blur slammed into the wasp-man, yellow teeth tearing off its dark, chitinous face. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The lines have been blurred by the custodians’ mops, but it’s very clear what someone has painted up there. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z All was a blur, bloody and gray and flashes of steel; Thomas tried not to look left or right, only ahead, through the narrow gap formed by the Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The train is rattling along, we whip past Jason and Jess’s place, they pass in a blur of evening sunshine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z All he could see as he walked down the trail was snow, blurring the boundaries between the earth and the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When he activated the Boots of Speed he was wearing, his avatar became a barely visible blur racing across the open field. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Lifting, dropping, lifting, dropping—by the time the drum cuts out and the trombone kicks in, her arms move so fast they’re a blur, her flesh an undulating, pumping mass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z What followed was a terrible, sickening blur of spite and outrage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then I saw a blurred face above me—the face of a man—and I panicked. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a face behind the voice, but it was blurred, hard to make out. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z That giddy rush of keeping up with one another, of zooming through the school, reducing everything that’s not us into an inconsequential blur. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They used to see blurs and blobs and now they see colors. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She wasn’t entirely sure where she was, and the vodka blurred the already sketchy map of Shaker in her mind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I try to see Patricia when we pass through her room but all I can make out is a blur of dark head on a pillow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The entire world was a blur of light and warmth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A collective assent to this rumbled through the blurring atmosphere of the Assembly Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Through a blur of tears Nat saw a narrow bed with a patchwork quilt, a washstand with a bowl and pitcher, a small table, and a chair. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His tail swung so happily it was a blur. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She spoke Mandarin slightly blurred with a Shanghai dialect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Squinting to-ward the sky, he had seen the sleek jet, almost a blur at its high speed, go past, and a second later heard the blast of sound that followed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The barking dog he’d heard before got louder, and suddenly a white blur came barrelling through the snow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The next two days were a blur of mixing, cutting, hunting, and a whole lot of guessing as we tried to coax Quinby to eat. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I look out into the audience, but it is a blur of faces. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z When I push my head into the soft blue blur of his room I can smell him and feel him and I smile. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It blurred the trees and buildings of the town, it hid the church tower and the schoolhouse top. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nat clenched his hands and stared at the water until it blurred. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I get the strange sensation that I’m falling, my living room blurring around me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They were about five, all a blur of food- stained clothes and fast words. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I try not to look up, I try to read the free newspaper 1 was handed on my way into the station, but the words blur in front of my eyes, nothing holds my interest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a grey blur flashed past her, and suddenly Nymeria was there, leaping, jaws closing around Joffrey's sword arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Lyra raised her eyes and had to wipe them with the inside of her wrist, for she was so cold that tears were blurring them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Things became a bit of a blur after that. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z After that the days and nights blurred one into the other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I caught an advancing blur moving in from the left, and the next thing I knew I was down on the ground, the dog ripping significant holes in the neck of my sweater. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Harry spun faster and faster, elbows tucked tightly to his . sides, blurred fireplaces flashing past him, until he started to feel sick and closed his eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I hated sometimes how the lines had blurred between family life and political life for us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The people at the party were a bunch of blurred faces all looking down and laughing at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The world around her spun, blurred, and she found she couldn’t even speak as Baaz’s words pierced her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In a blur of motion, one of the men pulled out a switchblade and stabbed Lana. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z What happens next is a blur in my memory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Each moment of the night recounted itself in his mind, blurring together like pages in a book; one in particular stayed dog-eared. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Just then, he noticed a blur of motion on his left, and he turned and saw two Hazleton workers walking toward him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s hard. For both of us. I’m...blurring the lines too much. It’s hard to be a good dad to you and an ex-husband to her at the same time.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It misses me—barely—and Helene is past me in a blur of blonde and silver. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A white shirt and a blur of brown hair. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Oh my God, can we not talk about it? I don’t remember any of the night. It’s all a blur.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The cameras had caught Hibiscus covering his mouth with one hand, shocked by his own emotion, by the proud tears blurring under his eyelashes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I’m a blur to them, one more face in a car that doesn’t stop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But I can’t say anything because the card could be a joke, or from some other silent watcher who blends in with the blur of lockers and doors. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She drew her sword, lightning fast, and turned into a clockwise spin, bringing its glowing blade around and down at me, all in a single blur of motion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We step through an arc of red carnations and orange-yellow marigolds to a blur of jewel-toned silk saris and sparkly fairy lights strung in lazy zigzags across the walls. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Her face was a white blur because she was indoors so much and also because I tried not to look at her directly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The black type blurred, the letters swimming into one another, and then changed to a bright red, the red of fresh blood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The sights and sounds and smells churned around her, blurring into one bloody streak of memory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The distant horizon blurred a little, and the birds’ trills and the soft golden blanket of sunlight over the fields and orchards seemed out of place—like laughter in a church. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z For twenty minutes, the rails clacked beneath us, the posts holding up the rock roof blurring past like a subterranean forest of gray tree trunks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The man leaned over until his face was just inches from Klaus’s, so close that the man’s features flickered into a blur. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The impact jars me hard; for an instant, all I can see is a blur of water outside my glass view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Shouts rise up from the left side of the room, and I see blurs of fists pressing into the dark air. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They were suddenly creatures of pure energy, blurs of black jetting across the clearing and into the trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I leaned forward, watching the spider so intently, my eyes began to water and blur. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The snow blurred from vision the clean contours of these cedar hills. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He was feeling as he had felt when he stood over Mary’s bed with the white blur drawing near; an iota more of fear would have sent him plunging again into murder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A white blur was standing by the door, silent, ghostlike. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I could see a few tents set up, the first rows of black barracks, and beyond them, blurred by sand, rows of barracks that seemed to spread for miles across this plain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And afterward, in the small cabin, they’d do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The next few days went by in a blur. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Simon’s arm is hooked around Bram’s waist, their bodies so close they practically blur together. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The stadium feels like a blur today, and as we enter the arena and go to our individual terminals, I feel like I’m walking in a fog. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The peanut bag was rattling against the round board as a skinny white boy with hunched shoulders beat it into a brown blur. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be out playing when suddenly my head would feel light, my knees would wobble, my vision would dim and blur and down I would come like a log. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 next twelve hours were a whirling blur of confusion. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He was strangely blurred around the edges, as though Harry were looking at him through a misted window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I saw the gun, blurred, but seemingly only inches from my head. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In a blur, I could see the wet ground next to me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” he said, but his focus blurred for a moment. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears blurred my vision, turned everything into a haze of color. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I jumped fully two feet into the air and narrowly avoided falling on Simmon in the howling, scratching, biting blur that had been my only method of defense in Tarbean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He removes his glasses, letting Malcolm and the desk officer blur. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was just very clear and bright, and inclined to blur at the edges. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Maybe the room didn’t have enough light; maybe she’d been hit in the head; maybe her vision was blurred. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He flew backward and forward across the field past blurred red and yellow shapes, with no idea of what was happening in the rest of the game. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I blinked back the tears that blurred my vision. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My eyes blur and my throat feels tight. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cole fought back the tears blurring his vision. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I say that she saw only a blur. 3RD juror: How do you know what she saw? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All I see is fuzzy blue because my eyes are blurring everything together. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As she looked through them she rubbed at her cheeks and chin from time to time so that her tears wouldn’t fall and stain the pictures or blur the words. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp’s usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I still saw the print in my textbooks as a red blur, still saw my baby brothers spirit strung together by narrow lines of blood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In those big hands, the arakh became a whistling blur, a steel storm that seemed to come at the old knight from three directions at once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The fog had closed and thickened all over the village, greying the light, blurring the world till a man could hardly see his own hands before him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z For there were really two dreams, the first like a dim, blurred, infernal foreshadowing of the second. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She stumbled along, head down, vision blurred by the watering of her eyes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My left eye was slightly damaged when it was moved, leaving the vision permanently blurred. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The stars blurred as I twirled faster and faster, gazing upward as I spun, and they smiled back down at me in happiness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I had been staring off into the blur of Miss Marva Hendrix’s curly Afro. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Now through the grey fog bloomed a blur of red, as the Kargs set fire to the thatch of a house. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Christmas and New Year’s came and went like a slow and anguishing blur. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The rest of the day is a blur of failed combat battles, curt conversations, and narrow escapes from Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I vaguely remember a trip to visit Uhmma’s parents, but their faces and the specifics of the visit are blurred and faint in my memory. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z And, as I sat there and watched, the white chalk curlicues blurred into senselessness. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The lines of distinction between a person’s real identity and that of their avatar began to blur. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Caesar seemed to be borrowing a page from Cleopatra’s traditions that blurred the lines between human and divine beings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z His muscled legs flashed by in a blur as he made a perfect layup. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The farm as Cora discovered it originated one winter night after a blur of slow, heavy snow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was Mary Anne who broke the silence when she called out to the blurs on the floor around her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were one big blur as they turned right onto North Road. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their eyes during these conversations look dewy, blurred, pulpy, easily hurt, like the eyes of blind baby kittens; but also sly and speculative, and filled with greed and deceit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z All those years we’d known each other—all the laughs we had, the plans we shared, the trouble we got into—spun by in a blur. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I saw out of the corner of my eye a brownish blur in the blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The car skidded, then rolled when the shoulder turned to cliff, a blurred, chopped nightmare where sound and light cut through us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A blur of hurrying bodies streamed past me, leaving me feeling like a stone in a creek, and then I heard someone calling my name. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was her arm in arm with what I figured was the young granddaughter, but I couldn’t really tell because the photo was so blurred, and basically looked like a thousand little colored squares. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Soon the bar itself, the benches placed around a table, became a sour-scented blur. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Once on the river, Tally pushed it faster, leaning forward until the river was a shining blur beneath her feet. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In Jerusalem she was just a blur going by in the streets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That stench burned Meggie’s eyes so that the letters blurred, but she must go on reading while the eerie creature grew taller and taller. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Everything blurs for a while, and then right into the center of it walks a woman. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a fraction of the Hall of Mirrors reflects her own countenance, and some contain only a shimmering blur of pale-grey gown, or the motion of the billowing ribbons as they float behind her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Suddenly her face begins to blur as though somebody went at it with a giant eraser. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z In the dark it was visible only as part of a blur that formed the yard, the trees, and the bushes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Waste of money,” her mother sniffed, when Mia brought home yet another envelope of blurred and grainy photos. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Bat Lady said that my dad’s still alive,” I said, my vision blurring with tears. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Bright blurs of copper and silver spread over broken tabletops and portions of the floor where various metals had been melted by the heat of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t just a question of having kept my mouth shut, I thought, staring with a sick feeling at my blurred reflection in the windowpane. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Right at the last second she went like a blur up the side of a horse chestnut tree, stopping just out of reach. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out of it, the colors melt together, and from the many separated lines a solid gray emerges. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “But move very slowly, okay? Bees are myopic. Anything large and still looks blurred to them; anything quick or jerky gets their attention.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Glass-fronted stores passed by in a blur, then James turned sharply and hustled upstairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They were a colorful blur against the pale flesh, a raised ax, a swinging machete. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I pushed through the stillness, like a blur in a slow-motion picture. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I could hear Alice filling in Jasper behind me, her quick words blurring together into a humming noise. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When Ash looked ahead she saw a blur of green tunics and horseflesh moving through the trees, and there was Lore, her horse’s black tail flying. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His hope diminished further when the sharp, cold air began to blur and thicken with swirling white. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z We sit in the front seat for a while, watching the headlights of the passing traffic glide into a blur. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When I squinted my eyes, the people all blurred like a film that has jumped the sprockets and is racing untended through the machine. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Or just blurred them a little into each other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We roam the almost empty hospital, the hours blurring together as we walk, talking about our family and our friends and everything in between, the pool cue swinging back and forth between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A film seemed to have settled over his eyeballs so that all the faces around him were blurred. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The world blurs around me, and an instant later, I’m standing at a part of the street where the buildings give way to a pier. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Back then, as the seasons had changed, I imagined my father less and less, until his face blurred in my mind like a reflection cast on restless waters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His face was blurred but recognizable, with his stubbly chin, dark eyebrows and high forehead. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When Salva ran to greet him, he could see the green-skinned mangoes spinning gaily in a blur as his father pedaled. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She goes faster and faster, her feet a blur of motion, rolling the ball around the ring as the audience claps and whistles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The rest of the journey was a blur. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Jon Snow read the letter over until the words began to blur and run together. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Check out Sarah! Her hands are just a blur!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The hallways and doors of the temple went by him in a blur as he tried to lay out a blueprint in his head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He looked up, his eye big and blurred and rushing beyond the glass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My childhood was an endless blur of narrow streets of dirt and cobblestone, my squabbling baby sisters, and the rural silence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She drove them into nightmare, till they wheezed and neighed as though with jaws no longer theirs, while blood defiled their meat, and blurring tears flooded their eyes, heart-sore with woe to come. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next half hour Fadi met a blur of people, which included Uncle Amin’s two brothers and their wives and children. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Farther down was the green blur of another tree that his ancestors had planted to exit the flooding of this world. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z My vision blurred with tears and forced the breath out of my chest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He just stood there, blinking through the water- drop sun blur, the hydrant gusher smacking his thin, bare ankles. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The canal showed the blurred reflections of the houses, just as it had done long before Prosper had been bom, before his parents and even his grandparents had been born. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he’d just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Dinner was a dizzying blur of names and faces, many of them half-remembered from photographs and my grandfather’s long-ago descriptions. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Diego howled—earning us glares from the preppy parents who probably presumed we were drunk—and the wave of bad music continued to assault our ears as Creed blurred into Nickelback. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z What was happening now was like that, but odder, because the edges of things were losing their definition as well and becoming blurred. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It focused what had once been a blur; it turned her world around and presented her with a new landscape. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A wealthy family may only further blur the picture by shopping for wine at Costco and bath towels at Target, which for years has stocked its shelves with high-quality goods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The next few minutes were a blur of crying and hollering and tattling and then I found myself sitting in front of Mr. Mason, the principal. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The world was still dark and blurred, but Koffi felt someone gently slapping her cheek and trying to force her upright. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Tears pooled in my eyes and blurred the world about me like rain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Ayanna said you moved like lightning in the forest. Said your fists were a blur.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The room became a blur of color splotches and spinning lights. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Everything was blurred, inside his head and out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And she’s off once more in a blur of blue metal and long hair and long legs and arms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Harry did not dare look directly at Draco, but saw him obliquely: a figure slightly taller than he was, rising from an armchair, his face a pale and pointed blur beneath white-blond hair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The heavy air was thickening into mist, and by the time they tied up at the wharves alongside the Smokemarket everything in sight was softened and blurred. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He’d been staring at the same page for five minutes before he realized that the words were just a blur and that his mind had wandered back to dogs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z And in fact I knew almost nothing about it myself—it had all been a kind of blur. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z I made a quick scan of the screen and my eyes literally started blurring. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z They made a blur of blue and blood and screams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The night was a blur now; I couldn’t remember any dreams, just flashes of red hair and chess pieces, wisps of violin music. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z When I close my eyes, even to blink, I see pools of red and white, like a blur that never goes away. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Memory turns panicked now, the world blurring around us as Hideo spins in place, looking one way, then the other, then running to another section of the park. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Everything is a blur around me, and I keep my eyes on the ground so I don’t get dizzy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Running the store becomes a blur until about seven. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z My right eye blurred by my own blood falling into it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Which, after a long, stretched-out moment, is what I do, my tears blurring the sea of faces. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to look at the street sign to see where I am, but I can’t read it; my vision is blurred. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He watched it, his mouth open, staring through the blur of tears which the cold wind had whipped into his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The certainty made my knees weak, and dancing couples blurred before my eyes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A white blur of fur darts from the corner of my vision. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The man was a white blur, singing in a cracked, shaky tenor. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony was a blur: solemn faces, the patter of rain on the graveside awning, the crack of rifles from the honor guard, the casket sinking into the earth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A blur of sunlight was crawling across his hair. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Like a broken record, the words played over and over in my head—intervening on her behalf would blur the lines between who was the victim and who was the person at fault. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The watchers loomed like phantoms, silent and shadowed, their faces just blurs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I’m in the middle of a page and I see your face on it—not blurred like those in my past, but clear and alive. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z But to keep him quiet and get rid of him, I poured water out of the cold teakettle onto my hand and reached into the oven, placing my hand on the blur of dark hair. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Blurs of people are blurring around the yard. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was nearly dark outside now, and the rain was still coming down, pattering against the windows and blurring the lights of the cars in the street outside. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z In time, the institutions and their many names all blurred together. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I look back again, and the police officer is a blue dot against a blur of cars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then Archer was attacking, his hands a blur, the broken ends of the spear pummeling Gregor’s long arms, his shoulders and legs and head in a broken rhythm of blows and bruises and split skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Qotho danced backward, aiakh whirling around his head in a shining blur, flickering out like lightning as the knight came on in a rush. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They labored together so closely for such long, unbroken hours that it was understandable that their contributions to the finished product blurred into one another. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I get out the books again and read the good words Decca left behind, but they blur on the page so that they don’t make sense. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was too dark to make out clearly, but odd lights flashed from an unknown source, revealing blurs of silver spikes and glistening flesh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When the words do come out of her mouth, for a full ten seconds, my vision blurs and blackness comes into the corners of my eyes and I waver on my feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He struggles to grasp the topic of conversation—the euro, Monica Lewinsky, Y2K—but everything else is a blur, indistinguishable from the clatter of plates, the drone of echoing, laughing voices. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The next image was a photograph, black and white and blurred with age. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I had been transformed, and now, lying restlessly in bed in the dark, I felt a kind of affection for the blurred audience whose faces I had never clearly seen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But I’m just having a zone-out moment, when there’s nothing going on inside but it feels good against the blur of noise on the outside. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It’s a blur now, as it was then, and all I remember is velocity and the feel of a steering wheel in my hands. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was filling with people and the hours passed in a dreadful streaky blur of relatives, neighbors, crying children, covered dishes, blocked driveways, ringing telephones, bright lights, strange faces, awkward conversations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I looked up in time to see her disappear around the landing above us, that endless mane of hair trailing behind her like a blurred afterimage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She looks toward the doorway as the sedative sets in, making everything blur at the edges. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I’ve read that passengers on high-speed trains say that the world outside the train blurs from the speed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Slowly her tongue was beginning to thaw; her words were less blurred. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Another handhold, and then he was up and climbing with the wind tearing at him and the trees of the jungle blurring emerald as he shot past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then his hands moved so fast they blurred. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I walked up and down the shelves, staring at book titles until my eyes blurred. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Low clouds reflected light from the ground, which blurred softly as she fell asleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When I push my head into the soft blue blur of his room I can smell him and feel him and I smile. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Those first days of school were a perplexing blur, but I remember the feeling clearly: pure misery. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to class today,” he said, twirling the lid so fast it was just a blur. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When Georgie and I woke in the morning, the falling snow hung like gauze between the mouth of the cave and the ravine, blurring rocks and trees, earth and sky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Mary Anne crashed off the kitchen table, her glasses shattering on the floor, but she came back across the room, running blindly, going into battle against a blurred enemy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Talk about blurring the line that separates us, Sofia. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Only in the second half of the twentieth century, with the dismantling of legal barriers to opportunity, did the lines begin to blur. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She was fairly certain she could see a blur where she thought he might be, but something was blocking her view. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She presses the power button, and the television hums to life in a blur of static. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The blurred child staring back at me looks hollow and distorted, not at all like the little girl in Phnom Penh whose neighbors called her “ugly.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear their blurred voices droning monotonously through the window. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Steam begins to cloud the mirror, blurring the image. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The first twenty-four hours after the speech are a blur, but a few snapshots will stay with him for the rest of his life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Now and then the room blurred and a slight giddiness came over him; but his muscles would flex taut and it would pass. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They look up, and see a blur of color and affrighted movement as a flock of birds takes flight, disturbing the leaves. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z A blur of thoughts filled my head like he was suddenly on fast-forward. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The first week passed in a blur of lectures. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A sense of the white blur hovering near, of Mary burning, of Britten, of the law tracking him down, came back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In a blur of motion he was standing in front of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Cole focused his blurred vision on the full moon. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z My vision blurs in and out of focus as I strain to make the two moons floating up in the sky into one. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I stumbled toward the closet, tears blurring the light from the hall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Then Dumbledore’s face, which was still blurred and misted, came closer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My professors came into focus, suddenly and sharply; it was as if before the grant I’d been looking at them through a blurred lens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His vision was blurred; but gradually it cleared. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When glazed and fired, the slip blurred or ran, making the edges of the design indistinct rather than crisp and clear. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He crashed down, seeing nothing but a blur of green, his breath blown, completely spent, leaving him without the strength to move at all. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I look at my books and tests, and the words all blur and swirl together. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Bryant reached for a sheet of onionskin paper, a blurred third or fourth carbon. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The faces of the gate guards blur as we gallop past them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The red planet's crater-pocked surface stretched out seemingly forever, its thin atmosphere a slight blur along the edge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If you take the monkey bars and the people and blur them together they get soft and fluffy and kind just like a stuffed animal. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But a bright and beautiful blur, no matter how distant, was better than a reality that was dull and gray. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z We prayed rosary after rosary, until the monotonous sound of prayers blended into the blur of flickering altar candles. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain blurred everything outside the window into gray and green smudges. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A prince who recovered from catastrophic injuries, who ruled from within a blur of light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I read until my eyes started to blur, with John chirping in with a question here or there. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Reality seemed blurred to her, as if the same implacable sun that erased all colors had also deformed the world around her, transforming even people into silent shadows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Trees zip by in a blur of bright green. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Instead, spots of black blurred her vision, as though the blood was rushing back to her head after being held upside down. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Somebody had left the door that led to the backyard open, and the blue-gray firewood smoke that hung heavy in the living room blurred the facial features of the guests. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But before was a slate-toned blur and she no longer knew who she had been then, what she had enjoyed, disliked, wanted. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One bolt-studded metal hand smacked Mr. Flux, sending him airborne in an odd blur of cartwheeling motion. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They would blur my vision as much as they corrected hers, she said, so I’d be able to see things as she always had. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His eyes fall upon the stairs that lead up from the subtrans concourse just as the screams erupt—countless, countless screams and the blur of panicked movement in the crowd. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The words were a staccato blur, and with every one of them, she tried to pull away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The view of the ship and ocean disappeared, hidden again by the emerald tangle of blurred trees and vines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The faces blur together, and it's hard to find anyone we recognize. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z To a novice, that incident would have gone by in a blur. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He tried to explain into the ice bag about the red blur and Griffin's speed, but the bell rang. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z As I walked up the aisle toward the stage, all I saw was a blur of happy bright faces looking at me, and hands clapping for me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Although she was a blur to him, he would be crystal clear to her. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His feet were a blur, but he wasn’t going anywhere. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z John Henry’s face went pale, and the hammer was in his hands in a blur. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Everything around me looks blurred at the edges, as if I'm sprinting. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They charged down Fifth Avenue, the whole world a series of shuddering earthquakes, the dark, burning city a blur around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I could see the windows only through my right eye, and they looked blurred. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I lift my head and glare at him, though I can’t see him through the blur of tears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z My eyesight suddenly blurred, and I felt myself swoon. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The confusing blur of sounds and sensations around me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He’s so fast that his limbs seem to blur. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Ain’t thick enough to be a proper fog, mind you, just a thin, wispy mist that leaves everything kind of blurred. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z His outline was beginning to blur at the edges, eyes growing redder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The sounds of Latin would sometimes blur my attention to induce an aimless drift inward. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The more Barry stared at it, the more the dotted lines on the treasure map/Earth blurred together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Our beloved green fields fall away to a blur, the hut becomes a smudge on the horizon. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we’ve steeped six tea bags in our custard, David, Justin, and Robin Hood tumble into the house in a blur of grease stains, sweat, and fur. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He was a red blur in the gray morning shadows. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She blinked slowly, for her memory was strangely blurred. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama is a blur of activity as she minces a huge pile of onions and garlic in a mini chopper and puts a jumbo pot on the stove. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Whenever one of the missiles landed intact on the rubble pile, she would seize it, standing in full view as she whirled the corded iron round and round, releasing it in a blur of speed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Moss raised his eyes up to the two cops, and he wanted so badly to be brave and calm, but his eyes blurred once more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Quickly I turned to see my mother’s face dissolve in a watery blur behind the pebbled glass door. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she closed her eyes she saw the nets and the two faces there among the cords, Dustfinger’s and the other face, blurred as an old photograph. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Staring at the computer, I felt my vision narrow, no longer seeing all the faces in the photos, just a blur of glowing color. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The only picture was an over-enlarged photograph, apparently a hen sitting on a blurred rock. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Then the picture tilts and blurs the memory of Lio throwing the ball at Jaimito’s chest and of it knocking the breath out of him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow falling, gently, effortlessly, covering everything in soft crystal, the mist of moonlight before a rain, blurring the outlines, obliterating color. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Faster and faster he went and soon he was travelling at such a speed that the landscape became blurred. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Another supposed dichotomy that becomes blurred in reality is a distinction between food producers as active managers of their land and hunter-gatherers as mere collectors of the land’s wild produce. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was so swift—a blur of metal and she was down. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The smoky blur of the mountains in the East was lost in a deeper blackness that was already reaching out westwards with long arms. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She disappeared for a moment, then returned with a small, slightly blurred print of the missing panel: it showed William K. Hale, staring coldly at the camera. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I’d stare out the window at the world blurring past, and every so often I’d catch a glimpse of his tail, riding the wind like the end of a kite. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z What shall I destroy next? it asked, stepping over to the second monster, and in a terrible blurring of the eyes, they merged together, making a single monster who was even bigger. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Love always, Charlie June 22, 1992 Dear friend, The night before Sam was going to leave made the whole week a blur. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Then my eyes blurred for a while, and the pressure in my chest lifted just enough that I could swallow down the rest of the words and keep them to myself a little longer. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z A nervous woman, her hands, especially in the later pictures, were blurred. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The circle of land that holds the Cornucopia starts spinning fast, really fast, and I can see the jungle going by in a blur. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When she lifted her gaze again, something was in her eyes and her vision blurred. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I pedaled as fast as I could, let the sweat from my forehead sting my eyes, blur my vision for a few seconds. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z His eyes blurred as he laid it in a crib and reached for the needle that would blunt its intelligence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And more fire trucks, all speeding toward the bridge in a blur of red and white, a deafening, endless ribbon. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “Let me assure you, terror is half the fun. You should hear the ladies squeal! But don’t worry. After the first quarter mile, the ground becomes a blur.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And yet these privileged protesters did not allow their actions in support of maintenance workers to be blurred by the other contentious issues of the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Newt moved away from Thomas’s side and toward Alby—but five or six Grievers had already burst to life and attacked the boy in a blur of metal and skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The page shifted and blurred before Helen’s eyes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a hazy blur to my thoughts, a vise compressing my head. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z All of the words on the page have blurred together, I swear. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Their bodies were so close, their forms blurred. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z And then—though everything starts to blur now in my mind—she lunged away from him into the closet, away from his grabbing hands, scrambling for something high on a shelf. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt the blackness again, the dark blurs in the corner of his vision. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He was around to my side of the car in a blur. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Their words overlap in a blur of excitement. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The lip of the canyon zipped past in a blur. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I’m having that trouble myself now: too close to the mirror and I’m a blur, too far back and I can’t see the details. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In another, he was looking down in a close-up shot, his face a blurred and mysterious silhouette. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When the rain blurred her eyes, she cleared them by flashing her nictitating membranes like windshield wipers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The edges of my vision are blurring now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The sky is soft and gray, low, damp and blurred like wet blotting paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His vision was blurred; he hadn’t even realized that he’d been crying. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z No dots were omitted, no crosses forgotten, no words blurred together—the handwriting was almost childlike in its neatness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The merry flight of the bats around the steeple of First Congregational stilled, the blurred stars began to come out, and the first owl call sounded, low and sonorous. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I remember it clearly, like a vivid photo that stands out from all the other, blurred ones. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Helene peers at my blurred tracks, following them, somehow, to the crypt where I stowed my pack, to the skulls piled there. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He recognized Robb's hand, but the letters seemed to blur and run as he tried to read them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Real tears were blurring her vision, and it was impossible to see where one rope started and another ended amid the complicated array of knots and loops. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She’d dozed and awakened in time to see the barbed wire and the rows of dark barracks blurred by blowing dust. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The rest of the letters are blurred in juice and ink mixed from the spill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z ‘Can’t make it out. An O and a T for sure. The rest’s blurred.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia squints through the light, which dulls her eyesight and blurs the palms on the shore. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It stung his face and got in his eyes so that the thing that sprang up in front of him was at first sight just a big, bristling blur. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Through a blur of tears, she watched him go, stealing like a wraith in the night towards the river that had brought him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Rabiya is almost jumping with excitement, her body a blur of limbs moving in different directions as she speaks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He has a pipe clenched in his teeth, and the smoke blurs his ravaged face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And when the blur in my eyes finally vanishes, I see it, sticking up like a hitchhiker’s thumb. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Everything becomes a blur, the stars above stretching into glowing streaks. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A canyon of golden stone, swaths of unbroken forest, a great green river blurred by waterfall mist, flowing as far as the shadow of the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was something in her eyes, stinging, blurring her sight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The paper blurred in front of his eyes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaning against the window, Harry could see Hogwarts coming nearer, its many lighted windows blurred and shimmering behind the thick curtain of rain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Redemption’s eyes flashed at her, blurring with sudden tears. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Underneath were pictures labeled “Fluffy—June 21,” “Muffin—December 14”...My vision blurred. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z His eyes were filled with the white blur moving toward him in the shadows of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I start to breathe too quickly and my vision blurs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I try to enjoy the ride the way Madge does, the clacking and whooshing, the blur of trees, bricks, and fences. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The list of objects blurred together—small pieces of furniture and little decorative items—until it was Wes’s turn. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Elinor was still looking at Capricorn, a blurred sight through the veil of her false tears. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Their faces blur, and their voices become one ambient hum like the noise of the bayou. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I watched dumbly as a shutter of recognition clicked across the blur of tenderness and the wide pupils went glossy and depthless as patent leather. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He could not think properly: Everything was a blur of panic and fear. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in Forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The road became an endless stone ribbon, the hills obstructions, the trees green blurs, the people simply moving figures with heads but no faces. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The common stone houses and the white snow were a gray blur, and BaiMa’s hooves on the black brick road made a metallic noise, almost like the clinking of coins. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z For a few seconds we sit quietly, watching the ruins turn to a blur as the truck picks up speed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The instant that the blurred, crooked image appeared in the viewfinder, Roy knew he was in trouble. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottom part of the trickle, as though conscious of their gaze, thickened to a creamy blur which crept up the feeble column. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The cityscape before Moss blurred, each of the lights twisting into a sparkle, its edges sharp. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She began paddling anyhow, trying to make out the island through the haze of light blurring her vision. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Boundaries blur as tapioca fences take root and bloom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, there were sightings: a blur of billowing dress in the periphery of Mariam’s vision, scurrying up the steps, arms folded across the chest, sandals slapping the heels. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Most importantly, basic data appears about every person in the arena, in tiny blue digits over each of their heads, so many that the data seems to blur into streaks. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He blurred out the background and added wild swirling color to everything around us so that we’re...exactly like the couple in the painting! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He was fifteen years old and six-one-and-a-half and too old to cry but tears blurred his vision, as if the room was underwater. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z You fling out your arms and spin round and round, watching as the world blurs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His mother’s phone number, jotted down with a felt-tip pen, blurred into oblivion. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Its grip was so tight she could barely breathe, and the Cursed Forest passed before them in a blur of black and gray. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I lost sight of them a couple of times, but then I’d glimpse a black blur leaping between trees and I’d regain my bearings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z From the corner of my eye, I saw a shadowy movement, a swift blur of beige, blue, and brown. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Shadow’s temples felt as if they had been reattached to the rest of his skull with roofing nails, and his vision was blurred. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Without my glasses everything more than about ten feet away from me was blurred. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z As the nineteenth century progressed, though, the lure of the three governing triads, I, IV and V began to pall and the strength of the previously well-defined chords began to blur. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The fights were a blur inside her, but she had seen enough to know what had happened to him, what he had done, why the story was locked up inside him like an animal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Sure enough, trees and cars and whole neighborhoods were now zipping by in a gray blur. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Other times he saw their children playing, with silhouettes oddly blurred in some places. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She draws him flying across the page, a blur of feet and fur. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Eyes blurred with sweat, Harry tried to make out what it was....It was as bright as a unicorn.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z We got hungrier day after day, to the point that our stomachs were hurting and our visions blurred at times. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Milkman’s eyes were blurred now and so were his words. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru glanced beneath her feet, where the world was nothing more than a blur of trees and rivers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Enthusiasm for the victory quilt waned, what with the president’s signature being blurred beyond recognition, but all were pleased to see it bring such a high bid. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z My body shook, my sight became blurred, and I lost my hearing for several minutes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I just sit there, my eyes blurring over, a wash of noise in my ears, thinking, They had him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Following with his keen eyes the trail to the river, and then the river back towards the forest, Aragorn saw a shadow on the distant green, a dark swift-moving blur. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Even if you see it coming, even as your final weeks are filled with emotional good-byes, the day itself is still a blur. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "I am not going to Winterfell," she heard herself say, surprised at the sudden rush of tears that blurred her vi-sion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She followed the laughing crowd into the circle of dancers weaving their way around the crackling flames, and she let Colin spin her through unfamiliar steps, the Square a blur of color in her eyes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes me a second to realize that tears are blurring my vision. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Half-moon curve of the tuna’s tailfin is nothing but a blur, accelerating from zero to fifty in a heartbeat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Papa’s dark figure, blurred by sheets of rain, came into focus as he got closer. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In a blur he disappeared out the door, which banged back as he flung it open. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z With his tail pulled taut and the wind whistling through his fangs, Redtooth howled as the trees went by in a green blur. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He laid the nickel on the counter; he saw the blurred loaf being handed to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The weekend and the next week passed in a blur of fighting Layla for the bed covers, locker notes, and treehouses. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Maybe if I keep my eyes closed, this version of the world will vanish, and Mobius and the Exclusion Laws will fade into the smoky blur of my nightmares. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The sharp precision of the world of steel and stone dissolved into blurred waves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Homes, stores, and restaurants lined the water’s edge, stacked one on top of the other, lit ceiling to floor in a rainbow of orb lights that blurred together through Pong's tiny basket window. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The Acllahuasi was a blur of beautiful faces and fine scents and giggling voices. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z In a blur of movement, an entire cavalry appeared as if dropping out of light speed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z My childhood is a blur of quick images, like the twirling of a télétrope. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The cramped streets and dusty markets of the Scholars’ Quarter blur past me like the landscape of a nightmare. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And with pastels you can blur them if you want to move from one shade to another. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It is this special America, a very untypical one I guess, an unfamiliar transitional blur in the memories of most people, which is the real America for me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z If this is true, the marks of identity, distinguishing self from non-self, have long since been blurred. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My cheek slams against the hard, cold metal before I can grasp what is going on, and the voices and bodies blur around me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Tears blur my vision as I run back to her hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked in the mirror at our reflection, at the twelve girls, sleek and shiny, pirouetting blurs of black, white and pink. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That day at school passed in a blur. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie dug her elbow into his stomach, but she had to laugh, even though her tears were still blurring everything, the table, her hands, Fenoglio’s wrinkled face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There’s her face again, a blurred reflection of a moon, behind the front window. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z My edges are blurred, not a crisp line in sight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a blur of hands as the four men made moves on a chess set hardly larger than an index card. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They even showed me on camera once, when we were playing musical plates, except my face was blurred out, so you couldn’t tell it was me if you didn’t know. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She vaults toward me, a murderous blur set on a collision course with disaster. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There was no wind, just layer upon layer of streaking droplets, blurring into a gray haze in the distance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A tan blur came ripping down the street and onto the pier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Through eyes blurred with pain, Taran glimpsed a tall figure against the trees, and heard a shouted word he could not distinguish. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It all became a big, hazy blur to Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They pinned themselves between the ladders, perched precariously above the blurred ground and slept in nodding shifts that broke off at abrupt moments when the train jerked forward or slammed to a slower speed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z At least Marcus had blurred out my junk before exposing me to the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then Mark caught a blur of movement out the window, a pair of feet that were there, then gone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes against the blur of clouds and treetops. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Though this might have sometimes blurred the distinction, it did not abolish it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her next blurred memory was of sea, which she had never seen before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But I find it not one thing but many—one printed over another until the whole thing blurs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The train seemed to suck him forward to where the huge wheels, each as high as his chest, blurred past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The target was little more than a blur of color, so far back that its bull’s-eye was a grain of sand in the vastness of the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Laughter explodes out of me like a song, and my eyes blur and tear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The final letters are blurred out from the juice I spilled on it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Her vision was blurring, but she could make out a pale, shiny scar on Kaz’s neck, right beneath his jaw. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When the food had arrived, when we were eating and I was calmer, the kitchen began to blur around me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Harry tried to remember; the whole journey seemed like a blur of panic and confusion. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It seemed as if the old woman herself was now a giantess, and his vision was blurred and confused. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The face she pointed to was dark and slightly blurred. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Their words seemed to blur together at first, and I paid little attention. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It stretched from wall to wall, floor to ceiling, and into the building in a blue and cloudy blur. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The drummer’s hair was a black blur as he beat on the instrument. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I unleashed a flurry of punches so fast my arms became a blur in front of my eyes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Cho’s face stood out particularly clearly in the blurred crowd, her face glowing with admiration. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “This isn’t over yet,” Hector says, vanishing in a blur of light and shadow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Behind both, was the blurred trolley going by. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His ideas were not as clear as they had been and the line between what was good and what was bad had blurred. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was another blurred movement on the other side of the glass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z But they blurred as she ran down the sandy path to the dunes and the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Jam squeezed her eyes shut, the dresser like dream-wood under her hands, all the sound blurring into one raucous whine in her ears. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Luke stared at the paper until the words blurred together. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Half an hour from now, Lansing will be nothing but a blur in the rearview mirror. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The thoughts inside began to swirl so fast that Harry couldn’t make out anything clearly: It was merely a blur of color. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The rain wasn’t heavy, but it blurred the windshield just enough to keep everything dreamlike. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A tear fell and blurred the writing on the letter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The squirrel maneuvered so quickly, it was nothing but a gray blur. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z My face gets all hot, my eyes blur a little. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Me: IT sits on my table, ITs leg smears my chalk drawing, blurring the roots into a mossy fog. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z A blur of dark motion in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In that moment, with the gun to my head, people rushed all around us in a fiery blur—shooting, fleeing, screaming. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There were blurred images all around me as we moved up more stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I drank my cold tea, still blurred and stupid from my short heavy sleep, and stared at the blank wall in front of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The vision blurred and I instinctively lurched back. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It looked blurred, and I saw it change color, going from white to red to black, then back to white. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I was so tired the words on the menu blurred in my eyes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The entire bar was a beautiful blur of lights and music and laughter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Everything became a blur around me as I pulled in great lungfuls of the damp, stagnant, city air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My hands danced, then ran, then blurred across the strings as I fought to keep the lute’s two voices singing with my own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The very idea is like a blur to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Victor jumped on Arthur and started pummeling him furiously, landing roundhouse blows to his head so fast that his arms were a blur, like the nylon strings on a Weed Whacker. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her life was a blur of grief and humdrum, punctuated by periodic court hearings. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I pumped and pushed, my ankles loose and wobbly in my sneakers, my jeans stiff and hot, the whole time seeing Lu out the corner of my eye like a white blur. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She glanced across the seat at Joe, and saw at once, through a blur of tears, that his eyes were full of hurt too. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The drive to BYU was hypnotic; by the time I arrived, my memories of the previous day had blurred and faded. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The service passed in a blur of tears and music, and afterwards, people started filling Albert’s house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When she looked out, her eyes blurred from her migraine, she did not recognize him because he had shaved his beard and was wearing spectacles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't see much more than blurs as we walk by—but I do manage to catch one thing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Now she flew in a beautiful blur of span- dex and sequins, a girlish ninja star arcing through the air. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z My eyesight blurred, I began to hyperventilate, my calves started to shake. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the blows stop and the sound of Uhmma’s voice moves away from me, I slowly raise myself up on my elbows and squint at the blurred figures in my vision. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Faster and faster, until he is only a blur at the end of a rope. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The light hit both of their faces at the same time, so that Voldemort’s was suddenly a flaming blur. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z My vision blurred around the edges, and I thought for a moment the sluggers had come to save me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He couldn't see her because Rita was now spinning around, and everything in the restaurant had become somewhat blurred—all the faces had become one face; all the screams had become one scream. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z As for my morning classes: One big blur. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Trees, buildings, cars blur by outside the subway window. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The world looked blurred through the window and I waited for my eyes to accustom themselves to sunlight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Time and distance melted together in a blur of silver, and when they stopped, she felt as if they had arrived in another world. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was only a blur—a blur of laughter, talk, movement and color. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The triplets were already on their way, blond blurs in the crowd. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The next hour or so was a blur of sights and sounds for Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The door loomed before her, the red door, so close, so close, the hall was a blur around her, the cold receding behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This part was a blur to him after. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Light streamed in the door, hazy, warped, blurred with drizzles of yellow. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That time, in her memory, existed only as a blur. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m about to refute this idiotic logic when he takes off, running past me in a blur. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see anything when I got back to the crows’ tree, not even a blur, and I felt pretty sad. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z In front of my eyes the trigonometry textbook blurred into a jumble. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain and sea spray stung my eyes, reducing everything to a blur, but as the lightning flashed, it lit—for a second—something jutting out of the sea. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I remembered the two of us dancing to an old Afghan song, round and round, everyone watching and clapping, the world a blur of flowers, dresses, tuxedos, and smiling faces. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My vision blurs and darkens, the water changing in front of my eyes, slowly morphing into a black sky, tiny pinpoints of light appearing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Herringbones and madras and lamb’s wool and cashmere flashed past in a blur as hands and arms rent the air in a variety of graceful gestures. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her edges blurred, her body vibrating as she struggled to fade to mist. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The wine had made Ash feel woozy, and as they rode through the Wood the trees seemed to blur, as if the whole for- were melting into one great swath of dark green. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to remember all the other times she’d stood this way, but besides Deen’s leaving, she found they all blurred. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The spirit world was thus a blurred zone between the material and the immaterial. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We watched until it disappeared into the haze that blurred the horizon, and then we watched some more. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The world blurs and I close my eyes against the streaking stars. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Her tears drop heavily onto the newspaper before her, blurring the ink. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Nothing would be moving, for the day was unpropitious and instincts were blurred and not to be trusted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed her closely because my eyes were blurring. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It takes us forever with our Indian passports and visas, but finally we make it through the blur of lines, paperwork, and questions from security agents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As I scanned over what I had written, the letters blurred into an inky smear. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But someone else came from nowhere to help them: Balthamos, in a blur of desperation, hurled himself between the children and the soldiers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The cars sped by, blurs of red, blue, gold. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Their pale eyes no longer appeared to blur into their even paler skin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands were a blur as she signed, and Redemption smiled at her annoyance. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He wanted to ask Vikus what was going on, but the old man stood in the High Hall in a blur of bat wings giving commands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My vision blurred as tears came to my eyes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They raised wet lips at Ralph, for they seemed provided with not quite enough skin, so that their profiles were blurred and their mouths pulled open. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Griffin was light and fast, his gloves were a red blur tapping away at Alfred's face, easy and steady as rain on a roof, pitter-pat, pitter-pat. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The words start to blur together on the page, until I can’t quite understand what each entry means anymore. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In the corner of his eye, Jason caught a glimpse of movement—a blur of red and gold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And after that it was pretty much a blur, bits and pieces of information, and images no one would want taking up residence in one’s brain. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z His ears were pressed to his head and his legs moved so swiftly they were a blur. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The landscape became blurred and again Sophie had to duck down out of the whistling gale to save her head from being blown off her shoulders. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This morning I could recall the dream, but now there’s more than that—I can remember through the blur, back to when I was six years old and it all happened. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I’m stuffed-animaling the playground so well that after a while there’s only monkey bars left and one shape that’s coming toward me so I stop blurring and suck my sleeve more. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there is a blur followed by Flói under grass near Mirror mere. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On television the sound track was made to blur or had crowd noises cut in to cover. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I had us going at it all stops out, so that everything would become a delirious blur, and there’d be no room for anything else. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the day goes by in a blur. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The rest of the day was a blur of exhaustion to Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “We could play bezique, or euchre if you’d rather,” he said, the blue and gold dissolving from his hands in a blur. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After the letter arrived, the days passed in a blur. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Already the sun has blurred my vision and the world looks bathed in a haze of sparkling diamonds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The first six days of the trek went by in an ambrosial blur. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z From the good eye I see a blurred form. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The drumbeats blurred into a long fevered hammering, and Black Betha flew, the water turning white as milk as it parted for her prow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It whistled, a pale blur, and then hit the stone with a loud crack, blocking his way. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A blur of movement, a quick flash of something dark and small and fast bursting from one of those tubes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Yellow and blur turned out to be the easiest when Rishi snapped a picture of a yellow cable car going by while they walked. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z How time seemed to blur and slow and even stop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even your body. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Words and stories blurred together in his mind, like hot tea poured over ink. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z For half a second, the two demons were a blur of slashing claws and fangs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Voices buzzed and blurred into words I did not understand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Her arms were waving through the air, the long sleeves of her simple, mustard-yellow uniform blurring. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I don’t click it, even though the wetness blurring my sight is telling me to. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The hangar on her mech’s head flies open, and out shoots Hammie in a blur of motion, suspended in the rain in a flying leap. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This high up, songbirds glide through the breeze in blurs of red; chirping and trilling as they pass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Houses passed by in a blur while Charlotte’s words continued to roll through her mind. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z When what she says sinks in, my heart starts racing and my vision blurs like I’ve been staring into fluorescent light-bulbs. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Agents and monsters move in blurs around me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Maybe the blurring of identity, the mob release, has an effect on Tessie, inspiring the kind of hysteria Sinatra does. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wrestle a frame off another old painting from the back of my closet and put the blurred portrait in it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Now the world had changed, had grown blurred with day’s leaving and then purple at dusk and then dark. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was being stupid because paper would move during an exposure, and the exposure was very long because in the photograph you can see a little waterfall in the background and it is blurred. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Listening and cognitive abilities in 10- and 11-year-olds: The blur effect. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The panicky beating of my heart seemed to blur my vision. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z To focus blurs, people shouted face to face and yelled from room to room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I tolt the sheriff, “The ax whistled as Pap swung it at the tree, the sun hit it, and it wasn’t nothing but a flashing silver blur. But then...” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z In a blur of motion, the skeleton pulled something from his shirt and flung it across the clearing, impaling the basilisk in the dirt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She only remembered a blur of red hair and freckles, a soft breathy laugh. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He always had dreams, but they passed like blurred images from the window of a train. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Breakfast was a blur, and an hour after it was over, Thomas couldn’t remember what he’d eaten. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z One day passed, another blurred, and still she held her little brother. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Its wing cases were erect, like a ladybird’s about to fly, and the wings inside were beating so furiously that they were only a blur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Thus began a series of days that blurred one into the other. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was a blur, like a dream sequence in the sort of movie that comes with subtitles. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z T.R. licked my face, wagging his tail into a blur, while I and the others cheered the black giant. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He sprinted in place, arms and legs pistoning to a blur. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingers find the handle to my door and I crash through, everything blurring as tears stream down my face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z They could still see the faint, blurred likeness of the machine, like a relic from a previous civilization. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Three days pass in a blur of training activity. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One moment they are there, Celia’s dress fluttering in the wind and the rain, Marco’s hands pressed against her back, and the next they are only a blur of light and shadow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I had a clear vision of my future in space, but the life I led in Coalwood sometimes seemed to blur. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The morning after that I watched at the window, glass blurred by a drizzling rain, and when I saw the guarded lines of men coming down the street, I ran out to meet Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The horse sped away in a blur of black and tan, faster than forked lightning—almost too quick for her eyes to register. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Let’s reason it out, he thought, his mind as blurred as his vision. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The boat in front of her was blurred by tears now, a smudge of green. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Like a flying arrow, a small dark blur darted toward the guards. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I don’t like the way colors blur together in art. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a blur of bright pink fall to the ground. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In a fluttery blur, she sailed to a telephone pole far above my leafy canopy. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod’s feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The more Barry stared at it, the more the dotted lines on the treasure map/Earth blurred together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The rest of the night is a complete blur of boxes and hot bags and change and six-packs and twenty-dollar bills. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her eyes were open, her surroundings a blur. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I can’t help but stare at her reflection, everything beyond the glass blurring as I look at her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z As he lay down, Minli noticed Dragon’s eyes fade and blur. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He indicated the blurred shape of the smaller figure. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I wheeled around to look and, through a screen of branches, caught a flash of blurred movement—the hem of a white dress. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The green paint in front of her blurred. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Deborah realized these movies were fiction, but for her the line between sci-fi and reality had blurred years earlier, when her father got that first call saying Henrietta’s cells were still alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Of the blur of the Folk eating and joking. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was approaching the sparse, skeletal trees in front of the denser woods when he was startled by a blur of movement at his feet, followed by a hurried set of clacking sounds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When I reflect on that moment now, the image blurs, reconstituting itself into that of a zealous knight astride a steed, charging into an imaginary battle, striking at shadows, hacking into thin air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The next afternoon is a sleep-deprived blur of being painted and braided, corseted and cinched. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The next four presenters go by in a blur as I recite my lines in my head. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The preliminary bouts were a blur of bodies and punches for Alfred, but he jumped up every time Henry and Jelly did. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I was trying to read, but my vision kept blurring. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I was close to rushing over and breaking it up myself, but the birds were a blur of talons and beaks, and no one could get close enough to separate them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z At the window the father's view of the lawn was blurring. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Whenever she spoke, her lips blurred to a dull line in her face. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s winter, early darkness blurs shapes, inside and outside the car. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She’d said nothing to him about the abortion, and it sat between them like a scrim, blurring everything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was so shocked at the sight of them, I nearly missed the blur of green that was a little kid rushing for the fence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It was dark by then, and the snow blew past my window in a pale blur. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I pace back and forth, the lounge a blur in front of me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The mist rolled back, unveiling a second ship, its shapes blurred at the edges, its colors dimmed by fog. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her form was blurred, made from Mist, and she was trailed by two smaller wisps of smoke, darting at her heels like animals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The eyes of the demons blurred together like their voices. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My hands shake and the tears come faster now, blurring my vision. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She pauses, looks sideways at me, 1 can sense the blur of white as her wings move. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I block the scene so when we kiss, faces around us blur, a filtered lens diffuses the light, and a smoke machine blows gauzy wisps of gray across the floor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Some men were even unfriendly, and uncooperative about their medicines, having managed to blur the distinction between the generals and the nurses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Blurred, he was all blurred and asleep—how could he be all blurred? The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Within seconds, the sunlight blurred, filling my vision with a throbbing crimson glow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of his eye, Alex saw a yellow-brown blur racing in. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z My vision blurred so badly I could not distinguish the gun or the face of the man behind it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z On the water’s surface, a bright orange fish swam through Petra’s reflection, blurring all definition. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I do as she asks, trying to ignore the faces and letting the images and words fade into a blur. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then, suddenly, a blur of movement made him catch his breath. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z With his eyes wet, so that the edges of things were blurred, Portia was truly like her mother. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The land in the scopes’ view was all a blur of vegetation and selfsame coast. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He rains blows on the man’s arm pads in a blur of motion—the final punch lands so hard that the trainer stumbles backward and falls. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I can close my eyes right now and see it, like some blurring ballet—beautiful! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole’s vision was blurred, but he understood that he was lying in the bottom of a shallow aluminum skiff. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z My vision blurs with tears as I make myself say the words out loud. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The gray-scale sofa on which her mother sat might be tan, or pale blue, or even canary; the window behind her looked out onto a blurred view of tall buildings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I could scroll through Twitter until my vision blurs and then collapse on my bed like an Oscar Wilde character. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The room seemed to blur and darken around me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z At these times I feel blurred, as if there are two of me, one superimposed on the other, but imperfectly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z First you are disoriented, but if you continue to spin long enough the world resolves itself, and you are no longer dizzy as you spin with the world blurring around you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Through blurred eyes he saw men peering at him from the bars of other cells. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t prepared for the mass of black shirts coming at him in a crazy blur, like hungry rats jumping over each other’s backs to get to a speck of food. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was right, it was fast, a gray blur across the kitchen floor... Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I pulled one out and opened it, but the writing was too blurred from rain to make out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I saw it in time—just as a dark blur, but clearly enough to see that it was small and harmless. And I see what you’re saying.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z His forearm presses against my windpipe, I can feel the blood pulsing at my temples, my eyes blurring. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her vision blurred, time stretched and knotted, memories looping, bringing her back to where she had begun. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He lifted the canopy and saw her face blurred with sleep and still bloody from the night. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The next several days passed in a steady blur. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Another death or two, however natural when Hercules was present, would have blurred the picture he wanted to paint. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The syllables float overhead, drifting into an icy blur of white. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z With his laser tube, Rick systematically burned into blurred ash the book of pictures which he had just a few minutes ago bought Luba. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “It’s actually kind of a blur, honey,” she answered, reaching her arm behind her so that I would take her hand. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I clench my fists down on the buttons on my palms, and I jerk forward through the water in a blur of motion, slicing a trail behind me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The next hour is a blur, in the best possible way. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z His eyes blurred momentarily, and he stopped to take a breath. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z When he’s close enough for me to see the white arm hair, I shift my upper body to the left, legs sturdy, eyes on the blur that flies past me. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It is very strange that although I can recall the voices clearly their faces are still blurred, and I can see only general outlines. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z As they bounced off each other they lost their grips on the rope, and it was sucked into the Mr. Flux cyclone, which spun in such a blur he was more like wind than man. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He hits the gas, and houses blur past us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Although things looked blurred and made my eyes feel strange, I could actually see underwater. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As the children mounted the hill, an early evening mist began to settle, and through its haze the lights of distant harbor traffic shone in blurred colors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This only makes a noise blur across me and the Doorman’s face disfigure above. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z A long, blurred strip of daylight reflected on the ceiling above the pelmet was all that broke the darkness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His upper lip was flattened and his nose was sort of squashed, and through the throbbing blur of panic and noise and people, I felt like bawling. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I cried so much that everything blurred into everything else. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a swirling blue blur, like an underwater scene. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z His face suddenly looked incredibly distressed and twisted up, as if he might cry, and his eyes were very blurred. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They are too intent on their game to notice the blur of his body running by. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I can’t feel my limbs, and the edges of my vision begin to blur. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z While the blur is still in his eyes and the little fists shut tight like buds, I’ll send my baby away from me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But his vision was slightly blurred and his whole body ached. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z His eye would blur, he’d have to go off the hold for a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he took off flooring that car into a yellow blur. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, though the threads were in places blurred or broken, the outline could be seen of an anvil and a hammer surmounted by a crown with seven stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In a great blur of snow and silvery glass the building’s roof—that marvel of late nineteenth-century hubris, enclosing the greatest volume of unobstructed space in history—collapsed to the floor below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The people looked at me, but their faces were a blur. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn’t see a blur. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z His eyes were stinging, and the world was a blur. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Everything is a blur except for the throbbing hotness on my forehead. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Their blades blurred—strike and parry—and the pavement trembled. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When she tilted her head, she seemed to break into three different people again...misty afterimages blurring together, like a photograph of someone moving too fast to capture. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There seemed to be a great blackness looming slowly out of the East, eating up the faint blurred stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Her eyes had a stunned, swollen appearance when she removed her glasses; they strained to make out shapes, to translate blurs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I squirmed and tried to find a point to steady my gaze, but my eyes blurred. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Darkness blurred around us until finally some recognizable shapes emerged. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The rest of the stupid reading buddies time is a blur. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was a blur and I just kept going at him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z |
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