She bit at her bottom lip and squinted at me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then you got a trap on the bottom and no way to find it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gaunt cattle, their ribs protruding and their heads hanging low, stood listless at the bottoms of dried-up stock ponds where the mud had dried and cracked into mosaics of tiles as hard as stone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bottom edges of his jeans were frayed. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning, Robin Hood waits for me at the bottom of the stairs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The animal was tired of getting hungry, and he asked a rabbit to sew up his bottom so no food could get out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tried but could not quite find her balance and fell down to the mudflats, striking her head on a granite outcropping just before she dropped to the bottom. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It has an edge; somewhere in the bottom lid is the distaste. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled like the bottom of a pond, with little hints of bleach here and there. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was no noise at all except for the quiet hum of the engines, rising up from the bottom of the ship. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I tore back to Clairmont, and when it came into view it was burning, bottom to top. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We did not pick from the bottom of the vine or from the top. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

So was I, the Roman numeral for one, except for the crossbars on top and bottom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To the bottom of the sea, the bowels of the earth, to the heart of the fiery furnace? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her teeth are straight on top and crooked on the bottom. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her bottom lip quivers, and tears well up in her eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The smile faded, and her bottom lip began to tremble. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He sat down and with his deep voice told the river bottoms that he had been hurt. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut the bottom out of one and the remaining canvas was the right size and shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that she was looking at the bottom of a kitchen stool. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I picked up a drop of Coke with the bottom of my straw and sealed the top with my thumb. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She hands it over, and I dig to the bottom for the familiar shape of the book that’s always there. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And while she sprinkles the collar of a white shirt her mind is at the bottom of the bed where the leg, broken clean away from the frame, is too split to nail back. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flipped through the pages, hands, heads, bottoms, in silence, chewing his pencil. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there, at the bottom of the waterfall, strewn across the wet rocks, was the shattered body of the dead robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was no text, only photograph after photograph of broken tablets with the inscriptions—in Linear B—reproduced in facsimile in the bottom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He walks down to the bottom edge of the roof, facing away from me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Yet zero sits at the end of the computer and at the bottom of the telephone because we always start counting with one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I keep my bottom planted on the bench and fume at the injustice of my parents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reached the bottom of the steps and waited for the Sleer to manifest. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It had been carefully banded at the top and bottom so that it wouldn’t come undone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, as my mom showers, I stack the frozen plastic containers inside an insulated lunch pack, which I place in the bottom of my backpack. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the paper an arrow pointed down. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way to the stage and stood at the bottom of the steps. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It is. But it’s like a layer cake. Brown earth or rock on the bottom, green trees, then blue sky. Did you know cacti bloom flowers? Every color except blue. We’ve even got roadrunners.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She frowned a lot as she talked, and I couldn’t decide if she was plain old coffee or something worse, like the vinegar pooled at the bottom of a jar of pickles. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held it up to the light and quickly read; it was a list of names, with the mayor’s at the bottom. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit down on the mound of unwashed pajama bottoms and sweatshirts and dig out the phone. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And the horror of watching it sweep away the first people at the bottom. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Seven on bottom, four in the middle, and one on top, but it looked misshapen, so I took it apart and settled for plain rows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was very deep and often we had to let out two hundred feet of line before we touched bottom. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she rubs her bottom lip hard and looks at my carpet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In her black shirt that hangs below her bottom and pants that are frayed at the hem, she looks smaller than the rest of the group. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the day when our teachers would invite parents to school and announce the rank of the students in each class—from top to bottom—out in the courtyard. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes scan it top to bottom before her face falls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It took him a long time to reach the bottom and to crouch behind a little dwarf palm. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly, for no reason I could figure, Ollie dove down to the bottom of his bowl, rushed to the top, and hurled himself right out of the bowl. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She would let the abalone I tossed to her sink to the bottom and then dive and come up holding it against her body, with the rock held in her mouth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new set of ropes leaped out from the top and bottom of the beds, wrapping around Grover and Annabeth’s ankles, then around their armpits. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The two men were breathing hard, their feet and the bottom of their trousers were soaking wet. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We reached the bottom of the steps and shuffled toward the turnstiles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like the floor has opened up beneath him and there’s no bottom to his agony. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The top half of her face is angry—like she’s ready to stab someone—and the bottom half is almost smug. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Through an archway on the further side of the room they could see the bottom of the staircase that led up to the higher floors. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fall into that unknowable abyss, and you’ll be counting the days before you reach bottom.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mama sits her big bottom on Janae’s bed and fidgets with the envelope in her hand. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The thudding sound they made as they fell to the bottom reminded me of clods of dirt raining down on a fresh coffin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked up as the bottom of the boat scraped against the rocks at the shallow edge, he saw Jonas there as well, looking concerned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had reached the bottom of the stairs now. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the card somebody had written, "Get well quick! from all of your good friends at Ladies' Day," in lavender ink. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He swallows, his tongue licking his bottom lip. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The rich bottom land near the river was studded with tall sycamores, birches, and box elders. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course it does. Well, you had better ask Mrs. Danvers to come here and we’ll get to the bottom of it. What ornament was it, anyway?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit covered with dry leaves, and it stopped lowing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There’s a photo of a girl, who must be her daughter, standing with a brown man, the three little boys gathered around their legs, at the bottom of Multnomah Falls. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the old Maxwell car as it snorted and chugged its way out of the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wake-up call for all of us: As refugees in America, we were at the bottom of the heap. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The golden color fades into silver halfway to the bottom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I set the can on a steam pipe until the water evaporated, leaving bits of solid food in the bottom. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One at a time, Kote wiped their bottoms clean of the strawberry wine and set them on the bar between himself and Chronicler, as if they might defend him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached the big tree, their voices were making the bottoms ring. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elevators used the same magnetic lifters as any other hovercraft, so there was always a solid metal plate at the bottom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The old woman dragged a finger across her bottom lip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then she stuck her foot on the bottom row of wire and pulled up the top row, making a wide space. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When he did, I saw the holes in the bottoms of his shoes. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Robert was breathing heavily by the time they reached the bottom of the stairs, his face red in the lantern light as they stepped out into the darkness of the crypt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As he spoke this time, his words also appeared as text, superimposed across the bottom of my display, like subtitles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mam says it’s hard enough keeping a fire going to cook the Christmas dinner but if I’m going to Christmas dinner at the hospital I’ll have to wash myself from top to bottom. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stuff the dress back into the laundry basket and grab at the black collar peeking out from the bottom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I fell headlong into the brush at the bottom of the sandy bank and lay still. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Leo to drill a few extra holes in the bottom of the hull with his power tools, and Leo was happy to oblige. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Ferris wheel stopped spinning and I realized we were at the bottom. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Next she took two strips of skin from the water and held them in place while they froze to the bottom of the bowl, in the shape of flat rockers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glint of deep red...It was a sword with glittering rubies in its hilt....The sword of Gryffindor was lying at the bottom of the forest pool. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She began to cry, her bottom lip curled out so that Theresa could see where her lipstick ended and her inner mouth began. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We was already dead and I wasn’t gonna spend my last minutes on earth begging no worm from the bottom of a outhouse for my life. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He ran behind the car for as long as he could, until it hit the slope and began bumping down to the bottom. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her stepmother paused on the bottom step, her lip curled. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d landed on the bottom step when a sharp rustle in the bushes along the side of the building caught his attention. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The desperation I’d seen at the bottom of the rock, so real and so deep and so big. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A wide valley is opening up around us, flat at the bottom where the river is but distant hills beginning to climb up on either side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The universe is thus spherical and finite; moreover, it is oriented: it has a top, a bottom, a left and a right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I asked, praying he didn’t have burial shrouds hidden at the bottom of that trunk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I love the color and I like how it fits you on the top and bellows out on the bottom.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

With the quick thinking and courage of the very best knights from the very best storybooks, Sir Will wrenched the grate off the bottom of the vent. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Once at the bottom, the walls create a maze, leaving only a small portion of the garden visible at a time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Attached to the bottom of the disc is a needle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boat Uncle Vernon had hired was still there, with a lot of water in the bottom after the storm. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Black was sprawled at the bottom of the wall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it be at the bottom of this road. Why does that matter to you? “I hear there might be work.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could protest, a thousand scraps of garbage surged off the bottom and flew straight at me from both directions: broken glass, rocks, cans, tires. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dad just bit down on his bottom lip and glared at his father before turning back to his food. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lupita followed, going up the ladder as fast as she could and falling with a thud onto the bottom of the car. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Mig bent her head and looked at the mouse slowly sinking to the bottom of the glass cup. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

He kept card-board alongside the bottom bars to keep the animal from getting out, though often she did anyway and he’d have to find her on the gallery when he returned. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his feet touched bottom in the shallows, he started bawling and lunging. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archer wriggled out into the hold at the bottom of the ship. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards offshore I let the hook go and it plunged down and grabbed bottom, and the Fayre Eleyne straightened and raised her bow and seemed to sigh with relief. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t even 4:00 p.m. yet, but he’s already in his Captain America pajama bottoms, and his short black hair is sticking up in all directions. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They swam to the bottom, where Xenocrates was bubbling out his last bit of air. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was a drum Mamita brought back from a trip to New York; a magnificent drum, its sides bright red, crisscrossed by gold wire held down by gold button heads, its top and bottom white. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When we got to the boys’ bedroom door, his bottom lip began to quiver. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The stockade was situated just at the bottom of the slope which dropped down into the encampment. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil was still a fair distance from the bottom when he lowered his foot and discovered there was no longer a rung for him to step onto. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Eyebolts were attached on the top and bottom for the guide rod. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, slipped off his sneakers, and climbed into my bed on the bottom bunk, pulling up the covers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers along the ruby-red interior and discover a hidden drawer at the very bottom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then, as the angle of incline lessened, as the mound— the hill—flattened, nearing the bottom, the sled’s forward motion slowed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My dad’s truck rolls away, and I stand there like I plan on growing roots from the bottoms of my feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He swallows hard, his Adam’s apple bouncing to the bottom of his neck and back up again. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I find it in the bottom of my closet—only a little bit dirty—and slide it on. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Not really,” I said thinking about the thirty pans, each with a wafer of black, sticky resin congealed in the bottom, big as a dinner plate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She might even cut it up and let Alphie wear it a while before it winds up on the floor pushed against the bottom of the door to block the rain from the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I bite my bottom lip and think of a very careful way to respond. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Because they were everywhere, clinging to freshly scrubbed laundry on clothes lines, or stuck to the bottom of well-heeled shoes, the butterflies were on everyone’s most wanted list, including Mamá’s. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We reach the bottom of the stairs, where another group of security guards lets us in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some people around Battle Mountain said the Hot Pot had no bottom at all, that it went clean through to the center of the earth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her leg was ripped one way, and her arm twisted under her at the bottom of the steps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Dudley hitched up his trousers, which were slipping down his fat bottom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The bottom of her foot was glazed with red. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gregor caught himself just before his face hit the boat bottom. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tied the bottoms of the legs, stuffed them full, and as I looked down on my strange cargo, I thought of scarecrows and Halloween. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t follow, please don’t follow, I prayed as I worked my way down, branch by branch, unhitching the nearly empty duffel bag at the bottom and tossing it over my shoulder. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the mountain, we watered up at a brook that ran past, and then started off along the logging road. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They looked as if they led all the way to the bottom of the canal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

For some time, we remained like this, he sitting motionless and I Observant now, regarding the burlap weave on the bottom of the sofa, measuring my breath for silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So he cut it off, buried it in the bottom of his backpack, a dead fabric snake. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Cole’s vision was blurred, but he understood that he was lying in the bottom of a shallow aluminum skiff. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One afternoon as he was carrying a load up the Lhotse Face he lost his purchase on the rock-hard ice and fell more than 2,000 feet to the bottom of the wall. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Wheelers’ home was on a hill on what must have been an acre of old farmland in the suburb of Weston, with a small creek running across the bottom. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, not really. A girl told me she found one in the bottom of hers once, and ever since then she throws that part away.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom one, voluptuous as dew-bright fruit, parted from its fellow—for him—and it was the most enticing thing he’d ever seen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He inserted the bottom end of this contraption into the big jar where the dreams were lying. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood still for a moment, but when he reached for a gun my hands instinctively went to the bottom of my shirt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom is unsteady—at times rocky, then a sudden drop-off, then soft and mossy. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sydelle Pulaski stared at the bare wicker bottom, then sank to the rim of the bathtub, shaking her head in disbelief. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waits for me at the bottom of Barrack Hill. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother would look at my wild tangles and scold me: “Aii-ya, Ying-ying, you are like the lady ghosts at the bottom of the lake.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I want to grow up and weave the bottoms of chairs for people to sit in?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roiling mass of fairies converged on Seth again, hauling him to the bottom of the pool amid eerie bursts of light. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Great, booming, helpless laughter from the bottom of his soul. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a beautiful, eerie singing, like voices from the bottom of a well. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Softly, the fan tickled the pink bottoms of her feet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“These other materials are very scarce, found only on the bottom of the ocean.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It sloped up gently northward, and at its bottom went the bed of a now dry and withered stream. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“These belonged to our ancestors. Grandma thought they were too nice to throw away, so we kept them in the bottom of this chest.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood motionless a couple inches from the bottom of the bed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Prendergast filled the postcard from top margin to bottom, from edge to edge, with little regard for whether the sentences formed level lines or not. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Vanessa, who slept on the bottom bunk to the right of mine, had snuck up to Sam’s bed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At the bottom, Kermit’s canoe was still upright but it was filled with water and close to sinking. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“So—” Will stopped what he was doing, which was arranging his rucksack so the heaviest objects were in the bottom, and tried to see the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A man was at the bottom, pounding his way up, his eyes all fire set in a dirty, scratched face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t move after that, the body flopping at the bottom of the wheel while the whole thing keeps turning. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I pushed off the mucky bottom, hand sinking deep into silky mud, and came back to standing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A witness with illegible handwriting signed a line at the bottom of the form, and Henrietta signed another. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they reached the bottom, the sun was just rising above the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

If he had had wings when he was tossed overboard, he would not have sunk to the bottom of the sea. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

We are, as Derrick Bell once wrote, the “faces at the bottom of the well.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“But the bottom gets deeper with each trip; you know that, don’t you?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Darkness was settling by the time they reached the bottom of the mountain, so Yishan suggested that they find shelter for the night in the village. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s a net at the bottom,” I say, looking over my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Impressive aim. The knife is one of a pair, correct? See this pattern painted on the bottom of the blade? It cuts off abruptly.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Once both shoes are set aside, he tickles the bottom of my left foot, and I totally snort. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Was the bottom of the well full of water? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore had convinced Harry not to go looking for the Mirror of Erised again, and for the rest of the Christmas holidays the Invisibility Cloak stayed folded at the bottom of his trunk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There in the bottom was a large hole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the barrels have to do is raise the boat clear of the bottom, then I can pull the bow onto shore. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the page there was one important detail Barry had missed before. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He just bit down on his bottom lip, and occasionally he would shake his head like he was picturing the picture of me in that store over and over again. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her hand bottoms look like feet bottoms, only with fingers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second and third floors had a collection of random businesses, but the entire bottom floor used to be a library. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘And a short stumpy tail grows out of your back just above your bottom. There is no cure for ratitis. I ought to know. I’m a doctor.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the bottom of the hopper, listening to the train’s noises fade away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Following a handwritten arrow at the bottom of the poster and the word over, Ignatius complied and looked at the other side of the poster, where Myrna had written something: Sirs: What is wrong, Ignatius? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie was looking rather grumpy; determined to outshine Harry for once, he had most rashly invented his own potion, which had curdled and formed a kind of purple dumpling at the bottom of his cauldron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The hummingbird on her Hawaiian shift plunged its swordlike beak between the mounds of her bottom. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His feet no longer scraped the rocks on the bottom, and the current lifted him, carried him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought Mr. Birkway was finished with the journals for that day, but he made a great show of closing his eyes and pulling something from near the bottom of the stack. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He rose and mounted the pulpit steps, and took from the small opening at the bottom of the pulpit three tambourines. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Blue Team’s sixteen lost ships, which were lying at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, were refloated. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It’s none of my business, but bottom line: even if he were what I wanted in a guy, my interest would be futile. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

If he caught you throwing candy wrappers on the sidewalk, he would give you a whack with his open hand on the bottom hard enough to lift you off the ground. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I'd like to sit down, but I'm not sure I want to plant my bare bottom on some public piece of university property. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and wince, thinking about the return to Jankburg, and I sink to the bottom, below the layer of bubbles Aunt Heidi put in. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Trees will cover the sea bottom and seaweed the mountain tops before I cease to love Scylla,” he told her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For a dollar, I'll eat gum from the bottom of the seat." Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

An operating tank stood in the middle, the liquid drained out of it, tubes and electrodes hanging loosely in a puddle at the bottom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He flogs Question across the shoulders, the bottom, the legs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes she wipes the bottom of the mug with a tissue she keeps stuffed in her sweater sleeve. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making a boat is easy, little Disaster, said Crocodile Guts from his bench at the bottom of the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squinted at the computer screen in front of Finn, her eyes scanning the words at the bottom of the news report. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The exit at the bottom will let me out in the alley, where I probably won’t be stopped. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As I stood waiting I realized something was different in the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you see any earth at the bottom?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It could have reached up and bit my bottom if it had wanted to. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We bought soft pretzels from the cart in the park, even though I told Calista they tasted like the soggy cardboard from the bottom of the pizza box. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had to tie it pretty loose, because the fake-jagged-cut bottom barely covered my nuts. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We passed on through the dining room, and stopped at the bottom of the stairs. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the hill it charged across the road, knocking over a telegraph pole and flattening two parked automobiles as it went by. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled in a sneaky way, flashing his crooked bottom row. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When they reached the bottom it was so cold that they halted and got out cloaks and hoods, which soon became bedewed with grey drops. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I looked at a mean bright orange one, looked at the bottom. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know an aneurysm had ruptured in the network of blood vessels at the bottom of her brain called the circle of Willis. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We found bus 47 and stood at the bottom of the entrance with our tickets in hand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

How do you get near the bottom of something that doesn’t have a bottom? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But as I spoke, the mist took on a golden sparkle, as if the bottom of the clouds had been dipped in glitter. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He swung the trident in his massive hands and in one shock from top to bottom split that promontory, toppling into the sea the fragment where the great fool sat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cows could graze at the bottom, and I could keep a lookout for thieves or wild animals. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bowls were at the bottom of the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he would tell me every little detail from top to bottom. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor watched me as I closed the bottom desk drawer and left the room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Joaquin laughed a little, then watched as the joint started to sink to the bottom of the pool. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the tube was placed in the water, so when the piston was raised, the water level followed the plunger upward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She reached the bottom of the stairs, and Dorian took a step forward. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They say that often Greek flowers are seen coming up from the bottom, and that if a wooden cup is thrown into the Alpheus in Greece, it will reappear in Arethusa’s well in Sicily. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was crouched against the wall near the bottom of the staircase and came pouncing down upon him like a hawk with a glittering silver steak knife in her fist. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His head was fringed with hair like the fluff on a duck’s bottom, and he sprayed saliva when he talked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though I had waded out into a shallow pool only to have the bottom drop out and the water close over my head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone hardly ten yards when the bottom fell out of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo could not have called, for he had fallen asleep, and had slid down nearly to the bottom of the pit. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Upper-middle- class Americans live longer and in better health than middle- class Americans, who live longer and better than those at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They started on the job but stopped when someone crashed a donkey cart into the bottom of the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson said, kneeling to look beneath the bottom bunk. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the way down to the bottom and back. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later on she noticed that her bed had a top and a bottom. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an iron staircase with iron doors at the top and bottom. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muscle memory kicked in as he tapped the side of the box and poured three ounces of the baking soda into the black pot, watching the powder swirl and fall to the bottom. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The bottom line seemed to be that any one of the three schools might win the varsity honors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe that would describe a canyon, complete with a handy river at the bottom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Bessie was swimming happily around, swishing his serpent tail and poking his head out the sides and bottom of the sphere. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She could sink to the bottom and drown, let the river carry her body away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In this way they covered almost twenty miles before nightfall, and came to a point where the Road bent right and ran down towards the bottom of the valley, now making straight for the Bruinen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My bottom lip quivered as the news sunk in. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The young king examined her critically, top to bottom. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We have rags to catch the spit blown out the valve at the bottom of the slide, but I miss half the time. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I offered to help her but instead she just held the book up to her lips and blew on the bottom edge of the page and flipped it over with the strength of her breath. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We stand up its middle section and then stick on the branches, longer pieces at the bottom and shorter as we build up, tier by tier. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes! Yes! Absolutely! No talent, no imagination, a fraud from top to bottom!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally fed up, Shani turned to tell me to stop and, as she did, my right knuckles skipped off her shoulder and into her bottom lip, which immediately stained red. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Much harden The water was running out against him, and every whitecap that struck him broadside sent water into the bottom of the boat. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Everyone’s got to do their time in the bottom of the barrel,” the union rep had said to our class regarding the likelihood of our initial assignment to Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod and swirl my feet through the rough grains, enjoying the gritty tickling at the bottom of my feet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But like a darn fool I left my life jacket in the bottom of the boat, under the seat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas stops us at the bottom of the stairs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The shell barges were much like the racing shells the boys aspired to sit in, but they were a few inches broader in the beam, with flatter bottoms and keels. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take all afternoon floating down into the abyss, and he had been very glad to see it at last vanish, with no sound at all, into a forty-foot snowdrift at the bottom. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was still something else at the bottom of the rucksack, and it was heavy too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was nearly at the bottom of the slope now, but I was still high enough on the hillside to see over the walls of the stockade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flicker of red light glowing near the bottom of one of the lockers. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The workmanship was no less fastidious even at the bottom of the board, near the doorsill, where the two penmen, each in his turn, had obviously lain on their stomachs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Setting the lamp down carefully on the floor, he looked along the bottom shelf for an interesting- looking book. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When they had struggled to the bottom of the bank, they found a stream running down from the hills behind in a deeply dug bed with steep slippery sides overhung with brambles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They went down the rope as sailors do, letting it slip through their hands and not putting their weight on it until just before they hit bottom. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, we hiked out across the hardpan of the lake bottom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he opens his eyes, June is sitting up against the pillows next to him, bitten nails pressed against her bottom lip, still in her bathrobe and keeping watch. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They rolled down the stairs, knocking people left and right until they bounced off the bottom step and onto the floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the pecking order of fifth grade, I was closer to the top than the bottom because my parents were rich and my dad had met the president of the United States. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“By the big rock at the bottom of the hill. And I went back the next day and it was gone. I couldn’t believe somebody actually took it!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We might be at the bottom of a cliff with no way up, and the cliff-ghasts at the top to see us when the fog clears.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mud filled his eyes, his ears, the horn boss on the moose drove him deeper and deeper into the bottom muck, and suddenly it was over and he felt alone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was closed and nobody was about to open it for me, so for a couple of seconds I had to let go of my bottom with one hand to turn the door-knob. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we neared the bottom, the lift slowed, jerked a few times, and then settled level with a rock platform. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ma was still pressing hard, trying to crush the egg from top and bottom. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At the bottom they came with a strange suddenness on the grass of Rohan. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I bite my bottom lip and pull open the closet door. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I pull on a pair of tracksuit bottoms and a T-shirt. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sir was barefoot and bare-chested, wearing only his pajama bottoms. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the beds are made, and some still have rumpled sheets bunched up at the bottom or the side. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But the sly dog dived, came up under the man-of-war, scuttled her, and down she went, with all sail set, ‘To the bottom of the sea, sea, sea’ where...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crouch low to fit in the space between the bottom of the bridge and the girders beneath me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And he was shivering from top to bottom, as if he were caught outside in a blizzard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They packed outfits together, taking sad satisfaction in the ease with which they matched the tops and bottoms. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom, I found a dusty box painted with Russian lacquer-work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Twilight had begun, which meant I had only minutes to get to the bottom of the building and over to the restaurant. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like an army gun, a carbine I think, with a square magazine sticking out of the bottom. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

ALBUS: I’m pretty sure you told everyone that was on the bottom of a lake. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The paddle was stuck in the muddy bottom of the river and it was, at the moment, precariously holding the boat still. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hair that was not on the top of his head seemed to have fallen to the bottom of his face, as he had a dense white mustache and a goatee like a broom. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I cut off the damaged area leaving me with a garment that comes just to the bottom of my ribs. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

This was a little more challenging because I had to dig down to bury the bottom of the chicken wire to keep out hungry diggers like skunks and such. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He picked up his shake and used the straw to vacuum the bottom of the glass. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Johnny put the fishing stuff into the bottom of the boat and helped the children in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration depends for its legitimacy on the widespread belief that all those who appear trapped at the bottom actually chose their fate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mother bent down suddenly to brush off the bottom of her gown. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was low man on the totem pole, the bottom of the ladder. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the steps she reached an old wooden door with an iron pull ring. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But I think it was because I didn’t want Mrs. The-Library-Isn’t-Open Merriam’s eyes looking at me like I was something on the bottom of her shoe when I went up there. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on the bottom right of the computer screen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The big hospital was on the bottom end of New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the crowd in the mysterious room at the bottom of the basin was comprised of adults, and Harry knew there were not nearly that many teachers at Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dad's got the screws out and lifts the metal bottom off the blanket controller. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found Raizel waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs, her expression torn between concern and annoyance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One day a small neighborhood boy collects horse buns, from the milk wagon horse, and puts them along the bottom folds of the freshly washed double-hung white sheets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first Otto stayed at the bottom of the tree and called up to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Below these pillowcases, which are red, their clothes are ordinary: a leisure outfit, a pair of gray flannel slacks with a white shirt tucked in, the bottom of a conservative navy-blue suit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo filled one of the pots with live coals and perched it in a pool of water at the bottom of the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first case I passed contained objects with hidden compartments in which inmates had stashed things—a false- bottomed Coke can, a hollow-heeled shoe, and a hollow-handled hairbrush. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the roar of the blizzard back in the thick timber of the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell on her bottom, the manuscript clutched to her stomach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was not seen again; it is assumed he broke through a thin snow bridge and plummeted to his death at the bottom of one of the deep fissures. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pointing at a number of round balls of fluff in shades of pink and purple, all rolling around the bottom of a cage and emitting high-pitched squeaks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Wading sideways a few steps, he leaned down and felt along the soft bottom of the field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid’s husband had padlocked one large bottom cabinet and one drawer. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animals chased them right down to the bottom of the field, and got in some last kicks at them as they forced their way through the thorn hedge. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She paused, her bottom lip trembling, then handed the feather to Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His vision of history temporarily fading, Ignatius sketched a noose at the bottom of the page. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here it slowly curled and browned, until nothing remained of the writing but the almost illegible signature at the bottom. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a lot of men at the bottom of the world saying ‘Hello, Mamma. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In due course order was restored and the game resumed, moving briskly into the bottom half of the first inning. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waded in, keeping a sharp eye on the bottom. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The foot of the bridge was a half-sunken enemy galley with Dragonsbane painted on her prow, her bottom ripped out by one of the sunken hulks Tyrion had placed between the quays. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Much later they discovered that the hurricane had foundered a 500-ton steamer from Buenos Aires, sending it to the bottom with all hands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was smooth and grassclad inside, and there were no trees except three very tall and beautiful silver-birches that stood at the bottom of the bowl. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

‘Whatever it is,’ said Pippin, ‘Lotho will be at the bottom of it: you can be sure of that.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When we moved here after the fire, I noticed that some staffers balked when they first reached the bottom of the stairs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled the bottom of the teapot around on the cardamom pods to pop them open, then scooped them up and dropped them in with the tea leaves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hurrying along at the bottom of the incline, just out of reach of the lapping water, Reynie patted his pockets anxiously. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it hadn’t always hidden at the bottom of the world behind a veil of frozen mist. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

On sale today at the drugstore elixir aisle—bottom shelf. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stanley's hole was as deep as his shovel, but not quite wide enough on the bottom. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I took out all my Building Society savings before I came to the Burrow. I’ll bet all the change is at the bottom,” sighed Hermione, reaching for her beaded bag. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then he shook the gun a little, and tapped the barrel, to be sure that all the powder was together in the bottom. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed me down to the river bottoms and disappeared in the thick timber. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about we weld a washer or something at the bottom of the casement to be our nozzle?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the page was a photo of a young Stephen Kellner standing in front of a bright green door. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I packed the resin down into the bottom of the bucket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were lamprey pies, capons glazed with honey, a whiskerfish from the bottom of the Greenblood that was so big it took four serving men to carry it to table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We opened the fence gate at the bottom of the backyard and ran down the alley. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first week, I was scrounging at the bottom of the barrel for deals to make. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he lets go, the spring yanks them back down, slapping the bottom of the window. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten Uncle Cotton’s tendrils out of the hull, and now the ship was preparing to return to the bottom of the sea, where it belonged. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Once the road left the flat river bottom it got very sandy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Baby, the bottom of the bottle was your daddy’s second home,” she’d say, shaking her head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have never heard the sound before, but I recognize it anyway: it is the sound of pee hitting the bottom of a beer bottle. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I duck beneath its bottom platform, lifted up from the ground by three large metal fins. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

An instant later came a crack as loud as thunder, and the bottom of the wagon came ripping loose in an explosion of splinters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I slipped out the window as quietly as possible and, clutching the bottom of the window frame, slid down the cold surface of the trailer’s metal siding. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A few scientists had challenged Meggers’s ideas; Roosevelt excoriated them from top to bottom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I get up and peek through the blinds, and Theodore Finch is standing in my front yard dressed in pajama bottoms and a dark hoodie. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her figurehead showed a laughing woman holding an infant by one foot, but the woman’s cheeks and the babe’s bottom were both pocked by wormholes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The first time Abigail had given the globe to her, Candice turned it over so the North Pole was on the bottom and Antarctica was on top. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Rivers come from springs, which come from inside mountains. The water brings up minerals from inside the earth. So there’s always metals at the bottom of rivers.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Everything was thrown together like fishing tackle in the bottom of a rowboat, hooks and sinkers and line and lures and gaffs all snarled up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the scrawl at the bottom of the receipt: Paid by check. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I reached into the bottom drawer of the side table, which was also a dresser, and pulled out the plastic bag stuffed into it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He watched the bottom of the spiral staircase. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was bewitched by its beauty, but he did as she said and put it straight back into the box, wrapped it up, and thrust it into the bottom of the rucksack. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As another example, if you want to find out where a ball will come to rest at the bottom of a hill, you look for a point where the tangent line is horizontal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He held a beaker of muddy brown liquid up to the warm, wavering light and put on his spectacles to peer at the thick sediment that settled to the bottom like river sludge. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Knots of all sorts poked beneath the bottom edge of the giant’s gray suit jacket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He dragged out the suspense, poking around at the bottom of his bag until we yelled, “Uncle D!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I ran the envelope upstairs, into the kitchen and slid it to the bottom of a giant-size half-empty Apple Jacks cereal box. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I pause at the bottom of the stairs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m halfway up the steps when I hear a mom down at the bottom of the staircase shout, “Crush it, Ainsley!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a coral-colored, tight-fitting mermaid shape that flares and ruffles at the bottom. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She set up her tent beside the barrel, banked the snow around the bottom to seal out the wind, and spread her ground cloth under it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the door at the bottom of the stairs slammed shut so hard that the glass raided around him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Whenever I dug another foxhole, cutting down through ferns and rotted vegetation and tree roots and mud, the bottom of it would be filled with water by the time I finished. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would make pushing my stick off the river bottom harder, but I knew it would be impossible for Otto to sit still on the rocking boat without holding on to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“To wipe my bottom good when I’m done?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Good thing, because she’s tapping the end of the marker on her bottom lip now. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“If he’d tried to rappel down the ropes like that,” says Beidleman, “he would have immediately popped out of his harness and fallen to the bottom of the Lhotse Face.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When your family’s one missed check away from rock bottom? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They burst into little clouds that slowly sank to the bottom of the canal, and I wondered how many creatures would come out once night had fallen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Penny reaches the bottom of the steps, looks back at us, smirks, and says, “See Daddy! Gotta go to work!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Push the screwdriver through the wire near the bottom,” he said, “and pry up,” We did, and the wire bent a fraction of an inch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room fell silent except for the plopping sound of peas falling to the bottom of a wooden bowl. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The foot is still attached to the bottom end of the pipe, and having him do this feels strange. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At the same time that Sycorax and Caliban hit the bottom of the fence and ran into the parking lot looking for me, a school bus was coming back in for the late-afternoon run. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I could never get my mind to gather exactly what I wanted to say, and I could never find the trail to the bottom of what I meant. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cold, damp breeze blew the hair out of Anya’s face as she reached the bottom of the stairs. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Biff stared at him idly and shook the few remaining drops of beer around in the bottom of his glass. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the meadow they went under the wire fence. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy’s face showed up in the last hole on the right in the bottom row and ’bout half the crowd shouted, “Six!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then I felt the bottom of a tennis shoe scrape against my ribs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

These were worked over and around the nails and a thick braided fob kept growing out of the bottom of the spool as she worked it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the very bottom of the box, there’s gold. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

This time it was an old Saturday Evening Post she’d found in the bottom of Mother’s closet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept lifting paper until I got to the bottom of the box. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had not returned to reading his poetry, which filled more than five volumes and lay forgotten at the bottom of his trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I looked along the bottom of the trail, but finding nothing there that I could use, gave up my search. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked after her, trying not to stare at her cute little bottom swinging back and forth down the hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the bottom of the steps just before the cellar doors fell in, consumed with flames from the outside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Chester lifted the black wings that were carefully folded across his back and with a quick, expert stroke drew the top one over the bottom. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza had just reached the bottom step when I slammed into her. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man leaned down, so close that the bottoms of his mustache tickled Coraline’s ear. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He looked more serene than he appeared at the bottom of the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They’re cold and hard like flat black skipping rocks you find at the bottom of the creek. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was one challenge where Ruby had to make pie, and she ended up in the bottom two. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I pull my glass closer and turn the spoon inside it in slow circles, softening whatever remains at the bottom. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Instead he made the rounds of the pyramid from top to bottom, to ascertain that the sentries were all at their posts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"I found the true message concealed within a false bottom when I dismantled the box the lens had come in, but it is not for my eyes." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She looked up at Robin, who was dressed in pajama bottoms covered in pineapples and a plain light gray T-shirt. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Whatever it might be, the thing did not extend downward to the bottom: it was lying on the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then to the corral, where the daughter of the house was working on the training of a quarter horse, an animal of parts named Speckle- bottom. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the land had a certain curve to it at the bottom of the island, like a dinosaur head, bumpy on the right and straight on the left, a swooping majestic bottom. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a bench at the bottom of the hill,” I said, leading him down to the landing beside the bookstore that overlooked Front Beach. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

From the bottom of the basket she took the folded brown paper bag into which she poured each night’s pickin’s and put it on the shelf. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I’m at the bottom, I knock on the exit door. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

You’d see the shiny, crow-black hair that hung smooth as paper from the top of her head to the bottoms of her earlobes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Despite what Bernard said, I know I look ridiculous with my bottom stuck up in the air. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

There were two drab tablets at the bottom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His smile would get wider, his teeth bigger, and every year the estimated heights of his climbs—written in ink at the bottom of the Polaroids, along with the date—got higher. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It settled down to the sand bottom among the fern-like plants. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drafted mostly by Szilard with Einstein’s input, the two-page, eight-paragraph document buries the urgency of the situation under dry and conditional prose, its momentousness communicated largely by Einstein’s signature at the bottom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Under their boots, the decks were slippery with the blood of the watchman, who now lay dead at the bottom of the main hatchway. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I threw myself down to the second floor and then to the bottom, gave a quick glance between the boards on the doorway to see if the coast was clear, and slipped out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she reached into the jar, her fingers touched the bottom of the container. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

For breakfast my parents often made their ochazuke—green tea mixed with rice—from the crusty old rice at the bottom of the pot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Savery thus proposed mounting his device near the bottom of a mine and using it to pump water to the surface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I persisted in my carping to the economists, they generally backed down a bit, conceding that while wages at the bottom are going up, they’re not going up very briskly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had learned that there are still a few salt ponds at the bottom of San Francisco Bay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Look, I didn’t make up the rules here,” Reverend Hollister was saying to Coach Turner once Candice, Coach Hicks, and Mr. Smith reached the bottom of the bleachers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the staircase, Garfield was moved onto it and carried outside. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everybody on the dance floor yells out the “started from the bottom, now we’re here” part. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He’s at the bottom of the stairs by the time I get back to the house. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curvature of space gets greater and greater as you approach a black hole, and it never bottoms out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The congregants line the banks and sing ‘Amazing Grace” as Dill wades unsteadily into the river, sinking into its mucky bottom as he tries to reach where his father stands, smiling. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Since the power was still off at the school, I wore thermal underwear—top and bottom—plus an extra T-shirt, a sweatshirt, and two pairs of heavy socks. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He used the bottom of his T-shirt to mop the sweat from his face. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As it hardened she stepped into the bottom, tramped it into a bowl, and then cut two holes in one side. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By March 31, Rondon and his men had transported all of the cargo to the bottom of the falls. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The days of using a shopping cart as a go-cart, pushing it to the top of a hill, and letting gravity pull them down to the bottom were over. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We are a town built on justice, so we are compelled to get to the bottom of this situation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Quite suddenly, it seemed to him, he was at the creek again, but upstream where the crossing—about twelve feet here and so shallow he could see the stony bottom—was laid across with boards. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was in a bomb—I don’t care about the bottom of my feet!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But it was like bailing water out of a boat with a hole in the bottom. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it when we got to her droptube and went down to the bottom, to her suburb. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the elves left a thank-you note for the shoemaker, he put his coffee cup down on it, and it stuck to the cup’s damp bottom. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rats wandered in and out of the cells, squeezing their fat bottoms through the bars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, stretched on his belly and inching ahead a little with his elbows, he peered out from behind the bottom upward-starting curve of the rock. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is he darker than the bottom of your foot, Sierra?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Much too much of him now feathered the bottom of his cage. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She plods along by my side to the edge of Marlena’s dressing tent and then waits patiently as Grady and Bill untie the bottom of the sidewall from the stakes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the Hill on its western side they came to the gate opening on to a narrow lane. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There is storm-music, and the fisherman drowns, sucked to the bottom of the sea in the vortex of the whirlpool. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark watched in fascination as a large, square-shaped hatch on the bottom of the Berg began to open, pivoting on hinges to lower like a ramp. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the floor was a thin layer of water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was a foxhole with sandbags around the top, and boards at the bottom to stand on. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom was a sort of three-sided basin with a track going out that led to Hake's Lane. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As he looked at it, water had already filled the bottom of it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The powerlessness of dictionaries to enforce the prescriptivists’ dream of preventing linguistic change does not mean that the dictionaries are doomed to preside over a race to the bottom. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He waded in slowly and started swimming only when he couldn’t touch bottom anymore. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He cut out from the bottoms, walked a rail fence, and jumped from it into a thick canebrake. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they reached the wooden ridge at the bottom of the roof curvature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At last, their feet touched bottom, and they were half swimming, half crawling to shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He made cross-pieces with them, put one on top and one on the bottom and sandwiched the raft body logs in place. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They shared a certain nightmarish quality with my grandfather’s old photos, especially the ones he’d kept hidden in the bottom of his cigar box, as if somehow they’d all come from the same batch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The vehicle pulls into a parking lot at the bottom of a hill. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She reached for our hands and squeezed them, breathing deep and full like a prayer, chewing her bottom lip like penance. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He cradled the bottom of it with one hand, like a lady carrying an expensive purse. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Pa fed the horses, on the bottom of the wagon box, some oats he had brought for their dinner. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She jerked her legs away from him instantly, whipping her bottom around. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Just offshore the impact pushes the plate on the bottom of the Pacific down and under the advancing coast, creating a trench almost five miles deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At first a cart takes me an average of forty-five minutes and there may still be three or four mystery items left at the bottom. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon reaching the bottom we came into a large, enclosed room with many shelves and two large tables. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The entire team was punished heavily, too—knocked down to the bottom of the rankings and stripped of their top two players. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They ended up at the bottom of the hill. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We watched the muddy bottom of her drawers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shiny black water beetles pushed across the bottom of the pool, leaving trails of tiny air bubbles twisting to the surface. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the worst vision: she saw herself with Jason and Percy, standing waist-deep in water at the bottom of a dark circular chamber, like a giant well. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How fearfully he watched death creep over her from the bottom up. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she did not move, but continued to stare at him: “We going to talk about it tonight. We going to get to the bottom of this thing tonight!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They found the bottom, and I pushed toward the island with all that my legs had left. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Real bottom involves being on the street, I think, not in a hospital. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Since even he never tried to groom me after we joined the other groups, I figured I was still at the bottom as far as the hierarchy went. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our eyes met as I stood, petrified, at the bottom of the stairwell. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I was sick with the mumps, once in the winter, my mother found one at the bottom of her steamer trunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now she told our relatives, her friends, and distant neighbors in the Irsaal area at the bottom of the hill that she would tailor clothes for them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can see the bottom of the box now. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But Otter didn’t get halfway to the bottom. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Taped at the bottom were two clues: THY BEAUTIFUL. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull—WASSUP? with a smiley face—but Annabeth vetoed the idea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m almost at the bottom of the first bottle when it happens. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced it back and drove wedges in top and bottom with a hand ax. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I made a scrape—an open box with a narrow strip of wood to keep the eggs from rolling out. I’ll put sand on the bottom.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the perpetual gloom that prevailed behind the stage, I could see a faint light issuing through the crack at the bottom of the door. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a long way down, and at the bottom was dark and dangerous forest. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But for his efforts, he was usually given an extra bowl of soup from the very bottom of the kettle, where it was thickest. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred so it wouldn’t stick to the bottom. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There it flopped, in the bottom of the boat, its jaw working, its gills fanning rapidly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she tried to lift the oar, it slipped out of her hands and clattered to the bottom of the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is carrying a rifle, and Geoff Graham is yelling and sobbing, and when Annabelle gets to the bottom of the stairs, she sees something unreal, so unreal. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ben was standing on the bottom step listening to this news, trying to absorb it, but feeling it rejected like a transplanted organ. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can unearth a piece of hot dog buried at the bottom of a neighbor’s trash can. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the most exciting part, the part I focused on, was toward the bottom. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“We have an important clue. I’ll bet they never even looked at the bottom of the statue.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It crashed over rocks and through narrow channels, catapulted up into moonlit sprays, split apart, rejoined, and dropped down into boiling cauldrons at the bottom of steep falls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She felt around the bottom of the gunnysack until her fingers found the lump of coinage. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Standing next to him on the step was exactly one half of a small child who had been divided neatly from top to bottom. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dudley was still clutching his bottom as though afraid it might fall off. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’d been in trouble at school before, but most of the time, that just meant a whack on the bottom from one of the nuns. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She was all dressed to go, except she was wearing faded pink pj bottoms. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever had made die tracks had some kind of flat dragging bottom in the middle and was apparently pushed along by the legs that stuck out to the side. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Why! You can’t see to the bottom in this light. What if you comes to a place where there’s nowhere to put your feet or your hands?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

After a while, the ink began to dry, leaving brown rings in the bottoms of their pewter bowls, and it was time to clean up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My sister and brother would fight about things that my sister and brother would fight about, and I would sit at the bottom of the shopping cart. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

First the sky turned the palest green-blue at the horizon, like the bottom of a petal. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She used to carry her garden tools around the yard in it and the bottom is still lined with sunflower seeds. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Whatever strange hole they had slipped into, it must have a bottom. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Volkheimer has also discovered a bucket of paintbrushes in a corner with some watery sludge in the bottom, but how desperate will they have to become to drink that? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the doctor smacked my bottom did I laugh instead of cry? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were about to start rumors flying around the sea about the son of Poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the window was just above the top of my head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t possibly summon lightning at the bottom of the sea, could he? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mam is still in bed and he calls to her from the bottom of the stairs, I’m going now. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He craned his neck as he scanned the place top to bottom, trying to find the source of the beeps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They were extra careful with the barbed wire that they installed on the top and bottom of the fence, wire that could easily tear them open. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Uncle yelled over the high whine stacked on deep bottom notes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A man uses a long cane to push against the river bottom or ties himself to the front of the raft with a long rope and swims. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If it slid too far, it would drop right out the bottom of my shorts, maybe bounce off of suit guy’s shoe. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

When I reached the bottom of the stairs, I glanced up the way I’d come. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a minute of rifling through my bottom drawer, I find what I’m looking for. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When he reached the blank spot at the bottom, he hesitated. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She went into the pocket of her dress and took some funny little glasses that only had a bottom half to them, then put them on her nose. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he pulls away, his bottom lip is pulled back and his chin is dimpled. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Technically, they could buy carpets, or bangles, with their breasts covered and their bottoms bare. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a red splotch on his neck, and it inches its way to his face like someone’s painting him from the bottom up. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the bottom, I put more details about Ziggy—his sex, age, breed, and color. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I took another step and the seam widened at the bottom, like a curtain being drawn at the start of a play. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And if he did, Mama’s shame would be even greater than his: this would be a sure sign that we had hit rock bottom. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just floated there, hanging on a little longer each time. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He crouched down and peered through the gap at the bottom of the cubicle, just in time to see a pair of booted feet climbing into the toilet next door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His being black and at the bottom of the world was something which he could take with a new-born strength. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if they’re chained to the bottom of the river. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He was at the bottom of a drop-off with a broken neck.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the windowsills, Tyson had set out water-filled vases with sea anemones and strange glowing plants from the bottom of the ocean, more beautiful than any flower bouquets the Demeter kids could whip up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bottom line: There’s no such thing as perfection in gymnastics. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the sea bottom the wind stirred along faint vapors, and from the mountains great stone visages looked upon the silvery rocket and the small fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a slave girl in the bottom of a boat, chained to some boy with the prettiest eyes and some girl who keeps stealing my little scraps of food. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t pleasant for me either, because I was at the bottom. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She was quiet, and she kept running her bottom lip through her teeth, making it go white, so that you could see that her lips had freckles, too. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He was going to be thrown into the yellow ooze at the bottom of a pit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children hung blankets over the cracks in the door-jambs; they stuffed clothes along the bottoms of doors. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of newel posts at the bottom of the staircase, an intricately carved oak monkey clung to either end of the railing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael put his hand on the newel post at the bottom of the stairway, then removed it and shone the flashlight beam upward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Spoons of stew touch lips before bottoms hit the seats. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She smiled slyly as the blood covered her bottom row of teeth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The two boys trudged up out of the river bottom and up the crumbling cliff to the level land. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bit my bottom lip and prayed for the bell. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Before he left, he put a photo of Stamey at the bottom of the panel. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She grabs me, but Marcus’s face emerges at the bottom of the stairwell, and, spotting me, he bounds up, reaching me in two strides. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Only instead of wearing one of those colorful caps with bells, he wore a black hat like the other men, and the bottom of his coat danced along with his every move. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally we got to the bottom of a slope and found ourselves in a large cave with huge stalagmite columns. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

His uniform has enough badges and medals to sink him to the oceans bottom. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The anacos are a soft wool blend with fine zigzags along the bottom, a cream anaco underneath and a dark one on top. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The share of income earned by the rest of the top 10 percent rose far less, and the share earned by the bottom 90 percent fell. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But as I hop off the bus, he’s not waiting for me at the bottom of the steps. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But none of that stuff compared to what I found when I removed a pile of framed pictures so I could see to the bottom of the trunk. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The bottom half of her, in blue jeans, melted into the darkness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m on the bottom bunk, so there’s no sitting for me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the sunset, the light was bouncing off a large flat sheet of Celestial bronze that lay at the bottom of the pond, washing Mr. Handsome’s features in a warm glow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Schools at the time still punished students by whacking their hands or bottoms with straps or a long, thin piece of wood called a cane. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And so she continued, at the same pace, to sweep the dust, cigarette ends, and lozenge wrappers from the rest of the steps, until she reached the letter boxes at the bottom. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was lifted out of the sea bottom recently. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I steadied the pedals with my feet and steered myself down the hill, bumping and weaving to the bottom. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The one on Edgar Street is a real wreck of a joint, right at the bottom of the street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He went out of the house so fast that Adam’s “Good- by” reached him at the bottom of the front steps and Adam’s “Don’t forget to write” sounded over the click of the front gate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bookshelf along the far wall of the Owner’s bedroom was lined with jars, top to bottom. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I plunge down, down to rocky rocky bottom, and I can see the base of Beechwood Island and my arms and legs feel numb but my fingers are cold. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The rush of wind made Roy’s eyes water as the flat- bottomed boat whisked across the sawgrass flats and weaved through the narrow winding creeks. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Sounder licked the bottom of the pan it rattled against a loose board in the porch as if somebody were walking across the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the container, there was a small pile of cotton squares, some stiff and brown, others merely dappled. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dill gripped the ladder, raised a foot, and scraped his boot on the column before stepping on the bottom rung. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “I. . .” other until we’d reached the bottom and the curved wall of ice where Althea had frozen shut the exit tunnel. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I find that I can breathe in and out, all the way down to the bottom of my lungs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He went out and walked down to the gate at the bottom of the path, and then on a short way down the Hill Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The cupcakes have oozed all over the tops of the pans and fallen on the bottom of the oven. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

By the time he resehed the bottom of the steps it was all he could do to stand erect. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Pa cuts open the skin from the neck all the way down to the bottom of the stomach. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wings, I’m helping Siraj climb out of the bottom half of the box. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

There was a muddy pond at the bottom of Lavender's garden and this was the home of a colony of newts. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She starts tracing the bottom lid, and I fight the urge to blink. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But the notice at the bottom interested him most. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was at the bottom of the slope behind the trees. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Freed from Luke’s grasp, the bottom of the shade banged against the windowsill. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next second, everything goes wrong and you find yourself at the bottom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Masks were a form of spirit pollution, spreading poison from top to bottom in the country. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I half expected to see the shark’s white belly stretched out at the bottom of the harbor, as though its weight had split the bands and the shark had just sunk to the seafloor. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have Jenny fatten up the British navy and make their ships sink to the bottom of the sea!” yelled a red-faced man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the bottom levels of the shelving were empty, Amari noticed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My money was in my room, at the bottom of my carpetbag. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Note to Annie during lit class: Don’t forget Then I drew a picture on the bottom: And, yeah, she did think I was a pervert. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My upper body floats easily in the water, pulling my feet up from the bottom. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday we had to clean the house from top to bottom. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to gasp for air and turned around to face me at the bottom of the stairs...trying to speak. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It means that your appendix, which is about the size of your tongue, and located right here, she says, pointing to the bottom of her stomach on the right side, has ruptured. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At midnight, I walk to the head of the trail that leads to the bottom of the mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trash and old charred fire rings peppered the bottom of the never-filled lake. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the novelty craft was completely closed, which meant nothing could grab at her feet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Down at the bottom, sitting on a block of stone in the middle of the stage, the god Apollo hunched over a ukulele, plucking out a mournful tune. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the slope we discovered a kind of tunnel that went right through the bank from one side to the other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he repeated his efforts with several of the weapons lying around the bottom of the tank and managed to break three tridents, a sword, and a speargun. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Adam picked up the damp cloth and leaned down to sponge off the bottoms of his trousers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom floor was given over to the laundry. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom there was a level space through which the stream flowed noisily over shining pebbles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the case of that in that boy, Miss Thistle- bottom got the function wrong, too: it’s determiner, not modifier. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My whole body relaxed like someone was rubbing the bottoms of my feet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Kvothe tossed two pieces of firewood into the wheelbarrow where they struck the bottom like a muted drum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I can see his feet peeking out the bottom of the stall. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

At the very bottom, in one corner, was the shed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Trap itself ain’t that heavy, but it’s got bricks in the bottom to make it sink. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether O’Brien was a friend or an enemy, had come back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A floating crystal staircase led up to the club’s only entrance, a circular opening at the bottom of the sphere. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the chest were books. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merry and Pippin sat on the bottom step, feeling both unimportant and unsafe. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She turned away so fast that she made herself dizzy and disturbed one of the drawings near the bottom of her piece. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The bottom has slowly started to separate from the rest of the boot. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had seen the bottom of the well and never wanted to go back there again. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of this tube, kids could scoop out blocks and pay for them by the pound like you would grapes or nuts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I drew a pectoral fin on the side and a pelvic fin on the bottom to help the shark move up and down. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the crate was iron staples and bolts and yards and yards of thick, heavy chains. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There was a dull crack as her body hit the tops of the trees, and another as she landed at the bottom of the rocky ravine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Usually we timed ourselves so well that we met each other as we got to the bottom of Purgatory Hill. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Tayo and picked a thread off the bottom of her apron. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had stuffed a towel into the bottom of our door and insisted it was safe, but I worried— about the cigarette and the “girlfriend.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I recognized those tracks from the many winters in Piatra Neamț where I had stumbled out onto the frozen pond with a neighbor friend, dull blades tied to the bottoms of our shoes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself out of the water so his chest could expand, took two deep breaths and swiveled and dove, pulling his arms and kicking off the raft bottom with his feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I asked, Zooey’s bottom lip began to tremble. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Myron reached the bottom of the steps with the biggest, goofiest, dorkiest smile I had ever seen on a human being. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Seizing the opportunity, Redtooth landed him a mighty kick on the bottom. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The column on the left lists top, bottom, hijab, shoes, purse, and accessories, and the next three columns are filled in with her outfit details. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Looking confused, Ms. Bethune looked at the bottom of the page. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Within minutes Clark and his deputies had cleared the courthouse steps from top to bottom. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I fold the stack of pages inward from top to bottom three times, and then fold the result in half lengthwise twice more. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I pulled our heavy front door open and slipped out into bright sunshine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Heather showed me how to swab Clare’s bottom with baby wipes and how to tape a diaper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He tugged at the bottom of his tunic. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My legs hit the soft mud of the bottom, and immediately I was on the surface being congratulated. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She skated out into the hall and around the bottom of the stairs right into the living room where W.E. sat on the floor staring at Sesame Street. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I heat up water in the kettle and coat the bottom of a coffee cup in sugar. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He hit the bottom of the bottle with a soft thump. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gods hauled their net along the bottom of the pool. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the trail, the boardwalk splits in a few different directions. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is very annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave, unless in my watch-case or the bottom of the shaving-pot, which is fortunately of metal. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Do you see yourself near the top of the list or towards the bottom? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She bent over, lifting the front of her dress to dry her eyes, and stood so for a moment on the bottom step while he watched her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I made the bottom first, putting the skins end to end, and using three of them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went down backward, steadying herself on clumps of grass, and at the bottom paused only to wipe her hands on her dress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bottom half of the dwarf was turned to stone. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It inhabits deep lakes, where it will prowl the bottom in search of food, preferring water snails. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brush along the gum lines. Up on the bottoms and down on the tops. Two minutes morning and night. Let’s see. Give it a try.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember digging a foxhole, but I found myself inside one, my shovel stuck in the moist dark sand and tree roots at the bottom of the four-foot-deep hole. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anybody who knew even the tiniest bit about totem poles knew that the most important was at the bottom. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I moved into the street, listening to the distant sounds of the riot and seeing in my mind the image of two eyes in the bottom of a shattered glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earthen spires rose out of the ground, and they slowed gently as they reached the bottom, at the entrance of a dark cave. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of a captor, he became her anchor, dragging her all the way to the bottom. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

With a couple of bounds, I leave the stream, run through the woods for a short distance, and climb an embankment to the dirt road that runs along the bottom of my mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shot a worried glance down to the bottom of the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One year he pinned a diaper on the back and another on the front of the bottom third of the snowman. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My backpack from last year has a giant hole in the bottom. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“All these people got buried at the bottom of it. They’re still down there, plus cars and campers and everything that had been in the campground.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her short blond hair framed a face that was a little wide at the bottom, and toothy, and somewhat red all around. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was ruminating on these things as she swept the stairwell — she always worked from top to bottom — when it started to rain. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could practically feel my marked-up papers jammed into the bottom of my backpack, weighing heavy on my lap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Papa breathed out, this slow, heavy thing loosed from the bottom of his soul. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The master said, “Oh, no! See those hills? That’s bottom land, rich and fertile.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A hose snaked across the bottom of the crater to the middle, where a steel-and-aluminum fountain rose from the bottom to eye level. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now she reached through the things within and took from near the bottom a fragile bit of folded cloth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Soon as I save my money I’m having my bottom done. Then we’ll see. I’ll be more of a woman than you, Z.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I miss how your bottom teeth were a little crooked, just like mine. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

David got to the teacher first and she gave him a whack on the bottom. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He was disappearing into the shady pecan bottom when I caught up with him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His brain itself seemed to have frozen as he pushed through the dark water to the bottom and reached out, groping for the sword. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Or you’ll get holes worn in the bottom of those chairs.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the center of each was a unique symbol that corresponded to a legend at the bottom of the page, where the symbols reappeared next to a list of numbers separated by dashes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The clock at the bottom, which was nearer the earth, was found to run slower, in exact agreement with general relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kendra reached the bottom, Seth was squatting near a cluster of blossoms at the edge of the stream. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and put his shoes back on. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If they were still on the body of Tartarus, Percy figured they must be on the bottom of his foot—a rough, calloused expanse where only the most disgusting plant life grew. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It would be easy to see, resting on the bottom of the tank, but only if someone came looking for it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They found the bottom of the ditch trampled by boots and streaked with blood, and returned to tell the others. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, Lillian bestowed a long holiday kiss on each one of her children and wished them a Merry Christmas. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the bottom of the hill, John Henry stopped, still towering over the women now on top. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Shaking, I pointed at the small print at the bottom of the page. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When we get to the bottom of the hill, we just lie on the snow, giggling. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He stepped out onto the flagstone sidewalk and tacked the card to the bottom of one of the black patent leather shutters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had counted forty-nine flares when she thought she heard movement at the bottom of the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Used to get twenty-five bucks a day from the government to dive lookin’ for liquor on the bottom and he got three dollars a case from Louie for not findin’ it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the bottom of the ravine, there came only silence. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking at Rose from the bottom of a well I couldn't remember falling into. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Thorn had her hands clasped and was biting her bottom lip but nodding enthusiastically. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time Harry reached the bottom of the marble staircase, Cedric was at the top. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the page, Trey scrawled an address. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"The bottom truth. I've read many a book from beginning to end." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I push the top rack back in and pull out the bottom. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Beetles skittered like bullets on the surface, or carried a silver bubble of air with them to the bottom. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was halfway through the fog-covered bottoms when the voices of my dogs stopped. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pocket fell, and the pebbles rolled all over the bottom of the wagon box. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peris hadn’t given an address, but Tally knew the trick for decoding the random-looking numbers at the bottom of a ping. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was merely a symbol for a blank place in the abacus, a column where all the stones were at the bottom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the bottom was a gleaming silver train, its line of cars nearly vertical as it waited to travel up the mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When at last he came to the bottom of the last flight of steps, he found himself all but alone amongst the torchlit corridors inside the pyramid’s massive brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As he angled along the bottom, he searched the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Nhamo followed the stream to an area of yellow sand where she could see the bottom clearly in both directions. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the nearby uranium mine made their radar/sonar machines go nuts, so they couldn’t see that way, either, so they never made it to the bottom. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They mixed with the water and swirled at the bottom of the tub like little green eddies before being rushed down the drain. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On the bottom of one of his bare feet was a scar identical to the motionless woman’s. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps being named “black” had nothing to do with any of this; perhaps being named “black” was just someone’s name for being at the bottom, a human turned to object, object turned to pariah. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It hit the bottom with a rather horrible, crunchy thud. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The radio was made of dark-brown wood, square with three knobs at the bottom. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the bottom step of the back staircase. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My career as a personal assistant hit rock bottom one summer morning when Valencia greeted me with a flyer she'd taken from the window of an exotic-bird shop located on the corner. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The world begins at the bottom of the stairs. Now I am free to discover life as I please.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the small slide, even with the magnifying glass, Mirjam was barely more than a smudge of sky blue toward the bottom of the frame. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I have a letter somewhere,” looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

However, it was when he ripped the bottom sheet off that Cabot found what looked like a diary of some sort stuffed under the mattress. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

This was the bottom of the ocean for both of them, the farthest away they could go from the plans they’d made. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I coiled it in the bottom to make a spiral. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the bottom of the valley is level and broad and nearly a mile long; steep cliffs wall it in all around. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had another half-second to fill his lungs with air and she was on him again, using her head to drive him down into the mud of the bottom. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wiped at the water that flowed down my cheeks and kicked at the stinking bundle at the bottom of the boat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was missing its bottom half, which stayed on the moon, after acting as a launching pad for the top half. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the afternoons, he stood at the bottom of the subway steps and hawked magazines, turning whatever money he made over to his family to buy food. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith explained that on weekdays, the order was, roughly, top to bottom; Q and V galleries would go last. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix wore a dark suit and his Nike Flights and stood next to his mom and sister, smiling until his cheeks hurt and his bottom lip felt like it might split open. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple times I had seen Phoebe’s mother try to touch Phoebe or Prudence or Mr. Winter- bottom, but they all drew back from her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I went first, kicking in the mirrored door at the bottom rather than wasting time sliding it open. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The raft hits the bank; its bottom scrapes against sand. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The German shuts the wardrobe doors and hobbles away, and Marie-Laure stays on the bottom rung of the ladder for a count of forty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were heavy old glasses, an inch thick at the bottom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wrote my initials—A. M. R.—on her bottom with permanent black marker. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He also has a big smile that covers practically the whole bottom half of his face. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

What if the tail settled back to the bottom and he got caught and couldn’t get out? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thin, with padding on the bottom so it didn’t damage the grass on the green, and almost three feet high. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The way Park looked at her then, biting his bottom lip, she knew she was at least a little bit right. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then he went to our trunk and eased the lid up, piling the things silently on the floor until he reached the very bottom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bottom of the stairway had cleared, Danny motioned me to move ahead. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t looking forward to being lectured on cauldron bottoms all through dinner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Branwell and I were little, we used to stand on the bridge over the gorge and look for lovers on the path to the bottom. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bottom line was that we were far from poor and our future was promising, maybe even more promising for the fact that it couldn’t easily be planned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He gathered the papers he had been working on and tamped the bottom of the pile on his desk to neaten it, and then laid the stack down on the right side of the desk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But that was going to mess everybody up and take even more time, so I said, “Naw, it’s okay. I’ll see you guys at the bottom.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He tucked his left leg up to his belly and began grating the top and bottom of his beak together, a quiet sound that told me he was preparing to sleep. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I felt the brush of her bottom lip on my skin there and the small hairs on my arms lifted. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They say the very rich have too much power, and they favor the idea of class-based affirmative action to help those at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Crumbs and pencil shavings cover the bottom, and it smells like wet shoes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I held the bag up and examined the rounded bulge at its bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a hoarse, muffled sound broke the thick silence of the night, as if it was coming from the bottom of a coffin, or so Blanca thought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A list of school district closures scrolls across the bottom of the screen. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ben called her “Free Bee Ice Bottom” and drew a picture of a bumblebee with an ice cube on its bottom. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mama had written, in her delicate handwriting, the name of each baby daughter across the bottom of those photogrpahs. Number the Stars 1989-04-24T00:00:00Z

She summoned a few hundred bracelets, which leaped at the guards and lashed around their ankles, leaving them hanging upside down from the bottom of the catwalk, screaming like lame little girls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Mark of Athena blazed to life at the bottom of the cavern, revealing glistening brickwork along a subterranean canal forty feet below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It must have been written on the bottom of the statue. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Years ago, Dr. Bahri did have a guy who, after hitting his head on the bottom of a swimming pool, could suddenly play the piano. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She turned up her glass and looked at me through the bottom of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I get to the bottom, there’s Papa, smiling up at me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked for anything she might use to prop it open, and had to settle for tearing off a piece from the bottom of her prison trousers and stuffing it in the lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My legs were scraped from falling on the roots, and my bottom burned. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Black people, minorities, poor people. Everybody at the bottom in society.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Denver was part of an ocean bottom, many thousands of feet lower. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And, see, here’s my mom’s butterfly logo again,” Finn said, reaching the bottom of the bakery homepage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some cookies she made that were kind of burnt on the bottom. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

His long black glossy braided queue, tied at the bottom with a narrow piece of black silk, hung over his shoulder and moved rhythmically against his chest. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And because of the dimness and the flying spray, she couldn’t actually see if there was a ledge at the bottom or not. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

From there one could see the country for miles, the long white crooked line of the river, the tall thick timber of the bottoms, the sycamore, birch, and box elder. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shined her light into the pit, but she couldn’t see the bottom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sky was invaded by great white clouds, flat on the bottom but round and billowy on top. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was following Tyson to the bottom of the sea, into the court of Poseidon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the bottom of the slope and it was here that Lola finally began to cry. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We went from top to bottom a couple of times, making sure we saw everything. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the gorge was the now-frozen Mann River. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands were full so I kicked on the bottom of the door with my foot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Getting the fat colonel up and off the bottom of the dory was heavy work. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo idly tapped the bottom of the canoe with his paddle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Far to their west on the Antarctic Peninsula was Erebus and Terror Gulf, named in honor of the two ships that had navigated the bottom of the world before being lost at the top. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

One thing I know, you ain’t supposed to see daylight when you look at the bottom of a boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Something glittered golden in the bottom of the box. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The words is so clear in my head and right now is my only chance for her to really hear me, standing barefoot and rock bottom on the gas station phone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She turns to him and chews her bottom lip. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A beam of light fell across the grass, hit the bottom of a tree, and illuminated its branches; there, crouching among the budding leaves, was Crookshanks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cool clear water, lake water, cool and dark at the bottom, out of the light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Owner noticed something peeking out from the bottom hem of the man’s gray jacket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The monsters hit bottom and broke into dust. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yellow bottoms of bells flapped backwards around her ankles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the pearl settled into the lovely green water and dropped toward the bottom. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherlock waits patiently at the bottom, tail wagging, Frisbee at his feet. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She landed heavily on her bottom, like a skater. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Now step up! Now step up!” it recommended, and almost before they knew what had happened, they had all taken a step up and then plunged to the bottom of a deep murky pit. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

They fed and watered her and spent some time petting the desperate little goat that kept the mare company, a goat that promptly tried to eat the eyelets off the bottom of Petey’s dress. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I knew that was at the bottom of it,” said Harry. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom left-hand corner he spotted Dada handing Abay a rose, and his pulse quickened. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Afterward, as I wiped my mouth on the hem of my shirt, I heard a sound break through the darkness, a cry so piercing it made the bottom of my heart drop. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, the letter shouldn’t have been on the bottom of the screen because, as almost all eye movement research demonstrates, when it comes to television people tend to fixate on the center of the screen. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Enrique, she stands slightly knock-kneed, her pelvis thrust out, her bottom tucked under. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As a dishwasher, I was at the very bottom of the kitchen hierarchy, so I needed to follow the rules and not mess up. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t see the bottom of the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never heard of anything like this happening. It’s ridiculous. And we’ll get to the bottom of it, don’t you worry!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Taylor balanced herself on the bottom beams of the catapult like MacArthur in the South Pacific. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Despite feeling like he’s desecrating a holy relic, he flips it over and runs a hand along the bottom. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was standing at the bottom of his stoop holding a piece of paper. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Izzy cursed as she tripped over some debris at the bottom of the stairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The car practically bottomed out in a pothole that was more of a crevasse. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There’s one out in the bottom of the last inning, and the game’s tied at five, but in my mind, we’ve already won the game and swept this doubleheader. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Pocock wanted the shell to have the fastest possible racing bottom he could impart to it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At midday, a whistle would blow, and we would make our way to the bottom of the hill. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the bottom through the front windows of the Fabric Barn, and catching little glimpses of it settled my thoughts. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The ocean was like a mirror, which made it hard to see the bottom, even with polarized sunglasses. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And for an instant, when the ugly, scarred boy lay at the bottom of the hill, Tendai had been right down there with him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Luke, honey? Can you eat sitting on the bottom step there?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I drained the mug reluctantly and scraped my finger along the bottom to get the last of the undissolved sugar. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slide my arm underneath the hem and up through the bottom. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s wide like a diploma and has a gold seal with an official-looking signature at the bottom. Maybe I will frame it.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before I lost my nerve, I jumped and grabbed the bottom limb of a giant bur oak tree and began to climb up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s sour tasting and contains bits of maize that settle at the bottom, requiring you to shake it up before enjoying, hence the name. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sample question pictured a leaf standing top to bottom and progressively leaning to the right. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Nationally, Virginia’s white teachers ranked in the bottom quarter in public school salaries, and their black counterparts might earn almost 50 percent less. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So he knelt down to look at the canoe, and there he had a shock because there was an inch of water in the bottom, and he knew he had bailed it out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“An elevator fell to the bottom. You’ll be relieved to know that the passenger was saved by the emergency brakes.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bacchus picked his way to the bottom and looked up at the crowd. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The dwelling at the bottom of the cerro was an old shack beyond repair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Though still at the bottom of the hill, the soldiers seemed enormous. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think a minute is enough—until I give in, crying harder than I have in weeks, and I hammer at the railing with the bottom of my fist. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bottom of our staircase was lined with baskets of miniature candy, and when Mr. Pirzada removed his shoes he did not place them there as he normally did, but inside the closet instead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A door opened with a clatter at the bottom of the turret stairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stifling hot air enveloped them as they walked to the bottom of the metal slab. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I came to the bottom of the hill, I called out that I was home and my grandmother yoo-hooed from the vegetable garden. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I place my foot on the bottom bench and drape my arm over my knee. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I thank you. Tell me what I am to do, and I shall not falter!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I did,” Delia said, pulling out Papá’s old bottle of cologne with nothing more than a few drops left in the bottom of it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The link was near the bottom of the Local News section, the eighth click down, but I was on the boards. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I believe if we knew who Baker was we’d be getting to the bottom of the whole business,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

First, the interior of the mansion had to be cleaned from top to bottom. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore’s office gave an almighty lurch — Harry was thrown forward and pitched headfirst into the substance inside the basin — But his head did not hit the stone bottom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there was nothing in a garbage can but drippings of fat in the bottom. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom of the page, my name appeared. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley's hole would have to be as deep as his shovel, and he'd have to be able to lay the shovel flat across the bottom in any direction. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was a cage, but half of its bottom was a trapdoor, neatly mounted on hinges. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All I could see were his eyes and his bottom lip. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sadly, I put some of the internal organs on my hook, and before I could get my line to the bottom I had another bite. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering to leap the vanishing step halfway down the concealed staircase, he burst through a tapestry at the bottom and out into a corridor where a number of bewildered and pajama-clad Hufflepuffs stood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They found a crevice and shined their lights down to the bottom. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across from us, against the far wall, the blue uniforms of the band members filled two sections from top to bottom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave blinked and said he thought valley land was bottom land. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jamal kept repeating what Lloyd said, his deep voice like an echo from the bottom of a well. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From the bottom of the stairs I heard the woman demand, “What is your decision?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Every man that fives or will five in time to come in this land of Danes will honor and praise your name, O Beowulf. Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another picture at the bottom of the article. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Alba, who already had experience in this line of work, suggested that they start with the boxes on the bottom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my eyes were covered by my bangs as I stared at a piece of old gum that was stuck to the bottom of Mr. Tushman’s desk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His hand moved over to the bottom rows on the right wing. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I took the liberty of packing a case for you,” Silas explained, as they reached the bottom. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Stuffing the sleeping skin into her pack, she tied the caribou hide to the bottom and shouldered her load. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom was rubbly and she came out of what should have been a refreshing bath all sore from sitting on that wet roughness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked it up and read the line at the bottom. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stripped down and he checked me from top to bottom. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Here are both men!” panted the sergeant, struggling at the bottom of a ditch. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

At home he watches MTV with Sonia as she doctors her jeans, cutting inches off the bottoms and inserting zippers at the newly narrowed ankles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, Mark caught movement, at the bottom of the steps and gestured toward it with his weapon. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

By this time I was at the bottom of the stairs, and he examined the pan of potatoes he was still holding. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I sat on the edge of the pool, empty save for a layer of slushy snow at the bottom, feet dangling in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sipped some rose water before asking, "You know the tale of how I found the flower of immortality in a cave at the bottom of the endless ocean?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We kept them in an old wooden box with no bottom and a piece of glass on the top. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The glow from the oil lamps failed to reach the bottom of the mikveh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I back away until my bottom bumps the bureau. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At the bottom he pulls back so hard he almost sits on his haunches. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s an auditorium. It’s pretty big, seats about two hundred, maybe. They’re all down at the bottom watching some guy on the stage.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The tub’s deep, with three steps to the bottom. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Immediately behind him, at the bottom of the steps, teachers stood in rows. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I bit my bottom lip and didn't say anything. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

As a result, Inka roads eschewed valley bottoms and used long stone stairways to climb up steep hills directly—brutal on horses’ hooves, as the conquistadors often complained. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The rabbit fetched up against the grating, drifted a little way along it, found the bottom and crawled out of the turbid water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His nose sharpened when he saw the greasy sink with its scum of food bits at the bottom. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bottom line: Oppenheimer now had to figure out a whole new design for an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only ready source of water was at the bottom of the cliff, and there was no way down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Gregor had been almost at the bottom when Ares had caught him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to grade a third exam but cannot concentrate; the numbers drift across the pages and collect at the bottom in unintelligible piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he got to the bottom, he looked at me and nodded approvingly. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I spent yesterday evening sitting on the sofa in jogging bottoms and a T-shirt, making lists of things to do, possible strategies. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached up and held on to the bottom of a stanchion. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He then reached all the way to the bottom of the case and found the very thing I prayed he would not: a loaded revolver wrapped inside some of my clothing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The circular scribbles are big on top and small on the bottom. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He dug around at the bottom of his book bag until he finally came up with a pen, and after taking the cap off with his teeth, he began to write. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He laid his shovel back down on the bottom of his hole and, to his surprise, it fit. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“So you must be”—she stared at me, thinking; her finger pulled down her lower lip, showing her bottom teeth, one missing—“eight!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I wondered if there was a limit to how deep I could go, if I could sink straight to the bottom of the Pacific. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mom and I used to bring you here almost every weekend. By the time you were three, you could dive to the bottom all by yourself and pick up a conch shell. You remember?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Black satin, the remnants of my dress, now made waves at the bottom of the canvas. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’m really glad I’m here, now, and not lying at the bottom of the Steerkiller River. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, raised my sword, and placed my right foot on the bottom step of the dais. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Voxy clenches my hand tighter, and I get a toe on the river bottom. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the block it resumed a straight path that could be followed all the way across the city to the bay and Coit Tower on the other side. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The ground gave way beneath my feet, dragging me downward, spinning fast, like sand rushing through a hole in the bottom of the universe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of it he drew a line and made a motion with his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The great auditorium for Ford’s Day celebrations and other massed Community Sings was at the bottom of the building. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the bottom drawer of her desk. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was given to me by my great-grandfather, Henry Wilhide Webb III, who dived to the bottom of the river to get it 71 years ago. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Feet over head, feet over head, feet over head, over and over again, grunting and thumping his way to the bottom, leaving a cloud of dust and burnt, dried-up grass trailing after him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She washed off the top half of her body, then the bottom, so that she wouldn't ever be totally naked. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

An obscene thought crosses my mind, and before it becomes anything more, I stuff the registration form away in the bottom drawer of my dresser. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I let it run for a second to warm up and put a dishrag in the bottom of the sink so the splashing wasn’t too loud. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

One of the otters discovered a robot head in a tide pool, and they all dove in and took turns rolling it along the bottom. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looks at the boy sitting on one of the bottom bunks—he is a fewyears younger than we are, and he’s trying to undo a knot in his shoelaces. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of sackcloth covered the bottom half of the window where several panes were missing, the result of a rock hurled from the street one night long ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God, I’d like to give it to you just like this—” He lowered his hands to her bottom and rubbed himself against her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Nancy descending a long iron staircase into the netherworld, and a man who waited for her at the bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small sound dropped silently to the bottom and everything was ready. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had put Lin Nai-Nai’s present on the bottom of my bag so I wouldn’t be separated from it and now I quickly covered the two books I had packed with a bunch of underwear. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they weren’t actually capes at all, but safety blankets, like the one Aru kept at the bottom of her bed and pulled up under her chin before she went to sleep. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Westley noted only that the ravine bottom was flat rock and heading in the general direction he wanted to follow. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I keep locking my legs so the seat doesn’t shift, but I’m afraid I’m going to break through the bottom of the truck. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"There, written at the bottom of the letter." Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bottoms of my shoes, which were thin as paper, grew ragged. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two short, stubby legs poked out from the bottom, and the weird creature stomped indignantly out to the middle of the raft. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I feel immeasurably calmer when we go back outside, even if Rachel is still there, standing down at the bottom of the garden by the fence, watching one of the trains go past. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wait until she finishes the last stitch at the bottom, before she starts again with the first stitch at the top. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light is on, shining underneath the bottom, daring me to knock. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Blond-white hair cut in perfect bowls at the bottoms of their earlobes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bodice is covered in lace with pearls woven in between the seams, and the bottom flares out and brushes the floor. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the bottom ones, which were the dampest, and started to spread the others over the floor. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There on my porch with my best friend, everything felt just right, from top to bottom, through and through just right. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He buried his dirty clothes at the bottom of the hamper and dug all his leftover birthday and Christmas money out of his sock drawer. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They’d found him at the bottom of an irrigation ditch, badly burned, flies in his mouth and eyes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing still until the residue settles to the bottom, I scoop up the water in my hand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started at the bottom, and Bobby Gene in the middle. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The last three pages of the album were devoted to boys in Greek tunics, crowned with laurel, playing among false Hellenic ruins, with chubby bottoms and heavy eyelashes—repulsive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I was about to tell that guard, it seems to me that they should try to get to the bottom of the mystery.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first thrust took him down a good eight feet but the visibility was only five feet beyond that and he could not see bottom yet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice never melts; it clings to the bottom of the world, spawning winds, storms, and weather that affect the whole planet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Rondell still asleep with his mouth hanging open, a nasty string of drool going from his bottom lip to his sweatshirt. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sighing, Nicole’s mom ran a hand over the thickness of her thighs, the roundness of her bottom, and it was as if Nicole could feel the shame in her own body. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of a slope, a creek curved across a low meadow. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was lying on the brick path at the bottom of the stairs with a surprised look on its face—which was now several inches away from the rest of it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He was a bird of the cliffs, open river valleys, and the bottoms of clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I looked at her, sitting erect on the edge of the living-room sofa, her bottom lip tight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faye said, “Now let me see the bottom, child—there. You see how good it is? Fill up again.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then there’s the date she’s supposed to show up, scrawled in blue pen on a line at the bottom of the card: April 27,1979. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was sitting with his elbows on his knees, staring at the bottom of a garbage can. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha’s letters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a bottom hole was a six-pack of bottled water. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then I walked all the way down the steps, and when I reached the bottom I knew why there had been no scurrying sounds. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The abrupt ending and the expanse of blankness at the bottom of the page mirror the finality of the decision to move and the uncertainty of the life that lay ahead. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he got to the bottom of the stairs, Lydia called down, “Hey, Dad, I gave my old computer to Dill. He’s not stealing it.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The glass slippers Char and I had found were safely buried at the bottom of my carpetbag. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rivers dried up, their bottoms carpeted with dead fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I reached the bottom, I stopped cold. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The threads unraveled and sank to the bottom of the tub. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He bit the bottom end of the ice cream cone in half, and stuffed the two bits into his mouth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She bit her bottom lip to stop it from trembling. 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 the bottom of the gorge, the ice on the river had continued melting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex laughs again, incredulous, looking into the heavy circles under Henry’s eyes and the chewed-up bottom lip and, for the first time, seeing a man born to lead a nation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"However, you dropped me a little note, at the bottom of the page," he said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were vile things cluttering up the bottom. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, a hand-shaped section of blades wriggled and stretched and grew until they were brushing the bottom of her palm. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Can you go to the bottom of the page?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the bottom they turned sharply, almost colliding with a woman painting at an easel, and kept running until they found themselves on a quiet residential street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bottom floor was entirely flooded, and the place was caving in on itself, but the upper floors held a slew of squats. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the bottom of her thumb to show me exactly where Daisy had bitten Mom. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jack slipped into a low gear and we trundled slowly through them, coming out at a short straight stretch that bottomed out into a wide inside curve, a rocky cliff looming over it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A foundation of the tea olive strewn over the bottom, cool and green. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There has to be a more exciting way to complain of boredom. bottom line. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t bottomed out yet, but it was heading that way. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went out and got a flat piece of cardboard and folded it up into a box, sticking a big piece of tape on the bottom. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

McCandless’s signature had been penned at the bottom of the SOS note, and the photos, when developed, included many self- portraits. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well,” Grandpa said, “there’s supposed to be a white flag in the mouth of Black Fox. That’s where we leave the road. The camp is in the river bottoms.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on! We need to find a way into the bottom of the ship.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the fire escape stopped at least a couple of feet above the front entry arch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pictured it grabbing me and dragging me down to the bottom, holding me there too long, or maybe long enough, depending on whether you looked at it from my perspective or the fish’s. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

More layers of reeds were added and tied to make the bottom of the boat. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was heading for the green fields of left, and the runt kid, sounding like two runners with his flap-soles slapping the bottoms of his feet, was chucking dust for third. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seized the little girl around the waist, grabbed the neck of Ron’s robes, and kicked off from the bottom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped over a low place in the hedge at the bottom, and took to the meadows, passing into the night like a rustle of wind in the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He’s very strong,” she said, grinding her knuckles against the bottom of his foot. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I fill my lungs with air and float on top of the water, then blow out all my breath and sink to the bottom. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The turpentine is on the bottom, next to the flashlights, if you need it.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of Chairback Mountain, four miles farther on, there was a dirt logging road. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This time he made an arrow out of his arms and used his legs to push off the bottom of the raft, all he had in his legs, to spring-snap and propel him down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the box Patrolman Mancuso found two withered pieces of doughnut out of which, judging by their moist edges, the jelly had been sucked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was suffering, and at the bottom of everything, like dregs in a cup, there was no deeper truth in the soul of Weep than that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The feeling at the bottom of my heart was still there. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How can we tell if it’s peculiar?” he said, flipping the bird over to inspect its bottom, as if expecting to find a label there. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In evading and warding off wage increases, employers are of course behaving in an economically rational fashion; their business isn’t to make their employees more comfortable and secure but to maximize the bottom line. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the bottom of the hill they downshifted and the engine roar was so loud a few petals fell off the blossoms. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I watched as she drank her milk to the bottom of the glass. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is a man who spent his adult life at the bottom of a bottle, trying to anesthetize himself against the Capitol’s crimes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Fish swam on the water, and crabs ran about the sandy bottom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to his friend Asa Gray, “Pangenesis will be called a mad dream, but at the bottom of my own mind, I think it contains a great truth.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gone were his faded bell- bottoms, his granny glasses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At last Fiver began to move along the bottom of the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mug with a ring of dried liquid at the bottom. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On three sides the woods pressed upon it; but eastward the ground fell steeply and the tops of the dark trees, growing at the bottom of the slope, were below their feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She smiled brightly and nodded to give him courage, and then the bottom fell out of the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gravity yanked them both toward the bottom a lot faster than they had expected. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I’m among the bare trees at the bottom I look up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were at the very bottom of the hill, across the narrow road that led to the entrance of his grandparents’ property. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Out of the bottom rolled Uncle Lorne, choked with feathers and looking more bird than human. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron was just ahead of us, looking over his shoulder, his bottom lip hanging. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In fact the whole bottom seemed to move. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gustloff’s final dive will pull her deep, to the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the bottom of the boat scraped onto the icy beach, she jumped out, her boots splashing into the shallow water as she dragged the boat onto the shore. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Big Ma swatted Vonetta on the bottom, then Fern, which was as playful as Big Ma got. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the can reflects the lights from the machines, and I remember something that’s been itching at the back of my mind since yesterday. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She looked at it as if for the first time, studying the wallpaper pattern carefully on the top half before allowing her eyes to fall to the numbered grid on the bottom. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her name and school were written at the bottom. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“The bottom line is that someone from management would have called patient care and said, ‘Look, would you make sure everything’s okay?’ Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"This is a great roll," he said, nibbling away in the bottom of the bag. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing tracksuit bottoms and a stained grey T-shirt, his hair is greasy, his skin slick, as though with fever. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom line was that Weirdos were just plain weird because of their unpredictability. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The wire between the posts was rusted and torn, bowed up along the bottom by animals snuffling underneath it and down on the top by animals leaning or climbing over it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Rose,” I say, sliding under the bottom and wiggling my way down to where the keel sits in the mud. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the very bottom and the wall rose frowning above them, Lasaraleen was shaking so that she could not unbolt the gate. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

High cheekbones and long nose, flared at the tip like the knobs at the bottom of a femur. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded funny still, tinny and far away, as if she were speaking from the bottom of a dark well. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I thought...I thought he was going to kill you,” Amil said, his bottom lip trembling slightly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He puts his thin cotton towel under her, she lies at the bottom of his boat with his silver haul of small fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, compared with Wal-Mart’s unctuous service ethic, Todd’s emphasis on the bottom line is positively refreshing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the last page he saw pencilled in a faint set of letters and figures. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I thought there might be a langosta clinging to coral at the bottom of the fishing hole. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You stood there and directed him how to hold this drunken helpless Indian woman down in the bottom of that canyon while you got ready to shoot a bullet into her brain?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And when we finally reach the bottom of the hill, I see the man with one brow, sheltering in the covered entrance of the cathedral. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was running water at the bottom: it was in fact the bed of one of the many small rivers that trickled down from the hills to feed the stagnant pools and mires beyond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We visited other unusual rock formations in Oregon, New Mexico, and Texas—and even spent one night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jumping from something so high that she'd never hit the bottom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There, at the bottom, under education, it said Brookline High School. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The drawing was signed at the bottom: Leo. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even if he and Annabeth reached the bottom of the cliff alive, they didn’t have much to look forward to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His words distort the scars on his face—a slice across the bridge of his nose, and another jagged mark that goes from his ear to the bottom of his chin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Giddily tall and straight, they have up to a dozen stalks, with a protective mat of spikes wrapped around the bottom of the tree. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was not nearly as steep, and it curved halfway, so that whatever was near the bottom of it was quite out of sight as they stood at the top preparing to go down. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have to piece together the sequence of events, and when I get to the bottom of it, I believe that the plant loss is not just a defeat; it's a sign. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He’s supposed to be at the bottom of the ocean. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was quite green, like thick glass, and you could see the bottom. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just landed myself at the bottom of a twister with a man who’s tried to kill me twice. Don’t reckon any of my ideas are too bright.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Abel slammed his foot on the gas and shot up onto the grass and straight toward the bottom of the tree. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I spotted a couple in bright quilted jackets with their arms around each other’s waists weaving their way down to the bottom of the gorge. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys slowly backed away toward the bottom of the steps. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

With my eyes I followed my right arm, top part, elbow, bottom part, wrist, hand. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I pulled it out and placed it at the bottom of the pile. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"Why locks?" she asks, her bottom lip quivering. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Octavian had reached the bottom of the ladder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he was at the bottom of some harbor, the house felt empty. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pendanski examined it and took a long look at its flat bottom. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dr. Z did fill in the blanks on the one that Branwell had made, and he wrote on the bottom, “She’s beautiful, Bran, and she can’t wait to meet her brother.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when we got to the bottom of the hill Hazel was completely finished and he couldn’t go any further. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a lever and flexed the heavy steel blade up and down, bringing the bottom edge to rest just even with the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lucifer moved inside, taking possession of the rug at the bottom of the basement steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his Lakeside Elementary Safety Patrol shirt over his pajama bottoms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It fit me like a sack, the sleeves falling past my fingers and the bottom sagging halfway to my knees, but at least it was warm. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She threw a fruit so hard, it shot off the bottom step and landed with a soft plop on the grass. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three more red seals and ribbons dangled from the bottom edge. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her last words were lost in the empty air of the gym; Miles had shot across the bottom of the bleachers and ripped her microphone’s power cord from its extension. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then she put on a pair of bright orange boots she found at the bottom of the cupboard. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

At the bottom, Helmuth added: “This is a chain letter, so please pass it on.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was at the bottom of the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Put one man in the sickroom, night and day, one outside the door, two at the bottom of the stairs. No one sees Bran without my warrant or my mother's." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she got home, she kissed her grandmother’s cheek, walked up the stairs to her room, and tossed her book bag into the bottom of her closet. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

By the time he had reached the bottom of the hill, the trail had gone cold. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At last we were going to get to the bottom of this business. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I went to the river, dove into the water, and sat at the bottom, but my thoughts followed me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ged stretched out in the bottom of the boat to sleep, wrapped in his cloak of wool and fur. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We all want to get to the bottom of this, Starr. We appreciate your cooperation. I understand this is hard right now.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I could see his bottom lip shaking, just a little. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was a big clatter as the bottom of the wagon opened. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soles of my sneakers catch onto the bottom rung and I hang there like a caterpillar curled on a twig. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I saw it in the bottom of the milk crate. Bring the hammer too.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the marble mortar down, the bottom of the little white bowl stained with crushed spices. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The first time Beans was on the bottom, he clamped the sides halfway down and stopped, sending the rest of them tumbling to the ground. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But the screen turns out to be in tatters, not even fastened at the bottom, just flapping uselessly in the breeze. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mirage-gray at the bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun, the car tops sizzled and glittered, and the dry, cindery dust blew into my eyes and down my throat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Apparently this poor creature had been mucking around on the bottom of Long Island Sound and had somehow gotten itself tangled in the net of this sunken fishing boat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, they reached the bottom level of the Light Market. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But there were any number of things that would seem incredible about Dumbledore; that he had once received bottom marks in a Transfiguration test, for instance, or had taken up goat-charming like Aberforth.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Buddy frowned, bit his bottom lip, scratched his head, and eventually—solemnly—floated the paper back to Casquabel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, he took off his straw hat and sat down at the bottom of the bed. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bite my bottom lip and go right past the bed to the wall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Dawn Madden bit her bottom lip and sneaked me this naked smile. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen was going to sleep in the extra twin bed, get the bottom drawer of May’s dresser for her stuff, and have the bathroom at her fingertips. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am at the bottom of the stairs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her bottom hung over both sides of her chair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Shenandoah National Park—101 miles from top to bottom—is famously beautiful, and I was eager to see it at last. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In Connellsville, students from some of the other high schools wear sweatpants and sweatshirts to the workshops and performances—or even pajama bottoms. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He says he’s got to the bottom of why colored folks are treated bad and he’s going to tell the President and have things changed, see? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Being timid and young, they prefer a bottom on which there are many caves and little crevices and lumps of mud where they may hide from predators and protect themselves from the waves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped that whatever rock Vega had been carrying in him had just sunk to the bottom of the river along with his gun. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I roll up the top into a ball and bury it at the bottom of the laundry hamper. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Paul, squatting in front of me as I stood on the bottom step, patting my shoulders, trying to adjust the seam so it didn’t fall forward over my arm. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

You can hear the attempt of his breath, that unlost voice, calling us from the bottom of the world. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, the reverend looked deep into my father’s eyes, as if scraping the bottom of his soul. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Why is the tree on the bottom, with the unintended meaning, the one the reader arrived at? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When at last they came to the bottom of the gorge they found that evening had fallen in the deep places. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His hands could only come up so high, but it was high enough that he could cradle her bottom and put her face on his. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Light filtered down through the water to the bed where the frilly pearl oysters lay fastened to the rub- bly bottom, a bottom strewn with shells of broken, opened oysters. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert was sitting on the toilet with his pajama bottoms around his ankles. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yellowed bottoms of the sneakers face the lamp, and a layer of Saran Wrap protects my concoction of detergent and toothpaste that’ll eventually clean them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There at the bottom of the gourd were my mother and father scanning the sky, which was where I was. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

‘The temperature,” said Archimedes, “depends on the vegetation of the bottom. Woods or weeds, they make it warm above them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he smiled, small tusks curled out from his bottom lip. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Before he hopped in with a thorny bottom?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The fire was nothing more than a few coals smouldering in the bottom of the hole where the roots had been. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I continue building the pyramid of Jergens jars, five on the bottom, then four, three, two, one on top. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Stay on the rocks. The bottom is sticky around here.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lines were perfectly symmetrical, curving so gracefully from top to bottom that Tree-ear longed to run his finger along the smooth shallow grooves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was breathing as hard as I could—big, mouth-open breaths like a fish in the bottom of a boat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We used a wrap of wire to make a loop at the top and bottom of the rocket and then slid it down the rod. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I adjust my wristband, fix my helmet, and tug on the bottom of my jersey. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And then the following morning the body of his first wife being found, trapped in the cabin of her sailing boat, at the bottom of the bay. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the ad is a photograph of a man with his arms folded behind his back. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then we heard a dog snarl very near the bottom rim of the cage, and went silent. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was shaped sort of like a fireplace, with an arched recess at the bottom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“There have to be some rocks at the bottom, to support those at the top.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Butterscotch rests at the bottom of the steps. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The image of Paulie seeing part of his own skeleton made my stomach bottom out. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the poster, these words appeared—Do I dare disturb the universe? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The things we do not know, independently and in unison as a family, would fill two separate baskets, each with a large hole in the bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were probably looking for this,” he said, retrieving their first draft of the treasure map from its hiding place in the bottom right-hand drawer. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an exam, with the same website link from our course review lining the bottom of each page. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee—real coffee, not Victory Coffee—came floating out into the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I line it with toilet paper to make a cushion on the bottom. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She bites her bottom lip, the way she does whenever she feels guilty or anxious. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped just in case he’d suddenly sprouted ten inches, but his fingertips never brushed the bottom rung. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He frowned and his bottom lip actually wobbled as he waved toward the pile that used to be where they lived. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fezzik reached the door at the bottom and threw it open and slammed it, with Inigo just managing to slip inside before the door crashed shut. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Park’s body, lying on damp ground atop the bottom strand of wire, became that device. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The pruney man gazed up from the bottom of a well of brightness and buzzing that, we saw, was made of bees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I reach down to the bottom of my backpack for my stash of money, which I keep in one of Daddy’s old socks. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I saw shapes in the clouds, and sculptures in the tumbled stones at the bottom of a stream. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The bag split, but she caught it from the bottom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Set into the wall at the bottom of the steps was another light switch, metal and rusting. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Passing through the towering ice pinnacles of Phantom Alley we entered the rock-strewn valley floor at the bottom of a huge amphitheater. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Distributed, if need be, into places dark as the bottom of a well. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw her on my way to work this morning. She told me that the police found a body at the bottom of the Seine a few days ago.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

There was also a pigeon-sized hole rusted through the door’s bottom corner, but that was no help to us—we needed the combination. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A man in a black suit is waiting for me at the bottom of the ramp. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its fragile golden skin is punctured, and the sun bleeds oranges and yellows across the bottom of the sky. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“These are not high heels! There’s barely any heel. But the bottoms are slippery.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“And it had our home address written on the bottom.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But the bottom half has been denied too long. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We talked to some of the girls in your class," Mrs. Dunne said, “but they all played dumb. We're still going to get to the bottom of this, I promise." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then Dell punches holes in the bottoms with a kitchen knife, which gets ruined because you're not supposed to use it for that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Neel’s feet touched bottom again and he waded to the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He inched himself on his bottom, like a shy crab, toward the tip-top of the slope, to the highest spot, where he sat, washed in sunlight, surveying the kingdom that was Snowberger’s. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the sides of this crevasse were great shapes of ice, and there was no bottom to it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Running over the bottom edge of the crown so that when Balekin had lifted it, his hands had been smeared red. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The water spilled down into the pit, and even when I shined a light, I couldn’t see the bottom. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Under the water I kept my eyes shut and touched the sandy bottom with my hands and feet and felt a couple slimy seaweed limbs brush over my back and legs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He follows past company houses and the sentry at the bottom of the hill to where the mining officials reside. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bottom dropped away sharply; Taran lost his footing and found himself wildly dancing over nothing, as the river seized him greedily. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We were there on the bottom level of the Port Authority when Lucas's bus pulled in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I was pleased also, because I did not want to see Mrs. Milgrom wind up on the bottom of a heap. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I stared down at the pan, pulling up the edge of a sandwich to check the bottom side. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She stood proudly and defiantly in front of her own name in graffiti, and her signature was down in the bottom right. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stew Cat rubbed his back against the bottoms of my feet and then curled up down there. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even looks at the bottoms of my feet before doing my arms and stomach. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then the bottom fell out and he escaped and I tumbled along on his release. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Entering the woods, we take a deer trail to the bottom of the mountain, then cut over to Mrs. Strawberry’s field. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a net at the bottom of the hole. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was so dark down at the bottom that I got turned around. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The age of some rocks at the bottom of the Canyon has been estimated at over two billion years. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are the most lovely woman in all the world," said Tristran, from the bottom of his heart. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees tin they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The policeman had a big orange leaf stuck to the bottom of his shoe which was poking out from one side. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pokes his bottom lip out, like he's a child on the edge of a tantrum. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Milo was appealing to Yossarian from the bottom of his soul. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the ridge, the grasses rose around her, tall and supple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The crew attached steel cables to the bottom of the plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Queenie struggles at the bottom of a ravine, a badger hanging from her leg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were at the bottom of a crumbling well. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were already in a giddy mood from an inspired discovery that the Fannings' name sure sounded like the word for a person's bottom they had recently learned in the playground at school. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class, where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He licks his bottom lip and the gesture, so familiar, makes my heart lurch. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He could give you the details of everything from top to bottom. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would snip the bottom of a sweater and pull out a kinky thread of yarn, anchoring it to a piece of cardboard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tah dig is the layer of crispy rice from the bottom of the pot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tucked down in the bottom, wrapped in a leftover piece of paper, is a single worm-eaten faerie fruit I picked up on the way home. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had stained-glass windows, white walls, and roughly hewn wood benches that could give you splinters if you wiggled too much, and hurt your bottom if you sat too long. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was at the end of The Little Mermaid when Ariel got legs and left her dad at the bottom of the ocean. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Nana had dumped two fried eggs, three strips of bacon, and hash browns at the bottom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He stumbled backward, landing on his bottom, then held the paper up to his eyes to read the name scrawled on it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For a wing moving through the air, the slower-moving air on the bottom of the wing exerts a greater force than the faster-moving air on the top. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I heard it hit the bottom with a satisfying thud. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It looked as if an alchemist had distilled a dozen swords, and when the crucible had cooled this was lying in the bottom: a sword in its pure form. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was pocked all over with little funnel-shaped snares, where the ant lions lay buried at the bottom, waiting for some poor insect to stumble into the trap and get devoured. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the bottom of his suit jacket, she could make out several bits of knotted rope. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I went down it like greased lightning and came out at the bottom of it and once again I was on the floor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Everybody has a limit. That’s the bottom line,” Dr. Watson said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bottom floor of the building housed several stores. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent down, took a small bottle off the bottom shelf, and placed it on the glass countertop. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

One time he blacked out all but the salutation “Dear Mary” from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, “I yearn for you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the deep end of the gym pool at school he had no trouble getting to the bottom and that was, he was pretty sure, about eleven feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even thought about it since seeing that blood in the bottom of the shower stall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stare at the email at the bottom of the flyer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Genie pressed his hand over his eye, but he kept pumping—two calls—hurdling over the fallen trees, the bottom of his feet pulsing in his flimsy Converses. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the bottom, he wouldn’t let anyone help him back into the chair. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His arms were stiff at his sides as he fidgeted with the bottom of his T-shirt. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sixth had once been the top grade in elementary school, and was now the bottom grade in middle school. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The drops turn into a stream of water, and soon water gushes out of the tank, splattering all over the slab, soaking the bottom of Reggie’s pants. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The horseshoe hit the warrior—crack!—on the side of his helmet’s bottom brim. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m going in search of the bottom. Are you okay here? Do you mind?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The borders at the top and bottom are lilac. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take my arms off the trunk and fold them to my chest like a mummy, loosen my thighs from their grip, and fall in a backwards swan dive to the bottom. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then she moved on to how the Portuguese and Belgians and Americans have wrecked poor Africa top to bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermit crabs like frantic children scamper on the bottom sand. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold and dead, and a foul sump of oily many-coloured ooze lay at its bottom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The clay got wetter as she dug, until, at last, water began to seep into the bottom of the hole. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cane juice was now poured into molds with holes in the bottom, so that all the liquid could drain out, leaving only a powder. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I sit near the bottom and rest my elbows on top of my knees. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Genie glanced at Tess and swallowed hard—had to get the secret about Bruce Lee’s tooth all the way down to the bottom of his stomach so that it wouldn’t come out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As usual, a special platform has been constructed at the bottom of the stage for the families of the dead tributes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He borrowed heavily to buy himself three sheep, and the bottom dropped out of the wool market the very year he had had enough wool to think of it as a cash crop. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘But, uh, the Jupiter guy saving the Poseidon guy at the bottom of the ocean . . . maybe we can keep the details to ourselves? Otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Short, choppy waves slap against the bottom of the ship. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But this isn’t even limping. A limp has rhythm. This is more like someone falling down a set of stairs. Uneven stairs. With a midden at the bottom.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From my high vantage, I could see a thick, oily smoke slowly filling the bottom of the well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why couldn’t you have had him tape the money at the bottom of the railroad trestle or leave it beneath the bridge, Sammy?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and Mam lay at the head of the bed, Malachy and I at the bottom, the twins wherever they could find comfort. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I shift my bottom to the edge of my wheelchair, and reach for my walker. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mango is still glowing at the bottom of the bed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Soft as a baby’s bottom,” Father always said about the shawl when she wore it, twinkling at Mother, who would flush. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Grandpop’s voice sounded different without teeth, and his top lip tucked itself behind his bottom like a bulldog. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Back in the thick timber of the river bottoms, the sharp snapping of frozen limbs could be heard. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s dark. There’s a drop of about a foot. Just jump. We put some straw at the bottom, so it’s soft.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was it tied to the small sounds of scurrying rodents that echoed down to where she had stood at the bottom of the stairs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Thing is, you keep hoping for a miracle right up to the end and then when it don’t it’s like the floor disappears and you’re falling but you never hit bottom. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom they met Nately coming up and stopped laughing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Kimberly anxiously stood at the bottom of the stairs while Don went up to present the gift, wrapped in sparkly paper. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Great brown angels with halos of hibiscus blossoms descended from heaven, pulled down by their enormous gourd breasts and ripe honeydew bottoms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The tub was pink, too, and it was full of water, and Bunny, fully clad, was lying motionless at the bottom of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That meant amputating the foot and the bottom of the leg, and fitting me with a prosthesis—an artificial leg. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The one”—he licks his bottom lip—“of me?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She fell on her bottom, the manuscript clutched to her stomach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Settle the key at the bottom of Pop’s box. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We're whisked down to the bottom level of the Remake Center, which is essentially a gigantic stable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He knew only, once Buttercup was down at the ravine bottom beside him, that to climb out would take, as Prince Humperdinck had assumed, too much time. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the pool, coins shimmered—a dozen or so golden drachma. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I reply, reading the clipboard’s paper thoroughly and then signing it at the bottom. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next, I tear open the bedding package and make up the bottom bunk, saving the other set of sheets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His fat, mottled cheeks were so pouched at the bottom that it was dif-ficult not to believe that he had little stores of food tucked away there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When I got to the bottom of the hill, I looked back. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there water at the bottom or something?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bottom number tells you what kind of note gets a beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Born in Calcutta, Bechu was an orphan, which put him at the very bottom of society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She threw the unopened envelopes in the bottom drawer. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

What I’d thought was the ceiling was really the bottom of a giant room carved into the mountain peak. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My bottom hurt when I sat down at my desk. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull down my bikini bottom and squat, forcing myself to sing, so I can relax enough to go. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I put a foot through a snow bridge spanning a slot so deep I couldn’t see the bottom of it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had left his tennis shoes in the shelter and when he felt the sand turn to mud between his toes he kicked off the bottom and began to swim. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite a search from top to bottom at the McDowell County Library, Quentin still couldn’t find any books to help us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two more lines at the bottom of the page, then turn it over. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My feet punched down and the bottom was closer now and I crawled and kicked toward the sand. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“This morning, when I left the apartment, I found a dead lizard right at the bottom of the stairs.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A black fist rose from the bottom of each sheet and called for justice. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You got raggedy bottoms. I’d say you boys could learn a thing or two from the folks down in Arkansas. Wouldn’t you say, Brother Cletus?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The primary diver descends through the dark and cold until he hits bottom, stirring up a thick cloud of silt and sediment. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if he knew,” I say, to Manchee, to myself, to no one, as we get to the bottom of the hill and I lean against a tree to make the world stop moving. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I run to the end of the bridge and cut onto the grass, down the embankment to the bottom, which is an old dried-up riverbed full of cigarette butts and beer bottles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ivy wiped her eyes and dragged her teeth over her bottom lip until her eyes were dry and her voice felt steady. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What is that?” the girls in my cabin teased, pointing at the print on my pajama bottoms. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When I crouch and look under, down at the bottom by the keel, I can see where one whole plank has come loose. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Water trickles into the bottom of the tank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was no longer straight and flat, but had begun to dip, and now it ran at the bottom of high banks covered with green plants. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then, near the bottom, there is cactus of the same variety found in the deserts to the south. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the three games sitting in the bottom of Kyle’s shopping cart. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She watched as a slick of tears glistened right at the bottoms of her eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The morning passes and at the bottom of yet another hill there’s yet another creek. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed some roots on the bottom of the river and pulled myself slowly down until only my lips and nose were above water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tehlu sent men to cut a dozen evergreens and use them to kindle a bonfire in the bottom of the deep pit they had dug. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All we had to do was wash the bottoms of our shoes in soapy water each time we went inside. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the jar, just below the edge of the label, Sophie could see the putting-to-sleep dream lying peacefully on the bottom, pulsing gently, sea-green like the other one, but perhaps a trifle larger. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I walked down the bottom of the garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He packs his belongings, and we start the long descent to the bottom of the gorge. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I reached the bottom of the alcove, I saw my mother half lying down, half sitting up on the couch, staring at me with wide eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Anyone who threw a wrench into the gears of the city’s seedy underbelly was apt to end up at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mama had written, in her delicate handwriting, the name of each baby daughter across the bottom of those photographs. Number the Stars 2011-05-02T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom of the hill they came upon another passage that branched off to their right and slanted steeply downward. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I roll again, and the bottom of the car skims my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He sprinted back to the one-eyed witch, opened her hump, heaved himself inside, and slid down to meet his bag at the bottom of the stone chute. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

All triads are transformed in some way if the root in the bass line is not the same as the bottom note of the triad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She read the labels on the clothes and turned over dishes and vases to study the markings on the bottom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes moved immediately from a flaming pink flower in the bottom left to a strange storm brewing in the top right. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He caught hold of the handle and worked it to and fro, seeing white ashes and red embers falling into the bottom of the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Closer to the bank the river bottom turned stony. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed Edwin’s surprise visit, Cole spent long periods standing beside the totem log, staring down at the blank space still at the bottom. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Every night, the water in the bottom of my shower turns brown for a minute as the dirt runs from between my toes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m just wearing my usual. Starting from the bottom, I have B.V.D. briefs, size ten, one tee shirt...” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman lifted the bottom edge of her apron and wiped it across her brow. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

At the very bottom of the bag were Sarah's shells. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Just as my hand closed on a root I thought my feet touched bottom, but I wasn’t sure. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the steps is a pavilion with two glass blocks, each one at least three times as tall as I am, at either end. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Adah wrote at the bottom of the page, “Remember ‘Devil One’ and ‘W. I. Rogue?’ The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a pack of cigarettes out of his jacket pocket and tapped the bottom so that one of them flipped up. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was waiting for me at the bottom of a slide, exactly as I wanted it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Her upper lip tucked into her bottom one. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

More shallow bottoms moved out from the drowned wreckage of the city, sailing in a slow wallow to the big ships. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If they reached the bottom at terminal velocity...well, she knew enough science to know it would be terminal. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Through a posting on a school librarians’ Web site she sought out family reunions, where she imagined she would encounter interesting frictions between prosperous siblings and relatives still mired at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Jagged rocks punctured the bottoms of her feet as she waded toward the cave. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would say “If we are on a round ball, how come the folks on the bottom side just don’t fall off?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could place it outside, and attract those people who pass at the bottom of the hill.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that Mrs. Odom’s rutabaga trick with Howard’s brother Cotton wasn’t working too good because there were lots of drawings with colored markers along the bottom of the walls. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Gregor peered into the water and saw tiny jets of light shooting out of the river bottom. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they were at the bottom of the stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A soft radiance, enough to illuminate the pool and the stones that sit at the bottom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I sucked my bottom lip so that I wouldn’t smile. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The sound echoed through the tunnel like cannon shots, and I figured we would not be catching anybody by surprise once we reached the bottom. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I became a little turtle lying at the bottom of this watery place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into her droptube, and it found its way to her level, which was on the bottom, or maybe just toward the bottom, her suburb was. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d tell him about my missing letters and demand he open up the mailbox so I could check for a false bottom. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Stowing her purse, she brushed the bottom of her pack once more and plowed into the crowd, elbowing the other shoppers aside in her haste to leave town. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As we watched, a cobblestone fell over the edge, clattering ten feet to the bottom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up an oar from the bottom of the boat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With that he stood up and went down to the bottom of the gully again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Before my very eyes, the pale blond stumps distinguished themselves into heel and toe; the high arches made S's of the bottoms of her feet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I fish-hooked around Pinky to grab the two dots near the bottom, then another three in the center, and then the last four near the top. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I walked down the steep staircase, wondering how he made it to the bottom in his cast. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The princess chewed on her bottom lip, and Celaena noted that her fingers curled and uncurled at the sides of her long, white gown. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He wanted to add more and more things—in the corners and at the top and bottom. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So by the time I get to the bottom of the first flight of stairs, I know who it is. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then I folded it over some more, walked over to the rubbish bin, placed my sin at the bottom, and gingerly covered it with the rest of the trash. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As she slips her closed hand over it, removing the leaves, my brother begins to cry because the branch is a switch now no longer beautifully weeping at the bottom of the hill. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Oliver’s door has a pretty spring wreath on it, with branches forming a circle and small white flowers and leaves on the bottom half. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the living swam; some of the dead floated; the ones in heavy mail . and plate sank to the bottom, the quick and the dead alike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They did not match the colors of the leaves and sticks around them because their wet dark bottoms were up, not down. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roseland had taken one hit after another, from the exodus of white families and the bottoming out of the steel industry to the deterioration of its schools and the flourishing of the drug trade. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the sack held a dozen gingersnaps, which we finished off after the sandwiches were gone. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Since yesterday I feel like I’m being wadded down into the bottom of a deep, deep “WELL, HOW’S NEW YORK?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When I reached the bottom of the drive, the black car with the license plate A30432 was waiting for me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Got to know the bottom of that boat real good. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, come and sit down—” Four cheeks of two obedient bottoms squeezed into it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep cut-bank draw ran through the pear flats between me and the huge mesquite tree I was heading for, and it was down in the bottom of this draw that the hogs balked. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peers at my clothes, surveying me from top to bottom. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the skirt I sewed the others along their sides so that the feathers ran one way on the upper part and a different way along the bottom. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brazen sphere with an open neck and small holes in the bottom, it is filled by immersing it in water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up, I could do most everything everyone else with arms could do: eating cereal, brushing my teeth and hair, getting dressed, and yes, even wiping my own bottom. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I told him I would and that I wasn’t going far, just down back of our fields in the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined Muskrat finally pulling to the very bottom and grasping that bit of earth in its tiny paws. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

August said it could make your fishing line float, your button thread stronger, your furniture shinier, your stuck window glide, and your irritated skin glow like a baby’s bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment its bottom touches the edge, I can already see the worst-case scenario playing in my head, but it isn’t until he lets go of the Comet that my worst fear materializes into reality. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I sank right down to the bottom and did not come up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We will just borrow the bottom part from the man who lives upstairs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Grace looked as uncomfortable as Joaquin had earlier, squirming and biting her bottom lip. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She sticks it in the bottom of her bag. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Fantastic!” said Hermione, as Ron unraveled the long, flesh-colored strings and began to feed them toward the bottom of the door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Of the four feet of trail map before me, reaching approximately from my knees to the top of my head, we had done the bottom two inches. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she got to the bottom, however, her fears vanished. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Before, living in a township was something to be ashamed of; it was the bottom of the bottom. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For decades the instructions have been missing; each year they have to figure out the order in which the branches must be inserted, the longest ones at the bottom, the smallest at the top. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom of it was just touching the water. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We reached the bottom of the stairs like a slow-moving train of caution. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

By the time Werfel got to the bottom of the mountain, Spurge had joyously greeted his nation’s army. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They hurried along with all the speed they could make, and after a mile or two they saw the Last Bridge ahead, at the bottom of a short steep slope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Collins brought the bottom of his gun down on his head. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Squeezing through a missing slat in a mossy fence, we found ourselves at the bottom of a lumpy lawn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sohrab stood at the base of the ladder with his left foot on the bottom rung. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

From the soles of her feet, from the bottom of her heart, she blew into her mother’s handkerchief. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leah barely glances at hers before folding and tearing off the bottom and creasing it into an origami crane. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Pima and the rest of the light crew swarmed around them as they hit bottom. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He spread out his arms to Shasta, his face lit up, and he cried out in a great, deep voice that seemed to come from the bottom of his chest. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She placed the podaegi’s wide quilted blanket around Junha and took the long strap and wrapped it under his bottom, across his back, and then tied it in front of Jinjoo. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mom’s bottom jaw practically hits the floor. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When he pulled up the covers, his feet stuck out the bottom. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom line, he felt, was that there was “certainly no clear-cut path to defense results of great importance.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As I’m digging at the bottom of my sundae dish with my long-handled spoon, my phone buzzes with a text. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now the bottom of one leg was off. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I blacked out and sank like an anchor toward the bottom of the sea. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were three African people on the cover: a woman with a serene face and two other people hugging in the bottom center. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They lifted Grandfather’s shroud by the top and the bottom and prepared to fling it into the open grave. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I add my name to the bottom of the message and mention that any response can be returned via the same man who delivered the letter. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was almost to the bottom when the door opened. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the sounds of rocks hitting the bottoms of our metal pails. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

By morning the city was blowing in great black soft flakes across the sea bottom. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the echo died away in the distance, silence settled over the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poor creatures perched on the bottom barely moving, obviously pining away for flight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw his crooked nose in the bottom left corner. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mercury was poured into the tube to fill the U bend at the bottom, sealing off the air in the shorter arm of the tube. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They moved on a bit from the bottom of the slope, just in case they had triggered an avalanche. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Then he pressed his right hand to his chest and fell to the bottom of the stairs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It soaks through Mark’s shoes and socks, the bottom of his pants, and he feels its warmth, then its full heat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sweeping the cue under the balloon, I grab the string and pull the balloon out of the water, noticing a tug at the end as something on the bottom of the pool weighs it down. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t keep a good watch on the pot, and the okoge at the bottom got scorched a little darker than usual. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I figured my portion had been the one which stuck to the bottom of the pot. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Worm- tail was busying himself at the bottom of the cauldron with a wand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A boring place for a mouse, Ralph decided, until he discovered something interesting on a bottom shelf behind a big desk. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

They’d probably known right away that the ship was in trouble and the bottom decks were flooding. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

There at the bottom of a sharp incline they saw before them a long flat mile, and beyond that the Ford of Rivendell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He saw that in this dusty and fathomless matter of learning the true name of every place, thing, and being, the power he wanted lay like a jewel at the bottom of a dry well. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I drove the spike into the bottom boards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Grab it and run,” he said as Mom kicked the door and a weathered piece of the bottom board cracked off. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His nails were large, rounded at the bottom and blunt and neat at the tips. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tracks lead us through a shallows in the river to the other side, then east by northeast to the bottom of Federal Hill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned the knob on the door at the bottom of the black stairs and stepped onto the fourth level. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But this morning I felt like I was at the bottom of a well that someone had filled with tons of thick chocolate pudding. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She pulled down a glass and splashed water in the bottom. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One of them is cracked, and a small piece, about the size of my hand, is missing from its bottom corner. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

This seemed to have no bottom and they peered awe-stricken into the gloomy crack where water gurgled. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Grand High Witch whipped round as though someone had stuck a skewer into her bottom. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I cranked each option up to its highest setting, then tapped the Apply button at the bottom of the screen three times. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, in an anteroom, he found Levant slowly paging through the Saturday Evening Post beside a kerosene floor heater. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s put the little ones on the top plank. Lina, move Ona on that bottom plank so we can fit some more of the children.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

One surgeon amputated my right foot and the bottom of my leg, while at the other end the doctors started remaking my face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t afraid a no windows. I clean Miss Walters’ top to bottom ever four weeks.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sand at the bottom caught the color of the sun, and tiny green leaves grew out of this color, suspended in the still water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s senses told her that the pit was at least fifty feet straight down, with a pool of poison at the bottom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The policyholder, usually an illiterate black woman, would dig up her policy from the bottom of a trunk or a chest and hand it to the superintendent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

David rolled to his knees in the bottom of the cockpit and fought the urge to vomit. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kindra—-she seven now—she sass-walk her way to the stove with her bottom sticking out and her nose up in the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It was the only way to avoid chaos. The chain of command started at the very bottom and ended with Hitler.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dead from the bottom up,” “timing messed up,” “Rantz holding slide and arms too long,” he wrote in the logbook. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the message, I added a short postscript: PS—I think you look even more beautiful in real life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was as tall as her chest, thinner at the top and thicker at the bottom, carved with a border of knots and loops. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Bark,” she’d say, and if I didn’t she’d get the flyswatter and swat me across the bottom until I sounded like a pet store full of dogs. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are times when surfing where you’ll take on a wave only to realize the bottom’s dropped out of it and so suddenly without warning you’re free-falling down the entire face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Anything that traveled on the bottom of a shoe went up my nose. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the letter that broke the news of the complementary chains, I had asked that he not tell Linus. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I shuffled over to the bottom of the comer and gingerly swung one of my tools into the two- inch-thick ice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig leaned in so that the fire illuminated his face from the bottom like unsteady stage lights. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And with that, they both affixed their signatures to the bottom of the letter of terms that Lord Ashton had prepared. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Turns it over, tries the bottom, the side. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Then below me I see a precarious sight, and I know I must be nearing the bottom. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Ghost was just coming off the track, wiping his face with the bottom of his shirt. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Abbey showed up, and we hung around until the Coral Queen was off the bottom. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Back in our room, I rubbed Vaseline on the bottoms of my feet before I put on my house slippers, but Jay stuck his feet in his slippers dry. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They had been given no fresh water to drink since that first meal of the morning—but Amari was glad to be away from the stench of the bottom of the ship. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo points to the bottom of the page. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday my grandfather used to bring me an avocado pear hidden at the bottom of his briefcase under six soiled shirts and the Sunday comics. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I am about to give up and toss it onto my dressing table when I glimpse a tiny hole, so small as to be nearly invisible, right at the bottom. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Now finish your drink,” he said, and affectionately squished a cheek of Estha’s bottom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jumped over the low place in the hedge at the bottom and took to the fields, passing into the darkness like a rustle in the grasses. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know I better keep the pencil moving, so I write the word “Why?” over and over from the top of the page to the very bottom. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And he was sure that before he drowned at the bottom of that great river, he was going to be crawled over by dozens and dozens of horrible crabs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The design was simple, the word “Jude” at the top and “Vermin” at the bottom, a detailed drawing of what must have been a flea in between. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Going underground, through the rock, with die filthy river bottom above us, and fish swimming in the black water on the other side of die curving tiles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You eat the crumbs from the bottom of the hull basket,” she said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two swords fell to the bottom and plunked in the sand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s empty but for an oily stain slowly spreading across the bottom. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I crouch to see where the water is coming from, but it seems to be coming from nowhere, rising up from the box’s glass bottom. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I felt worse when I read Miss Bell’s note at the bottom of the paper, asking me to see her after class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the sidewall is now flapping free. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The bottoms of her shoes were clean worn out. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Glerk pressed his four arms to the ground and eased his massive bottom under the curve of his spine, letting his heavy tail curl around the whole of him like a great, glistening snail’s shell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She watched from the kitchen window as they walked down the driveway to the bottom of the hill to wait for the school bus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottom-to-top process took him only three seconds, while the top-to-bottom took seven. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a massive bird’s nest—a gryphon's nest—the bottom littered with old pieces of jewelry, an Imperial gold dagger, a dented centurion’s badge, and two pumpkin-sized eggs that looked like real gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"We could patch the bottom of that rowboat," said Koss. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m already at the bottom of the world, I’m falling. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In answer he went out to the wagon and brought back a sack with a small lump at the bottom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, I say, “Do you want to go look for the bottom again?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her bottom lip hung down, tears fell down that she didn’t bother to wipe away. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a publicar in a shed at the bottom of the hill. Take it, and head north,” Scythe Curie said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The water hums, whispers, and spins white threads before pooling at the bottom. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked a single page off the top of the pile and carefully folded the top a third of the way down, then the bottom of the page up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He tipped the bowl up and drank down the last of the curry at the bottom of it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was chosen from the beginning of time to live there with Agwe at the bottom of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Jimmy’s head came outta hole number five, which was on the bottom row in the middle of the board. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitaker had both hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels as he stood at the bottom of Mr. Ray’s stoop, talking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Look at the signature on the bottom,” Red Corn said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The air is sticking at the top and the bottom of my lungs. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing with it?” she said, licking a drip from the bottom of her cone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The whirlpool deepens at alarming speed, and the spiraling water pulls away from us, until I am looking down a funnel that has no visible bottom. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He gives a tug on the line to let the line tender know he has reached bottom. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When he’s done massaging the plaster, he smooths it down with his hands, then presses his thumbs around the bottom part of my kneecap, getting a good impression of that area. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes was enough dme for the day’s dirt to fall to the bottom of the tub, while Vonetta and Fern styled bubble beehive hairdos on their heads and beards on each other. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran down the steps near the edge of the strip and I stood on the bottom rail of the barricade reaching into the stands for my family’s hands. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

You and Muthu helped us stretch the other end of our tarp from the wall to the ground and weight down the bottom edge with stones to make a sloped roof. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Add in the fact that Cap had dropped off the face of the earth “Let’s get to the bottom of this,” Lena decided. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I dove deep once, swimming down to the bottom. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her bottom lip quivers and her hands shake. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Cubs finished the season at the bottom of the NL Central. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edwin casually lifted an oily rag from the bottom of the skiff and wiped away the slime, then tossed the rag back under his seat and again fixed his eyes on Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She turned that way, and saw only the city, streets and alleys and hills and bottoms and more streets and more alleys and the stone of distant walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But my eyes kept going back to it, so I buried it at the bottom. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the blank space at the bottom of the pole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Like a piece of tape stuck to the bottom of someone’s shoe. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

With my head still like the bottom of a beaten conga drum, I stand up. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perry, who could never find trousers to fit his truncated lower half, wore blue jeans rolled up at the bottom and a leather windbreaker. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom were Gray’s Anatomy and a collected Shakespeare, and above them, on slenderer spines, names in faded silver and gold—she saw Housman and Crabbe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lita’s bare feet and the bottom of her white dress are dusty, like she’s walked a long way to be with me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was knocking on the bottom, trying to get the gem to slide out onto the table. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Statistics rattled across the bottom of the screen. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And all of them with the same phrase written in the bottom right corner: “She is here; she is here; she is here.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They landed at the bottom of the stairs, fists clenched and in fighting stances. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He pauses, then licks his bottom lip again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And he wore a small piece of wood stuck through the skin at the bottom of his nose. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It looks about the size of a raccoon, but it hangs from the bottom of a branch, swaying ever so slightly. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes gold was hidden in a wand with a false bottom, to appear miraculously in a crucible at the end of some arduous experimental demonstration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, at the bottom of Valley Ridge was one lonely jeep parked by the side of the road. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My old crayon art is on the refrigerator with magnets: Dad on top, Gran and the goldens on the bottom. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The bottoms of our jeans were caked with mud too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Over my head, but not so deep I can’t swim down and touch. Sometimes we dare each other to bring back muck from the bottom.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to the bottom, Boomer pounces on me and starts drenching my face with kisses. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I brushed away the tear that was now clinging to the bottom of my chin. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The scent of pine and what I imagined the bottom of a lake would smell like filled the room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom were some strange markings I couldn’t decipher. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was standing the same way, only her pajama bottoms were inside-out and she had the jump rope looped around her waist like a sash. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

His bottom lip between his teeth, he walks slowly and carefully, making not a sound. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Chup, who was soaring under the purple-blue cloud bottoms, saw Frightful with the fledgling and flew down to his dead limb. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She put one foot on the first step at the bottom of the dais but hesitated to go farther. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’d found a sundress at the bottom of her drawer and chose a pair of wedge sandals to match. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no handle, naturally, and no keyhole, and it fitted so closely at top and bottom that no light showed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t happy my sisters had made up songs I knew nothing of, but I wasn’t about to poke out my bottom lip and pout. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Father was standing at the bottom of the stairs and I thought he might see me, but he was flicking through the post which had come that morning so his head was pointing downward. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I could sleep like this, here on the bottom of the bathtub, if I wanted to sleep, which I don’t. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The bottom line is, it was only a summer fling. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At the bottom edge of the lake and off to the right a short distance a river flowed south and east, and it was amazing to Brian how accurate the map had been. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were such nice people, that was the truth, Mami said, they gave you hope that maybe at the bottom Americans were kind souls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When I reached the bottom level, I jumped off the scaffold and dropped the few remaining feet to the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If our right tires slip off the ledge, we’ll flip multiple times before reaching the bottom. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Look at her skin, too pale. And her feet, the bottoms are soft.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that my feet were stuck in the soft muddy bottom. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the bayou country of Louisiana, the Red River bottoms of Texas, and the flinty hills of the Ozarks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clear from the bottom of the hill they could see Daddy come out and wave. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you like. They are all the same, by and large. Except for die ones at the bottom, but we’ll get to those in due course.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder where the bottom might be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, every grave has a hidden compartment at the bottom—usually a smaller cubbyhole carved into the side of the pit—where the coffin slides in. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

If I jumped in the pool, I was certain I would forget how to float and sink to the bottom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Felix focused on the web page, reading it from top to bottom. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The valley was deep and there was a stream at the bottom that flowed down into the lake and when the wind blew across the valley you could hear the stream in the rocks. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The city has now been Arab far longer than she was Greek, yet for sheer, stupefying destructiveness, the Arabs stand near the bottom of the list of the city’s victimizers. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But she stopped at the door, chewed on her bottom lip like she was thinking, and then seemed to change her mind about barging in. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Deftly he reversed the sheets in all possible ways, putting the top one on the bottom, and turning them over and upside down. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Trap feels like it’s been nailed to the bottom. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fairy was lying at the bottom of the glass, crumpled up like a butterfly just out of the cocoon. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a rumbling, cranking noise that shook the Shack from top to bottom. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I beg for my life because it must be Death that awaits me at the bottom of the steps, in the living room, in this house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The hum of the metal detectors could be heard from the bottom of the steps. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So they tried to find some bit of hope, but at the bottom of their hearts they knew and dared not say aloud that vengeance was already there in the palace waiting for Agamemnon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Thoroughbred’s neck, while broad from top to bottom, is surprisingly narrow in width, like the body of a fish. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I hear my mom calling my name to meet everyone at the bottom of the stairs. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was naked except for a dirty little piece of cloth around his bottom. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I rinse the bloody pair in the sink, place them in a plastic bag, and put the bag at the very bottom of my hamper. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was at the false bottom of a fake well. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The whole basin quivered, and he didn’t know what would happen if he fell all the way to the bottom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drove her bread to the bottom of the container and scooped up a drooping, goopy mound of it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She could not stand; he had to hold her up, aware of some feeble movement or intention in her limbs until he realised that she was trying to sit on the bottom step. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pulled up arid tied to a tree, and the oars were shipped in the wet bottom, beside a long pole with a steel hook at the end. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How much farther before we stop? It’s hot and my bottom is hurting,” I complain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were down at the bottom, weren’t you?” he asked, not in the official courtroom tone he had used before, but in a friend’s voice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the only boat in view was an upside-down rowboat abandoned on the rocks beneath the inn, its bottom thoroughly rotted out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Taped to the bottom was a hand lettered notice that said that the circus would be in town for two nights only, on the grounds of the elementary school. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story filled the bottom right-hand corner of the front page. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chopped the edges of the ditches and dug mud out of the bottom to build up the sides. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc looked concerned, and he bit at his bottom lip. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t want you to think that I’ve forgotten about your costume, either. We’ll try to get to the bottom of things in the coming days when things settle down.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“And even that got water only to the bottom of the hill,” Williams told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Daddy stood at the bottom, leaning against the railing and sipping a cup of coffee. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my tooth just bent back, the one on the bottom row in front, with a sharp stab at the gum. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the boat, a plastic bag and two empty Coke cans floated in several inches of scummy water. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

While other boys worked the bottom floor, I climbed the stairs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It all seemed very weedy and rank somehow, and thorns and bracken were invading the beds down near the bottom hedge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had written “Good progress” at the bottom of it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Epler was egg-shaped; narrow at the top and bottom, bulging in the middle. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My vision starts to go black at the edges, so I grab Tobias’s arm and hold on tight, trusting him to lead me safely to the bottom of the stairs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hatted, bell- bottomed and Loved from the Beginning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bucket contained about a gallon of seawater, and Fred set the moon snail at the bottom while he grabbed his tools. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her mother held her head high, but Koffi saw it, the slight tremble in her bottom lip, the fear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘The sun will come out tomorrow’ and ‘bet your bottom dollar’ and all that. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He promised Kathy it was nothing at all to worry about, that he would get to the bottom of it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For the second time that night, he ran to the door and flung it open—and was instantly flattened by Radar, who pounced on his chest and started licking his face from top to bottom. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I didn't have a good answer to that, and instead toothed my bottom lip to keep it from quivering. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then she locked all the doors and settled back, her hands moving to the bottom of her sweater, her arms crossing, and she raised it over her face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the bottom of the cup. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Toward the bottom, I spot something dark-colored, so I pull it out. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cade found an old wooden pallet and tipped it up to the bottom of the doorway so we could use it as a ladder and climb up into the cell block. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In art class, his favorite hour of the week, he carves his name with paper clips into the bottoms of clay cups and bowls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remember how it was to find Benny Kilmartin at the bottom of the tree house. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

So it was the bottom of the third inning by the time that Mrs. Baker and I reached our box seats, which were on the first-base line, right next to the Yankee dugout. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There, in the bottom right corner, is the girl who looks like Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The white patent leather is scratched a bit, and the bottoms are slightly worn out, but they’re better than nothing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He pockets an application for a student American Express card, grateful that his first credit card will not say Gogol in raised letters at the bottom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The night-light in the bathroom paints a thin yellow stripe at the bottom of my bedroom door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just with a small black dot in the bottom right corner of the box, so small that Mom and Dad wouldn’t notice it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z