| 单词 | boil |
| 例句 | Salts, dissolved in hot water, draw the suppurations from boils. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Plates of petit-waffles, boiled eggs, tiny quiches, grape clusters, and sweet luna pastries are placed in front of me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Minli’s thoughts bubbled faster and faster like boiling rice; every step she took seemed to throb and Minli wasn’t sure if the pounding was her heart or Wu Kang’s axe in the distance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The fog was burning even as it boiled up, engulfing everything in a roiling pool of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “That place there has the best boiled peanuts in North Carolina.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Sheets need to be boiled. Then you can start going through the kids’ hair with a comb. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The air conditioner was broken and the room was boiling. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He boiled spaghetti, then fried onions and peppers to add in. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Shortly before ten A.M. on May 7, 1896, after a breakfast of boiled eggs, dry toast, and coffee, Holmes was escorted to the gallows at Moyamensing Prison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The table was piled high with food: matzah, roast beef, hard- boiled eggs, goblets of deep red wine. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Later Mama would mix this lye water with hog fat and boil it in an iron pot when she wanted to make soap. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris said he had to boil away forty gallons of sap to make one little gallon of syrup. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He gets up early on weekdays, lights the fire, boils water for the tea and his shaving mug. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I sit at my desk, thinking about watching the pageant, anger boiling up inside me worse than a pot of collard greens on a Sunday afternoon. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It was one of those nofrills brands, and the label had said chocolate mint, but it tasted more like boiled Scope. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z She rests uneasily in the silence, watching ants boil darkly over the crumbs of what seemed, to begin with, an impossibly meager lunch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had everything stored at the back of the cave, she built a fire, boiled pumpkin, and toasted a few soldier termites she cornered in the baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I flung the corpse as far as I could, then hurried downstairs before Mother boiled over. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a hidden place in the garden, surrounded by bushes, we had our “camp,” where we could light a little fire and boil water in a tin can, balanced on rocks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It is slick with saliva and as red as if I had dunked it in boiling water, but the skin isn’t broken. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The tea stall owner was boiling a big kettle of water. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He felt a terrible desire boiling up within him, a fire impossible to quench, a thirst for Clara that would never, even on the longest and most passionate nights, be satisfied. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother had sent him over to the school to take Leah some boiled eggs for dinner, and he came running back to tell us Anatole was over there looking like he’d seen a ghost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The two floods combined in a steaming, boiling cataract and flowed on as one toward the black fog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The girl blushed, so far as she could blush when she was boiled, and said in a small voice: “Please give me your hand.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She got a couple of hot dogs out of the refrigerator and put them in a pot on the stove to boil. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The juice that dripped through was collected in a pot and boiled until only a white residue was left. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate mealie porridge, called sadza, with tomato, onion, and chili sauce; boiled pumpkin leaves; and okra with peanut butter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had opened the last envelope, and yellowish-green liquid smelling strongly of petrol gushed over her hands, which began to erupt in large yellow boils. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z ‘Sméagol’ll get into real true hot water, when this water boils, if he don’t do as he’s asked,’ growled Sam. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He wondered if anyone had the good sense to boil it first before drinking it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The stench of boiling fur began to fill the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The broth was boiling hot, and the kettles were heavy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Trunchbull, her face more like a boiled ham than ever, was standing before the class quivering with fury. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She makes blueberry puddings, blueberry sauce, canned blueberries, boiling the jars in a large canning kettle over the outdoor fire. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I try to make sense of it, but frustration starts boiling up in me all over again. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Every surface was covered and boiling, and the path like black flowing lava in the moonlight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother muttered for an hour, and then her anger boiled over. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Winston lit the burner and set a pan of water to boil. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If she could move her right arm just a few inches, she could throw him off balance and grab his sword…The shackles dug into her stomach, and fizzing, boiling rage turned her face scarlet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "That would boil them, to be sure. Oh, to be sure. Now, what do you want to say?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The bananas were raw, so we boiled them by adding wood to a fire that was in one of the outdoor kitchens. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z A few days ago, I tried to make beans, but they never softened, even though I boiled them for three hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The sauce had come to a boil four times, and I had to keep shutting off the heat because the goo was spilling over the edge of the pan. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I watch her for a long minute as she struggles to pour the boiling water from an electric kettle on her nightstand into a mug. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The boiling house was as perilous as the mills, for if a person nodded off for a second, he or she could slip into a bubbling vat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "Listen," he said, "to-morrow my nose is so tight on the handle-bars that the only thing touches those boils is a lovely breeze." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The whites would boil away on the stove awhile. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She boiled mealie meal and sprinkled it with dried fish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wasted, kwa? I will boil it well with spices and cook away the spoilage.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The thing Adam had in front that Eva had in back was the letter A. The thing that’s put in hard and comes out soft were the beans in the boiling water. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening we actually chased a little boy who was eating two boiled ears of corn by himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Then she boils them for another hour or so. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was pouring boiling water into a bucket full of dry midlings and stirring the materials to a steaming paste. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Catelyn had ordered garments sewn to her measure, handsome gowns to suit her birth and sex, yet still she preferred to dress in oddments of mail and boiled leather, a swordbelt cinched around her waist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even when the sun had been trying to boil him alive a year past, he seemed to be ready with a joke. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z From there, through a window, he could watch the work progressing and shout his instructions, boiling with rage at his protracted immobility. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Liquid air, television, vibro-vacuum massage, radio, boiling caffeine solution, hot contraceptives, and eight different kinds of scent were laid on in every bedroom. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail comes down to the riverbank just upstream from a narrow gorge, through which the Teklanika surges in a boil of white water. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I say this frequently, while I’m boiling diapers in the kitchen house and having my imaginary arguments with an absent Rachel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were blackened and caved, mouths agape, eyes boiled shut, melted and pooled together in the gutter like some hydra-headed horror. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A hate crime is bias boiled down to its most vile essence. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She gets the fire going, cuts the onion in half, drops it in the boiling milk with a little butter and sprinkles the milk with pepper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At first his screaming was just that, but then he began to babble, yelling about the seas boiling and ash raining from the sky and an endless blanket of smoke smothering the earth. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They lived on biscuits and boiled beans, maybe a little bacon. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I said, turning around, my blood still boiling. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He danced about the room in pain on four, then two legs, the kettle covering his head, the boiling oatmeal raining down his thick neck and coat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Oh, will we? says Mam, and where will we get the coal or turf or blocks to be boiling water? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When Mam gets the fire going and boils the water I remind him of his promise to loan me the bike. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “We’ll find food soon,” I say with a cheerful smile, knowing when we do, it will be slimy boiled lake vines. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Their first night on the ice field, they built a small, hot fire in the lee of the sledge, and boiled water for their first hot drinks since morning. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I bite my lip, hold back the tears that are boiling in my eyes. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z At every few moments the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beastlike roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But you must have a slow boil, getting more and more angry—taking it more and more personally—the longer you thought about my nonresponsiveness. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Mom didn’t know Miss Volker had gone insane, and I knew I would go insane too if I had to watch her cannibalize her own body down to the white boiled bones. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My Noise churns and bubbles like a stew on the boil till finally I have to stop for a minute to calm myself down a little. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The room had a fireplace where we could boil water for our tea or an egg in case we ever came into money. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Miss Cee, it was a roast what was ordered and we’ve been at it all day in temperatures above the boiling point of blood.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She had spoken wearily, as they sat in the living room, eating boiled corn and ube. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We didn’t have to do a thing in the world to be fascinating but move around in our house, speak, wear pants, boil our water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I lift a box of highlighters, all shaped like boiled eggs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The soup was thick with chunks of boiled beef and dried fish and dark green onugbu leaves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z After ten minutes or so at 170°, I would be red as a boiled lobster, but feeling good—relaxed, drowsy, and healthy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All I know how to make is boiled cabbage and mutton, I tell him, but he says it’s not that different. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He made a fire in the woodstove, put water on to boil, fried some bacon, and made some coffee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Chett's grin was as ugly as the boils that covered most of his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "How can it be this hard to find millions of people? UghI" Max's frustration is boiling over. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Gram took all the sheets and boiled them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Listen up everyone!” a familiar voice called out just as the simmer of excitement in the Bochinche reached its boiling point. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z An hour or so later I heard Tillie clear her throat with a grunt, saw her cough, and spit into the boiling soup. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But in that moment, the water in the kettle had finally started to boil in front of me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The water in the saucepan had been boiling when Malcolm came in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In Soweto you were always hearing about men getting doused with pots of boiling water—often a woman’s only recourse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Everything—Haiti, my mother, my cousins, my aunt, the house, school, Kasim, the detective, Dray, America—comes to a boil: sizzling and popping and oozing hot, red lava. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Mam says, No, you’ll stay here where there’s no work and hardly a lump of coal to boil water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I turned a chair back onto its legs and sat her on it, looking for something, anything, to boil water in. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z My blood boiled at the sight of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Earlier, my mother gave me a glass of water, but I didn’t touch it, worried she hadn’t boiled the water first. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The additional heat made the dark fog boil faster, and it swelled until the flames were licking toward the top of the waist-high lip of the firewell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He brought out the forgotten water pipe and put a kettle of mercury to boil next to the body, which little by little was filling with blue bubbles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Hobb says he’s out of horseradish, though. What good is boiled beef without horseradish?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My mother would boil a big pot of dandelion greens, and we would eat that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then on her bucket of coals she set her lunch to boil, and monitored the flame with a plaited palm fan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I was also boiling with anger, but I said nothing, remembering my promise to my parents to be an obedient wife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I showed him the directions on the label—how you take a level teaspoonful and just add boiling water—but he insisted there was some kind of skill involved. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to throw his boiled peanuts against the wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat there with his arms crossed until Estella made him boiled carrots and fried potatoes with bacon. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My blood felt like boiling lava coursing throughout my body. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The other had a stiff roof of boiled leather to keep the wind off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He blew a smoke ring, the blue-gray circle rising up boiling within its own jetting form, hovering for an instant then disintegrating into a weaving strand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She was checking the boiling water in a huge pot on the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The seed had all the softness of boiled corn, and the taste of his friend’s deception was bitter in his mouth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Leo didn’t hate many people, but after all these years, Aunt Rosa’s face made him boil with resentment. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The boys fell upon roasted mealies and boiled pumpkins. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In a comer an old man was boiling hot dogs in a large institutional pot whose size dwarfed the gas range upon which it rested. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the meat into the oil, added a few more sticks to his fire to get a raging boil, then threw in a handful of sliced potatoes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She sat on a wooden chair near an electric hot plate, her arms folded, boiling water in a battered aluminum pot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The smell of the rice boiling, the feel of my knife cutting through a fresh tomato, the sizzle of onions and mustard seed hitting the pan. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The water that Nya fetched from the pond in the plastic jug could be boiled before they drank it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Around Mars’s feet, the ground boiled in a circle of flame. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled almond. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was just the molasses, boiling inside the tank. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Since Mama said her floor was clean enough to eat off, she made us put the grains in a bag to save them, while she boiled fresh rice and reheated okra and tomato soup. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The junior wife came in with a bowl of boiled potatoes covered with a gray sauce. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was endless work to feed our cast-iron stove just for boiling the water, let alone cooking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She filled two cups half full with thick cold coffee and poured the boiling milk in up to the rim. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I remembered I had forgotten to include a can in which to boil my eggs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked down and saw the glint of silver coins...thousands of old Roman denarii breaking the surface all around her, as if the entire hilltop was coming to a boil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Fela was just about to sprint past when dark fog began to boil up out of the grate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "And now, little brother, pray excuse me. I need to bathe and dress for the feast. I wonder if I still have that chainmail gown I like to wear over my boiled leather smallclothes?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "The worst cases cause mutation. Some might grow boils or develop black lumps, but others suffer from warped bones and muscles—even their skulls change shape, and new limbs grow where they shouldn't." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It dances slowly across the floor, chug-lug, chug-lug, the clothes and the soapy water moving as if boiling sluggishly, like cloth porridge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She boiled the weeds we pulled up in the yard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Breakfast that morning was a feast—a bit of the rice boiled to a gruel in a castoff earthenware pot, served up in a bowl carved from a gourd. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She heated a flagon of wine to boiling on the brazier, and poured it over his wounds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then there was the smell, or rather, the stench of the boiling liquid. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I wondered if I’d ever be able to be near her without my neck flaring up like a boiling lobster. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the boiling water, the cat gave some horrible convulsions and a dreadful cry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can boil noodles. And heat up tomato sauce.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Either Mrs. Coulter did not know the boil of feelings that her simple words had lanced, or she was monstrously clever. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Finally, Captain Nips began spearing boiled potatoes, and Betsy returned with Petunia. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I was not too fond of crab, ever since I saw my birthday crab boiled alive, but 1 knew 1 could not refuse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The menu was always the same: fried chicken, collard greens, potato salad, boiled okra, sliced tomatoes, corn bread, and chocolate or coconut cake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris told Marly the stove wasn’t called by that name, but was an “evaporator” because it boiled the water out of the sap and left syrup behind. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “It only me, no need to help. No help! Please! Dinner simple, boiled carrot top, potato, and rice. Not much rice.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She did not like the look of the ground—too many pitfalls and boiling pots and steamy depths that might cook her alive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Large white hunks of this fish were carved out and put on to our plates, and with it we had hollandaise sauce and boiled new potatoes. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There came the sloop, boiling along fast, rolling up a bow wave and gaining steadily. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z He just let his crying boil up inside him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “It is important to chill the vial prior to decanting, as the agent boils at room temperature.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As far as I could see, the sky and the sea were boiling together. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The Polish girl’s pink hat bobbed like a candy egg amidst hundreds of gray faces all so tired and drawn, they looked like boiled meat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sass did not even have the energy to scold me when I let the ghee boil over into the fire or forgot to sweep the courtyard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 This was something we did together, on Cuttyhunk and the other islands where we sailed sometimes in search of petals we could boil into dyes and mix into paints. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z ‘You boil ’em and then suck the heads out,” she said excitedly. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Hundreds and hundreds of hideous blisters boiled all over his face. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I’ve gotten my own ingredients from the supermarket, so I peel cassava, slice plantains, boil the salt out of dried fish. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He dug the onions for it while I got it boiling in a tin can. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Minerva boiled cedar branches and pine needles into medicine and fed it each of us every two hours. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I watch as she spoons loose tea into a strainer and pours the boiling water over it into two cups. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And what do you think of that, Francis, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, eh? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Matty obeyed, tilting into the pan the bowl of broth in which the rabbit had been boiled earlier. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The clouds rolled over Delhi in blue-black boils, their bottoms illuminated by white flashes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Two oversized cauldrons of boiling water stood ready on tripods with slow fires burning beneath them to keep up the temperature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Mr. Gaston was in the station alone, eating boiled peanuts at his desk, when Brother Gerald and I came through the door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I can smell the cabbage Emilika boiled two floors below us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There was the speechless astonishment of seeing a hog stabbed through the heart, dipped into boiling water, scraped, split open, gutted, and strung up gaping and bloody. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Having just kissed a member of the Gestapo, my temper is boiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We’re so close to the Syrian border, which boils with guards and tear gas and people clamoring to cross. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Then she added the ham hocks to a big pot of boiling water spiced with garlic, celery, and onion. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Or if we were hungry, we pooled our money and headed to the kan-yenya stand, which was really just a giant vat of boiling grease over a fire, next to the boozing center. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Or perhaps she had been forced to jam her thumb down the spout of a boiling kettle until it was steamed away. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A low boil stirs inside, works its way upward, and tumbles out of me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She’d taken the kettle off the fire, so it must have come to a boil. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The camp was now alive and swarming, throngs of men starting to swell together like boils of a plague. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The everyday practice of boiling, scrubbing, buffing and wiping became the badge of the students’ professional pride, to which all personal comfort must be sacrificed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We have to boil our water because it comes from the stream, where parasites multiply in teeming throngs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Three minutes, who’s up?” he announced, upending an extraordinary ormolu-gilt hourglass and displaying a boiled egg with a pair of silver sugar tongs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A perfect hum, high-pitched and swollen, like someone had put the teakettle on and it had come to a boil. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What had been a broad avenue was fast becoming a ragged sinkhole with black water boiling up to fill it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was impossible to escape the ruthless business of sugarcane as slaves cut, pounded, boiled, and poured it into sticky barrels, bound for Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And it was building pressure like a boil. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z You see, Zach’s not the only one with a slow boil. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I ordered brat- wurst and sauerkraut and distinctly saw the cook unwrap a sausage from a cellophane slip cover and drop it in boiling water. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This brought blacks throughout Alabama to a boiling point. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Harry raised himself slightly in his seat and saw what looked like plain water boiling away inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The She Elephant chopped the heads off chickens and doused them in boiling water to loosen the feathers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I stared at him for a few long seconds, the anger rising in me like a boiling thermometer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The girl—I can’t remember her name—went to a root shop in East Harlem, bought a number of herbs and roots, cooked them up, and dropped his picture into the boiling mess. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “I want this room aired and the linens boiled, girl. It smells of decay in here.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For herself and for Father, she made tea, using water from a copper teakettle that she must have already boiled and set at the edge of the stove to keep hot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But I went straight home because I wanted to boil myself some potatoes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z When I know it’s boiled long enough to kill any cryptosporidium, I block Crick’s view and pick a smaller piece out with forceps. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The light filtering through the red leaves of the weirwood made the boils on his face look even more inflamed than usual. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Well, what we think it is—” As she began, the kettle boiled, so she got up and made the coffee as she continued. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He ate the rest himself, the grease running down in a shiny line through the boils that festered at the comer of his mouth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had been boiling over; now they became cold, grim as ice, and quiet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Wooden clubs, stone axes, mauls, spears with fire-hardened points, knives of bone and stone and dragon- glass, wicker shields, bone armor, boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “But maybe stealing, too, if we have to. And there’s wild fruit and I know some roots we can eat if you boil ’em first.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The water hissed and boiled when it struck the burning wood, sending up a vapor of white steam. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s boiling hot, like a forgotten soda can left out on summer solstice. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Insane with grief, tears boiling from her reddened eyes, she would probably tear my corpse from the coffin, screaming drunkenly, “Don’t take him! Why do the sweetest flowers wither and fall from the stem?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was still dark I turned up the light of the Chabe stove, and put a pan of ice brought in the night before, now thawed, on the stove to boil. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I could see that he was boiling mad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She put on some water to boil and then swept the porch; then she hauled out the curtain stretcher, but instead of putting the damp curtains on it, she swept the porch again. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She boiled it into a stew instead, tossing in various vegetables and herbs she found around the house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There was a great kettle of soap boiling over a fire just behind the house, and all day long Judith and her mother took turns stirring it with a long stick. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She then washed Tendai’s monkey bite with boiled water and applied disinfectant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes shed boiling tears, and every pore on her face popped. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Mam puts the boiled onion pot up on the mantelpiece for fear a mouse or rat might be at it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Before long, potatoes were boiling in the pot. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I got up just before dawn and got the fire going in the stove and put water on to boil and cooked our morning rice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He started in on a boil on his shoulder. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I boiled it five minutes more than usual.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Mama, you did the right thing,” he said, desperate to push away the boiling in his blood. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry,” Minli said, and with her eagerness she felt like the water she was boiling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I started boiling water for pasta, my mind still trying to take it all in. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “You have no idea how much hatred boils beneath us,” the spider said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “When I lived here in the seventies, it was all the rage: You’d audition for Michael Bennett and you couldn’t even get through the door without them practically throwing boiling water at you.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t understand all of what he was saying, but the words I did understand made my blood boil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ma put the cubes into the big iron pot on the stove, poured in some water, and then watched while the pumpkin slowly boiled down, all day long. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I peel the potatoes and set ’em to boil, rub a wood bowl with garlic, mix up a salad, and slice my French bread. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She boils water on the stove and spends a day at a great tin tub washing our shirts and socks, diapers for the twins, our two sheets, our three towels. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If I have to eat one more plain tortilla or boiled potato, I swear I’ll cry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And when they went to the nearest house to ask directions home, the Gypsy Ghosts would lure them inside with gold rings and then boil them alive and bottle them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They experimented with resin, heating it by the fire, letting it boil and thicken, until it became an indestructible glue. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She’d love a cup of tea but there’s no way of boiling the water till Malachy pulls a loose board off the wall between the two upstairs rooms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “The sea boiled with waves, fierce winter swells. Seven nights you swam, so people say.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, Morales,” Kevin said as they ate their cafeteria lunch of boiled potatoes and canned carrots. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The radiator boiled, of course, but most Model T experts believed that it wasn’t working well if it wasn’t boiling. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All the cousins teased Joe, saying, “Maybe he thought that ice water might’a cool him off, but he so hot for her, that water nearly started boiling!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My insides boil up and I barely restrain myself from slugging her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She went into the kitchen to make tea, and as she waited for the water to boil she watched daylight creeping into the cracks around the shuttered windows. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom boils the dirty tap water to sterilize it and then puts it outside in the snow to cool it. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I can bake a chicken and boil potatoes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She had calabashes of water and boiled marula juice, a pot of toasted grasshoppers, a basket of tsenza roots, and a small grass mat covered with ripe bramble berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Out into the moonlight where the ground boiled and there stood Mother like a tree rooted motionless in the middle of a storm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As the fish stew boiled away, Anya opened the special cupboard in the kitchen, where she had gotten the challah’s white cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I boiled that head an’ sick an’ all as he was Dennis couldn’t wait for it to be done. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The doctor now put some water to boil in an aluminium mug over a gas flame, and into the boiling water he placed a long thin shiny steel instrument. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He hung for a split instant in midair, looking down on the raft, on Derek—then he plunged down, down into the boiling, ripping water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z She boiled cassia pods to make a thin, unsatisfying soup, and roasted spongy, tasteless water-lily bulbs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He went directly to his mother’s bedroom, where Aureliano had boiled mercury for four months in his grandfather's grandfather’s water pipe to conserve the body according to Melquíades’ formula. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I gathered dried leaves to light the dung in the stove so the water for tea would be boiling when the family awoke. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z There was porridge, honey, milk, boiled eggs, and crisp fried fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I fled with the body to the woods, heart churning—boiling like a flooded ditch—with glee. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z One summer in the late 1970s, long before Roy Eberhardt was born, a small but powerful tropical storm boiled out of the Gulf of Mexico and came ashore a few miles south of Coconut Cove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I strip off my scarf and hoodie down to my favorite tank top, go into the kitchen, and start a pot of water to boil. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now the vague unease Jinjoo had been feeling roiled in the pit of her stomach, as if she’d eaten too many boiled eggs. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z They will make their blood boil and their fists swing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Breakfast was a single slice of bread for each person now, and lunch was maybe half a boiled potato. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Its radiator was boiling over, and clouds of steam rose from under the hood. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The doors of the hills are shut; the river boils; men sweat. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z With delicate pinches, he added spices to the boiling water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z One moment she was bent over a boiling kettle, then turning meat in a sizzling pan, then hovering by the table as she baked, battered, and tossed several different foods, seemingly all at once. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I once saw her chase him from her stairwell with a pot of boiling water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam has the fire going and something boiling in a pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Fact: I would rather be deep-fried in boiling oil than sit through one of Caroline’s student council meetings. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire city, said Van Kirk, looked like “a pot of boiling black oil.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The magistrate boiled over and exclaimed, “You’ll pay dearly for this!” and then walked away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi turned back to the turnips she was getting ready to boil. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I dragged myself out to moonlight and found a nightmare vision of dark red, boiling ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I scooped under the snow for teaberry plants to boil down and pour over snowballs for dessert. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His face had turned so red, he looked like a crab that had been boiled so long, its claws were about to crack. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Mami fed us broths, and in the evening, a bland, watery boiled rice that at least stuck to our bellies and calmed the roiling inside. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Hurry up—I want to get the potatoes boiling before class begins.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “First of all, we have to keep boiling the water, no matter what,” announced Rachel, our elder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the principal walked away from the podium, the noise level in the room rose, like a boiling kettle that suddenly started to steam. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z It headed toward the sea, vanishing as quickly as it had appeared, leaving her ears pounding and the river’s surface boiling. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Poisonous smoke and sinkholes and boiling geysers and terrible dangers every which way. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “If I can find an oak tree, I can boil the bark to treat some of the blisters,” I told Poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They tasted of dirt and where he had been poking at his boil. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt the question boiling up from my chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The crowd backed away and ahhed as the rocket disappeared at the top of a tremendous column of white, boiling smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In exchange, Nelson would chop our firewood, boil up steaming pots of lumpy manioc, and bring us fruit, greens, and bark potions collected from the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She boils a pot of water early in the morning before Mass and nearly scalds the scalp off me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The air was sweet with the aroma of boiling jellies and preserves and the laughter of the women. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s seafood night, and Mom is making her special crab boil: crab legs, corn on the cob, andouille sausage, crawfish, jumbo shrimp, and small red potatoes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z He sat in a corner, picking moodily at his boil, glaring at the bright assembled company. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1942, people in Leningrad had nothing left to eat but wallpaper paste and broth made of boiled leather. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If he had a boiling point, he never reached it. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z One had a pot that was big enough to boil a whole person in it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Ma filled the bathtub with water and then dumped the boiled leaves inside. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The answer is a little complicated, but it boils down to this: The price of corn is kept low by government policies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z By this time, my fighting blood was boiling. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z While the potatoes boil, Mama shows the class how to make chutney. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Malachy says, I’m hungry, and I’m hungry, too, but Mam says,Ye’ll wait till Oliver has his onion boiled in milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I set a small pot of water to boil and added the beans and turnip. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She put a pot of water on to boil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Every extra bite of pork chop or boiled potato or spoonful of peas gets made into soup. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting mistrust would keep the loyalty oath controversy boiling for more than two years, during which Berkeleys reputation as an academic sanctuary was immeasurably damaged. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The loaf of bread was already as hard as a rock, no good for anything but boiled dumplings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A cool, gentle breeze blew boiling small clouds of dust as my mother, Maria slung loosely about her back, swept the stoop with a grass broom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An uninvited anger boiled up inside me and raced out my mouth. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In the quiet the wind pushed against the window sashes; steam hissed and boiled through the radiators. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A stack of dirty pots rises from a sink, and a kettle of water boils on the stove. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She turns the knobs down and brings the boiling pots to a simmer. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Chou puts the chickens in the pot, submerging them in water to boil them whole. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can you send them to Oakland? Oakland’s nothing but a boiling pot of trouble cooking. All them riots.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m working hard to keep my anger from boiling over, but maybe Safaa is working hard too. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had eaten boiled monkey thigh, and he had drunk banana beer fermented with human saliva. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I roll my eyes to feign annoyance, but inside, my bodily fluids are bubbling to a boil. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Servants moved back and forth, feeding logs to the fire and boiling wine. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Having put the food in the oven and the kettle on to boil, I got a straight chair from the dining room, took it out on the porch and sat down beside him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We boil potatoes with their skins, so we won’t waste a thing, and eat them with butter and salt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Bubbles full of the hot air of American democracy, boiling up from the stacked vinyl platters inside. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They made stewed meats and boiled potatoes in the kitchen. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa was so stingy, he would rather eat boiled weevils than admit porridge had gone bad. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was boiling that day too, and right in the middle of the ceremony, Natalie took all her clothes off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We bought boiled groundnut and ate it as we conversed about what we were going to do the next day, made plans to see the space for the talent show and practice. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z If they want to eat with me, let them come to my house, even if I boil water and give it to them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His head started to clear, and his sense of outrage came to a boil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My blood is on fire, boiling in my veins. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It boiled wildly and spread out all around until it had painted the entire sky a furious black. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He would bring Mariam chocolate candy wrapped in foil, a basketful of dyed boiled eggs, cookies. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Then she and Lupita boiled a dozen eggs, which they packed into a small cloth bag along with some corn tortillas and a bottle of water. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter. Fresh bread, if you please, not fried. You may find the wildling as well. Tell him that I must speak with him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Rage boils quietly inside me, but I contain it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is wine. Or water boiled with lemons.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The rest of him was wrapped in layers of wool and boiled leather and ringmail, his features shadowed by his hooded cloak and a black woolen scarf about the lower half of his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We can boil a little down in the house for a while and then pour it on snow and make sugar-wax,” Mrs. Chris said, following them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen Grandma was all by herself, stirring the boiling syrup in the big brass kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The mud-caked dress and shawl she carried away as soon as Lyddie shed them and plopped them directly in a pot of boiling water on the black iron cook stove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Clyde and the cauldron bubbled and boiled. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They go back to eating their soft boiled peanuts, saying stories among themselves. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I chop vegetables and boil pasta, pour a carton of chicken stock into a pot. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They poured their final precipitate into a platinum dish smaller than a dime, boiled off the liquid, and slathered the residue with a layer of Duco Cement. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "With water hot enough to boil an egg." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s so hot there that swimming pools boil, so one emir built himself an indoor ski resort. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The first time Nelson fetched the water and boiled it by himself Mother was so grateful she sat down in a chair and cried. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles found that he could cook his fried and boiled meals more quickly and efficiently on the forge than he could on the kitchen stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For all her layers of wool and fur and boiled leather, Asha felt naked standing there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But after a while Fritz brought some eggs and boiled them in the syrup. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Into my mind came a wonderful and terrible picture of great forested mountains, shaken by a giant hand that scooped them up, finally, and flung them into the boiling sea. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She would often have me help her make desserts: fruit rolled in pastry, wrapped in cloth, tied and boiled, then taken out of the cloth, topped with icing, and baked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Whatever, after a hundred ravens had boiled noisily off, one mammoth black beast remained, flapping around hysterically in the smoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She cleaned it as well as she could with Uncle Kufa’s broken knife and soon had it boiling over a crackling fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But what Rabadash hadn't realized is that it is very easy to frighten people who know you can have them boiled alive the moment you give the word. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z My immigrant child guilt complex was boiling over. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There was barbecued pork, roast pork with an oyster sauce, and cold boiled chicken. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Forks continue clinking on the table; Becky keeps on digging her fork in her boiled potato. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They boiled what was left of the rice in a steel pot on a charcoal stove. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Hawkers descended on our car, pushing boiled eggs, roasted cashew nuts, bottled water, bread, okpa, agidi into every window of the car, chanting: “Buy from me, oh, I will sell well to you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When things were really bad for the family, they boiled clean sugarcane pulp to make what Lili called her special sweet water tea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Next question. How does adding salt change the freezing and boiling points of water?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The first rocket emitted a boil of nasty, stinking, yellowish smoke and then fell over, the glue on its fins melted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Everyone has their own recipe, but Betty Jean makes it by boiling water in a saucepan on the stove. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then from somewhere, within the sound of the rain falling, he could hear it approaching like a summer flash flood, the rumble still faint and distant, floodwa- ter boiling down a narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He gave them wise advice, too, about the dangers before them, in especial about the Clashing Rocks, the Symplegades, that rolled perpetually against one another while the sea boiled up around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When lunch ended, she would blanch whole almonds by boiling them just until their skins puffed up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In the days that followed we figured out how to make soup from whatever we could add to a pot and that was much better than just boiling things one by one. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But it still caused the water to boil—perhaps more quickly, even— and the tea tasted no different than it had the day before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Or he will want me to sit in the bathtub while he pours boiling water into it; he will want me to drink gin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He thrust his head deep into the kettle and howled with pain as his nose met the boiling porridge. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I baked these and boiled mussels for breakfast, then I curled up behind a willow and watched the cliff. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The words had been boiling inside me, filling me up. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Kazi always boiled the water first before putting the rice in, but I didn’t say anything. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then came three short, boiling subslurries, slicker and sweeter, as if composed of the Baked Alaska. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The red cloaks wore mail shirts over boiled leather and steel caps with lion crests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I wander back down the halls to the cafeteria, which has the same fried-food, boiled- vegetable stench as cafeterias everywhere. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She cooked meals where she made three separate eternally boiled vegetable portions for everybody and would giggle in the corner at Christmas with a small glass of sherry and a paper crown on her head. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Soon she had water boiling actively in a three-legged pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I made an elaborate stone stove and oven outside where I bake, grill, and boil. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But first she bathed him, gave him a scented cloak, and put on board a skin of dusky wine with water in a bigger skin, and stores— boiled meats and other victuals—in a bag. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter turned back to the water on her stove, which was nearly at the boil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And I’m telling you, it has an unholy boil festering within it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The idea was that “bubbles” of the new phase of broken symmetry would have formed in the old phase, like bubbles of steam surrounded by boiling water. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat there watching the steam coming off the boiling water. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Picture it. Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hold the basin right against her arm. The pestilence boils within her blood and must be drained.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The wildlings came boiling over a ridge not half a mile away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Spittle formed at the corners of his mouth; he seemed to boil with hatred. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now, the thought of her made Ekon’s blood boil; last night’s disaster had been, after all, her fault. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Refining cane syrup in one boiling vat after another was not only dangerous; it was terribly inefficient. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As soon as I could move them, I’d boil up the water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For two days they had been boiling the small gray bayberries that Kit and Judith had gathered in the fields, and Rachel had skimmed off the thick greenish tallow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Nailer turned to smile at Reynolds when a wave of halfmen boiled up from the hold, guns firing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z After Ugwu put the potatoes to boil, he gave her a bath, dusted her body over with Pears talcum powder, and brought out her pink nightdress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The sun’s temperature will increase gradually before that, boiling off the oceans and turning Earth into an uninhabitable desert like Venus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There were slices of boiled yam, like lunch, but then a plate of fried eggs, too, more like breakfast. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Thick smoke poured from the doorway and boiled upward from the blaze. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When you got someone as old as Herman E. Calloway crying you better look around, ’cause you know you’re square in the middle of one of those boiling tragedies. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Mama would boil vinegar on the stove later to get rid of the fish smell, but Daddy don’t bother about the smell in our apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z In the end it may have boiled down to what the poet Robert Frost once said about a successful education: “Just hanging around until you have caught on.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But then, my father says, “the pot on the stove boiled over.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I gave Carmen a double kiss, which sent my face into a lobster boil. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The tear in the sky had spread like a crack in a windshield and was boiling the lands below with its glare. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He had a V plate of boiled beans in one thick, stub-fingered hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nana had dyed them with saffron powder, boiling them in pots usually reserved for rice and pasta. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In about a week, all ten prisoners who had been washing with the liquid developed boils on their skin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She had come out to the fence, very cross, very near the boiling point on a day that was itself near to boiling, and had noticed the toad at once. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Just bustles right into the kitchen, pulls out a box of spaghetti, and puts water on to boil. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I felt confused and listless moving through the crowds that seemed to boil along in a kind of mist, as though the thin humid clouds had thickened and settled directly above our heads. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Once out, I boiled some eggs and left two in a bowl for him. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in a slow boil. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Now we never have lotus root, except boiled, and I like it better raw, don’t you?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw, still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just a speech, mind you, but a speech that when translated into basic middle-schoolese, boils down to: “Ready, aim, laugh!” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see his eyes behind the red shades, but bad feelings started boiling in my stomach. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And I went to the laundry yard to help a young slave named Tess to beat and boil the dirt out of a lot of heavy smelly clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The agony of wonder made the fuzzy seats hard, soured the boiled eggs, and when I looked at Momma she seemed too big and too black and very old- fashioned. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The huge pot steamed and rattled as the glass jars boiled, to be sterile for the day’s canning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The potion hissed loudly like a boiling kettle and frothed madly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I will boil everything pertaining to food from now on, or bake it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Whenever he drained a pot of boiled beans, he thought of the slimy sink as a politician. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The dishwater is boiling away on the stove, I forgot all about it. You all clear the table and start washing up. Be careful and don’t get burned.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And he saw through the windows in each of the stairwells how the snow fell hard out of a glowering sky and boiled, borne by the wind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He sat there unflinching as the maester dabbed and squeezed and cleaned the pus away with squares of soft cloth boiled in vinegar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was boiled chicken, gravy, biscuits, and peas. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The air was still very cold and a cold night was coming, so that the brew, rising from cold water to a rolling boil, gave the good smell that competes successfully with other good smells. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Over this she hung a little kettle full of water and just as it began to boil her husband came in with a fine cabbage he had got from the garden. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, no one said anything, their boss being touchier than a septic boil. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In order to keep those vats boiling, a great deal of wood to burn was needed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They’ll act like their eyeballs will boil from the steam coming off me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I shake my head as something inside me comes to a boil. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Following this, we retired to the wedding feast, which, there being no meat for the Ethiopian Regiment for two days, consisted of pork bones boiled in water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But up here the wind streaked past and the clouds boiled. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Bronwyn acted as den mother, rounding us up every time one of us strayed to get a closer look at a stall of brightly colored pinwheels or steaming boiled candy. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “In here. They need to boil for a minute and then you take them out.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Now Babulya was in the kitchen in front of a boiling pot, her ghostly eyes staring at nothing as she stirred the concoction with short, angry strokes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Good idea. We’ve got everything we need, plus a figgy bonus. Now we just need to boil the willow and the mint for twenty minutes or so, then let the tea sit awhile.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I want to strip and boil myself, but if she sees me naked, she’ll freak, and if I get in the shower wearing my robe, she’ll freak harder. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z When it boils, she takes it off the fire, pours half of it into a smaller can, and gives it to me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She touched a long match to the pile, and it erupted into a huge boil of hot light and smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was taken down and the roots chopped up, and I think everybody in town took some home to boil for sassafras tea. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I pour some ground coffee into the pot, enough to make sure the resulting brew will be good and strong, and set it on the stove to boil. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She teaches Max to sing the song while I slice the bread and boil the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We spent the morning in assigned chores: gathering water from the rain barrels to boil, coaxing the small vegetables in the garden to stay alive, washing clothes, checking the trap lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Where his eyes should’ve been, miniature spheres of fire boiled like nuclear explosions. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Sarsaparilla boiled for one of Sybil’s tonics, overpowering the aroma of the roasting meat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Lyra put some water on to boil, and Will took it up to the bathroom and stripped to wash from head to foot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The entry hall had a polished bronze floor, which seemed to boil in the reflected torchlight. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z His face was dirty, and he was piling his plate high with boiled new potatoes and with what looked like cold, whole, cooked, trout. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z With every step, it boiled in his bones a little deeper until his heart was leather. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Dinners are simple: boiled corn from a farm stand, cold chicken, pasta with pesto, tomatoes from the garden sliced and salted on a plate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The prospect of food brought other men out of the houses, near all of them wearing bits of mail or boiled leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He breathed deeply of the odor and downed it boiling hot. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We hugged until the water boiled, and then she got up and I stood too, because I was sick of lying there or sitting there—I wanted to do something. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The boiling down seemed to take so endlessly long! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “If we can’t get up there, that hole will keep growing, and those iron monsters from the bone ships will keep boiling out of the Burning Sea!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In a sullen silence she began preparing the meal, lighting the fire, fetching the water, boiling the rice, the baby astride her hip as before and whimpering unheeded. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat at a picnic table on the banks of the lake, just Baba and me, eating boiled eggs with kofta sandwiches—meatballs and pickles wrapped in naan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The anger inside her went on boiling and boiling, and as she lay in bed that night she made a decision. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was like ten thousand pots of taffy boiling all at once. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Jody’s mother put a platter of steaks on the table and boiled potatoes and boiled squash, which clouded the room with their steam. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When solid sulfur is heated a little past the normal boiling point of water, to about 115°C, it melts and changes color. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And today is the day it boils over. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z "Like X-Ray said. Working so hard in the hot sun, while Caveman just sits around doing nothing. My blood boiled." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Ash shrugged and went to deliver the message, but her stepmother insisted that she bring Ana a boiled egg and some tea. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Abuela bakes four chickens and boils a big pot of white rice. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The liquid rushed down a wooden gutter directly into the boiling house, a building of massive furnaces and cauldrons, where the syrup was heated and strained and turned into crystals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Terrible ones who boil everything until it’s as gray and soggy as English weather, and the ones who bake perfectly iced cakes and adorable meat-filled pastries for BBC cooking shows. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z First she forces warm boiled potatoes through a ricer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Roza thought being fat was better than looking like an angry chicken carcass boiled for angry soup, but said nothing more. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Hemlock. Belladonna, henbane, or strychnine. I can dissolve your innards, boil your blood.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "Supper the first night," he recalled, "consisted of one item—boiled potatoes." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She felt like someone had splashed boiling water across her face, like a thousand tiny knives were stabbing into her body. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He could make three dishes now — boiled rice, egg rice, and fried eggs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After two bouts of Danuta boiling her lower regions in a pot and one vigorous run up and down the stairs, I ask Emilika what time she’s supposed to be at the photography shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Good. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must return to my laboratory. My purple goop is boiling over a Bunsen burner. So are my ramen noodles.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He stares at the commuters who cling precariously to trams and buses, threatening at any moment to spill onto the street, and at the families who boil rice and shampoo their hair on the sidewalk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I put the coffee on to boil while I milked. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Rita said he was like a buffalo that had been boiled down until only the gristle was left. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I lay back on the bed, my stomach boiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The air was hot and dripping, as if the city were wrapped in a wool blanket just pulled from a boiling pot. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They kiss her with dry lips, slip off her pumps, and boil pots of water for her bath. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to talk to him once, to see how he was, but ever since the crying incident at his house, he avoided her like she was covered in boils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I got a fire lit and set a kettle on to boil. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Tried holding it to candle flame, drowning it, boiling it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In a can of water from the mountain stream, I boiled three eggs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Kids said she was a witch capable of witch deeds, unspeakable boilings and tearings apart and transformations if she caught us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachel stiffened in her arms, but Mrs. Bedlow dropped her paring knife into the bowl of peeled potatoes, wiped her hands on her apron, and put a kettle on to boil. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Rage boiled up from my stomach, burning my throat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the scientific panel had proposed informing Britain, France, China, and Russia, in practical terms the real question boiled down to what to tell the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The cloud boiled and writhed, they said, like a living thing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t want to get any of my blood on you. Blood carries the disease. And you’ll want to boil our clothes, or bum them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I spend all evening cutting up the pumpkins, and boiling them for hours with sugar to make a sweet paste, and then I use my last sucres to buy loaves of bread from the bakery. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The freezing point decreases and the boiling point increases.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z All these things need to be produced: crops have to be grown and distributed, soap must get boiled, cloth has to be woven. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He guessed at the amounts and put the beef dinner and peach dessert on to boil, then went back to the lake and brought water to mix with the orange drink. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face boiled beneath her hat and wig. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z They enjoyed the boiling hot coffee which filled the room with a wonderful smell. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I scrubbed the cart with boiling vinegar while Eliza gathered the drugs and herbs we would use to treat the children. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All you did was boil water and vegetables together to make the thin soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “All pond water should be boiled for five minutes to remove germs. It’s in the Scout handbook.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And as it touched the surface of the pool the water boiled and churned. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of missing Ma, my blood boils with resentment toward her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin under my eyes boils with tears. uYou knew my mom cheated. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They boiled meat until it was as strong as whiskey. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bitter turned her head to glare at her husband, and Jam could almost smell her mother’s temper as it began to stir, boiling in her chest under her silk nightgown. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The kettle begins to whistle, and he gets up to pour the boiling water into his teacup. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Now Rita and Tendai Fired up the old coal stove in the kitchen, cut grubs out of the guavas and boiled the squash. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the old pervert would be even more convinced that everything just boils down to sex, I guess. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The racial divide widened, and the anger boiled. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z "Better do what he says or he'll have you boiled in oil." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “I need to boil some tea, there. We should have some tea.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z And I didn’t really get a chance to answer, because then she said, “I’m too hungry to wait for the spaghetti to boil. What do you say we eat cookies first?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z They found Dolorous Edd frying a rasher of bacon and boiling a dozen eggs in a kettle over the Old Bear's cookfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Would I boil a potato for her, mash it up with a lump of lard, give her a cut of bread, bring her a drop of water to go with the whiskey? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You better boil it for a few minutes. Kill all the germs. Then let it cool. So I reckon it’ll be a while yet before I can mix her feed.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Thoughts of Mama boil up inside and push me harder, deeper under my blankets. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The Blackwater itself seemed to boil in its bed, and burning spars and burning men and pieces of broken ships filled the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “You can sweep that up, boil it, and make coffee,” she said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Well, bless your heart. Okra. There is nothing that the colonel and I love more than okra. Fried, boiled, baked, or raw. We could eat okra and nothing else.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, feeling the boiling anger rising up in me again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He threw the leaves into boiling water and bathed Frodo’s shoulder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “And then our mother would boil you alive.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He could not even tan their skins, because their fur turned dark and fell from the hide as easily as feathers from the skin of a boiled fowl. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In her rough, steady hand she held a bark container of rabbit soup boiled up with potatoes from the storage cache. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I fought down the hot anger boiling up in my stomach. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z All these thoughts passed through me while the fishermen paddled urgently across the swift, boiling Kwenge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Tess said her mother always told her that “a watched pot don’t boil,” so the best thing to do would be to leave it alone and go on about their business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Moss’s blood boiled, an instantaneous fury spreading so fully within him that tears leapt to his eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A tali was brought out piled with boiled ducks’ eggs, crisply fried pooris, dal, rice, curries, chapatis, mango chutney, and many kinds of sweets. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Drums of boiled mealies were delivered to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him it was boiling with people. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She would boil water and make coffee and then—then she would just mix up a batch of pancakes! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Coffee in its own can was simmering on its own rock, far enough from the flame so that it did not boil too hard. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The windows of the cabin stayed steamed up almost all day, the kettle had boiled so long. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But even if I had what would I boil the milk on? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t know what words he would use, but the gist of it boiled down to why. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The goddess’s claws raked across his chest and stung like boiling water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They would not care to cook with the fresh basil that grows rampant in Gerald’s garden or to spend a whole day boiling blueberries for jam. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Succotash—okra, corn, tomatoes, and peppers—sliced, diced, boiled, then fried. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The smell was awful, nose-filling, the smell of a dirty toilet and rancid steamed beans and boiled eggs gone bad. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For a while Sam sat musing, and tending the fire till the water boiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Haley remembered another bit of Irish wisdom, something her dad said all the time: “Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Orphans by the thousands roamed the streets in their rags and boils, slumped in doorways, begging for food, clothing, anything. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There was a large bowl piled high with hot boiled eggs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been no uncommon sight to see a man-at-arms whistling like a lobster, and looking like porridge, because they had emptied a bucket of boiling bran over his armour during a siege. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost immediately a warm feeling spread through my gut: pleasant at first, then painfully hot, searing, as if the mixture were coming to a boil inside of me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Richard beckoned to a young woman carrying a tray of boiled groundnuts that he didn’t really want. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Outside the palace walls, the women of Gbadolite are squatting in their yards, boiling manioc in salvaged hubcaps, and if you asked them the meaning of Independence they’d scowl and shake a stick at you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But we found a big can and boiled water and cut up that chicken and put it in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s always doing that. Molasses makes noise. It boils up sometimes.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z The days were warm and the bodies were cold and the flies were singing and drinking at the eyes and boils of the children. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He found it impossible to cut the top off a boiled egg. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s no use making the tea till Dad gets home because it will be stewed, coddled, boiled and unfit to drink. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In the shadows, the solid black wool seemed to shift and boil, forming images of faces in agony, as if lost souls were trying to escape from the folds of his clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But he was an instinctive man, and suddenly his brain knew and his own temper boiled. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One time, Papa said, when he and Mama had first settled there, they’d run clean out of salt and had to beat up pieces of the rock and boil them in water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, while Joseph’s things were drying, they boiled maple syrup and Joseph put on the gardener’s boots and they took the pan outside. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z As I held the book behind my head so he could not get it, something boiled up inside me and I grabbed the back of his head and yanked his hair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I sacrifice another chicken and use the rest of the potatoes to make a stew they can take upstairs, and while it’s boiling, I try to comb the fleas from Max’s hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Are raw oysters more acceptable to you than a dish of boiled dog? Evidently not.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Because we boil babies and eat them for matzoh!” someone growled scarily. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z You can’t step directly into a cold stream of water, it’s too shocking, too brutal, but if you get there gradually, you hardly notice it; it’s like boiling a frog in reverse. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Swirling below us was a dark, boiling sea, so horrifying that even my screams started screaming. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She thought we were going on a picnic, and in fact there is a picnic basket on the back seat, beside her, with real food in it, hard- boiled eggs, thermos and all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody was boiling chicken soup right around there all day.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For three days, we'd had nothing but boiled water with some old dried mint leaves I'd found in the back of a cupboard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z With Atal’s help she drew off some of the sticky, resinous sap, and then came the long process of boiling, dissolving, boiling again, until the varnish was ready to use. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And he did; propped up in bed, he ate most of a boiled egg, some more milk, and a bit of toasted biscuit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It tastes as if they boiled old socks and dumped the liquid into a coffeepot, but I gulp it down anyway because I’m not about to waste my two dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The mud puddles scattered around the yard gave off steam like cauldrons coming to boil. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z You had to use Passover dishes and we had a big seder, where the family sat down and the table was set with matzoh and parsley, boiled eggs and other traditional Jewish food. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z From within the house, the unmistakable smell of boiling chicken broth flooded the alley. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The anger is boiling and churning inside me, filling me with heat, and I’m not even sure who it’s for. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A rose garden looked like piles of boiled spinach. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Dicey found Cousin Eunice sitting again in the kitchen, waiting for the kettle to come to a boil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I open my mouth, but steam rushes in and boils away the words. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I press my lips together and stare at the floor, hoping this will conceal the emotions starting to boil up inside of me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “The company says it’s going to give me a nice boiled ham for Easter,” Miss Trixie told Ignatius. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma said, “It’s no use boiling your cabbage twice.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd boiled, sweated, heaved; women with shopping bags, men with highly polished shoes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Soft boiled foods could be fed to small children, permitting the kids to be weaned earlier and their mothers to produce babies at shorter birth intervals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Every day, she would serve him the finest white corn boiled in sweet water from the lagoon. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It felt like I was boiling from the inside out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He felt suffocated in that cell, let out only to exercise and to eat, food that brought to mind a bowl of boiled worms. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He was trying to boil them down, from Customary, Canon and Roman law, into a single code which he hoped to call the Civil one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they had been scary during the revolution, though, if they had been like Pet, ripe with that righteous, boiling fire. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z On Saturday night Mam will boil water on the stove and wash us in the great tin tub and Dad will dry us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They boiled out of an alley, turned, and headed straight toward me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, that small, elusive moment rose through everything that had happened since then, like a bubble in a pot on its way to the boil. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Or stepped in a mud pot, boiling off most of their skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I put away my sketchbook when Mama places the boiled potatoes on plates and passes them to everyone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z As if his blood was boiling, as if his bones were on fire. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Although he never told me specifically what his role was, I suspect he probably assisted by boiling water and supplying fresh towels. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A strange wave of excitement boiled within me as I peered out at the sinister light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of fall that requires a person to lie still for a moment, let the experience wash over them like a wave of boiling water. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z It never cools the room much, but when there's no electricity and it can't even move a tiny bit of air, I feel like a grain of rice boiling in my own sweat. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes they use the same tea leaves over and over and Mam says the tea is stewed, coddled and boiled. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The neighbors slipped away to go to their houses, and Juana squatted by the fire and set her clay pot of boiled beans over the little flame. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The mayor’s mother puts a pot of water on to boil and sprinkles in salt and herbs to clean his wounds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But I tell you what, she didn’t say one way or the other about them boiling us in a pot and eating us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone in the room could see that a confrontation might boil up with the C.D.C. if the Army decided to move in on the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart had festered with murder and jealousy—so little by little he boiled away all the loving parts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Summer mornings are mostly sunny and still, though by midaftemoon huge boiling thunderheads start to build over the Everglades, and the weather can get interesting in a hurry. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I do,” she said, “I feel reborn, as if a festering boil has been lanced and now at last I can begin to heal. I could almost fly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wasn’t home by noon, or one, or two, and we boiled and ate the few potatoes the shopkeepers had given the day before. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The cluster of cities and hamlets around the harbor of Hampton Roads—Newport News and Hampton to the north, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach to the south—boiled over with in-migrants. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As the juice boiled, a foul scum rose to the top—which a slave had to keep skimming off with a long-handled ladle. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was like a pot of vegetable soup boiling on a stove, everything moving. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came the anger, boiling up in the back of his throat until he was like to choke upon the taste. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I started to boil when I saw that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His Mommy returns, holding that boiling thermos of Jordan-water, and snaps to me: “Can I help you?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Yes, I did. You think I wanted two months with my grandma? She’s always crabby and everything she eats is boiled. Boiled cabbage. Boiled turnips. She even boils hamburger.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The wife came every day and cleaned my ear and my arm and felt my forehead and gave me water and carrots and boiled turnips. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z When the water was boiling they went to kill the hog. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I could say no, not ever, unless you boil me in oil, he left the kitchen scratching his underarms and then—I winced—his butt. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Then O-lan came forward in her stolid fashion and she picked up the meat and washed it off with a little water and thrust it back into the boiling pot. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Then he filled a kettle from the brook and boiled it up for tea. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z From a street vendor, Tariq bought them each a plate of boiled beans topped with thick cilantro chutney. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Redemption’s rage became even more perceptible in the room; it boiled loud and furious. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “You didn’t even eat the yam Mama boiled.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z A big kettle of cabbage and meat was boiling on the stove; a big pan of beans and a johnny-cake were baking in the oven. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As the long August afternoon boiled along, the exploded knot-hairball would cave in here, cave in there. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I went yesterday,” Mary said loudly as she poured boiling water into a basin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When a thin whimper from the child was silenced by a vicious cuff, her anger boiled over. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z With him comes the scent of boiled plantain and lemongrass tea. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If the rent for this room is five shillings a week we’ll have fourteen shillings for food and clothes and coal to boil the water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And when they get stuck inside me, they simmer and boil. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It felt as though a kettleful of boiling water had been poured into my mouth. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In the following weeks, Celia boils mild chicken broths for her son, feeding him one spoonful at a time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no small thing to try to restructure a society, to find the pus boiling away under the scabs, to peel back the hardened flesh to let it out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “I knew it. Just knew it. I saw the birds leaving their trees. Saw how the water was slow to boil. “Don’t stay after school, Lanesha. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z A boiling hate erupted in Harry’s chest, leaving no place for fear. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Now they were gassing Jews to death in trucks and boiling their bodies to make soap, or so it was said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “That stone should be warm from sitting in the sun. I’d bind it to the water in the kettle, and use the heat in the stone to bring the water to boil.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Because what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I could hear the bile in the pit of her stomach boiling and the words steaming up in her mouth before her lips parted. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He merely held out a bowl in which he had placed a small mound of rice and a little pile of boiled greens. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The big log at the center hissed with boiling sap. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “This need fer coffee is an evil hold on me, Matt,” she told her husband on the morning after the last of the coffee grounds had been boiled until they were worthless. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when the milk was about to boil. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The Empire Tern had vanished in a wall of red flames, and blade smoke was beginning to boil into the sky. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "Out in the sun all day. You know how it is. The blood starts to boil." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I went to her little two- burner stove and put water on to boil. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time it continued to boil, forming thick, low clouds, dark as tar, caustic, and ready to burst into flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He takes Olly’s favorite mug, pours in a layer of chocolate and adds six ounces of hot milk heated to almost boiling on the stove—never in the microwave. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then it seemed to take forever to come to a rolling boil and twice forever to fill six wooden pails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Stoke the fire and set a pot of water to boil. Then come up here and fetch these dirty sheets.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From then on, Dad never boiled a lobster alive. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I begin cooking up some lake vine soup, boiling in a 500 ml beaker. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was much more than she'd asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft- boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His face felt like he had been scalded with boiling water. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z There are no lobsters like these—simply boiled, with no fancy sauces, only melted butter and lemon, they have no equals anywhere. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Far to the east. Would you like a boiled egg?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Violence kept escalating in American inner cities, and tensions reached a boiling point in the middle of the hot, restless summer of 1967. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She poured the hot soup in the cups, filled the teapot with boiling water, and carried the trays to Faye’s room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Put the kettle to boil, take out sugar and one Lipton tea bag from the pantry, milk from the fridge. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z We have tea and boxty and boiled eggs and we all fall asleep. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Everyone had a piece of boiled fish with some of the water for gravy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing across the street from Thomas’s house, I felt my blood boil to a sizzling 212 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing heat to my cheeks and fingertips. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z To avoid the crowd on Forty-second Street I turned off at Forty-third and it was here that things began to boil. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z At the back of the property was a shed where the coal bins were kept for the laundry fires for boiling the white clothes, a shed known to be haunted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Next to him was a small fire and a crock for boiling water. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The exact green taste of the concoctions he boiled to cure me; the temperature of his hand on my cheek. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My blood boils with rage as I hurl my body into it, knocking it off balance. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind her Otis Amber stirred a boiling mess in a big iron pot. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Chett had a wen on his neck the size of a pigeon's egg, and a face red with boils and pimples. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After that, he boils the sap until it grains when he cools it in a saucer. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath his black sur- coat and golden mantle was a shut of well-oiled ringmail, and under that a layer of stiff boiled leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The women were boiling eggs, roasting meat, preparing cakes, sewing backpacks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The big pots simmered and boiled, but they must not smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment in Macondo Úrsula took the cover off the pot of milk on the stove, wondering why it was taking so long to boil, and found it full of worms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z One contained nothing but a boiling grey smoke that flickered sporadically. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the offices around him, official readers go through thick reports, boiling the information down to the salient paragraph. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally one warm summer afternoon, those tensions boiled over. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Auntie looked at him, but when he looked up at her, she turned away to the stove to the simmering stew and boiling coffee. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A couple of drunks and wild teenagers had drowned there, and people at the Owl Club said when their bodies floated back to the surface, they’d been literally boiled. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The room was filled with a sharp crackling and hissing as the dark liquid warmed itself against the stone of the firewell and began to boil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If enough neutrons boiled out of each shattered nucleus with just the right energy, the process might continue on its own until no more uranium nuclei remained to shatter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The first dish was a boiled swan, head still attached, which he would not touch. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He wants her to simmer, then boil over—to “build up to an explosion.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “You are Sir Lancelot and we know it You will get our lady out of the boiling water.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We used to come in the back door, and the sawdust, stale beer, steam and boiling meat made me feel as if I’d been eating mothballs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "Look! You can see the black boils! He's gone bubonic!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Shame boiled my earlobes and there was nowhere to look but at my food. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She heard all right, because she looked up briefly, but she soon turned back to her herbs and the boiling water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She went into the kitchen, put the tea in the teapot and set the kettle to boil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The wildling wore a sleeveless jerkin of boiled leather dotted with bronze studs beneath a worn cloak mottled in shades of green and brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There isn’t enough coal to cook the dinner, the water isn’t boiling anymore and she says she’s demented with worry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He gets up early, pours boiling water into a proper teapot, and puts the tea cozy over it to keep it warm. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I had a device I wanted to try, and put some hickory sticks in a tin can and set it to boiling while I fixed dinner. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Once there, the fence team checks out the interior fences, while the patrols walk the wall, watching the shamblers boil and froth beneath us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We woke up early, as usual, and immediately started the pack-up while Wab and Rose boiled water for the mush and got the youngest and oldest set for the day. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon, near sunset, the clouds thickened and boiled up into an anvil thun- derhead that flickered with silent lightning. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I haven’t....Maybe someday...,” she mused as she set a pot of water to boil on the fire. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Kermit, who was not only suffering from insect bites but also from another outbreak of boils, still managed to help. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Yet Franklin fit neither model: she was neither affable housewife nor cauldron-stirrer in a boiled wool robe, neither Madonna nor witch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In addition to the boiled egg, her breakfast tray contained more of the thick bread and a bowl of warm cereal swimming in cream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’d be boiled,” he said, picking up a floppy yellow noodle. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Rishi swallowed, willing his heart to stop pounding, his blood to stop boiling. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Ellis was there because he had an immense and angry-looking boil on the inside of his thigh. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He stuck the sword blade out the window, where it made a cloud of boiling bubbles. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z That dry, shriveled pouch was as sore as a boil. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The other stuff too, but mostly it boiled down to Annabeth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Maman and Auntie both fussed over me, boiling water to bathe me, chang-ing bandages, spending coins fished from a hole in the mattress for a chicken to make soup. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bring me coffee, a boiled egg, toast, marmalade, and a tangerine,” he said to the waiter. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Jon could feel her heat, even through his wool and boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She opened the pot on the stove and stared at the slices of boiled yam. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Green climbed up onto the ice and got the stove going to boil up some milk, while several men in the boats mooed like impatient calves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His blubber rippled as if he were boiling inside. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Burning and boiling inside me is the desire to live. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Halfway there we stopped and ate a meal: boiled rice, dhal, vegetables and curds. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Interested to see just how active, I had a look at the shelter register while Katz boiled water for noodles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Because,” Luba Luft said, “they used to eat boiled dog stuffed with rice in the Philippines. I remember reading that.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Sibongile was right behind him with a pot of boiling water, cursing at him and threatening to douse him with it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The saucepan had boiled and the water had cooled enough for Lyra’s bottle, so Alice filled it and started to feed her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Hed hoped but failed to “boil them down” to fighting trim by now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Steam hovered over the boiling sea, and a low roar lurked in the background. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She cut her hand; she twisted her ankle; she knocked her skull against a low-hanging branch and burned her leg in a boiling spring. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And once they reached those gates, the men inside could pour down boiling oil on their heads. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Linguine noodles are boiling in a large pot. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “I’ll put a pot of water on to boil and preheat the oven.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The com meal had to be added to the boiling kettle a pinch at a time. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z My saliva would soon boil, since my fury was approaching the Armstrong limit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z They get up at eight o’clock, Theo turns the gas on to boil the water; Jo makes the tea; it brews while they dress. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Pa wanted to be there to help with the work of gathering and boiling the sap. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess it either froze or boiled off. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon we realized the decision boiled down to one question: How scary was the prospect of landing in the forest? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A neighbor was boiling corn, and once in a while, when the water frothed over, the stove fire hissed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She let me drop one bone into the boiling water. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The surprise was “hot chocolate” which was cocoa and condensed milk made into a paste and boiling water stirred into it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I put on coffee to boil and brought out my garbage-bucket laundry, which had been jouncing for two days, and rinsed the detergent out at the edge of the lake. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The odor of frying bacon and boiling coffee drifted to him from behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She had gotten her chloroquine injections there the last time she had malaria, and the nurse had boiled water on a smoky kerosene stove. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “My boils are healed. But now that it is Lent, I must find some new suffering to endure.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z An iron cauldron with three legs was boiling over the fire. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell from it, rich and tempting, swirled up with the puffs of steam from the boiling rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, my family boiled and skinned peaches, pitted apricots and churned apples into sauce. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The water was boiling, and his hand was feeling scorched. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And that would fan the fire for sure, get the pot boiling just when it had started to cool off. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Best of all was the food—suppers of juicy rabbit stew and gooey boiled puddings and buttery dumplings that slid down Nate’s throat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we had her back in bed, Eliza emptied the tub and put more water on to boil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Duck, be a fine fowl and boil some broth for our little friend here. He must be famished.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rivers boiled and the mud bubbled and entire lakes turned into steam. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A mountain peak with smoke pouring from the top, like a kettle set too long to boil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The hatred of a thousand angry animal deaths boiled out at him from the bloated spirits of the Masks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z As the truck began to pull away from the base, I started boiling with anger, because I couldn’t make sense of what was happening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She hums her usual soothing tune, waiting for the water to boil. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But the pond was polluted, so my mom needed to boil the water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I carried the boiled diapers outside, washed my hands carefully with our sliver of soap, and interrupted the afternoon’s procession of cookpots to make Elévée a cup of tea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The low sound of laughter boils the skin on my cheeks, and I jump up and dart offstage, grab my backpack, and fly out the door before it gets any louder. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In another spot, people were dancing and drinking some kind of black liquid out of a pot that boiled over a makeshift fire pit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In a fright it ducked under and scooted off, leaving only a boiling swirl. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Now the tension which had been growing in Juana boiled up to the surface and her lips were thin. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The returning midwife, angry at Alyce for ignoring her earlier, set her to do all the least pleasant chores: roasting frogs’ livers, boiling snails into jelly, stripping the thorns from dogberry roses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And after that they boiled mush in ‘sweet tree water’ every spring.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Come evening there were sliced hams, boiled eggs, and roasted larks stuffed with garlic and onions, with pale ales and Myrish fire wines to help in their digestion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I saw one with boils all over her nose. Would you like her?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Dinner that night was plankton patties and boiled seaweed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Weese was understeward for the Wailing Tower, a squat man with a fleshy carbuncle of a nose and a nest of angry red boils near one comer of his plump lips. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I could take it outside and let it boil off. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the room and went into a vacant office, boiling with anger and disgust. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Frustration and anger were boiling over in the largely African American inner cities, leading to riots and brutal confrontations between the protestors and police. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The fire spit and the sap boiled, and the drowsy heat and wavery lantern light and steamy smell were wonderful. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The table had already been cleared, so we got some water, made coffee and tea, boiled the milk and set the table. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It all boiled down to one thing: she wasn’t supposed to light the lamp, and yet she had. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Iaided in the pounding of boiled clothes; I translated dull tags; I daily ran my fingers through Mr. Sharpe’s hair, greasing it and feeding his graying queue into a bag. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The fear of the sea that was always there, simmering beneath the surface of their island lives, would boil up in their hearts again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z You know how Aunt Ivy always says a watched pot never boils? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Her accuser recanted after he was struck with mysterious boils. Some said these proved his charges, while others said they were God’s punishment for his wicked lies.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Only thing it’s good for then is to boil down and sell to factories to put in chewing tobacco. But it’s not worth the trouble.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “The water’s probably boiling by now. Spaghetti in ten minutes.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z For the full-month ceremony my husband had found two eggs, which we dyed red by boiling them with a flag. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In her puffy blue robe, eyes red rimmed, Linda leaned against a kitchen counter waiting for coffee water to boil. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Saltwater boils on their faces were breaking open and dripping across the dead-white rings of frostbite. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Scott goes upstairs to fetch me a towel while the kettle boils. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I boiled some more rice and lentils, the smell waking me up and making me feel more normal. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The tendrils got thicker, exuding a steamy green vapor that smelled of boiled cabbage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was surging from below like a riotous crowd, raging, frothing and boiling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The sizzle always boiled down to “Three Benefits, Three Needs, Three Reasons to Buy.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved the boiling fat’s crackling hiss that cooked his fries and funnel cakes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The skins would burn, maybe, but she didn’t think she could get a pot of water boiling on the small fire she felt safe building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was otherwise quiet, apart from the simmer of boiling greens on the stove. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people in Ember had potatoes at every meal—mashed, boiled, stewed, roasted. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sky and sea boiled together in a roaring mass. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The argument boiled down to one issue: the landlady demanded that my mother beat me and, for once, my mother refused. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinners were always noisy, and they were always abundant with great pots of boiled rice, platters of home-grown vegetables, fish Papa caught. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I needed all the feelings to stop boiling like a pot of dal and be cool enough for me to taste them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We had to skin him to get the feathers off, and he was tough, great goodness, despite we boiled him and boiled him and boiled him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z On his deathbed, Ser Aegor Rivers had famously commanded his men to boil the flesh from his skull, dip it in gold, and carry it before them when they crossed the sea to retake Westeros. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When the water is boiling, remove the pot from the heat and add to it four regular-sized tea bags. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Lets go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Bronn drew his longsword, and suddenly the enemy was there before them, boiling over the tops of the hills, advancing with measured tread behind a wall of shields and pikes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was the clink of glass on metal, and the whisper and bubble of boiling water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were clad in shabby skins and boiled leather, with long hair and fierce heards. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I like taking these walks during dinnertime because of the dinner smells wafting from the houses—toasted chiles, stewed meat, boiled beans. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “This is Ron,” Harry told Hagrid, who was pouring boiling water into a large teapot and putting rock cakes onto a plate. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “My dear old fish,” said Mr. Wonka, “go and boil your head!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Billowing clouds of steam rose from the plant where blubber was being boiled down. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Termites boiled out of their nests, and Nhamo paused briefly to have a snack. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The house smelled like a forest as the leaves boiled on the stove. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He felt as if he was shrinking, as though his fear was boiling up inside him and he was melting away. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z But a storm was boiling up in more places than in his dining room. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the vlei people boiled out of their tunnels and tried to cling to the men. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Even in sleep she wore ringmail under her furs, boiled leather under that, and an old sheepskin under the leather, turned inside out for warmth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Enough made it into my bloodstream, though, to result in a pounding headache, parched mouth, and boiling stomach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It boils down to Ares 4 picking him up with a modified MDV. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And the chicks were beautiful—even more beautiful than the eggs when we boiled them in onion peels and herbs to color them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He laughs, looks at me, and whispers, “At the last dinner she burned boiling water. Burned. Boiling. Water.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It roared up the street like a tsunami, a boiling swirl of dust and smoke blown out by the falling building. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z "A plague, my lord. One that boils his spleen and rots his lungs." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then I noticed the kettle on the floor, close to Papa’s feet, the green kettle Sisi used to boil hot water for tea and garri, the one that whistled when the water started to boil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t eat the boiled onion in milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Percy threw Fred an extremely nasty look and stoked the fire vigorously to bring the kettle back to the boil. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Maybe we can boil the water in the tub, one pot at a time,” I suggest, “and collect the steam.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Two giant tears welled in his eyes and went tumbling to the ground, boiling two patches of moss clear away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “If you squat on a path, you’ll get boils on your backside.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There’re the restaurants that smell like the salted stew beef and boiled plantain my mom liked so much. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Do you remember what Madame said about the boiling frog?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Maybe that's why Shoji called—maybe his frustration is boiling over too. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But he drank, and the coffee was sweet with brown sugar, and strength boiled into him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ren, in typical fashion, is fussing over a platter of egg whites and boiled spinach, while Roshan just nurses a cup of spiced chai and grimaces at the plate that Wikki offers him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I can remember very clearly how we experimented with eating boiled lichen and reindeer moss to supplement our diet. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The anger boils from his insides and out his throat in long, loud screams. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I walk outside to dump the water and wave at my neighbor, who’s boiling peanuts in a hubcap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even his boil or his silver trinket or his long black cloak could comfort his hands this time. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost in the same second, he thrust his right arm forward and plunged the point of the scalpel deep into the centre of the enormous boil. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Anderson jumps to her feet, her face redder than boiled beets. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z After he filled the kettle and set it to boil, we sat on the octagonal deck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z A scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his spiked steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, dirk and shortsword at his belt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We watched as she boiled two potatoes and gnawed on a stump of bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Franklin is standing at the stove, breaking spaghetti over a pot and dumping the noodles into boiling water. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The horror of it struck Mark like an anvil to his chest, and the rage he’d grown all too familiar with came boiling back up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I boil sour milk in a pot, mash in some of the stale bread, and try to feed them from a cup, bread and goody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then came the Sunday of the spectacular dinner that was to end the revival—for which dinner Deborah and all the other women had baked, roasted, fried, and boiled for many days beforehand. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She brought a new kettle of water in, skinned her rabbits by the light of the fire and boiled them for a nourishing soup. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I enjoyed relaxing at home, reading quietly, taking in the sweet and savory smells emanating from pots boiling in the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Trunchbull was in such a rage that her face had taken on a boiled colour and little flecks of froth were gathering at the corners of her mouth. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The pots are shaking to a boil; the oven is warming. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She could almost smell her mother’s boiled chicken and yams. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some of the nuns fear that the touch of any man compromises their chastity. Thus Angelina suffers greatly from a boil, for she refuses treatment. And any complaints of the womb go sadly untended.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It took a bully nine straight months of riding me to cause my thermometer to boil. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes fill with heat, and tears trickle over like a boiling pot. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “When I’m in the sun too long,” she said, “I look like a lobster tail that’s just been pulled out of a pot of boiling water.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They came boiling out between her lips, and they weren’t demons after all, but moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z You just put the hot dogs in the water and boil them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The boiled yam and peppery greens refused to go down my throat; they clung to my mouth like children clinging to their mothers’ hand at a nursery school entrance. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But somehow seeing that deer there thrashing around, trying to free itself from the fence, made my blood boil. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The water around us churned as if boiling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then she went back to the small house where she lived and boiled the roots and herbs, making a strange dark-looking concoction. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A yolk addressing a sea of boiled eggs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His armor was iron-grey chainmail over layers of boiled leather, plain and unadorned, and it spoke of age and hard use. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “The poor things brain is boiling from that hot water. Pull her down, dear!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z That rock that had been living inside my chest boiled so hot it melted and shot at her like lasers out of my eye sockets. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z It crashed over rocks and through narrow channels, catapulted up into moonlit sprays, split apart, rejoined, and dropped down into boiling cauldrons at the bottom of steep falls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Mam boils the potatoes and fries the steak with sliced onion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She put water on to boil and then sat down across from me and picked at the tea until she could hold up one of the small white, delicate blossoms. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence was still on the boil the next day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She built a fire and boiled mealie meal with the remains of the tomatoes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I made her by hollowing out an enormous boiled sweet! Isn’t she beautiful! See how she comes cutting through the river!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off or pretending? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I took a chance to see if Syl could prove something that had been boiling up in me when the cap’n had offered the Dee-troit sheriff all that money to come with us. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Trees blazed like torches; the sap in their veins boiled and split them asunder, the pitch in the conifers caught like naphtha, the twigs seemed to blossom with ferocious orange flowers all in a moment. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d grown up boiling even the water I used to brush my teeth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Feel like we been waiting for some invisible pot a water to boil for the past seven months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Ivan didn’t say anything to them as he dove for the food, cramming meat patties, boiled eggs, and fried, flat cakes into his mouth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But as the water began to boil gently about him, he smelled good from the beginning. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Egyptians crushed cut cane and captured the juice, they boiled and strained the liquid, let it settle, then strained it again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The tips glowed with blue light, and the water around it boiled with energy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Turtle is as tough as rock and has to be boiled for hours before it gets tender. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We don't have hot water at home, unless we boil it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then she explained that lobsters only turn bright red after they’re boiled. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Alien abductions always make me feel like I need a boiling bleach shower. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This hole led to the room above, where there was a big cauldron, for boiling lead or oil. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He killed his brother’s two little children, had them cut limb from limb, boiled, and served up to their father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, waiting for the cook to boil the egg, he was apprehensive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d boil them in the large pot that was used only for this occasion. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The dark water boiled, and there was a hideous stench. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Grateful to be doing something in her presence, I tied on the apron, put the slimy kidneys in the sink, washed them, and prepared a pot for boiling. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z While the whites boiled, I scrubbed a load of the kids’ dungarees and overalls. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s a practice of my mother’s, I tell her, how if you sweat and suffer a boiling soup in the heat you’ll feel that much cooler when you’re done. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so cold it felt boiling hot, like lava. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “For instance, you had orange juice, boiled eggs, toast and jam, and milk for breakfast,” he said, turning to Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z A good boil, they say here, a good boil purifies the rotten meat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If it sounded like anything, it sounded like when you were boiling water and tiny bubbles started forming along the sides and bottom. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Did I want to go swimming at the Y sometime and did I like boiled peanuts? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Mina finds potatoes and parsnips in the pantry, and boils them along with leaves of kale. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We used to discuss some of these matters, but we both knew the question would boil down to my saying, “Ted, you decide.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There are a lot of ways I could lose pressure in this mechanical abomination I've created, and I don't want all my water to boil off if that happens. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you boil water and you cook the macaroni in that?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The more I thought about what Holly’d said, the madder I got, until that simmer reached a rolling boil. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z "It would be easier to educate a boiled cabbage! Prepare to be punished, Your Lordship!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z All of the badness boils under my skin, stingy ginger-ale bubbles fighting to breathe. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “I’ll be mixing it all up while you run to the house for a kettle of boiling water,” Billy said. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I can boil and sterilize everything he eats and eats from—just as you do for a baby. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Our father makes a small fire to boil water in a billy tin for tea. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It said, Please heat up the spaghetti sauce and boil the spaghetti. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The world seemed to have come to an icy boil. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It sounded like when boiling water rattles the pot cover. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I tapped some trees and boiled the sap to syrup. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The food Mrs. Byrne makes is bland and unappealing—soft gray peas from a can, starchy boiled potatoes, watery stews—and there’s never enough of it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I unearth my egg and see that it’s cooked perfectly to a soft boil. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She poured the boiling hot water into mugs with tea bags already placed inside and brought our two cups over. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The fire must be hot enough to keep the sap boiling, but not hot enough to make it boil over. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yummy canned peas. Lovely boiled squash and cream crackers with—are you ready?—-fish paste a la margarine. The best kind, with the little bones inside.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Billy Pilgrim had a boiling case of heartburn, since he had been spooning malt syrup all day long at work. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not so sleepy. When the water boils I’ll leave it. The fire will go down.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Things boiled over in the lunch line on a Friday. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Pausing, Green gingerly touched a boil on the back of his neck, a mature inflammation that seemed, like its angry wearer, about to burst. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z High above, the red and black waters boiled and bubbled. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was nothing but that Cuckoo must herself boil water for her mistress if she would have it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “He says it all boils down to this—if I’m translating correctly: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others’? The Senor says everything will follow from that.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z My mother says anyone that writes such letters should be boiled in oil and have his fingernails pulled out by blind people. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The coffee boiled over and Cal spent minutes cleaning up the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The gaoler's eyes had gone big as boiled eggs as he yanked open the drawstring and beheld the glint of gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The hogs, some still alive, were dipped next in a vat of boiling water, then scraped clean of bristle—the bristle saved in bins below the scraping tables. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Over the years the odors of liquor and vomit, boiled cabbage and burned meat, unwashed clothes and mouse droppings have intermingled into a stench that brings tears to my eyes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She scurries about preparing a hot bath with water boiled on the stove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She could feel the anger boiling up inside her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Both were clad in boiled leather and mottled cloaks of brown and green and black, with branches, leaves, and brush sewn about their heads and shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nguyen carried the water back in a plastic pail and let the mud settle out so she could boil it and wash her sister’s eyelids. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The other riders joked him about his boils. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Rashid Uncle lit a fire in the enormous stove and boiled a pot of lentils. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There’s a lovely smell from the dinner can, boiled bacon and cabbage and two big floury white potatoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z ‘A few bay-leaves, some thyme and sage, will do — before the water boils,’ said Sam. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He wrote to Fox that his son had “caught the other day Brachinus crepitans My Blood boiled with old ardour when he caught a Licinus—a prize unknown to me.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Excellent on everything from boils to blackheads, but don’t change the subject. Are you or are you not currently going out with a boy called Dean Thomas?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We were in a boiling pot of trouble cooking. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Among those fully afflicted, the skin boils and runs with yellow matter. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He had his only son Pelops killed, boiled in a great cauldron, and served to the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z While the water heated and the milk boiled, she stacked the plates to be taken into the dining room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I hauled water from the well, boiled it, threw it out the back door, and started again with a clean chamber pot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She never canned except when it was scalding hot anyhow, and all the boiling turned the kitchen into some kind of hellhole. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z It comes from a stupendous tuber, which the women cultivate and dig from the ground, soak in the river, dry in the sun, pound to white powder in hollowed-out logs, and boil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The goldenrod be blossoming soon. We’ll use the blossoms fresh, not dried, for brightest yellow. And the blossoms boil only a short time, not as long as the shoots.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel the soggy heat rising from his body like he was a wet tea bag that had just been lifted from boiling water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was his habit to walk to and from church every Sunday, and this he did, undeterred by tempests, boiling sun, or freezing weather. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In 1915 the river boiled up in a flash flood, ripping over the shoreline around the factory. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma scraped and cleaned the head carefully, and then she boiled it till all the meat fell off the bones. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Fadi sat back as the cold numbness that had frozen his body turned into hot, boiling anger. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The air all over the Bottom got heavy with peeled fruit and boiling vegetables. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When it boiled, she sprinkled in the fine grains and stirred. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The women were already on the ground, beans boiling over unattended. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The actual boiling hadn’t begun yet, but it was the sound of a starting, and it was coming from the studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The aunties set about boiling the mealie meal in the rice pot. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I hissed and boiled, and my heart felt as if it was going to explode. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The light seemed to boil opalescently, like liquid soap shaken gently in a bottle. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, it boils down to a few active bidders. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He stirred the spices for another minute and poured in the boiled lentils. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The panic was now in a full-frenzied boil when someone said, “You set a new record.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She put a handful of boiled acorns on the disc of wood into which she had chipped a bowl. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The room filled with sharp crackling and popping sounds as the bone-tar spread across the warm stone floor and started to boil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She handed Lyddie a cup of her boiled coffee, thick with cream and maple sugar. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Her violence boiled over when I got lost picking my way through the thicket of notes I’d been traversing without mistake all week long. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Red boils had erupted on his face, so he looked like a smallpox victim. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If her mother tried to boil such a small amount, the pot would be dry long before they could count to two hundred. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We were both well pleased with ourselves, sitting in the warm tent, drinking hot tea and waiting for the kadik-germ porridge to boil. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The splash of a feeding tarpon upstream put him on alert, and sure enough, the surface of the water began to shake and boil. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While I waited for the milk to boil, I wished again for the stove. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “The entree,” he continued, “consists of boiled dog, stuffed with rice.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The three mercenaries looked ready to boil someone alive, and then there were the two shackled murderers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A soft noise like a kettle about to boil for tea. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Bubble, bubble, boils and stubble, wrinkles triple, gray hairs double,” Seven said and Valley repeated perfectly as Seven handed the mirror over to her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A round scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, and a dirk and shortsword at his belt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That powder was then mixed with milk and boiled again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Two drumstick tips poke out of an enormous pot of boiling water. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Here I am, sitting on the graying floor of this freezing metal kitchen, listening to a bunch of complaints from girls who don’t know how to boil an egg. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It boiled down to this: I wanted to buy the fanciest, most expensive casket in the place, complete with every extra handle and cushion a casket could possibly have. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I boil it for a long time before it’s tender enough to fry. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Before the water reaches a boil, he will be here. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Ms. Rosalie said the heat “boiled” my stomach and that something cool would settle it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They had to be better than boiled meal. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Sean got home just as the water was beginning to boil. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And scalding the pigs in huge tubs of boiling water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My conscience, my shame, it all boiled over. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Open bodies of liquid water are impossible today because the atmospheric pressure on Mars is too low to keep even cold water from rapidly boiling. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The dinner is sublime: We start with oyster bisque and follow with prime rib, boiled potatoes, and asparagus in cream. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Do you think now you can boil the water for the tea without burning the house down? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z After perfunctorily wiping her hands on her apron, Stella trotted inside, returning shortly with a large cauldron of boiling water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He put it all to boil in a pot of castor oil until he got a thick and pestilential syrup which was more like common caramel than valuable gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then, one evening, she flounced into the living room, sat down, folded her arms and looked boiling mad. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Even his boil, he reasoned, was an outward mark of his difference from such as Beowulf. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Rice, boiled plain and white, with no meat or sauce, was a rare treat now. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Before them marched the clansmen from the hills; chiefs and champions astride shaggy garrons, their hirsute fighters trotting beside them, clad in fins and boiled leather and old mail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She boils water and serves us lemon balm tea in dainty yel- low cups. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z From one, filled with boiling water, she fished out three metal plates with a pair of tongs and clanged them onto the table. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I dragged the bathing tub into the front room and filled it with boiling water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I dislike the Poet as well. He can boil his head.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “I miss him,” Lorraine sighed, sprinkling salt into the boiling water. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z A spray of salt water broke across the boat, dousing the marines there; the phosphorescence boiled up green and luminous against the darkness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We used to have the crab boil on the first Friday of every month. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z One overcast morning, as I was pushing the boiled egg around on my plate, Ali walked in cradling a pile of chopped wood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She planned to have a boiled egg for breakfast. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Over and over again the liquid had to be strained and purified, even as it kept boiling, boiling, boiling in the copper vats. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Small, bluish tubers that don't look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She filled the kettle with water, and kept it boiling a long time. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His shoulders were narrow and he had a boil on his neck. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing so far had alarmed me as much as the sight of a black dog, boils riding its back like a second spine, a rat as big as Mouse clenched in its teeth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Frau Elena brings a plate; on it sits a single boiled potato cut in two. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Did you boil the water before you drank it?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Over the city, a thunderstorm boiled—a wall of absolute black with lightning streaking across the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It did not boil like water, but bubbles came up in it and suddenly exploded, leaving holes that closed quickly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Tommies came running from trenches all around when they heard the news and they gave him any amount of money if he’d let them boil water. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A jerkin of boiled leather and a pothelm at his feet were his only armor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then it was like the radiator boiling over or the tea kettle blowing its top. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z She let it boil and boil, and it drove some of the goat smell out of the house. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I held him in my arms and thought about how I was going to break the news to his wife, who was boiling him some water in the kitchen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The serving girls moved down to the kitchen, where kettles of water were put on to boil for the washing of the dishes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In all four Egyptians frozen fear boiled at once into a choking mixture of anger and relief. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z That is, my father ate the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep mixed with oatmeal and boiled in a sheep stomach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The ever resourceful Garikayi started a fire and boiled tea with water from the stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While the plants ripened, one large group of slaves was sent off to cut the wood to fire the boiling vats, while another spent its days carting the timber back to the boiling house. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Cordelia’s family does not eat boiled eggs mushed up in a bowl but out of egg cups. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He put up a pot of water to boil and rummaged in the cabinet for a box of spaghetti and a jar of sauce. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I could go to the five spots on the map, and even if I didn’t find her, it would be more fun than another boiling summer in Orlando. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The drink must be hot to warm a man properly, the Lord Commander insisted, but the wine must never be allowed to come to a boil. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He had to know the color, the smell, the feel of the boiling liquid so well, he could almost taste in the air that it was ready, just now. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I sat at the table and watched as Helen washed the dirty dishes, tied up the garbage bag, watered a spider plant over the sink, and poured boiling water into two cups. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In the trenches it was so wet and muddy they had no way of boiling the water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In the old boiling house, heat escaped; now it is captured and used. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His science experiments would nearly blow up the house because whatever he created, he’d leave it bubbling and boiling while he went to search for food, forgetting it completely. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But I can remember when we came to it with prayer, listening for trouble in our laboring old motors, drawing a plume of steam from our boiling radiators. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s get your older brothers married before we worry about you,” Marina said idly as she spooned more boiled eggs out of the cold water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Would Mrs. Kluck have let her anger boil over if our club leader was someone like my mom, who speaks perfect English? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Across their backs they bore round wicker shields covered with hides and boiled leather, displaying painted images of snakes and spiders, severed heads, bloody hammers, broken skulls, and demons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the little kitchen she put some milk on to boil and then looked at the message again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He poured himself a cup of tea from the teakettle we had kept boiling all that day. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind us, the scrap mountain was boiling, rising up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I boiled them, toasted the last of the corn bread, made some coffee, and opened a can of tomato juice. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Francis thus never had reason to envy those college fellows whose High Table food was undeniably better than their wives’ drab mixtures of tasteless meat, boiled potatoes, colorless greens, and typical trifles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Even the juice from a boiling hog jowl. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a big bonfire under the kettle, and the sap boils, and Grandpa watches it carefully. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I slip the two eggs I boiled the night before when I was making supper into my coat pocket. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Supper was a royal feast of boiled potatoes seasoned with a scrawny turnip and a few beans. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t of been much trouble for Mama; all Grandpa ever wanted in the morning was four cups of coffee and some yeast bread, toasted hard and dipped in boiling water and then buttered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The girl had accidentally knocked over a pot of boiling potatoes and was badly scalded, and Generose, too poor to afford a ride to a hospital, was left to wrap her daughter’s burns with leaves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t eat the boiled onion and got sick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The group of children I lived with pooled our camp food rations and boiled them in a large metal cooking oil container we had cut in two to make a pot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are we boiling now? Eh? Are we boiling?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He went indoors, opened the box of mustard, and put some water to boil on the fire. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It all boiled down to this: Mr. Dussel had recommended the book to Margot and me as an example of excellent writing. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The steam rose thickly from a vat of boiling water which no one was attending. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We all stood a long moment in a silence broken only by the sound of the potion boiling over its pot of flame. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Mama, sitting with her leg elevated on a pillow, directed, guiding her on details Stella had never paid much attention to before—like boiling and frying and searing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z With the stew came boiled squash, an apple, and a bottle of water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he returned, he was boiling up with a fever and hallucinating. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The cook sat down, her face red from the heat and emotion and the boiling and stewing going on about her, took off one great leather shoe, and used it to fan her face. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore black leather boots, black woolen pants, black moleskin gloves, and a fine supple coat of gleaming black ringmail over layers of black wool and boiled leather. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It reminded Selmy of the sound a hornets’ nest might make an instant before hornets all came boiling out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Upstairs, she threw her coat on a kitchen chair, filled the spaghetti pot with water, and put it on to boil. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z After washing our clothes with boiling water and lye soap, my ma finally admitted defeat and burned them in the hearth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It boiled streams and cooked mud and sent waterfalls disappearing into deep pits, only to reappear miles away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The stewardesses brought us small trays fitted with square plates filled with sauce over chicken, mushy rice, and boiled string beans. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was salt-rising bread, too, and cold boiled pork, and pickles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re tolerable, sir, I thank you,” replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: “rather snappish, but not ’rageous.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I put my suitcase upstairs, filled my flask with boiling water in the kitchen, and headed off to work. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Anger boils all the way up from my toes to my cheeks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The pot boiled and bubbled over a fire which hissed and spat, and she stirred it with a spoon as big as an oak tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Grandmother’s letter was full of anxious advice, but her chief warning was to boil any water before we drank it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, don’t just stand there, boy. Get the water boiling for tea. Lots of water.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We returned to the kitchen, where my mother was draining a pot of boiled rice into a colander. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The thick timber of the table’s leg was almost entirely eaten away, and I heard a light popping and crackling as the liquid pooling on the floor began to boil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I woke up to find toasted bread, brewed tea, and a boiled egg already on the kitchen table. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I felt I was climbing the side of a volcano and I was about to look over the rim into a boiling cauldron of orange lava. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In this school Alba learned to eat boiled vegetables and burnt rice, to withstand the freezing courtyard, sing hymns, and give up worldly vanities except those in the realm of sports. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I cram both hands over my mouth as if I’m about to be sick, drop to my knees, the laughter boiling like lava in my throat. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Clarisse was tied up, hanging upside down over a pot of boiling water. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Quincy, we’re not going to boil the girl in a pot.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe after many, many offerings a priest noticed that if the juice of the cane was boiled in the right way, it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We had just started to clean them up when T. Ray burst in, threatening to boil the chick for dinner and fire Rosaleen for being an imbecile. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They complained impatiently to each other as they hunted for the right-sized stones or hauled load after load of wood in their arms, dumping it near the big kettle, which was boiling and steaming away. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z There he left it until it was thoroughly boiled. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z All the days of anger and resentment boiled up in him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z She drew a great kettle of water from the well and set it to boil for the wash. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z ‘It all boils down to this,’ said Mrs. Wilson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I looked up at Luke, and anger boiled inside me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Before it got dark, she boiled water and added it to the leftover mealie meal. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of these stoves were stoked with seal blubber and could boil two and a half gallons of water from ice in half an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “It was so full of grease and dirt and sticks and boxes,” he thought, that it looked like a big, wide, dirty street, except in some places, where it boiled up. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The streets were crowded and bustling; the city seemed to be bubbling with people like boiling rice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z We spent the next day boiling and skinning peaches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Next, I boiled half of the remaining salt pork. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they got the Primus going and boiled down some snow so they could cook their hoosh. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The sound of boiling water shakes me from my thoughts just in time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was cold boiled mackerel submerged in aspic. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He even pulled up a few of our peanut plants, so we could boil them for a snack later. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Harry felt the familiar boiling sensation in the pit of his stomach. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I struggle to make sense of the voices that are boiling up all around me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z My face stings, and the blood in my fists reaches a boiling point. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Moss heard the water running; he heard the thump of a cabinet closing; he heard the gentle whistle minutes later as the kettle began to boil. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The red kettle starts to boil, and she pours me a cup of chamomile, pours herself a cup of English Breakfast. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z We put in four cups and waited for the water to boil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z At eighteen, I temporarily went blind and mute and had boils on my arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were all burning up with fever, so there was no point in boiling water, but it gave me time to gather my thoughts to figure out what to do. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We boil the water and use the rest of the wood for the morning tea but what about tonight and tomorrow and ever after? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The next day we came to a village, and the people there gave our group a gourd for water, dried kernels of corn to boil for food, and a pot to cook in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Termites boiled out of the little tunnel and all over my hand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "So you take the wrrrong end of a telescope," continued The Grand High Witch, "and you boil it until it gets soft." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He felt his arm go numb, but he clenched his teeth as he was clenching his fingers around the hilt, and the pale form seemed to boil away and melt back into the darkness again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “If I called you,” Conor said, his face boiling red, tears he was hardly aware of streaming angrily down his cheeks, “it was to save her! It was to heal her!” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z While we waited for the pasta water to come to a boil, I asked him to taste the morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Out came the platters of boiled beef, the bowls of gravy and red cabbage, the knodels as big as softballs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the movie, Kimberly Lou played a pretty college cheerleader who got hexed into a witch and started boiling the star football players in a basement cauldron. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Neville whimpered as boils started to pop up all over his nose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Frankie, I think your friend is waiting,” I said to keep tempers from boiling over. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Fine, while I grind everything up, boil four cups of water.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Supper was a boiled goose that Smiley shot on a nearby pond after the sun came out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I boiled some water, poured it into a pitcher and put in two bags. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I figured Hilda could boil them up nice and they would make a decent dinner. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels as if someone dumped a bucket of boiling water over my head. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Next came Rattleshirt in clattering armor made of bones and boiled leather, his helm a giant’s skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Produced by boiling juice extracted from sugarcane, it has long been used in making rum, as a major ingredient in making explosives, and as a sweetener. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now keep quiet. I’ll give you a feed in a minute, when that boy’s boiled some water.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I seriously don’t know what she saw in him, because not only was he ugly, he had the personality of a boiled potato. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We would then drink the boiled blood as soup. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Anger bubbles up inside me, threatening to boil over. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes there is no food for the migrants; she must ration antibiotics and not give patients a full dose; she runs out of gauze and must use boiled rags instead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Your uncle can boil his head,” she fumed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I'm in a huge room filled with rows of gurneys and chemicals boiling under metal hoods. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The anger that’s inside me is boiling, spitting out words before I can even think twice. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The tooth looked like one of those Halloween candy corns that had been boiled in sewage. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The pot was filled with limp, almond-shaped leaves, boiling away in about half a gallon of blackish water. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She pushed her dirk into a northman’s chest through fijr and wool and boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z There were buckets lying around, of the sort that could carry maple sap so it could be boiled down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His body seemed a flaming cross as words boiled hysterically out of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A wave of anger boiled in my stomach, and I slammed a fist onto the table, scattering papers and chains onto the floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As calm as I might look, anger boils in my skin. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z These two groups were obliged to work side by side in the war plants, and their animosities festered and opened like boils on the face of the city. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t sleep. It’s overrated. A bad habit I do my best to avoid—in company, wherever possible, and the young lady may go off the boil if I don’t get back to her.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Much as I hate to start a fire on a day like this, we have to boil water,” I told Silas. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the water boils, I set the timer for twelve minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z My face burns and my blood boils with hatred. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, if they did not get the cane into the boiling vat within forty-eight hours—preferably twenty-four hours—their crop would be ruined. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Hams and pheasants were hanging from the ceiling, a copper kettle was boiling on the open fire, and in the corner stood a massive bed with a patchwork quilt over it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “How would you bring a kettle of water to a boil?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It looked naked without its feathers, which she’d yanked off in between dips into boiling water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She handed Nya a bowl of boiled sorghum meal and poured a little milk over it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would you like to join us in a boiled egg, Second Officer Brodatt?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Some dressed in fine soft furs, some in boiled leather and oddments of armor, more in wool and sealskins, a few in rags. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We immerse the potatoes in pots of boiling water, then set out cilantro, green onions, and spices, plus yogurt and mint bunches for the chutney. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He could hear the Sisters singing as they pounded flour or boiled down herbs or sharpened their knives. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He sat at his desk, eating oatmeal, the instant kind you mix with boiling water and eat out of a cardboard cup. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z "Ain't I been listening to your stomach rumbling- bumbling for the last hour? Do me the kindness of filling the kettle at the pump. Soon as the potatoes are boiled up, we'll feast, eh?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I check through the refrigerator in the kitchenette, dig out an egg, boil it, dump it into a teacup, mush it up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We handed most of the potatoes over to the landowner in exchange for our wages, but some we boiled into soup, which we ate every night for dinner. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We steeped the leaves in the water I had boiled. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The water must always be boiling, so that the heated steel would dry instantly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped it in a kettle of boiling water and then added a bit of sugar and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The man who had a matter of two minutes lead in the race had an attack of boils, which were very painful. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z After pouring a little of each into a large glass beaker, he stirred the mixture thoroughly with a wooden spoon, watching intently as it smoked and steamed and boiled and bubbled. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Tiny bright lights danced before his eyes, his body trembled and he felt the blood boiling in his veins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As the spaghetti boiled, pictures flashed in and out of my mind. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Upstairs, however, she could hear Mia in the kitchen: the rumble of a kettle coming to a boil, a whistle springing to life and then subsiding as someone lifted it from the stove. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Still, I could feel all my old class resentments boiling up. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Goyle bellowed and put his hands to his nose, where great ugly boils were springing up — Hermione, whimpering in panic, was clutching her mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The suppers were TV dinners in floppy aluminium containers with separate compartments for the stewed meat, the boiled potatoes and the peas. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I go to the kitchen and I boil four cups of water. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She emptied the grounds from the pot and put the coffee on the stove to boil again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Within a day, the British promised boiled peas and rice with butter twice a week for their American prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z No. He explained that the molasses went to a factory where it was boiled down into something called industrial alcohol. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z On Christmas Eve, there’s abundant basting, boiling, browning, braising, and more baking, then the evening is spent at the Coopers’ drinking spiked eggnog and having a massive Uno tournament. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Alyce asked the kitchen maid skinning a pig in the manor yard, the laundress boiling great kettles of goose fat for soap, the carpenters fashioning a coffin for Old Ned, who had died that morning. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He carries the sheet of paper in a daze to the alley where Frau Elena boils sheets amid billows of steam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Like Davos, the king was plainly garbed in wool and boiled leather, though the circlet of red gold about his temples lent him a certain grandeur. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The subject boiled down to this: Could Seaborg devise a chemical process for separating element 94 from the stew of radioactive fission products in which it was mixed after the bombardment of uranium? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “No. I’ll have it right here. And I want a boiled egg and a piece of cinnamon toast. Four and a half minutes on the egg. Make sure. I don’t want it gooey.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their line of reasoning boils down to this: England must fight, struggle and sacrifice its sons to liberate Holland and the other occupied countries. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Familiar noises surround me: street vendors call out to passersby, selling boiled goose eggs and fried dough and hot dogs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She had elected not to use an ice cube, since it was steeped at 180° and not a full boil. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z As she waited for the coffee water to boil, Mami picked them up and took them to the tub under the avocado tree. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For Africans, lunch consisted of boiled mealies, that is, coarse kernels of com. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All he saw was the battered body of a stoat being borne towards him on what appeared to be a boiling wave of ooze. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And in long pans, on a huge stove the whole length of the sugarhouse, sap was boiling high. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly began boiling a pot of milk on her Edwardian gas stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She dropped it into the purifier, which made burbling noises as it came to a boil. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Yesterday I got desperate and boiled some old potatoes and ate them with nothing but salt and pepper. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z While I got the grits boiling, Mrs. kept saying, “No, darling. Christmas is for kids doing kid things.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Typically, it included fruit juice, hot cereal with milk and butter on it, a roll, cheese, and perhaps smoked fish, along with a boiled egg served in a little cup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z They then folded the banana leaves into rectangles, tied them with cotton twine, and dropped the pasteles into a huge pot of boiling water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Naturally, these boils developed on the parts of my body that got the most wet and the most wear on the raft; that is, my backside. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, the pot of hot dogs, which had long since boiled out of water, was seething and shaking on top of the wild gas flames. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, while she waited for the water to boil for tea, she practiced the lifting of her legs, and the raising of her upper body as she lay flat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Rain and slop and shrapnel, it all mixed together, and the field seemed to boil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The gooseberries popped softly as they burst open in boiling water. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z With the water heater finally replaced, we don’t have to boil water to warm it anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The beady eye of a crow stares back at me, its wing feathers pressed to the side of the pot, its fat body covered with boiling water. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was Shandi’s fire, and a small pot hung simmering, boiling potatoes, strangely familiar among the chaos. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The noise turns into a rolling boil as they wait for me to reveal her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The clown showed us to a table stacked with food—the same boiled nuts and roasted meats that had tempted us at the carnival. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Feel my brains are boiling inside my head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, in parts of the country, it began to boil. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then the wave came back, the gully boiled before them and spray dashed up to the very creeper so that the boys were wet and shrieking. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The air itself smelled burnt, the way a soup kettle sometimes smelled if it was left on the fire too long and all the soup boiled away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The ones that survived suffered from fin-rot and had broken out in boils. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Lemon rind rubbed on a lump of sugar and boiling water with rum. It’s a good drink.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Traft let me rest—I may have dozed off—while the water boiled and he made tea. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This is my test: I imagine them back there in the moonlight with the ground all around us boiling with ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lightning stirred the water into a boiling cauldron, steaming and hissing with electricity. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She excused herself to go boil the dishwater. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever the weather would turn nasty, one or another Sherpa was apt to point up at the clouds boiling heavenward and earnestly declare, “Somebody has been sauce-making. Make bad luck. Now storm is coming.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I still remember living in New York City, and loving the smell of the sweaty steam coming through the subway vents, and the vendor carts full of boiling hot dogs. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The panic was now in a full-frenzied boil when someone said, “You set a new record.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Over to the left, the waves of ocean were breathing, sucking down, then boiling back over the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her son was dressed in boiled leather and ringmail, she saw, and a sword hung at his waist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Once the water in the kettle boiled, Joseph lugged it upstairs, using a towel he found by the sink so the hot metal handle wouldn’t burn him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He turned round and found himself looking at the boiled girl, Elaine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The lasagna is extra tough tonight, being that Mom boiled the pasta in Dad’s red sauce in an attempt to use as little water as possible. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It had to be carried a mile and a half, and boiled. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood the butt of the gun in a pan on the hearth and poured boiling water from the tea kettle into the gun barrel. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go and boil your head, rat!” came Constance’s gruff reply. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Auntie Sallay boiled the groundnut and put it out on a large tray. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z With his frustration boiling over into recklessness, Farmer took more and more chances. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you d be boiled to death before you knew it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran blindly, boiling with outrage and despair and harsh laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The bowl holding the eggs must have overturned into the boiling water. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Or “See how I can make the ink blacker by mixing soot with the boiled oak galls.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was making a thick omelet with dried herring, served with boiled plantains. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The roots of this flower are very good if you boil them long enough to remove the peppery taste. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My stomach turned at the thought of boiled potatoes, or mashed potatoes, or potato latkes fried in schmaltz. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She boils water to scrub my head, neck, hands and knees and any inch of skin that shows. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Together they took on the butcher, his oldest son, the butcher’s wife, armed with boiling water she had prepared for scalding pigs, her mother, and a passer-by. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z An aide brought a cup of hot boiled coffee, thick with sugar. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The anger is still there, but it’s simmering now, no longer boiling over. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Hens strutted by with one suspicious eye on the deweys, another on the brick fireplace where sheets and mason jars were boiled. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z As Endurance steamed down the River Thames toward the sea, however, World War I boiled up in Europe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They went to the front of the stall, where a man tended a pot of boiling oil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He remembered swal-lowing, and Pycelle was telling someone to heat the wine to boiling and fetch him clean silk, and that was the last he knew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Round and round the questions run; Marie-Laure’s mind threatens to boil over. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And Norwegians, by the way, always eat the skin of the boiled fish, which they say has the best taste of all. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Which for me meant an afternoon of running my legs to death, and an evening of boiling them back to life. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z And the sweet potato that I boiled was supposed to be for sweet potato pie. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “It’ll be for fire. You need a very hot fire always, for the boiling of the dyes. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They bent their backs to unload heavy crates from ships and trains, or to carry pallets of bricks to and from construction job sites; their daughters scoured pots and boiled laundry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We hadn’t spoken about Dad in a while, but he and his stupid girlfriend boiled to the surface of my upset feelings. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z On his orders his sanitary engineer, William S. MacHarg, built a water-sterilization plant on the fairgrounds that pumped lake water through a succession of large tanks in which the water was aerated and boiled. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The thunder and lightning were still boiling over Mount Tamalpais in the north. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Lee came out with a platter of fried chicken, a bowl of smoking boiled potatoes, and a deep dish of pickled beets, all carried on a pastry board. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The fire would heat the rest of the tar, causing it to boil more quickly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I started thinking: if Dad were boiled down to one word, what would that word be? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For the first year of the Leningrad blockade, Yekaterina lived on not much more than a daily ration of soup made with boiled water and four slices of brown bread. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Mariam, who’d had a queasy stomach all night, boiled some water and made herself a cup of green tea sprinkled with crushed cardamom. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I’m busy with my ravenous 'Taniel, who nurses night and day, riding in his sling on one side or the other so he won’t have to pause while I boil his diapers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The vegetables were overcooked, the cornmeal was too lumpy, the soup too watery, and the yam slices coarse from being boiled without a dollop of butter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Amma would never have let us drink water that wasn’t boiled—but we didn’t have a choice. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Carlotta’s frustration apparently boiled over two days later when I won bronze on beam—ahead of Vanessa at fourth and Carlotta at fifth—and gold on floor, again edging out Vanessa, who took silver. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They boiled water and mixed it with the precious sugar and salt to feed the weakest people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The rider's helm was made from the broken skull of a giant, and all up and down his arms bearclaws had been sewn to his boiled leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the boiling water the frankfurters swished and lashed like artificially colored and magnified paramecia. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The big blue-enameled possum kettle was boiling on top of the chunk stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen was sweet with tarts, and some of the berries had boiled over in the oven and burned, making the sharp, bitter-sweet smell pleasant and astringent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In a little while, the water was boiling, and they had chopped up the potatoes and turnips into one pot, and the chuck beef into another. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In a tin bowl, in the captains lap, steams a cylinder of boiled gray meat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her hands shook as she poured rice into the boiling water and, as she watched the narrow basmati grains begin to swell, she wondered if they were failing at this, their reconciliatory meal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Newfound anger boiled her blood as she watched their retreating backs and remembered yet another piece of the night before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It all boils down to this: whenever one of the eight of us opens his mouth, the other seven can finish the story for him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Earlier, August had boiled her tweezers and fingernail scissors in a pot on the stove and used them to pluck out Rosaleen’s stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She boiled teas and honeycombs, steamed open her pores, adjusted the shutters, and drank. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nurmi was out in the yard by an old wood stove which she still used for boiling the vegetable dyes for her weaving, or peelings and scraps for the hens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma boiled some yam slices, and we ate them dipped in palm oil that had chopped red peppers floating in it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She’s worn out and gasping for a cup of tea so would he drop his grand airs, boil the water for the tea and fry some bread before his two small sons starve to death. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Some of the clarified syrup was boiled until it turned to sugar and was molded into fancy shapes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But those who could hear the insides of words heard that we were selling a miracle salve made from boiled children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Everyone uses mussels for bait in Norway. And if we didn't catch any fish, we would boil the mussels in a saucepan and eat those." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Still less can ships get searoom of these Drifters, whose boiling surf, under high fiery winds, carries tossing wreckage of ships and men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Queen knew that every pure Mack cat had a certain bone in it, which, if it were held in the mouth after boiling the cat alive, was able to make you invisible. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Chipo squeezed the honey out of the combs and boiled it with millet meal to make delicious cakes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The waiter set down Dimple’s steaming, fragrant plate of cod and potatoes, garnished with halved boiled eggs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It went straight from her nose to her stomach, turning it, churning the boiled yam she’d had for breakfast. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the end, it boiled down to this: I said yes because I believed that Barack could be a great president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What he did not know, though, was that the moment he had left, Tortoise had taken a handful of corn and had put it into boiling water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I had read that you can boil water in a leaf, and ever since then I had been very anxious to see if this were true. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple felt that familiar fury boiling inside her, the same one that flowed when Mamma or Papa didn’t understand why she wanted to do the things she did. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A pan of water on the worktable boiled without any fire under it for a half hour until it completely evaporated. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z By the time Howard finally got there, my temper had settled down from a boil to a simmer. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Around the spire of Alcyoneus, oil bubbled, then churned and erupted like a boiling cauldron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Lena Feldt hid among the rocks above and watched as Mrs. Coulter spoke to the officer in charge, and as his men put up tents, made fires, boiled water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They built a small fire in the stone-lined pit in the middle of the clearing, and they boiled water for tea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But the back of his neck grew as red as boiling sin, and I knew he did begrudge the extra time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And a washerwoman came on Monday and spent the whole day boiling the clothes in the dripping laundry shed out back. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The saucepan was full of thick gooey purplish treacle, boiling and bubbling. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I always took their kidding with a smile on my face, but it made my blood boil like the water in Mama’s teakettle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At my house, rice boils in a plastic bag or gets heated in the microwave. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Mother boiled the chicken to loosen the feathers before she plucked them and opened up the cavity. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Cuchulain would get so hot that when he jumped into Lough Neagh it boiled over and warmed the surrounding countryside for days. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The coach advanced, but, as soon as his foot touched the cairn, the stones rumbled like they were coming to the boil. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z So this is what it boils down to, is it? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I kept water boiling for the midwife and stuck cloth in my ears to keep out the noise. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He was looking at us now in the impassive way he looked at the plates of boiled rice the hospital orderly placed before him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Without it, the water would just boil immediately and I'd be hanging around in a steamy atmosphere. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I flinched as boiling water spattered my hands. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A yellow ray from the sinking sun fell across the foot of the bed and lighted up the fireplace, where the water in the pan was boiling fast. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A pot of glue boils on the stove. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In his great haste, he tripped on the hem of his robe and ran right into the cauldron he had been boiling for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His black sorcerer was more puissant than all of Euron’s three, even if you threw them in a pot and boiled them down to one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had a chicken—a great treat for us in those days—stuffed with oysters, boiled potatoes, corn pudding, some of Momma’s canned beans, rolls, and a hot peach cobbler. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not wanting to wait for water to boil, he got out a frying pan. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Only a few of us are plagued by boils, and we can blame a large part of the destruction of tissues on the zeal of our own leukocytes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the Japanese would scoop up or pluck the aromatic leaves and boil them and inhale the steam, claiming that it was good for colds; others felt that camphor steam could be harmful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mother paid the woman for a single potato, then again for the privilege to boil the potato. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Oh, so now you need my help, she started, then blinked down at the boiling smoke of the painting, distracted from her annoyance. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z One late morning, as she was peeling and cutting potatoes for the boiled noon meal, she felt a presence behind her shoulder. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z We boil milk, sugar, and spices, as if we’re making vanilla pudding. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She had small piggy eyes, a sunken mouth, and one of those white flabby faces that looked exactly as though it had been boiled. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The Tipping Point is the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anger boiling through my blood and raging through my lungs. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z She was holding two swords—long bronze scimitars that glowed with a weird greenish aura, boiling wisps of vapor that smelled sour and hot even across the yard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and then it was a destroyer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The problem boiled down to the fact that they wanted to become Americans and their father—and their mother, too, at first—would have none of it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The boils, the sores, the putrid growths just melted back into healthy full flesh. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z He opened the lid of a pot with some sort of reddish brown sauce dripping over the sides, boiling furiously. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If picked young and quickly boiled, it has a starchy sweet taste that reminds me of springtime just as much as fresh peas or asparagus. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The wind freshened throughout the night, gradually increasing until the Frog was boiling happily along at a steady four and a half knots. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He strolled off down the mountain in his baby-blue groom’s outfit, leaving us alone with a pot of boiling water and a six-ton boulder. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z All the water and the juice must be boiled away, and the pumpkin must never burn. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam puts the head in the pot, just covered with water, and while the pig is boiling away Dad takes Malachy and me to Mass at the Redemptorist church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Blood boiled under my skin, burned in my lips. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Not much longer now,” says Frau Elena, her palms out in front of the stove as the water refuses to boil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She doesn’t know how long she can keep the water boiling in this kettle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly there’s a rumbling boiling up inside me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The long boiling had shredded its meat away until there was nothing in the cauldron except a deep scum of hair and grease and gobbets. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And then with one shout this dark boiling soup spilled forward and fell all over my neck. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It boils down to this: the Americans, the British are that faceless clot you don’t know, but a Frenchman or an Italian is your acquaintance and your friend. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z With a complete loss of pressure, most of the water boiled off. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Under black wool, boiled leather, and mail, sweat trickled icily down Ion's chest as he pressed the attack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When we had a few, we’d pluck them and boil them to eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They're being pushed out of the way to make room for all the frustration boiling inside of me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The steam from boiling hung in the air. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We ate smoked fish for dinner with boiled dogtooth violet bulbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning she boiled molasses and sugar together until they made a thick syrup, and Pa brought in two pans of clean, white snow from outdoors. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was morning in the desert, and Julia had already gotten out of bed and was boiling coffee on a propane stove wed set up on the tailgate of Cade’s pickup. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z As soon as the hog was dead Pa and Uncle Henry lifted it up and down in the boiling water till it was well scalded. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaves boiled and stirred where my pups were. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z From months of training they were able to eat their hoosh boiling hot. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Then through a little hole in the side of the bag he poured the boiling water on the mixture. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z My skin boiling, I moved on to Dad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The doctor bent forward and looked at the boil. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Snape put them all into pairs and set them to mixing up a simple potion to cure boils. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Fried chicken and boiled ham, baked sweet potatoes, peach pickles, big buttermilk biscuits, cookies, cakes, apples, boiled eggs, I don’t know what all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Willie went with the hired men to help in the gathering and boiling of the sap. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It started with boiled meats, moved on to grilled meats, continued with fried meats, and ended with cheese. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When it was gone, Mrs. Flagg handed me a bowl of rice and boiled prunes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom might be scurrying around in a paper-towel tizzy, trying to clean up all the boiling hot water, but Bryce is like a statue as he watches Lenny head into the bathroom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z When dried, the white or pink pulp makes flour for thin, tortilla-like cakes; when boiled and smoked, it becomes hors d’oeuvres; when cooked and fermented, it makes beer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Soon a kettle began to whistle softly on an electric heater, and Az poured the boiling water into an antique pot, releasing a floral scent into the room. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A few drops of liquid formed and then boiled off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She adds in a pinch of baking soda, and then when the water’s boiling, puts in the tea bags, all tied together. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not quite sure how to describe this band's music, except to say that it sounds like a hundred thousand weasels being dropped into a boiling ocean. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z "I know you mean well, Stanley, but face it. Zero's too stupid to learn to read. That's what makes his blood boil. Not the hot sun." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z We had only cold at our home in the Seam, and a bath meant boiling the rest over the fire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They would boil that till it was hard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These would be boiled with the bone to make a rich soup with shreds of meat floating in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “We boil our yam with boh-tah. Look at your mouth. When they send you back to the village, what will you do? Where will you find boh-tah to use to boil your yam?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He put on the pajamas, and after the milk had boiled and cooled he drank a cup of it, warm; I had boiled the cup, too. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon there was talk of tonics and purgatives and cod-liver oil, but at that point I managed to rally and take some plain boiled chicken, averting such drastic management. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I now know what Lita meant when she said someone’s blood was boiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I look up through the hatch opening and see black storm clouds boiling in the sky. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “To see what they are eating, and after seeing they are boiling the same leaves and giving their children to drink. It is stopping kwashiorkor.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Just down-stream from where the trail met the river, the Teklanika erupted into a chaos of boiling whitewater as it accelerated through the narrow gorge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So much going in low gear had boiled it out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She stared at the empty space where her bacon had been, and then she stared at the dog, its expression smug, and all the frustrations of her life boiled up in her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He pointed to a vat of syrup boiling on the stove and fanned his face and squinted his eyes to show how hot it was. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He departed for the kitchen to boil huge vats of water, most of which was never used. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood by the stove, sifting the yellow corn meal from her fingers into a kettle of boiling, salted water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And beneath it all there boiled up all the shock-absorbing phrases that I had learned all my life. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t because he was recovering from a bad case of boils and an attack of malaria—though that didn't help matters. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The water boiled and a barracuda broke the surface, slashing through a school of needlefish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Uncle Stanley sometimes sneaked down beans he’d boiled for us, but he was afraid if he stayed talking, Erma would think he’d taken our side and get mad at him, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The railings felt like the metal handles of a boiling pot. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They try to boil her in oil but she rocks in the vat and takes a nap for herself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I half expected to see vendors selling cinnamon water, boiled sweets, and currant cakes, and a conjure man who could juggle two balls and a stool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z This aquatic mayhem didn’t last long, but while it did, the sea bubbled and boiled, fish jumped and jaws worked hard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I would come up through a roaring and confusion, like surf boiling. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z That day, boiled cabbage had featured prominently on the menu, and not even the jam roll that had come after it did anything to dispel the heavy atmosphere. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z About half of them hid their faces behind crude helms of wood and boiled leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She could have called you names and then I’d have started boiling inside like the oil in her frying pan. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She knew the flower heads would have to boil till midday and then remain steeping in their water for many hours more. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cholly went outside and found the boy standing with some others near, the tub where Aunt Jimmy used to boil her clothes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could go and boil your fat head,” said Thackeray, and he swung a punch at Bod’s ear. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Later, after they’d eaten a lunch of boiled eggs and potatoes with bread, Tariq napped beneath a tree on the banks of a gurgling stream. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I remember that at Pinyudu I could always hear the sound of pounding, as people pounded the dry corn kernels into meal to boil. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One is fussing with a contraption to suspend a kettle over the fire and boil water. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Tendai asked one evening, as he watched the She Elephant dump dirty plates into the pot of boiling water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z With that, his father left the room, and Benton, anger boiling up from places he hadn’t known existed, clenched his fists tightly and, for a few moments, forgot how to breathe. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Arm had to suffer the hate, greed and anger boiling around the suburb known as the Cow’s Guts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But at that moment, I was wearing the dress to cook hot dogs, watching them swell and bob in the boiling water as the late-morning sunlight filtered in through the trailer’s small kitchenette window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His words are like froth in my head, boiling, rising, and falling. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Beetle, I must to the miller to have my oats ground to flour. Crush the bitter milkwort and boil the wormwood syrup while I am gone.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Fried chicken, boiled potatoes, and frozen green peas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Some of the white, pulpy fruit she also devoured, and some she boiled to make a drink for later. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The blood was boiling in it, hissing like snakes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood, and shadow seemed to boil outward from him like a dark fog. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The tank seemed to have come alive, as if it was boiling with fury, ready to destroy. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z But remember at the Siege of King’s Port they had to eat rats and boiled leather until King Targhaer’s brother broke the siege. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “It’s just Alan,” he says, face red as a boiled beet. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But since Brad had shipped out and Katie had moved back in, the tension in our house had been simmering just below the boiling point. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z And then he lay in his bed warm and satisfied while in the kitchen the woman fed the fire and boiled the water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Speed heats the brain to a full boil, leaving the mouth to function as a fulminating exhaust pipe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "But wasn't that the human thing to do? After all, he had to protect himself because —" "He was a handkerchief-headed rat!" a woman screamed, her voice boiling with contempt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Over Long Island Sound, the sky looked like ink soup coming to a boil. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The hoosh pot was cleaned and scoured, filled with ice to melt, and once the water was boiling, the surgical instruments were sterilized. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He told all the mothers to boil their water several times and to wash their hands frequently. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z On the evening of his very first day, Salva was given a bowl of boiled maize to eat, and another one the next morning. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks if we drag them out to the porch and pour boiling water over them it will kill the bugs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “It has to boil over to taste good,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The clouds broke and boiled in the sky, and the ship’s master roared out ragefully, “This fool’s gale blows all ways at once! Only a magewind will get us through this weather, Lord.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He had washed the cut, poured some boiled vinegar over it, bound it up, and thought little more of it, trusting that the pain would fade and the hand heal itself in time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But when she saw that scar, it was like her sense of the lighted world had boiled over all at once, rushing over her, revealing images, stories...or were they memories? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I had brought dried grapefruit peel in my saddlebag, and we also boiled that. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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