There may be bands of turncoats secretly plotting to overthrow their former government, but I certainly haven’t run across them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Inside, a teenage boy was hanging light bulbs on an oak beam that ran across the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They cut across the headlights of the truck a few times, and I made out their faces, but only long enough to see a mom, a dad, and a girl about my age. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The reply sounded like a whisper of wet silk across a smooth slate. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I watched as they slipped and skidded across the icy deck, screaming and plunging into the water like human raindrops. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Long shadows fell across the water, making it a lot colder, even though the day was bright. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

White sails cut across water and the souls of great heroes basked on the beaches in perpetual bliss. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then there was another and another, and more lights swept across the ever-moving trees outside, in a brilliant green scatter of radiance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I step up to the platform that it sits on and trail my hands across it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of the dark bruises, some as big as an iron across her back, lingers on the inside of my eyelids, each blink heavy with the weight of it all. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I walk across the marble floor to the box office. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There was a shout from across the water. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured at the bench across from him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He shrugged his shoulders and went across the street. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The father would lay a hard box, flat and thin and made of many layers of paper, across his lap. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As we walked across the dirt, tufted with dark green grass, Doc lifted his straw hat and wiped his brow with his fingertip towel. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

About twenty minutes before curtain, Wayne gathers the cast and crew in a small room across a corridor from backstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The woman had been sitting across the room horn the letter the whole time, but they’d never bothered to search her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her silence stretched across the morning and led me back through the past hundred days, and I knew what she was going to say before she finally said it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then he heard a heavy creak of wood outside, as if something gigantic was stepping across a timber floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Airplanes crawl across the sky, it seems to Werner, incredibly slowly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I studied the clouds’ dark shapes—flocks of lost sheep straying across a desolate wasteland, blown to rags and tatters by the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then Baba sighed as he spotted a guy setting up across the street. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I come back, the word “Stiff” is spray-painted across my mattress in red. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The wood had split, the lid opening to spill the chest's contents across the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I know who Etienne is,” said the man as he smoothed his hair across his head and flicked his ashes toward Hugo. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He smiled at the witch, who ran a cool hand across his cheek and gave him one more kiss. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The light changes and we start across the street. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

As she adjusted to the scant ambient light, she was able to make out dark hair spilled across the pillow, but little more than that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, American troops poured across the bridge, the Remagen beachhead was quickly enlarged and held against German counterattacks—and everyone began to talk of the war ending in two months. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pick it up and stare at the blank paper, and as I stare, words start falling across the paper. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Annoyance flashed across Artemis’s features, only to be replaced by his customary sardonic grin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“The electron storm that’s coming up. Do you know it’s heading straight dead center across the Earth beam? I had just figured that out when that robot dragged me out of my chair.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, before I accompanied Farmer on his last rounds of the day, he sat across from a sad-faced young man named Ti Ofa, who was approaching the final stages of AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Shadows danced wildly back and forth across the ceiling as my candle’s flame moved from side to side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

He strode off across the shop and Ranofer escaped to the scroll room, consumed with resentment and bitterly resolved that he was through with trying to be of value in the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When we come to the Pamunkey River, which separates us from Werowocomoco, we find a canoe in the rushes and use it to paddle across. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I wonder who it can be this time. Tell the porter to fetch him across.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told them she was going on afia attack, to trade across enemy lines, and that she would be back by late afternoon. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he slid some photographs across the table. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He glanced across the room toward the door, then quickly back at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw a spray of light sweeping the trees and shrubs across the street. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wonder neither she nor David had cracked their heads hover- bouncing across it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Our cab ride will take us across the neck, along the jawline, over the chin, mouth, nose, and up to the wide forehead. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Janae and I exchange looks, because we already have our lives figured out and they don’t involve these new boys across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She adjusted her hair after a gust of wind blew it across her face. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, I began walking across the wide grassy land that separated the house from the fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He led me across the deck and back through the automatic doors, which slid open to reveal a large launching bay. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was close my eyes, and there was Robert Lee Underwood streaking across the waves in the Amanda Rose. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He reached across the small table and held her hand. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sunny checked her phone for the time, walked across the hall and pressed the elevator down button. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He was impressed, and vowed not to say a word about the pain from the thorn scratches across his face. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jethro watched horse and rider for as long as he could see them; then he flipped the lines across the backs of his team. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, lying on the couch at his home in Raleigh with music blaring from the stereo, he replayed the events of that evening across the screen of his closed eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most natural thing in the world to slide her finger beneath the strand of hair that fell across Taisin’s eyes and tuck it behind her ear. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up the basket, tightened the blanket across my shoulders, and stepped over the threshold. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly across the terrace toward our house, not caring that the rain is soaking me, vaguely wondering why I refused Blanca’s mother’s offer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number two lived in New New York, five thousand miles across the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark when we finally pulled into the yard, the headlights of the car flashing across Ob’s old Chevy sitting in the weeds. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tanin brushed her fingers across her eyes, spattering black ink over her blouse. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dressed in blue jeans and a pink button-down shirt, he looked across the breadth of his swimming pool at a spectacular water view. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Darnell will go across the creek to see about the Trotters.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A second shell screeches overhead, and Marie-Laure shrieks, and the chandelier above her head chimes as the shell detonates somewhere across the estuary. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wish I could buy everyone doughnuts from the shop across the street. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even though the tide should have been out, the waves and breakers were big all across the beach, the storm surge pressing inland. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look at them, across the table from me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I almost expected to see my doppelganger sprinting across town pursued by a mob, but I guess things didn’t work that way. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s head for that phone box,” she said, pointing to a tall, red phone booth across the platform, just visible through the surging crowd. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dogs sniffed them, cats crept past them stalking the fat pigeons; women, laden with heavy shopping bags, shuffled across the wet pavement; But still Scipio didn't appear. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She watched a carpenter in his shop across the street sawing wood, sending chips flying. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I reached back for my pants and re-dressed myself, but Janina was already laughing so hard her cabbages were rolling across the ground. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

One man pressed an open hand to his jaw, drawing his fingers across, pulling at his lips, making them grotesque. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

With one arm around each man's shoulders, Ned managed to descend the steep tower steps and hobble across the bailey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They made a pattern I had never noticed before—a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girl’s figure—a girl with a bow, running across the sky. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But he makes up for that detail by chucking me a good ten feet across the grass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And she'd have stationery made—blue with a deckle edge, her name and fancy address in swirling type across the top: Grace Windsor Wexler, Sunset Towers on the Lake Shore. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the cameras follows as I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He bent and put his lips to the spurt, drinking noiselessly, and then he sat up again and drew his shirt sleeve across his mouth. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he could get the time off from his job at the filtration plant, he’d drive twelve hours across Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to catch one of Craig’s games. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Shaking his hand and yelling like the hoot owls were after him, he ran across the street. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four leads the group of initiates across the Pit toward a gaping hole in the wall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“What about now?” it asked, and the sound was a hand dragged across the taut skin of a drum, low and resonant and clear. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I saw a pair of handcuffs arc gleaming into the air and sail across the street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cyclopes’ siege tower cast a shadow across the feet of the giant Polybotes, who grinned down at the Roman camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

With her needles and threads, she settled down for the night with Mr. Higgenbottom across her lap. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They set out into darkness, paddling quietly across. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It left a cranky red mark across my hand. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Sunlight refracts through it and casts slivers of rainbows across the floor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He sat down in the row of white chairs across from me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I slid it across the counter to her. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A dam across the Missouri River in Nebraska silted up so disastrously that a noisome ooze began to pour into the town of Niobrara, eventually forcing its permanent abandonment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my palms, at the almost-healed scrapes across the heels of my hands. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"I want you to run across at the bell and give it to him right in the belly. If you don't get him, I'm going to get you. I don't like his looks." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been across to the woods to satisfy his curiosity about what the rats were doing there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A pair of chopsticks was laid neatly across the top of the bowl. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He stared out across the water again; his smile faded. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny clapped him heartily on the back and led him across to where the rest of the horde waited apprehensively. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

Grinning, Damon gave the horse a lick across the rump with his whip, and the old stot whinnied and lurched into motion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of the ship that would take her, a magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings, cutting across the violent sea. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Picking up her rucksack, she walked across the grass and stepped onto the road. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A smile grew across his face as the warm memory took hold in his mind and then his whole body. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At the time, a player as good as Jim was accorded nearly the same celebrity status across Big Creek district as Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr in the outside world. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His dad stands up and wipes his oily hands across the front of his greased-up T-shirt. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down long since and there was no light but those strips and slants of dimness creeping across the circle, sketching out a face, a hand, a moveless back. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dirt was smeared across their faces and arms and legs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bubber hauled the big rifle up to his shoulder again and took aim at a house across the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He smiles, drawing back from me, and rubs his thumb across my cheekbone. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily waits across the room poised at another door, expecting me to follow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Some Virginians even said that their colony stretched across the continent. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock on the bank across the street says it's 4:28, 58 degrees. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were white hairs scattered among the red, and the skin across his forehead and at the corner of each eye was wrinkled as if he had been frowning for a long time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy’s eye was black and there was a long cut across his eyebrow. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I ducked underneath my shoulder belt so I could lean across the console toward her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No change out of you! How are the other ones—the cuckoos?” he asked, and looked across at Barbara’s cot. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A finger of warm wax was puddling out across the Bay of Seals, slow as a glacier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think I'll go to those houses across the highway and look for her. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

His fingers brushed her cheeks where the scratches were almost healed, and ran fleetingly across her lips. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One pack of jabbering mutts charged across a field, threatening first to deafen him, then to trample him to death, then to tear him slobberingly, teeth-clickingly from limb to limb. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colorful lightning spiderwebs across the sky; silver, white, and emerald green weave the most beautiful and terrifying exhibition to mark the hour of the princess's birth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Crawl across my foot or find some other way of reaching me. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I took the thirty-eight dollars I’d earned selling peaches and stuffed it into the bag with my seven best pairs of panties, the ones that had the days of the week printed across the backside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin reached into his pocket and tossed the keys lazily across the picnic table. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A phone number flashed across the TV screen. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she might have saved enough money to hire a coyote who can take him across the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And now, with his bottle and his fountain pen drained, he simply sits, dragging a hand through his hair distractedly, staring across the room at nothing in particular. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She gestured for Koffi to follow her across the rugs on hands and knees as the animals and beastkeepers trapped inside the burning tent continued screaming. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looks just as he did a few months ago, when we were living across the hall from each other, both of us considering switching factions but not brave enough to tell one another. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On my third, I manage to swing the loop across the creature’s snout. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Somebody else came out of nowhere and snuffed me across the face. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The principal was standing at the front of the room, and one of the custodians was wheeling a podium across the floor. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Shadows moved across the hills, and Percy imagined the face of Gaea getting closer and closer. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Without speaking to anybody, without making eye contact at all, Harry walked straight across the room and through the door to the boys’ dormitories. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Do we — er — have to join you to get across?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There was not a thing to indicate that the group was making any progress at all across the desert. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thin red scars across her stomach, along the side of her neck, and beneath her chin, each about the length of a cigarette. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And High John could sense it—his shadow stretched across the rooftop over flowers and statues. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he were twelve again, cartwheeling across the supper table in easterly Rock’s great hall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I remove my hat and wipe a gritty arm across my forehead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And drew the drapes across the hot day. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I said, “Hold on,” and I ran down the 72 stairs, across the street, right past Stan, even though he was saying “You’ve got mail!” and up the 105 stairs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he draws me close, and we kiss again as “The End” flashes across the screen. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But when they think they have located him and crawl across, the next time they hear the voice it seems to come from somewhere else altogether. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let the little boy run his fingers across the handle, which was carved from an elk’s antler. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the computers are in pieces, strewn across the floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was able to see across the bush and he saw Dog, looking up and singing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even in walking across the room you will very slightly alter your own experience of time and space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She kept turning and waving as she walked away across the pavement. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was dropped off, I had to walk across the hotel’s long and elegant veranda, where several dozen whites were sitting and drinking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lives across the street and around the corner and he’d been at camp for the past month and a half. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tiptoed across the room and held out a hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look across the yard at the bare flower bed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The first-place teams from across the state go to Washington, D.C., for the nationals. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The interminable length of train cars carries a miserably bowed drone across the rhythm of the tracks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Where does Coach think you are this time?” he asked as he ran his fingertips across the bracelet circling her wrist. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And he had — five June peonies, all pink petticoats, just like the ones the Kennedys were growing across the street. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I left town, I watched the sun set and darkness descend across the county landscape as it had for centuries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Nightbeast looked across the river at the battle unfolding and snarled. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Men-at-arms carried burning brands out to light their way, and her uncle led them across the moat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She walked across the garden, but then broke into a run the rest of the way to the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I felt the charcoal vibrate slightly as I pushed it across the page. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When his wife and child moved closer, he put the knife back in his pocket, letting his fingers slide across his son’s tightly coiled curls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Colorful maps spilled across its pages, which were made from something stronger than paper, calfskin maybe, and edged with gold. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The blue lights swept across a form on the ground. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose Bigwig’s going to dress up as a hrududu and drive all the does across the field.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dilsey reached the book across her and laid it on the broad side of the bed. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed that Ximena was looking at us from all the way across the cafeteria. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She had performed before appreciative audiences in concert halls across the United States. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One set consists of plants whose ancestors are widely distributed from west to east across the Sahel zone and were probably domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of many little streets running across the map of the city. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quicker than if I’d awakened her little feet padded across her creaking floor. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my fault,” she said, running her fingers across his scars. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Captain fetched the pole from the kitchen, and after he had handed it in to me in the stern, he climbed in and sat down facing me, his arms tightly folded across his chest. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt his body being dragged across the snow of the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff in one Arizona county found himself in the same situation as his counterparts across the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Yet the old red tales were still told around driftwood fires and smoky hearths all across the islands, even behind the high stone halls of Pyke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There hadn’t been a suicide in Cold Sassy since the Crabtrees’ son, Arthur, got drunk on a cold winter night, laid down across his sweetheart’s grave, and took an overdose of laudanum. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If we were to come across the artists of the Stadel Cave, we could learn their language and they ours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know, but my heart suddenly hurt for the teacher from across the hall. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He surfed the Web, looking for articles on Afghanistan and the flood of refugees pouring across the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He’s excusing himself all the way across the room. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fierce voices rose up to greet it from across the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I followed the fence back behind that garage building, through lots and lots of trees and around blackberry bushes, and hopped over some rocks to get across the little creek. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Prosper hesitated for a second, but Bo shot across the threshold. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At a stand of timber we veered across a pasture. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Declaration stalked all the way while Peach darted across Rural Route 2, back and forth, shouting at all the wonders he discovered along the roadside: “A caterpillar!” and “Dandelions! Make a wish!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They parked across the street and sat in their cruiser, sipping coffee and eating doughnuts. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need to stay home with her today. Make her some soup. Give her water to drink. Put rags in cool water and lay them across her forehead.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sends strong air across the silver hole, rippling her fingers up and down the keys like lightning. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They sat across from each other for a full minute in silence before Lauren finally broke it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I can feel blood crawling across my face and bruises showing up along my ribs, my legs, and my stomach. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then, slowly, he moved his right hand across the closed Talmud, and his fingers caressed the Hebrew title of the tractate that was stamped into the spine of the binding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They chased each other across the compound, twirling their papier-mache maces. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse and Eric were thankful for their deliverance, but it was shocking, even disheartening, to see that while they’d ridden the Internet hallway across the country, in some ways they hadn’t gone anywhere. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes for a second, see the roof whip off the house, reel across the sky. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He’d gotten George off the sinking ship, and across the icy waters. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

She also saw three huge tankers, moored one behind the other, lying across their path, like tall buildings. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he turned so that Bridge could see the word crew in big block letters across the back of his black T-shirt. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

So while we drove across town to my appointment with Mr. Dell Duke, I stared at his skin issue. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I go through the town and by the drovers’ road and across the ford beyond.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She caught one of his wayward swinging hands and spun into him, wrapping his long arm across her chest. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I hopped across the alley to the roof of the bakery and smiled at her startled intake of breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walked across the room, ducked through the Troll Hole, and headed toward the three flashlights scanning the wall above the rolled-up carpet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I will sail the Iron Fleet across it and find the queen wherever she may be.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An object that he could see only in silhouette, reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Faint voices floated to her across the fields that lay behind them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children went across the street and through the gate of the house Milligan had pointed out. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I draw my sword and smack the nearest suitor across the back of his head with the flat of my blade. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At the top of the list was a new library building to be located on Darling Avenue, across from the park. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They heard a last pair of people hurrying across the hall and a door slamming. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Kidnapping is a serious crime. If this turns into a criminal investigation they may stumble across something we’d rather they didn’t know.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the two arcs open wide like jaws Nenny jumps in across from me, the rope tick-ticking, the little gold earrings our mama gave her for her First Holy Communion bouncing. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night Leander swam across to her, guided by the light, some say of the lighthouse in Sestus, some of a torch Hero always set blazing on the top of a tower. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa took off his coat and hung it up next to the door, then walked across the kitchen to the basement door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The newspaper lay across his knees and the weight of his arm held it there in the evening breeze. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luster gave her the hat and he and Ben went on across the back yard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold on, now,” Ma says as she drapes a protective arm across my shoulders. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He worked out, she could tell from the firmness of his chest, across which stretched the double front pockets of his fitted shirt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

From across the dark field, the trailer’s windows glowed, beckoning me as if I had no more willpower than a moth drawn to a candle’s flame. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were only half way across the flat, when suddenly there was a noise of horses galloping. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Irritated by the interruption, the King answered brusquely, “There have been some sightings—nothing definite, mind you—but it seems that some of the Xi have been coming across the borders into our lands.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lindsey jumped up and ran back across the field and hurdled the fence. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A cobweb brushed across Milo’s face and he shuddered. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

An official-looking man in a somber black coat had stepped out of a building across the street and was striding toward our little group, walking stick in hand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man had long blonde hair loose across his shoulders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She stumbled and fell onto her back, where her weight stretched the cuffs painfully across her wrists. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Doon thought they might fit across the boat somehow to make railings to brace yourself against, but he couldn’t get them to work in this way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice echoed across the chamber to reach even those in the back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We’d never come across anything like that before and didn’t know what to think. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She's moved into our granny flat, just across the way. You know her, do you?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sun took pity on these bewildered souls, gave them maize to eat, and distributed them across the surface of the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma ran an arm across her forehead and started through the house. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's the one that's directly across the street from the gym. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The wind swept down the mountain, blowing strands in my eyes, and I reached across my face and brushed them away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Biff folded his arms across his chest and walked more slowly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A bank of clouds had moved across the sun. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi pressed his nose against the cold glass, peering across the desolate landscape. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Rural shoppers across large swaths of the country were similarly out of luck when it came to accessing fresh produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The carnival is spread out across the expansive church lawn, and parents and friends work at a dozen booths. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He remembered the excitement he felt as he waited across the street with his mother, wondering what treat Papa had gotten for them this time. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the sun slowly worked its way across the sky, Matt became more and more thirsty. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby brings over her makeup bag and pulls her chair across from mine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There was a heavy footstep across the floor of the shop below. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very slowly he withdrew his foot and tip-toed across the room. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Over the city, a thunderstorm boiled—a wall of absolute black with lightning streaking across the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Bigwig cuffed him twice across the face and felt the third blow pass through his whiskers as he sprang back. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sailing due north across Drake’s Passage in the winter would be suicide. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“If I start naming my kid Madison,” he says, “you might think, ‘Oh, you want to go live across the railroad tracks, don’t you?’ Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She casts a dark look across the room where the Duchess’s girls are calling out to the table of roustabouts. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She had been sure, at first, that she could wait to eat until they were across. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blare of the horns is so loud that Aurora comes to an abrupt stop halfway across the road and covers her ears. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the time they got out of the truck, he was walking across the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a sharp snap of rope breaking, and Nox’s cry of fear and rage, and Celaena took off, sprinting across the backs of the four gargoyles before she launched herself into the void. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He walks downstairs and slides his key across the front desk. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Peeping in the doorway, I saw my mother was laying across the bed, on her side, pressing a handkerchief to her mouth. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph leaped lightly from the top of the book, dashed across the floor, and sprang up on Brad’s jeans. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Weird, lopsided, more of a smirk than a smile, really, but it got the point across. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Not lonely, just alone—riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria—even dancing, she danced alone—and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a little further on, as we continued across the empty countryside, Ruth turned right round in her seat until she was facing Tommy, and just kept looking at him. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell was frowning, and a thick crease had formed across her forehead. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to have to examine the memories, fresh and sharp as photographs, which kept flashing across his mind. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We unscrewed our Oreos and raked our bottom teeth across the filling. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I can hear the scrape of crates sliding across the ground. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us lie under the one cow and we’re having a great time filling ourselves with milk when there’s a roar and there’s a man with a stick charging across the field. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes; rings widened across the pool to the other side and came back again. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had flash burn across the backs of my hands and neck and mild acid burns across my lower legs from where I’d waded through the fire-fog. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The couple to be joined faced her across the ditch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I throw myself across the backseat and push the door open before the truck comes to a complete stop. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But Jeanne and William were sitting all the way across the room, and their arms weren’t long enough to reach Jacob. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A ragged skin had been hung across the narrow window to keep the damp out, and a slab of peat smoldered in a brazier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She peered into the darkness and saw a form scuttling toward her across the roof tiles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was eating a steak dinner, my book propped against a sugar shaker, entirely content, when I glanced up to find Katz stalking towards me across the restaurant, looking alarmed and furtive. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Vogel stood with his mouth agape as a shocked expression swept across his face. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will sensed it all and felt the atoms of the metal linking each to each across the fracture, forming new crystals again, strengthening and straightening themselves in the invisible lattice as the join came good. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The air in the great hall shimmered and rippled, like a pond when you skip stones across it, and the world came back to life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But her first problem was getting across the chasm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Marching them through the woods, across the creek to dig up trouble.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The fat knight rode at him, and tried to swipe off his head, leaning across the horse between. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t begin to guess what rumors would start if someone saw me running across the rooftops late at night, bloody and naked to the waist. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And if, in daylight, we improve our resolution so we can make out things that are a meter across, then we begin to detect for the first time individual organisms—whales, cows, flamingos, people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guy in the apartments across the street told us to turn off the machine a few hours ago, but Quang-ha ignored him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The wind gusted across the tire tracks and imprints of human shoulders and hands; and there was nothing left but broken bottles and a black mark on the ground where the fire had been. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he made it in before midnight, she might be satisfied with slapping him across the face a few times with her lashing words. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katz led the way, barefoot and in boxer shorts, using a long stick like a punting pole to try to pick his way across on a jumble of submerged or half submerged logs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be taking the faster route across a cluster of gargoyles. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I stand across the room from him, watching as he hacks into carrots that are supposed to be minced. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The buildings were placed so closely together, it was easy to leap from rooftop to rooftop or race across rickety planks stretched over alleyways. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When they reach the end, the assistant director laces his fingers across his belt. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He drifted across the street to another Dunkin’ Donuts, but his stomach was still too queasy even for a glazed doughnut. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plutarch and Fulvia take the bench across from us but don’t offer any comments on the state of my prep team. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a grasshopper crackling across the deserted plaza area made all three men and Nick’s mom jump as high as if they had just been bitten by a rattlesnake. ^ knock on the door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked across to a lighted case of Chinese design which held delicate-looking statues of horses and birds, small vases and bowls, each set upon a carved wooden base. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat staring imperiously across the table at no one — at a portrait, perhaps, on the wall. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She paced back and forth across the linoleum floor, picking the red polish off her nails and talking an incoherent stream about a murder she’d heard about on the news and the traffic in Atlanta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they entered the game room, they saw Clarence, his arms folded across his chest genie-style. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The royal ducklings fell in behind them as they made their way across the yard, marching to the music of the bells on the fool’s hat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The remaining distance it covered with a flicked tongue, mopped sloppily across Sheed’s cheek. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Looking across the lot, he noticed that the padlock on the gate had been broken with a heavy chunk of cinderblock. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another kept time on a small drum made from an animal skin stretched across a hollowed gourd. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because he lives across town, he is not often lucky enough to be at Maria Edelmira’s house when his mother phones. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He gazed across the street and shouted, “What are you staring at over there?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted the shotgun that rested across his saddle, and groaned again. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge octopus of a furnace reached across most of the ceiling, and cobwebs hung on its tentacles, drifting up when I walked beneath them. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I followed them across two hills and a small valley to a third hill whose face was a ledge of rock. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once across the Channel, Holly flew low, skipping over the white-crested waves. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t sit exactly across from Audrey’s place, but in a small park a bit further down her street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Like right now, my face is still tingling where her lips touched it, and I haven’t taken my eyes off her even though she’s across the room. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I reached the red borderline that marked the edge of the school grounds, I glanced around to make sure no one was watching me, then stepped across the line. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize I’ve Men asleep until lights flashing across the lobby wake me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He dashes across the street while traffic is held back by the red light. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They raided our villages, killed our men, then sent our women and children across the lake in boats. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Holding the actual pieces of paper, seeing the name large and clear across the top, Cara stopped worrying. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I reached up to rub at my face with my hands, and winced as the motion tugged sharply at the stitches all across my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman across the street testified that a moment after she saw the killing, that is, a moment after the el train went by, she screamed and then went to telephone the police. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sorted through an assortment of papers scattered across the desk. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thompson folded his arms across his chest. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Mark made it to the top, across the landing, through the haunted faces that stared at them from both sides—and then he was in the hallway. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She walked across the lawn, through the arch, down the path, and onto the road. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

To prove her point that she considered the trial a miscarriage of justice, Anthony had three thousand copies of the court transcript printed and distributed across the country to politicians, libraries, and suffrage groups. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We stumble across seven abandoned pay phones in some ditch, underneath a highway leading north toward the Queensboro Bridge. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then he grabs the box of Kleenex, reaches across the space between the seats, and puts a hand on G’ma’s back. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Cole lay motionless as the skittish mouse ventured across his forearm and sniffed at his wrist, then inched onto his upturned palm. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I joined in, jumping, spinning, and sliding across the carpet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ron shoved his own beautifully cut roots across the table at Malfoy, then took up the knife again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Stephen, you can’t walk across the Maine wilderness with a newspaper delivery bag.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few visitors were already at tables, sitting across from inmates—men in orange jumpsuits. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But at this moment, Mia simply sat down beside her on the nubbly gray couch, where they laid photograph after photograph across the coffee table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anna catches her eye and waves, and she cuts down the aisle and across a row of seats. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A giant copper kettle—often about four feet across and three feet deep—waited for the pale river. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It happened again in May of 2008, when Taylor and Jayme got a zip line, which was a wire you attached across an open space, like a yard, suspended from two high points. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They walked out of the pueblo, across the mesa. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scoped across the water and remembered again that we lived on an actual island. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She pauses again, thoughts running across her face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We picked our way across the wild field to the river. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Dimple grabbed his wrist and pulled him across the street. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His dæmon lay nearby, her tail sweeping slowly across the oaken floor, her golden eyes never leaving the angel’s pain-filled face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the adult caretakers from Pinyudu had managed to string a rope across the river, and boys who couldn’t swim were pulling themselves across. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smile spreads across his face when he sees me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I race across the stage with my cup of room-temperature water. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

When he went to close it, he was staring across the hallway, straight into Jessie's room. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was shocked when a bright smile spread across her face, an almost knowing smile, as though we were linked by a shared solidarity. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Perfect,” Dad declared, the moment Styx walked across the threshold. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her hair curtained across their faces as she leaned even closer toward him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Together they spread the fabric across the table, turning it, unfolding its pleating and cuffs, examining the intricate stitches and the scenes they created. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was halfway across the parking lot when she caught up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The graduate student across the room had stopped talking; he was staring out the window. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he follows me across the bridge, though, and on past the gristmill, I start to worry. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above us, in the black dome of night, seven stars fall, streaking gloriously across the sky before guttering out. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And he stood the weapon upright against the massy-timbered door with one arrow across the horn aslant, then went back to his chair. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew her arm across my stomach, tucking her elbow inside mine. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe I made my pledge too loud, because when I sat down, the boy across the room raised his thumb again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe the back of my sleeve across my forehead, smearing viscera across my face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She read through it and explained the disaster to my father and then they fought, a mudslide of an argument that spewed across the antiseptic sheets and out into the hall. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Out there the wind was stronger, a cold north wind that howled across the lake, knifed through their layers of wool and leather, and set them all to shivering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gramps swerved across two lanes of traffic and onto the exit ramp, and faster than you could milk a cow we were standing barefoot in the cool water of Lake Michigan. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

So if they see me, I run to the gas station across the street and wait till they get hungry and go inside. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The doe turned once more and ran blindly across the path and onto the boat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran across the room with the gift and landed on top of me, crushing my bones. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

How I would catch her looking at me from across the room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He drew the dirk across his throat, to show her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, she looked less like her now, without the black paint across her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A partygoer—one of the paid ones—did a perfect triple gainer off the diving board, the splash leaving a streak across the High Blade’s heavy robe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Kristi holds the very end of the lock of hair and it spins back, falling against the path of freckles across her nose. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked across the aisle toward him and saw the sharp edge of his profile: he’s in a snit, she thought. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Next came the sharp scrape of a chair being dragged across a concrete floor. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she carried him in a scarf tied diagonally across one shoulder and her back, his lifeless feet dangling in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes dance across the page as I read the rest of the email from Friends of the Hamilton Plaza Library. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Kendra and Seth followed Grandma across the yard and up the porch steps. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“There’s a park across the street. You probably remember it. Maybe it’s not too late to get your tent back.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I head out through the doors, across the bridge, and down C Wing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He looked at me closely, and when he was satisfied that I wasn’t joking he swung on his hips and pointed across a small stretch of open water, and he didn’t bother to speak. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to accept invitations to share my story at churches, synagogues, schools, and political, military, civic, and philanthropic organizations, locally and across the United States and Canada. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Emma Lee took off her glasses, laid them on the dashboard, and slid across the seat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Dukakis, by the very way he looked and acted, embodied every bad stereotype of a liberal—brooding, clenched, frowning, swarthy, hairy, a man who came across as one gigantic, furrowed eyebrow. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How is it that those condos are empty,” Kalinda says, “and across the street they’ve got eight people in a room?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Quickly she lay down face-first, her body sprawled across the path. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They rolled across the floor until they formed a smile. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I even saw trashcans fly across the quad and fights broke out between passing periods. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now she has her arms folded across her front, under her wired-up breasts. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inexplicably, Clyde started flinging magazines across the room like he was throwing boomerangs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They ate lunch at the trading post cafe across the road from the battlefield. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Olanna sat across from her mother in the living room upstairs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed standing on a balcony in Memphis, setting off riots across the country, including in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She raised her hammer even higher when Ernie jumped a small ditch and walked across the road into her yard, Genie following, slapping grass and dirt off almost every part of his body. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Or girls passed by together, or a mother with a child across her shoulder. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wind freshened, and soon myriads of dry beech leaves were filling the ditches and hollows and blowing in gusts across the dark miles of open grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike Hubble’s dim Cepheids, supernovas are visible halfway across the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As the Giulia blew its horn and moved away from the dock, a few hundred strings of yarn stretched across the water. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed to an eighteen-wheeler parked across the street from the diner. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The scar across his middle is a bright-red gash. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The most ardent proponents of racial hierarchy have consistently succeeded in implementing new racial caste systems by triggering a collapse of resistance across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sadly I turned my back on the steamy kitchen window and trudged across the field toward the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I see him coming across the lawn. Thank you so much, Mrs. er, Abernathy,” I said, badly flustered and unable to remember the name of her present husband. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A fine brown dust was now blowing across the highway, drifting like snow against the shoulders and swirling up into the air. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I must let the first one get a good hold and hit him on the point of the nose or straight across the top of the head, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run across the bridge and don’t look behind me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They always called me Wood—in church, after church, any time we crossed paths—on account of the fact that we Peales dragged that wood across the prairie to build our house. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She opens a set of cabinets across the room and starts pulling things out. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A doorman, dressed up as a dignitary with a flaming red band across his white ruffled shirt, opened the car door for them. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I see a boy, taller than Father Rico, across the courtyard. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The very air seemed to weigh him down, like a warm wet blanket across his head and shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sound is off, and for some reason, it’s scarier, watching the silent twirling spiral twisting on the screen, inching across the blue water, coming closer to New Orleans’s shore. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

To the right of the foyer was a living room where the light from a TV flickered across the far wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The amazing horse took off at a gallop, racing up through the water, across the frozen sea, and back to the seaside. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I yell to Shay across the room, “Hey! You tease one of us, you tease all of us!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

One morning nearly two months later Rameel walked into the small room where Benton stayed while they were in between travels across the country. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But Lina dashed across the street, took off her shoes and socks, and wrapped herself around the cold metal of the pole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the legend of how he had come to the college, a barefoot boy who in his fervor for education had trudged with his bundle of ragged clothing across two states. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single gunshot punctuated his order like an exclamation point, thundering across the open road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She dragged me inside the house, slammed the door shut and backhanded me across the face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena opened her eyes, but stared at the wall across the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He got up with a deep sigh and walked across into his office. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go sit with your father,” Mr. Patterson said, working his way across the deck. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I watched the divers standing in the parking lot across from Back Beach. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I point across the night to the furthermost building, barely lit up. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At her neck Pantalaimon lay in his polecat shape, his fur glistening, and Lyra’s hair lay damp across her forehead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kristina says something to both of them before she goes toward her mother, who slaps her right across the face like in the old movies. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Your room is such a mess,” my mom said, looking at the clothes, both clean and dirty, strewn across my floor. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We walked across the cobbles in front of the town hall. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Only when they were halfway across the country did she find out they were headed for the Southwest. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he drags his eyes across me, looking me up and down like I’m something up for auction. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Help me, Stars,” Seven said as she attempted to jump across, using the way-too-slippery rocks to land on. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instantly, green and blue light rippled across the walls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dripping across the warped wooden slats, I search the small back utility room for something to jam against the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

One of the rats woke Cora with its teeth and when she settled herself, she crawled across the dirt of the platform in her search. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They had made us their secret project, with members of the nationwide organization mailing gifts and loving notes from across the country to be presented to us that evening. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to smash him across the face, like the can of sardines. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Junior was in front of me and his hands didn’t swing as they used to when he strolled across the yard on his way back from school. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I am not walking halfway across campus to get him and halfway back. We can get him when we’re leaving.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Red was across the street, watching a colored man who was cleaning up after the parade, sweeping trash into a pile. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honey oozed down Mary’s face, across her shoulders, sliding down the folds of her dress. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sneer was audible all the way across the room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I can feel everyone watching me as I make my way across the training gym. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Voices drifted across the water, laced now and then with laughter that rang like crystal touched in a toast. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We later heard that Major Knowlton of the rebels had led two hundred men to Charlestown to assault it; they making their way across the mill-dam. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Phlegethon flowed in the same direction until about halfway across the plain, where it met another river of black water—maybe the Cocytus? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We spread the county map on the ground and lay a grass blade from our stream location across the page at 80 degrees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel dashed over to Arion’s cage and swiped an Amazon card across the lock. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And now the liquor store wasn’t a few blocks away, it was directly across the street. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He is of middle age, cloaked in excremental mud, crabbing slowly along the knife tip of a cliff, his thin hair uncombed and hanging wet across his face. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were escorted across the entry hall, where a mosaic of colored glass depicted the Doom of Valyria. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now this might seem like no big deal, but the cubic zirconia pageant crowns are guarded more safely than the bank across the street. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

David’s across from her, taking a screwdriver to the guts of what might be our old toaster. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was a conference of twenty social activists from war-stricken tribal areas across Pakistan, all gathered around a large table— and I was seated right next to the ambassador. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you intend to drag me across all of Chicago in search of some disgraced rabbi?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She grazed her fingertips across the center console, her nails scraping the hard plastic. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I ran outside and saw Luke hobbling across the grass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Laura sat across the table, the only one who seemed to be listening to him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In a bedroom across the hall, there’s a similar selection for men. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Soldiers streamed down the hill across the smoking patch of field and then plunged into the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Angrily, I dragged my backpack across the carpet toward my room. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She trotted across the lawn to the low hedge beneath the attic window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the curb across the street, the man stared feverishly at us, tensed, ready to come for the food when called. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is where big ideas come from—a flash across the brain screen in moments when all the circuits are throwing sparks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One woman clutched an inmate’s hands from across the table and laughed with him about something. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I thought I would like to swim across the bay but I was afraid of cramp. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the other, across a narrow alley, was a tall billboard that pretty much blocked the view, but by leaning forward April could see the facade of a long low building. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Vale was narrow here, no more than a half day's ride across, and the northern mountains seemed so close that Catelyn could almost reach out and touch them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hugo wiped his eyes with his dirty, ashen hands, leaving long black smudges across his face. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the grass stains down my legs and across my arms. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I watch the droplets slide in tapering diagonals across the window. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As the door across the empty room opened, he stood up with a look of excitement. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The other, a homeless man, lay across the bench laughing and talking to himself. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Taught her how to crawl along the walls of buildings, disappear into doorways, cut across comers in choked traffic—how to do anything, move anywhere to avoid a whiteboy over the age of eleven. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Scrabble tiles are scattered across the great room floor. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Rorge heaved the scalding hot broth across the table, full in their faces. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Could there be a draft across that doorway?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ropes stretched across the ceiling, attached to a makeshift pulley. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“This will let us see what’s going on across the city,” she said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

No, it wasn’t as famous as Mount Hood, across the border in Oregon. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to thank him, but he was hurrying across the street and didn’t look back. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We had traveled down to 130th Street and had started to cut over west across Harlem. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She had gotten halfway across on the tree bridge and now stood there grabbing the upper branches, terrified to move either forward or backward. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Henry’s voice sounds scratchy and bewildered across the line. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were all ferried across the East River on big rowboats. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

We bolted through the catacombs, Emma’s fire casting manic shadows across the walls, the blind boys clicking loudly with their tongues and shouting out “Left!” or “Right!” when we came to splits in the tunnel. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A straight line of light appeared across the ceiling of the room, and Thomas watched as it expanded. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I had come across them and the notes while looking for some writing paper in her desk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She gasped as she glanced at the cut, then turned her head, pain flickering across her face. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Once we caught a glimpse of Little Ann as she darted across an opening that was bathed in moonlight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was moving clouds rapidly across the sky, and as they crossed over the moon, darkness and light rolled back and forth like the men wrestling on the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his head slowly, looking across at the spitted chickens revolving before the low blue rotisserie flames. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger walked across the floor and sat on the bed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I scream and feel the blinding shock of a slap across my face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Athena Parthenos still lay sideways across the top of the temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“How did you come across this?” she said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He drank his way across the narrow sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dimple pretended to be pulling at an errant curl and swiped a hand across it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Servants conducted him across costly carpets to a room where he waited for the master of the house. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bed dipped as I crawled across it, wrapping my arms around his chest from behind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then I raced across the snow around the house to the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits now left the tunnel-gate and rode across the wide hollow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The taller one has a shaved head and a scar that cuts diagonally across part of his scalp. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The riders were thrown free, but their panicked horses dragged the golden chariot diagonally across the track. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena ducks flat against her head to avoid being scraped off by the pole that runs across the top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I looked all around us again, at the rusted border poles coming out of the water, the headlights shining across the waves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he plucked a couple of daisies and placed them across the tiny grave. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I sprint across the bridge into Building 2, dodging nurses and patients and doctors, and head through the double doors into the east entrance of the NICU. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Since Auschwitz was nearby, a sister camp to Birkenau, they marched us down the road and across the fields to get there. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a measure of my frustration, I drew a long emphatic gash across the rest of the page. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

While she stands with her arms folded across her middle, I gag in the street, trying to rid my lungs of the stench inside, and my brain from the memory of all those people. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The officers requested more coffee, lit their pipes, and unrolled their maps across the tablecloth, stained now with splashes of turtle soup, butter, wine, and candle wax. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of demigod voices echoed across the hills. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

However, if you wanted to see the atoms in the same drop, you would have to make the drop fifteen miles across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“How long lasts a transit across the Atlantic?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I shifted my shoulders a little, feeling the dull tug of the stitches across my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I came around a clump of underbrush, and there he was, not as far from me as across this room. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t look comfortable, awkwardly sprawled across my lap and chair. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gilgamesh faced us both, arms folded across his massive pectorals, and for a moment, he was the man in charge once more—the king. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When we left the wash and took out across the flats, it still didn’t look bad. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry," he mumbled in Farsi, his arms folded across his chest. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He came across to the fireplace and rang the bell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jeremie just touch my foot and is as if somebody drag a piece of wood across. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

María Santiago looked exhausted; the lines etched across her face had suddenly grown sharp and pronounced. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The guy reading the news on his iPhone looks up at us and reaches across, scooping a few pretzels. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Clutching her left knee in both hands, she lifted her foot and put it down; then she lifted the other and put it down, slowly making her way across the turquoise snow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just happened to glance up as a pink blimp floated nonchalantly around his woodpile and across the front yard, but for a moment this curious apparition did not even register. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he reached the granite ledges and looked across to Malaga, he could almost believe in hope and prayer. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He turned, peering across the table with the basketball players, next to the science fair geeks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Two months later, on February 2, 1982, Alaska State Troopers came across his camp, looked inside the tent, and discovered the emaciated corpse frozen hard as stone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workmen from the main train climb down from the sleeper cars, light cigarettes, and trek across the lot toward the cookhouse. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The fight across the street has died down. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Weaving through rush-hour traffic on Turtle's bike, Theo trailed the bus to a seamy downtown district across the railroad tracks where Crow and Otis got off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is close enough that I can see the small pink veins, like seams on the back of a delicate leaf, spreading across her cheeks, the downy fur on her jawbone, her bristly black eyebrows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I rub the sleeve of my shirt across my lips. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The bugs darted across the water in all directions. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jess sat up, gasping at the searing pain that raked across her back. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo sat up and stared out at the shadows of moving bodies across her bedroom door. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

J.T. called out as he came across the parking lot, stuffing a pack of caramel creams into his pocket. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I pushed off the porch and crunched across the ground. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurled it, and the fire spread across the storefront in front of us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The wavelets broke across our feet, and he was in the mud at my side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A scruffy homeless guy was laid out across four seats, stinking up the whole car. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

With a grim look on her face, Francesca strode across the street to talk to the police. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a warm spring wind was blowing across Boston Common, and at the hotel Mr. Popper had to have the ice brought up to his rooms in thousand-pound cakes. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Victor let the beam of his flashlight wander across the seats until the light fell on blonde hair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I knew the field could never grow again, I knew that Leper could not be wild or bitter or psycho tramping across the hills of Vermont. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father was there, sitting with Mama across the aisle from Stick and the Panthers. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She puts down her coffee, folds her arms across her chest. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the shredder roar to life I knew he wasn’t going to, so I stomped across the house and locked myself in the bedroom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Thick horns curved like an elaborate headdress around their lumpy faces and rows of short spikes ran across their sand-colored bodies. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His closed mouth was a gray slash across his face. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I was trolling the Internet in search of something with some real content, not just a bunch of flashy graphics, when I came across an article you wrote entitled "Defining Geekdom." Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clumps of children stonethrowing outflowing rush upon terrified small goats, scattering them across the road so that the goats may tiptoe back and be chased again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” Theodora said, and they heard the crash against the door across the hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t occurred to me that he’d try to drive across. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia’s hair cascaded across his chest, forming tributaries and estuaries. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I looked across the wire at the Austrian lines. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She ran her hands across her belly, imagining the shape of the baby inside, hoping to feel it move. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I leave the key on the mantel, close the door, and push the precarious cart all the way across Przemyśl to Tatarska 3. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Its wingspan was at least ten feet across. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Flowers, greens, and buckets forgotten, we ran across the prairie, joined at the hands and wobbling like an unwieldy snake. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Crooks was looking across the room now, looking toward the window. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes travel up to where the flames licked across his forehead, singeing away his brows but just missing his eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Santicl6’s cap flew across the room and Tiny was smacked in the face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sliced a jagged arc across a new section of hair. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was reading The Wall Street Journal The lady across the table was probably Mrs. Dare, though all I could see of her were hot pink fingernails and the cover of Conde Nast Traveler. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He caught a brief glimpse of Piper leaping across a hopscotch pattern of fiery pits, making her way toward Nico, who was dazed and weaponless and being stalked by a pair of leopards. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It looked the same, intact from its flight across the kitchen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then, on the twenty-third, the men harnessed themselves to the boats again and resumed the backbreaking haul across the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And she gasped as the car cracked against a rock and reeled back across the road with an ominous scraping somewhere beneath, but then gathered itself together valiantly and resumed its dogged climb. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I launch across the open space and tackle him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Monique sat in the first row, across from Jordan, in a position where he could see her well. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did the same with his flashlight from across the field. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mark couldn’t help himself; he hurried over to a boarded-up window with a gap about two inches wide running across the middle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Cursing, he swept his arm across the table and sent the baking ingredients flying. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The torch spun from his grip to bounce across the floor, then tumbled into the pit, still burning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bomb’s thunderclap bounced off the mountains and echoed back and forth across the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An intelligent dog with a good nose can track a man across open ground by his smell and distinguish that man’s tracks from those of others. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tapestry shimmered like it was three dimensional—a waterfall scene so real I could see the water moving and clouds drifting across a fabric sky. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thin brown brook, pulling itself like a ribbon across the curve cut into the rock just ahead. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She pushed her eyes across the lines in front of her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I choose the bad movie option, diving for the closet and shutting myself in before Oscar’s boots are stomping across the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My favorite place to walk is just across this rattly bridge where the road curves by the old Shiloh schoolhouse and follows the river. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled deeper into the black gauzy web where he could rest in the silence, where his coming and going through this world was no more than a star falling across the night sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped across the threshold and found themselves on a wide terrace. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the last one off the shelf and opened it across my lap, thumbing through the pictures. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That yellowish makeup’s spread across her lips too, so you can barely tell she even got a mouth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And shoot the bolt across,” said Grandma, who never locked her doors. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I laughed, and my laughter seemed freakishly loud as it echoed across the deserted river. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She sailed across the room like a man-of-war, showing the brocaded tips of her shoes and layers of lace-trimmed, starched petticoats. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fury—maybe even hate—flashed across his face. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Small chance his father would come across him—he was at work at the plastic shop. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zoe shot across two lanes of traffic and into a mall parking lot on the south bank of the river. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Speaking in short, matter-of-fact phrases, they worry aloud over the fickle weather and fields of sunflowers still too wet to cut, while above their heads Ross Perot’s sneering visage flickers across a silent television screen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omar had been attending the school across from mine, but Ghalib was one of the best schools around, a boys' boarding school a few towns over. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He and the greater part of his men were across the river, working on Pharaoh’s new addition to the Great Temple, shaping and fitting stones as they were needed for the walls. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

If I crossed my leg the wrong way or moved too quickly, a spasm shot across my groin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear Queenie’s feet and the bright shapes went smooth and steady on both sides, the shadows of them flowing across Queenie’s back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by dozens of stacks of sheet music stretching across the room, both loose and bound into books. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He glanced across the table at her, and she looked pretty miserable as well. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger went across the living room and sat on the couch. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She set her phone down so she wouldn’t be tempted to fling it across the room. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her rank goes from first to eighth as she finally drags herself across the line. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How could you?” she says out of clenched teeth and makes her own exit, her hair twisting and winding angrily across the floor behind her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Civil rights advocates pursued their own agendas as unelected representatives of communities defined by race and displayed considerable skill navigating courtrooms and halls of power across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dicey was hypnotized by the molten silver of the cloudy islands and not until the veil of fuzzy gray blew across it again did she begin their march of the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the crowd cheered as she dashed across the court. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He scanned the slides with his eyes, back and forth, back and forth, moving across the microscopic world, looking for a telltale greenish glow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the gas pumps were beaten in, their hoses and nozzles strewn across the concrete. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His- eyes were sunk in deep pits, his close-cropped beard no more than a shadow across his hollow cheeks and bony jawbone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I laid my hands on the glass and we faced off across the counter. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I ask, as we balance on a log across a stream. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo had come across him by chance as he protested in broken Spanish because there were no rooms at the Hotel Jacob, and as he frequently did with strangers, he took him home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Reckless they sprang into the pools and waded across, bellowing as they came. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the mother bear’s skin was now draped across Old Tallow’s bed, although she hadn’t heard about a recent kill. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mario walked up and down the narrow, curving streets, zigzagging across them so he could look in the windows on both sides. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, from halfway across the forum, she heard Jason shouting. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Halfway across to the fence he noticed a small shed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He would sit across from Obinze, rest his head on his hand, and talk about lawyers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Because the Earth has a larger area than the Moon, we might have to wait something like ten thousand years between collisions that would make craters as big as a kilometer across on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He trudges off across the square and I look at Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he lunged up from his seat behind the railing that separated him from the aisle, and threw his hand back as if he was going to slap me across my face. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At this point, instead of turning back to find an alternate route, he began to move in circles, squeaking like a phonograph needle scratched across the grooves. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As night fell, a small stream of water trickled across the center of the floor. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Even from across the room it is apparent that some very high voltage is crackling through his wires. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of moving away, her mother opened the door farther, letting light from the hall fall across the two beds, separating them right in half, light and dark. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s across from the college, the one they shut down. There’s no other reason to know it. There isn’t much there.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She moved the second chair to the table and set it across from hers, and Ash sat down, feeling as though she should have brought something — some of her misshapen bread? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their journey across the ice field took less time than their journey out to the fortress, for the weather remained calm and the sledge was lighter now. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Y’all need to come over here and help me!” someone yells from across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I saw the waitress watch me from across the restaurant. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“That means I’ll have to get a ride to school with Alex the greasy loser from across the street and his skanky girlfriend,” Sarah moaned. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing he drew seemed good enough, and he would end up scrawling across the half-finished page and poking it into the stove to burn up. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She spurred Arion, and they shot across the countryside, heading straight for the growing tornado. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He could feel Lady Selyse's eyes on his back as he shuffled slowly across the room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The toughest audience he ever faced was waiting for him across the Atlantic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin brings a tray from across the room with gloves and tweezers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He recalled every single thing Bo had told him until one phrase rang in his brain as clear as the church bell chiming across the square. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sauntered on, slowly, across the bridge and into the maze of alleys in which every visitor to Venice gets lost at least once. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the floor, across from the girl, and gathered her magic into her hand, letting it float just above her fingers like a bright, shining ball. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The convoy rolling across the desert that evening stretched for a couple of miles. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He was mostly bald, with scars across his forehead and a rim of stringy white hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we borrowed a car and drove to the North Shore of Oahu, where we sat on a ribbon of soft beach and watched surfers rip across enormous waves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, they would scratch across our sleeping faces as she smoothed our foreheads, our cheeks, and told us quietly, Wake up. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Another time Miles, who sat next to Jack in homeroom, swiped Jack’s worksheet off his desk, crumpled it in a ball, and tossed it to Julian across the room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I try to sound strong, but it comes across as awkward. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For Pauline’s judges, as for King Louis, slavery far off across the seas was completely different from enslaved individuals in France. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Neva: had Lyra seen it so brilliant and dramatic; with every twitch and shiver, new miracles of light danced across the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas rolled over, glad it was dark so no one could see the look that had settled across his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We can feel their eyes on us as we walk in our red dresses two by two across to the side opposite them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to make it spread across his entire face. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A slow grin spread across the man’s face. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Stretched across the upper part of the doorway was a big spiderweb, and hanging from the top of the web, head down, was a large grey spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The morning sun threw their shadows long across the rooftops. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I kept moving, running across the dressing room, banging through another door, and finding myself . . . . . . onstage? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I sat on a large couch across from Mike, who sat on a reclining chair. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A hundred swallows darted between the gorge walls overhead, their shadows blipping across the shining water, across the children’s bodies and happy glistening faces. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping you would,” he said, a goofy smile breaking out across his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a large suite with windows looking out across the Potomac River to the Washington Monument and the Capitol dome. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

During the late 1930s she was heard in living rooms across America as a popular radio performer, appearing on such widely listened-to programs as The General Motors Hour and The Ford Hour. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

We are to lay it across the twelve o’clock beach and drop the metal spool, with whatever is left, deep into the water, making sure it sinks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Sadness flits across Cain's face, infuriating me further. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Well, did or didn’t the woman across the street see the kid kill his father? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned smoothed the paper out across his knee and took up the quill. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then I sprinted out the front entrance and across the expansive green lawn in front of the school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The shadow of the castle grew across the city like a hulking beast. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes and frowned across at the man opposite her. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the water is so still, sometimes bubbles come up, sometimes the wind comes and the water’s got ripples across the surface. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami wore a printed dress she called a muumuu, which stretched across her pregnant belly like a round plot of exotic flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a shot cracks the air and echoes across the mountains. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand to my hair, then carefully brushed it across my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterward the rabbits set out across the park to the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he moved across the courtyard, the distinct smell of firewood and some kind of meat cooking made his stomach grumble. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The windshield wipers glide across the glass in an easy rhythm. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When a Cold Sassy man carries a pistol, he straps it across his chest under his shirt and you don’t see it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But so was the green, life- giving ribbon of willows that traced its way across these plains, following the meandering streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We set off across the snow fields, uphill and down, the way I’d come. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cross my arms tight across my chest and say, “You need to listen.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It made me want to hurry, so I scooted across the kitchen and reached for the doorknob to the hallway door. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Albert wiped his hand across his face and sighed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kayla grabs my arm, and before I know it, I'm headed across the street too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By habit, Dedd swept her eyes across the room looking for the boys. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond them, a frozen expanse of gray, dirty ice, the snow whisking across it in wispy curls and then disappearing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was young, pretty, and blond and visited often, using as her excuse the fact that her friend Della Otis lived across the street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I kick a tennis ball out of my way and watch it skitter across the grass and bounce against the steps. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Sully and Anton, walking toward him diagonally across the yard, Harry’s eyes on him, unsmiling but alert, his cronies looking happy in anticipation. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A small stone breakwater had been thrown out across the cove for shelter, and behind it the bay formed a tiny natural harbour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Moctezuma, captured by the legend of the return of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl as a white-skinned man arriving across the Eastern sea, promptly executed his astrologers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dust devil twirled eastward from the sage across the flat deserted fields, catching tumbleweeds, bouncing them along and letting them go, weaving among the crumbled houses and rusty car hulks—a truly desolate scene. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coat fit across her in a great mound, and flapped when she moved. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I looked down at his hand and doodled aimlessly across his smooth, iridescent palm. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As I march across the quad, I look up at Dean Wilkins’ office. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything much to eat there, either, but on the way back to Otto I came across a short tree with glossy leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

So it should have been a simple matter, to pick her way down the bank and go across the grass toward the temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The powerful-looking gray-haired man was looking directly at her, and as their eyes met, he nodded and beckoned Unwilling, but more interested now, she went across. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then she lifted herself, reached across, grabbed the now visible handhold with her uninjured arm, and pulled herself triumphantly across the cliff face and to the steps that would lead her to the top. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I said, “Not yet. Big Ma hasn’t gotten over the collect call from yesterday. We gotta get up enough dimes to make a real call across the country.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BFG pointed through a gap in the bushes, and there, not more than fifty yards away, she saw a man padding softly across the lawn. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, this is a silly statement; anyone can refute it by walking across the room. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“A napkin,” the man said in Spanish, holding a crumpled tissue across the seat to me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We settled into the den, me on the couch, Laura one cushion to my right, her husband across the way in a fine-looking chair—brass tacks, burgundy leather, matching footstool. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A guy across from me was twisting and screaming. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had this huge smile taped across his face, like seeing us was making him the happiest man in the world. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At one point I looked across the room and spotted Troy and Buck. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Quick on his feet, he often dashed across the Jungfem Bridge and hid in the pine forest around the New Johannes cemetery. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rafe thought for a minute, then pushed his hand farther across the table so that their fingertips were touching. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Black patches danced across his vision, then he lost consciousness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Jake was looking at me too, pity written across his honest face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dull thud and more blood flying and his body sprawled across the asphalt on his stomach and then curling up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m staring at my free lunch and I get this flash in my head of me throwing the tray across the cafeteria and just screaming as loud as I can. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You got to wait a little bit,” Zannikos said to a pride of elegant women who had spent the morning at the Whitney Museum of American Art, across Madison Avenue at 75 th Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She goes into the bedroom and rolls him over so he’s sprawled across the center of the bed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

Images of people flashed across his mind, but there was no recognition, their faces replaced with haunted smears of color. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She sat back down with her hands clasped across her grumbling stomach. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wagged her finger in emphasis at people across the table from her, including me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of miles across the Atlantic, the United States was still trying hard to stay out of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And yonder, across the court, Gebu rose slowly from the bottom stair. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I tossed it across the room—Sir Fig Newton scrambled off my desk after it—and it bounced off my ever-growing pile of smells-pretty-rank laundry. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

With my arm across her shoulders, she seems small. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sun was nearing the horizon, casting long shadows across the wharf. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half-grown tortoiseshell cat leaped from the bunkhouse porch, galloped on stiff legs across the road, whirled and galloped back again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word that he didn’t know. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I run across the street and head up, up, up the hill. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

To whites across the state of Texas, Dallas Carter was a nogood bunch of cheaters who didn’t deserve the honor of playing for a state championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suitcases and boxes threw shadow stairs up the walls and across the floor. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the millionth time he thinks how lucky they are that they stumbled across the hidden haven. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The other one stood silently with his arms folded across his chest. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing in the same place where my father had been standing, on the Juarez side, and Dante was standing across from me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If customers came in wanting to look at the rings, I had to run across the street to get him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Commander Lewis stood apart, her arms folded across her chest. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something like a heavy curtain hanging clear across it. He couldn’t see through that.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the store was across the tracks on North Main, we were hidden behind the moving boxcars, and I decided to keep on walking. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Presently all was silent, they must have gone through the Service doors into the kitchen quarters, so I went across the hall and into the dining-room once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On another occasion, as Schindler strolled across the factory floor, he caught me away from my station, watching a complicated machine as it was being redesigned to perform a different task. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Two warm children were flung every which way across my bed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Posters announcing Klan rallies, bearing the slogan “Be a Man, Join the Klan,” became a common sight in store windows and on telephone poles in small towns and major cities across the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I raised my Head & saw two ranks of Redcoats standing at attention across the Channel, & their Scouts darting before them, crouched & scurrying like Jackals, with their white Gaiters flashing in the grasses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like always, a few tables had been pushed together lengthwise across the center of the dining room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Whenever we came across the creek, Vonetta wheeled JimmyTrotter’s bicycle out of the barn and rode it in circles around the barn and house while Fern chased after her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was leaning over the rail at the front, peering into the rain like she was trying to see right across the playing field. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nipper was pacing, turning when he turned, tracing his every move back and forth across his room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had sliced the lemon by now and pushed it across the counter to her in a red-and-white paper cup. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A wrapper was slung across his body and tied behind his neck, over a once white singlet now browned by age and yellowed at the armpits. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She swipes her fingers across her eyes, and my brain just unravels. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We stopped somewhere called the Country Bear Motel across the street from the bus station. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hana jumps up, pretending to kiss someone and dance with them across the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ruth and Gloria call good morning to me from across the street, and I wave at them without looking up. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She left the Farkas house at 5:30 and walked down to the bus stop, which is right across the street from my house at 184. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press the visitor pass across my shirt, making sure it sticks with a couple pats. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The change in speed sent him stumbling across the border into one of the oily black pools, where he fell on his stomach and skidded out the other side in a plume of goo. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they turned north on Chester, Moss pointed across the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He attacked again, stabbing this time, but she trapped his wrist with her knife and pinned his arm, slashing him once across the abdomen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Far in the distance, I can see the Vineyard firefighters, making their way across the bay in a lighted boat. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Lara decides to test out her supernatural ability, doing a long run of impossible jumps and flips across the stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was staring at a chicken coop across the yard, leaning his chin against his knees, and he looked scared and sad. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then he walked back across the green, to where Will Solace was waiting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“A man in the cell across from me. Said, ‘Black folks, every day above ground is a good day.’ Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It took almost no time for him to get his astonishingly simple message across. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We eat the tuna fish sandwiches Mrs. Allen packed for us and drink root beer as the sunset shoots fire across the treetops. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Lena’s white apron with its own curling blue waves across the top. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It slides across the surface like a miniature iceberg. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were all there in the west as the caravan went rumbling across the Kunderer Bridge and out of Mishnory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the bench across from her, Amaya was staring out into the city around them, a sullen frown painted across her face, brow furrowed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He draped a salt herring across each slice. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tide was nearly out, the channel little more than a stream, but he waited on the far side, gesturing for me to come across. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A little while later, when he comes across another interesting bit, he tries again: “You have to read this, Mother!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the windows didn’t have glass, allowing a cool night breeze to swish across the room. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He wanted the words to make a cloudless blue sky, pale with a summer sun pressing across wide and empty horizons. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The careful gesture cut me off more quickly than a slap across the face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Dicey emerged from the pine woods, she saw the two figures standing far off, across the road by the mailbox. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a black suit that stretched only far enough across his vast belly for one button to connect with its buttonhole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sun sets behind us and a cool wind whips across my face. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Going from one reading to the next, across the country, Wells began to see changes in the composition of her audience. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I saw a shadow flicker across the glass—a humanlike shape. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can fire a snowball at a tree across the street and hit it nine times out of ten. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up, I saw two of the white trustees moving swiftly across the platform to where Barbee floundered upon Dr. Bledsoe's legs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into the lobby, where someone reassembled the portrait of Jeanine Matthews, but they drew an X over each of her eyes in red paint and wrote “Faction scum” across the bottom. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was dedicated to the great master of life, the sun, which struck three sides of the edifice as it made its journey each day across the sky. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She balanced a cardboard box across her handlebars with one hand. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In her daily life, Terryl came across a lot of horrible situations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He nods and stretches his arm out, holding up a gloved pinky across the distance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The house across the street has a half-sunken roof covered in a blue plastic thing. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It rolls a little ways across the floor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Out across the meadow she could plainly see the Warlord’s tent. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Cold air slipped through the window sash and cut across my skin like razor blades. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He’d come from school to find his father napping on a sofa in the den, arms folded across his chest. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Eye pulled him across the street to Mr. Thirsty’s. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the footsteps climb the stairs, I stole across the room and out the door, and thence out of the theatre. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He began taking long bus rides across New York State, picking up fdes in Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both turn to look across the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Kaira watched the bat rolled across the floor and under the TV cabinet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Frost crept across the rocks and grass around her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We walk down the sidewalk, across the street from the housing projects. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And the fleet of little boats moved off all at once, gliding across the lake, which was as smooth as glass. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There came Iris in her cloak of many colors, trailing across the sky in a rainbow curve, and the dark house was lit up with the shining of her garments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My laptop dings behind me, and I race over to it, swiping my fingers across my trackpad to see a new text. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We had to stop and walk a few times, traversing rickety wooden bridges stretching across ponds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I threw myself across the bed and bawled. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A long, jagged crack ran through the front window of the shop, a dripping yellow Star of David and the word “Jude” painted across the glass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In October, Chicago’s all-black Eighth Infantry Regiment prepared to leave on the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the European continent. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mother, though — everything she came across adored her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think of crawling across the grass, my knees dirty, the savor of the fruit in my mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He explained what he’d seen; how, as the nearest dementor had lowered its mouth to Harry’s, a large silver something had come galloping across the lake and forced the dementors to retreat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They had all seen Anthony Marston go across and help himself. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Radar, fetch!” he shouted, and flung the pancake across the room like a Frisbee. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ben looked at me from across the room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Or by the time Gregor crawled across the few feet of stone that separated them, would he again be mumbling about fish and abandoning Gregor to the darkness? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stink of petroleum or oil blows across with the fumes of powder. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I waited for a knock on the door, a phone call, a look of fear across Jawad Sahib's face. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A fire roars in the hearth, warm and bright and comforting, splashing coppery beams across a large, gauze-draped bed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This time, though, I don’t sit across from him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the thin light, even the whirling boomerang print of the vinyl tablecloth seemed tranquil; it was easy to imagine Helen sitting across from her, head bowed, asking forgiveness. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy ran across the clearing and burst through the door of Poppy Cottage, Shilling galloping beside her like a shooting star. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Quietly and serenely she moved across the field, beheading her golden soldiers as she went to greet the Red Calf. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

We stood watching as he walked across the tracks, a new sort of strut in his long stride. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But every evening after work he had looked across the river to these barren, empty hills, and finally he had bought a couple of acres and began building our house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the entire walk, across the heaths and fens near Cambridge, Lessing did all the talking; Watson said not one word. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Probably smoking cigarettes with some boy in the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly across from the high school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I turn away and start walking again, even faster, but Mikey keeps shouting my name, and when I look over my shoulder, he’s following me across the road. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A heavy metal crash barrier stood across the old road and a new highway curved off down a hillside away from the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

String quartets and vocal stylists soared across the skies with a cabin full of contented passengers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Percy sipped his blue soda and gazed thoughtfully across the dining hall. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the sky began to grow light, Tally heard the sound of the sea in the distance, a faint roar coming from across the horizon. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The man who claimed to be a superhero time traveler emerged from between two houses, across the street from Petey’s place. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I jumped up onto the wagon and looked back across the white countryside, trying to get a feeling of how far I’d come since I last saw him. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached across the table and rested my hand on hers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Away to the eastward the distant fires flickered, and now it seemed that here and there they crept across the plain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A candle inside a tall red glass threw glints and glimmers across her body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slashed across his face, heard him grunt as my nails bit into his cheek. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the block it resumed a straight path that could be followed all the way across the city to the bay and Coit Tower on the other side. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wake up on top of a mattress resting on the floor of the garage across the alley from Mai's mom's nail salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We dodged across the street holding hands, avoiding cars, people, and stray dogs sunning themselves on the sidewalk. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Not like when I look at her across a room. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then he closed the eye and put his long hairy hands across his chest. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I took the subway and it still droned through my mind after I had reached my room at Men's House and lay across the bed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

From across the green, Caesar seemed older than he had in his Georgia days. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

We dashed across the bog and through the forest as if late for an appointment. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nick’s mom and dad sat on the couch, and Nick sat on the rocking chair that faced Mrs. Chatham across the low coffee table. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the jacket into the living room and laid it lightly across the arm of the couch, a big burgundy thing my mother used to call “the spaceship” when I was kid. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She stepped across the creek, picking her steps carefully over the mossy rocks, and grabbed a waterlogged stick from the creek bank. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We have the same dark eyes, long eyelashes, and curly eyebrows that creep across our faces like twin caterpillars. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What in hell you Reds can get out of bothering with a black thing like that, God only knows,” Buckley said, rubbing his hands across his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was playing in a large high school auditorium that echoed with phlegmy coughs and the squeaky rubber knobs of chair legs sliding across freshly waxed wooden floors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, our famous shadows, Mutt and Jeff, were parked across the street, faithful as hound dogs in their vigilance. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same blue stars were spread across her face. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he made his way downstairs, he found Hollis wearing a hot pink muumuu, passed out on the couch with papers strewn across her chest and the floor. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He kicked and struggled like a madman even as Earl dragged him across the lot and up the stairs into the privilege car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Back at the Twenty-Ninth Street beach, the anger was gathering momentum that would wreak havoc far beyond Eugene’s death, spattering blood across the city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But as their feet came down they slowed, and gently, as if they were made of sand with wind blowing across them, they faded away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment Violet thought he was going to strike Mr. Poe across the face. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Helmholtz got up, tiptoed across the room, and with a sharp quick movement flung the door wide open. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started folding up the little square of Snickers paper to put it back in my pocket, and Branwell reached across the table and put his fingertips on the back of my hand. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them stared across the sand flats to where the last of the tide was trickling away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

That evening her piece of film was shown on the networks across North America. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I glance down, catch the slight purple flush across her cheeks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Racing along behind, Reynie saw his friends across the plaza, staring after him in wonder and not a little apprehension. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Far away across town in the night, the faintest whisper of a turned page. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes her hand, the one with Worm’s dad’s big basketball ring on it, and smacks me across my face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Still his fury held for one more blow, and before she could sink upon him, smothering him and all his little impudence of courage, he slashed the bright elven-blade across her with desperate strength. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Between the waxy hands, folded across his chest, lay her mother's silver cross. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“DuShawn is DuShawn, okay? The only way he knows to get the message across to Addie that he likes her is to nail her with spitballs and slip whoopee cushions under her butt.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Listen, Reyna -’ Michael rubbed his palm across his forehead, like it might wipe away his headache - ‘I don’t like this any more than you do. But I have my orders.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Kreacher’s croaking voice seemed to come to him from across that dark water. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Outside it was a lovely warm evening and I could hear the waves breaking on the beach just across the road from the hotel. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“How is it," he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, "that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he strode confidently across the room, into the other red circle, and out the far door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if she would tell them that the ham had slid across the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of peddlers bringing their wares across and setting up on the Brownsville side. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could say anything Miss Volker stood up and walked gingerly across the floor in her bare feet. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Naturally, she had never heard the word spoken, or seen it in print, or come across it in asterisks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The other ran off across the valley and disappeared. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s house was across the railroad tracks on the mountain that overlooked the town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A smile ghosts across his lips before disappearing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I tripped through the wreckage and stumbled blindly across the stinking basement to the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As he spoke this time, his words also appeared as text, superimposed across the bottom of my display, like subtitles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Brian rose to his hands and knees, stiff and with great slowness, and crawled across the floor of the shelter to where Derek lay. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced across at Leonard and he winked, shouting and whooping now with all the others. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed me through the first door we came across, which led into an empty billiard room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sitti waved her arm at the expansive view across the valleys and hills. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t the first time I’d come across the rumour about deferrals. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the light faded from the thick sky, Hazel slipped once more across the hard, bare earth under the railway arch, came out on the north side and sat up to listen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun moved slowly across a white sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They closed the door and stood across the table from me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Racing downhill in early evening darkness through cornfield stubble, Shin came across a farmer’s shed half buried in the hillside. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Anansi...” he repeated, staring blankly at a waterfall across the room. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I look across the field at Cardan and his friends, with silver on their arms. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They had got another sixty’ from somewhere and were firing it across the clearing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

George puts his arm across Amar’s shoulders, and they grin at each other. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Molly, sitting across from Vivian in the living room, puts her book down and starts to rise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The gun flew out of Clyde’s hand and skidded across the concrete. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Post blew the whistle, and they all walked across the street and to the left, heading down Portal Avenue. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’s wandered off to stand by the fence across from the steps, watching us with his elbows resting on the metal railing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They stood silently, staring across the empty field. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet could look down across the way and see blue skirmishers forming across his front. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His seventeen-year-old face had grown lines; they zigzagged across his forehead, and inside each line a dark tension had crawled in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped his robe’s sleeve across his forehead and said something to Mama that Anya never expected from the priest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If colorblindness is such a bad idea, though, why have people across the political spectrum become so attached to it? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The boy sitting across from me seemed no older than I was, perhaps even younger. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They zigzagged across the park in blinding flashes, illuminating the terrified faces of poxies and demons alike. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t remember where I had left it, but obviously my mother had stumbled across it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The ghost smiled, and a chill breeze danced across Ophie’s skin, raising goose bumps on her arms. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Would he have approved of my decisions, of the secrets I now carried across my back? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had long wanted to talk to an economist about some of the ideas I had come across in my reading. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik /, casting a shadow of fear across America. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top of her head, she wore a small brown felt hat with one large brown-speckled feather swept across the front. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Jack don’t flinch or open their eyes as I tiptoe across the room and swipe the room key from the desk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He scrubs a hand across his face, glancing back over his shoulder to confirm Henry’s where he left him, being aggressively talked at by Nora. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He drew back and looked at me, his eyes switching back and forth across my face. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Oh, she’s fed up, so she is, and off she goes across Henry Street with her black shawl pulled up around her white head, limping along in her black high-laced boots. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He stood in his underwear and stared out across the waters. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He was just a boy from across the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She swung one arm over her head and brought it down across the haint’s face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I meet Haymitch’s eyes from across the room and see my own dread mirrored back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ruby sinks into her seat, but her eyes follow Edie all the way to a table across the room, where she sits with the two Graces and a pair of boys, Sean and Austin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maggots again, but larger, full grown, they now crawled across his grief and his repentance. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sailing across the ocean among half a thousand perfect strangers conveyed an anonymity in which my grandparents could re-create themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the blink of an eye he was off, racing across the broad, weed-choked field to vanish in the trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A piano was on its side, its keys strewn across the floor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What parades?” inquired General Peckem with a feeling that his polish just wasn’t getting across. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jan Sorensen leaned against a plywood garbage bin; Marty Johansson stood with his feet planted wide, his forearms folded across his bare chest, his T- shirt tucked into his pants waist. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outraged protests came in from across the globe, including one from the American State Department. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked across the kitchen and wrapped my arms around her. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Whispers break out across the room and I take a slow deep breath as I tiptoe up to the stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We drove the few miles across the international bridge with the windows down, the wind whipping our hair around our faces, until we slowed down and drove into the aduana, the Mexican customs station. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He paced eagerly across the hill, snakes dropping from his green dreadlocks, his dragon legs stomping down small trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Census Bureau reported in 2002 that there are nearly 3 million more black adult women than men in black communities across the United States, a gender gap of 26 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, young women across the nation were sending Marina thousands of desperate letters begging her to help them go to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Many of the shards were of significant size—two, three inches across—large enough so that the patterns and beauty of the design could still be easily seen and appreciated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After the leftovers are stored in the fridge and the dishes washed, the four of us wander into Didu's room and spread ourselves across the floor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For one long second, he thinks she’s serious and his heart stops completely, goose bumps rising like soldiers across his skin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bronn was surrounded by three.foes, but he lopped the head off the first spear that came at him, and raked his blade across a second man's face on his backslash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She helps me out of bed, careful not to wake Amber, who is sprawled out across the covers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But he was gone and the Mexicans were gone too; and the sky was deep orange and scarlet, all the way across to Mount Taylor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She came slantwise across the square, and he dashed to meet her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or suppose they were to come across one of the really big dragons? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, the chimney clock chimed the quarter hours—and I heard a lot of them —until once I woke and the dent was gone and I jerked up and looked across the room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I rejoiced, and thoughtlessly threw myself across the room and into his lap. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She takes her shoes off without untying them, and kicks them across the room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I focus on a tree trunk across the stream, twirl the sling over my head, and let a stone fly. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shiver races across my skin, and I'm not sure if it's a reminder that more snow is to come, or if it's because anger rattles every part of me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was also a strange, cone-shaped, extremely fine mesh net—a foot across at the mouth and tapering to a point, and perhaps eight feet long—that made no sense to David at all. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly followed the Italian coast up to Monaco, and from there across the Alps to France. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It whipped across the cliff tops, spiraled into the moonlit Channel. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She darted left, vaulted a low wall, leapt across a small canal, and slipped through an unlocked door into some dusty storeroom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The shiny magazines were spread across the tile floor. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A Mexican couple dressed in matching crisp blue jeans and sweatshirts with a red Reebok logo across the chest step up to the window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone reacted to that, and he continued, “He’s one of your neighbors, Jack. He’s sitting outside in a lawn chair, all night long, with a shotgun across his lap.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat broke out across his face like raindrops. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tlie club caught me again, this time across the shoulder blades. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We started up the road and then went across a meadow and found a path that crossed the fields and went toward the woods on the slope of the first hill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

News spread between our window bars, across our clotheslines, and over the pigeon droppings that plastered the parapets of our rooftops. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she swings it around, throwing the collected dirt across her back and over the people around her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the USSR—which, thanks to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, wasn't under attack—young women across the nation were continuing their state-sponsored flight training and flight instruction as though nothing had changed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was just a weird hand-ship the size of a yacht, sailing without a captain, roaring across a burning sea toward us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Since they were reading children and read everything they came across, they stopped and automatically read the list of acts playing that week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I meet your eyes from across the room. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe with all this technology, in a ship that traveled across the galaxy, the same flint lighter from my seventh grade chemistry lab is what they have on the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Arya glanced furtively across the room, worried that Septa Mordane might have read her thoughts, but the septa was paying her no attention today. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He listened again, and pushed END himself and slid the phone across the table. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stamped to attract his attention and Kehaar sailed across to him with one beat of his wings and a long glide. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look across the fence pickets to the woman in her lawn chair, reading. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the steps of a bakery across the street from the inn and watched people coming and going as I enjoyed my best meal in months. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

First of all, I wouldn’t want to get an angry note from Maya or have her bare her teeth at me across a room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Someone started the rumor that it had belonged to royalty and had been smuggled out via donkey cart across Germany until it eventually wound up in the Magnolia Antique Store on Fairview Street. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She sat across from Sammy and made no secret that she thought he was hilarious. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled and ran behind the sun, not following but dragged with it across arroyos, over mesas and hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to take a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge?” she asked. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They didn’t even make much noise as they shuffled across the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He walks with his blazer clasped by a finger over his shoulder, across the Common, through the Public Garden, over the bridges and along the curving paths that rim the lagoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The left window had been broken and the glass lay scattered across the floor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prompted by the constable’s elbow, Kit got to her feet and moved haltingly across the room to stand facing the magistrate across the table. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She lay sprawled across the chair facing his, her legs dangling off an arm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They marked the place with Tayo’s T-shirt spread across the top of some scrub oaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me a break. I just ran across campus,” I say between gasps. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He straightened from his labor and looked across the rolling hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quick as a snake Gollum slithered aside, and the stroke aimed at his head fell across his back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Down in the basement either Gretchen was practicing her piano or the cat was chasing a moth across the keys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But once I stood on its banks and looked out across its endless-looking water, my heart was filled with a great love for my country. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Worse yet, she’s got a giant white stain spread halfway across her face like somebody tossed acid on it or something. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she poured the first cup and stood across from him at the kitchen island, already looking more awake, Toby dove back in. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, my ears feel frozen in the shade of the dugout, so I get up and walk across the park and then home. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Rachael kicked off her boots and unzipped her shorts; balancing on one foot, she caught the discarded fabric with her toe and tossed it across the room. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wiped her hand across her forehead, smearing flour across her brow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She left him alone in the room, then a moment later sat down across from X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her storage chest was open and her few clothes strewn across -the floor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Like the sound a heavy metal object, say a refrigerator, might make if it were slowly being pushed across ceramic tile. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt a gleeful grin spread across her face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Brother Jack said, extending his clasped hands across the table and looking at me with his head to one side. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I planned that we would spend our nearly last Saturday in California traveling across the bay to San Francisco to ride a cable car and see Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, and the Golden Gate Bridge. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

USA Crossers is the site dedicated to everyone who has run across the USA. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My body told me it was morning, but it was dark outside, and thunder rolled across the hills. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hold out the pool cue, and she takes the other end, pushing open the door and leading me across the dark cafeteria. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The strap of the automatic weapon slung across her back digs into her neck and she shifts her shoulder to reposition it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then, with stunning realization clambering across her face, she smiles at me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sitting down on a steel cot across from the stove to mull over this eerie tableau, I encounter evidence of McCandless’s presence wherever my vision rests. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jason,” he called, “can you fly a few legionnaires across the pit? The enemy’s left flank is weak—see? Take it!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She sat down in a chair staring helplessly at him from across the room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cade reached across me and grabbed a can of chewing tobacco from the glove compartment. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of guards, in their red and brown uniforms, ambled across the square, laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had left the front door open, and when I saw daylight I leaped across the threshold and down the few steps. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pull the trash can across the floor. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The craft tipped its wings and zigzagged across the sky. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo strung some wires across the mouth of the funnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Without stopping, and with extremely poor posture, he continued across the room, cradling something close to his narrow chest. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The tree line leaped at him from across the way, but there was nobody over there. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji had spent his share of time across the desk from the principal—mostly for interrupting. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am midway across a vast meadow, tall grass cutting my legs, before I realize I have nowhere to go. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Uriah rolls his eyes and puts his arm across my shoulders, steering me toward the door. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It took us forever to get across the stream. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost run across the intersection even though the lights say I have the right of way. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now he must be clean and presentable if he wished, to walk, not run, stroll calmly across that wide boulevard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A streetlight flashes across his face, revealing how tight his jaw is set. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Gurgi snuffled, “a piggy has gone across the water with swimmings and splashings.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Woody was one of the students who made it across the finish line kicking and screaming. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A moment later he’d jumped out, holding the painter, and Asta in the shape of a mouse shot across the path and under the bush. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His towering image stood tall against the cement wall, arms crossed over his chest, his name written in bubbly letters across the front of his favorite hoodie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He would have to be a dang fool to stand on a mudflat that was doing its best not to freeze, in a snowstorm, waiting for a friendly boat to take him across. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dad gave a sad smile from across the table. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We are right on the waterfront, and we look across the sound to the Seattle skyline and Mount Rainier. It’s a perfect spot.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was mad weird seeing across the border for the first time in my entire life, taking in the country where my grandparents were born. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he said something so rapid, throaty, and clipped that neither of us understood it, turned quickly and strode off across the quadrangle. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid my feet across the floor, like a forward moonwalk, past the couch and television and down the hall into my room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Hector Bowen takes his daughter’s face in his gloved hand, scrutinizing her expression for a moment before releasing her, his fingers leaving long red marks across her cheeks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Thin bubbles of ice form across these puddles overnight; we shatter them with the heels of our boots. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were silent for a long time, lost in memories that the murmur of the mourning wind carried across the treetops. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows flitted across the walls within, thrashing movement, the silhouettes of flailing limbs—was there a person in there? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mama went back to work, pulling the wagon across the grass carpet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls the strands that she’s touching across her nose and sniffs at it herself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down across the table and spooned porridge into a bowl. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ambrose half-turned to look back at me and I saw flickers of amusement play across his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jay Oh flicked a bottle cap at me that bounced off my chest and skittered across the table. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was low enough for him to walk across, but still swift. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Using the red paper, cut out a small heart about three inches across. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Written across the window, in shoe polish, it says, Clover City can only have one Miss Teen Blue Bonnet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a brief silence after she had finished; rather to my surprise, Henry winked solemnly at her from across the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Clayton didn’t know for sure, but sitting in the train with one woman across from him and another at the other end of the car, he didn’t rule out the possibility. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I sat across the table from him, I looked into his eyes, I felt something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a stone thrown across a blue pond, hitting, falling deep, and vanishing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal glared at him and eased out across the log, crouching low to keep his balance. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He eased himself into a chair across from Mama with a serious look on his face. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two horses tore across the packed earth of the drill ground, and for the first time in his life Johnny heard that wonderful music— galloping hoofs on hard earth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steam hung in the air, like the bathhouse back at Camp Jupiter, except bathhouses usually didn’t have thunderstorms crackling across the ceiling, lighting the room in disorienting flashes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He laughed, then pointed to a white speck across the lake and said, “See that?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two Step and Magdalys ran side by side across the rooftop toward the dark cluster of shapes at the other end. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And I walked out of the room, leaving Joan lying, lumpy as an old horse, across my bed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Again the cow called, but they could not see across the field. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hauled them to the street, hailed a taxi, and took it across town to Eric’s building. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the sidewalk below my building is deserted, the windows across the street rows of dead eyes, dark with curtains and dresses and rugs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Thanks to all the newspaper coverage, gangsters and mobsters across the country now knew exactly who was decoding their secret messages—and whose evidence was sending them to jail. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The clouds which were sailing majestically across its endless depth made him fed giddy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the leader, who was now half across the Ford, stood up menacing in his stirrups, and raised up his hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He went flying on his rear about ten feet across the floor. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

All was smooth sailing till eight weeks into their journey when, on the verge of uncharted waters, they came across the longboat filled with human bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We heard a motor boat once more but I kept quiet until the noise of the engine went away across the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The damp hair is falling across his forehead, and he rests his head against mine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Neel smiled, yawned again, and stumbled sleepily across the courtyard to the pump. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you wanted to see with your naked eye a paramecium swimming in a drop of water, you would have to enlarge the drop until it was some forty feet across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hear Shay across the room, but she doesn’t sound happy. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Policemen with riot gear, rifles, tear gas canisters and sjamboks poured out of the trucks and formed a phalanx across the wide street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mola looked down at me, her arms folded across her chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They'd stared at each other, and then Etta had folded her arms across her chest and asked him what he wanted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I head past the mechanic shop, the library, and across the street to where all the low rising buildings look the same. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to meet her, even speak to her, but I drove to her store and parked across the street, to wait for her to come out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flash and the spark that sent us flying across the world. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I push my earmuffs back on as her chair screeches across the floor away from me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Glowing, misshapen swarms ripple below like a wave of bees across the turquoise lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, when she was a safe distance away—two thirds across the garden and nearly home—she stopped and looked again more carefully. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Up and down he walked, up and down across the library floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His guard was sprawled bonelessly across the narrow steps, looking up at him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While I pondered the problem and tried to figure out a solution, I came across a letter in the church’s archives. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their attorney told us that out of all the requests from across the country, this was the only interview they were granting to anyone in the media. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t able to put that across to the controller.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The tongue almost slithered across his face as it slid in and out, constantly repeating the dreaded name. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The black strap of a pack cuts diagonally across his chest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He clasped her back to his chest, his arm looped under hers and across her body, the way she’d been holding him only moments ago, as if she were drowning. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pearl is this elderly lady who lives by herself across the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

With Pantalaimon flying above to keep watch, they set off across the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sleeper grabbed her arm and dragged her across the museum lobby. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The glacier had been over these mountainsides, in the hundreds of thousands of years it had been grinding back and forth across the North. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Minli felt as if she were on the edge of the world as she stared across the great gulf separating them from the Never-Ending Mountain. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She asks if she can sit down across from him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I rose and slipped across the dark space to the wall mirror. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Farid they looked like the tracks left by snakes slithering across the sand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then he put his arm across my shoulder and said, “But you know what? Laleh is not my best friend, Darioush. You are.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mother and I raked them across the front dirt and burned them in the street. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sprawled across the throne, he had his chin propped by a hand, his golden crown glinting in the soft light. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t answer, because right then Nyame strode forward, his golden robes absorbing the light and scattering it across the beach like a million pieces of glass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After a few more tries, I’m about ready to throw the dumb thing across the room, when my finger grazes the slightest little bump on the spine of the book. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Theatre groups in towns and cities across the United States presented live dramas, comedies, and musicals at prices affordable to struggling families. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I tackle him and rain down punches, growling in satisfaction at the snap of bone beneath my fist, reveling in the blood that sprays across the wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Before he let himself rest, he set about collecting wood, and soon came across a circle of charred stones in the grass, where someone else had made a fire long before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I gasped and the officer whipped the flat side of the blade across Father’s face. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you got a headache, rub a cold egg across your face. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now a brightly glowing bead of resin threw a brief light across her face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her wrist, and the hammer skittered across the cement. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted to start a business that could employ women like Beatrice, paying them fairly without making them commute halfway across Atlanta by bus or train. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

To get to it, to redeem it, Franny had to shuffle across the floor through a quantity of newspapers and sidestep an empty paint bucket. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He chews proudly, a huge smear of barbecue sauce across his upper lip and the tip of his nose. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Off across the night, beyond the stone that hemmed them close, the dogs woke and began to bark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If Scythe Curie had come across Citra on one of those days, would the woman have gleaned her? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We get off at the next stop and run across the multilane road to the mosque. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I was hurrying along, looking for a shallow riffle so I could wade across, when the voices of my dogs stopped. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch my throbbing head and liquid slips across my fingertips. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The pilot only has time to blink before she flicks Kasusu across his neck. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

An artificial smile spread across her face, and Hazel got the feeling she was supposed to congratulate the teacher on her generosity. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Disruption rolled across the valley—grass turning to sand, forest crumbling to dust. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As she waited for the dough to rise she sat on the back doorstep and looked out across the garden and the meadow, but there was no sound from the Wood today. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember having books in my hands, and that as I moved towards where Ruth and the others were talking, there was a strong patch of sun across the desk-lids they were sitting on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind will blow them across the ocean thousands of them in giant boats swarming like larva out of a crushed ant hill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Axel races across the room, flings open the basement door, all the while his stomach fills with woodpeckers all trying to hammer out of him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Celia cuts the deck in three without waiting for Isobel to instruct her, holding the edges of the cards carefully as she places each pile in a row across the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bessermann, who always watches everything, comes straight across the room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was wrapped in thick brown paper and scrawled across it was To Harry, from Hagrid. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They can’t be expected to learn the languages of all the different species they deal with, babbling across the galaxy, some of them speaking in smells or patterned light. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My head was halfway in and halfway out when my eyes fell upon two tall black policemen emerging from a shack across the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped Papi string colored lights across the yard, and we decorated an eggplant bush with crêpe paper flowers and cutout figures. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Starry leans across me to get a glimpse. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, in a rush, calling “Eleanor, Eleanor,” they ran all together across the hall and out the front door, looking and calling, the flashlight moving busily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had been spreading quietly along the Kinshasa Highway, a transcontinental road that wanders across Africa from east to west and passes along the shores of Lake Victoria within sight of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going through a rack of clothes, he came across a sweatshirt that was identical to the one he was wearing. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The thing that had skittered across the floor was not a knife, but a plate of false teeth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thalia dropped off the second-floor railing and landed across from me, on the other side of the globe. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They cut across the lawn and headed west, toward the building marked by a star on the Little Comic Con map Rishi was holding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From here she had a view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of shimmering phosphorescence, white hot from the fierce late afternoon heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I open the first trunk, and light spills across the shimmering contents—piles of sequined, gold-threaded, and patterned fabric. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found it laid across a table in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, blowing fine Whfll spray across the raft Then the stars came out We stayed in the middle of the raft, side by side, as it drifted aimlessly over the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a week after our first talk, here I was again, sitting across from his ugly face in his office. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But then he saw something fly from a cluster of leaves and swoop down low across the ground, making a clear, sweet call as it flew. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those had been my favorite tales as a kid—you didn't come across many Arabian heroes anywhere else. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was moving across the nearly calm waters of the Hudson toward Weehawken, then, because he did not believe he could afford to decline Burr’s invitation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was finishing the last of the pork pie the cooks had served up for supper when Jon sat down across from him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One of the buttons pops off his shirt as he bends over, and it rolls across the intricate line-pattern of the kitchen linoleum. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them had staked their rifles bayonet first into the ground and rigged tent cloth across to shade them from the sun. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrived opposite it, I stood for some time across the highway and watched. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chrome glittering across the front grille gleamed so brightly that you had to take your eyes away from it when the sun struck just right. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The women are looking at him with horror, as if he’s a half-dead rat dragging itself across a kitchen floor. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask his bare butt as he struts in that slow summer way of his across the room and grabs a blue robe from a hook on the wall next to the smocks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The kitchen’s a million miles away from the family room, Milt. Every time you want a snack you have to traipse all the way across the house.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This must be what it feels like when you’re my brother and you score a goal and the team carries you across the field. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was pulling Horace up by his arms when the door slammed in my face and a burned dresser lifted out of the corner and flew across the room. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

William stood in the center of the road, shoulders heaving, deep red blood spattered across his skin and face like war paint. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Seizing the moment, Lee escapes north across the Appomattox River and then turns west. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m allowed to walk across the grounds,” he said pointedly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After school Fiona’s rolling me across campus in the direction of the courtyard when she says, “I just realized something.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’d felt a bit like Noah as I studied the countless boulders scattered across my claim. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had to back all the way across before I could read the message. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rainbow-colored crepe party streamers were draped across the family room walls. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A tall white guy sits in one of our kitchen chairs facing away from me—DETECTIVE written in big yellow letters across the back of his dark blue jacket. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, Madoc enters the room, his shadow preceding him, spreading across the floor like a carpet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Clouds rolled slowly across the sun, and the air grew cool. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If I stretched all the way across the table, the seam under my arm would split open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all begin to move at once, finding someone across the circle and clasping hands with them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If it was a mild day, Miss Bessie would be mooing nervously, from across the fence. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We are a kind of animal that has evolved for social learning,” says Nicholas A. Christakis, a physician and Yale professor, who is an expert in social networks across time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But honestly, I think I would be a very bad reporter because I can’t imagine sitting across the table from a politician or a movie star and asking them questions. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Do they use the cane at St. Brutus’s, boy?” she barked across the table. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

We have already had a few of these, sweeping across the field of human thought periodically, like comets. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance across the room at Brick and Noodle, holding court on the sofas, with crowds of people fawning around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After he sat down across from Dr. Barnes at the first table, Mr. Larson turned his head and looked out into the audience. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

My father handed her Gabriel’s favorite T-shirt, a black one with pink floyd written across the chest. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The tanned-looking skin around her brown eyes is red and puffy, her long black and gray hair is splayed across the sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the field peeled away, scattered across thirty-two lengths of track behind them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked across the asphalt, opened the door, and put my bag down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He probably wanted to look reassuring, but in centaur form he towered over me, casting a shadow across the table. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The two waited all day in the Rusty Ruins, patches of sunlight crawling across the floor through the crumbling roof, like slow searchlights marking the hours. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This time the ladder is more stable, and Christina makes it across the gap without trouble. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the horizon, looking out across the sea, she could see a thin pink line of dawn emerge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If I had been back at home, inside one of my parents’ cars, I would have followed the drops’ swerving routes across the cold glass with my fingertips. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They dragged him across the floor; he fought them, squirmed, yelled to be left alone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was cold and spread across my stomach like pancake batter. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The cathedral bells rang across a sky that was a deep, perfect blue. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Taylor saluted formally and rode off, the grin breaking across his face just as he turned. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed across the rickety board to the second pair of dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They closed up their suits and lumbered across the staging area to a large air-lock door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the old Flint Barracks, he came across a dozen men pelting one another with snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An involuntary shiver runs down my spine as her fingers trace across my forehead to touch my hair, and then back down across my brow. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours, he’s been sit- ting on the ground, leaning against the wall of the building across the street, the place where he played me the music that magical evening. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clambered out and almost ran across the road to the yard, as though compelled by some pressing urgency which I could not understand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was aware of other figures crawling into the room, knees scraping across the floor. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find a clean white shirt laid across the end of Kinko’s cot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century, the technology became available to construct a suspension bridge across the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hand out to run his fingers across them, as if he didn’t believe his eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They hauled it across the open square, hoisted it up, and dumped it in the village well. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grey cloaks snapped in the wind as the guardsmen marched them across the yard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then she sits down across from me as one adult might sit down across from another, her legs crossed, her back straight, her hands folded in her lap. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two huge washbasins had been slung across the brachy’s back, and the fire brigade went to work filling up buckets and rushing around with them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And so I spent my time in PE seated on the bleachers, attempting to focus on homework from another class, despite all the basketball dribbles and squeaking sneakers across the polished gym floor. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He swept his hand, and a wall of red flame rolled across the patrol cars. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The captain took his leave, his wet boots leaving damp footprints across the carpet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Boat,” a voice called across the water, faintly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All across Paris, people pack china into cellars, sew pearls into hems, conceal gold rings inside book bindings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They could only pass across it in single file. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

What would they do if they saw her running across the yard? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The shore was a snarl of rocks, so he was taking them well out across the bay. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At least I could stretch my legs out across the seat. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

From my first moment in the Games, when I ran for that orange backpack, to the firefight in 8, to my impulsive race across the square in 2. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was after the North Vietnamese troops just across the border in Cambodia that were moving into Vietnam, attacking, and running back into Cambodia to hide in the jungle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She sat across from him, behind a desk piled with papers and envelopes, files—apparently, she had a lot of work to do. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I make a face at Muhammad and see Farooq hovering across from us, pretending to look at Islamic books. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly, taking her time, Betita walked across the mesa to the rim of the gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed across the sky, and thunder rumbled. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Rich kids across town w’hose schools have salad bars instead of just Jell-O,” I’m about to add, but I just say, “Thanks anyway. Not tonight.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I sent actual cards—heavy cream stock with Cadence Sinclair Eastman printed across the top. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Momma’s hand goes across her chest, and she steps back. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then he caps it, leans across, still on his haunches, and hands it to me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She looked all around her—back at the house, across the fields, and up into the canopy of branches overhead. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As yet another silence engulfs us, it dawns on me that unless I want to try leaping across train cars drunk and in the dead of night, I’ll be sleeping right where I am. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He feinted with his own shorter knife, trying to slash inside the machete, but his father anticipated him and this time the machete caught Nailer across the cheek. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If it could be entered across a branch instead of swung into. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking how, ’bout a year ago, I was fooling around up on the ridge and come across a dead dog. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even feel my fists pounding on faces, on bodies, the hair being pulled from my scalp, the fingernails across my own face, the pounding on my back. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Purple and blue cotton saris are slung across the open windows of a clay house. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It was designed by a very well-known mortal age architect,” Scythe Curie told Citra as she led the way across a footbridge to the front door. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In what became known as the “Night of Terror,” the women were taken across a grassy yard to the men’s prison, where they were placed in individual cells. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Filled with fear, with Brand pulling my arm, I rushed out of the room, raced across a rear areawav, into another room, then down a long corridor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few boys dash across the road and disappear up a steep path on the hillside, but before José can follow, Yolanda calls him back. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The sun had moved across the sky, and he knew he had slept for hours. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His fireplace is crackling and bright, casting light across the ceiling and the walls. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sam Salomon is one of those tough guys from across the tracks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The light from the circle of burning brand flickered across the blades of their knives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The water seems no more than an inch deep in most places, straight across the wide bay, running in shallow currents, crested by delicate foam. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dudley was still for a minute and then, moving her head acquiescently, turned and walked deliberately across the kitchen to a farther doorway. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the meridians of energy that ran across the Great Wood buckled beneath her touch. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And waving her hand, she ran away across the wide flat roof towards the hangars. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others might have gone straight across the bridge without looking down there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The air was sharp, and there was white frost thick on the ground and on the dead leaves at the edge of the wood across the garden patch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sounder was already across the road into the stalk land, whining, moving his head from one side to the other, looking back to be sure that the boy was following. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly they gave chase, drove it across the tracks and there filled their pockets with granite stones from the roadbed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now this lightness of heart, this spring in my step, this childish feeling that I wanted to run across the lawn, and roll down the bank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From across the table, Mrs. shook her head in tiny yesses, urging Pa to say he would. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was cutting across the quad one day and one of the janitors saw me, said, “Hey, you’re that girl who spins on her head!” and I was legitimately freaked out. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dicey saw a shadow of shoreline, across the bay. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they got across the bay, they’d have to stop spending. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment Sam was walking across his mountain meadow when he heard the clinking of a chain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

So I stand there, biting my lip as she clambers onto the branch and sits down, then begins to scooch across it until she’s reached the other side of the wall. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You should probably go across the street and sell it in the park.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The woods had a way of grabbing bits out of pockets and scattering them for other people to come across. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the stretch ran roads, and houses stood facing one another across the grass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Traveling by instinct, they would simply go west by the most direct route—straight across country, over the Ironmouth Range.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom raised an eyebrow, and a curved wrinkle formed across her forehead. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I twirl a small section of dripping hair around my index finger and try and force myself to look away and out across the water. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph dashed behind an abandoned car across the street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The long, mournful moan of a bone ship floated across the waves. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In my small cartoon hand is a balloon, the top bursting, and hundreds of stars pouring out of it, rolling across the page to Will. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Sierra made it as far as the 500s door when the Pacific team’s closer sprinted across the finish line. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Drying her eyes, Lenina walked across the roof to the lift. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The racially segregated, poverty-stricken ghettos that exist in inner-city communities across America would not exist today but for racially biased government policies for which there has never been meaningful redress. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He squinted at the field across the street. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My mother walked off to look at a group of hungry slaves across the street. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred Hartnett laid an arm across me, and I went down. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All through that afternoon and into the night we travel across Turkey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what’s going on with you,” the man says from across the counter, “but I’m not taking your money.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There’s a giant red-and-purple batik tapestry draped across one wall and woven throw pillows on every surface. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Two leather sacks hung from a big pole across his back. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I lay with my arm across my eyes, groggy and dazed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looks across the table and beside him and down at the opposite end. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I make my way across the crowded meeting room, feeling the warmth of attention, as if a beam of light is shining down on my head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She wraps an arm around me and pulls herself across the cushions so she’s right up against me, warm and soft and pliable. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the distance, down the hill and across the road, lay Lake St. Clair, where my grandfather Jimmy Zizmo had faked his death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She put the finishing touches to Aurelia’s appearance, fastening a diadem across her forehead, a jeweled pendant round her neck, and gold bangles on her wrists. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I look across the pond at Will again, the boy I love, who has B. cepacia and will never get the opportunity in front of me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The worst slap across the face I ever got was when I interrupted him to ask just what did the H. stand for anyway? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never told nobody that before. Not even Minny. Find I can get my point across a lot better writing em down.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Apart from the concentric ripples moving out across the pool, there was no sign of her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As the column splashed across the shallow waters, the sun was setting behind a pair of grassy hills. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he took his hands off the handlebars and folded them casually across his chest. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six days a week, I take the bus across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to where Miss Leefolt and all her white friends live, in a neighborhood call Belhaven. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I leap across the stream on the rocks, the squirrel runs, and I pick up his ear of corn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the enormous belly move lightly across the room toward the peanut bag, and take over when the skinny white boy dropped his arms and shuffled away. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked across the waves and took heart as another surfboat came out of the darkness. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connections. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It stood at the end of Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, across the street from the historic Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had pastored during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The storms always raged across Florida, wreaking havoc, and then died somewhere overland or in the Gulf. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He turns into his usual spot, reaches into the back for his backpack, gets out, and starts walking across the desolate lot. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

With a whir and whoosh of its electric motor, a shiny robot the color of the storm troopers in Star Wars scooted across an intersection between bookshelves. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a good one-inch gap between the fabric across my mom’s back. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I owe so much to him,” continued Albert as he rubbed his thumb across the ship tattoo on his forearm. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Izzy had been digging through her bag, desperately looking for a tampon, when Deja had discreetly leaned across the aisle and extended a folded hand. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had imagined today warm, with seagulls winging across a blue sky, not overcast and damp. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similar clocks spread across Europe later in the seventeenth century following the independent work of Christiaan Huygens. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Valerie Jarrett was the newly appointed deputy chief of staff to the mayor of Chicago and had deep connections across the city’s African American community. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then John Williams began conducting the amazing flying sequence, of E.T. going across the moon on the bike. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She wipes a handkerchief across her mouth, fusses with her hair, trying to pull herself together. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The lake was frozen, so I guess the dog just figured it could run straight across. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I threw a pillow across the room and hit her in the arm. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But then we were sitting in a booth, sitting across from each other, and I suddenly had no idea what I was doing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His second family lived less than a mile away but they might as well have been across the world. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence-is-power stance number two: cross flexed arms across body, narrow eyes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the mirror I noticed that the side of my face that had somehow been firmly planted into the wooden floor was solid red and had two creases running horizontally across it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As Scabior said it, Harry’s scar, which was stretched tight across his distended forehead, burned savagely. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But Briony was hobbling away on soft white soles across the fiery gravel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Later, higher in the mountains, we came across a baby VC water buffalo. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It traveled across the onlookers like the ripple caused by the toe, and when the mayor of New York City spoke it aloud, everyone sighed in agreement: ‘The Sixth Borough is moving.’ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He advanced across the floor toward his partner, waving the sword. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, India was very, very poor, especially in the north, where famines and droughts had swept across the countryside and people were pushed off their land. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

For a moment, grief flicked across Tanin’s face like a cloud passing over the moon. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Davis stood up and took off across the golf course. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It says: Race across the forest floor when you see the man with the gun. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He saw the boy coming at a run across the fields. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Some people walk through a game park—that’s best, but Father would never agree to it. I can get one by traveling across the city, though.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Arnold arranged for a boat, under a flag of truce, to take a Tory woman and her children across the Hudson to an area held by the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ramsay’s smile curdled at the sight, and anger flashed across his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Kojo dashed back across the chamber as fast as he could and dove behind the first pillar of stones. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

And as its beams shot across the land the travelers could see for the first time what sort of place they were in. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I really didn’t belong here.I folded my arm across my eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wrinkle my face as mean as I can and pull my lips across my teeth and yell: “You and your axe better get out a my way. ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He smiles, then reaches across the table and takes my hand in his. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He could feel it everywhere, even in the blue sheets that were stretched tightly across the bed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The big man slapped him hard across the back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The motor turns, and I lean forward, pulling the white curtain across mv face, like a veil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the walls of a tank around me, and my shadowed reflection across from me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Aimee glanced across the menu to the prices as she was picking what she might want to eat. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I went to the room me and Derek shared, laid across the bed and tried to chill, but I knew it wasn’t going to work. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, your mother live across the way. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Splotches of red cropped up across her cheeks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I heard were the thunderous sounds of many feet running across a court. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next day papers across the nation were reporting the stunning course of events. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

August glided back and forth across the room as she spoke. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze ran through the courtyard, fluttering the leaves of the young pea plants and blowing cool across my cheek where Madam struck me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We weren’t perfect, but we still had hope we’d make it across the universe and make our ancestors proud.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He rubs his temples, stretching his hand across his eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Still, I was making the best of it, enjoying the smell of Rose’s hair across the pillow, pushing my sore groin into her backside a bit, when Slopper appeared behind me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Every sense alert, he watched Gebu walk across the courtyard, open the gate, and go out. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She ran straight across the fifty-yard line and joined the other team’s cheerleaders. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Donal MacGregor stood just inside the doorway, arms folded across his broad chest, waiting for the image conjured by his words to sink in. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Back home, he spread the classified ads out across the kitchen table. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Approaching the wrought-iron gates, we came across the relics of a strike. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Together, we fled across the bay towards the lights of the beleaguered city. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

IV George had set up his stakeout on Poydras Street across from the Paradise Vendors, Incorporated, garage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, he and Baba sang their way across the moonlit waterway. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I let out an angry puff and march across the street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon found this irritating, and as a wolverine he snapped at one girl’s squirrel daemon who was just lying across her shoulder whimpering faintly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Red, with them gourd shapes spread across it in black. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Williams was well aware of this, but as he paddled along holding on to a railroad tie, he inadvertently floated across the “line.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They grew louder, closer-—the other boys had shuffled across the room and as far away from the window as possible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was then that the Corporal reached across the top rail and for a moment held Jonathan’s arm. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The king took a swallow of wine and glowered at Ned across the council table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Flung across the sky, the sound pierced Taran’s breast like a cold blade of terror. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I am in love with everything around me, the dotted white lines moving across my teacher's blackboard, the smell of chalk, the flag jutting out from the wall and slowly swaying above me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I heard her chair scrape against the floor, and her footsteps stomping across the room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The music blasts through the speakers, and Beatriz fires her hips across the stage floor. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Altogether, they uncovered more than ten monumental structures, the largest of them nearly 100 feet across. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gazed across the courtyard—past the panicked tourists and fighting demigods—to the edge of the battlements, where a large mortar pointed out to sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The explosions were still thundering across die sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and reached across the table to shake my hand, so I shook his hand. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Once, so they say, he had to get home by swimming across a river in which there was a large and hungry pike. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven gathered all the strength she had left and jumped back across the river to Valley’s side. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She ran her hands across her scalp, over and back, examining her head from left and right, and Petra braced herself for sobbing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Late that night, Cara remembered the story, got it out of her book bag, and lay across her bed to read it. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas heard the creak of an old wooden door, and then Minho was dragging a cardboard box across the floor; the scrape of it sounded like a knife on bone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When I came out, Stick was leaning against the wall across the hallway. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There’s probably food across the street in the hospital, if I just had the courage to walk in and get it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was already running in the opposite direction, across a rolling green field that stretched out behind the school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

While Grandma stopped to drop our money in the change box, I took a seat right there in front across from the red-faced driver. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It took Koffi a moment to recognize that what she was seeing slowly spread across the man’s face wasn’t anger now, but amusement. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ruth smiles at Mrs. Malloy and sits down in a chair across from the sofa. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Though the trip is only twelve miles across land, it is much longer by boat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was a blue sweat suit, with “USA” printed boldly across the chest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A transparent spotted snake with a forked tongue floated across the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits across from me in the cafeteria, at the table closest to the windows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before every mission, Duke, Nala, and Scruffy raced across a meadow filled with wildflowers to a stump. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

From across the counter comes a wet, cool cabbage, as big as a cannonball. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We fixed our eyes on the television, on Mr. Sullivan, who introduced a circus act involving monkeys that rode tiny scooters across a high wire. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gunshots increased throughout the day, spreading across the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was coming at a gallop across the fields to the south, a line of aides strung out behind him, cutting across the field to save time. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloth-of-gold half cape was draped casually across one shoulder, fastened with an emerald brooch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until Hazel walked out of school and saw her mother’s car parked across the street that she remembered that she wasn’t going to be riding on the bus at all today. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was so quiet that the only things I could hear were the steps I took walking across the marble floor and my heart. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Black and purple clouds were swirling across it, and as another thunderclap sounded outside, a fork of lightning flashed across it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Long aqueducts conveyed water from the distant mountains across the lake and into the city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few days after that, I watched as protesters gathered at major airports across the country to denounce the ban on Syrian refugees and Muslims around the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Each day, to bolster his spirits, his family reminded him of the future, the day he would stand unassisted, walk across the room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked across the table and smiled at me with the smile you give people when you know you have the answers to all their questions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Granddad’s out fishing for trout in the river with a homemade rod or hunting grouse or partridge across the fields. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

My sister was in luck because the woman immediately pointed to the house directly across the street. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Below, Jess Squirrel clamped a paw across her mouth in horror. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Seemingly they went back to their master’s house across Salt Lane for dinner, while the nephew ate out of a basket and minded the shop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I was so enraged, I wanted to slap Papá hard across the face. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But I found a place where the cars would be sheltered after they passed that last bad- looking bit and could wait for the wounded to be brought across the pontoon bridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tall and powerful and able to move across the entire board in one move. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Thus the category ‘discovery’ proved to be capable of disseminating across the various local cultures of Renaissance Europe, but it did not fare well elsewhere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We exited the corridor amidships and walked across an open deck lined with lifeboats. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

James McCord, a former CIA technician now working with the Plumbers, set up a listening post in a room of the Howard Johnson’s motel across the street from the Watergate. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In Hooverville tin roofs cartwheeled across the sky and shanties were simply shredded, leaving their denizens standing dazed among the wreckage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Slim sat down on a box across the table from George. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lovely blond, like hay I see the three or four spots of sun thrown across her face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It flashed across Dr. Armstrong's mind that an old man like the judge was far more tenacious of life than a younger man would be. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Bring him here!” someone called from across the yard. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

During my long hours of travel across the Atlantic, I worried about how this gross display may have been tugging at my mother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie hated the tremor that had entered Cook’s voice, the way her eyes darted around the kitchen as Richard walked across the tiles in his fine shoes, the heels clacking with each step. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the wasted farmland. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“From a passenger I flew across the sea a while back,” Lee said easily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arms were still locked across his chest and he was shifting from foot to foot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She shoved the encyclopedias back and loped across the room, swooping me up in her thin arms with the elbow skin that you could pull down. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

At lunch recess, Doug Swieteck’s brother lurched across the field, sixth graders scurrying out of his way as if he was a southwest wind about to blister them all over. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I saw a group of old men, two seated across a folding table playing a game of chess, others smoking pipes, eating peanuts, and watching. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been two days since they’d seen those kids take the book, and Barry and Clyde were still hanging around the plaza across from the Ferry Building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stood, coughing from the cloud of gunpowder smoke that was rolling across the banks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lee walked forward across the road into the peach orchard, where Barksdale had streamed to his death the day before. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was sixty or seventy feet across, leaving the lake, and the current at the sides seemed a bit slower. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

First, the Free Blacks, who came looking for opportunities across the North; and later, the Haitians, who had taken their independence by force. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The ceiling swam with bright reflections, and sunlight streamed across the dusty, chip-strewn floor. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May I?” she asked the nurse, then reached to drape the shawl across the patient’s shoulders. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They had not slept during the night, not even for a few moments, and all three of them were feeling the tension as they moved across the field toward the river. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the kid whacked him across the face. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Gogol watches his cousins put on their white and blue school uniforms and strap water bottles across their chests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Urban farmers were experimenting in cities across the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Brian and I would hide behind the sagebrush across the highway, trying to peer inside the front door when someone went in or out, but we could never see what was going on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over the side of the wagon and slapped her sharply across her face. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Polgars, thinking of everything, had taken a chance on their way across the border and asked the guards that very question. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She put her palm against the black egg, fingers spread gently across the curve of the shell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Six fat brown mice raced across the tiles of the hall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s always room for one more,” Byrd says, leaning forward like she might leap across the table at Aunt Nancy. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The commander-in-chief dropped his blade cloak an the chest and stepped across to stand behind her. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beautiful woman leaning across a kitchen table. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dad’s camera slipped from her hands and flew across the floor. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped the book and hurried across the street. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All my mind could concentrate on laying there was the sounds of them surfer kids across the way talking in their low voices and laughing and being all happy. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We walked across the desert hand in hand, saying nothing. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise went to her room, shut the door, unbuttoned her blouse, unzipped the fly of her slacks, and fell across her mother’s lacy wrought-iron bed. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He followed the young squire back across the yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Alex looked back up, he caught eyes with a woman across the aisle. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But, technically speaking, Suquamish villages were built on both sides of the Sound. So their reservation is across from us, but this whole region counts as our ancestral territory.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would be running with the boys down Pudding Lane or across London Bridge, playing tag among the shops. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

By summer’s end, the Allies forced the German armies back across France and Belgium and liberated Paris. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wailed and went down, and Citra raced across the sand, leaped the hedge, and grabbed him by the shirt with both hands as he writhed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I count those, too, until we are out and across the street and in the park. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The entire underbelly of the Wonder Dome had been transformed into a fluttering flock of birds, soaring across an unbelievably blue sky, swooping through a clay-colored desert landscape. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The carved chest that she had brought across the narrow sea was more than three-quarters empty now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I rub my index finger across my infinity necklace, and the silver cools my skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

From campus visits to conference keynotes, I was getting invitations from all across the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She reached across his table and touched his hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Leo checked his compass and GPS, and a grin spread across his face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He tapped his pencil—tap, tap, tap—across the neat green field of his blotter. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Grace Wexler looked across the restaurant to the lone figure at the window. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only light comes through the Venetian blinds and leads in strips across the rucked covers, the comforter. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once when told that Rutherford was about to make a radio broadcast across the Atlantic, a colleague drily asked: "Why use radio?" A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I have already seen her at diving lessons, another ballet recital, practicing piano, and now I see her running across a field kicking a soccer ball. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Every day, the whale would swim across the oceans and rise up out of the sea at sunset, making a great leap into the sky with drops of water still clinging to its skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few hours later the beeps don’t wake me, but the frustrated shout of someone across the room does. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m aware of his hand flying across the page. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The following day, while Anthony stood on the stage, Woodhull entered through a side door and walked across to the center of the stage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He walked two of his short, chunky fingers across the top of the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he would switch me across the hands. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The referee held up Hubbard's right arm, and his manager held up the left, but Hubbard broke loose and ran across the ring, throwing his arms around Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Idly, he watched the people on the Common across the street. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Contesting a footrace across a busy highway, he just missed getting broadsided by a jalopy. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I got no response except to be pulled by my sweater across the clearing and pushed to sit beside the rest of the group. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I ask my best friend in a low voice, leaning across the table to make it harder for Emily to hear. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Reflecting Lawrence’s lack of conceit when it came to engineering, the machine incorporated the latest innovations of cyclotroneers across the country in designs for transformers, power transmission, the oscillator, and the ion source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

What if Zero was still alive, desperately crawling across the dirt searching for water? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A thunderous voice rolled across the field: Death loses its hold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The girl across from us moved her mouth to her boyfriend’s neck. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In order to understand the movements of the planets, Kepler thought about ferrymen trying to row across a fast-flowing river. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But later, when I glance out the window, my eyes fall on the scrubby trees across the street. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I walked across the avenue and turned in to my office. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

People moved like blue vapor lights on the cobbled avenues, and there were faint murmurs of sound, and odd animals scurrying across the gray-red sands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old clothes were strewn across the floor, and bags of rotten food had splattered the walls. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Chess glanced over at Finn, draped across Ms. Morales’s office couch and still soundly asleep. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ranofer groped for it and, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles, stumbled across the courtyard still half asleep. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As the lamassus jumped out of the way of Idiptu's slime, I left a pair of deep chariot grooves across the toad's head. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Saying this was miles more difficult than running across people's back gardens. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Right now, they were racing across the Atlantic Ocean. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man came forward then and cut Tayo across the top of his head; it happened suddenly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe across the room during geography, or I can find you at lunch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I groan and attempt to get up, forgetting the trauma to my back until agony explodes across my skin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Its fearsome head made a hood to cover her naked scalp, its pelt a cloak that flowed across her shoulders and down her back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Michah works in the building across from the shop, doing odd jobs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He sat down across from her and nodded at the others. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yet the air felt hot, and die breeze that came across the raft was warm. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes drift across my face as if he’s trying to remember something. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went past the cottages and across new-plowed fields until I reached the road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two thirds of the way across, I stepped off the rail onto a crosstie and sat down, elbows on knees, to look around. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, his father ran a hand across his bald head as if smoothing down the hair that wasn’t there. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘But I hope to get across the river without their seeing us.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I slid into my seat across from Bobby Gene. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a smear of blood across the mouth of it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we came to the bridge my mother hurried the girls across, but my father paused to look over the railing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several years ago, I was going through my family heirlooms when I came across a manuscript that was assumed to be a novel written by my great-great-great-grandfather. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And let my fingers dance across the keyboard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Heavy drapes had been pulled across the windows, and the darkness was black as ink. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Then why do men lower their voices when they speak of the warlocks of Qarth? All across the east, their power and wisdom are revered." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Those first few exhales were big and wasteful as Miig tried to get the damp paper to light, and smoke billowed across the clearing like messages. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes lift and focus on something across the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My pace slows when I am across the bridge, and Uriah slings an arm across my shoulders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We'd gotten them from a Turkish wholesaler: blue branches spreading across a shiny white background, a design called the tree of life. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the addresses were local, some were from the nearby cities of Raleigh and Greensboro, but many others were from small towns across the state: Mollie, Waxhaw, Piney Creek, Trotville. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Teddy glared across his immaculate mahogany desk at his director of media relations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the parrot’s limp body and hurl it from the crow’s nest, watching it arc across the sky like a feathery fireball, until it is taken by the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He felt Amaranta's fingers searching across his stomach like warm and anxious little caterpillars. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’s staring at me from across the parking lot. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She whacked him hard across the head, knocking him to the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

This highly refined coordination and cooperation must be multiplied out across eight individuals of varying statures and physiques to make the most of each individual’s strengths. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Leans across the center console to ask, “Is something wrong?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There is a tall fence stretching wide across the landscape, which looks empty compared to the densely packed buildings I saw before I sat down. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He gives me a strange look and pushes himself down the hallway as I press against my mother’s arm, which feels like a bar across my shoulders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The dog set its paws on the rim, tipping the can and sending the garbage across the sidewalk. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The others agreed, and, with Constance riding piggyback, they left the rock garden and walked across the empty plaza. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The last platform lifts directly across from mine. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But my note comes back in the mail, with address unknown scrawled across it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was partway across the quad, and I peeked back—four guys from the hockey team had surrounded him at the foot of the stairs behind David Hall, sucking him into their swarm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The couple across the road taught me to ask questions correctly, and the grocer taught me to count. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He walked to the Seventy-second Street station and found a chain across the stairwell. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He yanked her forward, almost off the ground, and the two guards dragged her across the square at an awkward, lopsided pace that made her stumble over her own feet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed again across the sky and thunder rolled. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Clothes. Duds. Britches. That will fit this guy and make women swoon across Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau region.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The jagged edge didn’t cut immediately, so she held the screen with her right hand and raked it across her left. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She ran swiftly across the cool floor to the double doorway and flung the doors open. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were accusations and counter accusations, but no one would admit to writing the mysterious and puzzling words that straggled across the back of Ken’s question. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boats and trains brought vast amounts of lumber, grain, and livestock into the city to be stored and processed, then shipped out to customers across the country. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When finished, he moves his hand across the top of his stubbly head, pausing briefly at the scar halfway down the back of his scalp, a souvenir care of his father’s belt buckle. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It lay across her knees and, with a perplexed frown, the tip of her tongue between her lips, the girl was studying the weapon curiously. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I know I should have jumped off the bed and stomped across the room and flattened him against the wall and punched his lights out. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ancient Kongo used to stretch across all of central Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strings of glittering white lights defined the contours of the suspension bridges across the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The cliffs were a lot taller than they had appeared from across the valley. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There is a car waiting across the street.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A smile skirted across my face before I could stop it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he drags it across his palm with a jerk and holds his arm out to the side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Shirley thanked the man with a low bow, then hurried across the road, blushing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She gazed intently across the water to find signs of land. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bring the lamp down again, and again, and again, until the hard drive cracks and pieces of it spread across the floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"This is my track uniform. The Defenders," I explained, pointing to the gold word printed across my chest. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Roberto parked the car in front of El Camino Junior High, right across the street from a circular lit park, next to the Vets building. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I throw these books across the room and even kick some of my favorites off their shelves because the line between favorites and books that will never be favorites doesn’t matter anymore. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The party across the way was still going strong and a faint but boisterous rap song throbbed obtrusively in the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could run across any surface, even the sea; but she’d been afraid he wouldn’t follow them into the ancient lands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My phone starts buzzing loudly in the pocket of my red coat, which is slung across Mom’s lap. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A draft from the open door sent an eddy of air across the bed, and the particles of the angel’s form, loosened by the waning of his strength, swirled upward into randomness and vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And as you search, you may come across a few surprises. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sprint across our grass to the edge of the lawn closest to Olly’s house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once the curtain is drawn, Scoob expects Dad to sit back down across from him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The sea spray flings high through the air, dashes across the rocks. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Halfway across she saw a dark head rise above the hill, and a beast with a head as large as the moon rose to its hind feet, massive paws swinging. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Fiver who had stamped and he was now staring intently across the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went across the vacant lot, crossed the street and entered the basement of the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gulls whose tedious cries woke him each morning now thrilled him as they dipped and flapped across the sky. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A bomb crater yawned across the whole width of the street like a monstrous mouth with broken pavement for teeth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Along the docks, the sidewalks were mobbed with tourists shopping at the T-shirt kiosks, overflowing from stores, and lounging across acres of outdoor café tables, like pods of sea lions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I do the special wave to Michael across the room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl called after me, leaning across the seat so he could see me through the open window. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I took one last look around Halliday’s office; then, still clutching the egg in my hands, I walked across the room and stepped through the exit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Men began to turn to look out across the smoldering field. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea what happened after they drove across the state line. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I scanned the driveways along the street, then dashed across the road to a house with a car parked out front. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A woman across the aisle handed him a cup of water, which he poured over the stain. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, Mia pushed the bags into the footwells and laid a folded army blanket across them and the backseat, forming a bed that could just hold them both. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d hear strangers on the radio and in the Mexican Catholic church across town speaking in Spanish, but I couldn’t really believe that Spanish was a public language, like English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened, and she heard what he said: “My wagon stands in the barnyard of the next farm, right across the way. The horse is in the stable. The harness hangs on a nail.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner tries to make out the heads across the cellar in the blackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She could make out tiny little microdactyls, medium-sized minidactyls, and then the fully grown pterodactyls, all sailing back and forth, snapping at each other or whatever prey they could find, dancing across the darkness. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Being so hot—and, maybe, not having had a bath in a long time—he picked up the soap and ran across the road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She paused, glancing sideways across the kitchen to Mrs Boland, 'before the wedding.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Is his grandmother’s house even bigger than the one across the street?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All that was left to stare at was the subway floor, or across the train, or up at the business school ads posted above him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

That day after school Jane's at my house, sitting across a Scrabble board from me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They were swollen with hundreds of red welts, pinprick bruises that would grow into a blue stubble across my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, wait a minute,” said Hazel, pushing past Pipkin and Hawkbit as they came across the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked behind him at the rising sun, then smiled across the chasm. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look back across to the open field. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they headed for the bridges they would only lose time if they cut away across country again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He'd been away for more than two years, and the guy sleeping across from me was a stranger. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Grandma lives in the building across the street. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Right across the road is the Ontario Parliament Building, which is also old and dingy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

How long she stayed there she could not have said, but after a time she heard a bell ringing, far off across the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As they broke from the woods into the open field, lightning slashed across the clouds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The braless woman wobbles to the seat across from me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their headlines pulse and flicker across the pages, calling my attention. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Herbert, watching the house from across the street, was devastated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We lapsed into silence, staring across the street at my neighbor’s bright green lawn. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Reaching roughly across his shoulder I picked up a greasy menu that rested between the sugar shaker and the hot-sauce bottle and pretended to read it through my dark lenses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hen Wen raced across the field and into the woods. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They fanned out across the waterfront, their muskets primed and held at the ready position. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laughter muttered back and forth across the hall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walked across the stage to Mr. Tushman, who shook my hand with both his hands and whispered in my ear: “Well done, Auggie.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now, as the Argo II raced across the waves, Leo had to use all his skill just to keep the ship in one piece. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I cut the balls halfway across the middle for the mouth, and then with a squeeze, they opened up to hold coins. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She sat looking down at her folded hands, reluctant to lift her eyes to the young man who sat on the bench across the wide hearth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a cloud of dust moving across the wasteland and noticed that the other boys had stopped digging and were watching it, too. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z