“There!” she said cheerfully, lining up boxes of crackers and bags of fruit. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Trixie’s apartment was decorated with scraps, with junk, with bits of metal, with cardboard boxes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, because he knew that there was nothing else he could do, the friend retrieved the box and gave his friend his share of the money. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

My only memory of her is early in the morning in her apartment in London—she’s smiling and reaching out to take my box of KittyBix. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They put the cloth-covered casket with its shiny handles into the plain box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he poured pills into a round cardboard box she stood in the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still holding the box, he seated himself, and on his face the round-eyed wonder remained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We two slip one coin each into a little box and light candles of our own. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She took them home and saved them in a box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We stand in the relaxing room, Mother and Daddy and I, staring at the silver box in the window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I wonder why those things were in the bottom of that box,” Tiller said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran would have insisted on the most beautiful girl in the entire British Empire, if not the world, and boxed you, or been prepared to, had you argued with him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like a starburst flashed from the corner of his teeth, like the cartoon dad on the candy cigarette box. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the day of Christmas Eve, I supervised the distribution of little holiday “gift boxes” containing useless toiletries and a few snacks, compliments of a charity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a box of Legos there, so I bring them to Johnny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Chairs were arranged in neat rows around three sides of a portable boxing ring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At each halt a frozen, unbroken silence lay outside the steel walls of our box, the silence of vast wastelands, of the heights. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The box I lived in was simply too small to think that far out of it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The boxes were stacked crookedly, some stacks leaning into others, with only their opposing angles holding them steady. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lines up a shot: the box of Cornettos on the counter, Henry’s hand braced on the marble next to it, his heavy signet ring visible along with a swath of pajamas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Out on the wharf men were trundling boxes and bales of cargo to the Freedom. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had Daisy Mae in a shoe box on her lap. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Just thanks. The fireworks would have gone off in my face if you hadn't pulled the box toward you. Here, I brought your tapestry bag; I didn't look at your notes or clues, honest." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift a box of highlighters, all shaped like boiled eggs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, Frightful stood up and walked to the edge of the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I left him alive— partly because his lunch box was cool, partly so he could raise the alarm and hopefully get his friends to follow me rather than head toward the engine room. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A painting of the inside of the state box at Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She gave Psyche a box which she was to carry to the underworld and ask Proserpine to fill with some of her beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected some old boxes and built a fire in the floor and he found some tools and emptied out the cart and sat working on the wheel. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know which box my basketball’s in, but it’s in the garage somewhere.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached over and got a deck of cards from a box on the end table—Tiffany cards, with sky-blue backs and Francis’s monogram on them in gold—and began to shuffle through them expertly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Billy felt sorry for the loser, knowing that at that moment he felt beaten and ashamed and hated the boxing he’d hoped would bring him to glory. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boxes with today’s excess are stacked neatly to one side, for later. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had to slide boxes around and drag an old step stool from the opposite end of the attic, but finally his eyes were level with the back vent. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then more boxes next to it—a cluster of buildings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With Miss Maggie’s help, I wrapped pieces of it in newsprint, tucked them into plain little boxes with no return address, and sent them off to orphanages far and wide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It lit up, and the box closed on us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, it sat in the display room along with the projects of his classmates, including wooden plaques and a plain box that someone called a telephone base. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have to dig long before they hit something solid, and soon a metal box was revealed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The odds and ends clanked inside the box. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I knew I was leaving, I asked for the box to hold my precious possessions, and Mrs. Chavez had given it grudgingly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I tore off the wrapping paper and popped open the little box. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No, none of those keys worked. We found it stuck in a book in a box.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was trapped in a small clear box, and it was black with yellow splotches. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a call box to ring individual apartments to ask someone to unlock the door for you. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Which was the same color as them, worshiped in their language and packaged in the boxes they made. Now that we take their god back to them, shouldn’t we at least repackage it?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The phone rang and she talked for a few moments before covering the mouthpiece to say, "I couldn't find any boxes or anything, so just...you know." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Anthony slipped her papers into the ballot box. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Rasheed sat on the bed beside her, made a great show of slowly undoing the ribbon, of opening the box and plucking out the ring delicately. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried to count how many hours we had spent in the prison box, and wondered how many more we had to go. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“And he has no ears. And his mouth is like . . .” Jamie had walked into the kitchen to get a juice box from the fridge. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were dragging goats, carrying yams and boxes on their heads, chickens and rolled-up mats under their arms, kerosene lamps in their hands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My mom went to Costco the other day and got a huge box of these.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now and then I’d go out there and dig up the box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she cashed the check at the grocery store, where the man knew her, and put the money into the box Maybeth’s church shoes had come in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can fold a box in four seconds. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I located wood and piled it around the base of the palm tree that held our water keg and the tin box. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patty looked for an extension cord from one of the many still unpacked boxes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I went into the lab where Burt was watching Algernon in one of the multiple problem boxes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled back to the gorge, fed Frightful rabbit bites, and slipped back to the edge of the meadow to check a box trap I had set the day before. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chopper brought in some hot food for us and some grain and a box of chicks for the people in the hamlet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catharsis could only gather around the theme of love, which, considering that they were strangers trapped in an opera box, was far more uncomfortable than cathartic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In the southwest corner there were boxes and trunks with tarps pulled over them to protect them from uninitiated eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They put food in the door? Or food in the box? And is it a big box?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s one thing for him to hurt himself,” Mrs. Jarzab said to my mother, pushing a flowered box of Kleenex toward her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the box of razor blades out of the bag. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Underwater I could hear the tokens clinking into the change boxes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ben, the youngest brother, was licking a black crayon and marking prices on soap-flake boxes when they walked in. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s holding a box cutter and leaning over one of the billion boxes piled up around the apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No one came to the door, so I scribbled a note on a scrap of paper and shoved it through the letter box. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Christmas morning, Dad gave me a rifle—I didn’t take it out of the box, so I have no idea what kind. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then all the mothers cleared the tables and swept off the long white tablecloths and, all laughing, folded them together and boxed up the extra food, and there was a lot. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was then that Calder’s lunch box collided with the back of a chair and popped open. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the shovels, they quickly threw some sand over the boxes, trying to camouflage them until they could dig a hole and bury them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“For some reason the helpers in the front office didn’t know who to give ‘Jessica’ mail to, so they collected it in a box.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

How about you hook me up with that dragonfly box? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

No sounds of distress came from the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I grab a box and run up the stairs to my room because I have to do this fast, like, maybe it's already too late. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the fourth floor, things are piled everywhere, in the rooms and corridors and along the staircase: baskets of what must be machine parts, shoe boxes loaded with screws, antique dollhouses built by her great-grandfather. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty, Roberto carried the twenty lunches in a box and delivered them, on foot, to the workers who were given half an hour for lunch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had been tossed into a sack of rubbish, along with the snuffbox of Wartcap powder and the music box that had made everyone sleepy.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then we would be delivered by helicopter to the aircraft carrier, where we would be locked up inside an aluminum box that looked like a house trailer. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were passing around a box of fancy cream-filled cookies when the beeping starts again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. But the window was open, so I climbed in, and inside the box were all these glass jars . . .” “There were? I didn’t see any glass jars.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The last time Fang brought the box over was a couple years back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

So I got slowly back up again and threw the last few sunflower seeds into the box. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She told us not to use the inhalers, then walked into the box of light at the end of the hallway and disappeared. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And I thought of the ruby ring in the cinnamon box on my windowsill. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Today a pair of shoes was worth two cans of beans and a box of pasta. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s two glue sticks tied together with string, and then the ends of the string are taped to the sides of the box, leaving the glue sticks hanging in the middle. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then she sat down in her recliner and told me to take the box. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the bottom of her box were two small Tupperware containers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And I always keep ’em in the box when I’m not rockin’ ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"That's the treasure box you were telling me about," I say as I start to understand. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She sat on the kitchen counter next to the bread box and let her feet dangle. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Despite feeling guilty at invading Bobby’s privacy, he slid the top off the box. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I followed Twig’s gaze toward the tiny code box, which was flashing blue on the wall. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wiped them off on the nearest wall, put his hand in the pack again, and threw Farid a box of matches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She gave the box a kick and ran from the room without looking at Bill. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Next he pulled a piece of Kleenex out of the Kleenex box and dragged it back and forth across the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on my eighth birthday my father brought a big box into the house. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It surprised me no end how much I missed our ordinary, routine life—the simple act of pouring wax into a candle mold or repairing a broken hive box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been folding extra boxes all week, but still, all the part-timers are back on the steps folding more. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought of my father, who showed me how to box and throw a football, same as Craig. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Of course. The book keeper keeps it under lock and key. People filch them sometimes, you know. Do their own version. It hurts our box, then." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mertie-Jo’s dad dropped the boxes and hurried to where I was standing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A tube ran from the box to a needle that entered his arm. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they built a step unit out of boxes, Kyle climbed up and examined the window latch. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey thought about this for a moment, and said, Won’t they notice the box is too heavy when they go to put it away? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that how I convinced myself not to pull my survey out of the box? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Dylan reaches inside and pulls out a black box with Duboise written in silver across the top. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I find a handwritten index card with two check boxes—one for boy and the other for girl. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter pull a big brown box out the backseat, then carries it up to the church door, like she dropping off old clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Russell Stover box is pretty low because no one has been to the United States lately to buy chocolates. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I held the square box, the cold metal chilling my hands. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He packed up the shoeshine box and carried it out, and chose a cream linen shirt from the three on the airer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Scrabble box got stepped on at some point, and the letter tiles went everywhere. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of The Catcher in the Rye is in the box. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, that has nothing to do with the box.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I marched directly to our room and to the jewelry box on Lily’s dresser, opened it, poured the jewelry onto the dresser, and pulled up the false bottom. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

‘Twenty bucks and a box of Froot Loops that statue is the guardian,’ Piper said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Normally she buys boxes of cards, marked fifty percent off at department stores in January, always forgetting, by the following winter, exactly where in the house she’s put them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He reached the box and ran his hands over it, checking the seal, then nodded slowly. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Connor giggled and Zion choked on a little more juice box. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The officer wrinkled his nose and tucked the box beneath one arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to play Squirrel Squad Six. The new edition. According to the game box, it won’t be released to the general public until early December.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I bent to push him another box full, then straightened quickly as I began to feel dizzy, nauseated. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was six days before I could go back into Father’s room to look in the shirt box in the cupboard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

UPS just delivered a stack of new boxes full of paper chain for me to check in. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Perched uncomfortably on the handlebars, he clutched the sodden cardboard box. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve all had First Day, come out of that dark box. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She put the lid back on the raven and turned the box around to inspect it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Luma knew that Beatrice had been working a night shift at the box factory. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mother long ago had shoved all the trunks and boxes as far as they could go under the eaves, leaving prime space for Luke’s brass bed and circular rag rug and books and toys. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He dumped Chicken Little into a burlap sack and tossed him next to some egg crates and boxes of wool cloth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could say anything, Rose ran at him with the hard metal thermos that had also been flung out of her broken lunch box. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

If there was anything left of Rosa, it was locked in an iron box. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Doctor Nolan had gone I found a box of matches on the windowsill. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He hardly poked his head out of his shell when Prosper and Hornet bent over his box. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One shelf held nothing but writing tools: quills, parchment, bottles of ink, and several boxes with probably more of the same inside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the ground in front of them was Sarah Ruth’s button box. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

There was a little box on the other side. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I wander over and pretend to admire a shawl when I notice a green-and-gold box with a curved lid. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria is bustling with little kids opening superhero or My Little Pony lunch boxes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He flipped open the flimsy box and took out the contents. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salvador got out of the truck and stalked off to get in line for the food boxes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His method of tidying was peculiar: he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had a martini alone, paid for it, picked up the box of chocolate at the outside counter and walked on home toward the hospital. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I used the funnel to drop them in a swarm box,” she said, “then I hived them again.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go outside and help him scrape the crust of ice off the car windows and then we carry boxes, and finally we squeeze into the car ourselves and drive south. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the towering cabinet against the far wall and pulled out a box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She takes out the campfire box, looking all around her till she sees a good-sized rock. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Put some money in the little gold box by the altar and lit a candle. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

August showed us how to drape a square over each hive box, securing it with a brick and making sure we left the bees’ entrance door open. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know what the boxes are for. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was too hot for Mr. Goodbar, and a box of Good & Plenty only reminded me of watching movies at the RKO with my pa. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Alice works her way underneath the tree in crouch position and starts passing bags and boxes down the line, and everyone talks at once. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Her fingers moved over the tiles, drawing deep resonant sounds from within the big box, and she began to sing in a high, sweet voice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a breathless voice, Lee demanded the key to the alarm box that was mounted on the outside of the store. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tilt the box front to back and then side to side. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There is wood in the wood box and the fireplace, and in the darkest corner of the room a can of kerosene which he sprinkles on the wood. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pie was in a box between my feet. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with yellowed clippings from the local paper, angling competitions, soap box derbies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They sat around the kitchen table and went to work decorating the box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box also contained white stockings, white leather shoes, and an enormous white hair bow, already shaped and ready to be fastened on with two loose ties. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went into my room and returned with a box. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dad opened the pizza box, and the warm smell of baked crust and melted cheese rose up, but my appetite had disappeared. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The box in back makes it impossible to see out the back window. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had read every single tarantula book from the Desert Ridge Middle School library, the Phoenix Library, and the box we’d found in the storage shed. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The juke box lit up, and Hank Williams started singing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Powdered donuts!” he said proudly, holding up a pastry box. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The CIA's Moscow station was a windowless office—a "box," she called it, because the space was so cramped. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like she could eat five more boxes of rice, and yet somehow it felt perfect, a perfect moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He comes home with something hidden inside his lunch box, a gift from Ramu. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He’s boxed up most of his books, saying they take up too much space. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The windows had white trim, and real glass panes, and flower boxes with tiny fake flowers in them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I put the book aside in favor of the next thing I see in the box: a picture. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We did have fuses, but the fuse box was at the rear of the dark warehouse, which made this a particularly unpleasant job at night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This house is more than a box full of icons. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The box was long but not heavy, and there was a whiff of perfume coming from it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I read the card included in the box. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I put down the box I should’ve mailed or thrown away or tied to an anchor and dropped into a river. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He veered the car wildly, mile after mile, down the road, tumbling, smashing, breaking, scattering bundles of paper, jewel boxes, mirrors, chairs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts the box in the truck bed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Laura pulled open a couple of cardboard boxes, filled with candy bars. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

All the day before we moved, my father and uncle loaded the truck with boxes that my mother had packed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though the silkworm box reappeared now and then, the spoon was no longer among its treasures. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This lack is met by nesting boxes, which draw the birds back into the forest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m so busy staring at the mangled box that I don’t realize Ma is watching me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

People were hurrying around, setting up games, carrying boxes marked with the names of soft drinks; a man tinkered with the engine that drove the ferris wheel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dray opens the box and it’s a pendant. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then, given the rumors Sim had mentioned, I took one of the trickier ways onto the roof of Mains, shimmying up a series of drainpipes in a sheltered box alley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The inside of the box is lined with white silk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The walk-in freezer is full of boxes, and I sit on the one in the back corner and relax. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I take a clear plastic box and lid out of the cupboard and hand it across the island to her. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But she shouldn’t have picked up the broken records and the music and the book and put them all neatly into a box. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kira noticed for the first time that a large box had been placed on the floor behind the seats of the Council of Guardians. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the table up just outside the house, then pulled boxes of candy from a small closet right by the front door, where most people would hang their coats. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She took a rusting iron box from the bottommost drawer, and carried it over to her sisters. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was an empty shoe box, but we’d never trade it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was a white pastry box like any other, wrapped in white string. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Doctor Nolan scraped a match on the side of the box. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Down the rope that hung the baby’s box from the roof support a scorpion moved slowly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just love how he rejected all the boxes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, she pulled a box off a shelf, flung back its lid, and stopped. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

With the box, the rifle, and the counter he was quite heavily loaded. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Inside the box there were twelve bars of chocolate, all of different shapes, all with different fillings and all with numbers from one to twelve stamped on the chocolate underneath. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was some bread in the bread box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably carryin’ a box car full of grits to some southern pansy living in New York.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes me feel pretty good, so I kick another box. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She slept alongside another foster child, who wet the bed, and every morning she chose her clothes from a box of hand-me-downs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The saboteurs quickly began unloading the waterproof boxes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When I heard the signal to fence, I exploded out of the box and landed a point on Cecilia right away. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She left a few things inside the hole: a precious box of matches, some glass beads that had come off Aunt Shuvai’s bracelet, some of the copper wire Uncle Kufa used to decorate his snuffboxes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instant I saw the silver metal box, I thought of my note pad. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I got the balloons, young ladies,” he says, placing the box on the counter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The matches are wooden ones, in a cardboard sliding-top box, the kind I used to covet in order to make dolls’ drawers out of them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to leave the bedroom and claw out Helen’s too-light eyes, wanted to box the cousins’ ears like she never had before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He barely had time to wonder when he’d see it again when they were back — George had forgotten his box of Filibuster fireworks. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

A pair of really cool Sky Sprints sit inside a velvety box. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We both let go of the dye at the same time, and the box clatters to the floor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He digs, grabs something from inside the box. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rats moved in and out of bags and boxes and auto parts. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He put the letter away in its box and went down the stairs again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With eight minutes left in the half and the score still tied at zero, Jeremiah Ziaty carved his way through the Fire defense at the top of the box. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Make boxes and stare at everyone else while they actually baked? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When he came back he brought the money with him and put it in the box again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Plus, I got a box of letters under Daddy’s bed needs looking at. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I sat in the back of the car, with Dad’s leather suitcases, and our cardboard boxes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped his three rocks back into the glove box and closed it, then climbed over the front seat to get at my sax case. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stanley slipped it back into the stationery box. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And he kept out of sight behind the inkwell as he watched her open her mail box, which was about a quarter of an inch wide, and pull out her letters. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He rummages inside the box of cookies and takes out a broken one. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I dug the little yellow box of worry dolls out of my bag and dumped them onto the desktop. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I check the box under my bed, which is where I’ve kept your notes these past few months. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Checks every possible spot: cup holders, center console, glove box. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“It was the three cheers that reminded me,” said Mr. Benedict, opening the box and shaking out three birthday candles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I see now what the stakes are for her and how she wants nothing more than to break out of the delicate little box her parents have built for her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Without looking up from the guide, Ms. Solomon said, “Lucy, can you grab the box of Cheerios on the counter and give some to Rosie.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hovering over the box is a virtual sign that says Official Seats, meant to be for Henka Games studio executives. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I picked up a box of cereal and pretended to focus on reading it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He came upon the great box and broke it open and took the pitiful cargo home to his wife who was as kind as he. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to bury you with a box of grits,” she had once told him, laughing at the thought. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My plant went into the box and came out a few days later, a little yellow and without a lot of new growth. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Martin sidled up to Moss and put a box of tissues and a pitcher of water on the table before dashing off. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Charles nodded, pulled two from a box, and handed them to me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At the end of the street was a large glass box with a female mannequin inside it, dressed as a gypsy fortune-teller. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But behind Mama’s back, so that each time she thinks a box is full and ready to be taped closed, she goes off somewhere and comes back only to find it half empty again. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The puppies peered over the edge of the open box, their faces filled with fear. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then he filled it with smaller boxes until it looked exactly like an enclosed tic-tac-toe board, three rows of three squares, all the same size. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I think back to him standing in his private box as the announcement of my number one draft pick status rang out. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

More robot arms and clasping grabbers will shuttle the sealed box down the line into the cargo hold of a truck waiting outside at the loading dock. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Before the books are stacked into boxes, I press Understanding Our Universe to my chest, as though it’s a best friend I’m leaving. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent several sleepless nights making the copies, sorting the papers into boxes, and stashing them with friends all over Boston. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

While we ate, Papa jotted down the number of boxes we had picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The post office, an official-looking cage in back of the store, had about twenty-five combination boxes to one side of the grille. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the truck arrived with the boxes of family books, and things got worse. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its window boxes were always bursting with climbing white roses, and their scent clung dense and sweet over this portion of the canal. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tess lifted the box completely and there Genie was, swallow trapped between his palms. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He swept the floor and organized the small boxes behind the counter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

If he put them in a box, they scrambled around for a few days and then died. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The players from both teams lined up outside the penalty box. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ruby! I caught you a whole box of fish sticks. How’s that?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

This unseemly conversation, luckily, couldn’t be overheard because of the deafening roars of the vast crowd, which had begun as Caesar’s party entered the box and didn’t die down for long minutes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The tub was an oblong wooden box lined with zinc. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama gestured at the mess of boxes stacked in unstable piles throughout the living room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Out of her backpack, she pulled out the box of wisdom cookies. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Violet, who usually moved slowly in the mornings, nodded and immediately got out of bed and went to the cardboard box to find some proper clothing. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He gave a short chirp for “Thank you” and jumped back in the box. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The empty box is now on the floor, and the nest of shredded paper sits atop the jumble of things Ma dumped out of her purse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In my room, there’s just a sleeping bag and some cardboard boxes for my clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He began to gather the chessmen and set them back into their box. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn't want to sit in a glass box all day either. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Waiting on August to open a box containing the new shipment of Black Madonna labels, I studied a piece of honeycomb. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised she would send something here since I have all the book contracts sent to a box at the post office, just in case. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The next day after school we came back to the laboratory with a box of Dad’s matches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to the archives in Fort Worth and resumed searching through the endless musty boxes and files. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But then Ma mashes the box with her fist, and they whimper before growing silent and still once more. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The other goods, tools, cake-mix boxes and so forth were tucked out of sight in our pockets and under our waistbands, surrounding us in a clanking armor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Should I go on with the pop tunes?” he whispered to Tucker Mouse, who was still hidden behind the Kleenex box. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma opened boxes of crispy crackers and we sat around the meat block at the rear of the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shoves the pictures back in the box, and puts the box on the shelf. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

After dropping his box, Julio, who was still muttering under his breath, picked up Paishon’s rifle before heading back down the trail. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The sleek wooden box contains the cell phone I’ve wanted practically my whole life. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Liyana, passing his room with -another cardboard box in her arms, found him poking race cars into his socks. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants’ dinner; he knew what it was. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The inside of the honey house was one big room filled with strange honey-making machines—big tanks, gas burners, troughs, levers, white boxes, and racks piled with waxy honeycombs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily searched for a juice glass among the various moving boxes and bags that still cluttered the counter and floor, lost in thought about The Gold-Bug. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I can go to the Savoy Cinema now, pay sixpence for a seat down front where there’s a better class of people eating boxes of chocolates and covering their mouths when they laugh. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In a wave of strikes in Western Pennsylvania, box makers, steelworkers, laundrywomen, and machinists all won higher pay. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The kitchen clock flashed its pendulum behind its glass skirt, and it ticked like a little wooden hammer striking on an empty wooden box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment the man on the box whipped up his horses and the van moved out of the yard at a smart trot. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Papa picked up our savings box, started walking toward the barn, and said wearily, “Let’s stay in the barn tonight. Tomorrow we’ll look for another place.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For two more weeks, she did nothing but study the clients’ cards which were more detailed than the file box headings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he didn’t know what to do with the box. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Billy had tried to look at Mrs. Frisby through some holes he had punched in the top of the box, but it was dark inside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon the Salvation Army brought us a huge box full of groceries. God is truly watching over us.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Its amplified echo accompanied me into the small concrete box of a room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She came back with a box of pancake mix, eggs, and a small carton of milk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“One useless six-pack of water,” Alex said, “a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, two cans of tuna, and a box of Wheaties. What else do you have in real food?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There were demigod provisions, tod— bronze javelin tips, a quiver full of arrows, an extra sword, and a box of ambrosia. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boss of the company was having the sick monkeys put in boxes and shipped out to a small island in Lake Victoria, where they were being released. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tore a flap from the opened cardboard box and chased out the smoke with it and then he climbed up and lowered the trap door and turned and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But they all had somewhere a big cardboard box or two with LPs and cassette tapes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure maybe if I don’t break any more rules, Ma will tell me what’s inside the box from Madagascar. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I have too much to do,” Mama said, talking to herself as she stood in the middle of a living room full of boxes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Moss grabbed his red curry and a box of jasmine rice. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The older one might marry the baby in the stroller, who’s trying to jam his straw into his juice box. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He still managed to hold on to the box with the tortoise. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doc went clink-clunking around in some boxes stacked in the corner of the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The lid of the box flew off and, like a freed butterfly, a single skeet of paper fluttered out. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

As Dolores slid into her car, she spied the papers strewn across the passenger’s seat, the mail she’d grabbed from the box on her way out of the apartment. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She took the boxes into the bathroom, lifted their tops, and emptied the contents into the toilet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, I toss three granola bars and a juice box into my backpack, then pause for a moment. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“SmartMart coming. Dad wants to build up customer loyalty,” he said, and continued stacking boxes. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t have that little final touch, that gold box, that would make their message stick. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, alethiometer and box separately in the rucksack over his shoulder, they went back to the glade. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sticker on the box said 7:32, and it was 7:55. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The trio dashed up a narrow pathway to where they saw the robot extending its quadruple-jointed mechanical arm to pluck a flat metal box out of a slide-in compartment. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

From a file drawer, he brought out a box of cookies. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was one display case featuring eight games with amazingly illustrated box tops. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But each month, that stupid box of pink letters from Momma got fuller, and each time we moved, I thought about leaving it behind. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He followed her into a box of a room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pile of wooden cigar boxes was stacked in one corner. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also plucked slips of paper from a box with his beak, by way of selling fortunes to the curious. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box, or, rather, the small pile of glass upon the platform that had once been a box, is empty. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That let them collapse under the basket and box out for the rebounds. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It contained his toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationery his mother had given him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I took another cookie, but she kept the box there, in the same place. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Nhamo rolled rocks around it for a windbreak and tucked her jars, a half box of matches, and supplies into a crevice between two boulders. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I put the wig back in its box too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Laertes fell against a pile of boxes to avoid colliding with him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There’s more on s and x sounds in the box below. ecstatic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a nice lunch and a slice of pie that came in a white bakery box. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She took one look at the box in Finn’s hand and frowned. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He called it “a cheese- box. I’ll never buy another Chevy again,” he fumed as the car, loaded with kids, sat in traffic, its engine steaming and sputtering. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to cry with frustration until Mama handed me a red box and popped a tiny, wrinkled brown fruit into my mouth. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this very window where she stood now, Mrs. Trepid had spotted the woman, bundled in a tattered and faded green dress, bending over the box. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He reached up to the top shelf and pulled out the shoe box that held his 9mm Beretta and a few full clips. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was a large heart-shaped box of chocolates covered in red foil leaning against her door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Russell Stover box has gone all the way around back to Tía, who takes out one of the little papery molds, and sighs when the kids argue about who will get it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ariana showed me how to fold the sides up and tuck them into flaps, so the cardboard transformed into a small box that could fit two cupcakes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled it free and found the end of the tape and peeled it off all the way around and unlatched the chrome snaps and opened the box. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Another time, I built a robot costume with cardboard boxes, foil, wire coat hangers, and some flashlights I borrowed. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I took it out, placed it on the box, and held them both tightly in my hands as I stared out the window wondering what Orosi would be like. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the squirrel lets go of the box and bursts into a fast-flowing stream of screeches and chirps. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But this morning there were two eggs in one nest box: one glass one and one light-brown one. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I come here,” he retorted, “on my legs. I had my box brought alongside me in a barrow.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

At Ford’s Theatre, the Deringer pistol, the murder weapon, was recovered from the floor of the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita watched him pick up a wooden box set along the edge of the field. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She was laid out in the parlor beside the box of letters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I push past the shoe boxes full of dream books and no-good lottery tickets and fabric scraps, and go for the one marked with my dad’s name—Gregory. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I also needed to find the Apple Jacks box containing Sapo’s stuff. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Coming through the canebrake into the road he’d seen a box. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he came into the room, he had a small shoe box in his hand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cement floor was a jungle of boxes, ragged pants, overalls, jackets, bicycles, unwashed pots and pans, opened cans of fish, empty beer bottles and cartons, old newspapers, greasy underwear and frayed suitcases. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swore up and down that they’d visited the alley we described and couldn’t find him, though how you miss a giant kid living in a refrigerator box, I don’t know. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She backed into the door of the cafe and carried the box of honey and cookies to the counter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Beloved hopped off his stool to help her with the box, and jam gave a shy wave from across the kitchen as Redemption hugged his aunt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, with resolve: “I’ll bring my silkworm box. And some eggs. So we can make money.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Piles of small wire boxes were everywhere, and oyster shells had been scattered like a layer of earth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered the box he held and gave us his full attention. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mom is inside, surrounded by boxes and big plastic bins. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Toby looked around at the boxes, stacked deep into the surprisingly large bathroom. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy heard him and put down the box he was carrying and walked over to us real quick. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there’s something hidden behind these shelves,” Natalie said, tugging on the wood frame of one that held boxes of granola bars. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The words stenciled on the box mean “Fragile,” but literally say, “Use a little heart.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After carefully loading the box in the car, the three of them made their way to the Smiths’ house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was only interested in the results of the sale, knowing that his previous nineteen thousand, nine hundred fifty boxes had been sold and he was off the hook. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the box and found a brand new Shahnamah, a hardback with glossy colored illustrations beneath the passages. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Calder helped out one afternoon a week now, delivering books in the neighborhood or unloading boxes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was still young enough to roam woods and fields in stolen moments, and to keep caterpillars in boxes and jars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That’s when I notice he’s not carrying any envelopes or boxes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the flames began licking on it, her fury increased and she ran and got her box of manuscripts from under her bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I got a box of truffles for Valentine’s Day, Connor! Do you know what truffles are?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“This one’s for you,” she said to Joseph, “for your first Christmas with us,” and she handed him the box. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

At about three in the afternoon, Uncle Al stands on a box in the middle of the lot and informs everyone that the evening show better be the best of their lives. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When guards pulled away the box, she Jerked about desperately. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She Banished a cushion and it flew across the room and landed in the box they were all supposed to be aiming at. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Father opened the bigger of the white boxes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

What if she didn't have a sister and two brothers and I didn't have a sister and two brothers and her dad didn't teach us to box and her mother didn't cook such good food? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took brush and currycomb from the wall, took down the barrier of the box stall and stepped cautiously in. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there the bodies were closed up, and it was almost hard to believe that a person lay inside the box, covered with linen and flowers and candlesticks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then he walks to the front of the box so the crowd can see him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out the letters and two small boxes and thrust them at me along with the portrait. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came in a small box with old-fashioned pictures on it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Boxes and boxes started arriving as the Department of Children and Families complied with Karen Gievers’s requests to see all the evidence. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Up in the press box, the California contingent roared. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were there to hear Tea Cake pick the box; some came to talk and tell stories, but most of them came to get into whatever game was going on or might go on. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She’s carrying a box, which she puts on the bed, then comes up behind me, where I’m sitting at my desk and peers over my shoulder. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was a vast open-air hall with wooden benches, a velvet curtain with Greek masks, and three box offices in the shape of lions' heads, through whose mouths the tickets were sold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was also a small plastic box on the wall near the living room door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lashed to his back with a rope was a large square box. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When a bunch of bright digital boxes light up his screen, I can’t help but peek at it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The sugar and chocolate and caramel scents were all floating out of the box, landing in my nose, and even though I’d eaten breakfast, my stomach gurgled. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Up in the press box, they stayed late to bang out praises and apologies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amar tells us where and when to meet, then we go to the hallway near the kitchens so we won’t be seen, and he takes out a small black box with syringes inside it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The priest murmured Latin words of forgiveness in the confessional box. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often before brushing my teeth and laying out my clothes for school the next day, I opened the lid of the box and ate one of his treats. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hand back to box him in his dirty mouth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And there was Gerald, who once brought me a box of fat, sweet strawberries. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake picked his box a great deal for Janie, but he still didn’t have enough to do. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The room was small, not like all the times in movies when people went into huge, marble-covered rooms to retrieve their safe deposit boxes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She had her lock box on her lap and a mulish look on her face. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Archivist, I have lost the gemstone! I must have left the box in that woman’s donkey cart!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

To the left, the sedan had us boxed in. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even think our gifts from the Seasons will work. I couldn’t get the bakery box from Spring to open, and the only stuff around here is rocks and the big ole fire.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each of us keeps our memories of them private and safely locked in the boxes of our own heart. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they, too, have received playing cards and firearms in their letter boxes or if they’ve had their own specific tools provided. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

A balikbayan box is what gets sent to family who still live there. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He kicked his horse into a gallop and raced toward Anthony’s box. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Abuela gives me a box of letters she wrote to her onetime lover in Spain, but never sent. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are evolving into the situation of a Skinner pigeon in a Skinner box, peering about in all directions, trying to make connections, probing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure you can. So long as they don’t disappear into your box.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Whether Goll lied about sending the alarms or whether the alarm box failed to work will never be known. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They are square, neat boxes with wooden sides all round, and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked if he might, and she said nothing either way, and then he leaned across the box and put his lips on hers for no more than a second. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He goes to the box and puts on a yellow pinnie but it only fits around his neck instead of his whole body and it looks like a scarf. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked into his box shelf and then picked a small yellow can from it. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt hitting the box sounded like heavy raindrops falling on the roof of our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She is ushered to a couch on the other side of the box, next to Clara Harris, who begins stroking her hand. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Here the in-custody defendants sit in the jury box waiting for their cases to be called. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I took out my coin box from underneath the mattress and removed the top. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dora, sitting enthroned, said, “Doc, play some of that nice music. I get Christ awful sick of that juke box over home.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill and I were sitting on wooden boxes, eating our lunches out of paper bags. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that we’re rummaging through a box filled with newspaper clippings about Chuck “Da Man” Bell and torn ticket stubs and old flyers and . The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

There were a few boxes on the seat, and smaller ones on the floor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We pass by a security box right by the locked gate. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was going to help put together boxes? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And get another box of Jelly Slugs, dear, they’ve nearly cleaned us out —” said a woman’s voice. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She got that, then opened a cardboard box by the stove and took out her man’s knife and ulo which she had brought from Nunivak. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the mysterious creatures must be strong to have rocked the box as they were being born. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“We thought she was dead, but when we reached into the box, she came to life and climbed out looking like a sparkling monster!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He fixed a wooden box right behind the driver’s seat for me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I think of the letters in the box under the bed. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Together we greeted Neil, and for a couple of minutes the three of us just floated there, admiring two shiny silver boxes filled with moon rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bobble that box like I’m about to drop it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He offered her a box at any performance she chose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every single item has been removed from every single box and discussed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Redemption nodded and dipped out the back door while Beloved snuck a peek under the lid of the box. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then he set about going through the lockers in the saloon, looking through folders and papers in plastic boxes, trying to find the ship’s log. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

This, unfortunately, was the box checker in me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Thanks, Mr. Mac, you say, opening the greasy, white cardboard box. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, of course, my mother’s upraised hand is a kind of warning, too, a predecessor of the black box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But their dad just packed up the car with his clothes and boxes and books, then came over and hugged Lauren tight, whispering something into her hair before letting her go and embracing Maya. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A short brunette girl named Aspen Matthews is the first to be called onstage to shake hands with the Chief Director, who hands her a smooth wooden box containing her badge. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mom had also picked a thick bunch of daffodils, which she put in a coffee can with water and nestled into a corner of the box. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The main body consisted of a large black box topped by the engineer’s cabin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I ran my hand across a picture of Tyson, battling the Hydra as he held aloft a box of Monster Donuts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed a big box in a shopping bag. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ralph dug through his old papers, sneezing as he explored one box after another; somehow they’d grown dusty in the move. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s just opened a box that, to her delight, looks easy to dispose of—dozens of dusty store ledgers from the 1940s and ’50s. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He found the box of badges in the headmaster’s study and gave them all out again.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A manila folder is tucked inside the box, along with loose papers, envelopes with broken seals, postcards with bright illustrations. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She would bring out her private box from under the bed and sit on the floor to work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Through my window I watch him carry just a few boxes to a U-Haul truck. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take a quick glance at the open box on the table before doing as I’m told. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Benny opened the box and pulled out the corsage, then slipped it around Isa’s wrist. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He imagined the homemade box was probably full of nails or broken glass set at cruel angles for a similar purpose. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now, as I was saying—it definitely isn’t me. I do, however, have a theory on how and why it ended up in your letter box.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Old Man Rawlins was a bit of a story. See, he was never given a choice in the matter. He had to box, plain and simple.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the sofa with those unopened boxes all around me, staring at the ceiling. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Since the door was already ajar, I pushed it open to see her bending over a lighted box upon which lay an X-ray photograph she was measuring. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Love brought me some sweetmilk just as I emptied one of the small top drawers into a box. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Betamax, of course! VHS’s going extinct. Problem is, when we got the video out of its box yesterday, half its insides was missing.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the refrigerator, we found eggs and milk and a pink box of glazed doughnuts. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I could see them stacked in the corner, small brown boxes stamped NOT FOR SALE, waiting for other families to come along. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today my mom’s got her ridiculous Juicy Couture tracksuit on and has boxes labeled DONATE. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Tony, his bruises nearly healed, had insisted on helping carry the box to the center of the room. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Jesus, this thing is heavy,” Mr. Ray moaned, using his handkerchief to wipe smudges off the pearl box. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He took an ordinary stick of kindling from the box and smelled it and said, “Maple. Good!” and proceeded to make a neat little totem pole out of it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t see the rocket-launcher boxes, but tucked against the back wall was a strange contraption like an artist's easel, fitted with rows of missile launchers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He took down a small box and opened it carefully on the counter. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln stood in the box and bowed to the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako pictured her father’s brain like a bunch of shelves with boxes on them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stuck in another CD, this time from Gran’s personal stack by the boom box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a bill of sale in a file in a box somewhere, from what he understood, but that was it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A shiny new one in a shiny new box. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I come back out and place the box of Eduardo’s things near them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, a local kid nicknamed “the Nebraska Wildcat” was the hottest boxing property around. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Election Day when they took their turn at the ballot box, theirs would be a full vote, not three-fifths. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At four in the afternoon, I jam the manuscript in a cardboard letter box. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The galleries that overlooked the ballroom were outfitted with opera boxes for fair officials and socially prominent families. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, hidden in the back of the cabinet, was the box of Kotex pads, which my mother had given me one day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Quincy found a box that she said was First Aid. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The window boxes puffed with flowers and the tree branches stooped heavy with ripe plums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When you’re done listening to all thirteen sides—because there are thirteen sides to every story—rewind the tapes, put them back in the box, and pass them on to whoever follows your little tale. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Or the time Camilla tried to teach me the box step; or the time Bunny turned the boat over—with Henry and Francis in it—because he thought he saw a water snake? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Judy and David started searching then, looking in corners and boxes and under scraps of paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siraj pulls in his feet and I pop up out of the box. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He slid money into a juke box which played “That Old Gang of Mine.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street comer in Brooklyn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stacked cardboard boxes on top of it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’d say St. Jerome’s Church ticks all those boxes, wouldn’t you? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

They had no money for medicine or a medik, so they huddled together in a pile of broken-up wooden boxes that they dubbed the Nest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The name on the box was American Dreams. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy Buck stood up from the box and surrendered the cotton swab. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began secretly collecting them, and Mac had the idea of constructing a false bottom to the box and placing in it a tiny written message. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father’s notebook was safe inside a box in his bedside table. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

In his youth he’d been a boxer, and one day he said I’d disrespected him and now he wanted to box me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Farrell banged down the phone, dashed to the press box, rounded up the dockers, and delivered the news. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he hasn’t been boxing in the past few days. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the sun dipped below the horizon and night waited high in the sky, I placed Harry’s box into the hole. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If he was going to escape the theater, he had to get out of the box at once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch him through the window as he opens the pastry boxes on the counter. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I just took the box and nodded, because that’s how you treat crazy people. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the thought of Mother packed away in a box. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They must have poured gasoline, because the flames shot high, and then they began dumping the magazines, from boxes, not too many at a time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry told us, later, head in hands, that Bunny had asked him to buy him another box of stationery the day before he died. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some were simple white metal boxes on wheels, with awnings and serving counters. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Quietly I pulled up a chair, placed a box upon it, and climbed up and peered through a crack at the top of the door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peeked out through the letter box and, oh happy coincidence, there was a pair of goggled eyes peeking right back at him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’ll put this letter in the post box on the way to the shop. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Reilly arranged her cake boxes on the bar, Ignatius spread his expansive nostrils and said, “My God, Mother, it smells awful. My stomach is beginning to chum.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going to sleep in the firelight, young Tisquantum would have stared up at the diddering shadows of the hemp bags and bark boxes hanging from the rafters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Look here, though—a bunch of Hardy Boys books,” Tony exclaimed, pulling a stack out of the box. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bending down, he opened up his tackle box and busied himself with a bobber and a piece of wire leader, humming to himself, his eyes down. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climb in, I place my new books in the back seat, and she sets the warm boxes on my lap. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Great Books arrived in ten boxes stamped with their contents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On the morning of her twelfth birthday, there is no puzzle box in place of the sugar bowl when she wakes; her father is too busy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Doon nodded and turned back to the boxes, but once again the boat struck something, causing a spray of water to slap into them and put the candle out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I had gone into the sandalwood box where I kept my savings and taken out twenty coppers and four twenty-cent pieces. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering among the cardboard boxes, Vivian trails her fingertips across the tops of them, peering at their cryptic labels: The store, I960-. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watched uncomfortably as he and Hand Clap each grabbed a box of our belongings and walked into the alley between the iron fence of the house and the tenement next door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants mill around, collecting the pieces in velveteen boxes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The friend who had pretended to be ill buried his share of the money in a tin box. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They had also peeled potatoes, scrubbed pots and floors, washed windows, and hauled boxes and broken furniture. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “And worse, I ate mushrooms one time in the sand box with my little brother. Boy! Never do that! We had to go to the hospital. They made us throw up.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She bent down and began rifling through the box. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hitler bent from his box, smiled, and offered his hand. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The metal stays on her old-fashioned corset set the snitch box off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the tiny box, lifted out the grid with tweezers, and fitted it into a steel rod the size of a tire iron—the sample holder, it was called. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought the big, long-handled spoon, and the box full of bits of lead, and the bullet-mold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red reached to take the lid off the box. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drank our tea in a friendly kind of silence, and then Miss Whitlaw picked up the box again. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used a twelve-inch lead pipe to roll the dough on a flat piece of board atop the wooden boxes that served as our dining table. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she’d open the box just enough to see like the hem of the skirt or whatever. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she has a white box in her hands. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She picked a long gray string out of the box. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He slipped the rest into the shoe box. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The boy places a long cardboard box on the counter before us and starts piling our stuff inside it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when we opened the box, one of the arms had come off, and all the doll did, no matter which button you pushed, was squeak. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But even as I say these words, I remember with a shudder the last box I was in. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Hidden behind the organ, I carefully pulled the lid from the small wooden box and removed the top layer of straw. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Reaching under the abandoned teacher’s desk he sat behind as presiding officer, Carter pulled out a small black box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were looting all around, making off with drums of paraffin, bags of mealie meal, carcasses of beef still dripping blood, Primus stoves, boxes of canned goods, loaves of bread and so on. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having bought tickets in hopes of seeing Lincoln and Grant, the theatergoers have monitored the state box, only to find it empty. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The juke box was playing a Mexican polka and Harley was dancing around by himself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first is a wooden box with no opening she can detect. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So I finally said okay, but then the day before I was supposed to go, Bertha came home with a lunch box covered with ponies and rainbows. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I took the crumpled note from the box and widened my eyes in amazement. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I boxed out and scooped up his miss. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He reaches for the box, so now we’re both holding it and facing each other in an aisle that really only has enough space for one. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We aren’t doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the boxes and spent several nights going through the papers, looking for “Top Secret” stamps he’d missed the first time through. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I put it back in the box and went upstairs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The stuff on sale looked really good: heaping boxes of bloodred cherries and apples, walnuts and apricots, jugs of cider in a claw-foot tub full of ice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before the end of class, Ms. Steck takes the shoe box off Clay’s desk and tallies the votes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Walowick had put the chessboard on a box, and we started setting up the pieces. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared down at the box in her lap. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In my mind I heard the bees fanning their wings down in the dark music box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held up a picture of Pandora opening up the box and a whole shebang of gremlins floating out. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mom is ripping open the cereal boxes and the bags inside, spilling the contents everywhere, so she can stomp on it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Some gifts were only small packages of nuts or raisins and others were boxes almost too heavy for a man to lift. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He jabbed a finger in the direction of the box he’d built. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Taking Melanie aside, April whispered, “There are boxes piled up out there. They could have been watching forever! Shall I punch them now?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mona opened the trunk, and inside there were dozens of little boxes and vials stacked one upon the other. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Cool,” she says as she sips on a juice box. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Knowing I had no oils, I got some butter from our grocery box. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were probably freaking out, trying to think of a way to explain how they’d spent all that money my grandfather had left in the bank box. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

From the back of the truck the other two took a large box made of wood and wire, almost a yard wide, and placed it over the second hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, Frightful fed her not in the box, but on the wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Inside the dark cavern is an old pink hybrid wedged between stacks of boxes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

On all sides were crates and boxes, sacks and bundles and packages. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hofacket tacked the white piece of paper to the wall and then placed the Plant on a wooden box in front of it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The men were tossing two little white square boxes with dots all over ’em up ’gainst a wall. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Smith said yes, and someone fetched the odd redwood box for starter Cassidy, who carried it up to his place at the top of the homestretch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mona began to pull out a number of boxes and handed them to Taisin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I thought they were happy to see me, but when I opened the door to our shack, I saw that everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She dumped the wood into the box behind the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa, real agitated, looked over at me, where I stood leaning against a big wooden box. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Attendants trail behind her, holding stacked towers of dress boxes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Charles looked through his boxes and found some shells for Annie and Etty to play with—shells he had gathered on his Beagle voyage about twenty years earlier. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “little fancy lady kit” turned out to be a box of thread, scissors, and a tiny piece of embroidery. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"I had to find out you was having a boxing fight from Mr. Epstein." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aspects of Vivian’s memory are triggered with each box they open. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There lay Stella’s treasure—an old cigar box. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a small table with a Kleenex box against the wall between the two chairs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few boxes from the move remain unpacked and stacked by the doorway. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had fed an extension cord through a crack in the screen door, connected to a box fan that blew at his feet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The matadors bowed, holding their hats on, before the President's box, and then came over to the barrera below us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a cot with a shuck mattress, an apple box holding a tin lantern, and a backless rocking-chair in the little room of the bunkhouse. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank thought she would yell, or hit him with the box. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The santero shakes a box of salt on its head, then pours honey over the offering. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They continued pulling book after book out of the box, but nothing seemed remotely interesting to Candice. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here, the current was slow and the water clogged with trash of all sorts: fruit rinds, broken boxes, torn fishing nets, empty rice sacks, nine-year-old prison escapees. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

What self-respecting cynic would carry around a doll in a shoe box? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The box was long enough that he would have to reach in to his elbow in order to touch the back. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My present is a Brownie box camera, black and oblong, with a handle on top and a round hole at the back to look through. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a gallant two-footed landing on the stage, Booth topples heavily from the state box and lands awkwardly. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I take the box back to the table, and on the blank side of an insurance form I write, Sheila— I wanted you to have this stuff, just in case. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big metal box sticking up from the roof looked like a storage shed, but the double doors and eye-reader gave it away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It had no grass, just trees in wooden boxes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to what Ruth said and sent Reba to the store for a box of Argo cornstarch. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about twenty thousand boxes and Leon paying cash in advance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big one she put in the cardboard box she had brought from the store. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Spencer knocked on their door several days later, a good-size box in her arms. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The tins of Ramses and Romeos were kept behind displays of aspirin and skin lightener in a plain wooden box labeled “para hombres.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three drafts later, most of the scratch-outs and erasures eliminated, she finally put her pencil back in the box. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, I prop the boxes against the wall and glance over at the Spy Club notice. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She gathered up the eggshell-thin fragments with care and placed them in a small blue box which had once held a bracelet that her grandmother had given her when she was a little girl. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Underneath his thin guayabera, I could see the muscles of his broad shoulders shifting as he reached down and gave me a wad of bills to put in the poor box as his donation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pen fell out and landed on my foot as I dug through the box. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No wonder I’d thought it was shaped like an Amazon box: It was an Amazon box. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“There they were. A box of ’em just floating there in the water.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Laney, don’t you dare take anything out of that box without telling me,” Mama warned. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For some reason, we tiptoe across the floor and peek inside boxes with slow, careful movements. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Wes rummaged through the closet, moving clothes and boxes from one side to the other, he came across a small see-through bag packed with a green substance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One wall was covered with a tower of sneaker boxes—inside the boxes were a rainbow assortment of Nikes, each pair fresher than the last. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Even now, when I have done so much of it, when I live, as the saying goes, in my boxes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I fought the longest boxing round of my life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

Of course, choosing between two boxes of breakfast cereal is a little different from deciding if a mushroom will poison you. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And, most important, they found the trail in the sand leading to the buried boxes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And a plastic box to serve as a toilet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we had been traveling for a few miles, I put my note pad back in my shirt pocket, took the top off my coin box, and starting looking at my pennies. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, Adolf Hitler sat in his box, among his entourage. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She pulled a tissue from a box on her desk and blew her nose. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the most ragtag crew I’ve ever seen, standing there, staring at the boxes laid out on my bed, each of them with a separate but important role. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Until she finds another surprise: the red box. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

All the kinds we had came in giant boxes with names that sounded like real cereals’ weird second cousins—Oaties. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, she held the box of cookies in front of me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a small amount of cargo—a number of great wooden boxes filled with mould. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The object was mostly in shadow, but it appeared to be a large box with several metal clasps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Pens, pencils, paper clips, a box of matches, a pipe. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Henry knelt and laced his white boxing shoes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I brought to mind what I’d seen: the cigar box, the letters. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He could never hope to pay Min for the damaged box. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And one of the streaks fell on the hanging box where Coyotito lay, and on the ropes that held it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I wiped the sweat off my face and picked up a pasteboard box, I knew I couldn’t mention such to Mama anyway—about the beds, I mean. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Same day—Wednesday, May 8,1935 When my mother comes in, Natalie’s button box clattering against the sides of her purse, she sees me with the beer. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peach tried to Eft the big box to the floor, but it was so heavy, I was afraid he’d spill it. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mom handed him the bakery box full of cupcakes. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I reach for the scattered papers and scoop them all up, placing them back inside the box. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They opened one of the boxes and spread documents out on both of the twin beds. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If the partition is then removed, the molecules will tend to spread out and occupy both halves of the box. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches for the Dunhills, opening the box and peeling back the gold foil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the stands and press box seemed to be sagging. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She put it down again and found a box of in-case-of-emergency white wax candles, and thrust one into a candlestick. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“If he is still hungry give him a Popsicle from the box in the freezer,” she said to Mr. Sen, who sat at the Formica table sorting through the mail. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was so cramped it felt like I was hiding in one of those magician’s boxes, pretending to be disappeared. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I answered it and a man stood there with two flat boxes. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His last communication had been a box of books, along with several postcards he’d written to her in Greece and Turkey but not managed to send at the time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Candice found a box of chewable antacid tablets in the cabinet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"A man named Biloxi. 'Blocks' Biloxi, and he made boxes--that's a fact--and he was from Biloxi, Tennessee." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I held my box so tightly against my chest that it hurt to breathe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After selling my last ticket and turning over the sign, I exited through the box office door, locked it behind me, and went into the lobby. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The box was sealed shut, and I had to unfold the entire thing to read all the detailed instructions printed on the inside. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

From their seat in a tiny witness box in a packed courtroom, plaintiffs would face aggressive white lawyers firing questions at them as white judges looked on. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And then I’m in the dream again, just outside the ropes of a boxing ring, and on the canvas, in the haze and lights, my grandfather faces off against a hollowgast. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a shattering of wood as the box caved in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clara wrote small cards to each of her loved ones, of whom there were many, and secretly placed them in a box beneath her bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the cities had a box around it, intended to attract the reader’s eye. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Singer brought from his closet a tin box that contained a loaf of bread, some oranges, and cheese. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Isobel places the box upon the table and brushes a thick layer of dust off the top, though much of it still sticks to the knotted ribbons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Remember when we used to make forts out of cardboard boxes on Christmas?” she says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Percy ducked behind a giant hamster wheel and scanned the room, looking for the boxes he’d seen in his dream. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not going through this so I can lock myself in the one of them box. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then I got those boxes off the truck. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Chester looked around at the newsstand—the box of Kleenex, the alarm clock, Papa’s pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear the driver cursing to his companion.They both slid down from the box seat and made their way over to the tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Kyle and his teammates heard Mr. Lemoncello’s announcement but stayed inside Community Meeting Room B so they could examine the dusty old boot box. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She sent a giant box full of summer sausages, fancy cheeses, crackers, mints, and stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He placed the box with the tortoise in it next to the door and pulled a bunch of lock picks from his pocket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So how did the meeting with Leslie go?” she asked as she put the last box of medicine away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy got a handsome box of cigars all the way from a place called Cuba. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He joins me at the front of the room and I hand him my box. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mom bought a box of strawberries, even though I know she thinks Belle’s strawberries are overpriced and not very good. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Desperate, I ran back to my room and grabbed some clothes out of a box full of stuff I was going to give to my little cousins. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Hollywood Park general manager Jack Mackenzie tried to make an end run around Smith, running up to Howard’s box in hopes of winning his word that Seabiscuit was sound and would start. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt him scramble past her to the back of the boat, and she heard a scrape as he pulled a box out from its place under the bench. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starks made as if to throw the meat back in the box and close it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some of Mama’s oldest clothes were still in the closet, and one or two of Tata's jackets, but her jewelry was missing, along with my grandmother’s gilded egg that opened like a box. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And the taste of salt on her lips that time when for a second he had touched them with his own boy’s lips, clinging to his glass-bottomed box. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then taking a box of caps from his pocket, he raised the hammer of the gun and slipped one of the little bright caps over the hollow pin that was under the hammer. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

So even though the kitchen cupboards are bare, we find over thirty canned goods and several boxes of cookies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then, from beneath the bed, she pulls out a water-stained, warped cardboard box, sets it between us, and opens it slowly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Misha opened the door, it swung out rather than in, and just inside the right-hand jamb was a small rectangular box, nailed on a slant above Anya’s head. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In a perfect world, no one would ever have opened that box. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mouldering cardboard boxes were stacked along the walls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

O’Brien looked at the childish scrawl on the top of the box. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you box out, you have to initiate contact with your man,” Coach said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I asked him if he used to take a lunch box to school when he was in fourth grade. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set down the box of crackers and got up slowly, starting to sniffle. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his penknife he whittled sticks to make pegs and fastened the board to the box with them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The solid wooden box had a thick metal plate on each corner. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had to be content with letting Flossie Gaddis, who had a box camera, take a snapshot. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty boxes was a lot of chocolates but he was glad to say yes and get out of the spotlight. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

About as dull as a lunch box gets.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt him in his metal box against my chest while we drove. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Johnson carried the box out of the terminal building, put it in the trunk of his car, and drove to the Institute. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d noticed the hours I spent in my room with Tyler’s old boom box, listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, so she began looking for a voice teacher. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Garrett sidles up to me, holding the cake box, his blond hair winging out from under a baseball cap. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When we didn’t have access to the school’s dance studio we’d break down oversize cardboard boxes in abandoned streets and parking lots, set up a boom box, and practice. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A yawning lady with a flowered scarf tied under her chin lugged a food basket jammed with Jell-O boxes, paper napkins, and coffee filters. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the rains fell, he put Nellie in a box stall and fed her warm food every morning and curried her and brushed her. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I reached in to take her out Algernon came into the reward box and snapped at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the address I ripped off the box, so where's the building? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She pulled the silver shoes from the box and set them down in front of me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I think about the Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes on top of Sneaky’s refrigerator and wish the boxes could magically transport to our table. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Plush royal boxes sit on stilts high above. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We were still standing there in the front hall, so excited we hadn’t even set down the boxes and grips. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No shoe boxes with red cutout hearts for your drugstore valentines. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest key opened a jewelry box on the dresser that was full of costume jewelry—fake diamond necklaces, pearl earrings, emerald pendants, sapphire rings, and ruby bracelets. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He feels a hand on his shoulder and jumps in surprise, dropping the lid down on the box. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, and now put your things in the box and tomorrow go south to what you will and do not come home until I send for you.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He had already reached the foyer with his two tortoise boxes when he decided he couldn’t leave without a few farewell words. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sets the box down and raises up the rock. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And then I see Colin running up to my house with a little cardboard box. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A sports man from the television company came up to our box. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dallas. It’s just a name those Trepids got from a box.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my cane and told her that if Transito Soto did not appear in person within ten minutes, I would break all the windows and everything else inside that Pandora’s box. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two spools of thread, one white chess bishop, and six parts of a jigsaw puzzle...A teaspoon and a closed box of safety matches...A radish, two pennies, a nickel, and a golf ball. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until hours later, that is, when they learned that the Coast Guard had uncovered boxes of explosives and German uniforms along the beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He ran from the place, leaving his suitcase, leaving the quirt, leaving the oak box of money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After I leave the box and step back into my cage, I get an idea, a good one. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In Doon’s box were dozens of small packets wrapped in a slippery material. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They place a large box in the center of the ring. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Zu went to work tearing the box open, tossing aside the foam and plastic stuffing to get the old-fashioned silver toaster inside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a long time before X could set the note aside, let alone lift Esmé’s father’s wristwatch out of the box. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

At work, her hands sewed hundreds of jeans before the lunch bell sounded and then boxed hundreds more before she left for her night job at Johnny’s Steak House. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He stopped and looked over his shoulder into the box stall. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The House of Commons gives itself to a dialogic style—to, at its best, a deft pattern of call-and-response across the despatch box. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Rishi asked, dropping the box into a trash can they were passing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Park set the book on his bed, then grabbed two small boxes off a shelf. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

‘Tou must be rich,” he said, thinking the boxes held valuable things. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I took the lamp to the living room, where a box of matches sat on the table. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Growing up, I knew Ali was a heavyweight champion and one of the greatest of all time in the world of boxing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Because there are four hundred kids out there yelling for blood. And they don’t care whose blood it is anymore. Everybody in the school knows about the black box—how can Archie back down?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real careful, I peel off all the paper, and the thing is, it's not a pyramid-shaped box he bought somewhere, he made it. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the black empathy box his wife crouched, her face rapt. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

For more on j and x sounds, see the box on page 153. accessories. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have two boxes of cigars, too. We sell those and have more money.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He picks one of the boxes on the table this time, a polished-wood box with a swirling pattern etched into its lid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He led her into the forest, Idunn holding tightly to her ash box containing the apples of immortality. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Howard ran from his box with his fist in the air. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even say his name without opening up a huge box of hurt and worry and anger. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kaelin sits in the witness box, with a vacant look on his face. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I slid the whole box of letters across the table to her. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A slip of paper was wedged into the corner of the box. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had a storage room with stacks of long sheets of paper with numbers on the margins and boxes of pens, pencils, staples, and paper clips. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Minho finished up his meal and put his lunch box away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Imagine an extremely tiny volume in space, like a really small box. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Because when we came back in from recess, on the shelf was a long box from Goldman’s Best Bakery...filled with twenty-four cream puffs! The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I made him this wooden box in industrial shop class. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They decided to save the blue M&M’s in Calder’s box and keep it under his bed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy handed Julie a flashlight and told her to sit on the floor behind the counter and assemble boxes. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The two of them went into the dusty little room and opened up all the boxes, grabbing a small stack of Maps from each one. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A new pack fresh out of the box, arranged by suit and in sequence from ace to king, can be said to be in its ordered state. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After dropping a dime in the fare box, she absentmindedly sat down in one of the ten front seats reserved for whites. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“The guy you are looking for is in that box. I came in to look around this famous lodge. I found him here with two falcons.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Look at this,” said Ron, pulling a long thin box out of a bag and opening it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The resin melted; he dipped a stick into the goo and worked it into a crack in the plumping-mill box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He paused, removing a small pair of plastic binoculars from his cereal box. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was sorting quickly through the boxes, making piles of people of my mother’s side of the family, then my father’s, and then one of faces I didn’t know, a growing stack of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Richard and Mom went to make the pancakes, I ran to my room and took all your notes out of the box under my bed. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She thought about the clippings in the cigar box—and shucks, even the papers on the wall—and thought, maybe...maybe... Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Well, my room has a box full of clothes and toys. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She would savor it, maybe fold it too in a brass box and hang it from her other ear. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were also too big to sleep in cardboard boxes, and there wasn’t enough room on the floor for them, anyway, so we helped Dad build two sets of bunk beds. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he leads her through the metal detector snitch box, which blares its sharp alarm bell. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he gathered up their blankets and their tin of biscuits and held out the wooden box. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pull out a box of metal brackets, nuts and bolts, drill bits and nails—things that clank together as I set it down. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The other cartons and boxes and books had been cleared up or given away. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We put a suggestion box in the guidance office, for students to bring their concerns to the president’s attention. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Each page was filled with rectangular boxes stacked on top of each other. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at the rear windshield, but it was blocked by boxes and bags. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Genie carried the liquor crate, which was just a wooden box made of slats, which he thought was great because if they actually did catch a swallow, it would be able to breathe. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on an overturned box, eating a late lunch of the sandwiches Regina had made for him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Like a wooden box all carved with naked women. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t give her an empty box, even a nice empty box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Can you help me put the box in that big sycamore?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

To go through boxes on New Year’s Eve and throw out half of what is inside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"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

We sort through the old magazines, the stash of differentsized cardboard boxes, the shelves of clean jars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk sprouted trees; the bars on windows were replaced with flower boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a mosque covered with mirrors on the inside, and the reflected light turned the whole thing into a shimmering jewel box. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I would have been horrified if I had known that two days after I received the music box, Mary Miller wrote Mr. Ferris requesting that parental contact be stopped altogether. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She got a sheet and tucked one end underneath the box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad didn’t know what to do, so he handed me a tissue box and organized the paperwork on his desk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She went to the bed, and from under it pulled out a wide box. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The boxing world feels cheated by my obvious lack of passion, but the press loves me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I show him the empty submission box, and he pulls out his phone and starts to wander toward the door. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I look at the empty cardboard box on the floor and try to think of something else to say. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She wears the plastic gloves that come in the box and there are black splatters in surprising places for weeks after. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t like it much when I saw a box of those yellow chips in the Drinker pantry next to Moonie’s dog food. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He stood erect as if frozen amid the hysterical crowd in his box and around it—all around the vast arena. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the sixth day there was a mighty storm, and they caught six fine lightning bolts in their copper box. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We make a huge Valentine’s Day postbox out of a cardboard box covered with pink crepe paper and red hearts with paper doily edging. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I was watching, she took the newspaper from its box next to the front door and went back inside. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We called the number and a man brought him over to our house in a shoe box and he was perfect. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tightened a tourniquet around his upper arm and told me to fetch Mom’s sewing box. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I nearly collapse in relief as I see Hideo crouched down in the security box room, surrounded by his bodyguards and colleagues. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hopped off his bicycle and, shielding the shoe box with both arms, began to jog across the deserted greens and fairways. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ranofer recoiled so hastily that he stumbled and all but dropped the box. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He tossed the empty beer bottle into a cardboard box near his feet. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At four in the afternoon a roll of drums in the square announced the closing of the polls and Don Apolinar Moscote sealed the ballot box with a label crossed by his signature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’d placed her things inside the tin box and buried it out there late one night by flashlight, too scared to leave them hanging around in my room, even in the back of a drawer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had rotten luck this afternoon, hadn’t sold a single box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bowl and boards went through all right, but the boxes were just too big. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box contained a linen sack filled with straw. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd is already gathering around the tented box where the High King Eldred and the rest of the royals will sit. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I went to her bedroom and started filling up the boxes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But on Sundays they got all dressed up only to go to a church where there was no incense, no sacred body and blood, and no confessional box. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she went on putting the cards back into the box, yawning a little, while I straightened the tumbled bed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing up, and one of his legs was resting on the wall of the box. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I shut the windows and looked round for a box of matches. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cabinet drawers pulled out into the floor, paper and bloated cardboard boxes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Every day she brought an orange for little recess and a blue tin box of lunch for big recess. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sketched them in pencil and then colored them using every color in my crayon box. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lee went in to Adam and found him trying to open the box that held the clippings about his father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other familiar objects and furnishings were still in evidence, Lefty’s rebetika records, the brass coffee table, and, of course, the silkworm box, sitting in the middle of the engraved circular top. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If you came, you’d sit in the Emperor’s box, but nobody else has such good seats. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As expressionless as the time she was a store mannequin, she sat in the wagon on a sawed-off chair, bracing herself with one hand on the driver’s plank and the other on the coffin box. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The living room was empty except for a stack of boxes in one corner and a large red cushion in the center of the floor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She arranged a small box of odd treasures—stones, butterfly wings, a carved wooden toad—to give to Claire. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Midway through the second half, the score was still 5-0 when the Fugees were called for a foul in the box for slide tackling from behind. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She looks down at all of the boxes of Christmas lights. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There were about a hundred of them in each crate, each about six inches long, crawling over one another, bumping blindly into the sides of the boxes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He took the cover off the candy box. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She listened as he struggled to maneuver the box through the narrow doorway. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

By the time the computers reached the end of the line, where they were packed into red-and-white Sayle Enterprises boxes, the compartments were completely invisible. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She pushed the box under the cascade and arranged the stone so that it was resting on a disc of wood. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost too miffed to even look down, but when I did, I saw a dark velvet box where the chocolate cake was supposed to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was still an official vehicle on the scene, but what was left of the pickup and the box truck had been taken away. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Whom do you think this box belongs to?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To the left are stacked boxes labeled with a felt marker: Xmas Ornaments; several boxes with a big B for books. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had never been in a box like this before. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Antonio’s old room, when he heads off to college this fall. Or maybe Luis’s. His room is just full of boxes.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I lifted the SWEATERS, ETC. box onto my shoulder, stepped outside, and pulled the bin door down. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peak of the strawberry season was over and the last few days the workers, most of them braceros, were not picking as many boxes as they had during the months of June and July. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other kids broke their lunch boxes, or lost them, so they got new ones every year. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before he closed the screen again, I grabbed the cinnamon box from the windowsill and pushed it into the sand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But get this: The boxes were light green football fields, with white grid lines at ten-yard intervals. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I marked an X in the box next to the letters ANC and then slipped my folded ballot paper into a simple wooden box; I had cast the first vote of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were ready to go out, we whispered a quick “Go, team!” to each other, and then strapped the translation boxes onto our chests. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He noticed that the box was punched here and there with air holes. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he'd stop, stoop down, and try to feel the far end of the box. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Books fell down with a thump and boxes crashed around him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A big box for firewood stood near him, so he opened the lid. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I want some more cards from the Nabisco Shredded Wheat boxes, the gray cards with pictures on them that you color, cut out, and fold to make the houses in a town. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the great voice box of Sounder would have burst if he had tried to trail too long in silence. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in the emperor’s box, Piper cried out, but her voice was drowned in the roar of the crowd. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I closed my door and opened the box. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After they had gone, I sat on the edge of a packing box and stared at the bloody floor until the cigarette went out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settle the key at the bottom of Pop’s box. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And it’s better to have a box in a car than a box on a street. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

David wedged the small box he held onto a shelf above it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He retrieved the box of pictures, and while looking for that one he found another. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never done this before,” I say as I take it out of the box. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A packet of cigarette sweets, a tin Phantom pencil box and Paul Bunyan—a Junior Classics Illustrated comic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s followed by a young boy dressed in a white suit, holding a simple wooden box. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the boxes was a tattered, fabric-covered logbook from the Office of Indian Affairs cataloging the names of guardians during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that she couldn’t drop the box. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later the bird returned as an old man, and he guided her boxing for many years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my licorice laces and my Milky Bar in my special food box on the shelf, which Father is not allowed to touch because it is mine. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of shoes lifted straight from their boxes filled Ben’s nostrils. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the stack of cardboard boxes sat a gallon of white gas for use in his lantern. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Holmes asked him to pick up a box and a trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Silently she drew the box of ointment from her bosom and gave it to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our privilege smacked of evil and mystery whereas theirs came in recognizable panty hose packages and candy wrappers and vacuum cleaner bags and Kleenex boxes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Twelve o’clock has a box of clear plastic bags and twist ties. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen, but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The box was down, but nothing inside; it was most likely blown over by a breeze. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Though we counted on getting plenty of fish and wild game, we had a wooden grub box full of staples. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He took from the box a small sword in an old shabby leathern scabbard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

These they packed in boxes, preserving the order in which she had shelved them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A box arrived in the office in the afternoon: Team Lawn Boy T-shirts and uniform pants, and truck magnets for the crew to slap on their pickups. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gray glass marble from the bottom of the toy box sat, dully, in the pink palm of her hand. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Miss Stuart sits at her desk, supervising, while several girls open the box and deliver the valentines. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She folded the blouse and pulled a dress out of the box. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mama placed her scissors back in her sewing box. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Give me a hand with some of these boxes, Lissa,” her father said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She set the pan on the stove, over to the side, and then opened a bread box on a small table. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His next present also contained candy — a large box of Chocolate Frogs from Hermione. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Capricorn handed Cockerell, who was standing beside him, the book that Mo had kept from him for so long, and bent to open the box. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He claimed to have had at least one hundred boxes in his storage unit and maintained that what had been brought to him was only one percent of his belongings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After that she put a cake with pink and purple flowers in a cardboard box from the grocery store on the kitchen table and told us to have some. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Alvin Hooks stood and strolled casually to the witness box with his hands deep in his trousers pockets. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Capricorn made a sign, and one of his men brought in a large cardboard box. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Robbie fetched the shoeshine box from the kitchen, sat down in the armchair nearest his mother and spread out a page of a three-day-old Daily Sketch on the carpet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth sifted through a stack of boxes Mama had deemed too small to be useful for the move. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the living room, there was a large rectangular box covered in purple wrapping paper on the coffee table. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And I have a jewelry box that Grandma bought me a few years ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At the hearth, my father would pull a long match from the hexagonal box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She set the box down and gave me a hug good-bye. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The box of crackers I had been rationing is missing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I place my go-go boots in their box and put on my old sneakers. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A voice cried out from the president’s box, “Stop that man!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Dasch and his team were busy shopping and meeting at the Horn & Hardart Automat, the FBI was examining the boxes of explosives and equipment the Coast Guard had discovered on Amagansett Beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Slowly and with drama April opened the box. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between this and the boxes of cigars that Papa had given us before we left, I felt rich. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mama takes out a pot of biryani from the fridge and hands me white Styrofoam boxes to fill. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As I rested the mattress against the wall, I noticed a small cardboard box nestled in the ledge between the frame’s headboard and side. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was pulling wooden boxes out of a bag, as well as a whole bunch of glass jars, the kind that Genie drank sweet tea out of. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Only a small fraction of their library was carted away, about six boxes of materials in all. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The box of pineapple arrived on Christmas Eve. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I hand out the rest of the boxes, and everyone heads out into the hallway to start getting everything ready. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As Ranofer scrambled down from his stone to take the scroll back, he saw Pai at the pay box, counting out to Gebu the coppers from yesterday, and those for today as well. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Pushing his chair against the wall, he leaves the door to the state box hallway unguarded and walks outside. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be not a book at all but a wooden box trickily carved and painted to look like a calf-bound volume. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment she stood there, gazing down at whatever was in the box. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Are they like bread boxes for dead bodies? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got her into the hallway, they opened the pine box, and Sadie began to cry. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a box of Kleenex next to my bed and I pull out tissue after tissue to mop up my tears. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then she touched his arm and said, “Don’t worry, if he put the manuscript in a box, it will be safe from termites.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shayleen comes out to bother me about a box she thinks will come today. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We had both seen the boxes in which our parents kept the dried cords of all their children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A baby parrot slept in a box in the comer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But ’stead of tying the letters up and putting them back in the box, I spread them out on Daddy’s bed and just look. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it leads to an address. Or a safety-deposit box. Or maybe...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She took him in through the glass door and walked him over to a large white box. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Baba’s bus, I counted the miles until I’d see her sitting barefoot, arranging cardboard boxes of yellowed encyclopedias, her heels white against the asphalt, silver bracelets jingling around her slender wrists. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Item #12 was an old boot box from an Alexandriaville shoe store Haley had never heard of. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The roof of the box prevented her from seeing inside. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

James Ford steps out of the box office thinking Booth is pulling some crazy stunt to get attention. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Until that time, our stuff would stay in our boxes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, they came out carrying a large box with holes punched in it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And then the glass box with the woman trapped inside slowly fills with white smoke. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, only by standing on a wooden box could I reach the controls of the machine I was assigned to operate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A sketchpad and a box of colored pencils appeared in his palm. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There he was, stacking box fans in a square of sunlight wearing faded jeans, a short-sleeved white T-shirt, and the same Texas Rangers cap. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe my grandmother just moved the box so I wouldn’t get any peanut butter on it. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, he’d helped his mother put her things in boxes for the church rummage sale. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers, a guy in electric blue with an enormous package, presses play on a boom box. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The right-hand corner of the box was decorated with a mess of stamps. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was the old biddies who filled most of the choir box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Gran passed a box lined in black velvet material with two shimmering blades to Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He trotted up to the press box and made the wildly popular announcement that if his horse won, he’d send up a barrel of champagne for the reporters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a pale blue box of pills, but nobody was sick. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any Golden Grahams left?” was all Mark said, and Joaquin passed him the box. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Just then, one of the boxes at Joseph’s feet moved by itself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Yes, there was a box of matches on the side-board, as I expected. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Max says, taking the box from Oliver. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Soon as she gone, I run out and tote the box inside and grab out a copy and I just stare. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I watch through the hibiscus hedge as workmen carry boxes into the Garcías’ house. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Is she really going to devote fifty hours of her life to a crotchety dowager in a drafty attic, going through boxes filled with moths and dust mites and who knows what else? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She holds out a small, damp cardboard box to me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He maneuvered around the moving boxes stacked along the banister. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I jumped, nearly tripping over a stack of packing boxes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t eat it out of the box, pour some out. Freak.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His face was grim, his eyes intense and focused on the white box ten feet in front of him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

His bird terrified in the smothering darkness of the box—it’s like a coffin—when suddenly one wall springs up and light pours in and he’s free to go. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But even though he’d never seen the movie, he had read the front and back of the box a couple of times. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And then he winks and begins taking the pieces off the board and putting them in the box. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had been set to the other side of the candles, opposite the relic boxes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Now hand me that trinket box from your bag, and then you sit with your back against mine, so we’re both supported.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

That, and opening up boxes of new books, their pages crisp, spines unbroken. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Wood, after all, in a wooden cigar box. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped a pass to Jeremiah at the top of the box, and Jeremiah charged the goal at a full sprint. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"I told Du Barry to keep you home," she says, while packing a small toilette box. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Downstairs again, Mr. Pomodoro unpacks a few things from one of the many boxes stacked by his desk. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It looks to be about the size of a jewelry gift box. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Bera-Bera was my favorite stuffed animal, which my mother had packed in a box. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A box in the ocean—what kind of a start is that? What, really, did we have in common? We didn’t even know each other.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a box. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline took a piece of string from her toy box, and she strung the black key on the string. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Unopened boxes were stacked along one wall, and bolts of fabric lay piled in tall pyramids covering almost every inch of floor space. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Or did he make an inside box first and fit the larger box around it? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They’re fighting for control of our psychic selves; the empathy box on one hand, Buster’s guffaws and off-the-cuff jibes on the other. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had a box of matches with me, too—all my usual firemaking tools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I also keep worrying that if Amá goes into her room and goes through her boxes, she’s going to find her underwear and keel over. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I went to bed that night exhausted and exhilarated, the hummingbird nest in its neat glass box on my dresser next to my hairpins and ribbons. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They look so ordinary—inside a black box with metal claws on the edges and a remote detonator. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Smiling, Amarante picked up the shells and dropped the box in his pocket. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set my feet inside the boxes and prepare to move from end to end. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Laughter rolled through the room until Mrs. Torrance dropped a worn box on her desk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My pillow is wet and the tiny little box is soft but I know what is inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All night long, the box in the attic called to me, as if an invisible fishing line connected my fingertips to its cardboard edge. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Families stood in line before the ticket box of the movie and young boys and girls stared at the posters on display outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sees a box spring and mattress without a frame. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each was housed in a large rectangular wooden box containing a cathode picture tube with a set of crude game controls mounted in front of it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That night I kept thinking about Pandora's box. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Isobel lifts the hat carefully from the box, the long ends of the ribbons spilling in a waterfall around it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And like a lid of a jewelry box, the door opened into a landscape of radiant colors. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her miserable days in the mansion were spent planning how to make an earring out of the box which would house her name. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel clumsy, like I’m wearing boxing gloves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Whatever’s inside that box was packed with care. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

To everyone in the box, the situation seemed hopeless. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it may have been tempting to commit a felony and covertly check the box that read "American citizen" on the application, my parents knew those financial aid peeps meant serious business. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Mac repeats this a few times, then takes the box back. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t you have just talked to him about the button box?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zion snorted and a little of his juice box came out his nose. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The emperor’s box was draped with silk, flanked by banners and golden eagles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I go through the box and find Papa’s sterling silver pocket watch and rub the figure of the fisherman standing in a rowboat. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Inside these boxes are every sports certificate, every assignment, every art project Trey and me ever did. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Luce didn’t care about criminally smitten grandparents or silkworm boxes or serenading clarinets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I get the box with the other stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Thus she was always forced to eat her evening meals out of TV-dinner-trays in front of the dreaded box. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’re mammoth filing cabinets of human lives, like bees in a honeycomb, crowded and angry at paying rent for boxes that resemble prison cells. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The wand in that box you were returning to your boyfriend.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I can see why she hid the box from me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To get a better view of the president, he looks through the peephole in the wall at the back of the box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

What did the English words box and route mean? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She sets a wooden box on the picnic table in front of Scoob. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I try to think outside the box— most men use football teams as passwords, I think, but Tom isn’t into football; he quite likes cricket, so I try Boycott and Botham and Ashes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie slid open the box and unfolded the receipt tucked inside. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The coach picked up a box of powdered doughnuts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“We have your entire box of ÁguaViva in the truck,” I point out, and realize to my horror that we left it in the truck bed unattended. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at it as I fold a box’s side flaps and secure the tabs inside the slots. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The recruiter was packing the leaflets into a cardboard box; he didn’t look up. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of going up—because maybe they were not there—racing up the stairs, grabbing the cereal box, racing back down. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mostly, he boxed in preliminary matches to warm up the crowd. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, though, unlike his puzzle boxes, his model of their neighborhood makes little sense to her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the end, I walked out of that office with my survey still in the box, unsure of what I was. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The boys circled around to find blond and perky Anna Archie on one knee, aiming her price gun at a stack of electrical outlets sitting next to a box of massaging showerheads. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Sierra—stay here and guard the game box. Come on, Akimi.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I’m going down to see Grace at the weekend and I’ll look in the boxes for your Housman. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the applause starts to die down, Tim slides the box back together. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Then we could get out of the box, and scientists and doctors could check us for a couple of weeks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the box, the Lincolns were enjoying themselves, not because of the play, but simply from being together, out of the White House, during their happiest week in Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s somewhere on this property. Susie said she could see it. And it’s not like we have a lot of carved wooden boxes it could be in.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I come to, crawling out from between the boxes of chalk and pencils, it’s dinnertime again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I pull out the cigar box from my backpack. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there’s Ben, leaning next to the doorway, balancing a cardboard box on his knee. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Inside, clothes hung on two poles, and underneath were boxes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Lee’s excited men hurriedly jerk the boxes down onto the ground and pry them open. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

K.B.I. agents, dispatched to Hickock’s home, found the knife inside a fishing-tackle box and the shotgun still casually propped against a kitchen wall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple smiled, swallowing to dispel the warm, liquidy feeling in her bones, and handed him the box. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pulling off the towels, he revealed an unmarked cardboard box wound with tape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want us to live in a box?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We talked about superficial judgments, how people look at you and think they know who you are, what you are, how they put you in a box: jock, china doll, whatever. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stowed the box in his breast pocket, next to his heart. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It was in the bread box. I’m going to read it.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Doctor Nolan seated herself in the armchair by the window and took out a tiny box of matches. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The professor adjusted the lampshade so that the light fell full on the stool, and took the instrument out of its box. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He scratches his nose with his knuckle, laughs uncomfortably, and leaves me alone with the shoe box. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They still had two candles left and half a box of matches. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the far corner of the room, he saw stacks of cigarette boxes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once the last three, up against the forward wall of the box, got none, the jug being dry when it came to them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But like everyone else in the state box, she is stunned. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the barn door open and walked over to a box on the desk in there marked outbox. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They’d lived together all these years, separate in their box together. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Really, one is inclined to wonder what is. Well, all right. We saw a hedgehog covered with roses, singing a song on a box. What happened then?’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma didn’t mind his experiments with her flowers or his forages into her sewing box for threads to use in his experiments. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make sure they were not rubbing against each other in the box before placing them underneath the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first time we ever had a box of chocolates. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through the shelf, pushing books this way and that, removing small wooden boxes and grunting when she opened them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Three months before I was born, in the aftermath of one of our elaborate Sunday dinners, my grandmother Desdemona Stephanides ordered my brother to get her silkworm box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be sending people from the party to watch the polling places and make sure they seal the ballot boxes.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought so much snow into the store on their boots that one of the box boys, Earl Camp, stayed busy all afternoon with a mop and a towel, cleaning up after them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nor did Perry, descending the post- office steps with the Mexican box balanced on a shoulder, observe the prowling car and the policemen in it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lia needs to sleep for one hundred years in a locked glass box. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A song played from a boom box in the corner. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To compensate for my youth on campus, I wear old gray sweatshirts and box in a local gym and walk around with an unlit cigarette in my mouth, even though I do not smoke. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tin box was buried in the soft dirt beneath the tree, shallow enough that I could dig it up with my hands. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yassen gave an order and, as Alex watched from behind the rocks, a metallic silver box with a vacuum seal appeared, held by unseen hands, at the top of the submarine’s tower. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rashid threw up his hands and kicked a box of Bunsen burners across the floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looks in the refrigerator and then goes to the green wooden recipe box on the windowsill above the sink. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

A single bee finally inched out on the sheet and used it as a walking bridge to the box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They stacked boxes of records by the stereo, and hung photos from their travels on the walls. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They turned a corner, passing a telephone box and a bus shelter. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Neither Harry nor Ron bought any ingredients at the Apothecary, seeing that they were no longer studying Potions, but both bought large boxes of owl nuts for Hedwig and Pigwidgeon at Eeylops Owl Emporium. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He shrugs and drops the box on the sink’s edge for me, and I start deveining before six. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maribel works efficiently, tying the boxes of pastries firmly with string just as she was taught. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brangwain Spurge reached out and touched the metal box that held the gem. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He took out the box, gave it absently to Valencia. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently Holmes had made prior arrangements with an express agent to pick up the box and load it on a train. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Box Boy pauses, balancing the box on his hip. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

At two thirty a.m., when the firemen opened the door and discovered the baby, lying in a cardboard box, it had just begun to snow, and everything was covered with a silvery, crystalline dusting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled out the biggest box, from Mom’s last grocery order, and walked past me down the hall. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

As Tree-ear stared, rice began to trickle out of a hole in the straw box. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Cole examined the boxes filled with canned foods, clothes, bedroll, ax, cook- ing gear, heavy rain gear, rubber boots, and even school- work he was supposed to complete. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and I picked up my special food box. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When we walk in, there are two slim cardboard boxes on the counter waiting for us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A white man with a walking stick and a straw hat stood on a box shouting to people to pay a dime to come see this hunting woman. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The other end of the room boasts the concessions: glass-paneled and red-topped popcorn machines, shelves stacked with boxes of candy, empty plastic cups piled between the cash registers and soda fountains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It was so full of grease and dirt and sticks and boxes,” he thought, that it looked like a big, wide, dirty street, except in some places, where it boiled up. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The box’s atoms are wiggling around, and they will bump the banana’s atoms and set them in motion again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He went to the nightstand by his bed and withdrew a small flashlight from the cereal box. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Round and round the diamond-clear counters covered with bottles, wafer-thin disks, round boxes, tubes, and phials. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her presents were a pair of brown Oxford shoes and a box of cherry candy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Here, it was as if I was sealed into a noiseless box, and even when I opened a window, all I could hear was the rhythmic whisper of cars driving on the nearby road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, we used to decorate shoe boxes at school and use them as Valentine’s Day mailboxes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s piled ragtag with parcels and boxes covered in leather skins, bits of furniture and large baskets, all tumbled together, almost overflowing with itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I brought them down to the rug and pulled each one out of the box. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Jus takes the box off the table and lifts the hinged top. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She pushed the door open, and the bathroom was crammed with hundreds of boxes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Lina’s box was full of smooth white rods, each about ten inches long. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A little red box with swirly golden borders peeks out of the cabinet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, I slam the book shut and stash it back in the bookcase, glaring at the shelves of books like locked boxes holding secrets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is food inside the boxes, food for now and later too,” she said. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She sat on her bunk with a box of chocolates on her lap, and I remembered that her dad owned a chocolate store in the Village, which was how he'd caught the attention of Aphrodite. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then Miles was on the box again, lifting her. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, bending over the precious box, he touched, he lifted into the light, he examined. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The store manager found him, huddled on a pile of crushed boxes and Barbies, sobbing. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the furniture is modern and shaped like boxes and domes, and some of it looks like it came from a fancy British tea party. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As she reached for the top of one of the boxes, she pulled her hand back. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the lunch boxes under the desks around me and wondered if there were any squirrel sandwiches in them. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He smiled but did not tell the kids that he had seen the Delhi falcon feeding the third chick in a box on Sam Gribley’s mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Joseph, do you have a boxing name? Like a catchy title?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We make our way down to the truck, which still waits for us by the upturned stump, and Jacqui hops in the back, pushing things out of the way until she gets to the box. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He keeps his wedding ring in a blue velvet box with tight springs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those little cardboard boxes of juice that I had always, just once, wanted to try. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, the Howards would walk up to their box for the races. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He observes the two hairy snacks writhing in their metal box and wonders what their mashing together could mean. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night at roll call the Sachsenhausen guards wanted entertainment, so they had a boxing tournament. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As well as checking off the boxes on their countdown to when Markie turns eighteen and leaves home. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam found falcon food in the old refigerator, picked up the eyas box, and went out to the porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

For a second, I think it’s the third goal, but luckily Simón stops it at the box and clears the ball. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He finished the slice, with his right hand reached into the backseat, uncovered the pizza box, and brought out another slice. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Frankie had been as skilled at street fights as he was at boxing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t even thought much about her, though her moonlace plant still bloomed in his mom’s window box. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My mother added that she wished I were there to help her go through our box of Father’s old letters, for there were now many passages she had forgotten over the years. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood next to Deborah, whose arm in his shivered incessantly with the cold, and watched while the long, plain box was lowered into the ground. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The men might as well have waited by the box and whacked them with a bat as they came out. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema sent me a pair of sneakers for my birthday, and I kept the box because it's not too often that I get packages addressed to me, Mr. Jason D. Riazi. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As though he has climbed into a dark box hung inside a column of pure light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hoping I was truly alone, I made my way around boxes, barrels, piles of newspapers, and broken furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I sat with my mom in the evenings and binge-watched episodes of her favorite TV show, Little House on the Prairie, after she’d found the DVD box sets at Costco. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The catchy phrase You will come to agree with me, the message found inside the packing box after the painting was stolen, had been picked up everywhere. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

To minimize the president's pain as the train rocked and bumped along the tracks, this box was raised off the floor by boards supported by more cushions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guns arrived in narrow tin boxes and were packed in Cosmoline, a brownish substance the consistency of lard that had to be stripped away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He put the box on the floor and flipped through the stack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Round the world and back in a minute—what a wonderful box!” said Jane. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He got up, put a hand into his pocket, found the box containing the ring in there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where once there was a path to walk from this side of the room to that side, there are game boxes, like Ms. Dale decided to make her own Twister board with boxes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, he said he’d get some books sent down from London. He told me he had a box at the post office...” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But it might have to be a bobcat-shaped electrical box for him to pay any attention to it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, they stole everything they could, leaving the empty boxes under the other ones after filling them with stones so they would go unnoticed if anybody tried to lift them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to unpack my boxes, wondering whether there’s a kid in my room at this very moment, climbing up and down my ladder and putting his stuff in my cubbies. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She indicated a fuel drum by the wall and a box of matches. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no shame in a pine box,” I told them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Grab some frames from the hive boxes over there and help me load the uncapper, I guess.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We open boxes until we find her basketball. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had left the lid of the box on the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment he came up again, carrying a small oak box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Good Ivan, good boy,” Maya says when I lumber into my box. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The faded things which we see today bear no relationship to the bright tapestry which made the Justice Room a painted box. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed into the front, Bud carrying his black satchel, an overnight bag, and a large cardboard box. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was one of those strange wooden boxes hanging from the corner of her ceiling? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mark spared a last glance at the menacing, almost magical items shining inside the box, then took off to catch up with the man. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was a cloudy day, typical Indiana: the kind of weather that boxes you in. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He steps away and grabs a handful of Kleenex from a box on the kitchen table. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, he is huffing and puffing as he pushes a gigantic wooden box. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He rushed to the press box to administer some image control but met a hostile audience. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box had some kind of images on the side. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She quickly reached over and picked a cigarette out of the porcelain box, but didn’t prepare to light it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg suggested they find some string to tie up the boxes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The thing was ancient, a beat-up silver box, but it worked. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The gift I ordered for you did not come in time for the Christmas box. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Most of our boxes can’t be opened by anyone not previously authorized for access. Actually, all of our boxes are like that—except this one.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They passed a glass box of broken puppets, and an overgrown golden music box in a glass case. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Prisoners in some facilities would be placed in a "sweatbox," a casket-sized hole or a box situated where the inmate would be forced to endure extreme heat for days or weeks. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Francis kept watch while Henry and I went up to the attic and searched through broken lamps, cardboard boxes, ugly Art I oil paintings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It is only a small box I wish to solder, not Pharaoh’s throne.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Oliver and Laney stood at the bottom of the stairs watching Mama’s parade of boxes pile up along the hallway. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The shoe box passes between our hands, and the man looks confused. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Every window on its facade has been broken but the walls are hardly scorched; two of its wooden flower boxes hang on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I ate half of the box on the way to school and shared the rest with the girls and teachers I liked. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

"You know I hate being inside boxes. I'm going to see if I can ride on top of the roof." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I pulled off the lid and picked up the small, oval-shaped yellow box that sat on top. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His arms had always been strong from his youthful devotion to boxing and swimming and were now further maintained by the effort required to move around by cane. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Misfortune, oh, say, like opening up a box that you think contains forty-eight water bottles, only to find that it’s full of ÁguaViva independent multi-tiered distributor brochures instead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You still keep a chequebook in the glove box?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine-looking box, no doubt, but many of those assembled here in the Old Palace of Sunspear might soon be dead, depending on what was in that chest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He tucked the boot box under his arm and ran like he had never run before. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mom poured a box of corn bread mix into a bowl along with eggs and milk. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

They carefully covered the boxes with sand and seaweed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Some thief organization begins to pay us to hide things in our shoe-shine boxes. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled my eyes at him and grabbed the next box—Froot Loops. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“We pult it off, the company was kind ’nough to notify our families and supply each one of ’em with a great big crispy piece of meat in a box for burying. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the last day Frodo was alone with Bilbo, and the old hobbit pulled out from under his bed a wooden box. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Susana plucks some dangly earrings and a heap of gold and red beads and a long ribbon from her jewelry box and sets them on top of the wardrobe. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Alan reaches us, I take a box of shoes and two mobile phone boxes from him to stack on top of my stuff. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for Ruby to trumpet with joy, but instead she just stares at the box in silence. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Lena takes a sip from her juice box. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When he had taken his customary seat underneath the press box for the game, he privately believed it would take a miracle for Odessa High to win. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thumbed through the Reader’s Digests and found a stack of National Geographies from the 1960s, but the box was covered in so much dust that I knew Margo had never been inside it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was cluttered with a random assortment of boxes and barrels and bags: things he had taken from travelers, probably. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We did an hour of exercise, some combination of roadwork, skipping rope, calisthenics, or shadow boxing, followed by fifteen minutes of body work, some weight lifting and then sparring. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her were two small bags and a cardboard box messily bound with twine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After gazing awhile at this vivid botanical presence, Chapter Eleven pulled the box from under the bed and opened it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For example, consider a system of gas molecules in a box. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without feeling in the box she knew he wasn’t there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

While I was away, I had scoured every video store within a hundred miles until I’d found the complete box set of The Honeymooners. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Because he doesn’t want me to have to ship you back to him in a pine box.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Four hours later, Miss Celia walks in with five big boxes stacked on top of each other. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In early April a long letter arrived in Franz’s post-office box bearing a South Dakota postmark. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Marie up front, slapping fresh hot pies into boxes and slicing them, and I claim the order, even though it’s not my turn. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That music box played a very particular tune,” the man in the yellow suit went on. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Mom hung up her suit, and I put all your notes in the box under my bed and didn’t look at them anymore. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Toby held the Lunchables high above his head, trying to block their punches while still keeping the boxes high enough. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, at least you’re taking it out on the box and not that guy’s face,” Mr. Shephard says when he comes into the room. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

When I reached our floor and went inside our new place, our second in about a month, it got me down to see it full of boxes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Before they could run off, Luke grabbed the boxes and tossed them to Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I wish to catch his attention. I think I shall open the box and hold up the gemstone so it will sparkle as we dance around him.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“You are in the presence of a lady,” he said, lifting a wooden box out of the suitcase. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She reached again for the first Nike box and opened it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He had a small box in his hand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got there just in time to see her standing in the doorway, reaching for the box of jars and accidentally touching Nathan’s hand. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The only humans Hazel could see were some black-suited security women patrolling the catwalks, and some men in orange jumpsuits, like prison uniforms, driving forklifts through the aisles, delivering more pallets of boxes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Pictures of all the people I’ve known since kindergarten, who look so obviously different from me that sometimes I feel like I’m a pencil in a box of crayons. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Three fine needles of whalebone, an awl for making holes, a good stone knife for scraping hides, two cooking pots, and a small box made from a shell with many earrings in it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two years now I’d kept these things of hers inside a tin box, buried in the orchard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Placing the box on the counter, he handed the man a ball-point pen, Snuffy made a shaky X, and Nick wrote in his name. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles was already good friends with one of the Wedgwood children, Hensleigh, the juggler of children and boxes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone put a coin in the boom box. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He plucked a rusty metal box off the pile of goods and set it aside. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I break away and say, “The fact that you’ve brought me this box is help enough.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, I get the box and put it up to my ear and tilt it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Here in this box is a fist-deep wealth of old memories. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kids ripped open their boxes, checked the contents, tossed them behind their chair, then attacked another. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He waded ashore shivering and coughing and wrapped himself in a blanket and sat in the warm sand in front of the fire with the boxes beside him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were meetings, which made him feel boxed in and claustrophobic. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching for his magnifying glass, he held it over the top of the box. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m lucky if I get more than a single bowl out of a box if it’s the kind Mustafa likes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He's going: "Hey you, Doofus! Yeah, you with the hairy face, take it easy with that box. That box contains a computer, you know what a computer is?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I yawned and stirred, as if about to turn over, and edged my foot under the box. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lynn and I climbed on a ladder to the top of the roof with two boxes of Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Eight boxes only out of the nine, which we sought! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Buddy ran to a wooden box and shoved it quickly in front of a gaping hole in the molding and then backed again to the door, holding the skillet ready. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were real grown-up lunch boxes, proof that we had risen to the status we had looked forward to for so long. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After trying it on, she’d put the box away under her chair, not noticing the smaller box lost among the tissue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped the map and keepsakes back into the Lucky Bill box. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Luma spent Christmas visiting her players’ families and delivering boxes of food. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She takes all three boxes and lines them up on her desk. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Just then, the lights blinked: Annette and Renee were at the door, bringing glad tidings of box office and bake sales. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a whole box of dusty mason jars in the shed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Stereotypes. You have to learn to think outside the box,” said the bearded man. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And while hammers pounded and sawdust filled the air, Milton acquainted himself with the papers and deeds Lefty had haphazardly kept in a cigar box beneath the register. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Franny, at this point, reached rather blindly, but soundlessly, for the box of Kleenex on the marble coffee table. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You know what we saw on that Berg? The boxes of darts? There’s no way those people went to all that trouble to do a flyby flu ambush.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The words on the screen were small, confined to a tiny text box in the corner of the browser, but somehow they seemed to swallow the room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Lucky,” Theresa said, “that my cats are in a box.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women sat on kitchen chairs, dining-room chairs, stools and upturned wooden boxes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug Papá’s map and the envelope with my earrings out of the glove box and stuffed them into my bag. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I slapped the lid back closed and dumped the box into the trash can. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a magic museum,” I say, admiring an antique lacquered box with swords sticking out of its sides. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It would be like stepping back into a box I was lucky enough to break out of. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, we picked four alarm boxes around town. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was stuffy and cluttered, yet nobody could say it was uncomfortable; there were soft chairs and footstools, drinks and books, boxes of chocolates and plump cushions. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Bryce went out to work and Sarah Ruth spent the day in bed, holding Edward in her lap and playing with a box filled with buttons. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Eventually, someone brought out a decades-old boom box, and even the kids with guitars stopped playing in deference to the Beach Boys. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We could not expect Santa to give us anything if we only put our tattered, abandoned toys in the giveaway box. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ruiz and Mrs. Moore, sitting in the sound box on the second level, run the music once again. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But I can’t put the pieces together because I don’t know what the picture on the box is. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

While kids were having fun enjoying the summer, I was packing my clothes and belongings into boxes and wondering where we were going to end up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Elena? Take my box to the end of this row, little one.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But I had something even better—checks, which automatically counted as exactly as much money as you wrote in that little box. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The old men were still playing dominoes, sitting on plastic milk crates, but the song on the small box had changed. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I quickly touch my favorite charms: Star of David on my left wrist, then Union Jack flag, teacup, and blue police box on my right. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I found her in her room, digging in a little box like a squirrel looking for nuts. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The words from the box flashed through Mark’s head and he tried to relax. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Chas collected twenty dollars from everyone and put the money in the chip box. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Up in the press box, a San Francisco News reporter typed out the story. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold the box in front of me with the long side almost touching my stomach. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I reach down and pick up a box. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He'd said, Noodles wasn't the kind of kid he wanted to teach something like boxing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The kindly stationmaster walked over to one of the boxes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, hanging over the sofa, was a big version of the painting on his box. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I opened a box where some of my books were and found The Stranger. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was tired of sleeping in a box. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Who knows,” she says, turning back to her boxes, “if the storm gets worse, you may even finish the whole book.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Next to the pile are boxes of what looks like ammunition. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the cart would be a tank, as he passed cautiously through rows of armed cling peaches and silent sentinels that looked like boxes of Frosted Flakes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the box with the turtle to Webb’s. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The skies started to brighten as I unwrapped an elegant wooden box. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The attendant was passing from table to table with his box of money, accepting payment for bills. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it must be that—what else could be important enough to lock up in a fancy box?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of that special scrap, Kira went to the carved box, unfolded the bit of cloth, and put it in her pocket. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking into a general store, the marshal went over to a large red box and pulled back the lid. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reeled back to his box and sat down to a chorus of catcalls. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw up afterward, but I did eat ten and I won first prize—five boxes of Finkles to take home with me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we opened the boxes up, we found a payload of raunchy, orangey red T-shirts faded out in places and with the odd ripped seam adding character. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When she came down from the doctor’s office she stopped for a moment at Bell’s candy store and bought a two-pound box of mixed chocolates. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they had a lot of cups made, Sissy drew a heart on the box cover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanca made her all sorts of soothing teas and warm baths, and Esteban resorted to the old box of homeopathic pills to calm her down, but her nightmares continued. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt boxed in by the town and by neighbors who didn’t approve of her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I just got a fresh box of Noodle-o-Pak,” he said, smiling. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The top shelf holds the biggest boxes, encased in glossy wrappers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He merely takes a box out from one of the drawers in his desk and opens it up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grapefruit box was at the end of the bed, and Eleanor knew before she reached for it that it would be light as air. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He had been trembling so much when he handed her the small box he’d wrapped it in. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a tray that held hooks, rolled fishing line, a rusted pair of scissors, a pocketknife, and a box of Band-Aids. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Stanley got his box of stationery and a pen out of his crate. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I am trying to open this box with a little ceremony.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was a large box camera with an accordion apparatus for the lens, unwieldy and as heavy as a stone around his neck, and he disliked it thoroughly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Up she went to the third floor with the box in her arms. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The sound of the pistol shot hung in the box for several seconds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, Marta led me upstairs, to a big box that held moving pictures of flashing lights and colors. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She approached the box, hooked eight front claws onto the rim board, and pulled herself in. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ford and I pick up each box and give it a tiny shake, trying to guess what’s inside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the crowd, a single boom box was playing the Beatles’ Abbey Road album, Rain’s favorite. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The postal, box near school has a sign on it that says mail pickups are every day at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Neither Harrison nor I knew enough about boxing to deceive even a child for a moment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Across the street, Nicole was leaning against an ad box that featured seasonal fare from Whole Foods, the prettiest pumpkins you’ve never seen in real life. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There are two spacious rooms, flaking plaster walls, scuffed parquet floors, towering stacks of boxes he has not yet bothered to unpack. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the cinnamon box and fetched the letter. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor’s office. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one they climbed into the truck and opened lunch boxes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alex fluffs his curly hair and then throws in a little beat box. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

At 10 A.M. we sat on top of the huge engine box in the middle of the boat and had lunch. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Boy, hush. We boxed. Didn’t have your fancy equipment, either. Knuckles and heart was all we had, knuckles and heart.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was not an empty seat except in the President's box. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A month after we buried him in the coffin box, the U.S. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We just finished eating the second box of corn flakes this morning,” Claudia informed him. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the fellow began to pick the box the people begin to come from east, west, north and Australia. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“No, like all scabby and gross. She was biting an old rope. She tried to make me stick my hand in some box.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I took a box of matches and set fire to the fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I still have that postcard in my keepsake box in the back of my closet. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then another front leg, then hindquarters, and then the box was empty, nothing but a metal shell with a couple of fake human legs attached. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

That was a run-around freedom that seem faraway to me now—freedom to make your plan, drum on the shocshine box, earn a little money, buy a chicken, read the papier. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined standing in front of a firing squad or on a wooden box with a noose around his neck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They fit perfectly—clearly two halves of the same box. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never said there was water in that box. You just assumed.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every year around this time we put boxes of Thanksgiving food together for the people in town who can’t afford it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He’s got boxes of them upstairs, eleven years’ worth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Donal was off, carrying the metal box of pig remains, and the smell gradually followed him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A shiny silver contraption emerges from the box. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up one end of the toy box and tipped all the toys in it out onto the carpet, where they grumbled and stretched and wiggled awkwardly free of each other. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Some folks are unloading gallons of water from their cars; others, zombielike, instead of waving or saying hello when we pass by, keep staring at baby TVs or listening to boom box radios. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Even the moist and uncomfortable creatures in the lunch pail ceased to exist, for the little red metal flag was up on the mail box, signifying that some postal matter was inside. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pink and silver boxes, colored pantyhose, brassieres with lace, silk scarves? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind each door there were staggering supplies of candy: giant boxes of Mars Bars, Hershey’s Kisses, Snickers, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Jolly Ranchers, and huge, squirming nests of Gummi Worms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Conveyor belts wound through the room like waterslides, carrying boxes in every direction. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And in the center was a new set of nested boxes, inscribed with a splendid floral design. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Good evening, birthday girl,” he said, handing me a small box with a bow. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he pushed the box through the opening and said, “This was a cake, before—” But he couldn’t finish. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured at the misshapen pottery box on the ground, badly dented from its fall. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, like half of it was in a box of shredded wheat.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As they danced in the circle and music played, Spurge lifted the metal box hanging around his neck so he could expose the gemstone to the sun. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The rest of us loaded our arms with old newspapers, excelsior and packing boxes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ominously, there were many cobwebbed boxes piled on a table where Harry was clearly supposed to sit; they had an aura of tedious, hard, and pointless work about them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I slide the box out of the bag. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

All the hues of the rainbow were gathered together in that box. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bunker walls were there in the light and the boxes and crates. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I close a filled box and begin filling another. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He tried to follow the action, but he kept thinking about the day he and James found the boxing and wrestling magazine on the street. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearby gym was occupied by fellows either practicing basketball or boxing calisthenics and the walls echoed with thuddings, bouncings and whistles blowing, like a grotesque sound track. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end I bought a small carton of milk and a box of cornflakes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That box gave me a chance to look useful, to stay alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He removes only Poppet’s white glove, placing it in his coat pocket, and returns the box to the tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He steps away from his desk and over boxes to reach me in the aisle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down to the concession stand and bought three boxes of nachos and a diet coke for Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then one of Gus’s brothers-in-law brought up a boom box and they played this song Gus had picked out—a sad and quiet song by The Hectic Glow called “The New Partner.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria just forgot there was another box in the back, and you got a slice of cake from your friend anyway. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

These boxes show up in every area of my life, even in a theater class where the whole point is to play a role, to become something imagined. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s in here,” she said, holding the box out dramatically until they had all gathered around. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes scan all the boxes, the list of each of our tasks. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She staggered into the gray zone, carrying boxes of supplies, and felt a sweeping adrenal rush, and thought, I’m too young to be going through this. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops were still there, standing by this kid Charlie, who was holding a large box. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kids who throw food at each other in the lunchroom while they sip on juice boxes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And then she carefully opened another box and pulled out what looked to be five or six dead foxes with open beady eyes, limp paws, and fluffy tails. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room was a boxing ring, its white canvas floor stained and lumpy. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hint, a surmise, a doubt as to what might be in the box, would destroy him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In front of Mrs. Watson’s house, there are three cars with boxes and suitcases on the roofs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of this dude Yogi Laser I read about who holds the record for having the fastest time to cram into a box. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Harry had torn open the parcel to find a thick, hand-knitted sweater in emerald green and a large box of homemade fudge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But fear not, if you received this lovely little box, your name will pop up…I promise. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The woman at the box office sells you a ticket, rips it in half, and hands you the stub. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tobias approaches a small metal box on the right side of the gate and opens it, revealing a keypad. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Papa said, “It’s not much of a tree, just an old box elder snag. There’s not a limb on it.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flipped open the box lid and lifted the gun out. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We came in, Mrs. Baker dropped some money into the offering box, and we walked down the main aisle. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Thick sparkling ribbons from the gift-wrap box crisscross the ceiling. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you notice that a new box of Honey Crunchers magically appeared in your closet whenever the old box was almost empty?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Romero's brother, holding the bull's horn in one hand, the knife in the other, looked up at the President's box. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing, Mom said I could use her hat box. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She tilted the round thing backwards and forwards, and in the sunlight the disc and its letters went careering madly inside the box. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He dropped nickels in twenty boxes all over town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That boom box was a lifeline to a world beyond Chisamba Singles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We boasted a single punching bag and a few pairs of boxing gloves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ohio State had a box on page 1. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them were wagons full of boxes and bags—powder and balls and such, I figured. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the tangle of balled-up socks and dust and ratty magazines sat the Converse shoe box—the glimmer of red star on the lid, the march of thick blue letters along the side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear my grandmother make a sound, but the box is definitely out of reach now. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Jess lay on her bed and looked through the shoe box of memories she kept on the top shelf of her closet. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I hobble to the kitchen and pull out the medicine box. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jordan lifted up the corner of the box and peered inside. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had made her a small box with a tight fitting lid, its top and sides intricately carved in the pattern of the plants she was beginning to learn and to know. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of rings indicated the location of the alarm box. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A call goes up through the congregation and two of the brothers do a shuffling dance down the center aisle, a wooden box containing a snake in each of their hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The old man waved Hugo’s box of matches in the air. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

We made Ruth May stand in one spot, and chased the chickens back into the nest box to roost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our throats and voice boxes, formed from the same instructions, press air out in similar tones and decibels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Surely with the target, which stands alone as an object, unlike the long box at the top, particularly when its hinged door is closed. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder told Petra about his box, explaining the reason he happened to be looking at the book. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you get the banana to float in a perfect vacuum in the center of the box, you can’t stop the wiggling entirely, because dancing particles give off light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have to retrieve a box of shrimp from the walk-in, and I stop for a second once the door closes behind me, and I breathe. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

We unpacked our boxes and went to bed. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was a brass box, its vacuum maintained by the usual liberal applications of sealing wax. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Metal boxes cover the tabletop: tubes, coils, switches, meters, at least one gramophone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Clutching my bundle, I fled down the hall to the cellar, tripping over newspapers and boxes in my haste. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

If the cards went into the barn boxes, mice might chew them up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You only asked for the box, honey,” she said with a smile. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But then why would it have been kept in this beautiful box?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lift a box from under my chair. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she made her way over to a metal box fixed to the wall near the front door and hidden behind a thick, dusty curtain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The box with the baits was under the stem of the skiff along with the club that was used to subdue the big fish when they were brought alongside. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way he was sticking his hand in her weird box. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was a little worried about opening the box, though, because at this point, I didn’t know what to expect from her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

From the corner of her eye she sees Iluminada enter with a box of matches on a small silver tray. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

You cannot shield the banana from the box or the tweezer or the coil; the shield, too, is wiggling and radiating. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As I was putting it in the out-of-town mail slot, I saw Bunny across the room, his back to me, scanning the row of numbered boxes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Other boxes are specially designed for owls and for bats, so that these creatures may take over in the dark hours the work of insect hunting performed in daylight by the small birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Thrown off-balance, Booth got tangled in the framed portrait of George Washington hanging on the front of the box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed the downy chick in the box and hurriedly climbed to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Next to the grass is a Telmex phone box on a pole. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He stayed there longer than was necessary, crouched over the dense fermentation that was coming out of the wooden box until habit told him that it was time to start work again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He opens the door under the sink and pulls out a new box of cereal from behind the bag that stores all the other plastic bags. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As they walked through the crowded streets of Tenebrion, Spurge clutched the stone’s box close to his chest and wrapped both arms around it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“We promised. And anyway, there are some boxes you aren’t supposed to open,” he said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before I put all the photos away in what had now become Caitlin’s box, I selected the photo of her wearing the big straw hat. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Up in the Howard box, Marcela’s eyes opened and filled with tears. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, taking the box from him because I could open it faster. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he shifted the box to his own back, regardless of the best robe he wore, and she, still speechless, took the handle of the basket. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo peered at the box of Players No. 6. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His duplex had changed since the last time she was here, and it was more than just the box of Fisher-Price toys in the living room and the makeup in the bathroom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The echoes came back in waves, like a pebble rolling round a box, and from the wood across the river came the clattering of wood pigeons’ wings among the branches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the Reverend hands me a box, wrapped in white paper, tied with light blue ribbon, same colors as the book. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Puzzling over everything she’d just learned, Emily walked into their kitchen to find her mom knee-deep in shopping bags and cardboard boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine it with all of the boxes and junk gone, and set up like the Hideout. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

While using my empathy box, like everyone else. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I take half the peanut butter sandwich off the plate and keep my eye on the box. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The elf obediently took the boxed cup, and Hepzibah turned her attention to the much flatter box in her lap. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In a moment he had wiped the sleep from her eyes and put it back into the box. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the top, I could see the sprawl of people selling oranges, avocados, packets of nuts on brightly colored pieces of material or small cardboard tables made from overturned boxes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The T-shirt inside had the word “Freddie” above the box from the periodic table that contains the atomic symbol Hg. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Said he: “No mules would I deny you, child, nor anything. Go along, now; the grooms will bring your gig with pretty wheels and the cargo box upon it.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew from inside his cape a small heavy box about the size of a schoolbook and handed it ceremoniously to Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told her about Beans’s party and the night they came for him in his bed and led him to the railroad station and the boxes of birds. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

With my foot, I pushed the box back underneath and closed the cupboard door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They all have a good cry till a red-haired woman passes a little box around. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The hat was wrapped in tissue and put in a box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he grabs the box of Kleenex, reaches across the space between the seats, and puts a hand on G’ma’s back. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I rummaged around the rest of the office until I found the right-size box. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I make an origami frog for Richard and put it on top of his box. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, Dad has me flatten a stack of empty boxes while he puts the books on the bookshelves. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Each box represents a group of songs that can be sung in pairs as partner songs, or even layered as three or more songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He looked into the box stall and then stepped back quickly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the sketchbook on my lap and open my new box of colors. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I see a box tucked in the corner. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She put the lid back on the raven and turned the box around to inspect it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He would’ve stacked boxes, books, and file folders to block it. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a Kleenex from a box beside her bed and blew her nose, wiped her eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I sit up, grabbing a folded-paper box sitting there, tied with a red ribbon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There were empty boxes for hide-and-seek, there were walls to climb, tin cans to roll, and pieces of twine to tie and swing on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I brought you something,” Ronan says, holding the box out to Henry. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Even on the island, I attempted to follow my old boxing routine of doing roadwork and muscle-building from Monday through Thursday and then resting for the next three days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bounced Guzzo with his shoulder and they went at it for a few seconds, trying to get position on each other, get a leg in front, and box the other one’s back. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Katie,” Bud called, “go get me a pack of cigarettes from the silver box on the coffee table in the den.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning down, she peered into her old nest and walked far back into the cozy box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Crates, boxes, luggage, and provisions lined the quays. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I don't have a box to hide my emotions the way Shoji does. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My mom holds the box in her hands. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They looked in every corner, under the bed, and even inside the cardboard box. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The lady with the torch'd be going up and down the aisles putting popcorn cones and Fruit Gum boxes and empty Malteser bags into a bin bag. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. Wardak sighed, like she didn’t have the energy to argue that normal humans liked their presents pebble-free, and in boxes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He splashed through the fallen feathers, which were deepest here in the territory between the shooter and the white box, like October leaves. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Got something for us,” Mom says, carrying out the box I found when I first pried the shed open. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I was nearly out of stove fuel and down to a single chunk of cheese, my last package of Ramen noodles, and half a box of Cocoa Puffs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now she wondered what had been in that box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Get ten thousand in 5 and 10 bills and put it in a shoe box. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She felt fear for the first time and backed into the comer of the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I settled back on my haunches, the box slipping from my hand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Fie scrambled to gather up the other cassettes he kept in the glove box. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m cleaning out the boxes and labeling them.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Find the letter in the box marked: El amor y la fe. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The nun’s blood arrived at the C.D.C. in glass tubes in a box lined with dry ice. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not even remember that he was middleweight boxing champion. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Everything is changing so fast, and after our fight at the movie theater, I don’t know how Mom would react if she found out the box is here, in my room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of a Saturday, its cash box was filled with greenish pennies. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stacked up the playing cards and slipped them back into the box. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I move a box of oatmeal and a carton of bread crumbs to get to the candy stash. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Candice quickly snapped pictures of all the photos, then placed the frames back in the boxes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had his boxes of specimens to analyze, and he had questions, thoughts, and ideas exploding inside of him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alighting on the box, he was met by Oksi’s two yellow feet and black talons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I cracked open my art box and dug for the turquoise pencils. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cooke hands me the box of tissues. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The box had brass hinges and a clever latch. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The ogre disappeared, and Oksi came to the edge of the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He shielded the glare of it with his hand and when he did he could see almost to the rear of the box. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I double-check that Zack packed the box up correctly and discover he had included three bags of marshmallows and no green beans. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She puts a shoe box on Clay’s desk. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I took a seat on one of the benches and looked around at the boxing gloves and soccer balls and every other kind of sports equipment. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Lee went to the kitchen and brought back a big cardboard box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nimbly they ran to push the fir pole high and step it firm amidships in the box, make fast the forestays, and hoist aloft the white sail on its halyards. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry Sneider, Fischer’s former physical trainer, accompanied Ellsworth to the auction and Sneider’s son subsequently traveled to Budapest with twelve boxes of material. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward I tell Michael he looks like a pear even though he looks more like a kid in a squished cardboard box. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and me smell roses as soon as she opens the box. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the taxicab station for Jericho, Father bought a box of marshmallow-chocolate mounds. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was crowded with abandoned quills, a rusty tinder box, and a few coins and pound notes, which I was sore tempted to take. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rooted for a moment in a box and brought out a paperback called Eight Bullets, which she passed to me for examination. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once the gemstone is taken out of its protective lead-lined box, it’s ready to blow up. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

So she set aside the box and the books, and carefully put everything else back in the garbage bag. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"I guess you read a lot," he said, digging through the open boxes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the doorknob and take one last look at the empty box covered with stamps from Madagascar. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The stupid sticks won’t go in the box and I snap several in my frustration. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In another article in Ahmad’s box, a young Mujahid was saying that the Soviets had dropped gas on his village that burned people’s skin and blinded them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jay came in from washing more bottles and placed the box of empties on the table next to where I was working. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The usher pulled back the curtain of the box to reveal a boy her age already sitting there. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But then she put on three boxes of tinsel, one strand at a time, so that the entire tree was under a silver veil. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Since the day of the mystery boxes, I keep thinking about how good it felt to do something right. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

So lifting these boxes was probably getting pretty hard for him. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then something on the counter caught his eye: an open box of birthday candles. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She bent down, and as the other two watched her, began rummaging in a small wooden box that lay at her feet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She uses the Monopoly box as a table. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t have a litter box in her room?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It showed a beagle holding a box of chocolates and said You’re my favorite treat dispenser. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mine look like they just came out of the box—I like things neat. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Would you like to take the box to bed? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know those games on the back of cereal boxes, where the letters stand for numbers? What does every code need in order to be cracked?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The boxes will come later. That takes more time.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

From railings in front of the boxes hung triangles of silk embroidered with gold arabesques, all glowing with the light of adjacent incandescent bulbs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the boxes beside most of the names there was a check indicating that they had been to at least one session. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Virgo cluster is already the richest collection of galaxies known, replete with spirals and ellipticals and irregulars, a jewel box in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zach has his game face on from the moment he walks into the auditorium, like he is first man up in the order and about to dig his spikes into the batter’s box. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She then reached in, pulled out an identical decoy box filled with real vitamin tablets, and offered some to her children, who accepted eagerly. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama hangs up the phone and reaches past me for the tissue box on the side table. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Could she bury some boxes in one of the cacao fields in back of their old house? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the landing was a steep set of steps, sort of like a ladder, covered almost completely with boxes and old bolts of fabric, that must have led up to an attic. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It took time to find it all as a few of the boxes had fallen out of the damaged fuselage and the rear cockpit, which Julie had left open, of course. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He just got in the car with the summer people, stopping only to snag a box of cookies from the pantry. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I know where it is, folded up in a box in her closet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She also bought boxes of used high heels that she called her dancing shoes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In another cupboard are a box of tea bags, Peek Freans shortbread biscuits, a five- pound bag of sugar that has not been poured into a bowl, a tin of evaporated milk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was transferred onto a specially designed thick mattress nestled atop a box full of cushions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Get the money from the safe-deposit box and pay my medical bills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a full box of Cheerios yesterday, but David eats huge soup bowls of cereal for breakfast. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I see it at the same time she does—the blue velvet box in the center of the silver platter, right between the tarts. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The others crowded around me, boxing me in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Smiling as he did whenever he was about to reveal a wonderful secret, Father struck a match and put it to the top of the second white box. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were crates and boxes stacked in one corner, and along the wall behind us hung rusted tools. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Go put this in the donation box by the walking sticks,” Mom tells him. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I heard his mother tell my mother that she has to buy industrial-sized bottles of bleach and boxes of detergent in bulk at the buying club. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace was crying now, too, and Maya pushed the tissue box toward her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He reached into the box and pulled out—I am not making this up—a perfect new white baseball. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I ran to my laboratory and got my metal detector out of its box in the closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Banner was walking around the room, distributing one microscope and box of slides to each table. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And while the loud bee hummed in the coil box Adam cranked the Ford and ran to advance the spark and throw the switch to Mag. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry tore his eyes away from the sign and looked over his shoulder to see who else was sharing the box with them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I’m finally cried out, he gets up to give me a box of tissues and waits as I blow my nose. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

TaShon tilts, almost throws the axe on top of the high box. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She slid an old jewelry box across the table towards me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“You can pick any assortment you like or buy a special box complete with all letters, punctuation marks, and a book of instructions. Here, taste an A; they’re very good.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She puts another folded box on the pile. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Had Jean Harlow been dancing stark naked around the sixteenth pole, the press box could not have cleared out any faster. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watches Bryce and Aurora as they scoot around with their cardboard boxes yelling, “Zoom!” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a black box with a point on it that turned in a circle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a star in a box on his sleeve because he was a major. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cutting was in a small airtight box with some soil, still a little damp. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once I’d finally swatted it close enough to grip, I pulled the raggedy box from under the bed frame and set it on the mattress. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I go through the trash carefully, using an old cereal box to push through the mucky parts. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“As I was about to explain, the only good thing in the box was Hope, and that is why, even though there are many evils in the world, there is still a little hope.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps when the boxes were opened and they flew into the sky over the soccer field, they were not trying to fly away at all. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I would not, but still I check the box that says yes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

So was the second, but in the third he found something valuable: a mess tin and a box of matches. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She got the eggs and juice out of the refrigerator and the bread out of the bread box. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I put the ammunition in my pack, careful not to disturb the small box wrapped in a cloth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of daddy longlegs spiders live in the utility boxes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I sit by myself in the back of the car, among the suitcases and the cardboard boxes of food and the coats, and the gassy dry-cleaning smell of the car upholstery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You can always use potato flakes. There’s a big box in the pantry,” Elizabeth jokes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The boom-box boy shook the dead box, and slapped it on the sides a couple of times. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“If you need help getting started”—she peered out of her white box at the class—“I am quite certain there are some students who would be happy to offer their assistance.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Constantine put the box top down and looked over the pieces again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He kept a question box outside his office door. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He stopped to shift the box in his arms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The brothers get out of the van and unload dollies and empty boxes and packing tape. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fernando crouches next to one of the beds and takes out a box. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Correction: she used to train them, which was pretty awesome, especially when you got to cowboy around the neighborhood or watch the Preakness from luxury box seats with unlimited Coke and shrimp. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I opened the wooden box that was up against the cliff wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She slides the box of tapes over to me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Harry said nothing but suddenly, beaming, he began rummaging around in a box, pulled out a large American flag, tacked it on the wall above the radio, and stood back to admire it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to cram the box furtively into my pocket, but I saw him glance at my hand in surprise. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cardboard boxes and plastic storage bins are stacked everywhere in haphazard piles. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z