He scanned the bodies for clothing he recognized, for children the right size. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Such maneuverability! How does the wingspan compensate for the weight of the horse’s body, I wonder?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His body is his escape from the world, whereas I’m trapped in mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A woman threw her body at him, oblivious to the possibility of hurting herself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Some part of me was still back in that seventh-grade French class, thinking only of the immediate security of my body, regarding France as one might regard Jupiter. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Two shots rang out, and the body fell silent. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The noise of the crowd entered his body from the air, through his skin, into his bloodstream where it burned and cooled at the same time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur put their bodies into sumptuous coffins—not sarcastically—and sent them to the Lord Mayor of Rome, instead of the tribute which had been demanded. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as grown women, they lowered their voices in their father's earshot when alluding to their bodies' pleasure. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He drank a bit from the wine that remained from his dinner of the night before, and he gathered his jacket closer to his body. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the bruises on the bodies of Kerling and Thiel from their interrogator, who had resorted to beating them to get them to confess, no one complained. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then half of his body was out, up to the waist—he gripped the window frame to stop himself from falling completely. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They peeked through the eyeholes in their hoods, trying to see over shoulders and around big bodies, moving toward the far side of the camp. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The man kept his body ramrod straight while his head spun like a robot’s, scanning the area. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes moved from the sky to the dead man’s body to the knuckles of his own hands. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its body snapped into a C, almost like it was about to bite its own tail. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a man who, if he wanted, could spend every waking moment in self-pity, feeling his body for decay, counting his breaths. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shift my body again for no reason, pulling my legs into my chest and wrapping my arms around them. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd scatters, everyone running in terror from the threat of bullets, and I try to see who, if anyone, was shot, but the rush of bodies is too intense. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment I nearly panicked—we couldn’t just leave the body in the open, could we?—but then I realized it was the only thing we could do. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I staggered back in terror, only to strike a hard, unmoving body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But then a third swung down through the smoke and hammered his body into the ground. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My stomach pulls in, wanting to rid my body of everything. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He used his two legs to walk across the floor and undulated his long body like a snake, helping to push himself along. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The roar of voices and the smell of closely packed bodies were overpowering and unremitting. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your feelings are singular. They seem to satisfy every body else.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Hard, like it was trying to pump the blood out of my body. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Her body jerked as though it belonged to someone else. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

White cypress trees grew out of the shadowy water like bones, and fireflies skipped along the surface, their little bodies red sparks brightening the night. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I jog a few steps next to the car and then throw my body to the side, landing on my left arm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was led by two bedraggled men, and it pulled a wagon with a dead and naked body on it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In the midst of fear Lyra knelt by Lanre’s body and breathed his name. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This often happens when we are very miserable, because then the body’s defenses against disease are weakened. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As she stared, her arms, her legs, her body froze into the cold stone of the gang. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Somehow, my body had not only survived but been rejuvenated. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Representative James Jackson from Georgia was positively apoplectic that such a petition would even be considered by any serious deliberative body. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You will need to continue the kind of exercises we have done today, drawing small amounts of the splendor in and through your body,” said Badwa. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He lets go of Adam, whose body slumps like a scarecrow taken off his pole. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When parts of the body aren’t used, they tend to weaken, or shrink, or atrophy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosemary waits patiently while I lower my creaking body into the wheelchair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was a pitiful sight—the half of his body that had lain in the rut was black and soaking, while the other was streaked and stained with blood. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the silken inside as they slip it down over my naked body, then the weight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a soft scrabbling of paws on wood, the latch clicked, and the door opened a fraction, just enough to admit the slight body of the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be hard, but I know my body will thank me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We stand there until her body stiffens and she pulls away. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we placed Charlie’s body near a log, covered him with leaves and bark, and said a prayer. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thumb here”—he adjusts my fist—“and bring your body into it. Keep your mouth closed. Use your weight...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How could they make a new body for him? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The invariable reaction to a scene with Gebu had begun to set in, a fatigue so deep it penetrated mind and body alike. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The body is alive with electric barbed wire. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Friday eases her gait and my body starts to relax. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They pulled closer still, and suddenly he was keenly aware of all the places their bodies were touching, the places he wished were touching. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Thomas tried to imitate Alby s lifeless body, hanging limp in the vines. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She stopped, certain it was Ugwu’s body, until the soldiers walked quickly, silently, past and she realized that the dead man was too tall to be Ugwu. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The air rushes over my body and twists around my fingers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Already he had seen the deer eyes that fixed on him through the rain, fixed on him as she backed away, fixed on him as her body began to turn for flight. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though my body until that instant had simply been lazy, as though the aches and exhaustion were all imagined, created from nothing in order to keep me from truly exerting myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw I was serious and waiting for an answer, he said, “Yep, colleges like it when students do extra stuff at school, like running for student body office.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They put all their energies into their cries, their bodies shaking with the effort. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was silent, his body frozen, swift tears running down his startled face. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In effect, he is having a stroke through the whole body. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celeste had the kind of body Bridge would want, if she could choose: not too much, not too little. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes pilots or stewards tucked the tubes in their shirt pockets, to keep the cells at body temperature as if they were still in an incubator. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They even put a weapon down by his body and took a picture of him with that. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Some got out, their bodies burnt and flattened, and went off not knowing where they were going. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She twisted her whole body, from the hips to the waist to the shoulders, then unwound it like a spring, throwing her left foot around high and fast. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jam watched her body change with delight, the way her hips widened, how her breasts were growing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He poked and prodded Fig’s trembling body, pausing every so often to scribble down notes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They could feel his warm soft fur brushing against their bodies and hear the rumblings his voice made in his stomach as he talked. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dimple's mouth was soft and small and full against his, her body was warm as it pressed into him, and the smell of her skin and hair flooded him like a thousand stadium lights. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

With great effort they transferred the heavy coffin to the cemetery’s central vault, where two Pinkerton detectives guarded the body overnight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And then they touched us, and bodies fell, and there was nothing else. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is her body, and yet not it. But wait a while, and you all see her as she was, and is.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A long beat passed before I realized that Breashears wasn’t talking about hauling a body off the mountain; he and his companions were bringing Beck down alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother's body, their cheeks pressed together. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And all the weight, all the weariness of it, had recapitulated itself in his body; he felt the physical burden. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Buoyed up, I forgot my usual feeling of routine self-pity when working out, I lost myself, oppressed mind along with aching body; all entanglements were shed, I broke into the clear. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another shiver of panic rattled through her body at the ominous words, and more questions darted through her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It took all of her strength not to look at the bodies of her parents. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water they have been boiled in is supremely tasty; her whole body seems to reach up to absorb it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Miss Duncan is pretty enough; I tend to think she would make a fine revenant, possessing the bodies of young women and using them to avenge crimes of passion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

With their broad, muscled bodies and determined expressions, it’s clear that they are men, and everyone treats them that way. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doll’s head was shattered, and the sand that had filled her body spilled onto the floor from a rip across her back. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It refuses to die or run cold, always finding its way back into Mary’s body But one night, surely, it has to succumb. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He held out his arms, looking away, embarrassed by his body’s weakness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From the Haitian side of the river, she could still see the soldiers chopping up her mother’s body and throwing it into the river along with many others. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One body of evidence supporting this view is the fossil plant record. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside me, Ollie's gait is relaxed, but his upper body looks tense, and we speak to each other in gestures while ignoring the shouting I can still hear from a few blocks over. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The woman next to the letter was rolling her eyes, and her dress was ridiculously small for the top part of her body. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They’d sat there so many nights that the empty sofa cushions still held the shape of their bodies like a memory. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The body under the sewn skins was showing in the early turns of pregnancy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hot sparks flew from where her body scraped against the leaning slab of stone. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The “body count” was the number of enemy fighters killed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Frightful would awaken, I would feed her, she would fall back to sleep, and I would watch the breath rock her body ever so slightly. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light spiraled around her, dragging her farther and farther from her own body, until she could feel the edges of her consciousness beginning to unravel, dissolving into the endless sea of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For a long moment I just stared, the beam of my flashlight shivering across his body. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At the very time that his body was beginning to fall apart. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I keep forgetting my body and then have to go back and get it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He’s coming home today, and the next day it would be more like, They’re going to find his body today. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A rain of hands grabbed at me, countless bodies, smelly breath, unwashed feet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this from how natural it had felt to enter Rex Reese’s body, how right it felt, and I knew this from the shocked expression on Jerome’s face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In bed, the pressure of the bed slats through the straw tick felt good against the boy’s body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragonflies would do exactly as they were told, but their bodies couldn’t easily cope with cold, and besides, they were tossed about dangerously in the wild wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, parts of their body convulse involuntarily and you know they are alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood taller and his shoulders spread and his arms widened away from his body. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

There, the young women dancers join us, still in their costumes of body paint. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Some of my victims die with merciful swiftness, gone before their bodies touch the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is one of the body’s many mysteries, which the study of anatomy seeks to unlock. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Every nerve in my body was singing, but I launched my elbow into the chest of the pickup truck driver. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For a terrible moment, I thought she had found some chopped-up body parts in there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Relief washed over her body, hearing her mother’s voice coming across a whole continent and three time zones right into Aimee’s bedroom. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The neat pile of body bags was waiting for the rest of us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like he’d been immersed in salty water - his body weightless, his head swaying. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He curled his body into a fetal position. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier sprawled before the fire, his long body stretched full length, his head cradled in one arm. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth covers Dad’s skinny body with a new sheet. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Smoking can have totally weird effects on your body.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My body tightened up and I flailed around, trying to get loose. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had not stirred once, even with her body draped awkwardly over the roots of an old oak. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They formed a barrier, an uninterrupted wall of tiny bodies. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My stomach and my throat burned and ached with the tears as I curled into a ball on my bed and tried to cry the very life out of my body. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Louie bent, gasping, over his spent legs, he marveled at the kick that he had forced from his body. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

For the first time I could see the true shape of his body, painted red. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Only what the mind insists upon, and if Lazlo’s and Sarai’s minds insisted, it was not because their bodies failed to present a compelling argument. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Montag took the four remaining books and hopped, jolted, hopped his way down the alley and suddenly fell as if his head had been cut off and only his body lay there. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark didn’t know what else to do, so he dove forward, wrapping his arms around Deedee and squeezing tightly, letting the momentum of his body pull her free from her captors’ grasps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For many days afterward, bodies would be dug out of the rubble. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She rose and drew about her her loosened garments and fastened them closely about her throat and waist, fitting them to her body with a slow writhe and twist. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ben’s smile sets my whole body into overdrive. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

All of us carry the bacterium in our bodies, probably since birth or immediately thereafter. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I closed my eyes I was happy ’cause I could still feel the hypnotic vibrations going through my body. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to move, but my body was rigid; only one hand gave a jerk. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though his whole body urges him to flee. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A searing pain shot up into my body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a big deal,” Luke said, but his body was flush again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was her own body, and not the sharks, which would eventually kill her. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The boy’s body lay under a checkered blanket beside the path. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I use sarcasm to deflect the tidal wave of terror that’s ripping through my body right now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I lean back and sigh and twist my body toward her. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I watched, entranced, and my body began to bob up and down in time with his movements. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t get up to stretch my body. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It fed off itself, from one body to another, like heat shimmering off asphalt in the summer, undefined and blurry. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Why should it always be young, beautiful women? It’s good to see the aging female body treated with compassion, for a change.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She set aside the heart, and I held it, a tremble running through my body. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was a good deal of macabre testimony about decomposition and body fluids and the effects of chloroform. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Then hit me and take off. Get going, and you better take off that light-colored dress and fold it in your arms. Your black body won’t be seen at night.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My body buzzed with fury after hearing that tape. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes snaked along her body, then found her face again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I immediately notice the padding over my breasts, adding curves that hunger has stolen from my body. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His body vibrated and was suffused with a silvery light. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But she couldn’t get her body to do any of those things. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But still the door continued slowly to open, and only the Count’s body stood in the gap. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He also coached the tennis team, and took very good care of his body. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these recurrent exposures, no matter how slight, contributes to the progressive buildup of chemicals in our bodies and so to cumulative poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, he only smiled at her and remained where he was, lying on the Prince’s pillows, a sword beside his body. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the animals were in prime condition and had more body fat than is customary for animals arriving from the wild. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the doors and into the soft lights I go, silently, past the rows of puritanical benches straight and torturous, finding that to which I am assigned and bending my body to its agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably died on August 18, 112 days after he’d walked into the wild, 19 days before six Alaskans would happen across the bus and discover his body inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she thinks I’m contagious and she’ll end up in a body cast too. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Elegantly he folded his wings to his body and stood tall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her body was tense: her eyes were closed and her claws dug into the floor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his sturdy character, Severo was overcome when his daughter’s nightgown was lifted to reveal the splendid body of a mermaid. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silver Star’s body seizes, his muscles responding to one last synaptical spasm before finally falling still. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Who’s got some greasy kid stuff I can use after I clean my gorgeous body?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His entire body was a mass of deep, raw, red wounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The limp body, with not a torn spot or a tooth puncture in the skin, would be laid at his master’s feet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body sank into the straw and into the quiet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A body flew over an unused bar at the back of the room, and disappeared from view. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body starts to sway, and her clasped hands rock beneath her chin until it seems she is all loose, swinging angles. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see what I see?” he asked, pointing to a body lying halfway down the block. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She forced herself to relax, letting her body go limp, and tried to clear her mind. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Cut off the head and the body would die. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes our boarders were French and American journalists who wanted to take pictures of the churchyard where you could see the bodies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The day after Tyler took the candid shots of our student bodies began like any other. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Haukelid had dark wavy hair and a broad, muscular body toughened by years of hiking and skiing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten what food other than soggy oats and hard bread tasted like, what a clean body and clothes could do to a person. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She climbed the rail, refusing assistance when the crew tried to help her, and clung to the rigging, her body wavering in the cool air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her personality was too big and mercurial to be contained in a frail human body. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

One of the sand ships fell apart, the sail, the emerald body, the bronze hull points, the moon-white tiller, and all the separate images in it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air went out of Moss, and with it went all of the grief that had been piling up inside of his body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m out of my body, and my body is screaming. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"The material in the jacket's designed to reflect body heat. Expect some cool nights," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He shuffled his body to the right as far as the plant would let him, then let go and grabbed another one. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I run to Will, our bodies colliding, our feet giving way as we tumble to the ice, laughing as we land together. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

"Maybe you've forgotten that you still have two brothers. Both at the mercy of the Republic. Watch your tongue, unless you want to see their bodies lined up next to your mother's." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Claire pictured his sturdy little body and how he would grin in delight to feel the fresh air and see the trees. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All was not well with my body, however. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They say when you can’t stand it your body is its own defense, you black out and you don’t feel any more. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her plump body, her rounded arms, shook as she laughed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when I touch her she is cold, her body stiff and unyielding. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ron gave a great shudder, a rattling gasp, and his body became limp and still. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The former members of the Blue Team are scattered all over the cafeteria at lunchtime—twelve bodies orbiting the white-hot sun of the cool table. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My whole body shakes as I turn to face the closed door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His big body suddenly fell back stiffly, knocking over two chairs; his head struck the stage floor with a thud. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young man had been found dead nearby, his body bruised and bitten. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can't pull my gaze away, or my shoulder away, or my body away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Eighteen hours later, his body was discovered at the base of a cliff of ice. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If her body swayed backward it meant no, and she would test something else. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In 1869, President Andrew Johnson released the body of John Wilkes Booth to the assassin’s brother, Edwin, who had him buried quietly in the family plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline doesn’t have a racist bone in her body, and she’s not a vandal, or any kind of evil person. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She glances at her body and she recoils. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a white T-shirt and red shorts over his God-given body. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Harry was shooting jinxes and curses at any Death Eater he could see, and they crumpled, not knowing what or who had hit them, and their bodies were trampled by the retreating crowd. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She shielded the boy with her own body and took his blows for him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Another wave hits the wall and the spray coats her body. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Two ferries are about to cross paths in the middle of their journey, their bloated white bodies lined with rows of tinted black windows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The thin, hunched body jumped up and spun around. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anxiety spreads through my body at the sight of the Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said they would make Kronos a new body, worthy of the forges of Hephaestus.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say anything, but I could see it in her body; she unpinned her shoulders from her ears, let go of her knees. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Artemis saw the pain in the creature’s eyes as the hollow hypodermic plunged into her body. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The body has obliterated its memories in order to hone its argument. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On the third day after the flood, he remembers carrying the bloated body of a girl on his back. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His little four-year-old body was no match for Jinjoo’s brute strength, and he, too, started to cry. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Over and over she vomited, her body shuddering and heaving. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His little body is moving so quickly, as if he spotted something wonderful by the water’s edge. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was struggling, unable to fly, its body and wings coated with grime. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She refused to scream, although her whole body begged to release the sudden burst of fear. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A dead male body lay by the bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My hands decided what to do without consulting the rest of my body. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was strapped to her body with a pretty cloth, which she had embroidered herself, no doubt. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Using the site’s graphics tools, she reconstructed her body, but most of her wish list focused on her face, new nose, chin, cheekbones. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Rosa threw herself across Matt’s body and grasped his ankles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in my body turned to fire. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He then introduced the student body president, who welcomed us and told us that our school mascot was a saint. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I thought I could feel the blood rushing through my body. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shifted my body, placing it on the other side of him. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I didn’t have access to the body’s emotions, I assumed the ones I was feeling were my own. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Pong kept a good distance behind, thankful that Yai's hulking body was easy to track in a crowd. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Every nerve in my body migrates to where he touches. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But at news of a body, I would find a way to get out; I had to learn about dying if I wanted to become a swordswoman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even solved the mystery of my own body. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It’s almost two a.m., and I could talk to him until my body forces a shutdown on me like an overheated laptop. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Fail in the streets and the crews would catch you slipping and take your body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My face, my body, my general image in his life had been hurting him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up behind the welders each time they finished another truck body. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hated to come home and see piles of bright pheasant feathers and the long thin dead bodies of the birds—though at supper she: forgot and ate and ate and ate. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I want her to be able to see behind this body, to see me inside here, to know that it’s the same person she spent an afternoon with on the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Each of them added to the body of rocket knowledge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body’s chemical plants, they gulp in oxygen and release the energy-rich molecules that power life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The three of us scour all the scabs from our bodies, helping with the others’ backs, and come out the same pink as the sky. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then I saw one such body climb out from under the pile on a wagon and walk away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The meet was in Glasgow, Scotland, this time, and we got there a week early to allow our bodies to adjust to the time difference. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The beat of the man's heart, and the noise of his blood as it circulates through his body, grow louder and louder. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It followed that a heavy body should fall faster than a light one, because it would have a greater pull toward the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what a body looks like with nothing inside. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Glory, hallelujah!” said Peach, smiling at me with every muscle in his bony body. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If a gyptian body floated ashore down the coast, or got snagged in a fishnet, well—it was only a gyptian. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson and Lieutenant Carroll were talking together, the body bag was at their feet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany marveled at the smoothness of their scales, and the heat that poured off them, so palpable that on cold nights their whole bodies seemed to steam. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He threw off Minho’s and Newt’s grip, ran to the limp, lifeless body of his friend. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

So they left with that: a body, a name and an address. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She shifted her body upon the sofa; I felt the padding warp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With Bo promising that this would never happen again and with me mortified by the thought of his hands touching my body. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I saw him before he died: his body was all swollen, very much like mine, with bloodless skin that looked like white rubber. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled my lungs, and then the freezing water grabbed my body and did its frigid best to stop my heart. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nick stops playing, but he hums and taps out a rhythm on the body of the guitar. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It appeared suddenly, savaged its victims’ bodies, and—because there was absolutely no cure—killed at an alarming pace. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it is a good way to describe things. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t let her do this, shouldn’t show his weakness, but as his blood began to flow and his body warmed, the relief and ease that coursed through him felt too good to resist. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then we laugh, since both our bodies are so wrecked, it will be a miracle if we can get up the next day. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My body shivers as if evil has entered it, making me want to scream, beat my hands against my chest, and pull out my hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at Mong and it shot out of my body. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment his body was black in the cave entrance, crouched and silent, and then he was gone. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The punching man lets go and Bad Leg falls to the ground—his body like an empty potato sack. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s law of fall describes in mathematical terms what happens when bodies fall under ideal conditions; but it does not explain anything. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I imagine worse things, impossible things—her body hanging from a rope, somewhere deep in the forest where nobody goes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camp prisoners, who were not allowed to speak to the new prisoners, roughly shaved off all their body hair to help prevent lice. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The heat that escaped my body just warmed up the interior. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His throat tightened in horror as his eyes traveled up its limbless body to its head and found that where he’d expected a reptilian skull was something else. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When everyone was gone, I Transfigured my father’s body. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His hands push away from his body, he wants Dr. Martin to stop moving the baby into the unsafe space between them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He pulled the rip cord of Snowden’s parachute and covered his body with the white nylon sheets. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nettle slashed at Roz’s body, and Thorn began wrestling with her foot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fencing is in the body, but it’s also in the mind. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By October, however, he had metabolized most of his body fat and was having difficulty staying warm during the long, cold nights. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the man’s body was missing its vital organs—like someone had split him open from neck to navel, and—I’m sorry, you look like you’re going to be ill. I shouldn’t have said anything.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Blood trickled down her cheek, and a wave of nausea sizzled up and down her body. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you’re used to waking up in a new one each morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

You may have a hemispherical stroke, in which one whole side of the body is paralyzed, which is invariably fatal in a case of Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Argus rolled his eyes in disgust, which looked pretty psychedelic since it made his whole body swirl. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Together Armstrong and Lombard had carried the inert body of Anthony Marston to his bedroom and had laid him there covered over with a sheet. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

There were centaurs with blade Arabian stallion bodies, others with gold palomino coats, others with orange-and-white spots like paint horses. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was all sharp angles, but there was a softness in her eyes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That’s where the loss lived, in those strangely normal spots on my body. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I thought about the river, those bodies, the water washing over them and then downriver to my Otto, and wished I’d been quick- thinking enough to stop him from drinking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the lone, faded, wedding photograph, she is looking directly into the camera, her eyes serious and somber, her small body robed in a full-sleeved, polka- dot wedding dress. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful lifted her body so that she had very little weight on the hatching chick. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ruby sighed and held her breasts, laxly rubbing the nipples until they grew stiff, letting her body flow and twirl with the currents, her toes stepping lightly off rocks, pressing gently along patches of sand. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Kava and Romeo, our two giant schnauzers, would always be waiting for me, doing their welcome dance, which entailed wagging their whole bodies and jumping up and down at the same time. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Just walking down the hill toward the woods made something warm and liquid steal through his body. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She strides out into the rain, picks up the discarded white ring still floating at the edge of the pool, and squeezes her body back into it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That’s all great, but I wish I could grow into my body now. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And I honestly wondered if, when I woke up the next morning, I would still feel the pain of the broken leg, even though I was in a new body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Robert Graves linked these tohu to Tehomot, a primal Semitic dragon that was present at the birth of the universe and whose body became the sky and earth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I imagine my body plummeting, smacking into the bars as it falls down, and my limbs at broken angles on the pavement, just like Rita’s sister when she didn’t make it onto the roof. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This is what he says to get my attention when my thoughts are far away from where my body is. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw the lower part of Fudge’s thick body twist in his chair as though he were checking for eavesdroppers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The vuvv speak by grinding a sort of gritty fin against their body, so most of what we said, translated, sounded like sandpaper or, when we were shouting, Velcro. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His whole body ached to get into the water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the body that now floated faceup in the water, that now slid below the surface into the darkness. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A naked man fell from the sky and landed on the deck, body bursting like a melon dropped from a tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His body was washed up on the shore and Hero, finding it, killed herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the image was of a corpse and I heard Dr. Kimball say, “They pulled his body from the river.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You could have died later on,” a soldier said to the body of one of his companions. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the instant I buckled up I promised myself I’d surrender the body when we got to the international bridge—no matter what. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Soon, our bodies are so close that we are one person. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their hands were hot, but they were hot in safe places, and their bodies were close but chaste. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Not...now. Come...on, not now. Breathe,” I beg her, the cold pounding at my body as I hold her face in my hands, pushing all my air into her lungs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Should I throw myself into the pond, and not being able to swim, join the body of L.C., the boy who had drowned last summer? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up, my whole body convulsing with anger. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Staying close to the floor, he snaked himself down the first flight of stairs, gently dragging the limp, unconscious body of Angel with him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably for the same reason you are. The result of poor hygiene on a starving body at the end of its tether.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The body lay partly wedged under a layer of mud beneath the water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body felt so heavy, she thought she couldn’t move, but she had to keep going. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they’d had Lexie first, in 1980, then Trip the next year and Moody the year after that, and Mrs. Richardson had secretly been proud of how fertile her body had proved, how resilient. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to keep up with the speed at which the ball flew, the rate at which their bodies raced around the field. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For weeks, the dead body just lay there. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, she wears skintight spandex dresses that make her body resemble a soft-serve ice cream cone. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Zu had been sitting right behind him, moving in time with the music, her entire body rocking out to the wailing electric guitar. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But Nicholas assumed that the earth and the sun were similar bodies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I try to go back to sleep, but the body won’t let me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there was a sound of a heavy body pushing through the underbrush, accompanied by a sharp cracking of branches, and the spell was broken. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was almost out from behind the clouds and the body of the sergeant lay beside the hedge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When I squeezed a bunch of the grasses together, they provided foam that left my body with a fresh scent. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He sighed deeply, with a shudder that stirred his whole body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Standard height; large, rounded body; golden brown plumage; clean legs and feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I uncovered the small form, beautiful, strong, but quite plain, a girl’s body. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her slender body was no match for mine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body of a gebbeth has been drained of true substance and is something like a shell or a vapor in the form of a man, an unreal flesh clothing the shadow which is real. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I lowered my head down onto my knees, and as my body began to shake uncontrollably, I felt a warm arm wrap around my shoulders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I reach the thirteenth row, I throw my body to the right, down one of the aisles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Henrietta’s body made the long, winding train ride from Baltimore to Clover in a plain pine box, which was all Day could afford. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was simply addressing an age-old question: Why do some bodies float and others sink? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It showed three small boys fishing in an odd-looking body of water, one of their jackets draped over a “No Fishing!” sign. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Worms squiggled frantically from a billion holes in the ground and drowned, their pale bleached bodies floating everywhere. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would scrub my body, I decided, each and every morning, no matter how cold it was, no matter how tired I was. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were head-on now, voices raised, concert over, bodies quaking. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to throw my body under his, so he could protect me from the devil. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I rush forward to help him pull her limp body over his shoulder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My body jerks forward, hitting the tiled floor with a thud. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He jumped up and waved the dead body of Ultima’s owl over his head. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the after deck the mast had hit the steersman a slant blow bashing the skull in, knocking him overside, as the brave soul fled the body, like a diver. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin doesn’t turn her body to the pack behind her; instead she nods her head in the direction of what’s left of the tree line. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My ears rang with the gun sounds, my body ached, and my index finger was sore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But I clenched up my whole body so nothing would come out. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Or what if they had naked lady tattoos all over them? Or if they had a terrible nail fungus that slowly spread and took over my whole body?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, just when things were looking very serious for Frank, the report on the Riddles’ bodies came back and changed everything. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The men were tied to poles, and their bodies kept shuddering even after the bullets were no longer being pumped into them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her two sisters stared across at her naked body hungrily. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bruno, by contrast, was the first to distinguish stars and planets as we do now, making the sun a star and the planets, including the Earth, dark bodies shining by reflected light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But then, squinting, I could make out shapes on them—faces, bodies—and that’s when I realized they weren’t letters at all, but photographs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“He took the girl’s head in his mouth and began to swallow. Gulp, gulp, gulp. Her head went in. Her body went in. Her legs went in until she was all gone!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was withered and wasted away by it all. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My neck whips forward before the rest of my body can catch up. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His body clinked and clanked with each step, for he had attached golden bells to his knees and ankles. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My lament subsided into bitter tears that left me shaking as if all my limbs would come loose from my body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They tried again, but this time the body did not move at all. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left her one black horse to carry the body, and a pouch of silver coins. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The commentator at the scene was hit by a powerful weapon, his entire body charred. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The warmth of her body was comforting, for the dawn air was cool and slightly damp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rachel had already flown away with her devil saviour, and I was nailed down in Bulungu, since my body was still sunk so deep in poison it couldn’t bear up to many more mosquito bites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last time I helped you ‘mobilize the student body,’ I got my face plastered on everyone’s computer screens.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, his reflection looked back at him, just his head suspended in midair, his body completely invisible. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her body itched even more than it usually did in winter. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just as this is not a book about technology, I do not intend to dwell on the strictly medical implications of the investigation of the human body. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The Daily Prophet hasn’t said a word about him dying or about finding the body,” Bill went on. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A moment later Constance’s tiny feet appeared, then the rest of her body, as Kate, hanging by her legs from a beam, lowered her carefully to the chair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But when I looked around, then down at my body, there was nothing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I stand, world spinning and shining, my body barely my own, my lungs coughing up bits of themselves, my head thumping, my legs shaking, my blood boiling, but I stand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had grown up knowing all the bus stops and the side streets, understanding the cryptic codes of conductors and the body language of street hawkers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I bang against the mat, shocks chasing each other around my body, but the pain doesn’t kill me. They Both Die at the End 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

It clenched and unclenched, siphoning all the ecstasy from her body into its secret flowerings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled the lid securely over his body and clutched at his mothers precious hairpin, waiting for his heart to stop racing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to envision them, two brown bodies curled against each other under a threadbare blanket, both worn out from a hard day’s work in the harvesting fields. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Should she jump now or simply wait for her body to give out? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To the waist, a man, with red hair and beard, but below that was a horse’s gleaming chestnut body with a long, reddish tail. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Once she tried to breast-feed him at our house, but nothing would come out of her body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s cold,” she moaned, holding her knees to her body. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe in August I will get my body cast off? Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Like shaking her could stop her body from being limp the way a body is when it has no muscle tone. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after Jim died, at the viewing of body, Jackie had asked the girls to look at their father so they could know and understand that this was a real thing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mind wants to obey his command, but my body is afraid of what will happen if I go over to him. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He put up his hands and braced it, as though, with the strength of his body, he could hold it up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every task we were assigned was just glorified busywork to keep our hands moving, our bodies occupied, and our minds dead with boredom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When the rain came, it hammered against the metal bodies around us, rattling a few of the weaker roofs and screens. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing major happened, but he knows he wasn’t in control of his body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The failure of the police to recover the body had caused the delay. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A hole in the ground the size of a house, full of bodies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

From the waist down, his body was one giant serpent trunk - about eight feet of green tail undulating behind him as he moved. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

These things were you, now there is no connection whatever; the sorrow within me is not for this body which has suffered and in suffering has let slip the spirit, but for you, my son. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed her tired body, propelled it somehow through the water. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her body weight is centered in first position, her legs and feet shift, slide, independent of her trunk. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Frantically, I try to peel them off, my fingers grabbing their cold squishy bodies.The leeches stretch with my pull, become longer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faris comes hurtling out of the crowd, his giant body thudding into Julius and knocking him down, a bull ramming through a fence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Till the day you put your body in the ground, you’ll remember it.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was but a quarter of a body torn from the rest: unseeing, gaping head and lolling arm with shoulder and ribs to join them, impaled upon a stake, and much busied with flies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“No. He asked if I could confirm the rumour that a body had been found in the cabin.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But after a while the notes spread deeper into her body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At 8:40 p.m., a third charge of electricity, thirty seconds in duration, was passed through Mr. Evans's body. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then write “Thanks for helping me grow” in chalk on the body of the pot. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In time, they would truly become different, as their bodies adapted to their new environment. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sinking to the floor, he pulled his legs up tight against his body, hoping his eyes would soon adjust to the darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then I stuff that frizz into my black hijab, cover my body in black layers, and take the roof key from Tats’s pencil case. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Cain teased her—breaking not only her body, but her will...He had to stop it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Did he ask her to warm with her own body his spot in the bed on cold winter nights before he slid in? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grabbed my hand and pulled me close to her body. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body tumbled forward, hands reaching out to break her fall, the container slipping from her grasp. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Get out of my house before I break every bone in your body!” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were shut and his hands were clenched as his body turned, sailing through the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Have there been any bodies that have been found with unusual bruises or wounds? Or bodies that were unable to be washed. Someone my age or younger.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On account of my mood, Ma thought my leg had me down in the body, so she brought me my supper in bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was like a Fulani nomad —although he did not have their spare, tall body—as he swung his belt at Mama, Jaja, and me, muttering that the devil would not win. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jody sidled near and turned and matched his step to the old man’s step and stiffened his body and dragged his heels a little. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas stood up, feeling a rush of excitement flooding his body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She felt her own ghost quail in her body, and hugged her arms tightly, aching for Pan. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Standing in line wedged among many people, my nostrils are assaulted by the stale smell of bodies that have not been washed for many days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Travis dove on top of the book and covered it with his body. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

All four of the bodies were slung out by the soldiers onto a siding. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let the body do its own healing, Dr. Devèze was saying. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And the premise that allows for these killing fields—the reduction of the black body—is no different than the premise that allowed for the murder of Prince Jones. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She ran an eye down Renault’s body as he took his stance. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Everything on her body is the same except her stomach is huge and swollen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She smiled at him, vaguely aware that her whole body was glowing with a supernatural flare. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into dissecting cubes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She felt a shock run through her body, and then she swayed a little and the air didn’t seem like it knew how to support her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I got up first and started to help him up just as two more bodies landed on top of us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright, white flames had erupted around Dumbledore’s body and the table upon which it lay: Higher and higher they rose, obscuring the body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My entire body tingled, especially my shoulder where Sumac’s claws dug tightly into the skin. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Blood squirts from their bodies and they make small popping sounds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guide on the right-hand side of the page recommended various styles based on body type. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She will fondle that soft hill of hair and let the warmth of the animal’s body seep over and into the deeply private areas of her lap. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of Goddard’s body fell limply to the ground, and in the silence of the moment, Rowan heard from behind him: “What the hell did you do?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mama’s whole body was stiff next to me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I felt myself grow warm, feverish, until I thought my body was on fire. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike before, it dried our wet bodies as we walked back to the cabin, silently, hand in hand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They had left to follow the ambulance in the honey wagon, wanting to see May’s body delivered safe and sound to wherever it was going. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wound their way through interconnecting tunnels and rough-hewn burial chambers that all looked the same—the walls carved with dusty niches that might once have held bodies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He blinked back the spots in his vision and waited for the pain in his head and body to subside. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The long, upright bodies of the oarsmen were catching the wind, acting essentially as sails, hurrying the shells down the course. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My body is wet with sweat and throw-up from the others pressing close around me like sticks of firewood. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his whiskers and studied the body. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Big Dub had to work hard to keep his body still. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You have to prepare yourself first,” Nico said, “or the river will destroy you. It will burn away your body and soul.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mark kicked and twisted his body, trying to turn and face his attacker, but strong hands gripped him under the arms and yanked him off the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kreuk stands a few feet behind me as I look at the body that used to be Mirjam, lying on the cold table. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Using his knowledge of the ways from the First World to hide himself, he folded a nearby shadow like a blanket and draped it over his furry body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And they still had flesh on their bodies; not a single one was a walking skeleton. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I saw a movie once where a woman was burned over eighty percent of her body and they had to wash all the dead skin off. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I never understood my body—was it scared or excited? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His voice was frightening and his words ripped through my body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But there was no sign of the body, even though the body’s image hovered before his eyes, between his eyes and the bed of coals burning hotly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thighs together, heels tucked underneath me, pressing up against my body. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was a simple mix-up: some other Laura Moon’s body had been dragged from the highway wreckage. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Zola, who is in the bushes hunting for snakes, seems to reply for Mr. Pomodoro with an air puff that escapes from her feet up through her whole body to her mouth. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Bull and Cecil sparred with each other, both landing pulled punches to the body, then backing off to begin the beer chugging contest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged her shivering, breaking body the last few steps to the palace, because she had come all this way, and now she was here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Not reporting a dead body is a violation of the health code, but I wouldn't worry about it. Is there anything else, Turtle?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body freezes as I wonder how long it would take for him to cross the curtain and find me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Her face, brown and blistered from the sun, rests at the nape of his neck as his body swivels left and right. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice she’s less affectionate with me when I’m in a girl’s body, but I don’t call her on it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Out from her body grew serpents’ and fierce dogs’ heads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His few thoughts seemed distant from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself, to train my body for the real fear when it comes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

His long ears flopped up and down, keeping time with the jogging motion of his body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what Hamlet, the philosopher and man of reason, would have made of the nuns’ simple faith that they consume Christ’s true body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The piece of cloth barely covered my body, and I kept trying to make it longer and pull it close around me, but it wouldn’t stretch. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1869, President Johnson ordered that the bodies of the conspirators be given to their families for reburial. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large bird with a pure snowy white body and wings that were jet-black at their tips and rear edges. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the only part of his body that moves. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When he again lifted the lid off Lucy’s coffin we all looked—Arthur trembling like an aspen—and saw that the body lay there in all its death-beauty. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He knelt down on the beach, careful to keep the gushing blood away from his pants, and wondered if it was possible for all the blood in his body to drain out through his nose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When one wave finally pulled him in, he felt his body floating on top of the water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thornton was himself bruised and battered, and he went carefully over Buck’s body, when he had been brought around, finding three broken ribs. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cinna and Portia direct us into the chariot and carefully arrange our body positions, the drape of our capes, before moving off to consult with each other. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My body was changing, bloating, swelling, stretching, bulging. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now I saw it totter and dissolve, and a body in a white blouse and green skirt plummet into the gap. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When he saluted, it seemed like the force of his entire body went into it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in my body tightens as his hand drops to my side, where I got kicked. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Twig was uncomfortable—feet tapping against the side of my bed, fingers drumming along my comforter, her whole body full to the brim with nervous energy. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the trussing was done, his body formed a U, his face and feet toward the ceiling, his bare back toward the floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A body was hanging from the crossbar of a streetlight whose lamp had long since stopped shining. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I rely purely on instinct, knowing that this kind of instinct comes from somewhere other than me, somewhere other than this body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She watched in a haze as Adiah’s body began to change again, morphed and reshaped into something more human. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The heart was the center of everything, pumping blood to everywhere in the body, carrying oxygen to all vital parts, including the brain. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In my classes, my teachers always say to let your breath travel through your body, down the length of your limbs. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

P. T. jumped up on his bed, and he slept all night with P. T.’s body curled against his chest. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tali’s body had stiffened by now, and it was difficult to pry his jaw open. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Is this because something between us has changed, or is it only because my body has changed? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Alex nodded, willing himself not to picture his mother’s body tossed into a pile of corpses in a crematorium. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All I knew then was that even though my body was two thousand miles away, my mind was still trapped in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, as if his mouth isn’t big enough to hold the chatter, the rest of his body joins in. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four in the middle were carrying a body high on their shoulders. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My father’s arm looked like it had been twisted out of its socket My mother was lying facedown across my father’s body, and her tongue was sticking out of her mouth. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He began to feel things walking across his body. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is outrageous! Your indecent exhibition of that girl’s dead body serves no purpose but that of an incitement to mob violence. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Manipulating my body parts, bending and stretching the limbs to assure a good fit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But as she listened she received the impression that Mr. Tuffett’s were general remarks directed more to the student body than to her, they were an echo of his early morning feelings. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The bodies—bent and broken, so covered with molasses that he couldn’t tell if they were men or women. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was clear that the coaches expected black athletes to be better because of a belief that their bodies matured earlier than did those of whites. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cowrie shells were counted and passed from the trader with the willowy body to the men who had captured them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time Turner held him up and wondered at how light he was, so light it hardly seemed his body could heft his soul. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“And I know what Doctor Neal says, that it’s some kind of last strength, some nonsense ab—” She coughs and her thin body arches over like a shell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at his face, body, and legs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its twisting body looked like a bird in the sky for a moment before it smacked back down on the surface and was gone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was only that I, inside the same body, had felt myself all at once grown bigger. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tension left the air and Cinder’s body suddenly went slack. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought I would be so happy when my body cast was off, but instead I feel like a turtle that’s lost half of her shell. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Besides, while I made dinner, I’d developed a plan to have Mamá “be home” that night, if not in body, then in spirit. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It looked as if the inside of the body was studded with pearls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Though she couldn’t be sure if the tremor was inside her body or in the world around her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a chill to the air that cut into the skin and numbed the body. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We saw her. A thick dust-storm gave her her chance. When it cleared, the body had been buried and the girl was making an offering to the dead.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in his body instantly relaxed, and he handed the paper to Father Olufemi, who nodded. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Or that in two days, I hadn't figured out how to get the hot water to work in my uncle's bathroom and that no form of deodorant would mask the stench of my body odor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The work advanced slowly, impeded by the worsening relationship between the fair’s two ruling bodies, the National Commission and the Exposition Company, and by the architects’ failure to get their drawings to Chicago on time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He felt out of control, his thoughts scattered, no boundaries between his body and the rest of the world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The hall fills with a river of bodies and voices whispering that Cassie was murdered/no, she hung herself/no, she smoked or snorted her way to the Final Exit. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, be-tween himself and the rats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His lawyers turned down an offer of $5,000 for his body. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The “One two three” rhyme, for example, uses all four maintypes of body percussion—stamping, clapping, patsching, and snapping—but not all of the types of body percussion need to be incorporated. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My body has grown heavy, which makes each step weightier than the previous one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She will be able to read in their bodies the pain inflicted upon them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Jonas squeezed cleansing lotion onto the clean sponge at the edge of the tub and began to wash her frail body. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Scene 1: A crowd viewing the body of a man that has jumped from a skyscraper on Wall Street as police officers try to clear the street. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of the night. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that one of Ebola’s paths goes from the dead to the living, winding in trickles of uncoagulated blood and slimes that come out of the dead body. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coursing through my veins, easing the pain, lightening my body so that it rises back toward the air and rests again on the foam. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The last had furry wings, and her body was coated with pale blue fuzz. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He twisted his body and tried to yank himself out of the officer’s grip, which loosened but didn’t let go. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It landed on his nose, and the pain exploded all over his face and his body felt very light as it sank down to the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After gathering the remaining fragments of Lee’s body into a single heap, the bear lifted the flower in his mouth and dropped it in the center of them, as humans liked to do. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was another string of nonsense words, then “Threw her body all around.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Harry ..whispered the figure of Cedric, “take my body back, will you? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My skin crawled as I cut a path through the thicket of bodies at the foot of the stairs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I strike out, swinging my body around, and see Locke grabbing Taryn’s waist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A man with the body of a sparrow and the eyes of a hawk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She started wondering how much dragon body parts could sell for. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“She saw him outside Dawit’s shop. Standing over your father’s body.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Were his thoughts, his bed, his body foul? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Behind those medieval walls lay the bodies of a million insects, and under its floors the cooling corpses of spiders and mice. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He walks around my naked body, not touching me, but taking in every inch of it with his eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“What makes it so difficult was the fact of your husband identifying that first body, over a year ago,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Piper felt like all the blood in her body was draining into her feet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The value of what he brought in body shopping was going to go down as food became sparser. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She grabbed flesh off her body from here, here, here, and here.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When she felt a body sit next to her, she half wondered if its owner even knew there was someone already there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like, I hate that I can’t stop it from saying things—and can’t stop my body from jumping up and moving around when Ms. Laverne tells us to stay in our seats. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The bodies of their loved ones disappeared into sacks and reappeared in the cool cellars of medical schools to relinquish their secrets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Their voices grow to a feverish pitch as they recount the bodies they saw in the fields nearby their villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena watched as Cain struck, twisting his body so his right side was wide open. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make myself stand still; an awful fear vibrated through my body. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the death of his son, with the body lying there before him, the body of the boy he had loved so much, he spoke with dignity and firmness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as I heard that voice, my whole body froze up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Her weakened body rejects even the tiniest crumb of bread and drop of water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I remember, then, the legionnaires throwing my numb body into the kitchen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I know nothing of the large parties of London, sir—I never dine with any body.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Glittering black eyes searched the night, a forked tongue tasted the air, the small living plants appeared to shudder as the long scaly body brushed by them, trailing its way along. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rest of her body does not move, nor does her face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoisted into the air by his ankle, Harry hit a suit of armor and replicas burst out of it like white-hot bodies, filling the cramped space. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Booth, his mind and body still exhausted from his great day, stayed in bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His overweight body struggled in slow motion to the second level, paused, and then lugged itself onto the top. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Setting the body on the ground, I start to unwrap it, beginning at the feet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The skin on his arms had become dry and flaky, as if his body were preparing itself to rejoin the earth. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Although discussions of mutations usually refer to those in the germ cells, which may then make their effect felt in future generations, there may also be mutations in the body cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I was there, nevertheless, charged like all the others with the protection of my body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And then you leave your body again and spend the next week looking down at yourself and wondering what the hell you’re doing. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I groan and urge my body to flee. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matt had been sleeping in a hollow formed by his body. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s never been kissed like this, as if the feeling could swallow him up whole, Henry’s body grinding down and covering every inch of his. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was her body that needed to learn this new language, not her mind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The great bear stood motionless as the boy darted here and there over his vast body, cutting, freeing, clearing the way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my wrist and my body slipped into the familiar posture, head thrust forward, arm coiled around my lower back, wrist folded absurdly onto itself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Guiteau dropped through the opening, his limp body hanging from the noose. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Taisin’s body went limp, her eyes blinking open in the darkness of the tent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My head goes light, my body floats away, and I start to fall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My skin didn’t just crawl; it felt like it was going to leap off my body, turn to liquid, and seep into the floorboards. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“They have found the poison in your father’s body.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t feel it, but I could see the drops plink off my body. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Etienne takes Marie-Laure’s hand and together, beneath the low, sloping roof—the record spinning, the transmitter sending it over the ramparts, right through the bodies of the Germans and out to sea—they dance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Quarantining people and getting the bodies in one place—she said they’d been sure to wear gloves and masks—and helping deliver food from house to house. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Surely a body—friendly if not familiar—lying next to you. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kiss her cheek and she wiggles her body down so that she can rest her head on my chest. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually no subcutaneous fat remained on the body, and the muscles had withered significantly in the days or weeks prior to death. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already they had discovered nine burials, one body placed in a big funerary urn, all apparently interred at the same time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Davis was pounding fenders at his upstate body shop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was way too long for his bed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jam shook her head, staring at Redemption’s slumped body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I held the bundle and instantly felt the warmth of its little body penetrating through my coat. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I grab my coal bag suddenly with two hands and use my whole body to swing it upward. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And then it saw me see it and its whole awful body drew taut. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“What’s going on?” their teacher shouted into the hallway, his own body positioned to keep the door open. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Later before the sun set she was back beside him, her body flattened, spent, but her face silent and undaunted. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, my body, waist up, started broiling on the inside, and I knew it was time to make my way back to the fourth floor. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The broken body of the old man withered more and more, but when the smell of harvest and the hunt came with October, his spirit seemed to quicken his dragging step. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cried out to him, “If I kill you I will give back your body to your friends and do you do the same to me.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she wondered if she was mistaken, if she had perhaps imagined the bodies lying in the dust, so many bodies in the yard that recalling them made salt rush to her mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I resisted the urge to take off my shirt and pants and examine the rest of my body. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They tried to pull my arms from my body, ripping the arms off a cloth doll. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ride slowed, and our bodies began to separate, but that only made me hold Jesse closer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But then Axe muted the volume as he replayed my stump speech, removing my voice so that we could look more closely at my body language, specifically my facial expressions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had to shout over the sound of the rain pinging against the silver, rippled body of the trailer the truck had been hauling. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She sat down in the first row, nearest to the casket holding the body of her friend, grieving in silence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m flying, my body light, sweeping through air. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her face was covered in tears, and her body shook as she hugged herself. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She writes: “The wound was on the left side of the body, which might mean that the shooter was right-handed. It’s a weak argument.” Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how the air felt, gliding over my body, and I am not afraid. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I heard a rustling and my body froze, but when I turned nothing was there. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He tried to lift his body and was pushed back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He heard Master’s raised voice, excited and childlike, followed by a long silence and he imagined their hug, and her ugly body pressed to Master’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We pushed our Formica cupboard up to the door and pressed against it with our bodies as the noise got closer and closer, until it was surrounding us, engulfing our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He studied her tensed body before he raised his dark, well-groomed brows. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s the liver. It can be up to twenty percent of the shark’s body weight. The fatter the liver, the healthier the shark.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

All before the walls on either side of the Gate the ground was choked with wreck and with bodies of the slain; yet still driven as by a madness more and more came up. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There is only one way out of this, the body tells me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was wondering what my body knew that I didn’t. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned, he sat there vaguely aware that roaches were fleeing across his hand and over his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare into her eyes, as though I believe it with every cell in my body. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds her body relaxed and the hatefulness was back in her face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was his body being pulled out of Lake Carnegie? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He hoisted his heavy body on his crutch and hobbled over to begin the work. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I wielded my saber against one opponent after another, I felt the strength in my whole body respond to my demands. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Underdowns’ two sons, big crew-cut boys shifting around in grown men’s bodies, grabbed handfuls of cookies with their big hands and bolted from the table. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I expected was to fall asleep, but when there’s a blow to the system, all the body wants to do is go to sleep and dream on it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her spirit sang as she fought, and when she dropped the dog’s lifeless body to the ground, she howled with purest ecstasy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was among fifteen girls nominated to walk out for inspection by the assembled student body on voting day. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its body was grey with a black stripe underneath. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Will breathed in the scent of Lyra’s sleepy body with a happy satisfaction: she was here, she was real. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In that way it was not much different than if they had died at Wake Island or Iwo Jima: the bodies were dismembered beyond recognition and the coffins were sealed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dim light shone beneath him and he saw his body slumped on the floor. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If I changed direction, the treadmill would sense it, and its rolling surface would change direction to match me, always keeping my body near the center of its platform. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The body is awake now, and it knows what it wants. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"You Harl" she said, kicking his body in a sudden fury. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Go, go, she thought, but her body refused to obey. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He buried himself deep in his side of the straw tick; he felt where the wooden slats of the bed crossed under his body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This explains why there are no parts of the body named after Hippocrates or Galen, no stars named after Ptolemy, no creatures named after Aristotle or Pliny. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sherlock’s whole body is wagging as he dances in a circle by the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

All the blood in our bodies pooling on the street for everybody to see. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For a brief moment, I saw our avatars’ skeletons suspended inside the transparent outlines of our motionless bodies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Its blood stains my hands, but I continue to pet it until its trembling body becomes completely still. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is trying to escape my body through my chest. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Luke knew he should feel something, but his entire body, his mind, had finally gone empty. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Father Aristide knew that his boys sniffed turpentine and that some of them even sold their bodies to foreigners. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon’s arm is hooked around Bram’s waist, their bodies so close they practically blur together. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Topside again, he stripped down and carefully bathed his whole body. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left just enough of her consciousness seated in her body to do that much: pace the length of her terrace and know if anyone came near her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He stood there for a moment more, a sudden slackness in his body. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wished my mind would rest like my body, relax, and pass to sleep. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was stunning, with the face of an angel and a body that could not only stop traffic but make it back up a little. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A shudder passed through his body; he felt as if something had died. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it took Pond two hours to complete the song, Nathan did not feel his body temperature drop at all. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Snow Sand had his ears and nose blocked, and he hoped she had not panicked, had remembered to spread-eagle her body, so that he could catch her quickly with his headlong dive. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jhiqui laid her down to oil her body and scrape the dirt from her pores. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The ghosts crowded so close that Will’s body and Lyra’s felt little jolts of cold along every nerve. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had hardly turned around before Gregor had already dragged himself out from the couch, stretched out, and let his body expand. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baird was around five foot seven and trim but muscular, with the body of a fitness devotee, short hair, a square jaw, and almost preter- naturally straight teeth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our bus was stopped, and several soldiers in camouflage uniforms, carrying automatic weapons, ordered us out and lined us up alongside the body of the bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encanis strained against the chains, his body arching upward as he pulled against them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thinking of the body as a civilian makes me think of Pa too much. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had snow in his hair, melting from the heat of his body. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as they took the body out, Rebeca closed the doors of her house and buried herself alive, covered with a thick crust of disdain that no earthly temptation was ever able to break. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Polly looked at her and said, “It’s very bad. Mr. Derby wants the doctor to see the body of the child.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The President was already stepping over her body to reach the larger cage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beside me, Nero tensed his long black body and twitched his tail, his green eyes wide with curiosity.Georgie was still breathing hard from running to warn me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her knees bent under the force of braking, her grippy shoes squealing as they slipped across the riding surface, her body turning almost parallel to the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Moss sat down on the couch, running his hand over it, remembering the last time he’d been over, the feel of Javier’s hands on his body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These bodies were the anchors of my life: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Bing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“White America” is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The body always demanded and received payment for the punishment it endured in a basketball game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke up then, and told me all about the Akhaians, and their plans— then sworded many Trojans through the body on his way out with what he learned of theirs. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had gotten so warm from the dancing and the body heat that they’d taken off their coats. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Still, Tally spent a lot of time wondering what Shay was going to look like pretty, her skin-and-bones body all filled out, her already full Ups perfected, and the ragged fingernails gone forever. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But instead of a horse’s lower body, it had the body of a dragon—at least twenty feet long, black and scaly with enormous claws and a barbed tail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Calloway’s body still dangled in the front of her mind; it felt like someone had put the image on a hot iron and branded it across her forehead. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Taryn jumped harder and higher, somersaulting and flipping, sending Ivy’s body bouncing around the trampoline like a rubber ball. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Over my dead body,” Prosper grumbled, pushing Bo back into the alley. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Orlando, the boy whose body I’m in, rarely wakes before noon on Sunday, so if I keep my typing quiet, his parents will leave me alone. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His whole body feels heavy as he carries the radio up to the dormer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The giant's hair went up faster than dry tinder, spreading down his head and across his body until the heat of the bonfire made Hazel wince. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You can probably skip the tetanus shot. But I’m sorry. I should have told you to keep your body as horizontal as possible.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He who is bodily and mentally not sound and deserving may not perpetuate this misfortune in the bodies of his children. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm made straight for the newspaper when he got home, but there was no mention of the body in the canal. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Its body was leonine, the skin stretched across its lean frame the pale pink color of something that hadn’t seen true sunlight in years. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One night, I waited for the guard to leave—and then I found a rock to use as a step to hoist my body up and through the windows narrow opening. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All around us, fresh blood leaked from the bullet holes in their bodies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If all the cells in our body did this, we’d be immortal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing plaid pajama pants so huge, he could have fit his entire body down one leg. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Hold on to the rails and move forward. The biggest obstacle is fear, and you have no reason to be afraid. Just do what your body remembers.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He stretches out on the bed in his undershirt and trousers, his back against the wall, and I lean against him, feeling his body curve around mine. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mother Jaguar sat next to them, licking their small bodies as if they were still alive. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My pulse isn’t the only part of my body stirring now. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His lean, upright body slid forward and backward in the boat fluidly, without hesitation or check. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His words are becoming more rhythmic now, keeping pace with the thrust and roll of their bodies. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Stand at the sink and try to cleanse more than just my body. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was going to yell out and explain it all to her, but while I was coordinating the pedals and the steering and my tilting body at the same time, I stalled the car. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half fierce, half lazy work of the bracing days. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He raised his leaden body and stumbled out of the room. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But the artificial heat and mustard plaster that I had applied warmed his cold body and stimulated his nerves.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And Bill answering quietly almost in his regular voice that they had decided to have the body cremated and were going to take the ashes to his family home in Pennsylvania tomorrow. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But eyelids are not like elbows or knees or shoulders, parts of the body accustomed to being jostled. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, may our dinner be filling to our minds, bodies, and souls,” Hilda said, which sounded to me less like a blessing and more like wishful thinking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only regret I had about being student body president was having lunch with the Rotary Club at the Santa Maria Inn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux’s bent knees straightened, lifting the rest of his body to a standing position in a way no normal human could ever manage. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Steeling himself against the painful vibrating shock that he knew would go through his entire body, Matty placed his left hand on the mother dog, his right on the puppy, and willed them to live. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

As one, he and Pima crawled across the wreckage to the broken body. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He throws open the front door, slams his body against the screen and, hearing the tap tap tap behind him, jumps over the porch steps and down to the driveway. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was only Esther, who contained in her narrow body all mystery and all passion, and who answered all his need. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He became aware of how his body felt in that moment: cramped and trapped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sweat has made her white T-shirt cling to her willowy body. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The overseer, startled by this sudden obstructing body, planted squarely in the doorway, turned away from the door, picked up a two-pound weight from the counter, and hurled it at the fleeing slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pain seemed to float, like a haze, outside his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The wing that covered most of Toby’s motionless body. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I heard them thud against Ernie’s body and clatter on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only effective treatment then was rest, with the hope that the body would fight the infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and feel my body go soft and light, and then I force myself to stop. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to bury my face behind his solid body. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Her body is really stiff, and it’s tough for her to reach or grab or hold anything. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

When it was over, he said, "Choose four men and have them take the body north. Bury her at Winterfell." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Actually, it would also probably be a fun body to—well...anyway, it's a fun body to dress. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Dana’s mother slams the door shut, and the echo of the slam spreads through my whole body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The body game was fierce, for buyers and sellers alike. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Doc shook my body as he held me upside down, while Jay thumped me on the back. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I squeeze some body wash into the tub and move my hand around the bottom until bubbles start forming. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t right for one body to own another or pull strings to make them jump. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once she saw them, saw the state of their bodies, Eugenia couldn’t talk of anything else. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Beryl was there to catch the dragging weight of the pilot’s senseless body. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His whole body shook, and it seemed like the vomiting would never end. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I looked back at her, my stomach flipping over inside my body, my head getting woozy like I was drunk even though I didn’t have a sip of alcohol in forever. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But here, he lay exposed, alone, ignored, his life leaking from his body like water from some rusty bucket. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Liam stayed on the ground, his face flushed red, but his entire body shaking with laughter. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His body was too big and his wings were too small. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“As soon as I saw his body, I saw his structure, I knew exactly who it was.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He turned his whole body away from me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

RiRi, in one shiny pink boot dropping off the edge of the rock, held to the body of her would-be kidnapper by the iron bar of his arm. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And washing his body he laughed again, for he washed it now for no woman, and he laughed because he was free. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They frowned on murder as a means of harvest; on the other hand, they made little effort to explore the provenance of any one body. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As my avatar slowly materialized on my stronghold’s observation deck, I looked down at my virtual body, admiring it like a favorite suit I hadn’t worn in a while. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For the men who needed to believe themselves white, the bodies were the key to a social club, and the right to break the bodies was the mark of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Liam’s entire body tensed, as if he was expecting the same thing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We knew we had to cross a great huge body of water, an ocean, and some of the Lost Boys said the water could pull the plane down into it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit shuddered away from the sight of those lunging bodies. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if they break every bone in my body, I got to go out for football next year.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He felt her tiny legs crawl out from his jeans and then her body moving up on top of his jeans to his shoulder and then into the backpack. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looks over at me, his gaze loitering on my face and body in a way that makes me blush. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The jumper had landed funny, his body twisted around, and Kevin was finding it difficult to pull his shoes off. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a book of essays about love and the body and one of his words sends me to the dictionary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The front of Lincoln’s body shows no sign of physical violence, and the forward slumping indicates that the attack must have come from behind. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze the trigger, firing again and again into the sea of birds above me, watching their dark bodies drop to the grass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I could feel bad in my body. Yes, I could. I knew was something bad in house. But it was stolen rice, not about Akira.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He walked fast, his body at a forty-five-degree angle to the ground, as if he was leaning into every step. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Anthony described Stanton’s physical decline in a letter to a friend, writing that it was a pity “that such mental powers must be hampered with such a clumsy body.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He crawled over every spot under the cabin, but Sounder’s body was not there. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Irukandji sting results in excruciating headache and body pain, vomiting, sweating, anxiety, dangerously fast heartbeat, brain hemorrhage, and fluid in the lungs. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The body gave a sound like a kitten squeezed too tight, a kind of windless yelp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My body moved forward, but my head remained fixed on the drawing, fixed on the face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She wished she were a different human in a different body with a different life. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure because his voice was husky like his thick and sturdy body. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if she should learn the truth about the body in the boat and become Maxim’s enemy too—what then? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And this is the problem with being in a new body each day—the history is there, but it’s not visible. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jumbled lines of the writhing bodies suggest a mood of turbulence, in keeping with Géricault’s theme of titanic struggle against the elements. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

It blew through his clothes and chilled his body inside and made him shiver. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping with all his strength, Drum faced into the storm, his streamlined body minimizing the wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Without effort the front half of his body rose in the air and his forepaws came to rest on the rolled-up edge of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Strange I hadn't noticed it before, the bodies strewn in the courtyard. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fern was beat down enough after seeing that hen’s neck snapped clean while its body did a dying funky-chicken dance. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We huddled Stef, one of us on each side, to share body heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying—of that, he was certain—but he wondered how long it would take for his body to really sever from this world. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They seemed particularly concerned, for religious reasons, with preventing the state from performing an autopsy on their son's body. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I played again with the idea of calling customs, to tell them about the body, but there was something else none of us had considered. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She would file the post under the tag “race, gender and body size.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sam’s shoulders settle into her body, and she sits back in the chair. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He pushed on the pilot’s body, but it was wedged tight in the narrowing gap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Once the dream receded—the feeling of paralysis, the suffocating closeness of it—her body relaxed, and her mom came closer. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was safe from the blast wave—at least her body was, up in the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Tell me, or I shall contaminate every cell in your body. Though I do think Tirid's suggestion is fine indeed." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even though Beto knew it wasn’t really her, knew that she was gone from the body, it being there had helped him to pretend. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she shook his arm, his entire body wobbled. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped his arms from his body and started stepping in a little deeper. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Moss, can you turn your body just a little bit to your right, so that you’re facing Ms. Morales?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The girl whose body I’m in wants to kill herself. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You snake crawl for thirty yards. A trickle of water runs down your body. You reach a mound of small rocks blocking the passageway.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My scim is an extension of my body, moving so swiftly that it might be its own master. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Behind the church, a rectangular pit in the ground gaped open, awaiting her father’s body. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard my name called, I felt myself tingle with a mixture of fear and excitement, as if a tiny electric shock had gone through my body. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When all the afternoon’s adventures had been told, the family felt inclined to go visiting in a body, for each found something very attractive in the big house on the other side of the hedge. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Comes and goes, you know. The crash was two years ago, man! I thought I’d be better by now, but my physical therapist said that’s not how all bodies work.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her skin rippled in an inhuman way, as though Penelope fought to reclaim her body and couldn’t. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nobody had hit him, that’s just the way their bodies are. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of being apart from Siobhan hurt worse than his body. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was about nine in the morning when Mammachi and Baby Kochamma got news of a white child’s body found floating downriver where the Meenachal broadens as it approaches the backwaters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bodies of both armies lay scattered thick upon the grass and stones where they had fallen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His small body cast a thin shadow on the wall. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I am separate from this place and these people and my own body, and besides, I have always been a good runner. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Instead of helping Juanita carry the body, I went to sit in the driver’s seat of Papá’s car to be sure Juanita didn’t try her driving stunt again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every nerve in his body seemed to tauten: He pulled out his wand, moved into the shadows beside the decapitated elf heads, and waited. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His feet seemed too big for his body, with cracked dirty toenails, eight toes on each foot But the top half of his body was the weird part He made Janus look downright normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They spoke to each other in German as they went from body to body. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single mark on its little body, but the cage was scratched and dented, and the ground all around clawed to rubble. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His feet were still pointed toward the soccer field; his whole body was twitching. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

As this had turned into an evening of answers, Citra dared to ask the question she had asked so inappropriately on the street, before the man’s body had even gone cold. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sherlock’s whole body is wagging as he dances in a circle by the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

That they had tortured him for hours, then tied his legs to a truck and dragged his lifeless body through the streets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After all these years, the beast still laid claim to him, ravaging his body like an incurable sickness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I sling an extra bow and a second sheath of arrows over my body, slide two long knives and an awl into my belt, and meet up with Finnick at the front of the pile. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its body looked to be nearly two feet long. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My body responded to the command before I could protest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But perhaps more than his body was die change in his mind, or in the way he was—was becoming. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This afternoon, he had stood on the castle wall, and that had happened to Hooper, the soul had flown from his body. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I could hear the drum­ming of his heavy body against the ground. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The body demands its own form of logic. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the office with him Portia sat on a bench against the wall, her hands cupped beneath her chin, her body bent almost double. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was like they were having a conversation with their bodies. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The monster let out an angry shriek and pulled back several feet, its spikes retracting into its body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each winter she would accumulate more of the poison in her body tissues. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

How had her body worked in such detail? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I think of how the Commandant’s eyes shine when she whips a student, how Grandfather boasts of his body count. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It took three Meadowlarks to roll the body into the sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Somewhere on the other side of the locked door, I can hear Scott laughing, and my entire body goes cold. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light that streamed in a square block from the hole he wrung a small towel from the steaming water and he scrubbed his dark slender body vigorously. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mom stood with her body in the doorway, as if to block his entry. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultima rubbed my body with an ointment of Vicks and many of her herbs, then she gave me something cool to drink. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her large shapely body seemed to relapse naturally into stillness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Strangely, though, her body is still, and her mind is quiet. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The next morning I startled awake, still in Maddy's bed, my body cramped, her face two inches from mine, her eyes wide open, willing my eyes open. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Cole breathed deeply, once again feeling the icy numbness creep into his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She could now feel warmth flowing through her body as her healing nanites released morphine. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He had spent most of his years alone and trapped by his flightless body. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The stench of Axe body spray was enough to strangle anyone within fifty feet of the boy. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was smiling a little now, and the upper part of his body was swaying slowly back and forth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She saw the shadowy bodies of the dogs as they approached. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grip yanked at my arm, the voice shrieking in anger, but I was free of my body. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its body was wrinkled and swollen, filling out a tunic that had been too large before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

With that, he grabs the skin from the neck and pulls it off the bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was their favorite meeting place, whether they wanted to dance or bathe their fair bodies at the river mouth or gather flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the breath in my body left, and then came rushing back in. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Alex grabbed his sister, feeling her thin body shake under her winter coat. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Every nerve of his body helped him to stare without seeing and to sit amid the noise without hearing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So my mother was right, he wouldn't blurt out crazy wild stuff as long as he was knitting, but his body would jerk instead. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I patted the chilca leaves vigorously over the sick person’s body to clean his spirit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stole one last look at the collapsed hillside of Nin’s body. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I inch my body further, my hips and legs still touching the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re not moving your body the correct way. Here, just let me show you.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One Sunday a soldier silently appeared at the house and went into the kitchen to tell Blanca everything he had seen in the Ministry of Defense and what he knew about the dynamited bodies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every inch of his body was still angry at him after his run-in with the Owner. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The Mother and the Father made us in their image, Hugor. We should glory in our bodies, for they are the work of gods.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And they knew Alys to be true in her guess, for it was she who tended the bodies of them all, and knew the signs that each year brings.“Sixteen” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body smelled strange—not dirty, exactly, but old, like a musty cave where animals had laired for a long time. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard’s face was a rictus of agony, his lips peeled back over his teeth, and gusts of pain were rolling through his body and escaping through his mouth in deep guttural roars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tad turned and headed back down the hall as fast as he could without looking at Mr. Rizzo’s lifeless body. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their bodies were covered with sores, which punctured and oozed pus, and their hair turned to a strange orange colour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of her turning the body over and pressing and prodding at the head and torso with her bare hands turned my stomach. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We could see its dark, confident body, its steamy breath. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Today—I guess this was your first look at a real body?” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretches out beside the wall and pulls me toward him, curving his body around mine again, his arm tucked under my waist. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I was drifting above my body, floating there like a bee above a flower. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I feel the anger rippling throughout my entire body. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Will thought he could feel all the atoms of his body responding to her command, and he joined in, urging his leaking blood to listen and obey. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it slowed to normal, he felt a pain growing inside, a pain spreading through his body, pressing from within. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

With a tad less blood, the theory went, the remaining blood would flow more freely and normally through the body. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I am arguing here from dates of publication: Galileo had already developed a sophisticated theory of falling bodies, backed up by exquisite experiments; but he had not published, and would not until 1638. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So far my own body shield was holding up, but it wasn’t going to last much longer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Genetic testing of the bones confirmed that the body was Alexei’s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I sat there in the dark, holding her sleeping body in my arms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My body feels weightless, as it does in water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart refused to remember the body swaying under the magnolia. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She halted at the head of the shrouded body, completing her three circles, and set the saltcellar down on the ground at her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The shadows around the moonlight rippled like an ocean wave and Darkness’s body formed in front of Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her shoulders; his mouth was twisted open and the breath was hot and short; but it was his own body, not hers, which shook. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He envisioned an overgrown jungle, a body facedown in its leaves. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a soft paw on my lap, then a gray body. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

“No point? There is no point in looking for my sister’s body?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its shrunken body bore an uncanny resemblance to the creatures that had haunted my dreams, as did the color of its flesh, which was like something that had been spit-roasted over a flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For three days his body had absorbed punishment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, his whole body was wrapped in a sheet of fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later all of the men were gathered around Samuel’s body. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dull, double thud, as two bodies collapsed separately into two chairs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Under the last sign there’s a line drawing of a woman’s body, lying on a table, blood dripping out of it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That the army hemmed in and machine-gunned three thousand workers and that their bodies were carried off to be thrown into the sea on a train with two hundred cars.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bell thought he could modify the device to find the bullet in Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Derek’s body lurched beneath him and dropped back, the raft took the blow, flexed, gave, but held together; and Brian started one clear thought: we made it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And he did nothing except lie awake in the dark, thinking of her body there in the funeral home, not her anymore, but a thing suddenly, cold and pale. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black life is cheap, but in America black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Despite my pounding head and aching body, I stand in the open door of the stock car craning my neck to get a good look. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

These men have been caught halfway through their transformation: ordinary bodies but with powerful, supernatural heads, deformed in the direction of heroism, or villainy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can always tell by the square windows, which are large enough to allow some light but too small to let a body in. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But," Venkat continued, "his body could have been buried in the Sol 6 storm. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of his lower body has fared pretty well, just one tracker jacker sting and a few small burns that I treat quickly. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Harry heard Hermione gasp, and he had the odd sensation that something was swooping low over him, immersing his body in its shadow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But as time passed and the game progressed, Set’s face hardened and cracked into a wicked leer, and it became clear that his strange, sunken, formless body was the very shape of evil. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in my body wants to end this now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And then the forest fell away, and he was back in the longhall again, back in his broken body, staring at a fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tyrioii saw no bodies, but the air was full of ravens and carrion crows; there had been fighting here, and recently. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Luna felt as though every single thing on her body had suddenly conspired to alter itself—even her voice had turned traitorous. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Tenorio has taken the body into town, and like the mad man that he is, he has stretched out the corpse on the bar of his saloon!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body burned away in layers like an onion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One night it was not his own aching body but a certain sound that roused him in the night. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to think out a way to explain it. It’s got to be the body of someone you don’t know. Someone you’ve never seen before.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dill plays faster, his heart thumping, sweating in the suffocating humidity of so many animated bodies pressed into one place. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The acceleration dragged at her body with invisible hands, stretching the flesh over her arms and face. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The color climbs over the woman's body, changing it from pale gray to soft beige with yellowy undertones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I urged him to let himself sleep late the next morning, to give his body a rest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Frozen, Thomas watched as one of the Grievers long arms reached for the lifeless body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I think we might be getting closer to the pools. He’d only keep all of his records here if they needed to consult them when they remake people’s bodies and all that.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in Koffi’s body screamed in protest as she pulled herself to her feet, collecting what dwindling resolve she had left. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She struck us over and over again, raising welts all over our bodies. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice he’d grown to hate within him said that maybe whoever had taken Bri had disposed of her body somewhere and that was what they really were looking for. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My whole body is shaking and seems like it won’t ever stop. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m really not in the mood to divvy up everything into eleven equal parts, factoring in age, body weight, and physical output. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His gaze falls on Cantos’s body, and I expect him to look apologetic. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

The first thing we should remember is that our bodies have evolved to help us solve the omnivore’s dilemma. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When he kisses me, my whole body hums. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he presses his body against mine and pulls me in. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now, with an iron weariness in his slight body, he lay and watched the sky color from one darkness to another. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind functioned like a wooden mind, her body moved crookedly like a badly operated marionette, but she went steadily about her business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could not bear to look at any of the other bodies, to see who else had died for him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her body worked all day planting, weeding, baby-sitting, washing—oh, so many chores!—but her spirit had nothing to do. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body, on the ship, will go through the motions of living, but I will be gone. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I see Helena sitting in the corner, shrinking her body down to fit the space. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s where they fished his body out of the creek,” he said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If somebody’s sick and needs more blood in his body, we give him more blood than milk in the mixture. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the tall grass near the shores and sprinkled magic water over his body and rifle. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“If you are indeed a knight, ser, defend that slander with your body.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Somehow Mark got his free hand up, slipping it between their two bodies and up to his foe’s neck. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then it occurred to people that without Cathy’s body you couldn’t prove anything even though you thought she was dead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All these monsters were just blood cells circulating through his body. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She screeched as her body shriveled with age and her gown turned to rags. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The cat was on him, crouched half across his body. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body that committed the murder would inevitably get caught, but the murderer would go free. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Put them in your bag. Is that a body I see over there?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Is not she? Then she is no rule for Mrs. Churchill, who is as thorough a fine lady as any body ever beheld.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

These clearly showed the path of the bullet as it entered, then exited the body. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We lie there gasping, twitching, our minds and bodies invaded by the poison. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted his body, craning his neck to look at the man who clung to his back. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Similar upper body structure to an ape, but bigger than any primate Butler had ever seen. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Unless someone had moved them upon finding the body, there was no trace of them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I recall that I was sitting on the edge of a chair in our still-unpacked kitchen, holding my huge body together with both hands as we listened to the radio. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggle to get back to sleep, but the body won’t let me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She folded her gray-blue wings to her body and straightened up. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, when her hair began to thin and silver, to give it body, she wore her jet-black bun pinned to her small, silver head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has studied the creatures that ride on their petals: the soft green bodies of caterpillars, the shiny armor of beetles, the delicate wings of moths. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While my brain's trying to figure it out, my body's reacting like it already knows. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I waited by the fence with the rest of the guests, who stood around the body speculating about Gabriel’s return. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Just thinking of his smell, his feel, his hands, made my body go hot all over. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monkeys’ bodies were visible in the clear bags. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need to get published, or to make money from my writing; I just needed to be able to think of myself as a person with a brain as well as a body. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She washed off the top half of her body, then the bottom, so that she wouldn't ever be totally naked. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I also knew that you could keep from having children, but how that worked inside your body remained a mystery. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, she was sound asleep, her little body a hot water bottle on my lap. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Six hands moved over his body, the ice bag slapped against the back of his neck. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here he was sitting with them and they did not know that he had murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was hairless and her skin had been rubbed with lemon and cream of witch hazel, as she explained to me, which made it as soft as a baby’s. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My immediate impression was that they were large—large of body, with large grinning mouths and large daggers at their belts. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Woodcocks, which winter in Louisiana but breed in the North, now carry the taint of the fire ant poisons in their bodies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“So something more compelling than a badger will create a more enlightened student body. Got it.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I knew in that moment my power wasn’t only in my body. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now, too, he could feel cold air swirling around his entire body. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had done as much to my body as it could take in the last twenty-four hours. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I always try to enjoy it, to feel it come out and realize that it’s my body doing something it has to do, like eating, although I’m not too good at that. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is perfectly correct to claim that in a boundless fluid a floating body displaces its own weight in water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The moment, when it came, was a flash of pain, the sudden physicality of both their bodies, of his weight on her, of her knees levered against his hips. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What he meant was that I could become one of the bodies pushing packages through the streets of the garment center. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At the body, with the gaping chest cavity and missing brain and face, at the claw marks gouged into the ground, or at the two Wyrdmarks, drawn on either side of the body in chalk. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Abraham and I had picked our apai and submerged our bodies comfortably in the water as we chewed. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were my eyes. Your mission was to screen this army from the enemy cavalry and to report any movement by the enemy’s main body. That mission was not fulfilled.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music acts as a stimulus to which the body responds, after which sensation returns to the brain to form emotions, which deepens the significance of the experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Gogol,” he whispers, leaning over his son’s haughty face, his tightly bundled body. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As my body swung around the end of it, I plunged my right hand down underneath the docking collar and found some wires to hang on to. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to work to take in a breath, because her body would not breathe in a world where Jack could look like this. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She’s taller than I am by just a few inches, and though her baggy shirt and pants try to obscure it, I can tell that her body bends and curves like it’s supposed to. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I yell as my body shifts to the side, my arms wrapping around the ladder and my leg dangling in space. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The forward motion of his body had done the rest. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he rose to walk, he bent forward even more, making a deep cavity of his body, and placed his feet down very carefully, moving ahead by inches from the knees down. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It had a dragon’s body and a woman’s face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jet Stone Girl placed her foot onto it; her body zoomed into the sky and out of sight. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her body shook as though she had a fever, and she leaned over the side to vomit what little she had in her stomach. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I get how the human body is put together, but I don’t get what’s happening inside a shark.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A body was forming out of silver and gold, with oil for blood and raw diamonds for a heart. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I finally got his body—twice my size, chest still as stone, eyes slung back—to shore, and to revive, I was so furious at him I almost rolled him back into the surf. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I could crawl or raise myself up on both arms and swing my body forward underneath me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Awkwardly folding her wings to her body, Duchess stood upright on the tree limb and shook out her rumpled feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was grateful to let her handle things that had become difficult for his old body. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came off the field, his eyes downcast and brooding, his eagerness to do well in this first game and live up to the legend of Charlie putting his whole body out of sync. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My senses are alive with the taste of her, the smell of her, the feel of her, the sound of her breathing, the sight of her as she pulls her body away from mine. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I bite my lip at seeing my brother’s body so badly beaten. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t move after that, the body flopping at the bottom of the wheel while the whole thing keeps turning. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But right then, I wished I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each “mother” takes 8 beats to improvise using body percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Passing under the protection of the Yard ’s Great Gate allowed workers a small smile of relief and permission to apply their minds and bodies to the tasks at hand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But will his mind and body heal? I believe so.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cells change while growing in culture, just as they change in a human body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The body falls on top of the others with a thump. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tris turns to me, her arms folded like two bars across her body, keeping me out. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She watched water pool around the ruined body of the buffalo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Low-pitched instruments such as drums impact the body with vibration and rhythm that influence body rhythms and movement, whereas higher-pitched frequencies such as flute and voice demand more attention and focus. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We slid to a painful stop at the checkout lanes, the impact with the metal jarring every sense out of my body. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It's been rehearsed, yet I can't stop my fingers from trembling and my body from quivering like there's a tiny landquake inside my glass ball. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He tilts his body so I can peer down the hallway. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Frank felt a subtle vibration in his own body, like a tuning fork pressed against his sternum. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I nuzzled Fig’s belly as his entire body pulled away in protest. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The second group, the people who were acting, showed the same physiological responses, the same heightened heart rate and body temperature, as the first group. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was accustomed to this, the way his body temporarily lost its vigor and needed to restore itself after he had looked beyond. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He would risk anything to escape this man, to flee from the vengefulness radiating from his body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Darin once drew the Execution Square gallows, complete with bodies hanging from the gibbet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then his eyes slid back in his head, his body swiveled, and his legs walked his sleeping brain from the kitchen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In fourteenth-century Oxford, mathematically inclined philosophers had hypothesized that falling bodies accelerate continuously; but they had made no effort to confirm this theoretical possibility through experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It had the head of a lion with a blood-caked mane, the body and hooves of a giant goat, and a serpent for a tail, a ten-foot-long diamondback growing right out of its shaggy behind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I climbed those stairs, my whole body was shaking. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This time she felt as though she were merging into the body of the woman who stood there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He could’ve been some psycho with an electric carving knife who’d dismember our bodies and wouldn’t get caught until our teeth clogged up the sewer or something like that. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My whole body relaxes, but my chin trembles. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Galileo was the first to turn Archimedes’ account of how bodies float into a theory to be tested with an experimental apparatus; at which point the theory proved incomplete. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There, from the oak tree on the corner, hung the body of Doc Machado! The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Pushing his body on and on until everything had been drummed out of his mind. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lines formed, the curves swooped over the paper, eyes and face and mouth and body. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Diego stood in the doorway, blocking it with his whole body. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nausea burned in his stomach—the squishing of the goo against his body, the smell, the circling motion. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In spite of all that power and force, there are only one and a half gallons of blood in the body at a time. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The hyena was up again in an instant, every hair on its body as erect as the hairs on my head, but its hostility wasn’t quite so kinetic now. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Special’s fingers appeared, then his body swung into view. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs started to tingle as his body went into crisis mode, sending all the blood to his chest. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The dragon’s eyes darted from her hand to her face and back to her hand again, and it shifted its body as it reached a clawed foot toward her outstretched hand. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We put the body on the windsurf board. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Frantig’s body convulsed, and liquid spewed out of his mouth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bullet-riddled bodies were dumped in the middle of the parade ground, and the prisoners had to march around them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of which starts to make sense, because as my cramped body realizes my brain is open for business, it soon becomes clear I am stuffed into a trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The winds clutched at him, buffeted his body as it hung. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was hard: but what can a body do? I thought more o’ th’ childer nor of mysel: poor things! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If I’m not dead—and the heart monitor is bleeping along, so I assume I’m not—but I’m not in my body, either, can I go anywhere? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see them dig a hole underneath the hut of the dead family and cringe as they push the bodies into the hole. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him—without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They were too big, too quick, too fast as he dove in front of them, flinging his body in a vain effort to stop them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat thundered in her ears; panic rushed through her body. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His body was buried at the foot of the orchard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In addition to calculating lean body mass, the testing situation also checked for claustrophobia since space capsules were quite small. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

My whole body goes straight like a steel rod. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her faded black Khmer Rouge pajama clothes hang loosely on her thin body as her back bends over the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My shirt creeps up my body, and I don’t pull it down, even when I feel cool air on my stomach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But you teenagers usually get more blemishes because your skin is changing, just like the rest of your body.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A pillow molded itself under my head, and my body floated, without pressure, between thin sheets. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered Dad saying that you always stay with a boat as long as it’s still floating, because a boat is easier than a body for searchers to find. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dinah wiggled frantic against me, pounding her gunnysack body into my side. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shep’s brothers showed up with a cart to collect the body. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A surge of excitement was pumping through Mark’s body. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And somewhere quite far away, a she-elephant, with something fastened to her legs that made an unnatural clanking sound as she moved her great body from foot to foot in the creaking, shifting, never-ending dark. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A toddler tries to climb onto my lap, his naked body camouflaged in talcum powder. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My entire body started craving oxygen, just one breath, but I couldn’t get it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then it resumes, the twin wands of its horns extending, dragging its whorled shell atop the sled of its body. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every instinct in his body told him to run or, at the very least, to distance himself from them, but he found he couldn’t move. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They are bumped up and down, their bodies distressed, their minds blank with bewilderment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then he turns his whole body to me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Marc’s father gets up to speak, and his body seems at war with his sentences—every time he tries to release one, his breath stops, his shoulders seize. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Glerk sat heavily on the floor, his great tail curled around his body, reading over the note that Xan had left for Luna. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think Garrett calculates the exact most awkward way to position his body in any given moment, and then he just goes for it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A sample of tissue could be extracted from the body and tested for the presence of an array of toxic substances—from strychnine to arsenic. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Suddenly I was free," he remembered, "my body just falling...even better than floating in a swimming pool, I remember thinking." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Oh ... well. . . that’s nice, the voice says, and the body moves away. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dragged the body to the front of the plane, where the fire raged, and hoisted the flight attendant into it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The hard ground pushed at his wounded body like a big hand shoving him away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I can almost see myself looking down from heaven, watching the Doctorita bury my battered body in a cornfield in the dead of night. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful has clamped her feathers to her body to say that whoever it is is not a friend. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the one place a body could count on finding both the living and the dead in the evenings was the theater. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then he told me that some Buddhists believe the spirit leaves the earth forty-nine days after the body dies. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was naked and held a bundle in her arms, and she walked as people do in dreams, with the shimmering green halo floating out around her body. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They brought my kid brother’s body back from Vietnam last month, for God’s sake.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was covered in blood, his body broken and bruised. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Our bodies, from our teeth to our brains, evolved to help us hunt, cook, and eat meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only a few red lights are on, so all we can see are the outlines of bodies as they meld together. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tally picked one up, realizing that if these cups had survived, a human body would leave more than traces. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some were so large that they came up to her hip, while others had legs the length of her hand with bodies as long as her arm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe fear and desire ran along the same tracks in her body, but she refused to confuse Wash’s giving with Henry’s taking. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had no choice but to leave Chuck’s body behind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When you looked hard, you could see that most of their body was neck, tail, and wing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both eyes were blacked, a chunk of his left ear was missing, and his whole body was covered in long raking claw marks and prickles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His body was frail, which made his head seem large and gave him an ethereal look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The child in her body hung from her lean loins like a knotty fruit and from her face every particle of flesh was gone, so that the jagged bones stood forth rock-like under her skin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Without a normally functioning liver the body would be disarmed — defenseless against the great variety of poisons that continually invade it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Reverend J. Henry C. Helmuth of the Lutheran congregation, too, thought something was wrong in the city, though it had nothing to do with sickness of the body. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He came quickly, put his body in front of mine, and pulled my arms about his waist. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are logged into an intake book with their names and notations on which body parts they are missing or how they were otherwise injured. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I sat there feeling myself a heretic, believing only in this one-shot life and the body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled up a kitchen stool and sat there with my hand on the baby’s body and watched. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black charcoal paste on their faces and bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in black did neither; he simply quick-stepped, wrenched his body erect, continued fighting. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Ganesha is one of the oldest and most familiar Hindu deities, possessing a fat human body, four human arms, and the head of a cheerful-looking elephant. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whole body rigid, he swayed where he stood and then fell flat on his face, stiff as a board. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He is surprisingly light, like his freckled body is made of bird parts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And then I say it again, because I told myself lies for so long, and now my body is still and my breath is steady and I feel alive with the truth. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I mean...okay, the kid is basically a grumpy seventy-year-old man trapped in a seventeen-year-old’s body, but he’s only being this insufferable to try to push you out.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Because when the pounding briefly stops, the rest of my body chimes in with nausea. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Daisy Mae’s body was turned awkwardly, her fluffy little feet limp. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His dragon body wasn’t built for hugs, but he made it work. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I want to be like my body, quiet and lifeless, putty in someone else’s hands. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young, strong body, now helpless in sleep, awoke in him a pitying, protecting feeling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was different from the larger feelings that still racked his body: the searing agony in his arms and hands, the almost unendurable ulceration of his parched mouth, the feverish pounding of his head. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I love vintage shopping with you, Dill. You have the body of a seventies rock star. Everything looks good on you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Lyddie scrunched her body into itself and tucked her bare feet under the low stool, fearful of seeming in the way. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He heard bodies shuffling inside, voices whispering in the shadows. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dying from kakakaka, the disease that turns the body to a small black pitcher, pitches it over, and pours out all its liquid insides. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towels are skimpy and thin, the sheets have worn places in the middles, rubbed there by other people’s bodies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, I knew, for instance, that just outside of Washington, D.C., there was a great enclave of black people who seemed, as much as anyone, to have seized control of their bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Steward Tom Thorpe walked across the course and stared at Luther’s uninjured body, incredulous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inner region of a galaxy rotates as a solid body. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now his body was a thin skeleton held together by dry skin, and on his face was written the pain of the curse. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body has its own defenses, its way of blocking things out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moss fought an urge to shove her out of the way, but his body ached too much. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Did you go out to see this body?” an attorney asked Bryan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She felt something similar to what she had felt while waiting for the gynecologist: convinced that something was wrong with her body and yet willing him to tell her that all was well. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tendai was terrified they would have a tug-of-war, but Kuda twisted his body around and pounded the She Elephant’s face with his fists. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To Sosie, Jennifer’s body was a surprise — the curves where she had expected straight planes, the pliability of a breast in her hand, the silky skin of her arms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A cold, crawling chill crept over my body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny, cold, featherlike feelings peppered his body and face. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My body burns where he doesn’t touch, and burns where he does. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick and shut them in a pigsty— bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all swinish now, though minds were still unchanged. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, one of my faithful Death Eaters would try and find me . . . one of them would come and perform the magic I could not, to restore me to a body . . . but I waited in vain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Moving body agitatedly, stomping feet impatiently, and scurrying back to safe reality. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his body, like he couldn’t quite believe it was his. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were utterly beyond exhaustion, beyond what their bodies should be able to endure. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I hear his laugh and smell the spice of his body, and I have to force those sensations away and replace them with the truth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Nail 'im," screamed Henry, but Griffin's twitching body flashed in Alfred's mind, and he never threw the punch. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hearse, its blazing headlights beaded with rain, drove into the warehouse, and the body, placed on a litter and shrouded under a blanket, was carried to the hearse and out into the night. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I myself was crushed under the weight of other bodies. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they were lost in the shadows of the trees, but Mark could hear the scraping of the Toad’s body along the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He yanked Alma up and, supporting her head with one arm, tried to pull her body out of the casket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There is squeezing in her whole body—the compression socks, her shoes, her lungs, her heart. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Therefore, the el train had been roaring by the old man’s window for a full ten seconds before the body fell. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she saw the Wart, she began wagging her whole body, grinning vacuously, and panting in her efforts to lick his face, in spite of the cord. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything about this night was true in a way that transcended their bodies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I could see where he got his boxy, top-heavy shape, and I imagined my own body starting to do the same. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our small bodies didn’t take up much space. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You don't have to think like that, Darius. You already are that. I saw your game from across the street,” I say, folding my arms and turning my whole body away from him. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His body is a paradox of mass and lightness, crafted to slip through air with the ease of an arrow. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scrubbed the shadows with her body, hoping he was only hiding, not gone. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes and focus back on my brother’s body. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His body writhed, and the most disturbing retching sounds poured out of his gaping jaws. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

So grass is death, too—it grows out of our buried bodies. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their huge bodies pushed through the crowds, towering over everyone else. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s white cloth cap bobbed away in the distance as I looked for a path out of the crowd, but bodies pushed in from all sides to watch the two men arguing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My shield deflected the point, but I felt a painful tingling all over my body. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But then she coughed, water coming out of her mouth as her body rushed downstream. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mother patiently sewing and sewing to keep life in her son’s body. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the queen takes care of his dead body for a year. And that’s when the god feels sorry for her. So the god brings him back to life.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

His lower body lay like lead, as though it belonged to someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down past the fisheye on the hall wall, I can see my white shape, of tented body, hair down my back like a mane, my eyes gleaming. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The serpent’s body was as thick as a booster rocket, glinting with coppery scales. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

According to present knowledge, the occurrence of an entire extra body chromosome is usually lethal, preventing survival of the embryo. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When they were far enough, the old man tossed the white-rabbit rice bowl at the emperor’s lifeless body. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She squeezed in closer, her stomach making contact with my side, bringing my full body to attention. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My lips feel different against hers, our bodies fit differently. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His body cushioned Boots’s fall, and she immediately sat up on his stomach to enjoy the show. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face tightened, and he could already feel the warning sirens starting up inside his body. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” I said, hoping he could not feel the heat radiating from my body. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She changes the contours of Claudine's body, shrinking her down and erasing the height I'd given her but making her round as a ripe apple. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I picture it hidden, underneath her woolen afghan and the billow of her apron bib, pumping in the thick fleshy darkness of the inside of her body: something taboo, intimate. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I considered jumping overboard and swimming away, but my body refused to move. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They found him last night on the path behind the schoolhouse. After I left you, I heard the commotion. I saw them bring his body in.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a stick and pounded the creature even as it rose to attack again, banging it until its body was mush with the tail twitching feebly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grunts in her sleep, tucking her body more closely into the chair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage Tribal Council was the only governing body to publicly single out and praise White and his team, including the undercover operatives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His other arm wrapped around my left side, until there wasn’t an inch of his body that wasn’t pressed up against mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If I am now a productive fake member of the working class, it’s because I haven’t been working, in any hard physical sense, long enough to have ruined my body. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1867, he sent out questionnaires about facial expression and body motions to people in different parts of the world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to identify the body, or see it at all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was in the tavern when they came in with the news. They were gatherin’ folk with wagons so they could go get the bodies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Entering the nave, visitors passed by a chapel on the right-hand side that contained the mummified body of Francisco Pizarro, the romantic, thuggish Spaniard who conquered Peru in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I felt a wave of anxiety run over my body. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

These spirits inhabited natural objects, like rivers and mountains, including celestial bodies, like the sun and moon. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother scurries to her son on her knees and tenderly wraps him in her arms, trying to protect him, shifting her body away from Compass Tattoo. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My body bends and twirls with more strength and grace than the others; my eyes and hands are better storytellers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If we do get into anything, make sure you report any body count. One last thing, you stay close to Scotty over there. Scotty’s our machine gunner. You can feed for him.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world stopped spinning, but earth and sky were still flipped, the bodies still dangling. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by ghosts as she had always been, Sarai had wondered what it was like at the last, and how much power a soul had, to leave the body or stay. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their upper bodies were almost entirely submerged in feces. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

My body is tight as a spring, but I flatten my gaze and keep my expression emotionless. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Caterpillars one after another I laid on my tongue, their char crisp bristle taste a sweet momentary salve to a body aching for protein. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from the way he kisses me—easing his bruised hand around my body and pulling me in close, almost swallowing me with his whole self—I know that I've won this game. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Alby’s whole body jerked a couple of times, his midsection thrusting up and away from the bed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He thought of returning to Min with this news, and his whole body shuddered. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He pulls the razor clam out; its oblong body fits perfectly in the palm of his hand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He began to dance round the body, waving his boar-spear and uttering horrible shrieks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re fourteen and your body is changing as mine was that summer, you just plain get tired, but I couldn’t admit it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced up at the offending windows—no dead bodies hanging there this week, thank goodness. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Grasshoppers winged up from the ground around her, thumping her forearms and fingers in a whirl of legs and hard bodies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light in the fake-Darin’s eyes goes out as quickly as a sun in a storm, and his irises darken into black pits, as if his entire body is filled with shadow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our bodies are made up of many rhythms—the heart, respiratory system, our body’s energy, digestive systems etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even without the braids—even entombed in the car—his long, handsome face and tall, lean body evoked those of an Osage warrior. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I felt my body trembling as I saw the bright golden form disappear. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I take a copy of Feed off the shelves and try to remember where I left off reading, a number of bodies ago. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

During the slow march of summer days I was aware, as one is aware of a drum steadily beating across a lake, of something unspooling itself in the bodies of my campmates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From his fa- ther he inherited the neatness of clothing and body and hair, and he never seemed ill dressed even when he was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were a small tight group, clustered together, our bare upper bodies touching and shining with anticipatory sweat; while up front the big shots were becoming increasingly excited over something we still could not see. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer riding a wave of adrenaline, my head once again feels larger than my body, and I stagger through the corridors until I reach the end of the staterooms. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

August’s body was found and removed last night, and they’re performing an investigation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My body went a little wacko on me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Our own surveys said at least fifty percent of the student body watched any given show. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I toss aside my weapons and race down the strip closest to her body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cole’s body ached with weariness, and he stifled yawns as he prepared supper. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I read this bad poetry at open mics in local cafes populated mostly by other poets who also felt the insecurity of their bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My mother says I’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached to my body. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Though physically mature, Desdemona’s body was still a stranger to its owner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If my body was cold in the night mist, I didn’t feel it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He knew it had happened, because he heard slight movements around him that suggested frail bodies shifting their footing on the earthy, twig-strewn ground that marked the outer edge of the forest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Just looking at his hands was doing the same wild things to the secret places of my body that holding him had done. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Taisin, who was so tired she felt like her body had been dragged across that rocky streambed, couldn’t help but smile. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her whole body shook with dread and fear. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knelt down before him, her whole body tense, and asked for the judgment. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was aware only of her body now; his lips trembled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was disturbing to feel so many new bones jutting from Brother Ugo’s body where they hadn’t been before, but he didn’t care. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They didn’t seem to be doing much damage, but Tartarus lurched around, obviously not used to fighting in a humanoid body. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone go to the trouble of building with stone, only to place a dead body inside it? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I squeeze through sweaty bodies and follow Kenya, her curls bouncing past her shoulders. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And though there were no signs of struggle on Tali’s body, there was no doubt in any of their minds that his death had been far from natural. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And her body...it was only the beginning of loss. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A few of the main campers took the vehicles and went ahead with the two school prisoners and the body of Minerva. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She shifts her body slightly so she's facing me, her eyes almost stern. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then she inhaled sharply and squeezed her arms around her body, the painful reality hitting her that her father would never again discover a new word or idea to share with her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands struck the keys, her head moved to the music’s rhythm, her thin body swayed. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sister Inez had ordered him to bed after looking at the sores on his body. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second body was that of an old woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can feel my mind immediately combating the body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Although his face was indistinct in the gathering gloom, every line of his body looked as if he knew he’d won. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

One learned body, the Askesian Society, was for a time devoted to little else. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The heat from the rumbling machines warmed our behinds and spread up through our bodies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I earned a little better weekly pay check working at the Gar Wood factory in Detroit, where big garbage truck bodies were made. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced my eyes to shut, my body to slide down, and my head to rest against the ledge. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually, typhus microbes discovered that human body lice offered a much more efficient method of traveling directly between humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It filled his eyes and gripped his body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My entire body started to itch, as though I had just been removed from a plaster cast and was unused to the new freedom of movement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s body relaxed and he got on his hands and knees, laboring heavily to breathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Pauline and her children grieved, but having no body to bury properly is a terrible thing for a Congolese family. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he let himself imagine her feelings this morning, his brain twisted away, as his body might from a lighted brand thrust into his face. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A woman’s petite body wrapped in white was being carried in an open coffin high above the heads of the mourners. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Good heavens, I like that! My dear boy, I am a real violin! It is part of my own body!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

With all the training over the past five days and fiddling with various weapons and techniques, her body ached. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had his head down on the steering wheel, his body shaking, as he sat solitary in the frozen January midnight darkness. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He had sensed this even while holding her naked, but it had not marred the pleasure he found in her curvy body, her moving with him, her taking as much as she gave. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His body seemed a flaming cross as words boiled hysterically out of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watch him go, my body folding over my legs, arms dangling in the air below my feet, reaching, dizzy at the height. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A collection of charred bodies had been stacked on a comer, not fully covered by a blanket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need the sensation of water hitting my body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

No aging, no death, no body in the grave. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Scipio might have had the body of a child, but he could express himself like an adult, with a confidence that they couldn't help admiring. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas was a little frightened at the thought that one day he would be the one to advise the ruling body. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But instead, I was ripped from the body I was in. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Henry nudged the body with his foot and rolled him over. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stab my wooden stake high into the dummy’s chest, feeling it puncture the body and hit the tree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here she practiced, holding on to a jutting rock and letting her body float out straight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The situation is similar to that of heavy bodies falling vertically, but it is easier to observe because the speeds are smaller. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been moving my arms, my right leg, and turning my body best as I could to keep up the muscles, but you can’t do much with your left leg trussed up. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He died, and Ajax carried his body out of the battle while Odysseus held the Trojans back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the first time I had washed a body, I had vomited in the alley behind the tahara house until I was coughing up strings of burning bile. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, as her body rubs up against mine, I feel a strange bubbling and throbbing inside me that makes me warm. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She just panted and shook, not taking her left hand from the hilt of the sword, even after those hungry eyes turned dull and its body sagged atop hers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But this was very different from the idea of a human body being operated by some kind of guiding spirit which controlled its activities from minute to minute. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The driver’s seat was sunken from the weight of his body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabiya is almost jumping with excitement, her body a blur of limbs moving in different directions as she speaks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mom sat me down last year to talk about my “holy body” and how sex was a gift I should only give to my husband. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the other room, Lev leaned over the table, lighting a candle he had placed at the head of the shrouded body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, and Matthias’ body flooded with misery as he dragged himself over the black rocks to the dead and frozen land. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the body was covered with coal, he pushed the lever back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Esquimaux Curlew looked like he was just coming onstage, his body leaning forward, his neck stretched out, his bill stuck up in the air like he was about to sing or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The meat and plants from the woods combined with the exertion it took to get them have given me a healthier body than most of those I see around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s spirit, she realized, would still be in her body. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dangerous lassitude hovered just out of range in his body; it was accompanied by a defeatist torpor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hungry, and his meager diet had pared his body down to a feral scrawn of gristle and bone, but he seemed to be in reasonably good health. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted his body as firmly as he could, although his heart was knocking at his Adam’s apple. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were, like this new body she was growing into, givens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Putting one foot after the other, I chug up the stairs, my arms and legs starting to burn as I drag my body up to the fifth floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as his feet hit the solid stone floor, he took off, running despite the scream of exhaustion from his body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’d thought the lumps along the river that had tripped me were logs, but as the light improved I saw they were bodies. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His body touching mine was tense and delicious. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He yearned suddenly to be back in bed with her, feeling her body warm and pliant to his. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You probably took a gander at the body the Chicago cops put on display. You reckon it was really Dillinger?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Holding her aluminum tray, she moved from body to body, spreading maple-syrup-colored wax where it was needed with a flat wooden spoon, and pressing in strips of gauze before it hardened. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The iron is clenched around my body like a hard cylindrical skin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It ain’t doing nothing but destroying my body and destroying my family. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s body was stiff with dread and indecision. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what a dead body smells like? I mean, after it’s been dead for, like, days.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was like my whole body was being invaded. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The agreement established an independent body to review police actions, created a mechanism to fence in the hostels, and banned the display of “traditional weapons” at rallies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She focused on the magic stores deep within her body, and noticed sadly how depleted they were. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She hugged me back, hard, but her body felt soft against mine and her hair smelled fresh, like river water. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My whole body tingles with nerves and it feels like my tummy has balled itself into a knot. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The toilet water rushes through the house, filled with a little more of my mother’s body. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I looked down into the workshop, but couldn’t see Fela anywhere in the milling bodies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And he shot into the crook of one of Glerk's arms and insinuated himself into the fleshy folds of his body, and was, once again, the happiest dragon in the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Eat heartily, Matthias. No point in facing trouble on an empty stomach. Feed the body, nourish the mind.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I see myself lying in a tomb beside my father’s sheeted body where the worms feed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A few steps away, the Governor stood staring at the mass of illuminated bodies. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They returned down a different hole and soon found a dry, empty burrow, where they curled up together and slept in the warmth of their own tired bodies. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaime had worked practically all night and by seven in the morning his body had had only two hours of sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my words, the ear pendant whizzed and whirled like a top, sending thousands of tiny, exquisite vibrations to every nerve in my body. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scooter was silent the whole time, turning his head to each person who talked, his smile tilting, his whole body tilting in his chair. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He dragged the sack away and hooked it over the side, so that the Chicken’s body was half in and half out of the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every fiber in my body wants to scream and cry, and I want to pound my fists into the metal walls. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, however, Amarante felt a nerve twitch somewhere deep inside his body: he held his fire, blinked his eyes, and then lowered the gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his part, he misses Henry’s bed, Henry’s body, Henry and a place a few thousand miles removed from the factory line of the campaign. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only the murderous bloom inside his body, only the corruption it brings to every cell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he called and I heard his voice over the phone I would get this nauseous feeling all over my body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cuevas too, who had seen Rosa come into this world and knew her like the palm of his own hand, was taken aback at the sight of her nude body. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers were clenched, and the grass all around his body had turned yellow and died. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As they flew down the last few hundred yards, their eight taut bodies rocked back and forth like pendulums, in perfect synchronicity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shards of glass and metal spray from the center of the bloom, and Uriah’s body is among them, a limp projectile. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the age of twenty-one, Henrietta stared through the train window at rolling hills and wide-open bodies of water for the first time, heading toward a new life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even as a six-year-old, I had such crazy upper body strength that it was always easy for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My own teammates almost killed me in the end zone, mobbing me, burying me under a pile of bodies, like they never saw a touchdown before. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They scratch at their bodies through torn clothing, pick at scabs on their scalps. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the blood in my body went to my head, the back of my eyes, and I dry-heaved again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The woman, whose body remained frozen while a movie made her face and costume spring to life, reminded Charles of the graveyard statues from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The only time a body was buried in its clothes was in the case of murder, to evoke God’s vengeance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Borelli treated the body as a system of levers acted on by the forces exerted by the muscles, and analysed geometrically how muscles in the human body acted in walking and running. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Soon the upper half of his body followed, all in one smooth flow, until he was in a sitting position. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bristle had dragged brush to the fallen tree to shelter her brother and curled her body over his to keep him warm. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now he was holding himself upright only with his mouth, and he had to hang onto the key or then press it down again with the whole weight of his body, as necessary. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body sank until it met the carpet. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Luckily for her, the bullet didn’t go through the baby’s body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole night making incomprehensible movements in the drawing room; later they turned out to be exercises designed to perfect the mind’s control over the body and to improve digestion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t, not technically, but I knew why I wanted them—for my body, so it would be noticed—and that seemed immodest even if the clothes were not. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The icy water clutched again at his body like a giant hand; the chill of it squeezed him like the circling coils of a monstrous boa constrictor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A glance at his emaciated body,jutting out at harsh angles from under the sheets, testified to the contrary. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legs moved mechanically, the weapon stayed in front of the body. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to bleed, that my body might disprove this suspicion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I would sit goggle-eyed at my father jumping and shouting as he preached, with the congregation jumping and shouting behind him, their souls and bodies devoted to singing and praying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger glared; his whole body tightened and he felt that he was going to rise another foot in height. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is gross. People and their gross bodies; it all makes me want to barf.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Emo was laughing loudly, pointing at the body hanging stiffly, swaying a little in the gusts of wind, then pointing at Leroy kneeling on Pinkie’s throat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had never thought of boats starting from nothing, of taking on bones under their bodies. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handel was the more adventurous pan-European traveller, learning his craft in Italy and then, in his twenties, settling for good in England, where he was to create the great body of his masterpieces. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This exercise stuff is really putting a hurtin’ on my body! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With his dead body in her arms she leaped into the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After tests were returned and grades given, the student body, which acted like an extended family, knew who did well, who excelled, and what piteous ones had failed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke-filled doorway was piled with bodies of the fallen: Celyn, Naomi, Phoebe. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were carrying off his master’s body for some foul purpose and he could not follow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

De Vries also pored through Darwin's books, and he latched onto the theory of pangenesis—the idea that “particles of information” from the body were somehow collected and collated in sperm and eggs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was so astonished that my body jerked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some bodies fully dressed, some naked and some in all degrees of dishevelment. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Later, they passed colorful handkerchiefs over Felicia’s body, all the while grieving in low voices to purify her corpse. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so natural and clear, the right thing to do: fill the gap with the body of my brother. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made the earth and sky from him, the sea from his blood, the earth from his body, the heavens from his skull. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her thickened, stiffened body was no longer recognizable from behind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

One side of his body was lifted up. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb yelps as the net curls around his body and then straightens. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bodies in the storeroom were their bodies. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

A body of water that remains stagnant is just a cesspool, mi amor! Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And yet I still want to fold myself up and put my entire body in his arms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cole’s body folded and collapsed to the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In spite of his six-pack, Dimple couldn’t help but think that she much preferred Rishi’s solid body to his. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

You pulled me in close and reminded me that even with my almost-woman body, I am still your one and only baby. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I felt blood rushing through all the narrow parts of my body: the wrists, the throat, the backs of my knees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a loud murmur from the crowd, and Danny’s body sagged as the tension went out of him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They’ve found Mrs. de Winter’s boat and they say there is a body in the cabin.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not just on the body, although those are there—the hairline fractures across the skin, the web you create to catch your own death. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As a Paravan and a man with mortgaged body parts, he considered it his duty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, endlessly, we repeated what we had learned not to do around age two: tipped ourselves forward, bodies straight, feet still, until we landed with a bam. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the guards dragged her stiff body out of the train. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We could also keep our brains and bodies accustomed to the rolls and turns of flight, although weightless space flight might feel different from flight in the atmosphere. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take in her slim body, her lean profile. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A second later he heard a body fall and he ran to the door of his apartment, looked out and saw the kid running down the stairs and out of the house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food intake predicts body mass index according to a monotonically increasing relation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We seek the dead only, to return to earth the body, of which no man is the owner, but only for a brief moment the guest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After cleaning out his stomach with emetics, she wrapped him in hot blankets and fed him egg whites for two days until his harrowed body recovered its normal temperature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My body was wet with sweat, and my lips were trembling. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then more lit up, and still more, until a whole constellation surged around us like a million green twinkling stars, lighting our bodies, reflecting in our masks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She still hadn’t removed the sticky resin from her body. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We passed through several road­blocks to get there and three different security officials conducted a body search on me after the wires in my jaws set off the metal detectors. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not even when I passed a quietly sobbing Miss Sarah, the limp and motionless body of Miss Rose lying in her arms. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’m about to crawl into my cell when a body with long black hair sits up inside my hexagon. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’m so sick, oh, I’m so sick,” Carol moans, twisting her body on the bed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every subject was given its own binder: dogs, cats, horses, farm animals, woodland animals, flowers, fruits and vegetables, rural landscapes, urban landscapes, men’s faces, women’s faces, men’s bodies, women’s bodies, and hands-feet- bottoms-and-other-miscellaneous body parts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Among the four sisters, she was considered the plain one, with her tall, big-boned body and large-featured face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Their fat bodies shivered with rage and their shrill cries pierced the air. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The army wanted a body count of enemy dead—he’d provide it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Papa insisted we call it the host because “host” came close to capturing the essence, the sacredness, of Christ’s body. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Riot is rubbing the length of his body against the sliding glass door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For a second I feel like everything inside me is breaking, and I crouch by a body, breathing through my mouth so I don’t smell the blood. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it struck me that for a whole night, we were living with a dead body in our garage! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her breasts, which I felt only very briefly and in the dark, are luminously full as they hang down from her body. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Its body was then displayed in the village square for all to see. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I must cushion the pull of the line with my body and at all times be ready to give line with both hands. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the physical toll actually getting to the Olympics had taken on my body and then considered the emotional toll as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Their bodies were dumped into an enormous common grave. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

One year later his ashes were still in the possession of the undertaker who had received his body. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

How could a father’s sperm “absorb” the instructions to produce his daughter’s “generative parts,” Aristotle asked, when none of these parts was to be found anywhere in the father’s body? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Should I tell you that when were apart, your body comes back to me in dreams... Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

What kind of burial he wanted if I got a body, what kind of memorial service if I didn’t. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma cries softly, her body tense with fear and her hands holding on to Geak. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her there might be a way to stay in a body longer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His body radiated its own sort of gravity, causing the other monsters to lean towards him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Down, down it came, and then, folding its fingered webs, it gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My hands hold tightly to the rope tied to the ring pierced through its nose while my legs hug its body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a swimmer’s body, long and lean, with not a scar upon him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d stare at the long-legged showgirls when they sashayed across the casino floor, with huge feathers on their heads and behinds, sequins sparkling on their bodies, and glitter around their eyes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest, down through my body, out along my arms and legs, to the tips of my being. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the arm that was caught in the web tighten up against his body. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Bread?" she asks when she hears me come in, her upper body buried in the pantry. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The crack of the next bullet sent the shooter’s lifeless body sliding out of the passenger window of the truck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I miss Khalid so much that sometimes I have to pretend he’s still here, still in the first body he was born to, just so the pain won’t hurt as bad. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I turn away as the glass shatters, and the force of the water throws my body at the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

All nature of kicks and punches and body slams. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And the goose raised herself a bit and poked her eggs a little further under her so that they would receive the full heat from her warm body and soft feathers. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When my mother finally emerged from her room the next day, it was as if all the joy had been drained from her body. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that twice as he flung the snow onto a pile of decomposing bodies, he found he was also tossing rats that had frozen in the snowfall. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mind and body thrashed out of control. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He was conflicted about what he was seeing, a refracted version of his city, one where homes and trees were bisected and mirrored in this oddly calm body of water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even now, red puffy scars still crisscrossed Cole’s body and served as painful reminders of the mauling. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A lamassu is pretty much the Persian version of a sphinx: a mishmash animal, with the head of a man, the body of an ox, and the wings of an eagle. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For the high school paper, Adina had covered a student council scandal in which the student body president had sold test answers in order to buy himself a new SUV. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But his body felt hot and weak, as if he were ill. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I was reading on the Internet, and there are lots of people like you. Did you know you can take hormones so that your body, you know, doesn’t go all manlike?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

His brows lowered as his eyes traveled along her body. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His left hand twitched and moved back and forth, pretending to pull the at.oow over his freezing body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Outside, the wind whips the hare-branched trees; it whistles through the cracks in the stone Avails, chills my body,' and reaches all my bones and inner parts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

How could I share with my mother the wildness of my body or the desperation of my mind? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran along by the boiling water to investigate, scrambling down the bank, to stand looking pityingly at the wet, bedraggled body, wondering what it was, for she had never seen anything like it before. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

First I pump the blood to the lungs to pick up the oxygen then to the left atrium and ventricle then to the aorta to go all around his body like it should. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our computer lab in the library only has twenty outdated computers for the entire student body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I try to get up, but Boggs pushes me back down, shielding my body with his own. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We could see where each bone in her body was connected because she was so thin. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift the cloth from the body’s face. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

These are wordless dreams, dreams of the body. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It went in fast and straight, and I saw Danny Saunders’ left foot move out and his bat go up and his body begin to pivot. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now the plane lurched slightly to the right and Brian looked at the pilot He was rubbing his shoulder again and there was the sudden smell of body gas in the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sound, I lost the floaty feeling and dropped back down into my body with a thud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There are bodies of men found with their chests cut open and their livers missing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a body had flies but no crow, it might still be alive, especially if it also had no newspaper over it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He was going to capture animals, smother them, then carry their dead bodies. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It felt like my body was a machine, engineered to do nothing but shoot free throws. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth was whipped from his body as fast as it was produced. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Correctional officials had plugged the electrodes into the chair incorrectly, so only a partial electrical charge was delivered to Mr. Dunkins's body when the electric chair was activated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each day when the train stopped, we’d lean out of the car and try to count the number of bodies thrown. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He sank back to the ground, his blood- smeared body trembling while he wiggled his stub tail and tried to lick my hog-cut leg. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss could see the uncertainty in the other boy’s body, and Moss jerked his head, gesturing to Javier to join them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Will sat down where he couldn’t see Sir Charles’s body and ate three squares of the Kendal Mint Cake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, his muscles stiffened as though a wire strung through his body had jerked him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His entire body began to shake as he picked it up. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one’s own body. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The summer passed, and they never got the wing reattached to the body, the fuselage mended. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Rachael’s proportions, he noticed once again, were odd; with her heavy mass of dark hair, her head seemed large, and because of her diminutive breasts, her body assumed a lank, almost childlike stance. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The composition was stable, with his body right in the center against a mound of grasses—also in the center. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His body was a stalk supporting the tulip of his brain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Earlier, Cole had felt hollow and weak, as if all the blood had emptied from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At first I thought maybe she was sick in the body, but now I’m wondering if she’s sick in the head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The first shot of the Civil War was fired in South Carolina, where our bodies constituted the majority of human bodies in the state. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The twins came roaring back into the clearing, laughing as they jumped into the body of the plane like there were incoming missiles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For example, if all you were shown of Caroline’s body were her hands, you would know at once that she was an artistic person. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock read two in the morning, and his body begged for sleep, but Finn was having none of that. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom the girl held her steaming shirt away from her body while Tessie brought damp towels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I came in this world, screaming and kicking and jacking her body up. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ruth had fallen at her feet and lay there, her body shaking violently. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning in January of seventh grade and continuing into the following August, my previously frozen body underwent a growth spurt of uncommon proportions and unforeseeable consequences. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He guessed that it had traveled to the left after entering Garfield's back and was somewhere on that side of his body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its body is smooth and pale grey, it has bulging round eyes on top of its head and four spindly legs with enormous flat feet. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was covered with the birds’ faeces, so he was henceforth nicknamed ‘Vulture Droppings’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel as if I’ve stepped outside my own body, and I’m leaving it behind. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her body and face was twisted to make you think demons had grabbed holt of her. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a body had to go through a little danger to get to the safety. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking of running for student body treasurer,” Paul said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My body was reacting to the sight of home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

James yelled, and struggled to free his body from Mrs. Warner. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Then, a new scene is created, inspired by the body positions of the actors. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

She smells of sour body odor and dirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurtled his little body at his brother, using his feet to kick as fast as his hands pummeled. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck was built to carry cargo, not people, and it was smelly and disgusting, packed full of bodies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And I knew I was the person inside my own body. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We lie there, under the comforter, as my body heat slowly warms him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, I hardly saw the contorted bodies, because I was focusing on the faces. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body felt like it did the time my sisters rolled me down the hill in a barrel. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five thousand body bags have been brought to the area, they noted. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The serpent curled around, thinking it would snag the net with its tail and use its whole body to rip it asunder. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Maddie budged over a little and made room for another body beneath the umbrella. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The priest holds up a flat round bread on a silver plate, a symbol of Christ’s body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For northbound hikers Sunfish Pond is something of a glorious novelty, since nowhere south of here will you find a body of water on a mountaintop. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled her to him, and for a while Olanna did nothing, her body limp against his. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It pressed at all my body openings, forcing everything in its path. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I suppose I don't see anything that would make any girl ashamed of her body," she says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the body arched over the gate, dripping blood from the ends of its cinnamon hair, and that was what he reached for. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then, while lying in bed, he heard a body hit the floor in the boy’s apartment, and he heard the woman scream from across the street. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I found the pictures of the falling body. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stood tall, with a medium body, and black curls about her shoulders. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He did a few spins, and popped and locked his body like he was raised in the eighties. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Immediately, their faces and bodies were covered with hundreds of white scars—all shaped like the grains of rice that had rained upon them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alex contorted his body and managed to stay down, flailing madly with his legs to propel himself sideways. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His body had adjusted somewhat to the heat and harsh conditions. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It didn’t last very long, but while it went on the outside world was blotted out, and she seemed to be listening to the struggle in her body. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It evokes, really evokes, the lynched body I saw. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when, after a long time, the room went dark, and there was the slow, silent, creeping movement of the woman beside him, an exultation filled him fit to break his body. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Trying to cheer him up, I added, “I got good news, Papá. I was elected student body president and my friend was elected treasurer.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I feel as if my body is dissolving and I am being drawn up and up, like thinning mist, into a vast emptying space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his memory, Baba’s body was broken, and there was too much blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From the racket he made, you’d have thought I had a club and was breaking every bone in his body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agnew and Hamilton knew from their years practicing military surgery that the human body often encases a bullet in a cyst, or sac, making it harmless. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when he searched Luke’s face, his entire body relaxed for a second, and he smiled. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I flop back onto the cushions, and I feel cold without her body parallel to mine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His whole body probably blushed as deep red as his face. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Finn whipped around, scanning the endless waving, twisting bodies, a vast sea of faces, searching for the pocket of stillness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For some people, however, the spirit would leave the body forever, and they would die in their sleep. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza picked it up and waved it over the tiny bodies until her arms shook with the effort. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s whole body shuddered, and a hot mess lay across her palm and between her fingers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My cheek slams against the hard, cold metal before I can grasp what is going on, and the voices and bodies blur around me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Izzi does as he says, and reluctantly, I follow, my whole body rebelling at the thought of putting my life in the hands of a Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“God’s body, you certainly have a heavy pair, don’t you?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They tried again, then called over Henry Dobbins and Rat Kiley, and all five of them put their arms and backs into it, but the body was jammed in tight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Lennie!” he called again; and then he stopped, and his body stiffened. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She assumed Mother’s spirit hovered near her grave, as the other ancestors did, but what if her body had been carried off by a leopard? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man’s mind wedded itself to the animal’s body to form something greater than the sum of both parts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted up, over the cot, the tiny thin string holding me to my body stretching like chewing gum. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Still smiling, Colonel Meecham said, “I enjoyed talking to you, Johnson. I like your attitude. It’s a good attitude. It’s a real good attitude to find in such a measly body. Good afternoon.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My spirit was as beat as my body was tired. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He remembered the last attack, the bodies that had littered the ground, and then...a conversation with Kamau. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They started praying for it every night, while I was begging my body to miscarry. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times the ground was so hard that we had to dig the shovel into the ground with both hands, pushing in with the weight of our bodies. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My mom would always say, “My job is to feed your body, feed your spirit, and feed your mind.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Zero stopped moaning, and his body slowly unbent. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Rose said that while the three were riding in a car she’d “shot her in the top of the head,” then, with Joe’s help, dumped the body by Three Mile Creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As he reached for the eject button, Powers realized that the plane's centrifugal force was pressing the lower half of his body into the cockpit. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, he wrapped the head in the newspapers and used the wad to push the bloody trunk of the body deeper into the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So Fremantle came to Gettysburg, saw the bodies unburied in the fields, beginning to become offensive in the heat of the morning, poor chaps. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like seeing a dead person rise, for the white sheet was wet with sweat and it clung to his thin body. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The van's walls and floor shudder and jerk as if it's alive, and to my shock, as it lurches forward, my body slides around. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When the bodies are dry I sweep them into a little heap—like coffee grounds—then put them in the trash. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They think she’d been drinking. She hit her head and nobody found her till this morning. Except some animals. The body was pretty messed up.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It's more than the trendy bun, slender body, slightly Cockney accent, and clunky earrings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cool water has an invigorating effect on my body, my spirits. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sierra pitched forward into its body, hands first. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My body won’t cooperate with what I’m telling it to do. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"So quickly? You didn't do any body work." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She did not want to see her mother’s empty face, her strange swollen body drained of color. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clanking of a pot hitting the floor jolts my body finally awake. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her eyes glazed with illness and her whole body was hot although she trembled sometimes with cold. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men who were already stationed on the airfield ran to push the newcomers into the defensive trenches, protecting them with their own bodies. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Germans laughed as they threw his body down in front of us for everyone to see. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation, and not on the nature of the body that had collapsed to form it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well. There. I can do without the rest” He straightened himself, holding the bloody sword, and looked at the dead body which had killed its mother. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tenth labor was to bring back the cattle of Geryon, who was a monster with three bodies living on Erythia, a western island. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After cleaning up, I gazed at Fig’s sleeping body. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I could not bury Faro; I had no shovel, I carried his body to the east ridge, laid it on the ground, and covered it with stones. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t reach her with his hands; she was backed deep inside the cave, and his body wouldn’t fit beyond this spot as it had when he was younger. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was only aware that someone had invoked their right over the body of my son. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

While they bludgeoned his dying body, the saint’s dæmon was borne upward by cherubs and offered a spray of palm, the badge of a martyr. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body looked smaller in his giant arms. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nine men spent then- time doing experiments that increased our knowledge of the sun, the surface of the earth, and the human body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning a simple wooden coffin arrived from Kasungu and the body was delicately placed inside, yet I never gathered the courage to enter the house myself. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The bird is about three feet tall, with a red crown on a white head, and a charcoal-gray body. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The bodies of the children were supposedly scattered and buried nearby, but Alexei’s body was not found. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despereaux lay on his back at the bottom of the steps and touched the bones in his body one by one. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I gasped and tried to step away, but his hands kept my body in place. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was plump, with a soft round face and body. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But then my body took over and this primal defense mechanism, said, No, we will not stand for this. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the last circle are five metal bowls so large they could hold my entire body, if I curled up. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As his body fell, another was revealed behind him. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Newt and Alby scrambled out of the Box after her, then forced their way through to the girl’s lifeless body, the crowd re-forming behind to cut them off from Thomas’s view. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I must not let the body out of this room. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some had made scars on their bodies as a sign of beauty. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after a moment, while Matty knelt, still mystified by what was happening, the frog’s body twitched. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was scared, as this reminded me of when we had walked through the village with Saidu’s body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He is part of the team that is making a map of all the genes in the human body. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exhaustion and grief inched heavily into every fiber of my body, yet I was wide awake. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was that he didn’t trust his head not to swivel back toward Mom and the rest of his body to follow. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like all CIA operatives, Marti strapped to her body an SRR-100, a special radio receiver that allowed her to pick up the radio transmissions of KGB surveillance teams that might be tailing her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Our duty, and Isabel’s particular care, is to restore you to soundness of body and soul.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

To Ismene, shocking as it was, overwhelming her with anguish for the pitiful dead body and the lonely, homeless soul, it seemed, nevertheless, that nothing could be done except to acquiesce. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shave our legs and pluck our eyebrows and slather our bodies with creams and lotions. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then his whole body was pressing me into the hot sand, burying me in it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Since then, I've gained twenty pounds or so—I'm not ashamed, but I no longer have a mannequin's body. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I kept him under my shirt, so he was both blinded and close to my body. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Belet may have had serious fighting skills, but she didn't have a single molecule of charm in her whole body. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Margulis has summarized the now considerable body of data indicating that the modern nucleated cell was made up, part by part, by the coming together of just such prokaryotic animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z