“And horses seldom turn their riders into charred bones and ashes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

"He was intelligent, spellbinding. I knew in my bones that here was an opportunity to do some work. I needed only some kind of pretext to make contact with him." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When you think “monster island,” you think craggy rocks and bones scattered on the beach like the island of the Sirens. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her bones seemed to soften a little in her body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to melt into her bones—that kind of love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay in the snow, a pile of bones, feeling the air whip around her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

I was just blood and bones spreading all over the place. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

Mud is mud, regardless of whether there are dinosaur bones underneath it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It looks swollen, as if every sad thing in the world has stuck to her bones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It probably wasn’t colder in the orphanage than it had been in the movie theater, it was warmer more likely, but Hornet felt chilled to her bones. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

She said she went to see Qrce and visited the cave four years later, in the snow, and took the white man’s bones. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Broken branches lay on the ground like bones. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was like his muscles tensed up, as if he had even more bones in his body than he started with. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

It is braised short ribs that have been stewed in a delicious marinade until the meat falls off the bones. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was there, cleaned and ready, and he picked it up with his left hand and ate it chewing the bones carefully and eating all of it down to the tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when you got extra meat on your bones, you don’t feel a doggone thing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

The scent of squirrel made him remember the taste of hot blood and the way the bones would crack between his teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

The flesh of his hands is so deeply sunken the bones of his fingers are perfectly revealed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Some tribes scratch the days of the Moon or the days that the women bleed on antler bones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I been on the job too long, Jax. These old bones need an extended vacation.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Without leaving her bed, she wandered the dark corridors of pregnancy, stumbling over the bones of women who had passed this way before her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

“A Fflam never falters! Though what my aching bones might do is another matter!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the bones of her afflicted back and shoulders. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It thrummed through Xan’s bones, lighting her muscles and tissues and skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

Eating the mouse exhausted Cole, and by the time he had chewed up the tiny bones and swallowed the wad of tough furry skin, he lay spent, mouth gaping open. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I remained in the rocking chair until it was nightfall, my bones aching from the thought of another trip to the prison in Port-au-Prince. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

The teeth at your bones are your own, the hunger is yours, forgiveness is yours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her fingers and palms became damp, shrinking at the ghost’s thick short hair like an animal’s coat, which slides against warm solidity as human flesh slides against muscles and bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

How years from now a couple adventure-type kids would find my bones. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

“Bones! Bones! Crack the bones! Lots of marrow!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

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

Genetic testing of the bones confirmed that the body was Alexei’s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With his fur slicked down, I could make out the delicate bones of his legs. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The familiar rage rattled Finn’s bones, but rage would not help him now. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

The child was little better than skin and bones. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 rise and fall with my bones, which stick out farther than I’d like. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Max eats a second ham sandwich and rereads a comic book, and sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wish it was possible for me to show you the sea bottom in those days—the black bodies, the blood, the bones broken by boots and clubs! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

‘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

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

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

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

"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

There was a collective gasp in the audience, followed by an applause that thundered in my bones. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

He hurried back to his companions, but he said nothing: the bones were best left in peace and not pawed and routed by Gollum. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

James gathered up the bones, put them into the trash can and came to sit with her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one, he bristles with knives and has the body of a crusher of bones. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I learned that the bones in the leg are the femur, the tibia, the patella, and the fibula. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

Pop’s being kind, but underneath his skin, I sense his stress, a low panic in his muscles and bones. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

I felt it in my bones before I realized what it was. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had set himself the task of drawing and committing to memory the bones of the hand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Living men had gone south, and cold bones would return. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

But to me the hard cartilage is like eating the bones of a fish. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

But that whole head would be gone soon, and I'd be picking my teeth with its bones. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I went over to her, looked at her, and saw the bones in her face where the flesh had been cut away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"Would that bones could talk," the Old Bear grumbled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the type of song that settles in your bones and makes you sad for a reason you can’t quite pin down. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I feel the bones and shells of prehistoric creatures. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The strange concoction of fear and anxiety pushed into his bones, bled through his skin. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They took it all very seriously When Charles wasn’t winning, he would yell, “Bang your bones!” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bones jutted sharply at my wrists and elbows. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her hip bones rubbed his thigh as they stood in the aisle unable to stop smiling. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

But then, of course, the pain in my head and my bones and my face reminded me where I was. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

More bones and scraps of clothing were scattered all the way to the altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If my family could see me now, they’d shoot me. Yes, they would. They were decent people. Except my grandson, God rot his bones.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

One arm had been ripped right off the shoulder,- Arya saw the bones a few feet away, gnawed and cracked, picked clean of meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“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

Rains let up for now, but with wet clothes and wet blankets, it’s almost better if it keeps on coming Better than the wind picking up and chilling our bones. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their once rounded bodies were angular and bony now, sharp small bones like the bones of birds, except for their ponderous bellies. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The trilling of our neighbors’ tongues set loose knives that cut the flesh from our bones and made us fall down with our shame and our love and our anger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

When I nod, he says, “I’m going to check the height now,” and puts his thumbs on the crest points of my hip bones. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She tells us, “No broken bones. But he sustained a concussion.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Operation's this game where you take out bones from a patient's body. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One stomp would have broken all the little bones in my bare feet, so I wasn’t very chill. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

He stumbled on a ring still scorched by fire, and in the midst of it he found a pile of charred and broken bones and skulls. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They were home to more than three score living singers and the bones of thousands dead, and extended far below the hollow hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“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

His bones unknit and clattered to the asphalt in a heap. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Something that will strike fear into my very bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

“I’ll have to ask you to throw bones for me sometime. In the meantime, I can at least foretell that I’m willing to keep you aboard.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The common denominator in all these conditions—whether in the lungs, the muscles, or the bones—is overwhelming pain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My body felt heavy, as if my bones were made of lead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Creaking bones, small and large traveling pains, bad vision... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then, a thing made of skin and bones pretending to be Rahim Khan opened the door. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The liquid went down my throat like bones. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Painfully, his muscles and bones protesting, he lifted himself from the mattress and poised, on one elbow, to thrust himself from the bed. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode past the blackened bones of houses and barns without number, chimneys sticking up like grave markers, the husked stone walls of ravaged mills and granaries. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It took their whole team to set Ray’s bones. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“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

She could feel it in her bones that he had escaped. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

“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

I work quickly, piling bones back in front of the crypt to cover my trail, my senses primed for anything out of the ordinary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

There’s some who’d always hold it against yeh . . . there’s some who’d even pretend they just had big bones rather than stand up an’ say — I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"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

I will become a yellow-skinned bag of bones, with enormous eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

They sat on the roof of Pluto’s shrine, which was covered with bones and diamonds. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

He crawled over more bones, small ones that came from cats and bits of birds. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I push the arcana to reset the proteins, as I would her bones for beauty work. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

After a minute, I hadn’t heard Sunny’s bones break, so I peeked. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

But she could still feel Taisin’s mouth against hers, the bones of her spine beneath her fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kate was haggard and her slender body had shrunk to bones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel in her bones that pretending like this whole thing was real wasn’t the right thing to do. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I asked later as I tore the fish bones out of the soaking salted codfish. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead the bones remained in boxes, rarely disturbed, for more than a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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’m furious, down to my bones, in a way I can’t even articulate. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

“Is it your heart, your back, your bones, your head?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The spell is made of shadow and suggestion. Men see what they expect to see. The bones are part of that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“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

Did you just sink forever until the sand ate away at you and then did your poor bones continue the trip forever down? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

We eat their food inside our large house, and throw out the bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Madoc does not bother to separate off the flesh, eating bones and all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stevie looked like he was two seconds from vomiting the bones out of his body, leaving him as nothing but a skin suit lying on the sidewalk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The moment red touched white, the bones began to tremble. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He knows, deep in his bones, this year there are two. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

I passed a display of dog cookies shaped like bones and cats and squirrels. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

He wore a leopard-skin cap and a necklace of small bones and glass beads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze picked up and the two giant redwoods creaked their bones. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

Anya clutched the bones to her chest and turned to where the cold wind came from. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

But the fish kept on circling slowly and the old man was wet with sweat and tired deep into his bones two hours later. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear his voice now in the crook of my neck, reverberating through my bones and the pounding pulse of my blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Its skin was clinging to its bones like that of its mistress, but it was just as alive and resolute as she. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

But all six Cahokia projects found plenty of bird bones, and even some tiny bones from fish; one turned up 9,053 bones from 72 bird species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

I whiled away many a pleasant hour gnawing at a flipper joint or split­ting open bones and licking out their marrow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face is lean, intelligent, suddenly handsome, the bones more prominent, the pale gold skin clean-shaven and clear. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I hear other things, too—the snap of what might be bones, a whimper, a howl. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The explosion rattled Nate’s bones—and almost sent him leaping into the water in fear. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bones of the history are that they had four kids, grew apart, and divorced. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Its plastic arms were burned and blackened, its metal bones bolted and welded into place. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

A dry wind rustled, and around him the heaps of bones broke. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

I felt the warmth of blood rush to your cheek, the fine structure of your jaw, like a bird's light bones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pilate said she took the white man’s bones and didn’t even look for the gold. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

He shudders, imagining bones no larger than his below the ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the bones were so well cracked they looked like wood shavings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Below his knee, his leg bones had been broken, and they had knitted back together at an odd angle. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

His bones rattled in his body and his ears pulsed as if his heart had somehow jumped into them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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 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

Nico didn’t speak the language, but he remembered his childhood Italian well enough to glean the general meaning: We, the bones that are here, await yours. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Her poor husband’s bones, that she didn’t have no money to bury. Pilate got a husband somewhere?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Night is a starlit blanket outside, and the cold air reaches my bones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The fish bones crackled and snapped in his mouth like dry corn in a mill. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His own head was shaved, and with the bones so prominent on his face, he looked to be all forehead and nose. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Chinese sites with the earliest evidence of crops also contained bones of domestic pigs, dogs, and chickens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Walking made it feel like my bones had healed into blades jabbing into me, but any kind of pain was worth the chance to get out of that darn bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

If Orpheus had not been there the Argonauts, too, would have left their bones on the Sirens’ island. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

So much depends on the white chicken bones in the calabash bowl left standing in a puddle of rain outside our door. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Despite her heavy woolen jacket, the cold still seemed to ooze into her bones. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The yaller mule was gone from the town except for the porch talk, and for the children visiting his bleaching bones now and then in the spirit of adventure. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

Both bones of his lower leg were splintered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got a jones in your bones for your chick-diggin’ stepsister.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

His bones rattled as the quad hit a rut in the track and bounced upward. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the father and the son went to the hut and saw that only the bones of the goat were left. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

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

T. P. lay down in the ditch and I sat down, watching the bones where the buzzards ate Nancy, flapping black and slow and heavy out of the ditch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is said that after he had been burned on the funeral pyre his bones were placed in the same urn that held those of his friend Patroclus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“Excellent. Next, I’ll be eating with a trencher and throwing bones to the dogs over my shoulder.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently; her breathing was painful to see or hear. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The evidence includes ground stone tools, pottery, bones of domestic pigs, and crop remains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He saw as if his eyes were still open wide the bones, the tufts of hair, the knots of thread, the despair. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she had thought again as Pearl’s eyes fluttered closed once more, and she was certain that no one could ever love this child as she did. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

All the other men were skin and bones. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

All her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Through the walls of the house they could watch their neighbors raking through the ashes to find the bones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Immediately he starred unearthing bones, as it had been the custom during the early days to bury the dead inside the House of God. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But the chill in the room has penetrated my bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ta-p’en-k’eng sites of Taiwan and the South China coast are full of fish bones and mollusk shells, as well as of stone net sinkers and adzes suitable for hollowing out a wooden canoe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

If Aunt Letty had fallen on bare boards or even on the carpet, I suppose all her bones would have been broken: but by great good luck she had fallen on the mattress. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And a skin of water too. Or I will burn this place down around your ears and dance among the ashes and your charred, sticky bones.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He oiled himself with warm, peppered coconut oil, kneading his old, loose flesh that stretched willingly off his bones like chewing gum. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been cut from heavy oak planks, and they spi- raled around the massive center timber like the small bones of a spine held in place by thick wooden pegs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

He leaned forward and spun the plate of wing bones onto the coffee table. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He saw twisted ankles with the bones sticking out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

The site was silent and eerie and the puppies’ playground was speckled with bleached bones like tombstones in a graveyard. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hades traced his fingers along the nearest column, leaving bleached white marks on the old bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Did they have to pick meat off his bones while he was still breathing? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Oiled, with tube bones cut from bronze and sunk in gelatin, the robots lay. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know the drones hover somewhere above our heads; I can feel the hum in my bones. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I see her in the same way I’ve seen my own reflection and stared at myself and barely recognized my own face—as if my bones had transformed overnight. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

Her face was very pale, the bones small and fine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He moved and slid around like he ain't have no bones, with a cool grin on his face the whole time. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But he saw that the bones of the eye-sockets, and the nose and jaw, showed through it, and gleamed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t even catch fish: their sites immediately on the seacoast lack fish bones and fishhooks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you jumped in on that side, you’d crunch your bones on the stairs that were only a few inches underwater. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

She was laying out the tarp that would keep the wet from our bones, but not the freeze. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

He was panting with indignation, his bones locked in position and feeling the effort, his heart pounding in his chest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And Lee carefully packed the bones, femurs, and tibias really straight, skull in the middle, with pelvis and clavicle surrounding it and ribs curving on either side. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of it scared Jam, way down into her bones. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She missed June so much, she felt the ache in her bones. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together, and the big white hotel towel I had dragged down with me lay under my head numb as a snowdrift. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Cuvier was already dazzling people with his genius for taking heaps of disarticulated bones and whipping them into shapely forms. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“If you call broken bones ‘safe,’” Miss Trotter added, “then let us be grateful.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Suddenly, there came a crash that was so loud they all felt it in their bones. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

She felt as though she were in a state of partial decay, and with each gust of frigid, stinging wind, she wondered when her skin would rip from her bones. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

It was disturbing to feel so many new bones jutting from Brother Ugo’s body where they hadn’t been before, but he didn’t care. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

"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 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

I feel my bones go soft on me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Behind him would race six others, and the first boy there would be the Musician, playing the white xylophone bones beneath the outer covering of black flakes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The thunderous, rhythmic rumble reached right into her bones. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now he seemed shrunken, the muscle and meat melted off his bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The bird flutters its wings, bones rattling like dice. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It appeared facing the Imperial Box, so that its open, roaring mouth looked like a red wound with small, sharp, deadly bones glistening in it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate, his eyes wobble in his head. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Mrs. Grantham had pulled some knitting from her basket and the click of needles, like the rubbing of the smallest of bones, entered the conversation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 tackled the Sphinx midair and they crashed sideways into a pile of bones. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anya put her bones inside her own pack, making sure they were cushioned. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My bones are rattling, and maybe even the blood that flows from my heart is running toward safety, trying to get out. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now that every turn in the weather whistles an ache through my bones, I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The women’s faces and arms are tattooed with patterns, the men’s hair is long with beads and bones—human bones?—hanging in decoration. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

She’s wearing a navy blue dress, narrow along her slim bones. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The icy touch froze his bones, and he remembered no more. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My brother was really sick, so sick that they had to stick a needle in him to take out the marrow from his bones. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had trouble conjuring up these thoughts, and when I finally ventured into these memories, I became so sad that the bones in my body started to ache. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

The bones seemed to get heavier and heavier with every step. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

They left behind some bones, stone tools, a few genes in our DNA and a lot of unanswered questions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bones are steel girders, anchored in cement. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

The cog went up and down, bucking more wildly than any horse he’d ever ridden, lifting with each wave before sliding down into the troughs between, jarring him to the bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her bones felt thin and brittle, and her breath rattled in her chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The person in that painting with the steel bones and legions in his skull would have saved Jesse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

I’d probably wind up falling forty feet and breaking twenty-seven bones or something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“What’s crazier? Her hauling a sack of gold around all this time, or hauling a dead man’s bones around? Huh? Which one?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly soft, small bones and gristle with only the memory of meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bones would scatter, rot, and crumble to become part of the earth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head pounded, and all down my spine it felt as though my bones had been churned to broken shards of glass. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her disappointed skin is hanging all over her disappointed bones. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The intense stare had scared him to his bones. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

But his fish-trash pile of bones and skin and guts was in the pond area and the prospect of food brought them back. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Fossilised human bones are no less hard to interpret. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I stood there and waited for the rocks to replace my bones and blood. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Nobody on the island ever tossed the bones of a bear aside. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

Falcons, hawks, and owls swallow fur, bones, and feathers as well as meat, then regurgitate, or “cast,” the unused parts in tidy pellets. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That month, Darwin found more bones strewn among the pebbles and rocks. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Being alone like that works its way inside you, burrows deep into your bones, your brain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I find knives and forks in the odds-’n’- ends bin and glue them so it looks like they are attacking the bones. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I can’t walk away, or the guilt, the weight of Will’s life, and my parents’ lives, and now Marlene’s life, will break my bones, will make it impossible to breathe. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

With an almost comfortable distance from the thing itself as it really was, Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

David sits in a wheelchair, his legs covered in a stiff material—to keep the bones in place so they can heal, I assume. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

Fatigue was like a toothache in her bones. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The diviner took the array of bones and shells in her fat hands, shook them, muttering incantations, then threw them on the mat in front of her. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My stomach and feet swell as my bones protrude everywhere else. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Emmett, find some armor for him. I want him in steel, not old bones.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Queen scraped the remains of her cat into two heaps, one of them a neat pile of warm bones, the other a miscellaneous lump which softly steamed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor cut his bones, then sealed each artery and vein. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

He told me to shake my lazy bones and get out of bed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old dog ate, crunching the bones ravenously with his blunt teeth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, nothing would have survived from such an encounter except, at best, a few fossilised bones and a handful of stone tools that remain mute under the most intense scholarly inquisitions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He saw only his uncle with flesh on his bones, still. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

She smiled, saying I’d be free to go to school once my bones mended. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But really, after what we’d just seen in that palace: wife murdering and slave bones in the walls! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa said he was too old for Idaho winters; the cold put an ache in his bones. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

And those old bones were another reason for people to dig elsewhere, despite how foolish it was to be afraid of something so long dead and buried. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In a crevice of the rock lay a pile of bones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her father was down to ninety pounds, just skin and bones, and he was in pain and miserable. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, the bones that are here, await yours. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Soon they would have the story of her death, of the reporters’ finding her bones in the furnace, of her head being cut off, of his running away during the excitement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was only the sound to go by—the foul breath squeaking in little gasps, the noise in his throat like the splintery crunching of bones. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Here comes the Kamba clan,” said Hodza, just as they finished picking the bones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Ma scraped and cleaned the head carefully, and then she boiled it till all the meat fell off the bones. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Arrowheads and spear points were found embedded in or lying near the bones of twenty-four skeletons, 40 per cent of the find. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For thirty-eight days, I lay in a coma—sixty-six pounds of skin and bones. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The oddly shaped ones sat on top, and the tiny bones, like fingers and toes, went into her pocket with the gold ring. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Let's get finished. I feel it in my bones we're not going to find anything." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The dragon had won, and Joaquin was just a pile of broken bones and ash on the scorched ground, out of time and out of lives. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

I took one look at the RV’s rusted bones and immediately turned away, my hand tightening around Zu’s gloves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The creative free boldness was all through Adam’s bones and brain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His armored skirt was made from thousands of blackened, twisted bones, woven together like chain links and clasped in place by a belt of interlocking monstrous arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

A cradle of life, made of bones; and within, hazards, warped proteins, bad crystals jagged as glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The empty, horrid throne was made from human bones fused together. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

The old man was tall and his chest was wide; at one time he had been heavier, but old age was consuming everything but the bones. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ask us to reset their milk-white bones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I thought of the ghost of that long-dead child, watching us, its desiccated bones sunk deep into the ground below. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I am their blood and bones, I have dug in this ground, this is my home. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“That sniper knew there was no point shooting old bones like mine,” Dapir says. 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

Heat filled my blood, the gaps in my bones. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Please,” said Garikayi, clenching his hands until the bones stood out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bacilli had now begun eating his spine and fracturing the long bones of his legs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

By touch alone I fitted bones together and fused them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood and stretched the night out of my bones. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the flashes of light he saw bats clinging to the bones. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything hurts—my skin, my bones, my fingernails, even the roots of my hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

Once we were down to the fossil “bed” we chipped away at the hard soil with hunting knives, searching for bones. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hand was thin and the fingers slender, with tapered nails and fine bones. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Tomorrow I will tend to your aching bones. I have a notion for a new medicine, made from mallow roots that grow in the marshes,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I was sure the insides of my bones were full of ice. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

Under the snow lay grey ash and cinders, and here and there a blackened beam or a pile of bones adorned with scrhps of skin and hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was sure to roll over and crush out his life or break those fragile bones. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Well-organized handwriting blocks note lady courtiers' names, their beauty services and secrets, and tips to tackling unforeseen treatment challenges, like stubborn moles and missing bones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“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 feel the bones go, ground from their sockets, and I scream again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as though her bones had turned to water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Consider that on the door itself was pasted my visage, open-mouthed, above crossed bones. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

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

And no fat on her, nowhere at all, all bones, no hips. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"If you want my bones, come get them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

The bones of his leg were so weak that he needed to wear a fur-lined metal brace to prevent them from buckling, but they held up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"It was a dumb place to look for bones," he said happily. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Inside, the bones sat, safe and wrapped up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every time my phone rang the sound rattled my bones. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

He sawed back and forth, but before he could make any progress, the bones shifted and he slid down into deeper darkness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel each of her bones as though they were made of light. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Rather, it accumulates in the bones and blood–that’s what makes it so dangerous–and neither bone nor blood was tested. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And what I saw sent a chill clear through to the marrow of my bones. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Her muscles were tired, her bones ached, her mind was going to sleep like a cat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

But she was just adjusting her old bones, and once she was good and warmed up she started talking. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The wind blew, cracking and splintering the remaining bones, but he sensed the presence of Mercer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He takes a thin wooden block and slips it under my goodfoot, then checks my hip bones again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At my mother’s grave, I knelt and leaned my forehead against the wet ground, my eyes open, as close to her bones as I could get. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Evil-looking masks stared down from the walls, an assortment of human bones lay upon the counter, and rusty, spiked instruments hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Colonel Madu appeared in Kainene’s house two weeks later, much taller-looking now because he had lost so much weight; the angles of his shoulder bones were visible through his white shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t believe he was still looking upon a human being—the madness in Ben’s eyes, the phlegm flying from his mouth, the pale skin stretched taut across his veins and bones. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She felt a yoke of sadness settle onto her own bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

None of his bones seemed broken, which was good; but mostly he was worried about his Archimedes sphere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was a gruesome mosaic of bones and gems—human femurs, hip bones, and ribs twisted and fused together into a smooth surface, dotted with diamonds and rubies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I offered to carry the next container, but Amaka laughed and said I had soft bones and could not carry it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like all my bones are breaking. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

They ate every little bit of meat off the bones, and then they gave the bones to Jack. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Dad was too tall for his workbench, and his big bones seemed joined together in a loose way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They passed through crude stone chambers littered with bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s gone. But I’m still Alvolk. There’s something in my bones that not even that creature can take away.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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’d be a pile of bones in the back of a Bargain Mart by now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

Her shoulders feel like chicken bones stitched together. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even like milk, but I always end up drinking it at Twig’s house because Hélène insists “ze bones must grow, ze bones must grow,” and it’s impossible to resist. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A queen lam, but my throne is made of burned bones, and it rests on quicksand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The shadows bring out the sharpness of his bones, the length of his lashes, the merciless beauty of his face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In health class they had done a unit on body systems, bones, nerves, and organs. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He gnawed around on some of the deer’s leg bones that Mama threw away; but not once did he ever even act like he could smell the meat we’d hung up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early to think of bones, even old gray mule bones, but he realized that all along the valley the cliffs were full of shallow caves and overhangs with springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you feel a gnawing at your bones, that is only yourself, hungry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Matt described the bones, and to his surprise, the little boy recognized them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes of the nearly dead are redder than the blood that comes out of them, and it seems that their bones will tear through the skin of their taut faces at any minute. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As for the lifestyle at that time, the best-preserved evidence comes from stone artifacts and prey bones accumulated at southern African sites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Tabitha was so skinny then that her bones poked up through her skin. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

What was her—green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs—would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

All the while, his bones would lie at the bottom of the pit, with Gulliver’s little bones next to him, so small that they’d look like thread. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Owens said simply, “I cannot. My bones are here. And so are Owens’s. I’m never leaving.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Butler could actually feel his bones knitting and the blood retreating from semicongealed scabs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Lourdes studies the checkered linoleum, longs to dig for her bones like a dog, claim them from the black-hooded earth, the scraping blade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The blood and broken bones on the pavement will settle their wager. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“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

“May I sit? These bones are old and weary.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

He opens the car door for me as I let his last words settle in my bones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

I have to scrape out the last bit of bravery hiding in my bones. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Blanca felt something hot run through her bones, loosening her limbs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body is warm, but I feel only his bones and the muscle that wraps around them; nothing yields beneath me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

The music crawls through my bones, seeps real deep into my skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

She looked worn, her skin pulled tight against the fragile bones, and she still wore black. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

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

All day long I think about Erin and how strangers are operating on her leg, cutting it open, inserting pins or whatever to mend the bones. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the reinforced ribbing in her suit prevented Holly’s leg bones from shattering. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine his little bones in his little grave, and it is the saddest thought in the world. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"It . . . rotted to pieces while I waited, unheard. There's naught left to show but bones." 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

These are the used sections—broken bones, cuts, bruises, mumps, measles, backache, scarlet fever, diphtheria, rheumatism, female complaints, hernia, and of course everything to do with pregnancy and the birth of children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

She sang with volume and pitch and a heartbreaking wail that echoed through her relatives’ bones, rattling them in the ground under the school itself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes were gentle but intense, and they seemed to be making my bones turn soft. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the dark doors of Purgatory my bleached bones were laid to rest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man said he would send the cow’s bones. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water, clean sharp strokes, not bent and wrinkled like a baby, not drowning under the sticky yellow light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His long fingers were splayed out over his knees, tapping against the bones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

Five marble bridges lay ahead of them, their jutting posts like bones of a skeleton. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Underneath, the white bones revolved in the edthes of the water, the heavy ones lying still and the airy membranes lifting gracefully, like leaves in an autumn wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fur was sparse and tufty in places, and his hip bones protruded at sharp angles. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

He has learned to suck the marrow from lamb, to extract the bones from fish. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her bones felt warm and flexible; her joints were held together with laughing gas. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Cora had seen starving slaves with more meat on their bones. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In nineteenth-century England, everyone from country parsons to teenage girls collected butterflies, flowers, even stuffed birds and fossil bones. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Kaori knew in her bones that they were meant to be born in the mountains. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

I dig the bones out of the trash and bring them to art class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

Hundreds of delicate bones litter the clearing around the vehicle, scattered among thousands of porcupine quills: the remains of the small game that made up the bulk of McCandless’s diet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You and Georgie must have rubber bones or something,” she said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She hoped only that they would not pass anyone she knew; she kept her head high, looking straight ahead, and felt the skin settle over her bones as though she were wearing a mask. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

They knew because of Valley’s lessons that they sometimes stored their meals for later, but if there were already bones in the den, someone else hadn’t been as lucky. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"If I could have you rebuild me from the bones out, I'd do that as well. I can tolerate it. I'm strong." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“You eat it and get some meat on your bones, ha, ha.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They would know that Mary was dead; they had stumbled upon the white bones of her body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It jazzed and jangled Billy’s skin without thawing the ice in the marrow of his long bones. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Thor covered the bones with the goatskins. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“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

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

One of the hounds that searched for bones among the straw litter learned to come to Robin for tidbits, seeming to know that he had found a special friend. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

His words crawled under her skin, settling deep into the crevices of her bones. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Columns of bones held up a vaulted ceiling decorated with images of death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It would have been unthinkable to leave the bones behind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Still, Alan’s racism is like an echo in my bones, mind, and blood. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

There were photographs of people digging, people scraping dirt off of bones. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Gilly knew in the marrow of her bones that if she stayed much longer, this place would mess her up. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Spots and backaches, creaky bones, make this young witch into a crone.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The walls of the room began to tremble, dust trickling from the cracks between the bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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 felt myself falling apart—that by morning I might be just bones melting into the moldy soil of the sisters’ vegetable garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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’s in the bones. He won’t talk. I think he’s dead.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Others, maybe Beast Riders like me, are already scrounging there for bones, moldy fruit, anything. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

He taught me how to break the hold, where the fingers were weakest and the bones in my arm strongest, so that after a few minutes I could cut through even his thick fingers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Sometimes even heroes need a little help. Like when their bones are broken. Or their head is stuck inside a plastic cone. That’s a good time to ask for help.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She hugs me so tight I wonder how her bones survive. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He felt it in his bones,” marveled Bill Parkins, the Cornell recruit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The sound vibrates in my teeth, in my bones, pulsing until I think something might shatter. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

Maybe the giant wheels were grinding his bones into a bloody mush. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin crinkled over her bones like old paper. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t know Miss Volker had gone insane, and I knew I would go insane too if I had to watch her cannibalize her own body down to the white boiled bones. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The witch doctor then proceeded to divine the bones. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I could never do that. Heaven shall take my soul, but Norway shall keep my bones." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

Beneath my fingers, I felt the loose flesh around Morrie’s bones, and I thumped him hard, as instructed. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero-g exercise regimens could keep the heart and bones healthy, but none had been devised that would give them full function from Sol 1. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I was cold to the very center of my bones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

She has big bones, square teeth with litde gaps between them so that you can see each tooth distinctly, skin that looks rubbed raw as if scrubbed with a potato brush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

You need a little meat on them bones.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She deftly removed the bones, then cut the fish into bite-sized pieces. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crayon hugged my bones tight and it made me shiver. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

There were already bare chicken bones on his plate, and he was reaching for more. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I force her bones to twist and the cartilage to fill in. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I already know how to bake challah and some other breads, but my older brother says he needs meat to put meat on his bones. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

‘His bones are rolling around in the mud somewhere.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A shadow came out of dark places far away, and the bones were stirred in the mounds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

There were dry bones everywhere amongst the marsh grasses, and the pools stank of centuries of decay. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other bodies in the room were little more than bags of flesh and bones, dumped across broken chairs and couches. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I love that—I love the thought that poetry can be in our bones, can hold us up and shape our whole lives. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined spiderwebs in my bones and turned my palm towards the moon, watching the ballet of bones between my elbow and wrist twist to make it so. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I should rack my bones to see a pack of drunk fools.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach over and pick it up, but as I hand it back to him, I see scribbles on a sheet of notebook paper on his desk, skulls and bones and guns all over it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

I bury Valerian near the stables, but outside the paddock, so that even the most carnivorous of Madoc’s sharp-toothed horses are unlikely to dig him up and gnaw on his bones. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

They snake beneath the entire city, hundreds of miles of tunnels and caverns, some packed with centuries’ worth of bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

Estranged, disarranged, we spend our darkest hours staring at those pearls, those coral bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Having stripped off my sock, my mother’s fingers probe the bones in my left heel and I wince. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

That night, we burned and pulverized sheep’s bones, doused the powder in a rendering of vinegar, and heaped the blot with the concoction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“As for going underground, I’d rather go back over the heather. The roof of that hall is made of bones.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their span was three times their length, each wing a delicate fan of translucent skin, gorgeously colored, stretched taut between long thin bones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He ripped at the meat with his teeth, cracked the ribs to suck out the marrow from the bones, and shrugged at the mention of Jon Snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

The bones were from digs he had done throughout the American West. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

I thought of my idea to use black cat fur instead of the bones. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the top of her shoulder was a little dent, scalloped in the bone, or suspended between two bones, with a fuzz of shadow along its rim. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was no prize now, all bones and skin and shaking hands, but I wasn’t so far gone that I couldn’t work. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had sucked all the bones, and he imagined that the taste of Olanna’s mouth was in his as he started to wash the dishes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel my muscles tearing apart and separating from their anchoring bones. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bones crumble between your teeth; one touch and they fall apart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will’s feet were sore, his bones were exhausted, and he missed Sally something awful. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

I thought of the chicken bones in a calabash bowl left on our doorstep by Tata Kuvudundu some weeks back, which had given me the creeps. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

Bigger looked about and saw the pile of white bones lying atop a table; beside them lay the kidnap note, held in place by a bottle of ink. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After Mama saw that there were no broken bones, or legs chopped off, she smiled and said, “I never know any more. I guess I’ll just have to get used to it.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Half your bones are busted, your body is swollen like one huge mosquito bite, and you’re nearly starved to death. Believe me, Champ, you’re not okay.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

He was so skinny, just skin stretched taut over bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With every stride, some two thousand pounds of force came down on the bones and soft tissues of each foreleg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My legs were so soft, my gut was so soft, my bones were so soft, I’d barely made it down the hall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But once the person had died and stopped moving, the tree must have slowly wrapped itself around the body and digested it, the very bones leached of nutrients until they vanished. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whitewashed cement blocks carrying the dead are stacked on top of one another, building a graveyard city that’s bleached like bones in the sun. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

“My head hurts. And my joints and my bones and even behind my eyes. I’m hurting all over.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

“I have broken bones,” she rasped, “but they will heal. Where is the robot?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She knew it as close to her bones as she knew that Momma did always love them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world's sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

"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

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

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

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

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

He had been lean since the early days of the war, but now he was emaciated—so thin that his bones stuck out and his face looked craggy and old. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the stock I used bones from both my pig and from a grass-fed steer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"King Louis is the most beautiful man I have ever seen, but his beauty radiates from his wisdom, his piety, and his kindness. Not the dust and flesh that cling to his bones." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

Everywhere there were tiny white bones glowing in the darkness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Howard had already spent three years combing the Southwest for ancient bones, crawling into rattlesnake caves and taking a pickax to rock faces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He came down with a crash, and the bones shifted and let him fall through. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

And, really, what is more fragile than a jellyfish, which doesn’t even have any bones? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m the lucky one, even with this extra meat on my bones. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

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

Tired as she had been after her sickness, her bones aching with it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the bones as coming from a "gigantic saurian," Lakes thoughtfully dispatched some samples to both Marsh and Cope. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Johnny Longden once won a major race while riding with broken bones in his back and foot. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The moonlight radiated through Luna’s own skin, too, setting her bones aglow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The creature screamed with both mouths again, different discordant pitches that rattled the marrow in Anya’s bones. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Loki clambered to his feet and hurried away before Thor could break any more bones. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She felt the thin bones shaking in her arms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

It became his earnest wish to be declared the type specimen for Homo sapiens–that is, that his bones would be the official set for the human race. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Inner life was revealed, twitching and jerking— muscles, fat, blood, guts and bones. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, trying not to trip over the robe, Rowan strode away from the all-consuming inferno that would leave nothing behind of Scythe Goddard and his disciples but bones too charred to ever be revived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

The topi escaped, but along the path Salva saw the bones of prey that had not been so fortunate. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She had been beaten this time, down to her bones beaten. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had aged, all skin and bones, and her tapered eyes of a carnivorous animal had become sad and tame from looking at the rain so much. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

When he received a favorable report from Folsom, he dispatched a work crew to dig out the bones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The government said how could they tell whose bones the cow’s were? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hoagland, not hearing from me, sent in Jack Kalantzakos to retrieve my remains, my exposed bones. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Not long after, Old Tallow brought deer bones to share with Grandma. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

I was already tired down to my bones from the sleepless night before, and the scent of the soldier’s boot polish sent my head deeper into a fog. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

Walking along the new gully, he spotted several huge bones projecting from its sides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Following this, we retired to the wedding feast, which, there being no meat for the Ethiopian Regiment for two days, consisted of pork bones boiled in water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Every six months he catches them again and breaks their bones afresh, and every time is going to be the successful one. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"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

“Nessy chile, you done changed. You losing the meat on your bones.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

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

By binding small, flat pieces of wood to newborns’ foreheads, they pushed up the soft infant bones, making the skull longer and higher than normal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“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

My body vibrates with the rhythms of the cumbias, as though my blood and bones have absorbed the music and my insides are dancing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside this heap he put another of all the bones, dressed up with cunning and covered with shining fat, and bade Zeus choose between them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checks the bones in my wrist, examines my ankle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes glowed unnaturally blue, and when he opened his mouth to speak, she saw his skin sliding over the bones of his skull. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were looking at the bones of Mary’s body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I made my bones steel and my skin chain mail. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I press it against my cheek and feel the slight hum travel through the bones of my face. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I touch his chest, lean into him, feel his sigh singing in my bones. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His fingers ground into my wrist bones as he struggled to pry my fingers off him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The problem was that they still didn’t have any idea how old any of these bones were. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Halfway down one foreleg, his fingers tracing the bones and soft tissues of the lower leg, Smith paused. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My shivering wouldn’t stop, and my bones rattled. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

How his very bones froze as the perturbed spirit revealed that he, King Hamlet, had been murdered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

So Cope’s petition and his bones were quietly shelved. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Gulls had picked his bones clean, but I found what I had come for. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wet began to seep into our bones. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The stranger was dressed in feathers and in furs, and there were small bones braided into his long hair. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

The fork resounded so powerfully, she could feel it in her teeth and her bones. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

Coach Ritchey’s tooth became a sort of religious artifact for the team, like the bones or dried innards from a Catholic saint. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

But what be bones that lie in a hole? The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Along the shore of the cove below them windrows of small bones in the wrack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

It’s the first night this year that feels like fall might actually be on its way, and each breeze sinks into my southern bones. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

This was our medicine, these bones, and I opened up and took it all in. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was the same old May, except her skin was pulled tight across her face bones. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Some cloth was still on him, but his bones was clean and dry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And then they poured acid on his body to melt his flesh off his bones, to kill him even when he was already dead. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

We prowl around among the trees, looking for bones, for hummocks in the earth that could mark diggings, the outlines of buildings, turning over logs and rocks to see what’s underneath them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 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

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

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

To Moseley, the fish bones suggested that the ample protein on the coast allowed people to go inland and build irrigation networks to produce the cotton needed to expand fishing production. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re talking about a woman who has had soup with cow bones in it for all sixty years of her life. She doesn’t get tired of things. What are you going to do about it?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

‘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

If they wanted to survive, they must travel light, harden their hearts against sentimental keepsakes, and trust that they could make do with the bare bones of equipment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

His skin stretched tight over bones like sticks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They crumbled into piles of bones, armor, shields, and weapons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His armour was etched with flame designs, his hair braided with bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

They tremble in my bones, my muscles, my gleaming blood. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was warm to touch and it slid around on her bones a little, which was strange, but I didn’t let her know I thought so. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bones remained—the rattling ribs, the claws and teeth along his arms and shoulders, the great yellowed collarbone across his shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course, my bones aching with a familiar old pain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain from the cold had gone into my bones. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was surprisingly light—as if its bones were hollow, or there were nothing inside of it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

An arm of the glacier has withdrawn from this slope within the last fifty or hundred years, leaving the planet’s bones raw to the air; no flesh of earth, of grass. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

It was withering to useless skin and bones anyhow, which made it easier to let go. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself a ghost: bones and teeth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She clasped her hands and then explained the extent of the injuries: broken bones, punctured lung, internal bleeding, brain swelling. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Coming back he found the bones and the skin piled together with rocks over them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She made up a story and told the butcher the bones were for the dog. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He must be tired down to his bones. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But they had never been able to conquer their fear of the individual way in which I acted and lived, an individuality which life had seared into my blood and bones. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

It took several months for Father’s broken bones to mend—and he was always to get aches in them during our cold, rainy winters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

Bare old bones with no skin on top. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They wait, as quiet as upright bones in the softly falling snow. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin and bones, with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion, to fulfill the promise of dying beside his wife. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

“Maybe we can save the bones for you to chew on,” Henry said rudely. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

The meat she put on her bones in South Carolina melted away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

His clean old bones lie beneath the floor of the chapel now, so you must keep it for him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were too far away to hear their hoofbeats, but as they surged down the track, I thought I could feel the resounding force resonating through my bones. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was riding in fine form, everything clicking, the broken bones mended, his timing right. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The center incorporates a lab with a glass wall through which visitors can watch paleontologists cleaning bones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

From above came a deep tremor, like a mighty dynamo, almost too low to hear, though it shook the very atoms of the air and jolted the marrow in Will’s bones. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Each shell echoed a song my bones could hear. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is naked except for a ring of bones around his neck. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

Besides, when I drew people I sometimes thought about muscles and bones, but never the heart. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Pa then separates the meat from the bones and cuts the flesh into very thin slices to soak in the lime juice that Ma has prepared. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got some serious muscle on his bones, your old man does. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

Any wrong move could send the bones slithering back down to cover Chacho. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals — eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones — we had better know something about their nature and their power. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

‘My very bones are chilled,’ said Gimli, flapping his arms and stamping his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As the bones cracked apart over the blade her golden bangles jostled, her forearms glowed, and she exhaled audibly through her nose. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His bones stayed cold and his nose stayed runny. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

Luna couldn’t see him, but she could feel him with her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

You can see it in their bones, their skin, the hollow look in their eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"It's the dead they've come for. Cats can smell blood six miles off. They'll stay near the bodies till they've eaten every last stringy shred o' meat, and cracked the bones for the marrow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

I could feel the beat in my bones, even though I had never danced. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 asked him in what way it was a dumb place to hunt for bones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Corpses lined the benches below, grey-brown flesh sloughing off their bones as they raised their cups to toast, worms crawling in and out of the holes that were their eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The dead and their bones ended up in a tiny graveyard next to the abandoned church, at the foot of the volcano, where there is now a proper cemetery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 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

It is used up to make bones or feathers or fur, or just to keep the steer or chicken alive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Under the bones lurked a ruined and wretched creature with cracked brown teeth and a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“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

He must be as thin and pale as these bones now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

She slammed into the wall and felt bones crack. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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 bones of dead creatures sprawled in the washes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Women carved open to the bones with the cat-o’-nine-tails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“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

He went on, and I could almost hear the little bird bones crunching in the toothy jaws of the cat. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

He used Emmett Till as an example, and despite the fact that it happened so long ago, the story shook Scoob down to his bones. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Most were sheep bones, but there were horses too, and cattle, and now and again a human skull, or a headless skeleton with weeds poking up through its rib cage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here and there a fire, forgotten in the last rush, lingered and in a sudden access of strength fed upon the dry bones of some littered shack. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of his voyage, he had heard from one of his sisters that Henslow and another old professor of his, Adam Sedgwick, were both very interested in the bones he had sent back. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother needs me. I can feel it in my bones. And we are not leaving this wood without her.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The butcher must have known the bones were for us and not a dog because he left more and more pieces of meat on the bones each time Mama went back. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“They’ll strip everyone to bones if we don’t drive them away!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

She sighed, and tried to feel for broken bones. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this talk of exams and teachers getting tired and making mistakes and now the chocolate sale . . . and the two pieces of broken chalk abandoned on the desk, like white bones, dead men’s bones. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch him, picking at the fish with my hands, pulling at the tiny little bones. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

I gnawed on the meat around the pig’s feet and sucked the bones until the salty, slippery membrane slid out and swished around my tongue. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“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

The walls were constructed of bones and skulls - thousands upon thousands, cemented together. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Eighty-nine, and skin and bones like a mummy, she stood listening at her open front door, hands on hips and very grim of face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

And when Callum stood to play his first note—C—he sounded so loud it made my bones vibrate. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, in any case, bones were turning up all over. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ugwu dreamed that the commander had given half of the goat to the soldiers and that they had chewed everything and swallowed the bones. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

The woman did not even give the collection of bones a cursory glance. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“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

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

A rumbling, a roar, he could hear it with his bones. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

“Ugh. It’s never an appropriate time for a nihari joke. I had nightmares about sucking out the marrow from those bones.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

The ordeal had reduced us to skin and bones. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came back crying; all that was left was a pile of feathers and bones. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had already given out his rare Megatherium bones and his finches and mockingbirds from the Galapagos Islands. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next day at dawn, Akhilleus, we picked your pale bones from the char to keep in wine and oil. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

My sleep was fleeting, and my bones, when I rose, sore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He also reviewed the best places to strike with a baton: the ex-posed bones of the lower body. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In quarries I could see its strata, the dragon’s veins and muscles; the minerals, its teeth and bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The bones rounded out of the black vines. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The woman who sat behind me had made no bones about it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a marten would break all his bones if he fell into the paved yard from this height. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

She felt her muscles burn, her bones buckle under the pressure. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

And it was good, Colin supposed, if you happened to enjoy searching through an endless labyrinth of bones and cartilage for the occasional sliver of meat. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“No saint, no angel. Corpus bones, I but delivered a child. Your wife never had a stomach worm.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I put a palm against his face and felt the bones close to the flesh and the tiny wet tears, as if squeezed from a dropper. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have. I know," he answered, and shot his arms out of his sleeves showing several inches bare above the wrist bones. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In reality there had been no one, so that toward the end of college, as graduation loomed, she was convinced in her bones that there would be no one at all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wrist bones and forearms press into my back, and then palms wrap around my arms and pull me to my feet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

A sudden chill penetrates my bones, and I hear laughter again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It swung open to expose a small chamber filled with bones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mama used to smile as she watched the bones pile up on our plates. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then I checked to see if any bones were broken. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She imagined him down below, a crumpled sack of bones in a rat’s skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the urge to run rise up deep from my bones; it was instinct now. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

I’m in the dirt, again, shoulder against the tree, the shock of air so cold it seizes my bones. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

She wanted some shelter before she gave him a pile of bones. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I know a chant on the finger bones,” said the girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There is a dull ache in the marrow of my bones. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

‘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

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

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

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 they left the town behind, following the winding course of the Rhoyne through willow groves and poppy fields and past a tall wooden windmill whose blades creaked like old bones as they turned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The heavy padding of Watney's suit saved him from many broken bones. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Beowulf stood firm, holding the monster in a grip so tight that it almost made his own big fingers crack and the bones poke out of the straining flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A hard man with a can of beans—a soft man with the bones of his grandfather. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now his legs and arms were so emaciated that I could see all the bones in them, and his knee and elbow joints looked outsize, with the flesh shrunk away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But with all Wang Lung’s urging Ching to eat and eat well, the man still put no flesh on his bones, remaining always a small, spare, lean man of great gravity. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe we’re just born with some beliefs in our bones. 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

Piper’s old enemy bowed his head, braided bones clattering in his dreadlocks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’m a little too skinny—I can see the bones of my rib cage if I suck in my breath. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The night air sucks the warmth from our bones as we try to sleep in tents made from the ship’s sails. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

An hour later, it felt as if her bones were trying to push through the places where her joints met. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I think about Papa’s medical books and how we all have the same blood, and organs, and bones inside us, no matter what religion we’re supposed to be. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

“Let me die. By the bones of Saint Mildred, let me die. Or help me to die.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His agony and anguish rippled through my muscles and bones; for him, this division was surely just as excruciating. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Here,” said Mig, staring hard at him, “you forgot the bones. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

A crown of finger bones circled his greasy black hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

My head started swimming, my chest burning, and my legs got all gooey, like all the running was turning my bones to liquid or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

My face is wet, my skin and bones are shaking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

"Sophia made me break his back"—her voice cracks—"and refashion the bones into a pair of wings." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

Gus stopped in the middle of the clearing with the bones right in front of us and slipped his backpack off one shoulder, then the other. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

It would be pleasant to ride in the light for a time, to let the bright mountain sun soak through their cloaks and chase the chill from their bones, but they dared not. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She knew it; she felt it deep in her bones. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The light of the moon skittered along the madwoman’s bones, from the top of her head to her beautiful boots and back again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My well-trained muscles and bones were speaking to me, ordering me to perform. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

Small salty fish with tiny fishy bones every freaking place she looks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I dream about, but when I wake up gasping, I hear the sound of crushed bones in my ears—is it the TV? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then came the voice once again, soft and spooky this time, "Rattle my bones," it said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I have more use for you alive than dead. Serve me, and afterward I will arrange a ship to take you back to Dome and give youPrince Quentyn’s bones to return to his lord father.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

I knew how the backbone worked, which really wasn’t bones, and now I decided to try to make sense of the fins. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The bones rounded out of the ditch, where the dark vines were in the black ditch, into the moonlight, like some of the shapes had stopped. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Graves sprang up in front yards, complete with scattered bones, headstones, and shovels. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

A plate covered in congealing chicken wing bones sat on his lap. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then, diving down to the bottom of the river, they gathered the bones of the first girl and took them to a special rock they knew on the other side of the river. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I knew how lucky I was to have escaped with no broken bones, but I’d been truly frightened. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even used one of its bones for a spearhead. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Made him feel like a little kid, stupid and obvious, the way the urchins looked when they were hanging out behind Chen’s grub shack, hoping he’d toss out bones for them to pick over. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And surrounded by these silent trees, beside a calming fire, I watched the bones dance. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

There was skating on the moat, which roared with the gliding bones which they used for skates, while hot chestnuts and spiced mead were served on the bank to all and sundry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Jones felt it in his bones: Captain Cox wanted to see him about something connected to the assassination! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is too much house for my poor bones.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

All the blood and lymph had been drained out of him by an enormous debauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of nerves, bones, and skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Right, doc? Concussions and broken bones heal. I'm just glad the strongest girl in the world's not hurt." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

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

The eagle’s body looks stuffed like a beanbag, not fluff and bones, like before. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she tied the skeleton’s dress over the bones, gently, just tight enough to hold them in place. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

I could feel a tremor in my bones, and the mugs rattled on the table. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

While I was walking in the city one day, I noticed a white woman in the gutter gnawing on some fish bones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It didn’t speak any tongue that she recognized; it was guttural and harsh, and grated against her ears, as if it sucked the very warmth from her bones. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

“This is the best spot, because you can feel the music in your bones,” she whispered. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

An illustration of a twisted, half-decayed face grinned at her, flesh falling from its bones. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

I had never thought of boats starting from nothing, of taking on bones under their bodies. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He only finds one chipped plate and a spoon, so we sit together on the couch and try to pull apart some slivers, careful not to cut our fingers on the leftover scales or bones. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Very well, tarry with us awhile. I bet your bones would crunch sweetly.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

“How come you left the bones this time?” the orderly asked, grinning. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Send him back over the creek with some meat on his bones.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Patterns shifted in the stone floor, like bones coming to the surface. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

She yanked bones straight that had been crooked for years while relatives held the cripples down, and she did all this never dressed less elegantly than when she stepped out of the sedan chair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was made into a saint, and fragments of her bones were considered to be sacred relics. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kaz lowered his weapon, a chill settling deep into his bones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“Metal was the building’s bones,” I say, imagining metal sheets and beams buckling, glowing red. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She always complains, though, when I give her a tight hug: ‘If you love me, stop squeezing my old bones so I can be alive longer.’ A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We need orange juice with calcium that builds strong bones. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

So, yeah, I was praying that none of Needles's bones were broken, because like Noodles said, we couldn't take him to the hospital. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"You shouldn't have. Rest now, and the doctor will have these bones reset in no time. Your arcana will help them heal quickly." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"Take a last look at me, Pa, rest your bones," he muttered to himself. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

This heat penetrated through his flesh and into his bones. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Broken shingles from the roof covered the floor, there was an empty sack in a corner, some broken earthenware shards, perhaps from a dish or a plate, and a few bones gnawed clean. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

“The soup’s always on, and you’re more than welcome to join us for a meal. You and your brother need to put some meat on your bones. You’re so thin and pale, both of you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Imagine someone reaching straight into your chest, past the bones and blood and guts, and taking a nice firm hold on your spinal cord. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the livingroom the bones of a small animal dismembered and placed in a pile. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

They'd lost weight and their muscles had withered on their bones. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I'm real as death, little Laia. Real as shattered bones and traitorous sisters and hateful Masks.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

But I don’t like the goat because the bones are too small and you could be eating a dog or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh well,” he said, “I went to stay with my daughter down south for a spell. These New York City winters are getting tough on these old bones of mine.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Way he usually eats, I’m surprised the fish hasn’t disappeared straight from the bones, but he’s focusing on his fingers and the fish’s spine like he’s trying to thread a needle. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"Rattle my bones!" the parrot said, giving a wonderful imitation of a spooky voice. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The bones from a black cat are powerful.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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 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

His proof was burned bones, but burned bones proved nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His fingernails tickled their dry ivory exteriors, making the bones clang against each other with a hollow sound that echoed through the cave. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

She carefully watched the bones and shells roll and come to a stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ginger's usual treats were shaped like small bones. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“This one has given blood on the old bones.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

Her cheeks are now hollow, her skin hangs on her bones, and her eyes are dulled with hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The Academy was a natural history museum full of dinosaur bones and taxidermy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had green eyes and sharp bones in her face, and hollow cheeks, and there was something brittle in her reticence that suggested strong will and a temper easily lost. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Many a time his brother had tried to crack the black bones of the gate between his teeth, but they would not break. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Did those white bones lying on that table evoke the gasp of horror that went up from the nation? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was fleshy, like squid out of which the glassy blades of bones had been pulled. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slow dread sinks into my bones with every step up the stairs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Archaeology provides us with direct evidence of culture in the form of pottery, pig and fish bones, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’ll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind,’ said Sam. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

The air smelled of ash, every rock and tree in sight was scorched and blackened, the ground strewn with burned and broken bones, yet it had been home to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

I scream from the diff-edge, “seize me! Seize me to your foul black bowels and crush my bones!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was underfed, so skinny his bones protruded under his skin, and he looked so lost, standing there, clutching his own elbows. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

And then I realize: I have waited outside in the cold gray-lit car-exhausted frigidity and caused the possible broken bones in Gary's hand to hear a band that is, manifestly, not Neutral Milk Hotel. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

He found a dog biscuit and a couple of bones in one of the empty kennels. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her bones ached, and her skin itched from the constant damp. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red dirt at my feet shifts as more of it rises from the ground, dancing up my limbs and seeping into my very bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

With each step her bones felt stronger and less bruised, and even the dried blood in her hair felt less heavy and crusty and sticky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Mama sliced off the rotten parts and made soup with the good vegetable pieces, mixing them with bones she bought at the butcher shop. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This bone ship looked like a rib cage, curved bones curling up as it erupted out of the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Already, I can feel my hip bones a little more when I lie down flat. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Same dimpled cheeks, same light complexions that make folks call us “red bones” and “light brights,” same dark, wide eyes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

The bones were each about waist high, and the thighbone was longer than me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Esteban finished picking the whitish fish from the tangle of bones and laid his knife and fork across his plate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

It was a big hand, but fleshless now, the bones moving loosely under the skin, all the strength gone from it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

He would say, “I have Jewish hands, Jewish bones, Jewish stories, and a Jewish soul. But I’m not officially observant of—the religious practices of the Jewish people. Got it?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

I pound the stairs so hard my bones rattle. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we ate, we threw the bones out the window, plink, into the water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

He was again the scrawny bag of bones she remembered from the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sean dropped his hand limply, as if the hand itself had no bones in it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Ashes drifted into the hollow places in my bones and silted up my brainpan. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every building sported jagged spurs of metal sticking from its broken walls, like bones jutting from a long-dead animal. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

His bones were so thirsty that whenever he walked on top of underground water, no matter how far down, his own skeleton told him where it was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“You shouldn’t come near me,” I said as I lay in bed, my bones sore, my lips so chapped they bled. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

“A man of bones. You can’t be up to your eyeballs in bones and not believe in enchanted places.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

The scholars dashed hectically across the sand, leaping over the bones of previous victims. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The ice ached and groaned, like old bones carrying too many years, brittle and threatening to snap at any moment. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

When I recovered my composure, I had to leap onto the sidewalk at the risk of breaking all my bones, and run toward the street down which she had already turned. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Beneath her nightgown, her ribs reached out from inside of her, showing bones where flesh and meat should have been. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He tripped over a hose and crumpled to the ground as if his bones had dissolved. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His trainer knew it, and told him, fairly glowing with a ferocious pride, as if he’d built the tiger—bones, sinews, fangs, and claws—with his own hands. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Tayo finished the meat on the mutton ribs and threw the bones to a skinny yellow dog that came out from behind the hogan. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel her bones and muscles just underneath all the chub, and they were big, too. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

"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

“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

But she just looks up into the sky, blue and spare, with clouds that look like bones. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Two wolves broke free from the thicket of bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The fused bones of slaughtered demons,” she supplied. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

“Have you had any accidents recently? Any broken bones, burns, any injury at all?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’ll come back in a few years with a new suit and fat on his bones like any Yank and a lovely girl with white teeth hangin’ from his arm. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Rock that looked enough like bones to spawn a myth, with a boulder here and there in the rough shape of a skull? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She felt that truth deep in her bones. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What she had taken for twigs were bones. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body feels like someone has replaced my blood with molasses, and my bones with lead. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Details emerged in my mind like bones dredged from deep water. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Everyone is scared in a deep way—like, in our bones. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

Like us, their heads were shaved and they were skin and bones. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even ambrosia couldn’t heal broken bones right away. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I know he’s right, but the thought of sending Sandy back to his dad makes me feel like all my bones are crumbling. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“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

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

The way her pelvic bones stretched the material clear of her skin, the deep curve of her waist, her startling whiteness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There’s an initial sense of impact followed by an explosion that resonates in my innermost parts, the lining of my intestines, the marrow of my bones, the roots of my teeth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I grew so quickly that my bones broke. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He searched thin walls, weak sutures of spindle bones above the ear for thresholds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was all angles and bones and papery skin, like a cricket. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘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

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

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

Beneath it is a jagged gang of rocks and a wicked whirlpool that pulls your dead bones down to the underworld. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The man felt the bones of his head move against each other, and he knew that another blow like that would kill him outright. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Was it something I said? The rubbings, they’re for a local history project, it’s not as if I’m, you know, digging up bones or anything.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Wondered if she'd ever had or wanted a dog or had a brother who was mad all the way down to his bones. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

When they didn’t find any, they threw the bones down in disgust. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only the strongest wizards in the district could administer this potion—a kind of paste made from the burned and ground bones of leopards and lions, and mixed with roots and herbs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sound of the ice cream churning outside sounds like bones crunching. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’m a pile of bones in the air. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

But I knew her sick from the disease that would not go, her legs bunched under the yellow sheets, the bones gone limp as worms. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Telling myself my flesh hadn't suddenly shrunk against my bones and my heart wasn’t battering. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Even his bones would disappear—this was part of Arthur’s warning—until somebody found them scattered among the stained newsprint on the floor, looking like strips of white confetti. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

At the very least, the liquor might thaw the chill the storm had buried in my bones. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Darlene sighed hopelessly and said, “There sure was plenty bones at that ball, honey, but I still got my honor.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They penetrated the wall and there were the bones in the intact bag. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I felt, like a stabbing in my bones, the pain of deciding to break from my husband. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

“Put your bones on the other goatskin,” he told them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

He turned slowly, freezing in place when the bones threatened to shift, then moving again, aiming toward where he thought the nearest edge lay. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we try to climb out, the bones will shift. There’s tons of them here. We’ll fall to the bottom, and they’ll come down on top of us.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to her, straightened her body gently, feeling for broken bones. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“By the bones of Saint Polycarp, who is Alyce?” bellowed the midwife. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 legs and arms feel like they’ve lost their bones as I drag myself outside the house. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

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 dirty dress covered most of the bones. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"His father's bones he shall have, as a gesture of Joffrey's good faith." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

A deep pit has been dug, and they’re lining it with bones, a mass grave for my people. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We wandered wordlessly away from our search, neither one of us wanting to admit that we were eager to give it up, both of us feeling in our bones how pointless it was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Those bones are meerkat bones. Have them checked by an expert.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s odd to think I have a skeleton of bones hiding under my skin, holding me up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“If they had a little more meat on their bones, I figure they’d be the best-lookin’ hounds in Tyler County,” I tell him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He had breathed far less than was good for him under the heavy whale bones. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had so many broken bones that they could not be counted, but he was alive and his eyes were open. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I glue the bones to a block of wood, arranging the skeleton like a museum exhibit. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

I went home to do likewise, sure in my bones that I would hear His calling now. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m playing the game. You notice that I came out of that one with no broken bones.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her elbows and pelvic bones looked sharp as needles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“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

Yet Pilate said it was winter when she was there, and there were only bones. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Mom, Abbey, and I pushed together to slide the bone- fish skiff off the trailer, since Dad’s hands were still tender from the fractured bones. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure what’s wrong. I tried to reach you last night, but the bones came down so hard, I could hardly breathe. It was like being squeezed under a rock.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strangeness of her daddy’s appearance and the late hour conspired to sink a peculiar anxiousness into Ophie’s bones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

He was so thin you could count his ribs and see the bones in his arms and legs, but it wasn’t just that. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

After roasting the bones in the oven for an hour, I simmered them for the rest of the day in a stockpot with the vegetables and some herbs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Below their feet, the ugly, sharp-toothed fish darted back and forth, waiting to take the two of them down to bones. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her hearing sharpened and she felt the dreadful noises in her bones: a distant screeching of brakes, the slam of a door, gunfire, the crush of boots, a muffled scream. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Wielaf was panting and wincing on the floor of the upper level, Anya gathered up her bones and lifted him to standing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When my brother was five, he returned from a church barbecue he'd attended with a friend and announced "Jesus is in my bones." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I filled his cup and heard him belch and removed his plate with the meat half gnawed from the bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No bones, no muscles, but I feel tired just the same. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

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

She looked down at her arm, expecting to see ruptured flesh and broken bones, but it was unharmed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And it was in this way that Despereaux became the only mouse sent to the dungeon whom the rats did not reduce to a pile of bones and a piece of red thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

Our rocks and pebbles, the sand and gravel you see: these were Ymir’s teeth, and the fragments of bones that were broken and crushed by Odin and Vili and Ve in their battle with Ymir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I could feel my curiosity strengthening, as if it were part of my bones, keeping pace with them as I grew. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Scattered almost randomly around the top of the mounds are burned, oxidized chunks of rock—hearth stones—in drifts of fish bones and ash. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1953 he confessed: "I have never succeeded in freeing myself from a nagging prejudice against continental drift; in my geological bones, so to speak, I feel the hypothesis is a fantastic one." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“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

“You were born in Panamá. It's in your bones.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She was designed to her bones for a swifter life. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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 left shin looked no bigger than the bones inside it. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Butler’s burly frame collided with the wall at a speed human bones were never meant to withstand. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They’d built a fire there and charred billets of wood lay stuck in the melted tar together with ash and bones. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, but before she had tested all the bones, she lost interest She threw the last ones down impatiently and tipped the mess out of the window, not caring when it feD. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should see if he is okay—like no broken bones and all that.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of the survivors, four had broken bones; the other five just minor injuries. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis baked the deer bones, cracked them, and used a special long carved spoon to scoop out the hot rich marrow. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

I pinched the two bones on the sides of his wrist. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Tossing the bones aside, he reached for a leg. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I just feel it in my bones,” she confided, “that something wonderful is going to happen tonight at the corn husking.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I lift my heel and stomp as hard as I can where the bones in his foot connect to his toes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

I chip away at the pelvic bones, just a pinch on each side. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

‘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

Ymir’s bones they piled up into mountains and cliffs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He stared mournfully at the bones, his belly rumbling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If I am in possession of your bones, I can witness the miracles they perform—and surely, they will perform miracles! The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Still, the dampness and the bite of the cold ate at my bones, and I had lost my mittens. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Day and night they chipped and hacked, pickaxed and burrowed deeper, uncovering whitened bones by the ton while the deranged clergyman rambled about, frothing like a lunatic. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

She looked like the little kids who squatted outside of Chen’s, hoping for scrap bones. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

She felt naked as she began to wrap it around herself, like a bird plucked of its feathers—all goosebumpy skin and trembling bones and frail, sputtering heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The bones, he realized, have reversed themselves; the spider is again alive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He offered Chappell thirty-six dollars to cleanse the bones and skull and return to him a fully articulated skeleton. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few buddies of mine left Nicaragua to come make some real bones over here. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

Frank saw plenty of minor injuries—some burns, broken bones, black eyes, cuts and gashes, plus a lot of very interesting hairdos from fires and exploding water cannons—but nothing that couldn’t be fixed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

The sun was a hot white penny, shining down upon the grey river as it rushed around the charred bones of sunken ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Though bones as such do not get tired. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet they found bones too, the skulls of the unburied dead, bleached and broken. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Her fontanel was sunken in, a telltale sign of dehydration, and her ribs and the small bones of her spine had been visible under her skin, like a string of beads. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Dreams get caught in the webs woven in your bones. That’s where they live, in that marrow there.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with them were the paddlelike bones, massive enough to make tables or even beds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them stretched the wide basin that had once been full of living water and was now filled with dead whales.The bones stuck up like a gigantic bowl of thorns. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere around there the first gray mule had eaten a poison weed and died; the bones would be scattered in the tall grass around the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Of course, the radioactive strontium they ate was concentrated in their bones, and the radioactive iodine was concentrated in their thyroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth—the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The floor of the passage was littered with the bones of birds and beasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

I wondered had he rotted down to bones yet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But Char squeezes my shoulder so hard, I hear my bones creak. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“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

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

He was skin and bones, his eyes were dead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

Dimple smiled, swallowing to dispel the warm, liquidy feeling in her bones, and handed him the box. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘He is, trust me. I feel it in my bones.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were Ruh down to their bones, and that, really, is all that needs to be said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mask lay on a small huddle of silent white bones and material. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I was tired down into the center of my bones. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, “You’ve got to have some meat on your bones, girl.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

If any slaves got caught with a ham or some bones, they would be in big trouble. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

She had gone south, and only her bones had returned. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His body was lost in exhaustion; he kept moving, his bones and skin staggering behind him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of her sinks through me and settles deep in my bones. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The skeleton’s dress should be able to hold the bones enough to keep them from sliding out of Anya’s sturdier apron on the outside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Others were flayed and stripped, showing rusty iron girder bones. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“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

But we were standing then in a different area of the house, the frozen-in-time, museum-like part of the place, where symbolism lived and mattered, where the country's old bones were on display. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

The remains were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to determine exactly when McCandless had died, but the coroner could find no sign of massive internal injuries or broken bones. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed and swatted at his attacker, a relentless jumble of skin and bones cavorting on top of him as he tried to gain purchase. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

I wished it wouldn’t do that, wished my flesh wasn’t shrinking against my bones. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her old bones ached, and her mind raced. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He felt it in his bones, and it felt perfectly awful, but there it was: They couldn’t leave. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Confused, Lakes now asked Marsh to pass the bones on to Cope. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

The "paints" used were chunks of red and yellow ocher ground into powder and applied with brushes or blown onto the surface through hollow bones. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Creole and Haiti stick to my insides like glue—it’s like my bones and muscles. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to see his rotten old bones!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When we hug our grandfather, his body is all bones and skin. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

“He just needs to put meat on his bones!” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The ravine fall had shaken and battered him, but all his bones survived the trip uncracked. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Thor said he didn’t mind if he did, and he proceeded to devour two of the oxen all by himself, one after the other, leaving nothing but clean-picked bones. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were many empty buildings with black windows, like blind eyes, buildings like skeletons standing with snow on their bones in the winter winds. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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