A jump from this height to the tarmac might have broken a bone or twisted an ankle, but the healing nanites in his blood would quickly release opiates and deaden the pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“So, here I am working my fingers to the bone for this baby.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Had a big purple scar where the bone broke through the skin. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t look at Diego without imagining his dead-eyed stare as he attacked his father, without wondering if he’d enjoyed the sound of cracking bones or smiled when he saw the blood on his hands. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Bits of brain and bone clung to its head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was tired to the bone, and he climbed off to his bed in the loft as soon as he finished the pudding Jenny had made for him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is left of him: his hair, the bones, the plaid wool shirt, green and black, the leather belt, the work boots. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin stretches across the bones of his face like a tortured body on the rack. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mazes in the nodules on murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow bones of eagles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It caught Quaro low under the arm, the bright sharp steel biting up through leather and skin, through muscle and rib bone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In a square perhaps fifty yards on a side the ground was carpeted with broken human bones and scraps of thousand-year-old fabric. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The suit protected Holly from the worst of the elements, but she could still feel the chill sinking into her bones. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It is as futile to seek the past there as in a refuse of dishes encircling a table, each with its own crust of gravy, its own tale of bone and crackling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In another, heaps of stained cloth, bent nails, and bones had been sorted into even piles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This is what I must have learned, the night God turned his back on me: how to foretell the future in chicken bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adventurer clutched several treasures in his other hand, and more treasures lay at his feet, scattered among human bones. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I know both of them are divorced, and the way she looks at him makes me wonder if they’re boning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon Serena called me and said that a top group of radiologists, pediatricians, and cancer doctors had just spent an hour studying John’s X-rays, bone scans, and CT scans. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The word is she's hurt pretty bad because he cracked a bone in her neck, but she'll be okay in the long run. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I came out of the creek and immediately felt bone tired. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of thrones, one bone and one silver, sat on the balcony with a view of the Fields of Asphodel. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In his bones he could feel war with Cuba an inevitability and he constantly exhorted the young pilots to hone their skills because he felt that their day of fire was very near. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have swim bladders, so heavy bones would make them sink.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

His throat was full of the noise of crunching bones. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing under the narrow arch I glanced up, wondering if that keystone too was mortared with bone and blood. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined tigers ripping the flesh off his bones and pythons strangling him slowly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She tossed a bone to one of the dogs sniffing about the hall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s not nearly enough meat on those bones of yours.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Ugwu kept Olanna’s plate aside on the Formica counter and emptied the rest, watching rice, stew, greens, and bones slide into the dustbin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He saw the bones of a thousand other dreamers impaled upon their points. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was filled from side to side with bones. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lucky for you,” a girl's voice said and I nearly fell fifteen feet to a nest of fractured bones, “I'm not a teacher on patrol, Taylor.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the bone excited so little interest that it was put in a storeroom and eventually disappeared altogether. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I turned it up as hot as he could bear to warm his bones so he didn’t get sick. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Pulling someone up by their arms behind their back so their bones break.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ambrosia she’d eaten in the tunnels under Rome must have finally mended her bones. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Are bones, pieces of building still buried here? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even without the artery sac bursting, Garfield would have ultimately died from the severe blood infection caused by the pieces of broken bone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Summoning that wall of bones had drained him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His broken bones will mend, and the open wounds on his body will heal. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Does that mean we’re trapped here? Surrounded by fire and those bone ships?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“These old bones aren’t good for much anymore, but they can still squeeze the lemons and stir the sugar,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But nobody knew precisely, even in those days, which the bone was. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s my body slowly giving up on everything, including the flesh on my bones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“When I picked her up, I could have sworn her bones were hollow.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We send off for flowers, grieve, make ceremonies, scatter bones, unaware of the rest of the 3 billion on the same schedule. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the nearest graves, the bones of forgotten humans buried and scattered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After his hands slipped loose, his knees hit muddy ruts and there was screaming and the sound of bone crushing, hollow white skull bone beaten to bayonet edges by the jungle rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We could see where each bone in her body was connected because she was so thin. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Admirals telescope says East Wind. I thought as much. There is frost in my bones. I shall wear two overcoats.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The woman even tossed a bone to Hushpuppy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her classmates wrote with pencils, but there were no erasers—they used dried squid bone to white out their mistakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In that year a Colorado schoolteacher named Arthur Lakes found bones near Morrison while out hiking with a friend. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And here are some salchichas Americanas, so you can put some meat on those bones.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Slowly she became conscious that she was shivering, that the cold had worked its way through her skin into her blood and bone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Playing in the street was discouraged and often forbidden and if you did manage to slip out, “Get your butt in this house before dark,” she would warn, a rule she enforced to the bone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever demonic force moved Othor had been driven out by the flames; the twisted thing they had found in the ashes had been no more than cooked meat and charred bone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ron said, prising a fish bone out from between his teeth. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I try to pull them back and he squeezes so tight it feels like my bones are splintering. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

No doubt it is well meant, but it gives us aches in our heads and bones. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On each hip bone, where the rope had been rubbing, was a pus-filled blister. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was freshly amazed at the lightness of her person, her tiny bird bones. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“If I’m a mouse, you’re a dirty old rat in a pile of rotten meat bones! Take us home at once!” screamed Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, an Amity woman in a yellow shirt with clean fingernails took my mother’s blood pressure and set her bone with a smile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The skin of her hand that held the pipe’s end was stretched over her little bones as smooth and as yellow as the gilt upon an idol. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Under the sea, it snows up," said the fool, "and the rain is dry as bone. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Luna’s magic was infused in every bone, every tissue, every cell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She knew that she was pregnant—knew it, as the old folks said, in her bones; and if Richard should be sent away, what, under Heaven, could she do? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some archaeologists have criticized these conclusions on the grounds that passenger pigeon bones would not be likely to be preserved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She took the bones, all right; Milkman had seen them on the table in the jailhouse. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cold to the bone, he put on his shoes and socks, which were still wet. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the bones of a small animal were—” “More than one!” “—of some small animals were found in the lifeboat. They must have come from the ship.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ate without speaking, first wolfing it down, then savoring each bite, chewing on the narrow bones, eating every scrap of potato. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A post-mortem examination revealed a complete wasting away of the bone marrow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No machine,” he said, “when it’s been crushed to powder, puts itself together again and ticks, but those dry bones rose up and marched and how they marched. Why?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve gleaned bits and pieces: that babies are the first to be chosen, then older boys, prized by farmers for their strong bones and muscles. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But despite the explicit and exaggerated drawings, I can’t muster any interest whatever in Mr. Big Studio Director boning the skinny would-be starlet with the horse face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Beneath that is the silvery white glimmer of synthetic bone and ligaments. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Over the years, Dr. Randolph has cured us kids of everything from chicken pox to broken bones. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

So tired every bone in his body was aching, he wanted nothing more than to sit here, undisturbed, for hours and hours, until he fell asleep and didn’t have to think or feel anymore. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She could feel the magic of the boots lighting up her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

At noon, some hours following the announcement of John’s sad fate, Will fell to beating a fellow soldier over whom should receive an extra ladle of bone and broth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A huge rat considered them with its flat black eyes before bending again to gnaw on a bone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its side had been laid wide open, and in the white-hot light from the moon, I could see bones and the fetid yellow coils of rotting innards. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Can I drop one bone in your soup?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The card also said that all the holes had been made during the owners’ lifetimes, because the bone had healed and grown smooth around the edge. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at this time of year, it was important to pick good spots to rest undernourished bones. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He found nothing noble in interpreting people’s maladies, assiduously translating the symptoms of so many swollen bones, countless cramps of bellies and bowels, spots on people’s palms that changed color, shape, or size. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was a pale blonde with a skin like clean and polished bone, “Is something the matter, Miss Kate?” she asked fearfully. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But his bones seemed to bend under the load, and that was odd; he could imagine a photoelastic image of them, all stress lines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead, his bones would have served to heighten Grisha power, no different from the shark teeth or bear claws that other Grisha wore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Drowning his fears. He is craven to the bone, that one.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps organisms that float in dense planetary atmospheres will be very much like us in their atomic composition, except they might not have bones and therefore not need much calcium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went north around the vast basin of bones, and then west. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bones feeling no heavier than a bird’s. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The flesh fell off their bones in days and they died. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you say? Your mother is in your bones!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed at the bones with the toe of his shoe. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was trembling so hard I feared my bones might break. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a bit farther along, at the end of the row of cottages, a black spot on the ground where a fire had been, some bones in the ash, some feathers, the gleam of grease. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“He has broken bones. I wish we had him in a hospital tonight.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Like Mithridates with his poison, you could even break your bones on purpose, put your arm in a drawer and slam it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Halleck was proving to be just as truculent as he had feared, and there were some amongst the black brothers whose hatred of the free folk was bone deep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When all was burned they quenched the flame with wine and gathered the bones into a golden urn, shrouding them in soft purple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the golden man and the three-eyed crow, remembered the crunch of bones between his jaws and the coppery taste of blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On a platter were the remains of a large fish, its fleshy head still connected to bones swimming upstream in vain escape. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air in his truck is dense, and I can feel it all the way down to my bones. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was a voice, a voice to chill the bone marrow, a voice of breath-taking, ice-cold venom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like a piece of chicken bone with gristle and string all on it and sticky and something black. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, his fascination with the bones of old Indians was not matched by an equivalent interest in the sensibilities of living Native Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I could break every bone in his body, sir.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted up my throbbing arm, an offering of broken bone. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She would have been content as a doctor’s assistant, too, binding up cuts and bones. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had worse. No broken bones. No teeth knocked out. Just welts and bruises. What would the doctor do?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My bones were hollow sticks; my brainpan empty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally recognizing that words can never hurt, but sticks and stones can sure break bones, they invented the Abdominal Snowman. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The reporters grab for anything, like dogs after a bone. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The oldest preserved Chinese writing of the late Shang Dynasty consists of religious divination about dynastic affairs, incised into so-called oracle bones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate laid the bones carefully into the small grave. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiredness ended, the bones stopped aching and I had no more nosebleeds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear was skin and bones, like a lumpy white rug, lying on green grass with one paw lifted up in a kind of salute. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“This is only my school while the dig goes on. The minute my mom runs out of dinosaur bones to catalog, I’m history.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She is etching spider legs into the icy bone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moan moved into me from my feet and buzzed up my body and rang my bones. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hug the crypt-pocked walls, swallowing my revulsion at the reek of rotting bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her face had delicate straight bones, and those wide dark eyes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that his discovery was important, he tried over the years to show the bones to local Folsomites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You looked like a skinned rabbit last time I saw you. Now the rabbit is gone and only the skin and bones are left!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was about a wispy widow lady who worked her poor old fingers to the bone for her children, only to end her days in the alms house after they turned against her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upshot is that by the turn of the twentieth century, paleontologists had literally tons of old bones to pick over. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The carcass now sank down, and they disjointed shoulder and thigh bone, wrapping them in fat, two layers, folded, with raw strips of flesh. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luna was five years old, her magic had doubled itself five times, but it remained inside her, fused to her bones and muscles and blood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The black skin stretched upon the bones and their faces split and shrunken on their skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It felt as if his body had been put into one of those medieval torture racks, stretching his bones and sinews. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Later, when she told him she was pregnant with their child, he abandoned her, tossing her away like a picked-clean chicken bone. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like nothing is going on inside. Do they even have bones?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The infection did not spread into the bone and within three months, new skin healed over the stumpy finger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But he forgets to cover his head, and the buckle strikes hair and skin and bone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment it felt as if her bones had spontaneously reshattered, but the feeling passed and settled into jaded resolve. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Dog Town, beside the ship, was a noisy center of activity in the middle of a frozen sea, littered with seal bones and dog droppings. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“A set of knives, for a table. Supposedly, they cut right through bone. The sword is better. It has a name.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“In here are the blackened bones of the lion and leopard, along with other powerful roots and herbs.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“She has thrown her face into the eastward-flowing stream. Her ancestral spirit is lost forever. The person you see is just decayed flesh, evil, rotted to the bone.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unaccustomed to the white man’s agricultural methods and deprived of buffalo, the Osage began to go hungry; their bones soon looked as if they might break through their skin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My bones were hollow and my brainpan empty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the man died, he had managed to shoot off the entire underside of Cherrie’s arm, splintering the bone and severing the tendons. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The autopsy report claimed that the channel of pus formed as a result of infection caused by the tiny splintered bones broken off by the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I only imagined I heard the bones crack, but her arm from her elbow down was facing the wrong way, and a slick red bone tip pierced her skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting down together around the fire, they ate roasted ears of corn, sweet blueberries, and picked the delicate meat off the tiny bird bones. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“His bones are resting in the Snowy Sept with candles all around them, if you want to have a look. Ser Wylis, though, he’s still a captive.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In 2010 another lost sibling was rescued from oblivion, when scientists excavating the Denisova Cave in Siberia discovered a fossilised finger bone. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the richest of kings made sick of soul by the scattered bones of thanes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin from his wrist to his knuckles was dotted with age spots, and it was loose, like skin hanging from a chicken soup bone. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poked sticky cotton into tiny gaps with a sliver of dassie bone. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played “witch doctor” with the many odd-looking bones extracted from the rotting carcasses of dogs, cats and rats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, six ofYezzan’s slave soldiers were squatting in the dust, throwing the bones and passing a wineskin j from hand to hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Well, that just hurt me to the bone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the others joined in, all fluffing and rolling around, looking like their bones had melted away, like jellyfish chickens, clouds of dust everywhere, clucking their contentment. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The crushed bones of kings or warriors or wisdom keepers? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her wrist was wrenched so hard she could hear the bones snap. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” Marly heard Daddy say to Mother one warm summer night as they sat over their plates of fine little bones, “it’s still possible for a family to live entirely off the land.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I will use my own needles, thank you very much. Good honest bone. None of your nasty jagged iron things, stabbing you like little slivers of hate.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s no good eating me, I’m full of bones like a kipper!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I took cold & was up all night with bone trouble and am living on toast & tea,” he wrote on Friday, April 28. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had donned the bone armor, she was pleased to see. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Keep icing it on and off. I want the swelling down some so I can set that bone tonight. Mix a spoonful of willow bark in water every few hours for pain.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Feels like I’m taking all of his weight on my face bones. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many things I could say, but instead I cut right to the bone. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Thereafter only fat and bones were burned to the gods upon their altars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam felt tension drop out of her bones. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

‘She’s got more than one poison. When she’s hunting, she just gives ’em a dab in the neck and they go as limp as boned fish, and then she has her way with them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A plane passing overhead set his bone marrow to quiver. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every week since Dorcas’ death, during the whole of January and February, a paper laid bare the bones of some broken woman. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fused bones of slaughtered demons,” said Lazlo, just as Brother Cyrus had once told him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

From the middle of the arena, the bleeding warrior points at Cantos, with a stare to break bone. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

From her earliest childhood that scream came, with a memory of flowing, spotted skin and rending claws, and later of Ambuya tearing out her hair when they brought Mother’s bones home from the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the bowl perfectly still in her lap as the bones within it trembled more and more violently. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘Precious will be angry. I shall take Precious, and I shall say: make him swallow the bones and choke. Never taste fish again. Come, Precious is waiting!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

What if the Martials have broken his bones? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Studies of his blood revealed a severe depression of the bone marrow called aplastic anemia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They could stop your heart, slow your breathing, snap your bones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The staggering cruelty of the human race seemed to sink into her blood and bones. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The old wolf bone seems to be more typical of ancient counting systems. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

No, he had choked on a fish bone.. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Time Daddy finished eating, nothing but a pile of bones left on his plate. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The stub of an ear stuck out on one side, and there was no eye on that side, only a dark socket with a splinter of bone showing above it. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black fog seeped into her body, turning her bones into moist Styrofoam. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One tunnel was walled with human bones, its roof supported by columns of skulls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I feel like all my muscles and bones and nerves are on fire. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Just as he says this, Bad Leg’s voice reaches my bones—it’s as smooth as a river, and it ebbs and flows and ripples at just the right moments. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

No flesh remained on the arid bones, but the two friends cracked them open and worried away every scrap of marrow from inside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As far as Hazel knew, the bones had always been there. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she had thought. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I got a glimpse of the wound on his thigh, gaping, charred flesh, burned clear down to the bone, before I ran from the house. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A truck is rolling over the bones of my neck and head. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Nothing like this. But then, they didn’t die here, so they couldn’t have left bones. The Thakranaxet has always been proof enough for us.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The symposium featured a full-scale reproduction, fifteen feet wide and thirty-four feet long, complete with actual artifacts and bones, of a particularly profitable section of Howard's excavation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Others rode on chariots made of bones, drawn by teams of dogs as big as ponies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cold had settled deep in his bones, and his legs were so sore he could scarcely walk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Despereaux lay on his back at the bottom of the steps and touched the bones in his body one by one. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were few scraps and bones for Sounder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds of prey eat meat, bones, feathers, and fur. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She rocked, gazing out at the twilight, and the soothing feeling came reliably into her bones. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leah took it all—bones, teeth, scalp—and knitted herself something like a hair shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing more than a weapon to hurt me and TJ to the bone. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He ate seven entire salmon, leaving nothing but the bones. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was on the top of a wind-swept cliff purged to the bone by the airs of the Atlantic, under which the little fishing village nestled among the dunes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I bribe Boomer with a bone to stay quiet and creep onto the landing to make sure everyone’s lights are out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I chew on the bones to get the flavor and bone marrow out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something large and loud in the center of the painting had the hind legs of a goat, fur like grated bone, solid thighs, their surface thrusting toward the ceiling of the studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Fish bones snapped in his mouth like dry twigs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

This theory would certainly explain the tiny nub of bone on each shoulder blade. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much she hopping mad, but more like she tired to the bone of my hateful self. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were looking for somebody who hated Nicole, not somebody who was trying to bone her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He ended up living in a single room in a Philadelphia boarding house, surrounded by books, papers, and bones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If Cardan were to try to stop her lesson, she looks like she would eat him alive and crack his bones for marrow. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No one had any broken bones sticking out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But actually the child doesn’t seem to need much help. She’s just hungry for more to read. Poor little mite. I keep hoping the goat’s milk will put a little fat on her bones.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed into the truck, picked up a new load and drove for another two days, watching the white lines disappear hypnotically beneath the hood, which was the color of bone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Grace,” he grumbled, and picked up his meat by the bone and took a big chomp, then chewed, mostly with his mouth open. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I swear it. By blood and by bone, I swear it. And I won’t kill any of the others, either. I won’t.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my arms around her, but what I felt was not Mami but the harsh bones of her undergarments. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d been about to explore the pit, stepping from bone to bone like climbing down a large tree. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a trouper to my bones, and when the scene is set, I know how to make an exit. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is about 28 years of age, of rather a light complexion, has high cheek bones, is slender in her person, and very neat in her appearance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Shattered links were strewn across the floor of the pit amongst the blackened bones—twists of metal, partly melted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A light wind could probably knock him down and shatter his bones. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Slowly, she returned to the cell’s stone floor again, letting that familiar cold seep back into her bones and, with it, resignation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tayo’s heart beat fast; he could see Josiah’s vision emerging, he could see the story taking form in bone and muscle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then her mother collapsed; she simply began to slide down as if her bones had liquefied until she half lay, half sat on the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He realized that he was riding on an endless and silent train and that his head was caked with dry blood and that all his bones ached. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rathbone throws his left arm up in a defensive reflex and feels the knife cut him to the bone. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Archer landed blows again and again, cracking bones, causing bruises. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He’s imagined it containing everything from his granddad’s ashes to the bones of some beloved pet to heaps of glittering jewels. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the faint grating of the mercenary’s finger bones grinding against the bare edges of the blade. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is steamy, and smells of marrow fat and stewing bones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so this simple question about whether or not my dad still makes beats tightened the skin around my bones. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was sore but didn't think he had broken any bones. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Only now and then, when his fists would suddenly ball up — skin stretched even whiter over the bones — did I wonder if he wasn’t quite as oblivious as he appeared. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everything about the creature was gray: gray clothes on gray flesh on gray bones. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His bones are pointy and pronounced, even through his multiple layers of clothing. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of the survivors fainted as soon as Reed landed in the longboat, but the other backed away, scrabbling for purchase in the piles of bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Supposedly he and his grown-up sons tell fortunes by throwing chicken bones into a calabash bowl. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archer shattered the bones in the boy’s hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Just like on Halloween, I give Boomer a bone to distract him, and then I creep out to make sure all the lights are off. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Axel likes to imagine peeking underneath George’s white hair, underneath the flesh and bone, and into the pulsing brain of George M. Flores. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a low, white building painted with Dalmatian spots and a rotating sign out front shaped like a dog bone. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

His skin was sad, with the bones almost exposed, and he had a pronounced round stomach and the expression of an old angel, which came more from simplicity than from goodness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I scream as the pain pierces to the bone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

One of Jonas’s arms was immobilized with pain, and he could see through his own torn sleeve something that looked like ragged flesh and splintery bone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

His flesh was wrinkled and spotted, the skin so papery thin that he could see the web of veins and the shape of bones beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t the faintest idea what it might be, but he could feel it in his bones that something was going to happen soon. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He sent a letter to the Smithsonian, informing the staff that he, too, had found “extinct elephant bones” and that someone there should take a look. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It felt like everything, from Gum Baby to the Bottle Tree to the weird shadow man to the Burning Sea to the bone ships, was piled up in a wobbly tower in my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Only six weeks later would his whereabouts become known, and then only by the bare bones: he was at MIT, working on an unidentified “war project.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And there, just outside, was the creature whose footsteps shook the bones of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He said that only he could see the magical bones and only he could get them off. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just happen to be chewing the bone about Mexico.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the wharf a fish packing plant exuded the odor of salmon bones, and the creosoted pilings of the state ferry terminal lay in among a fleet of mildewed boats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Axel feels it in his bones: this is the dad. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“At best, her bones are simply broken, but if it’s more than that...” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And Crane-man produced yet another surprise to add to the meal: two chicken leg- bones. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He ate his breakfast meticulously, spitting the tiny bones into the fire circle once he had chewed the meat from them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he looks at the big, ugly wound on Shiloh’s hurt leg, torn open right to the bone, the bites around Shiloh’s neck, and the ripped ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along, Byrd had secrets locked away beneath her blue shirt, under her canvas hat and gloves, tucked into her cold, stone bones. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now it made a noise in its throat like the crunching of bones or the sudden fracture of ice underfoot. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was sallow and his bones pressed tight against his skin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chilled to the bone, our throats parched, famished, out of breath, we pressed on. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared straight ahead, my own eyes dry as desert bones. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bones will not grow together, so the surgeons’ secretary says. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few more weeks, the skeleton collapsed into a pile of bones. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

His enthusiasm for the struggle he had undertaken restored his former vigor and relieved some of the pain in his aching bones. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It moaned like a lost spirit in the bones and turned surprisingly cold. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, Pa scoops up some rice and gives us a piece of bone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cold fingers pressed my skin, chilling me to the bone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Moonlight painted the leaves in shades of bone and silver as the guests drifted among them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then the skin on her face begins to melt, becoming transparent, exposing the outlines of her large eye sockets and the skeletal bones behind them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the bone of her arm exposed by the huge gash the bird had made when it tore at her with its beak. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Still, with many meals missed, my bones—like those of a starving animal—are nearly poking through my skin. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

So she pulled her own apron off, though it wouldn’t be big enough to just toss the bones in willy-nilly. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Burned, Victarion thought, like a man who has been roasted in the flames until his flesh chars and crisps and falls smoking from his bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man had lived so long that he was nothing more than a pile of glass bones covered by a yellow skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper felt like someone had grabbed the scruff of her neck and exposed the bones. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By comparing the C’4 level in bones and wooden implements to the normal level in living tissues, Libby reasoned, scientists should be able to determine the age of these objects with unheard-of precision. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Annabeth gazed around the hut, trying to imagine how many eons Damasen had been exiled here—slaying the drakon, collecting its bones and hide and meat, knowing it would attack again the next day. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was inching forward, when Kapu splintered a bone with his mere baby teeth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although drenched and chilled to the bone, the companions had made good progress by the time Taran allowed them to rest again. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They stared out with empty eyes, and all around the ground was littered with tiny bones. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals kill to survive, and we are animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked so young to her now, especially the just-arrived new class, who gawked at her like she was an old pile of dinosaur bones. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then, as they had no wine, they made libation with clear spring water, broiling the entrails first; and when the bones were burnt and tripes shared, they spitted the carved meat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I stuck my face up to the crack, the door flew open, knocking me on the forehead and sending me flying backward, to land on my huckle bones in the mud. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That is impossible. Do you think I work without ceasing, like some god? I am an old man. I rest my weary bones at night.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Jafer's right wrist ended in the ruin of tom flesh and splintered bone left by Ghost's jaws. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I felt in my bones that the gentleman himself must remind me about this box,” she later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center blazed a bonfire made of pitch and bone; yet the smoke was white and odorless, rising through the hole in the middle of the ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“They are made of shrimp and fish bones.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Our naval bombardment went on and on, but I could feel in my bones that there were still enemy soldiers alive on Blue Beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dress hung on her thin frame, her hip bones protruding at the belted waistline. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even with my ears ringing, it sounds like chicken bones cracking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The bass pulses in my bones and I wish I could plug my ears. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was huge, like a tree had yanked itself up and was slowly moving into the clearing, a tree with bone white branches. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and even though the arena was dim and only half-lit, the seats empty, and I was chilled to the bone without the full uniform and pads, I couldn’t help but smile. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This one, with the passing of the years had grown lean and gaunt and the rock-like bones of her face stood forth and her eyes were sunken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He put two fingers on the bone in the center of his rib cage. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“If this horse keeps working, his coffin bone will rotate until it punctures his sole, and then you’ll lose him,” I say unequivocally. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She put her elbows on the table, so close and so helpless that Aureliano heard the deep sound of her bones, and she became interested in the parchments. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

To scrub the hundred years’ war off this white skin till there’s nothing left and I can walk out among my neighbors wearing raw sinew and bone, like they do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the snap of fragile bones, the pop of bursting skin as the car rolled by, leaving a trail of collapsed green sacs in its wake. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He grabbed at twigs and broke them as if they were bones. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He was near a shadow himself; bone thin and bone hard, with black eyes and black hair and a stubble of beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, they hunted all of them with enthusiasm, as documented by the bones found in archaeological sites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The skulls and bones of small creatures were hung up as macabre decorations. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now the magic seemed to have thinned into a tiny trickle dripping through a narrow channel in her porous bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The more his back ached and his muscle dissolved into fat and the fat melted off his bones, the more fractious he became with Janie. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My mother picked through the bone pile, sullen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these at least survive–notably the bones of an Anchisaurus, which are in the collection of the Peabody Museum at Yale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In scene two, Sapiens appear, evidenced by a human bone, a spear point, or perhaps a potsherd. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bones of crocodiles, bones of ancient hippos and ancestors of elephants. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean retreated, exposing the bones of the shoreline. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She bounded around, sniffing empty uniforms and hunting for bones. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her that after you left, I stopped eating, I got so skinny that the bathwater would collect between my bones, why didn’t anyone ask me why I was so skinny? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he could almost fancy he heard the bones grinding together inside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Whiteman’s bones were in Blackwater Draw, which during the Pleistocene served as a wide, shallow regional drainage channel, a kind of long, slow-moving lake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The creature she’d laid eyes on had been a thing built from nightmares, a mass of raw pink skin stretched tight over tendons and bone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sharp as a tack and hip as a hip bone. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winter blessings were heavy and thick like Mother’s pot of homemade stew, like the knitted hat and scarf she makes me wear when it snows, when the cold pierces my skin, freezes my bones. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up the bone and looked at it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As he felt the bones beneath his fingers he remembered how his dad used to crack walnuts with his hands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie gunned it, trying to shift quickly through the gears, but it stuck in third, and the transmission chewed metal like it was grinding bones. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The ache in the middle of my left shin bone came to life, and I abandoned any hope of sleep before seven, when my radio-alarm clock would rouse me with its hearty renderings of Sousa. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Told me to lie still so the bones didn’t move under my skin. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

To my mother, those bones looked suspiciously like garbage people had thrown away. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall person, holding her hand so tightly that her finger bones hurt when they climbed the boulders to the cliffs, side by side. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Most of the woman’s flesh had been eaten away, and he could see her partly gnawed bones sticking out from her dress. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And now there they lay, tiny, oblong pieces of white bone, cushioned in grey ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A scrawny cow, looking like a pile of bones, was slumped down in the middle of the courtyard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His quick fingers turned the pages until they came upon an engraving of a man’s body, its skin flayed open to reveal bones, the human heart, and a maze of conduits and sinews. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see how much bone you have under your chin.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I stare at our hands, at my slim fingers entwined in his larger ones, at the veined muscles of his forearm, the slight bones of my wrist, the warmth of our skin meeting. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She gazed down at the bones that were all that remained of her lord and love. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Inej was lithe, all muscle and fine bones, built like an acrobat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She felt the bones in her toes begin to buzz. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was hardly anything left of her—just skin and bones and stained work clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The two dollars she hated to release turned out to be well spent, for Teapot did have a fracture, although the doctor said poor diet had contributed substantially to the daintiness of his bones. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They got into the chicken coops and ate the chickens alive, leaving behind a whirl of feathers and a pile of pathetic little bones. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nin always knew when the rains were coming, said it was the chill in her bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I think about how hard the bench is beneath me and how the truck always vibrates, even on flat ground, buzzing in my bones. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She was stroking Buckbeak, who was crunching up Sirius’s chicken bones. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the blast and felt the bullet boring through his arm, through flesh and blood and bone, the buckshot fragmenting, some pieces going through his arm and into his chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In silence the six men rose and filed past the table, each looking at the pile of white bones. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aru knew, deep in her bones, that this was where the Kingdom of Death ended: on the brink of new life. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just like that, something tender he had never felt before took over his bones and seeped into his guts like a golden molasses, making him want to cry. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mellower joined in, throwing chocolate sauce and dodging chicken bones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

An ant’s nest of activity, all dedicated to rendering this extinct ship’s bones into something usable for a new world. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the father always replied, “I am saving my bed for my grandson. He will warm my bones in my age.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Bone thin and bone hard he was, with a face that might have been chipped from flint. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her screams sent a jolt of horror thudding through Mark’s bones. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Weather’s going to change. I can feel it in my bones.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Last of all came a straggler, all skin and bones, hobbling on a twisted foot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have a special midden where they put out their used bones and rubbish, proper earth closets, and bedrooms whose bedding they turn out frequently, to keep it clean. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days, her skin barely clung to her bones, falling in layers, flaps, on her face and neck. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Georgia O’Keeffe’s landscapes were of angular skyscrapers and neon thoroughfares, but mostly of the bleached bones, desert shadows, and weathered crosses of rural New Mexico. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You have put aside your suit of bones,” she observed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1876 in Montana while George Armstrong Custer and his troops were being cut down at Little Big Horn, Cope was out hunting for bones nearby. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And the baby bites,” Edgar said, tossing a chicken bone to the floor as if he were an animal in a zoo and not the son of a well-respected member of the banking community. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

And beside the sagebush there would be a naked, eyeless skull, a few picked bones, a spot of black dried blood and a few rags of golden fur. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let the warmth of the truck cab seep through my skin, into my bones. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In just the first two seasons, 100,000 pounds of ancient bones were excavated from the site, and tens of thousands of pounds more came in each of the half dozen years that followed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Behind them, all the Roman guards were tangled in a weird assortment of ropes and bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sun peeked over the horizon, and he could actually see tiny lines where every one of the fish's bones had been. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘The murder of Déagol haunted Gollum, and he had made up a defence, repeating it to his “precious” over and over again, as he gnawed bones in the dark, until he almost believed it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mother took one look and said, “Is the rationing that bad at your father’s? You’d better have some food to stick to all those bones.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not me—like Juanita I was big boned, darkly bronzed from being out in the sun every day, and homely as a gingersnap. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what he’s thinking and it makes my bones feel hollow. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

You were so much thinner than he is, and the bones above your eyes stuck out. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She and Joe had found neat little bones by the doors of the den and tufts of fur and feathers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Calder noticed that she had unusually green eyes—a sea-green surrounded by lots of wrinkles and bones. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the bravest thing on earth was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bones and her skin and her eyes and her spirit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It had been a pit of corpses and dead bones and he had struggled for years to get up from it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It curled around the trees in ghostly white, seeping through their clothes and into their bones with its chill. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For nine years she had battled the cancer in her bone marrow; now the contest was ending. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

About the theft of her sack of bones? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about a cup of tea to warm our old bones?” he asked. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Solution: turning bones into knife handles, blood into fertilizer, beef fat into margarine. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I knew Mother would have strong opinions about where I’d wind up, with curved legs and weak bones like the poor Congolese children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when the clerk looked over the top of the counter and said, "Aintie, what you gonna have today? You need some neck bone scraps?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘We have been set many riddles since we came to Tol Brandir, but this is the hardest to unravel. I would guess that the burned bones of the hobbits are now mingled with the Orcs’. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They had found many of their simple stone tools but, at that time, none of their bones had been discovered. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was tired all the time, she rarely got to leave the hospital, and her bones were starting to ache every minute of every day. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This icy, jostling wagon ride had shaken the last bit of humor right out of my bones. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In a few hours Tod Clifton will be cold bones in the ground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed the razor to the bone and guided it through the hair, describing an arc across the top of the deceased’s skull literally from ear to ear. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her sleeves are rolled up to her shoulders, and I see that her flesh barely covers her bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute, you guys, we have to have a slogan, right? What do you think of this: Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at the way she walks. She wants to get boned,” Luis says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Stucky says his dog, Bumper, can sniff out spies just as well as raccoons, but after sniffing around the woods, both dogs came back with nothing but a shank bone to show for their effort. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bleached structures from antiquity lay like dried bones, embedded in pulsating cables and thrumming traffic, the arteries of modern life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Jem said it’d keep my bones warm in the wintertime. He said for me not to be scared of it, but to be careful when it was lightning.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But by then the pullers had done so much damage that a splinter of bone was sticking out through the skin of the forearm. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or it could be bones and teeth from an owl pellet, which only Fred would have thought was cool. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

His bones ached so much after that first night that he was moving like an old man as Basta took him and Resa down to the crypt. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She took her time with every bone, every strap of muscle and thread of sinew her fingers could find, mapping the landscape of him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the witch doctor walked around outside, he would come back and lean over Tabitha and suddenly pull some kind of bone away from her. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing what had happened to Emmett chilled me to the bone, and I would have been sick if I hadn’t seen the look on Mr. Breland’s face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first week, Tyrion's thighs were raw from hard riding, his legs were cramping badly, and he was chilled to the bone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This close, her face was the color of bone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of his legs was twisted unnaturally and the splintered bone showing through the skin was very, very white. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What had scared this kid enough to make his bones quake? Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

To-day, over all our land, the unburied bones of our fathers and sons and brothers tell the sad mistake that those men made when long ago they left this one great wrong. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then you’d see her stirring a pot of brown liquid with turkey neck bones floating at the top. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can feel the bones in Ben’s back. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

His dad is older and balding, but he has the same sharp bone structure and perfectly symmetrical face that make Daniel so attractive. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a bone at the butcher's or rotted vegetables at the grocer's, something no one but my family was desperate enough to eat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Darin’s calm is sheared away as if by a scythe, his face blanched with a horror I feel down to my bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As he was sucking the meat off the bones of his quail, he asked Illyrio about the morning’s summons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boots fed right into her very bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He made a clattering, clicking sound, like dry teeth on bone. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Reaching for his ankles with dry bone fingers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

You could hear splinters in my voice, bones rubbing jagged against one another. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sword must lie buried with Martin. You would have little use for the dusty bones of a bygone hero. A simple deduction, even for one as old as I am.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He fell with his leg twisted under him, and could hear the crack of bone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

While Lyla has her own career ambitions, she’s not the jackal that Chase is, scavenging a future from the bones of the present. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There would be nothing left of him but a pile of gnawed bones . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

"Not much. Needles will be fine. His wrist is sprained and bruised pretty bad, but the bone didn't break, thank goodness," Kim said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He is four now, curls long gone, his dark brown hair straight as a bone, strange to us but our little brother, the four of us again in one place. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the vertebrae. It’s not bone. It’s cartilage. It’s lightweight and flexible, so they can move quickly,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the center loomed a large, domed hut made of bones and greenish leather. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was nine inches long and down to the clean, white bone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Damp ground made Nokomis’s old bones ache, so she spread out her brown cattail mat and sat down there to sew those pieces of bark together. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The witch doctor searched my father’s face with his bleary eyes; he picked up the bones and shells, slowly shook them in his gnarled, jet-black hands and threw them on the mat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slid down from their bone pile and started down the passage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His mother calmly picked up her knife and fork and cut firm strips of meat from the bone. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Ruth’s not the only one around here with old bones. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And don’t break or chew any of the bones. Just eat the meat.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dr. Philobosian spotted a refugee picking through chicken bones and potato peels in a heap of garbage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her knees and her hips and her elbows and her ankles and each bone in her swollen feet hurt and hurt and hurt. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was carefully made up, heavy mascara on her eyelashes, rouge on the bones of her cheeks, over which the skin was stretched like a rubber glove pulled tight. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Jhiqui, a bath, please," she commanded, to wash the dust of travel from her skin and soak her weary bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were both exhausted and were beginning to feel the effects of the sleepless night in their bones and in their soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fur shone with good health and you could not see the bones under his skin because they were padded with flesh. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet was in a stupor most of the time, deaf to the laughter, the dancing and the singing, deaf to the clack of the bones, the beat of the juba. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax was a classic Eskimo beauty, small of bone and delicately wired with strong muscles. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood, unable to look away from Teren, the grey shirt, the red blood, the white bone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen more newspapermen told about the smoke and the bones and said that Bigger acted “just like all other colored boys.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The damp chill penetrated to his bones so that his legs ached with rheumatism. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But what did he have besides new metal bones in his legs? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Fab, if this food isn’t good, we will straight up eat you. Just lay you down on that table and nibble on your bones like Silence of the Lambs,” Pri says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was his jaw that had scaled itself down—bone loss had been kind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was big boned and solid, with intense blue eyes, a generous mouth, and soothing hands with short fingernails. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He listed every new find of old bones in the last two decades, and scoffed at them all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Wolverine is wild. Invincible. Victory is in his bones, literally,” Styx insisted. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He studied her thin face, her ragged hair, the way her skin clung to her bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The fish bone fragments would be sent to a lab where they could hopefully identify the specific species of fish, giving clues to the shark’s whereabouts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We have five fingers because we have descended from a Devonian fish that had five phalanges or bones in its fins. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The End when a horse breaks its leg, the bone shatters the nerves, the living tissue can’t heal ’cause there’s not enough blood supply. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So Set had to settle for some spiders and snakes painted on the wall behind him, and a dry bone that hung on a string above his head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone has put magical bones on her body, and they’re killing her,” he pronounced. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were bones in every room, every closet, on the back porch. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The basilisk’s blade had scarce slipped from its leather sheath when the hammer’s spike slammed into his temple, crunching through the thin brass of his mask and the flesh and bone beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Greasy Sae’s soup, made with stock from the bones of a wild dog we’d shot a week earlier, was below her usual standards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Even Cooky, for all his tricks with vegetable peelings and bone broth, couldn’t ease the twinge in their guts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Every bone in my body aches, like I’ve been in a car accident and there’s nothing physically wrong with me, but still I can feel the impact of it everywhere. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His hands were scratched up, but no bones seemed to be broken. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I froze in the entrance of the Krupp Pavilion, chilled to the bone although the sun beat hot on my face. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every now and then one of them would throw a bone back over a shoulder into the bush, and the watching animals gazed hungrily after. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bone ship lunged out of the thick cloud of steam in front of us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We called them “soup bones,” but they were actually labeled “dog bones” in the store; people would cook them for their dogs as a treat. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Father saw how I clutched the seat in sheer fright until the knuckles of my hands were almost bone white. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I... I choked on a fish bone once, I can’t eat fish.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At once the cold struck into his bones, and he began to shiver. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She dropped like a chunk of fossilized dinosaur bone. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She could feel its rightness in the thrum and heat of her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She has the bone structure to carry that kind of thing off, sharp cheekbones dappled with a sprinkling of freckles, a fine jaw. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would go mad as well if he had to spend his days in this grey soup whilst his flesh and bones turned to stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was then that I first understood the cliche of feeling the cold in one’s bones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“OK, OK," he squawked, “what about your brilliant idea, Thief Lord? Heavens, that man is touchier than a dog with a bone." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three other cooks were boning fish, while a spit boy turned a boar over the flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I would ride into battle, slash — cut — left — right — sharpen my sword on the Saracen’s throat — crush the bones of the heathen horde — all for the glory of Our Lord! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

To that end, Cope willed his bones to the Wistar Institute, a learned society in Philadelphia endowed by the descendants of the seemingly inescapable Caspar Wistar. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He found Kehaar just inside the trees, snapping and tearing with his great beak at a foul-smelling piece of flaking brown flesh which seemed to be hanging from a tracery of bones. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could feel the fire’s destructive power, but they could also feel its healing power as it warmed their bones. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bones in our forearms meet with a crack. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He traces the bone beneath my eye, my cheek, my upper lip, trembling like he did holding the viola. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t look too closely, you could almost believe they were human, but their flesh was transparent and their bones shimmered underneath, like X-ray images. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A twig cracks beneath my shoe, and I shriek like it’s a bone. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“It is life near the bone where it is sweetest,” I say to the walls. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There, hundreds and hundreds of fossil bones were to be found weathering out of the hills. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mantell was an excellent doctor and equally gifted bone hunter, but he was unable to support both his talents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He opened cabinets and flung their contents left and right like a dog digging for a bone. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Still, it had what Mom called good bones. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Where the deer had been was a pile of clean white bones. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the square, more wolves broke free of their bone restraints. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Matt caught them as they skittered down through the bones and crammed them into his mouth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This drink bites the inside of my mouth and throat like swallowing tiny fish bones. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Joaquin pressed the car keys into his palm, pushing so hard that he thought they would pierce his hand, go straight through to the bone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Hands wrap around my arms and shoulders and chest, forming a cage of flesh and bone, but I keep straining toward her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The river had shrunk to a trickle, the well was as dry as a bone. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was enough to buy one gallon of Neapolitan ice cream, which she said was not only delicious but had lots of calcium and would be good for our bones. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody tapped my shoulder and said, “You bone her yet?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Under his tokar he was a skeleton, all bones and fevered flesh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The heart in space gets lazy, muscles decrease in size, and bones lose some of their calcium. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed goose-grease on my hands and reached inside — she was bone dry. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She says she could see that a bullet had splintered a bone in the girl’s arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Storch was saying, cracking the poor goose’s bone with his large teeth. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor had said we were lucky the trap hadn’t broken any bones. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Matt could hardly remember those terrible days three years before, when he was kept in a pen with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she was a fragile pile of opaque bones, with yellowed nails and no monthly blood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point the bones weighed upon his back and he feared they had trapped him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day she went all the way to New Jersey to get Caroline fresh bones for a soup. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was sliced right into the rock—or rather, into the melted, heat-rendered bones—which rose in high walls on either side, keeping the sky at a distance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Whoever had eaten it must have had a great appetite, for his teeth had cut right into the bone to extract its goodness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had something wrong with him, wrong deep down in the bone. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The skin was drawn so tightly over the cheeks that you could see the shapes of the bones underneath. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“At the occipital bone, the posterior base of my skull,” Rachael said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"And hardly a one of 'em wouldn't fight me over a bone. Go back. Your pa must be having double fits o' worry." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her entire baggage consisted of a small trunk, a little rocking chair with small hand-painted flowers, and a canvas sack which kept making a cloc-cloc-cloc sound, where she carried her parents' bones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“She died a thousand years ago, her bones lie afar under the Sea of Éa, and maybe there never was such a woman.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Just bones and a little wrapping. It is easier for us if we have more meat to work with.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was merely trying, that sigh suggested, to drag us all toward enlightenment through the marrow of our own poor female bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man called Toorman reached out his foot and kicked an oblong bone from the ashes; it slid a few inches over the concrete floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I crumple the paper and lay out the bones on the table. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He told her to be careful of people looking to find out where Henrietta’s grave was because they might want to steal her bones, since her body was so valuable to science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Our bones grow tired, our backs ache, our feet blister, yet still we march. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a discomfort in his very bones, as if they contracted so that they might struggle out of the mercenary peel of flesh and walk abroad. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that she had been born with brittle bones, and that she got fractures easily, and that two of her six children and two of her grandchildren also had the condition. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a pleasant change of pace, something finite in contrast to her current, overwhelming, ongoing task: to prepare for her departure, picking the bones of the house clean. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized a leg or two, various patches of hide, parts of a head, a great number of bones. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You could have had my fingers for Fate amulets, right? Could have had my gold and my finger bones, too.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then a bug-eyed one that kept cracking his knuckles to make the sound of breaking bones. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if her fruitcakes were edible, or her turkey done all the way to the bone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the kind of scare that makes your knee bones feel like water, more the kind of scare where you go whoa! Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I notice a fourth figure then, lurking in the shadows behind the legionnaires, his skin and hair as white as bones bleached in the sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

An official collection song had this line: “We collect bones, scrap metal, rags, false teeth, and paper bags.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now, this is really curious. I had this intuition you would come here just after the rain broke. I knew in my bones you were coming and that you would make it just too late.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her back ached as she sat there with his face pressed against her collar bone. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

All day and night she worried time like a bone. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had painted the house and the barn, and as the time approached he had a woman in to clean the house, to clean it to the bone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering in the basins south of Clovis, he observed what looked like immense bones protruding from the dry, blue-gray clay. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His presence silenced, if only for a few seconds, the crackling anxiety that made my blood grate against my bones and for a little while I’d feel melted and soft. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one guy, Dr. Levinson—he says his daughter goes to our school—actually admits the chicken bone is pretty funny. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But Lewis Powell forces open the door and slashes at Robinson with his knife, cutting the soldier’s forehead to the bone and almost putting out an eye. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“In the leg. My luck held, though; bullet went in and out fair clean. Didn’t break the bone.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, Tell ya mom they need that for the teeth an’ bones. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing prepared him for the wall of bones that burst skyward - hundreds of femurs, ribs and fibulas entangling the wolves, forming a spiky briar patch of human remains. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My body felt like it was now made entirely of nerves, like muscle and bone had been removed to make room for all this new emotion. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If you are forced to fight, you may use nothing. Nothing but flesh and bone.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Regardless, I knew in my bones that she was long gone from here. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think of the feasts at Elsinore, loud with laughter and the cracking of bones and sucking of marrow, with dogs growling and fighting over food thrown to the floor. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was laughing at some joke the teacher hadn’t heard, Jeffrey was screaming as the needle sucked the bone marrow out of him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hung in the midst of a sea of bones, with the blue sky visible through a fretwork of ribs and vertebrae. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered through the woods, searching for children, whose bones she used to make her magic powders. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about it for a long time while stirring the bones in our soup. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The mountain could not be lost to them, because it was in their bones; Josiah and Rocky were not far away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Below the jagged line of bone was a spongy crimson mess of brain, several inches across, reaching from the crown almost to the tip of his ear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Its shell was more like a landmass—hills of bone, shiny pearl valleys, kelp and moss forests, rivers of seawater trickling down the grooves of its carapace. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even if they didn’t find Skeleton Woman and her bones, there could be a bear, or a thousand rats. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That sniper knew there was no point shooting old bones like mine,” Dapir says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open,’ said Tom. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A veteran of old skirmishes, bearded, scarred across his cheek and the bone stoven and the one eye wandering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the four corners of the music room, there’s only me and Mrs. Walton and gospel music rattling through my bones. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She let me drop one bone into the boiling water. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mozart left us far more poignant and permanent keepsakes of his existence than his bones: he left us his extraordinary music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I try again to sit up, but pain buries itself deep in my bones. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had not said anything about what had hap-pened the day before—about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Matt heard him slither through the fretwork of bones. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It changed shape as I watched—from a dragons head to a circle of black flames to a wreath of human bones. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was early January, and the winter chill sucked the air as dry as a bone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The bone marrow test,” Miss French said, “shows that Mr. Polokov was a humanoid robot. Do you want a detailed—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shimmering ghost of a woman drifted forward, and Jason felt as if his bones were turning to dust. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When they came closer I saw that they had bone ornaments thrust through their noses. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A particularly ancient find was a flute made of bear bone, discovered in a Slovenian cave in 1995, which was dated at roughly 41,000 bc. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"We can get you food, if it's food you're after. There's a fire blazing in the hearth and enough hot water for a tub that'll melt the chill from your bones." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You were going to tell me about the bone?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

South: the direction was lodged deep in their bones. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His father’s plate is polished clean, the chicken bones denuded of cartilage and chewed to a pinkish pulp, the bay leaf and cinnamon stick as good as new. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Franklin picked the model apart, molecule by molecule, it was as if she were extracting bones from their bodies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Buckbeak was ferreting around on the rocky floor, looking for bones he might have overlooked. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For Lee Chong dug into the grave on China Point and found the yellow bones, the skull with gray ropy hair still sticking to it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small, delicately boned, she was fastidious about eyeliner and lipstick. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The idea of not having her any longer made me ache like there was something wrong with my bones. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then, I ought to suit you, dear. I’m corrupt to the bones.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the final stages the curse turned inward, to muscles, bones, and inner organs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Sticks and stones don't break bones," she chanted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They flitted here and there, navigating between the bones like fish in a sea. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was skinny and stringy and the other’n was all thick muscles and solid bone. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She had glanced down only a moment before and hadn’t seen any bones. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Trinity brothers wanted peace at any price, quiet on the campus, no broken bones. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom would have to fight with the bigger kids to get a handful of meat or a sip of the gravy or even a bone from which to suck out some marrow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her son was a blessing, and Laila was relieved to discover that her fears had proved baseless, that she loved Zalmai with the marrow of her bones, just as she did Aziza. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was not illness but loneliness gnawing at my bones. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was something wrapped in a long somber cloak with a grinning skull, and bones for hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got her pot and sleeping skin, her ulo and man’s knife, the bones and her flowers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sidled up to me, put her hand around my waist so that I could feel each of her fingers taut against my hip bone, and she added, “And my lover.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I miss spicy stewed chicken and red snapper seasoned to the bone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But as his neck pulls him in directions, Tagoe feels little cracks, and he always imagines his bones crumbling with every turn. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Kendra tried to steady her, disgusted by the feel of slender bones moving beneath her hands. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

An inner coldness which shattered his bones and tortured him even in the heat of the sun would not let him sleep for several months, until it became a habit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The two girls walked until they couldn’t see the cove anymore, or the camp and cabins, to where a dead tree stuck up out of the sand, smooth and white like a bone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

What is a bone spur? he asked himself. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate as he made his way back to the arroyo, chewing the soft bone cartilage of pork ribs he found. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, I work myself to the bone, keeping this business open seven days a week and the weekends. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a brute such as Coram had never seen: malice in every line of her, jaws that could crack bones as if they were made of pastry. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The third is feathered and covered in seed pearls that shift into various gleaming shades of white—cream and milk and lily and ivory and bone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was the holy hymn taken from the bone and sinew of the family’s life together, the anthem of both their discontent and strange belabored love for their way of life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the color of pale caramel, with skin thin and waxy stretched over long, delicate bones. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearts are not made Of glass Or bone Or any material that could Splinter Or Fragment Or Shatter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once familiar oaks and alders appeared strange to Taran; their dead leaves clung to the tangled branches and the black trunks jutted like charred bones. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

While chewing on a bone, he looked at me and winked his good eye. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“By the bones of Saint Cuthbert, they have sent me a nitwit! You lackwit! No brain! You think to touch me!” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go stand beside Alan-at-Gate or stay you here by my side. I know what a fever of excitement is in thy bones, but do what you most want to do.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It’s full of magic antiblast gas — guaranteed to save your bone marrow. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My skin and bones will not age—my Bio Gel will simply reach the end of its shelf life and cease to operate. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A feeling of rightness settles into my bones, like slipping into a warm bath. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

These industries have already sucked the blood and softened the bones of the people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He kissed her again and felt the sharp bones of her hips move in a hard and veritable grind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's made from bone, she realized, running a thumb carefully along its pale white edge. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Darlene’s my chill spot: a place to share the lyrics in my head, the words crawling through my bones, the latest gossip running through Grafton Hill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She would always limp, she knew, for Tristran was no surgeon when it came to mending a broken bone although he had done the best he could. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He popped a roasted lark into his mouth and crunched it noisily, bones and all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Go put on your bones and wait. I will return.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wipes his eyes, pulls the curtain from the window, and feels bravery fill his bones. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ammu smiled at the silence around the table as she picked fried emperor fish off the bone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could break his head open, suffer a broken arm, twist his ankles, bones sticking out, all that. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, she says, they won’t get much out of you all bones and little skin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Many of Alexandra’s poor flocked to Mr. Green to buy various parts of cattle —heads, entrails, hooves and heavy bones with scraps of meat on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pleased butcher went into the icebox and returned holding up a gleaming white bone with creamy marrow in it and shreds of red meat clinging to the ends. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fluorescent lights above me were exposed, glowing in the shape of long, angry bones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He wore nothing but shorts, his whiter-than-white skin stretched across his bones like a sheet wrapped tightly around a bundle of sticks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

She says she knows all about teeth and bones and rickets but beggars can’t be choosers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Normally, the type specimen of a species is the first set of bones found, but since no first set of Homo sapiens bones exists, there was a vacancy, which Cope desired to fill. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The topmost bones rattled, and all at once Matt saw a blinding flash of light followed by a crack of thunder. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Check to make sure Rose ain’t leaking—nope, dry as a bone—and then drag traps out to the end of the dock and lower ’em into my skiff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we have KFC for dinner, I eat the fried chicken right off the bones. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But Mom says the bones in the chicken take up too much space and you don’t get enough meat for your money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t face another night of dense cold in my bones, of dark loneliness in my heart. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Truly, the gods had heard Jon's prayer that night; the fire had caught in the dead man's clothing and consumed him as if his flesh were candle wax and his bones old dry wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Matt turned carefully, searching for another sharp bone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"See, you can even see all of its little bones," said Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“These,” says the parrot, “are the bones of my father.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I can mend bones in a second — but growing them back —” “You will be able to, won’t you?” said Harry desperately. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Garbage was strewn about and dogs scavenged for meaty bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She held out her arms in front of her—the bones in her wrists protruded. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals— mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The assumed shape of the Jupiter bird’s toe bone, as imagined by paleontologists, the caption read. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing Matthias in those colors settled a different kind of cold into her bones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He inhabited a gray winter fog on a distant elk mountain where hunters are lost indefinitely and their own bones mark the boundaries. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lill, the next to youngest, had broken a bone in her foot three weeks before, and had to stay in her berth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed he did have a face like a child, and such frail bones that after four weeks’ pack-carrying he already had flat feet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you will go back now and have that broken bone set. But first I will bind it for you and fix you something better than that branch to walk with.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The white, twisted bone angled out oddly from the hip. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Roman dead collapsed into bones and crumbled to dust. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was able to forget how much danger we were in, and how that very day we had nearly been captured by wights and devoured by a hollow, our meat-stripped bones spat off a mountainside. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She knew in her bones what she wanted, and she knew why she wanted it, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The man’s lips parted, and his mouth, his chin, the veins in his neck, the joining of his bones, his shoulder and arm and wrist all turned into light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Caggo took the man’s head off with one swipe of his arakh, the Valyrian steel shearing through flesh and bone and gristle as if they were so much suet “Too much noise,” he complained. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s the intention that matters,” Luna said out loud, her bones buying as she said it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her ankles flopped against the hardwood, and she bent her arms into a pillow under her head and slept, the bass from the music drumming into her bones through the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But would the bone spur hurt him too much? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise vibrates in my bones as the small bomb detonates, and the force of the blast throws me sideways, my gun sliding across the floor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She knew what she wanted to say, but it caught in the back of her throat like a fish bone. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And a second later, pitching down in a swirl of white limbs, black silk, and green twigs, the witch fell right at the feet of Father MacPhail, her bones crunching audibly on the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a fearful snapping of bones and tearing of sinews and muscles. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Search her,” came a man’s voice, dry and brittle as bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded slowly, felt her abuela’s words seep inside her, settle in her bones. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So we spent the rest of our paid-for tour in silence, walking through the ancient crumbling halls, trying not to look at the hunks of cream-colored bones in the walls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the bridge, standing in the autumn shade, Anya slid her pack off her shoulders and pulled out the apron-wrapped bundle of bones. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Cady seemed to be able to sense things about her cakes, deep in her bones, the way Miss Mallory could with her orphans. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Gog’s wolf bone had 55 little notches in it, arranged into groups of five; there was a second notch after the first 25 marks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His muscle faded, and Nergal bowed as his bones weakened. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He unearthed bones and arrowheads and beautiful clay pots; he tossed out lovely silver goblets and mammoth gold coins, and stones that sparkled, full of stars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Horned King’s eyes blazed behind the gaping sockets of whitened bone. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas knew he was a smart kid—he somehow felt it in his bones. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At dusk I could see the remains of other people’s suppers floating by the window, chicken and pork chop bones, lettuce leaves, breadcrumbs, sometimes noodles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And don't be fooled, for these bones shall not rise again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

All was smooth sailing till eight weeks into their journey when, on the verge of uncharted waters, they came across the longboat filled with human bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Leftover bone was used to fill the large gaps where my eye sockets had originally been. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The waxy skin was stretched so tightly over the bones of his face, it looked like a skull. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If she spent the night within reach of that open door, she would be nothing but a pile of bones and gristle by morning. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There beneath the roots of soggy flowers were the bones of murdered pirates and dinosaurs, the eye of a unicorn turned to coal. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Finley sat on his porch sucking chicken bones, as he had done for thirteen years, looked up, saw Sula, choked on a bone and died on the spot. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sticks and stones may break my bones,” he intoned. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He grew thin and gaunt, and the angles and bones of his face and hands jutted like sharp peaks from beneath his skin. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They worked all day on a ditch, drinking beer, until they were bone tired and the ditch was clean, with its banks built up strong again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an emotion I didn’t quite have a name for, and it chilled me to the bone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She squeezes so hard, I can feel my bones turning to tuna salad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These shouters scare me to the bone, they seem so much like the polis and Border Patrol—those bad ones who tried to stop me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What is this?” he said, his fingers working the meat off a bone—the spoon-and-fork charade was abandoned a week after he married the girl. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’s got big girl hands, and her bones are long like ladies’ bones, and she wears makeup too. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The haze grew denser as the guards shrieked, their flesh seeming to shrink against their bones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You have come to sign your contract,” the king said, and his voice made her bones splinter. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But they will take me first of all because I am so fat and juicy and I have no bones!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gregory ate another piece of chicken, a wing, bones and all. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“When I was little and the kids called names, we used to say, ‘Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me,’ ” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like all his muscles and bones were right on the surface, like his heart was beating just under his T-shirt. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I study the heart, the ventricles, the arteries, the bones, the liver, the kidneys, the spleen, the lungs, the blood that runs through the veins. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been gone for years and soon everything they left behind will be burned. Should burn the graveyard, too, if you ask me, if dirt and bones would burn.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We shall call you the prophet and you shall interpret the bones for us,” the captain says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

At first it felt like bubbles were shooting through the flesh of the bird; then the delicate bones started to churn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We are reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

That year, a young dentistry student named Walter Noel presented to his doctor in Chicago with an acute anemic crisis, accompanied by the characteristic chest and bone pain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Bob Owens. Brownish hair, a bit too long. Didn’t talk much. He was the one who named all the bones of the skeleton in the quiz. Remember?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“White people recognize it immediately, even if they don’t know it. Walks different, talks different, carries himself different. It’s in the bones.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Just because someone knows a trick or two doesn’t mean they’re an arcanist. They might know how to set a bone or read Eld Vintic. Maybe they even know a little sympathy. But—” “Sympathy?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Corpus bones, Beetle. We were but wagging him since you are no sport no more.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he wouldn’t be breaking off any pinkie bones for Calixte. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A newspaperman told of how the smoke in the furnace had caused the discovery of Mary’s bones. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bone weary farmer eyed us suspiciously from where he sat, hunched over the reins. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I watch till they disappear over the rise, then I heft my old bones down onto the sidewalk at the gates, close at hand but out of kicking range. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He chewed and swallowed, picking small bones from the holes in his gums where teeth had been yanked out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here is an example: a British anthropologist named Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey is displaying some fossil bones—a foot, part of a hand, some jaws, and skull fragments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was seeing a lot of doctors these days, because she had cancer in her bone marrow. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pictures were more like road maps colored in blue and red than flesh and bones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The mean ones suggested hockey masks or dog bones. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Harry was a big man, well over six feet tall, large in the hands and feet, heavy in the bones. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I thought of doing to him what I did to Chris when he asked that question, but my hither might’ve flinched and thrown all his broken bones out of whack even more. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Cape Town surgeon X-rayed my heel and discovered bone fragments that had probably been there since Fort Hare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went for a wing first, pulling apart the spindly double bones and getting all the meat trapped there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Red, I don’t have any bone to pick with you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night we fell into bed weary to our bones. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On a visit to the famous dinosaur fields of Como Bluff, Wyoming, he failed to notice the bones that were, in the words of one historian, "lying everywhere like logs." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And she moved on—muscle, bone, and blankness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the pot on the stove were scraps of cow bones stewing in hot bubbling broth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He had lost his airplane and had to return on foot, but he had not broken any bones and his adventurous spirit was intact. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tata Kuvudundu cast his bone predictions, and nearly every girl in the village had danced with a chicken held to her head, to bring down rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men with vacant eyes, bells on diner doors, motels so bleak and lonely they settle in your bones. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The fracture is complete, dividing the bone into two neat pieces. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that my mother’s bones were almost always right. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man gathered his own bones and muscles as best he could and managed to hoist the kid and get him into the pickup. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like the bones of an ancient giant, one that roamed the earth a long time ago. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man gave us directions; and told Olakunde and me to stir a bone and get up—we had a real long journey ahead of us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

From the racket he made, you’d have thought I had a club and was breaking every bone in his body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole heard the loud crack of bones breaking in his forearm. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

King Hamlet's body was interred beneath the floor of Elsinore's chapel, near his father's bones and those of his father's father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His skin clung to his bones like drenched clothing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One struck the knee of one of the captives, and it burst apart in a gout of blood and bone that left die man’s lower leg dangling by a rope of dark red tendon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To further proclaim their status, wealthy Olmec carved deep grooves into their teeth and pierced their nasal septums with bone awls, plugging the holes with ornamental jade beads. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I run to the side of the road and throw up each grain of beer and that disgusting drag of a cigarette, every last lying, revolting kiss, until I’m just a bag of clattering bones. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

On his face, the family bone structure seems even sharper. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s been an investment in education here, above and beyond bare bones, and it paid off,” he said. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Yet there is something else about this old one, so bone thin but wire-tough. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lycaon himself was immobilized in a cocoon of rib bones, but that didn’t stop him from screaming curses. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But maybe that was just because her face was small, the skin stretched tight over its bones. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I silently begged him for a little help, just to throw me one more bone to not get this girl, my friend Tasha, who I already let down, in trouble. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Lee mounted in pain, but the hot sun would heal the old bones. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was far too heavy to hold nothing but bones. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The spear tip was almost too heavy to lift now, as if the jagged white triangle of bone was trying to touch the earth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I scraped off so many layers,” Tyler told me, “I was sure that one morning I’d hit bone.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Feeling the cold grip my bones, I continue walking, disputing with myself this question of disobedience and punishment. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She balls the dishrag under one set of finger bones. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The doctors expect that with the bone and muscle damage, I’ll never be able to walk normally again.’” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was six years old again, master of a kingdom of gristle and bone and rotting fruit hidden beneath the sawdust in a little room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor showed me the chip in the bone in the first X ray. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny mound of animal bones erupted from the dirt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The crack of a broken bone shot through the gymnasium. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scary creatures slither and skulk about; some scream constantly, while others have laughs so cold I can feel it in my bones. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Frigid, seeping into my skin, into my bones. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They cleaned up the bones and innards and tossed them into the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were yells of delight from the giants below, followed by the crunching of bones. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, my old bones need a break,” says Gloria, clutching the small of her back. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Corpus bones, you are right, cat! Jane herself told me what she needed.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to risk losing the bones if the dress tore apart. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ged shot breadcrumb arrows after the owls and brought them down, and when they touched the ground there they lay, bone and crumb, all illusion gone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And when the first bone fragments popped up, that was it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Improvements in anesthetics, and new drills and bone saws that allowed for precision cutting of the skull, made it possible. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Watched him dancing, foot to ground, watched him throw the bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne laid out fine bone china and carefully placed the ornately embossed silverware beside the plates and wine crystal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His limp sack of bones smacked against the door as I slammed it shut behind him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He would have to take the shovel and clean them out in the morning and make sure that no unburnt bones were left. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily you would whip through a skull with an electric bone saw, but you can’t use a bone saw in Level 4. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if she were a beach witch, and could throw bones and see right into his soul, to all his hunger and greed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stooped and examined the handful of its body—a wisp of bone and skin—a girl. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Other bones and fossilized footprints were found in the Connecticut River Valley of New England after a farm boy named Plinus Moody spied ancient tracks on a rock ledge at South Hadley, Massachusetts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“What did the Mountain look like? How do we know that this is him? They could have dipped the head in tar. Why strip it to the bone?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

The doctor held my white broken arm like a big bone in his two hands, feeling how my fingers bent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was peeling back my skin and bones and looking into my heart, splitting it wide for me to see, and what I would soon find there terrified me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My bones were still aching when I snuck into the kitchen for breakfast. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Father looked like he was choking on a bone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burning in her bowels did not cease—that burning which, eating inward, took the flesh visibly from her bones and caused her to vomit up her food. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were diseases of the skin, diseases of the bone, diseases of the lung, diseases of the stomach, diseases of the heart, blood and arteries. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was staring down at the lavishly decorated fabric, remembering her mother’s deft hands holding the bone needle, when she heard the knock on her door and then heard Jamison come in. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy said, “How do you say bone in French? French always makes things sound a lot classier.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lovey walked with me, talking to everyone while they threw their scraps and bones in the black bags. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“How come you left the bones this time?” the orderly asked, grinning. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tired as she had been after her sickness, her bones aching with it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We of the committee have worked our fingers to the bone to make the celebration worthy of the town’s traditions. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Only the square arch of the gate remained upright, gaunt as a bone. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A bad journey they had of it, their fingers numb and with a shiver in their bones that not even wine could burn off. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My body feels like someone has replaced my blood with molasses, and my bones with lead. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He lay in bed for a fortnight in the airy bedroom with an ache in every bone, while Elaine kept herself outside the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear other things, too—the snap of what might be bones, a whimper, a howl. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Madoc does not bother to separate off the flesh, eating bones and all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When men in dark suits come to take you away under the cover of night, a dread settles into your bones, a fear that you’ll be lost forever. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

While his shoulders are not firm like a human’s, the bones do press out from his back, making him even more angular than what Axel remembers from the night of the rescue. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even ambrosia couldn’t heal broken bones right away. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Both bones of his lower leg were splintered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled each one of my fingers into my palm and made a fist silhouetted against the fire, flames licking around the tight ball of brown and bone. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

So your liver cells have some unemployed knowledge about how to make your bone cells, and vice versa. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still enough meat on it to fill his empty belly, and after that was done he cracked the arm bones for the marrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Toomer had taught that all fish, the greatest and smallest, listened to the testimony of the tide in their every nerve ending, in every bone, and in every cell. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dragged her from her chariot, tore off her clothes, and, armed with aba- lone shells, flayed her flesh from her bones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer’s been scorching hot and dry as a bone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Fang was all lips and teeth and long hair, all muscle and sinew and bone. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She looked worn, her skin pulled tight against the fragile bones, and she still wore black. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also found that a piece from one of the spear points was pressed into the dirt surrounding a bison bone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Drought years shrank the hide tighter to the bones; ewes dropped weak lambs and cows had no calves in the spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The bones in my hand are crushed. I’ll never be able to use it again.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fused bones of slaughtered demons,” she supplied. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Around him, bones began to quiver as if they were trying to form a new skeleton. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He felt as though his bones were broomsticks, the kind that snapped easily during the harmattan. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And that dog licks me like I am a steak bone. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The child in her body hung from her lean loins like a knotty fruit and from her face every particle of flesh was gone, so that the jagged bones stood forth rock-like under her skin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And tossed away the pelts, where overnight the russy, the fierce little rat-snakes, would devour them and the entrails and the bones, and lick clean the bloody snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Tree-ear that his friend spent the entire day figuring out how to transform a handful of weeds and bones into something that resembled a meal. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had lost all the bones from his right arm once and had them painfully regrown in a night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The bones from a black cat are powerful.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The fish bones crackled and snapped in his mouth like dry corn in a mill. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

After being roughly bathed by brutish servants, the wounds on her back throbbed and her face felt like it had been scrubbed to the bone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He talked nonstop, out of control, in a mix of Igbo and English, like soft meat and thorny bones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mad passion, unhinging, which made Fernanda's bones tremble with horror in her grave and which kept them in a state of perpetual excitement. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We stared as her flesh returned, swelling upon her bones and tightening her skin with muscles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel his bones through my wrap as I supported him, and we shuffled slowly along the dusty path. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would catch myself jiggling my foot till I thought it might fall off my leg bone—“jimmy-leg,” Rosaleen called it— and looking down now, I noticed it was going at high speed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rang for room service and a tired bearer came to take away the plates and bones. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butler could actually feel his bones knitting and the blood retreating from semicongealed scabs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"His father's bones he shall have, as a gesture of Joffrey's good faith." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They lay on the ground in different postures of pain, some reaching for their heads, the white bones in their jaws visible, others curled up like a child in a womb, frozen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And all that they said and did was refracted by her inattention and shot off towards the rim- bones of nothing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the purple shadows, I pulled out the mouse bones and worked them between my fingers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hip bones rubbed his thigh as they stood in the aisle unable to stop smiling. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my bones go soft on me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pinkeye went up alone to see how matters stood by light of day, complaining all the while that his old bones could not abide steps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She grabbed its neck and twisted until she felt the bone snap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Please,” said Garikayi, clenching his hands until the bones stood out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Xan tore down the road, her old bones groaning, undoing spell after spell, before she caught up to the wayward girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” she whispered, feeling the moonlight sink into her bones, easing her joints and soothing her pain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then I set to work on the leg and thigh bones, snapping them at the joints and peeling off the tendons and digging out the marrow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I slide my hands over my smooth conk, down to my neck bone, fingers locking tight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a vacancy in her eyes that chilled Mark to the bone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He arrived home with bone jutting out of his wrist, and I screamed and nearly fainted at the sight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His armour was etched with flame designs, his hair braided with bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I stared at them a minute, wondering how a person got attached to mouse bones. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was designed to her bones for a swifter life. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m letting the first sun we’ve seen this winter soak into my bones, when I hear the screech of a motorcycle. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then, a thing made of skin and bones pretending to be Rahim Khan opened the door. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the Tasmanian archaeological record documents the disappearance of fishing, and of awls, needles, and other bone tools, around 1500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The huge moon rose and the smaller mold-colored moon and they were joined by a ruby-red moon, and the grey wolf ran at a steady lope beneath them across the desert of bones. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The southern end of Iwo Jima was pointed like the exposed end of a bone. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sickle-cell anemia must have seemed the strangest—for it was hereditary, often appeared in fits and starts, and was accompanied by sudden, wrenching bouts of pain in the bones, joints, and chest. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Piper’s old enemy bowed his head, braided bones clattering in his dreadlocks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Especially since no one’s dug up anything yet but rabbit bones and an old ax head.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the monkeys that were dying in Room H had become essentially a heap of mush and bones in a skin bag, mixed with huge amounts of amplified virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and skinny, skinnier than Dari even, in a way that looked like his bones might rip right through his skin with one wrong move. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was before the beginning of history, so paleontologists have had to piece together the tale of the birth of mathematics from bits of stone and bone. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mudd informed Booth that he had a broken bone about two inches above the ankle joint. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard’s injuries, involving fragmented bones that ground together each time he moved, were agonizing, and medicine offered few practical solutions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma cut large slices of flaky white fish, without one bone, for Laura and Mary. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever is making that clicking, I bet it could strip us to the bone in seconds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But do you think my hands were as great a handicap as the bone spurs? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Game was scarce, forcing Franklin and his men to subsist on lichens scraped from boulders, singed deer hide, scavenged animal bones, their own boot leather, and finally one another's flesh. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My skin, muscles, and bones feel as if they have melted away and I can simply step out of my body. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The knots fell apart in my hands, the rope fell apart, and he wrapped his fat hands around Astelle’s neck and squeezed until the room crackled with the snap of fragile bones. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Of all the places where a treasure might be buried, the graveyard was the least likely, most of it already devoted to the bones of the Penikese lepers. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Your bones”—he touches his own cheek—“are very delicate. You have the bird bones.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The bone was smooth beneath her hand, cold and hard to the touch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it’s a better thing, a more better thing to have the bones right there with you wherever you go. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have broken bones,” she rasped, “but they will heal. Where is the robot?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’s pallid, and his face seems to sag, like his skin has grown tired of clinging to the bone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His flesh hung loosely on his bones, and Sour Alyn and Ben Bones said he twitched. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was lean and narrow-waisted, not muscular at all, but graceful and loose-limbed, with a slightly curved nose and nice bone structure. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Put your bones on the other goatskin,” he told them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He must be as thin and pale as these bones now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Red Jeyne loped over to lick at his hand, and Helicent slipped under the table and curled up by his feet, gnawing at a bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘I’ll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind,’ said Sam. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His words crawled under her skin, settling deep into the crevices of her bones. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What the hell you want to play football for? You need more meat on those bones. What the hell you trying to play quarterback for? You’d make a better end. Maybe.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered watching, fascinated, as her mother pushed a bone needle with thick colorful thread through the fabric; gradually a bright gold replaced the small frayed spot on one sleeve. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In retrospect, Franklin’s final gesture at leadership served to solidify his historic reputation as a man who possessed in his bones a feeling for the future. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He may be coming back, and on the other hand he may not be, she said to herself, and felt her bones within her shrink with age. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I know the bare bones of it from Zack, but I want to hear it from you.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mommy said that they might have to do another bone narrow tomorrow. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it had been possible, he would have gone by horse, but his bones were far too brittle to attempt such a thing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each seed was the size of a thumb bone and nestled in a flufly white coating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bones were gone, though, so he said, “You have better men than me in your service. Knights and lords and maesters. Why would you need a smuggler? You have ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s enough to see the frail line of his calf, bare old bone, to want to lean in a little. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone is scared in a deep way—like, in our bones. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She tells us, “No broken bones. But he sustained a concussion.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The bones of the house seemed to be moaning under the strain of it all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He let silence settle in our bones, then waved his hands to some soldiers who brought before us two bodies—a man and a young boy who had lived in the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He lounged on his throne of fused human bones, looking lithe, graceful, and dangerous as a panther. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lon gave her the skull, feeling her open palms slide over the backs of his hands, and pointed to the cavity in the temporal bone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The entrance was covered with curtains of scaly reptile skin, and flanking the entrance, two torches made from colossal femur bones burned bright yellow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I don't want it to have an Atlanta postmark. I don't want this to seem like an afterthought. Like I’m throwing him a bone, as he said.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Hatchet hissed and dropped Sefia as bits of flesh and bone shattered in his arm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Let us sell Benjy’s pasture so that Quentin may go to Harvard and I may knock my bones together and together. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held the boy against him, cold to the bone. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The next day at the butcher shop I found a good bone among the charred bricks and handed it to Big Henryk and said, “Beat me.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It followed the two trails the bone- tar made as it ran toward the drains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He fell face down into the plate filled with bones, frothing at the mouth like a dog, and drowning in moans of agony. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She felt the vibrations penetrate her muscles, pulsing in waves, until they rattled her bones and made her inner organs hum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The water of the creek is cold and peaceful, it comes straight from the cemetery, from the graves and their bones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel I even walk like that: crouched over, my spine constricting to a question mark, my bones leached of calcium and porous as limestone. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the debris of ancient village sites does not include fossilized words along with bones and pottery, it does reveal movements of people and cultural artifacts that could be associated with languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would never have seen it with his eyes alone, but in the web of light he could peer past the bone into the hollows of the skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

That was when he saw it: protrusions deep within the temporal bone, where the ear canal would have been. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They did not even bruise, so controlled was this grip that said “Drop the bone.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll never forget the first time I went to a fancy restaurant as a grown man and someone told me, “You have to try the bone marrow. It’s such a delicacy. It’s divine.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The old man rode a skinny pinto mare with hip bones and ribs poking against the hide like springs of an old car seat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, a tall boy with sand-colored hair and long arms and legs that seemed all bones and angles, stood at home plate and commenced hitting balls out to the players. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Ever cut your finger? Right, down to the bone and all?” he asked. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He could accept many unreal things - hordes of ghosts, magical labyrinths, travel through shadows, chapels made of bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock we throw the bones of the sucking pigs outside the door. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warmth seeped into Nico’s bones - a comforting, peaceful sensation he hadn’t had since ... he couldn’t even remember. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On both sides of his rib carriage, the sharp claws had laid the flesh open to the bone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, just as Ma’s dishing up a peach cobbler that we’re going to eat hot with milk, I hear a sound outside that makes my bones feel like icicles inside me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to see his rotten old bones!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Flashes of ugly flags with skulls and bones, swords slashing at people’s throats, and long knives cutting out our hearts edge their way into my consciousness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vultures would find the bodies and strip them of their rotting flesh until only the bones remained. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I get closer and closer, my feathers begin to fall out, first one by one, and then in clumps, until I can see my bones. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

How years from now a couple adventure-type kids would find my bones. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the bone structure in a baby’s head is as chaotic as a busy road during peak hour. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dale stopped cutting his lamb off the bone and put his utensils down. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He dug his fingertips into my skin like he was trying to carve his way down to my bone. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Tension fills up in my chest, and I shuffle to my room, share my day with Darlene, and hit my pillow hard, unable to shake the uneasy feeling that’s settled in my bones. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Along the shore of the cove below them windrows of small bones in the wrack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sloth, skinny and pale, bones and knots of knees and dirty blond hair, the next candidate for duct-and-scuttle work when Nailer got too big, her pale skin almost permanently sunburned and peeling. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was small boned to begin with but seemed to be starving herself, and she wanted everybody to know it with her skinny jeans and tight T-shirts. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Gendy, he sawed the blade into the flesh and struck a bone. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lycaon broke free of his bone cage with a triumphant howl. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When he was finished he sucked his fingers noisily, and threw the bones to his ugly spotted dog. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had to pick numerous fragments of bone from the stew. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She lost her wolf," he said, weakly, remembering the day when four of his father's guardsmen had returned from the south with Lady's bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He reached into the bones with the mechanical arm he used to tip shrimp tanks into his collecting bin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you watched him run to his car, the rain soaking him to the bone, you wondered how you’d ever gotten so lucky. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not an indignant, violence-seeking monster, but a human being, honest and raw—trapped in this house with us, and scared to the bone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But I could still see the imprint in the fabric where the bone jutted out, like a second elbow. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The head seamstress paced around Mom, peering more closely at her features—her fine bones, creamy skin, and straight dark hair. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a figure out of a Tarzan movie; he was dressed in animal bones, shells, bladders and skins, and his fat body and deadpan face were caked with red clay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin red cow with a protruding pelvic bone appeared and swam straight out to sea without wetting her horns, without looking back. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I know in my bones that this is no normal man. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then crawling to Frodo’s feet he grovelled before him, whispering hoarsely: a shudder ran over him, as if the words shook his very bones with fear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Ymir’s bones they piled up into mountains and cliffs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Each night, in my dark corner of the hut, filled with shame and with quiet tears, I suck and chew the chicken bones until there is nothing left. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to remind her that Daniela's bones will always drift back to their original shape, and that some are more stubborn than others. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"Allow your mem'ry to linger, dwell on the taste of a finger. To suck on marrow, crunch on bone...what food delights we both have known!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She hated fish with bones, and there was no way she was eating jalapeño and green onion hushpuppies. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could feel the bones of her afflicted back and shoulders. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

‘Dreadful danger! Sméagol’s bones shake to think of it, but he doesn’t run away. He must help nice master.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Luna couldn’t see him, but she could feel him with her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A rumbling, a roar, he could hear it with his bones. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Give them a bone to gnaw on or they will keep on trying to bite you. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But his body was weak, the skin tight to his bones and so pale it seemed transparent. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The gray mule was gone, his bones unfolding somewhere on the red dirt, bleaching white and thin in the sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was aware of his ugliness, his gracelessness, a bundle of bones in filthy underclothes sitting weeping in the harsh white light; but he could not stop himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Farmers still came to her court with burned bones, complaining of missing sheep, though Drogon had not returned to the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Found in 1818, they were the first dinosaur bones to be examined and saved, but unfortunately weren’t recognized for what they were until 1855. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The unnatural warmth that reverberated through his skin to his bone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pomodoro of the rubbery face has thick, black hair, and he has long bones with not much meat on them. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Crouching there pale and naked and translucent, its alabaster bones cast up in shadow on the rocks behind it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I got Dad his knife with the carved bone handle and the blade of blue German steel, and he gave me a pipe wrench, and we went looking for Demon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Addie almost collides with her and I do a quick study of the two of them, both tall with big bones and their hair cut short almost the same way. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. It was horrific and it stank. By the way, how do you explain the meerkat bones in the lifeboat?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bones were from digs he had done throughout the American West. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And they also saw strewn about the heads of sundry birds, The heads of precious birds strung together, And some birds’ feet and bones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though bones as such do not get tired. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge “giant’s” bones resided next to jars of pickled “dragon” embryos. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even if a bone looked just like a Neanderthal bone, it couldn’t be classified as one if it Ales Hrdlicka had been found in modern construction debris. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh...” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ginger's usual treats were shaped like small bones. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later Luke’s arm was gashed to the bone and he was running toward the house, blood spurting. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You and Georgie must have rubber bones or something,” she said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If you call broken bones ‘safe,’” Miss Trotter added, “then let us be grateful.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I had never thought of boats starting from nothing, of taking on bones under their bodies. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a bone in his hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw myself swelling like bellows on their blood, a meaningless smudge in a universe dead as old wind over bones, abandoned except for the burnt-blood scent of the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that when an X-ray shows no broken bones, it doesn’t mean that more isn’t broken, like forgetting how to fly. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“That ain’t all. A little-girl skeleton was in the crypt, too, in a coffin with a glass top. Her bones were just so white and pretty—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I felt it in my bones before I realized what it was. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She embraced her gently so as not to crush the fragile marble bones, and anxiously inhaled a mouthful of her unmistakable perfume. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worried that if either action became routine, she could have a bad accident, spraining an ankle, breaking a bone, or worse. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But at last the bones had regained flesh; the empty eyepits had filled up and the new eyes had seen, while meantime the restored beaks and mouths had cackled, barked, and caterwauled. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The raw substances available to ancient peoples were natural materials such as stone, wood, bone, skins, fiber, clay, sand, limestone, and minerals, all existing in great variety. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that he had done things far worse, and the effects were everywhere in the cloudless sky, on the dry brown hills, shrinking skin and hide taut over sharp bone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of it scared Jam, way down into her bones. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then I shivered in my bed like the abandoned dog that I was, my skin shaking over my bones. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was slow work, but Old Rit got the fresh scars healed up, and then when Harriet began to get a little flesh on her bones, Brodas hired her out again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That they would infuse her skin, her bones, her blood, even her hair with magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A person is more than a body, more than blood and bone and flesh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I turned to her, straightened her body gently, feeling for broken bones. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even when the docent was taking us around the Fossil Lab and then on to the Observation Pit to see the real bones of a saber-toothed cat, Lily and Nathan were lukewarm in their enthusiasm. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Might as well bone up for Uncle Jack, she thought. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

What did happen was Dr. Lancaster finally explained to Uncle Tony that Momly would have to have surgery to set and pin the bone. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel my sixty years or the pain in my old crushed bones. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was like: "Um, no. Jesus is not in your bones. Marrow is in your bones, and calcium and collagen." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, chilled to the bone, he returned to camp. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The mule was getting bony; its hip bones looked sharp enough to push through the gray hide, the way bones tear through a carcass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I take in the claw marks from some wild animal, the back paw he holds slightly above the ground, the prominent bones in his face. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t you use something from the cat, but not hurt it and let it go after? Like, the fur, instead of bones? Mama does substitutions for recipes all the time.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Is it your heart, your back, your bones, your head?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

The fibula of Booth’s lower left leg, a thin bone that is not intended to bear weight, snaps just above his ankle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I found it in a house with a bunch of bones—as if the dead men could take it all with them!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m furious, down to my bones, in a way I can’t even articulate. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The wet began to seep into our bones. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He touched the chicken again and licked his finger before he yanked the other leg off, eating it until he had only the cracked, sucked pieces of bones left in his hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sucked at the raw meat and tried to spit out the leg bone, but it only dribbled over his lower lip and tangled in his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The villagers who had lived in the Zambezi Valley dug up the bones of their ancestors and carried them to new places beyond the edge of the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He saw the streams that roared with water two months of the year and were dry as a bone the rest of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then: “Is this fact or reason I’m encountering? Wait, no, it’s more demon bones.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A procession of suppliants climbed the knoll on bare, bloodied knees to show their devotion or purge their grief or beg forgiveness in the slow tearing of flesh and bone. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their machines are big and shiny and they whir and hum, but do they really know more than some Stone Age witch doctor with a rattle and a gourd full of ground-up frog bones? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and feel the music vibrate my bones and focus on the roof just an arm’s length in front of me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad cut his hand on a bait hook. Clear to the bone.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo was absorbed in separating his chicken from the bone, and for once he ate all of his rice until his plate was clean. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel lighter, as if I’m shedding matter, losing molecules, calcium from my bones, cells from my blood; as if I’m shrinking, as if I’m filling with cold air, or gently falling snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I've seen the bones of giants, and heard many a queer tale, but no more. I want to see them with my own eyes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The floor of the passage was littered with the bones of birds and beasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were skin and bones, with shaved heads and shuffling gaits and red skin on our arms where they’d tattooed us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Memories cascade through my head: Darin’s silence when Pop told us of how he set the bones of a child beaten by auxes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A line of saliva trails from his lower lip to the bone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He took the chicken bone out of his mouth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then two young boys crawled into the light, on hands and knees atop the bone pile. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had not flown in the month he had been home and he felt this abstinence in his mouth and bones. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I, too, withered away, the moistness sucked out of me, my bones show­ing plainly through my thin flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The very second I knew his eyes were on me, every bone, muscle, and joint in my body snapped to attention. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Cole was bone weary as he walked to the water to clean dishes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She thought she could see the white protuberance of bone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Despite her heavy woolen jacket, the cold still seemed to ooze into her bones. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When elephants encounter the skeleton of an elephant out in the open, they methodically take up each of the bones and distribute them, in a ponderous ceremony, over neighboring acres. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now saw that the speckles in her eyes were splinters of bones, shards of things she had broken over the years. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My father could only help her a little, apologizing, ‘My nephew is young and his bones are brittle.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy padding of Watney's suit saved him from many broken bones. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how, my brother, do we put weight on those bones when she doesn’t eat?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam remembered him telling her that on the screen a human face looked as big as a house, that when a car crashed up there you felt the metal twisting in your bones. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“We should see if he is okay—like no broken bones and all that.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence, I could hear the sound of the bone breaking, and the dog backed away on three legs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ugh, every bone in my body hurts! You've got to promise me to lie low. At least until after next week." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Every bone still seemed to tremble, and my head suddenly felt full of helium. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You stay with Luba; I’ll get a patrol car here to take her to the Hall of Justice. For her bone marrow test.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Will’s feet were sore, his bones were exhausted, and he missed Sally something awful. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I poked at a shelf crammed with fossils and old bits of bone. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel every bone in his back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The temperature drops rapidly and soon I'm chilled to the bone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She took a ham bone out of the beans and went down to the Gypsies’ house, waving it in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Using an iron shovel from the Dalton basement, Buckley showed how the bones had been raked out; explained how Bigger had “craftily crept up the stairs during the excitement and taken flight.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was always paranoid that I’d break a bone if I so much as looked at my skateboard. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The direwolf bolted down the rabbit, crunching the small bones between his teeth, and padded over to him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He started walking again, his footsteps scrunching on gravel, stones, and bone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was not pain he felt below his ribs, but something scraping against the bone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bones of the history are that they had four kids, grew apart, and divorced. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The fever in my bones has subsided and the air no longer dances with flames, but Anatole still comes to me at night in the pelt of a panther. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin becomes yellowish, aged, and hangs loose from her bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now that was gone, as though after the three years he could trust his eyes alone to do the watching, without the flesh on his bones standing sentry also. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get back to my world, but the fetterlings and the moaning bone ships in the Burning Sea...they stood between me and home. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Operation's this game where you take out bones from a patient's body. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was a bright, sunny day, but I felt cold in my bones and a big emptiness in my stomach. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So I nudge through the crowd, scrape my shins, feel the crush of bone, moan a little, then cry loud enough for anyone to hear. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could no more control the words I said next than the earthquake he’d left in my bones. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Willard Libby was in the process of inventing radiocarbon dating, allowing scientists to get an accurate reading of the age of bones and other organic remains, something they had never been able to do before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever broken a bone or bumped your head? Do you know what a CT scan is?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Trying to put a dinosaur together based on a few random bones and you don’t even know if they’re all from the same kind of animal. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The surgeons carefully cut around the bones of my eye sockets and moved each eye a little more than half an inch—from the side of my head to the front, and down slightly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine bones at all under those layers of fat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her elbows and pelvic bones looked sharp as needles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ben Bones shouted at the girls, and they trotted after him, some with bones still in their jaws. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Ron, I can’t mend bones nearly as well as Madam Pomfrey, so I think it’s best if we just strap your leg up until we can get you to the hospital wing.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mandrag was clean-shaven and smooth-faced, with hands stained a half hundred different colors and seemed to be made all of knuckle and bone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With each explosion, every bone in my body vibrated and hammered, clanging violently against the bell tower that was my flesh. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I heard the crack of bones breaking, the thud of a body collapsing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By both the doors they could now see that many bones were lying, and among them were broken swords and axe-heads, and cloven shields and helms. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The human raised the stick, and in front of our eyes our mother and our father burst into blood and fur and shattered bones spattered over the snow. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you had any accidents recently? Any broken bones, burns, any injury at all?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She felt her muscles burn, her bones buckle under the pressure. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a voice that spoke as ice speaks when it breaks on a winter tarn, or as men's bones speak when a killer cracks them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the flashes of light he saw bats clinging to the bones. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to work on his beef bone, making an awful scraping sound. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The skin of his face had shrunk back against the skull until it defined bone, not flesh, and made the nose and chin seem sharp and fragile. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single vertical mark represented a unit, while a heel bone represented 10, a swirly snare stood for 100, and so on. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He put the broken bone down on the goat skin and covered it with undamaged bones, so nobody would know. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then they took cartilage from the amputated foot and sculpted it around the bone to make me a nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We rode on until at last, dew damp and bone weary, we came upon a small inn, where we took a room for what remained of the night. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I told her as I focused Grandpa’s camera, “you didn’t. They just gather the bones. Only humans bury their dead.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Down to the marrow of your bones. I drew you here to serve my purpose. You have eaten at my table, and I have saved your life.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like his shoes weighed a ton or his bones were heavy or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When I caught more than I could eat, I would bone them, put them on a rack of sticks, and slowly smoke them until they dried out. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in my body feels tight and heavy as I walk away from the car, as if my skin and bones know that something is not right. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The third strips me and hands shivers to my skin and to my flesh and bones. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“In January, the wind makes your bones crack. I’d give my teeth to stand over a hot stove. And no one has ever died making sauce.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Please don’t break every bone in my body. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the men struggling with the spears Snow said, “Take the heads and bum them. Leave nothing but bare bone.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Laboratory tests showed that the bones could be fifteen thousand years old—possibly the oldest human remains in the Western Hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the early 1900s Pierre Curie began to experience clear signs of radiation sickness–notably dull aches in his bones and chronic feelings of malaise–which doubtless would have progressed unpleasantly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It began to dissolve, leaving only scraps of bone, meat, hide, and a new drakon skull whose open jaws ringed the oak tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her finger had found little hard lumps there, and Tariq had told her they were spurs of bone that sometimes grew after an amputation. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to release me, fighting the urge to bite his wrist down to the bone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The familiarity isn’t just in my head, it’s in my bones; it’s muscle memory. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It resonated right down to his bones, as if it knew everything about him—his curse, his history, his future. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I can feel it in every bone, but I don’t know what it is. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Which is something Scoob understands beneath his skin and down in his bones somewhere but doesn’t know how to put into words. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was well-fed, Cora observed, gobbling down the treats and bones offered by the citizens. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Eggs over easy, fried potatoes and onions, yellow hominy and crisp perch fried so hard we would pop them in our mouths and chew bones, fins and all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was a dumb place to look for bones," he said happily. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The hole in the bone was small, the doctor said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s odd to think I have a skeleton of bones hiding under my skin, holding me up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This time, when we got to Malone, my dad came down immediately and hugged me so hard, I thought my shoulder bones would crack. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The train car is an oven, and the vibration of the wheels rattles our bones until Ym positive we will arrive out west little more than a bowl of jelly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

All through dinner, we grinned at each other as we listened to Teddy, who was chattering about the dinosaur bones he’d apparently dug up in the back garden that afternoon. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squeezing so hard, her fingers dig past the muscle and into the bone. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A thin crust of snow cracked beneath the hooves of their horses, with a sound like breaking bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m the lucky one, even with this extra meat on my bones. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The fragility of old age was new to her then, and it had still startled her when she rose in the morning with her bones aching and stiff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Creaking bones, small and large traveling pains, bad vision... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He visualized the contours of Emo’s skull; the GI haircut exposed thin bone at the temples, bone that would flex slightly before it gave way under the thrust of the steel edge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But we have tiger bone wine and dawn wine and wine of fragrant rice—why need you drink tea?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Mice are nothing but little packages of blood and bones, afraid of everything. They are despicable, laughable, the opposite of everything we strive to be. Do you want to live in their world?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You’re nothing but bones, a big head, and big eyes, but you can sure say some words.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t hard to imagine that the rock in Cory’s palm was once a bone. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two wolves broke free from the thicket of bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Only his brain moved, wet and heavy against the contours of his skull, favoring curvatures of bone and concave niches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farther on, they fell in behind a smaller elephant, white as old bone and pulling an ornate cart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The gash was a bad one, clear to the bone, I could tell, and plenty long. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I rolled my eyes over something last week, she reacted like I’d taken my bat to her great-grandmother’s bone china, but whatever. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Their hands, joined together, remained as real as bone and sinew. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He wants me to prove my devotion, blood and bone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I can feel it in my bones and they never lie. Stop fretting and pass me the butter.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the bone at my feet and waited for me to throw it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The music fills the room, something haunting now, like a ghost that echoes and rattles in my bones. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it met with his nose, she savored the rush of pain through her hand and the crunch of his bones beneath her knuckles. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Patterns shifted in the stone floor, like bones coming to the surface. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In a crevice of the rock lay a pile of bones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A head staring sightlessly up at a homed moon, cheeks ripped and tom down to bloody bone, pits for eyes, neck ending in a ragged stump. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a leopard-skin cap and a necklace of small bones and glass beads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was very little, before a piece of his hip bone was surgically implanted into his lower jaw, he really had no chin at all. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

My hip bones and ribs are more prominent than I remember them being since those awful months after my father's death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And he would have thought of it, but the evening was falling and his bones ached in the air left raw and chill when the sun withdrew. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Hyena ate and ate until he had eventually finished even the bones and skin of the fat sheep. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Hannah ‘felt in her bones’ that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did her own shopping, always carrying the same blue cloth shopping bag, and always walking on the sunny side of the street “to keep the bones warm.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1978, the hospital did a scan that showed a half-inch-wide pocket of infection around some of the bones in my forehead. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The music crawls through my bones, seeps real deep into my skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She said she got her looks from having a Black father; her small, wide nose; her dark, severe bones. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was waiting to be released from the bone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The lesions aren’t an accident, Tally. They’re part of the operation, just like all the bone sculpting and skin scraping. It’s part of the way being pretty changes you.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He crawled over more bones, small ones that came from cats and bits of birds. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had conquered her fear of the ghosts Clara would invoke and the mice in the countryside, but earthquakes shook her to her bones and long after they had passed she was still trembling. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone’s significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold of a winter long since past. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now not even a heap of bones: only a few ashes to show that once a man has lived. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tillie, the Finnish cook, was a tall, ageless, red-faced, raw- boned woman with long, snow-white hair which she balled in a knot at the nape of her neck. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So yeah, even though all your bones matter, you only need to fix the broken one. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They dont touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t finish her stew, but she did fish out a tiny bone to pick her small white teeth with. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Will waits. The horse’s head goes down again. You’d think he never could get it up in the air. The horse makes out like he’s got no bones.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tabitha was so skinny then that her bones poked up through her skin. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam felt the bone and gristle of his nose crunch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spend a long time cutting up the big turkey into small pieces—throwing out extra fat and rubbing it with lemon down to the bone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Water shot out at a hundred pounds of pressure per second—hard enough to break bones. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"It was too near to the bone," he recalled, "and made me very uncomfortable." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The whip fell, slicing into bone, reverberating through her body, making everything collapse and explode in agony, shifting her body into a graveyard, a dead— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bull believed that when the flesh was torn away and the bones naked, the fighter would emerge in Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wolves struggled, causing the bone thicket to crack and crumble. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Cora had seen starving slaves with more meat on their bones. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

First, they cleared my ear canal of scar tissue and bone fragments; it was then that they discovered my eardrum had been shattered. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“At the museum? You’re going to tell them about the bone?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Frail-looking, delicately boned, the young man would not have wanted to be a soldier and in his heart would have feared performing badly in battle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She felt the thin bones shaking in her arms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

How her bones must have ached with the effort! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was the face that haunted him most; surrounded by a nimbus of fire, hair blazing like straw, the dead flesh melting away and sloughing off its skull to reveal the gleam of bone beneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Women carved open to the bones with the cat-o’-nine-tails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now the bones seemed even heavier, but that was because he was trying to force his way up through them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked older than she could possibly have been, and she was very thin, just skin and bones, with a wan, yellow complexion and neglected, nicotine- stained hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, there was a new explosion that rattled Jess’s bones. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

My face is wet, my skin and bones are shaking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Nok dropped her grip on him and lurched back, nearly tripping over a mass of blankets and bones. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“He’s skin and bone! You keep that cat away from him!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A fractured hyoid—a bone in the neck that supports the tongue—can indicate that a person has been strangled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

However you looked at it—whatever the ijji had been, and whatever had killed them, angels or not—this mound of bones was an epic mass grave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was basically a closet full of cat, dog, hamster, and fish food, leashes, flea powders, and a few toys like bones and rubber fire hydrants that make squeaky noises. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

After dinner he will help Sonia and Ben scrape bay leaves and lamb bones and cinnamon sticks from plates, pile them on the counters and two burners of the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I got a bone to pick with you, Zhang. You can turn into an eagle? And a bear?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything; he watched my face warily as the pain that had nothing to do with broken bones, pain that was infinitely worse, threatened to crush me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shirley needed the time for Mabel to realize that the Chinese had not squealed, and therefore her skin and bones deserved to stay intact. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I ran down corridors littered with bones, past rooms foil of sheepskin rugs and life-size cement sheep that I recognized as the work of Medusa. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, piles of dust and scattered bones lay on the floor, which did not say encouraging things about the average wait time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The elbows of the brown flannel shirt were worn thin, as if his elbow bone might poke through anytime. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was just blood and bones spreading all over the place. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be angry at the memory of the creature, enraged, but the truth was that even now, thinking of that moment drove a spike of raw fear into his bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

May sank down onto the floor, crying and looking so hurt inside I could almost see soft, red places up under her rib bones. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His frame was delicate, his wrists as narrow as mine, with knobs of bone that looked like they could be broken off like hard candy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He held his hands out, palms turning upwards in a slow ballet of bone, marrow intact after all this time, under the crowded sky, against the broken ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Kaori knew in her bones that they were meant to be born in the mountains. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“May I sit? These bones are old and weary.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had a handle made of bone and a teardrop of meat hugged by a thin rind of fat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the wing, instead of being soft and tender, was a bit tough, so the meat did not fall easily off the bone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the ice cream churning outside sounds like bones crunching. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The remaining bone of contention is a thorn in his side and an albatross around his neck. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could also tell you that the children here are born with teeth and gnaw on bird bones in their cradles.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So he wanted to kill it: to crush the skull into the feathers and snap the bones of the wings. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“By the bones of Saint Polycarp, who is Alyce?” bellowed the midwife. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, and perhaps a little unexpectedly, readings can be thrown out by seemingly unrelated external factors–such as the diets of those whose bones are being tested. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dr. Felinia Tower had the skeleton of a person hanging against her living room wall, its bones all held in place with black strings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

More bones and scraps of clothing were scattered all the way to the altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Theresa did an arterial stick, as the resident crunched through the patient’s breastbone with a bone cutter. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one thing's for sure: My plan to arrive on Sol 494 is boned. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he gave Mole a deer bone for consolation and went to his desk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The empty, horrid throne was made from human bones fused together. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with lit­tle in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Water so cold, it makes my bones ache, but I don’t care about that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I emerged into the garden, where the dying stalks of vegetable plants leaned against one another and rustled like thin, dry bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe it. No flesh burns, no broken bones from her fall—nothing. A few blackened feathers. She should be fried black.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She is the color of a bar of naphtha laundry soap, she is like the little brown piece left at the end of the wash, the hard little bone, my sister. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed out droppings and tracks and bone fragments. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a church just outside the village where Megan’s ashes are buried, next to the bones of her daughter, Libby. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin peeled away their skin, scraped away their innards, salted what was left, and chewed the rest—flesh, bones, and tiny feet. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” I said, mortified as she leaned down to scoop up the scatter of potato peels and marrow bones that had fallen from her sack. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took him back to the house and bound the bones together with two small sticks and sinew. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not right down to the bone,” she said, “but I’ve cut myself.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed to hiss as it sliced its way through bone and gristle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the bone break—a soft, muffled snap—at the same time he felt the sharp stab. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Broken branches lay on the ground like bones. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

After ’bout five or six big gulps of air I pulled my shirt up to see if any bones were poking through. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She sighed, and tried to feel for broken bones. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antibiotics would stop any infection that might result from the broken bones, the bullet, or the clothing fibers driven into the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But you can’t hurry a broken bone. If I were to let you stand up now, you’d crumple to the ground.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

"It means the bone is knitting, the flesh healing itself. Be thankful." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Under it was a wide stone basin to hold the water; but it was as dry as a bone. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Wren sat on the bottom step, and as she lowered herself I could almost hear her old bones creaking. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You were born in Panamá. It's in your bones.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s not a tame animal. Look at the marks it’s making on that bone.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The following day, when doctors dressed the wound, they found a tiny piece of rib bone and more fibers discharged with the pus. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a hard fall from the rigging twenty years before, he’d claimed he could predict the duration of a storm by the ache in his bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

What remains is bone and muscle and cold skin. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Big machine made of brass, silver, gold, and dragon bone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, a thin drizzle that traveled horizontally in the wind, soaking through his supposedly waterproof clothing, mixing with his sweat and his dirt, chilling him to the bone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His voice made every bone in his head vibrate with pain. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The surgeons who had amputated my leg were now working on the skin, bone, and cartilage they had removed. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s cause she wanted it back. She wanted them to let her have the bones back.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was smart, generous, her looks unquestionably homely, queer, egregiously frank, hip to the bones. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the sawdust—and he knew exactly where—were caches of nutshells, seeds, bones, fruit, and gristle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a local family left Louie off their dinner-party guest list, he broke into their house, bribed their Great Dane with a bone, and cleaned out their icebox. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Held her so tight that she winced, her shoulder still a sack of broken bone. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She felt that truth deep in her bones. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had ordered the steak, which, bowing to the same minimalist fashion, is served without the bone, the thin slices of beef stacked to resemble a funeral pyre. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Who knows where that bag wound up; probably in a ditch somewhere with a pile of other bags of bones. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Your leg won’t ever mend properly, Nathaniel. There’s been too much damage. Best we can hope for is that the bones grow back together strong enough to hold your weight.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Refusing any anesthesia, he was fully awake when the surgeon cut open his leg down to the shin bone to drain the abscess. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The long bones have risen to the surface of her face, the skin tugged downward on them as if by irresistible gravitational pull. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Will Bates was Gary Edwards’s teacher in algebra II, which seemed amazing given the fact that Edwards was a Carter Cowboy and Bates was a hard-nosed grader who made no bones about flunking kids. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he died at sixty-seven of strangulation on a chicken bone, he had groups of four girls in each of thirty-three small towns in New England. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brook’s hand was hard and heavy, and it squeezed into my shoulder bone. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the meat spoiled in two days, and after that they only had bones to pick at. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For thirty-eight days, I lay in a coma—sixty-six pounds of skin and bones. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His ears rang with the metallic bellow of the saa-horn up in one of the temple’s towers, rattling his bones from head to toe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall—all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They used a long part of the bone from my amputated big toe to make a bridge for my new nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And how on earth could he have known that they would find Mary’s bones in the furnace so soon? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, though, cursing his old bones and grunting like a hungry pig, he succeeded, the backhoe lurched forward, and as it did Amarante’s floppy hat jolted off his head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did rattle, Jon could hear it; the bones were strung together loosely, so they clacked and clattered when he moved. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Loki clambered to his feet and hurried away before Thor could break any more bones. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I grip Natalie’s arm so tight, it feels as if I’m holding bone. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The draccus eats the rocks and slowly they get ground down in its gizzard. The metal slowly filters into the bones and scales.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was not flesh and bone, it was not thought or consciousness. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he had said “always,” so she would not have to be afraid of the change—the falling away of skin, the drip and slide of blood, and the exposure of bone underneath. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I walk in the cottage door, water permeates my bones and a pain pierces my thigh. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They ask us to reset their milk-white bones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The bones formed patterns, like skeletal contortionists tumbling together, curling to protect the precious stones—a dance of death and riches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As he recalled in My Early Life, “I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence— which is a noble thing. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She looks skinny, with the bones of her chest exposed and her cheekbones hollow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Standing up, i threw my rabbit bones in the fire and wiped the grease off on my pant legs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today all that Asha had come back with was a chill that went bone deep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Next up was the chance of infection, which is especially high when bone is being cut and moved around. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her muscles felt like they'd become wood and she imagined her bones were splintering and growing bones of their own. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Come end of picking season, he’d wander out to some old lonely place they’d told him about and look for arrowheads and bits of old bones, clamshell, and whatnot. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I swim to get away from Josh Raymond, and my cheating father, and Violet’s involved parents who are also her friends, and my sad, deserted mother, and my bones. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been here in months, but I knew the way—it was etched deep down in my bones. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From the corner of her eye she saw something bone white scamper from one tree trunk to another, closer and closer. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“My mom always put a ham hock in everything. The bone flavors the broth, and you don’t have to put in as much meat. Meat’s expensive.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wraps the cuff around my arm bone. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Reek rode a broken-down stot, all skin and bone and ribs, and he rode her slowly for fear he might fall off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Wait, oh my God, is it fan fiction about yourself? And you didn’t invite me? Who do they have you boning now? Did you read the one I sent you with Macron? I died.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He prodded a larger piece with a serving spoon to make sure the meat slipped easily from the bone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pinched the two bones on the sides of his wrist. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The hopping bone’s connected to the jumping bone, the ribbet bone’s connected to the fly- catching bone. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bones were each about waist high, and the thighbone was longer than me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was skin and bones, his eyes were dead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull myself together, and go with my sister to the slaughter-house to get a pound or two of bones. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were in a big outdoor pool, and two attendants were throwing huge chunks of meat and bone right at them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the bone did finally heal, almost perfectly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The charred meat and bones under the damp ash might have been anonymous save for the shapes of the skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was cold down here, a cold that she. felt all the way through, cold flesh, cold blood, cold bones. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The children complained of head-ache, and their bones seemed to be thawing within them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And it is only when you are willing, finally, to fly down and pick through the bones that you can check if the marriage is actually dead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They burned it in one of the pots, and the stench was like a corpse exhumed for its bones too soon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming back he found the bones and the skin piled together with rocks over them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

You have to come to this side because this new family of mine is both familiar and strange—just like how I am American by birth and Haitian by blood, bones, and tears. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Daisy snuck out of the house one morning, dragging her muscles and bones with her, and crept into the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was suddenly struck with the fear that Lena hadn’t ever meant for her to pick up the ring or the bones, and that she’d just desecrated a corpse for no reason. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bone clearly didn’t belong to any species of creature still alive, certainly not in New Jersey. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No, no blood; not even the under-skin pooling of a bruise or the marrow leak of a cracked bone, which had happened once. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As I did, there was a sound like cracking bones as Acererak slowly lifted his head. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The blindness lasts just a second, then the colors start flooding into me: not through my eyes but right through my skin, replacing blood and bone, muscle and sinew, until I am redorangebluegreenpurpleyellowredorangebluegreenpurpleyellow. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He shudders, imagining bones no larger than his below the ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He searched thin walls, weak sutures of spindle bones above the ear for thresholds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pig bones appeared in Jomon times on offshore islands where pigs do not occur naturally, making one wonder whether Jomon people were starting to experiment with pig domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were studded not with gemstones but with bone fragments. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ezekiel had prophesied upon them, these scattered bones, these slain, and, in the fulness of time, the prophet, John, had come out of the wilderness, crying that the promise was for them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I chip away at the pelvic bones, just a pinch on each side. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve had problems with my lungs ever since, and my bones ache at the slightest chill, and I catch cold easily now, whereas I never used to. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Matt wriggled until his wrists touched the jagged bone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still sitting in the hut, and the old woman was still sitting a few feet away with her bowl of bloodied bones in her lap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They did not go far, for on the floor lay many old bones, and nothing else was to be seen near the entrance except some great empty jars and broken pots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They cut through the top of my skull so they would have easier access to my eye sockets and could move skin and bone around more accurately. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She found droppings clotted with bone and hair. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened so hard that I nearly differentiated it from the others, and it seemed to be saying, “Finny, give that bone the old college try.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amidst the rushes and bones and bits of bread that lit-tered the stone, he whirled her and spun her and tossed her in the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With every step they took came the clink and rattle of their silver bracelets, their heavy necklaces of bone and turquoise beads. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the hall was pitch black, and the only sound the crunching and munching of bones and flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is like Hana's—bone straight, black with golden streaks, and soaring down her back. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He raised the sword and brought it down upon the dead man, grunting as the blade sheared through wet wool and rusted mail and rotted leather, biting deep into the bones and flesh beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He put the goatskins down on the ground, and as he ate, he threw the bones onto his goatskin. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Any wrong move could send the bones slithering back down to cover Chacho. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hurt so bad the pain was a color—white, a crunching sound in my ear as bones in my nose cracked. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The bones on the floor of the pit were deeper than the last time she had been down here, and the walls and floors were black and grey, more ash than brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit came home third, drenched to the bone, covered head to toe in mud, and miserable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some clop that must’ve been,” he said, chewing on the bone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Here, old man, this should drive the chill out of your bones.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government said how could they tell whose bones the cow’s were? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took on flesh as if someone were pouring gelatin over its bones, covering them in glowing, transparent gray skin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My suitcase was a bone of contention between Tessie and me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If you’ve ever seen a dog bury a bone, or a spotted green chipmunk rooting for a lost acorn, you will know what I’m talking about. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Only the blast of the anthem, cranked up so loud I can feel it vibrating through my bones, lets us know where we stand in the program. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began to carve thick chunks of charred meat off the bone as Tyrion hollowed out two heels of stale bread to serve as trenchers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The air wanted me, the ground wanted me, the circling gears below hungered to crunch my bones. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have to keep on collecting cans, enough to cover some money for meat and bones from the grocer down in Friendly. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the demons moved on, Percy and Annabeth reached the spot and found nothing left except a few splintered bones and glistening stains drying in the heat of the river. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What could be cooler than unearthing an ancient bone that’s been hidden for tens of millions of years? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I force her bones to twist and the cartilage to fill in. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Celestine drove me, and we arrived around noon, just about when the sun was changing to the searing sun I have long imagined can suck the moisture from bone marrow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the bones that let you know which skeleton was a man’s when it was a man and which a woman’s. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her bones are the stones. These we may cast behind us without doing wrong.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we go out to the cremation grounds instead and bury bone shards? Or we can play Catch the Beheaded Thing! I’ve always liked that game.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was lean, hard muscle, where Reek was loose, grey skin and brittle bones, a white-haired starveling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Felicia imagines the mixture melting through Graciela’s frail scalp, penetrating the roots and bones of her skull until it eats her vicious brain like acid. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin was so tired he felt as if every bone pushed through the straw to find the unyielding boards beneath him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I was tired down into the center of my bones. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Esteban makes me feel as if something were filling my chest with warm syrup, as if all my bones were being slowly removed from my body. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The rest of the bird was skin, bone and feathers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind ached like a broken bone as I struggled to stand in the new place I found myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will become a yellow-skinned bag of bones, with enormous eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The whip grew taut as human flesh and bone could bear and I felt that my arm was being torn from its socket. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever times were really tough we’d fall back on dog bones. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After she returned with the scissors, Omakayas quietly took up the deer bone from her mother’s skin bag and began working on the moose hide without being asked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the bullet hit my temple, it fractured the bone, sending splinters of bone into the lining of my brain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her bones cracked and rattled, as though there were no one inside the long white dress. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My heart slams against its bone cage, over and over, blood seeping down to the cracks in the ground. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The phosphorus would keep burning and burning, right through muscle and bone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

John’s medical hypothesis was based on the observation that phosphorus naturally concentrates in bone marrow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Afterward Rattleshirt claimed some charred bones, while the others threw dice for the ranger's gear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I could touch the stones the old woman wore—its bone marrow. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when that used to be me and Jason, sliding around on the icy pond down the street from his house, the cold sinking deep into our bones as we played. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After introduction ceremonies, my mother, the diviner and I went to a hut, where we sat on mats on the floor, opposite the diviner, as she arranged her divining bones and shells. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your city is gone to ash and bone, your people are dying all around you. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Metal was the building’s bones,” I say, imagining metal sheets and beams buckling, glowing red. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We passed the stack of coffins, the landslide of bones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The walls of the room began to tremble, dust trickling from the cracks between the bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Skin and bones dancing, lips upcurled like oyster shells, a no-count man with a femur in his hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then her gloved fist was coming at him and he knew if it struck him the bones in his face would shatter. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her old bones ached, and her mind raced. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was no help for it but to break the bone again and reset it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Those who caught it began to shake with an icy cold that lodged in their bones, and gradually fell prey to a deep lethargy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boning of the waistline cinches me in all the right places and lies flat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I've no appetite, but I suck on a rabbit bone just to give my mouth something to do. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The eagle’s body looks stuffed like a beanbag, not fluff and bones, like before. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Giles de Retz had been found to have no less than a ton of children’s bones, calcined, in his castle, after having murdered them at the rate of twelve score a year for nine years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gigantic head rose out of the water, jaws spreading, and everything around them seemed to tremble, like Missy herself was a singular aquatic earthquake made of flesh, blood, tooth, and bone, and utterly unstoppable. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her bones felt warm and flexible; her joints were held together with laughing gas. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In Cyprus, Hoagland said, Jack’s captors decided they were going to break every bone in his body with a small hammer, from the toes up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same bones through which, at least according to Uncle Chester, coursed some of my mother’s starch. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“A Fflam never falters! Though what my aching bones might do is another matter!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Robin was careful to find bones from the joint with juicy bits of meat still clinging to them, and soon he was Robin’s friend. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And there would be scraps, charred bones with bits of flesh still on them, the remnants of Drogon’s kills. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Steel sheared through sleeve and skin and bone, yet the sound was wrong somehow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They found petrified bones sticking out of the ceiling and walls. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the bones kept them quiet for more than a short time. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I’m fatigued to my bones, but I fight my heavy eyelids for one second more. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Even in the bright sunshine, you knew it could roll in at any minute and chill you to the bone. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her wrist is broken, the bone jutting out against the skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At nightfall, worn to the bone and feeling as though she might fall asleep in the saddle, Kaede was relieved when the Huntsman stopped and told them they could set up camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If we were going to play by our own rules, we’d have to bone up on our acting skills. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could not get out until the bones strewn around him grew back into living creatures; he had become joined to the metabolism of other lives, and until they rose he could not rise either. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The scanner reminds me of the wooden box that traps me in my fear landscape, squeezing my bones together. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Momma, when you were telling me about Black Lives Matter being like a bone, were you saying that Black people are broken?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He checks the bones in my wrist, examines my ankle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The subtlety and precision of the modeling, the fine gradation of planes and ridges, the feeling for the relationship of flesh and bone would be remarkable enough in themselves, quite apart from the early date. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana said that one of these days he would miss, that she, Mariam, would slip through his fingers, hit the ground, and break a bone. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ugwu sat down and selected one and closed his eyes as he sucked it, imagining Olanna’s mouth enclosing the same bone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These few errands left me chilled to the bone, so cold that not even the window displays at the clothing store called The Fad could draw me in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Winter's finally going to be here, and I think it's going to be a bad one. I can feel it in my bones." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For the next year of his life he lay flat on his back, ordered to keep as still as possible as the bones of his body healed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were tall and had long thin legs like deer; their heads were long and angular, with heavy bone across the eyes supporting wide sharp horns which curved out over the shoulders. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as though her bones were transforming into light. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We know how big they once were by the bones they left behind. But that’s all they are in this world now. Just bones.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Bare old bones with no skin on top. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Lying on my stomach on the floor, pushing the box under my cot, I found a tiny pile of mouse bones. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘People of the Graveyard,’ she says, ‘Listen to Mother Slaughter. Have you not got any charity in your bones?’ and then all of them agreed with me.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She stares up at Fabian as he sucks on a chicken bone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He is naked except for a ring of bones around his neck. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Soon Bull began to work the bones of the boy’s right hand against each other, applying more and more pressure, until the boy began to scream for his friends to pull Bull off. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leg bones, the tripe, and the white maíz are cooked in a giant pot all night on low heat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me, she had chanted as a child. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘They always likes a bone or two to clean their teeth on about tea-time, which you ’as a bagful.’ Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The team doctor, Weldon Butler, ran his fingers up and down the leg, feeling for broken bones. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four old ones lay silent and huddled in their bed, trying to keep the cold out of their bones. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I could never do that. Heaven shall take my soul, but Norway shall keep my bones." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Reader, have you ever felt the layers of difference between the bone of your skull and the skin stretched over it? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her bones felt thin and brittle, and her breath rattled in her chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She ran her hand through his hair, lifting it out of his eyes, and he could see how skinny her arm was, almost like it was just bone and skin. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t quite forget that the last time Dobby had tried to “help” him, he had ended up with no bones in his right arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He whacked at the bone with the knife. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if he were to say in a restaurant, “Yes, I’ll have some more coffee and, ah, I’m choking on a chicken bone.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

About midway through, the limbs of a stand of birch tree hold up the forest's form like women's bones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pit was completely black when his hands struck against rock instead of bone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would think she would have left some bones or something. Or at any rate the armour.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For those extinct American mammals whose bones are available in greatest abundance and have been dated especially accurately, one can pinpoint the extinctions as having occurred around 11,000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the chopped meat deal they went to Hassler’s for the soup bone. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long low moan, it seemed to hang above the battlements, lingering in the black air, soaking deep into the bones of every man who heard it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every time my phone rang the sound rattled my bones. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly he went for fear of rotten ice, yet in haste, because the cold was at his bones and before long he would not be able to move. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile in Philadelphia–Wistar’s city–naturalists had begun to assemble the bones of a giant elephant-like creature known at first as "the great American incognitum" but later identified, not quite correctly, as a mammoth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were no springs, and the crust of topsoil was so thin that the flinty bones stuck through. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like us, their heads were shaved and they were skin and bones. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The bones crumble between your teeth; one touch and they fall apart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hands and feet they tied with a cutting cord behind him, so his bones ground in their sockets, just as Laertes’ royal son commanded. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Stanpole had told me in the corridor that he was going to set the bone that afternoon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hard man with a can of beans—a soft man with the bones of his grandfather. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rena was no scow-like catboat, but a sleek four-master, bound around the Horn with a bone in her teeth in search of rare spices and the priceless treasure of the Indies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the door I held on to a cell bar like it was the long bone in Rosaleen’s arm. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the effort of it all, she had stunted herself, blighted herself, whittled herself to a bone of a thing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His horse played nasty tricks on him, suddenly becoming a formidable female, a hard, wild mountain of flesh, on which he rode until his bones ached. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round these, some favourite hounds lay snuffling in their dreams, or scratching themselves for fleas, or gnawing mutton bones which they had scrounged from the kitchens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet they found bones too, the skulls of the unburied dead, bleached and broken. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wade through a litter of discarded wrappings, broken glass, and bones to where I know I will find Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first of these bones had been discovered at a place called Big Bone Lick in Kentucky, but soon others were turning up all over. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only skin, muscle, and bone separate my heart from Kasim’s heart. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They squat down to listen to the main one that talks, and their legs and arms are so skinny you can tell just what shape a bone is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the bones were so well cracked they looked like wood shavings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few have stacks of tarot cards, and others have bowls with small bones inside. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He has learned to suck the marrow from lamb, to extract the bones from fish. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pain from the cold had gone into my bones. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes carried the stench of sweat and manure, and his bones were frequently battered, if not broken. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Anya sat down next to the tree, her back pressing against its smooth bark, and set her bundle of bones to her side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Give me the second meat, you take the first bone.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as his bones knit and he could be moved a little, Esteban felt the torturous desire to embrace her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put some more coals on the iron stove, hoping it would stop her trembling, but the cold was in her bones, not just her flesh. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

First she tossed her bundle of bones to the upper level, wincing at the dull clatter of bone against bone inside the cloth. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Capricorn was a tall man, and gaunt, as if the skin had been stretched too tight over his bones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They agree on everything above the waist and below: muscle, tendon, bone joint and marrow cooperate. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the bones and veins; I could see the exact structure of her skull. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was called on day and night to X-ray all types of ugly wounds to see if the bones behind the bruised or bleeding flesh had been cracked, chipped, or broken. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Short and swaybacked, with little triangular eyes in a fat, flat face, he was an odd match with Yegey, all delicacy and bone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That Chiche! He stole a piece of bone from Columbus’s crypt and had these made for me when I was named head of the armed forces.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The zango bristled with tiny bones and feathers, a comforting shape that spoke of powerful charms. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of dogs’ teeth and rats’ fur, of fresh bones and old scabs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Already, at eight o’clock, the streets were dry as bone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was so skinny, just skin stretched taut over bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He felt it in his bones,” marveled Bill Parkins, the Cornell recruit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There they put the bones together and made them into a girl again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

That evening, chilled to the bone, I prepared for bed near our fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His sons took up five-tined forks in their hands, while the altar flame ate through the bones, and bits of tripe went round. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Glad indeed I am to see you safe back. But I’ve a bone to pick with you, in a manner o’ speaking, if I may make so bold. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Walking past the moose bones, I approach the vehicle and step through an emergency exit at the back. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been beaten this time, down to her bones beaten. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the first time he has traveled since completing his treatments in Stuttgart, and he feels as though the density of his bones has decreased. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead the bones remained in boxes, rarely disturbed, for more than a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

He was very tall and as skinny as a beanpole— so alarmingly thin, in fact, that it looked as if his bones were about to break through his skin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

This journey began with him, you suspect it will end with him, and everything between is the powdery meal of windmills that might be giants grinding bones to make their bread. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But when you got extra meat on your bones, you don’t feel a doggone thing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"But why, my lord? Surely they cannot harm you now. It is where they belong. All the bones of the Stalks—" "I said no." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nearer the door, the Queen’s Hand was attacking a brace of capons, sucking the meat off the bones and washing down each bite with ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sucking marrow out of bones is a skill poor people learn early. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Cyrus Trask did have his five minutes of horror while they cut the shreds away and sawed the bone off square and burned the open flesh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would not part her legs; still he thrust, a throb against her, but pushing into bone. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was chilled to the bone and hungry; and his head was dizzy as he thought of the long and painful march downhill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every step I took toward Grand Rapids I could hear the sounds of mouse bones and bug skeletons being busted up by the teeth of bigger things. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat," he said to a man below him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after his return a construction project near Clovis unearthed more huge bones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He threw his sheep bone, which bounced harmlessly off the monster’s forehead. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot imagine why in a place with so many sharp instruments for cutting bones and thick tissues, that woman brought me such teeny nail scissors. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the splintered bone poking through his calf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Already, I can feel my hip bones a little more when I lie down flat. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I press myself against the vending machine, its tiny vibrations mixing with the nervous energy in my bones. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was studded with brown oblong shapes—petrified tree logs—and whitish fragments—pieces of petrified bone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It functioned on an old-fashioned principle: you held it against the bones near your ear and it vibrated singing or talking to you. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their arms and legs are mere bones with fleshless fingers and toes attached to them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Pretty was growing less plump with every passing day, and Crunch was fur and bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he sat in the dark, quiet, letting himself mend, not stirring, feeling a dull ache settle in his bones now that the first waves of pain had moved away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned around and said to Milkman, “But you know what that means, don’t you? If she took the white man’s bones and left the gold, then the gold must still be there.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three descend into silence as silverware clinks and scrapes against bone china and beverages slowly disappear from glasses. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Each time I fall, I dream of breaking their bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while he explained how bone healing works, and Maddy started getting into how our mother had had her legs cut off, I bent down and pretended to try to move the chair. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of stew that warmed a man right down to his bones, just the thing for a wet, cold night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He looked like he was choking on a fish bone. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well”—he popped the bite into his mouth—“what do you say we throw the sheriff a bone?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Grabbing bits of herring and shaking it like dogs with a bone. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In another month the grasshoppers would be dead; autumn wind and old age would chill them bone white, leaving their hollow shells to swirl with the dry leaves in the ditch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She felt, like a broken little bone inside, the loneliness of her best friend. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She heard Ginika ask, “Did you know they use something from animal bones to make that breath mint?” and the others groaned. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Combat medicine was torn flesh, gaping belly wounds, splintered bones, burns, blood, and agony. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This was her speech in his mouth, and Linda just sat there, staring at her hands in her lap, a sense of imminent disaster riding like ice through her bones. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya knew that in her bones, the way she knew that Grace and Joaquin were older than she. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It's where I keep my heart. It's too dangerous to keep it in my chest, what with the sharp edges of bones so easily broken.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As Moss crossed 12th Street, he could feel the sadness settle into his bones, pulling him forward and down. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Xan closed her eyes and pressed her feet to the ground and felt the magic flow through her fragile bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He hooked aslant with one white tusk and ripped out flesh above the knee, but missed the bone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Caroline had announced that she was engaged, we’d had bone soup with our supper every single night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The bone had fractured and left a dent in his head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By touch alone I fitted bones together and fused them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am grateful for your service, sisters," Catelyn said, "but I must lay another task upon you. Lord Eddard was a Stark, and his bones must be laid to rest beneath Winterfell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s doubtful an expert could tell whether they were meerkat bones or mongoose bones.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was beautiful, spare and big boned yet rounded and softHe desired suddenly that she should like him as her husband and then he was ashamed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I felt bones crunching and wasn’t for sure if they was hisn or mine. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Take a last look at me, Pa, rest your bones," he muttered to himself. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had gazed straight at those bones for almost a foil minute and had not been able to realize that they were the bones of Mary’s body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"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

Every single bone in his body ached from the night spent on the cold tiles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze picked up and the two giant redwoods creaked their bones. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I poked the animal bone with my finger. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He felt the ripping of his skin all over again and heard once more the breaking of his bones. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He’d hoped to recruit the Heartrender Nina Zenik at some point, but now she looked like she might not last out the month—all jutting bones, dark hollows, and trembling hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were already bare chicken bones on his plate, and he was reaching for more. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman did not even give the collection of bones a cursory glance. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pippin saw his carven face with its proud bones and skin like ivory, and the long curved nose between the dark deep eyes; and he was reminded not so much of Boromir as of Aragorn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

By smiling, she only manages to stretch her skin back even more, and I can see what she will look like when she is dead and her skin dries over her bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes poor people take the venison for their winter’s meat, but most of the time the carcasses rot until their skin hangs like ribbons over their bones. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The third woman was tall, small boned, thin, but shapely. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Forward and back, and it tore against bone. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His long fingers were splayed out over his knees, tapping against the bones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes were gentle but intense, and they seemed to be making my bones turn soft. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The moth on Rahel’s heart spread its velvet wings, and the chill crept into her bones. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter didn't know the legal history, but like every black man in Alabama he knew deep in his bones the perils of interracial romance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Send him back over the creek with some meat on his bones.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But there were other bones as well, big ones that must have come from giants and small ones that could have been from children. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They would know that Mary was dead; they had stumbled upon the white bones of her body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They're cutting open my knee again, pulling back my flesh to reveal the bones underneath, scraping at it with their scalpels. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I hear the clean snap of his bones as they break on impact, watch blood seep into the dirt around him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Not far off, I saw my saddlebags, next to a pile of bones. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

That bone broke in two and guess what? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I reached for her, only to realize that my hands were withering to bones. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Did they have to pick meat off his bones while he was still breathing? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A moment later our intercom buzzed, a jarring blat-blat that punched right through my flesh and bones. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The cold in the stalls worked into their bones, and when it rained that night they moved their cots because of the leaks in the roof. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As though her bones—or some strange force inside them, stronger than her want and her fear and her doubt—took over. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He pawed through a pile of yellowed drawers like a dog digging for a bone, throwing the drawers up behind him in an arc. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z