He ran to a tree by the roadside and pulled a branch, tearing off the leaves and holding them close to his glass face mask. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Close to our ledge, a burning branch bounces off rock, falls. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There are scores and scores of his versions scattered about the room, myriad trunks of him, thistling branches, specied and catalogued, a thousand stills of him from every possible angle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plants blossomed in the thick black earth, sprawling out in all directions while trees—palm, oak, ash, and fruit-bearing ones of every variety—reached up into the misty heights, their branches draped with vines. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Conor could even see more berries growing from the branches at its elbows. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The boy grabbed her bow from the ground, took her hand, and pulled her toward the nearest tree, where he climbed to the first branch and hauled her up after. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A branch of the University of Texas was built and a new suburban-style mall opened, but the hearty, hair-trigger temperament of the place still remained intact. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Pinch jumped off a low branch and made a huge gash just over his eye. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They took the two straightest trees, hacked the limbs and branches from them, skinned off their bark, and split them, laying the logs in a square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the left branch is slender enough, it is generally understandable, albeit top-heavy, with all those words to parse before one arrives at the payoff. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The roots of her irritation were long and many branched and deep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found a place on a branch where I was comfortable and could watch the deer-lick. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few were uninhabited and gloomy-looking with dandelions overrunning the yard and limp gutters hanging loose from the weight of soggy old leaves and broken tree branches. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the woods give way to the clearing, I see paper lanterns hanging from tree branches, illuminating the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The balconies of the old buildings hung over my head like dark branches in an allegorical forest of evil. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing rigid, partially hidden by low branches, he was turning his head this way and that, as if he was searching for something. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Billiard room, billiard room,” Frankie muttered, glancing into the rooms that branched out from the main hall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The herons built huge ragged nests of sticks and trash and sat around in the trees all day long, fussing and staining the tree branches with their white droppings. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like a branch sank into my skin, then through the muscle, layer by layer. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cole flopped his head to the side and spotted a small caterpillar inching over a rotted branch. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The branches on the trees were being flung about by the wind, swaying toward her like bony fingers clawing at a small animal. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She hit the ground hard and lay there as broken branches and pinecones and needles showered down on top of her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got outside, I ran up into the woods, pushing tree branches and wild grape vines out of my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They made the walls with branches of trees and grass that they covered with mud, and the UN gave us a big piece of nylon fabric to use as a roof. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear thought that Min looked pleased for the briefest instant; then his usual cross expression returned as he took the branches. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

No record of how she felt when agents from the Bureau of Investigation—an obscure branch of the Justice Department that, in 1935, would be renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation—finally arrived in town. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After they had gone down a little, the cave divided, but the left branch was dark as pitch, so even Hodor knew to follow the moving torch to the right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They grew and grew, twisting and turning toward me, and too late I realized they were slender branches, thin itchy switches with barbed hooks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The boys filed into a line of customers waiting for a lift that would take them up through the lit branches of a banyan tree to the main entrance at the top of the building. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sunlight swallowed the feathery branches that had already lost their leaves. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Honest, it was this exact place, this leafy tree with the branches hanging down, and the creek nearby. What an odd thing, that it’s a real place.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wind howled, and branches scratched and clawed my face, but I pressed on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I take the lead and plunge back into the jungle, swatting bugs and branches out of my way. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I make my way in the dark, up the hill, sleet rustling around me, hauling myself up by branches and tree trunks, my shoes slipping on the packed icy snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The slope was littered with brittle dead logs and broken branches, the debris of many cold, windy winters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels dangerous, like the trees may start talking with gnarled wood mouths and reaching for her with twisted branch arms. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Jule leaps from the roof to the branches of a neighboring tree and breaks off a sharp stick to use as a weapon. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fragrance of the dry bush had been sharp and tangy, but as the green branches caught fire the sweet, spermy smell of the evergreen filled the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even the trees in dead center were near enough that the sea breeze could take the ball into their branches—if he could hit it high enough. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the steps there, I watched a green leaf drop down from one of the tree branches above me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The buffalo-headed man reached a hand into the fire, stirring the embers and the broken branches into a blaze. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They flew up and perched on the branches of the mango tree only a little distance away. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed up at the branches of the tree. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pop a few grapes in my mouth and hold out a study sheet dissecting the branches of the government. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Roots grabbed at Theon's feet as he ran, and bare branches lashed his face, leaving thin stripes of blood across his cheeks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The trail was littered with fallen branches and ripped apart by huge holes caused by the earthquake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

An icy splintering sound fills the room as cracks branch out from their point of impact. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It’s coming from the mouth of a small, crested black bird perched on a branch about ten feet over my head. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the same little notch must be used for divisions between branches of every size, whether it’s the end of a minor digression, the end of a major summation, or anything in between. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He never had to duck or push aside a stray branch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

No one had, and Lizzie slicked up the tree, her feet finding the branches easily. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The spiked branch barely brushed over the long spinal quills quivering along his arched back, and in my haste I let go of the stake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The paneling of this office once breathed the humid air of a Congolese forest, gave shelter to life, felt the scales of snake belly on its branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them that the white tigers had stalked me through the snow but that I had fought them off with burning branches, and my great-grandparents had come to lead me safely through the forests. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branch manager was a soft-spoken liberal Afrikaner. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for her pine branch and silently took to the air, not to disturb him but to see that he came to no harm. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed and held on to the branch. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The long sleeves keep getting caught on thorns and branches as I run through the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the river level drops, it exposes the lower branches of willows lining the banks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I knew I could not drag him up the slope to the shelter of the hut, so I tore off branches of sea grape and put them over his body. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find them jumping on the trampoline, daring each other to see who can touch the branches of the ceiba tree. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Dany squinted at them suspiciously, then plucked one from a branch and nibbled at it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Snow blanketed every rooftop and weighed on the branches of the stunted mulberry trees that lined our street. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most of our recruits were ANC members who were active in the local branches, but we found that once they were working for MK, they stopped doing the local work they had been performing before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gloom of the forest didn’t relent, though, for there were six primordial cedars that shaded an entire acre with their vast sweep of branches. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The witch turned away and bent to pick up the pine branch that lay on the ground beside her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

People stared at the destruction, and one group was loudly confronting a police officer who was trying to make sure no one got killed by falling branches. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a good idea to put branches over the mouth of the forest cellar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As the weeks passed, the piece of fabric on my branch drew many comments. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We cut some tamarisk branches for poles and dug worms for bait. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cannot light a candle on the Wishing Tree, though the wishes that hang on its branches continue to burn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A black vine that has grown branches through his legs and arms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those streets with trees on either side, their branches meeting high above like fingertips touching. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I dragged the branches to where my father worked on the platform. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twelve months at Head Office, we trainees were all sent away to various Shell branches in England to study salesmanship. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Securing herself to one of her fixed ropes, she crawled out along a horizontal branch, looking closely at all the flower heads she could find. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rani gives me a rope to tie myself to the branches. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He sweeps the branches away with a claw. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cheesethief ignored them as he moved among the bodies that had fallen from the high branches; four rats, a ferret, and one weasel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The leaves hung silently again on stiff branches. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When all her systems were up and running again, Roz noticed that she was surrounded by broken branches and piles of snow. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

With wire he securely tied some rafters across the top of the posts then we put the juniper branch roof on the platform. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed a slight hand into my hair, brushing the branches and leaves out of its length. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The executive branch of the government—Vice President Johnson and the cabinet—had survived the night; no other assassinations had occurred. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main sewer branched off, and Jemmy had to stop to get his bearings. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am looking ...” he said, brushing the sword aside as if it were a branch blocking his path. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Moving as fast as he could, Thomas crashed through the heavy foliage, thin branches slapping at his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They began to graze, and a few nibbled delicately at the low branches of the trees. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

High in the oak trees, stuffing themselves with acorns, the tubby young bears moved along the thinnest branches. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The stumps of its branches, which they had trimmed away, formed the rounds of the ladder they climbed to the top. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash and birch trees clustered on either side of the road, and birds flitted on the branches and twittered at Anya as she passed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He glanced over his shoulder at the ancient tree, which was still flailing its branches threateningly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Because I am pretty good at climbing trees and dropping myself down from the branches. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There they hung, three live men and one dead one, as the Lord of Light’s devout stacked split logs and broken branches under their feet, then doused the piles with lamp oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I made myself comfortable on a sturdy branch, my back to the trunk of the tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Waving life jackets and car tires and thick branches, they charge down the sand to attack us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hold up my hands in a gesture of surrender, and then hold out my hand—an olive branch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But when its teeth met the gnarled roots and twisted branches of the scrub trees, it was a different story. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then it became more subtle, minor disturbances :— a broken branch, a ring of flattened leaves — that I had to piece together to find a direction. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the knife and sliced off sliver after sliver of wood until the rest of the branches had been whittled into weapons. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi is brown, filled with leaves, branches, and pieces of folks’ lives. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But I stood very still, it landed on my finger, and I took it outside and put it on a branch of the tree in the schoolyard. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But when the sun sank low they would return, descending from the sky on night-black wings until every branch of every tree was thick with them for yards around. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When most of the others had settled down for the night, he suddenly began to leap about wildly through the branches. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He broke through the branches of an olive tree and tumbled onto the grass. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tree had two bodies—a man’s and a woman’s—dangling from the branches like too-heavy Christmas ornaments. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She floats down, like crystal light, and untangles me from the branch. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She sits on her branch some fifteen feet above him, swinging her leg and looking off over the field while she formulates the dare. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They settled upon every branch in the tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s insistence also had a collateral effect: one of the white computers in the branch, in the same limbo position as Katherine, had herself gone to Pearson to petition for a raise. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“In the afternoons—the sunny afternoons—you and Aron would part the branches and go inside—and no one could see you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After leaving the military, he went into the engineering and construction business in Colorado before branching into other industries, and eventually became a multimillionaire. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no answer in any of it—not in the boats lying on their sides, not in the white fir defeated by the snow or in the downed branches of the cedars. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It should have been a relief not to have branches tearing at his clothes and hair constantly, but now Finn felt too exposed. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Deep inside there was a hollow hall, raftered with dead branch and bramble, and roofed with the first leaves and shoots of spring. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As the rabbits came up by the hole inside the beech wood, a swift gust of wind passed through the leaves, checkering and dappling the ground beneath, stealing and giving light under the branches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ice, under the pale, strong sun, melted slowly on the branches and the trunks of trees. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And behold! there lay his weapon, but the blade was smoking like a dry branch that has been thrust in a fire; and as he watched it, it writhed and withered and was consumed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“But who sent the Iris- message? If Nico didn’t know I was there—” A branch snapped in the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s decided to open another branch of the Esther P. Marinoff for older children and he wants Natalie to be the first student.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towering black trees soared into the gloom, perfectly round and bare of branches, like monstrous hair follicles. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That branches, logs, parts of trees, were motoring towards them at some speed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rushed down the river but were suddenly turned by the rapids and hurled against some boulders, then became trapped under a tangle of vines and tree branches. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t going to leave him to eat her sukkah while she got branches for a sechach, the roof, so she brought him with her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Trying to jump up and hit this branch with his little crutch, and he's mad, hopping mad. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Another little boy had sworn that he'd seen the missing kid climbing the mango tree onto a branch out over the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The lantern threw her shadow up the hill, a black ghost attached to her feet, and she shivered as the wind came rattling through the pine branches. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound was a steady drip-drip from the branches of the trees. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He smelled pungent, and I could see impossibly long toes curled around my thigh, like I was a branch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The willow tree’s branches shifted in the soft breeze coming off the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Virgil perched on the highest branch of the tallest tree. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

If I could just get out a little farther, let the branch go and take one more step, I could almost touch the cloud. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But when I look through the apple branches—just the right way—it can look like he is in the orchard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When I have my breath and courage back, I continue up, branch after branch, until I’m standing with one hand reaching into the old hollow, groping around. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

His body was discovered two months later, snagged on branches in the little Linville River. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a sweat from fright, I rolled upon my back and stared into the branches above. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a temporary check, so the branch had broken, but it showed how close they were. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years ago she’d broken away from me, run off with her leash still attached and got it wrapped around a branch while trying to tree a squirrel. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Just then, there came the sounds of branches breaking and voices in the distance. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the trees the topmost branches are bare, the remaining leaves yellow, paper-thin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tree whose leaf umbrellas had curled around, under and over her fire escape had been cut down because the housewives complained that wash on the lines got entangled in its branches. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall pines pierced a pale morning sky, and a bunch of crows argued noisily in the top branches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A wind had picked up, fanning the flames; a huge branch toppled from far above and crashed through the canopy, throwing sparks everywhere until it finally hit the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The branches of the trees locked closely together, overhead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The bloated moon lurked above the tangled mass of branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

On its branches a few dead leaves hung silent and still. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That branch does not have enough blossoms. Why did you not bring more?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The girl pulls off a headdress of leafy branches and tosses it behind her without bothering to look where it falls. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above it swung a sign showing a picture of a falcon perched on a branch with a mouse in its beak. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the branches I can see the seal of the Capitol, which appears to be floating in the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I find a basswood tree, take out my knife, and cut off several branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they set him down on a low branch of a tree and watched the color return to his feathers. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Surrounding the main drawing are detailed sketches of twisting branches, capturing several different angles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I organized the construction of a litter out of branches, and we bore the great warrior home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And in addition to the branch in The Hague, where Vincent will be working, there are branches in Brussels, London, and New York. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I knocked twice and then put my hand back on the branch. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was fungus, too, issuing out of the cracks, and in the groin of a branch, in weird, spongy shapes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The broken branch snaps back up without her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t even allowed to tell her what branch of the military I am serving with. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Me, I like the fall,” Tony proclaimed, pretending the tree branch he’d swept up from the side of the road was a sword. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We always chose whistling pine because the branches were malleable, not as painful as the stiffer branches from the gmelina or the avocado. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I recall, in the orchard behind the house, orbs of flames rising through the black boughs and branches; they climbed, spirit- ous, and flickered out; my mother squeezed my hand with delight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But it was true, the priest that came with the first colonizers to the valley of El Puerto had raised a family, and it was the branches of this family that now ruled the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the fish hit he jerked them out quickly so they wouldn’t get tangled up in roots and dead branches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier I mentioned that holding the branches of a tree in memory is one of the two cognitive challenges in parsing a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now, after stretching his wings he retracts them again, stretches out his head, and waddles, making his tedious way up one branch and down another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wheeled around to look and, through a screen of branches, caught a flash of blurred movement—the hem of a white dress. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They took the DeSoto over snow-dazzled roads decorated with cracked and fallen branches and with the green twigs of cedars and hemlocks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He and his horse wandered about all day, bumping against branches, getting tangled in blackberry bushes, and rapidly losing their tempers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the crows seemed restless, lighting on first one tree and then another as if the branches were hot to the touch. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the charred wood from his hands and struggled over the tree, blindly fighting his way through its leaves and branches. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her eyes dragged across the trees and fixed on a large snake wrapped around one of its branches. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In spite of the severe repression, a number of new ANC branches sprang up in the Zeerust area, one of them having recruited about two thousand members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds move among the branches, and squirrels, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how one would go about acquiring industrial-strength blue dye,” she said, and then held a tree branch back for me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She stretched the sheet from the tree branch to the hive in the same way Petey had done back at the Chat ’n’ Chew. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She scrambled clumsily up the trunk and slung a leg over the branch below mine. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stella figured sticking those leaves back on the branches would be easier than trying to move the stuff in her head to the empty blue lines in her notebook. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We jump up and down, trying to touch the lowest branches on the ceiba tree. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She’d cover the pits with branches and leaves and wait for helpless victims to tumble to their doom. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the sunlight winking through the cedar branches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everything was falling apart, the treehouse branches snapping, the winds blowing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then Pima was dragging him up into the trees, scrambling through the whipping branches and the roar of the storm. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I get to dance Tinikling, a folk dance that mimics a tikling bird hopping between stems of grass and running over tree branches. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But Fina is already climbing into the low branches of the tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They hanged him from the branch of an oak tree with still two hours to go before afternoon prayer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty feet up with nothing to climb on except skinny branches and a rope ladder that looked to be holding on for dear life. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lie there for a while, breathing in the smell of the wild roses and looking up at the branches of the sycamore tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I heard a bone snap like a young branch. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

You can watch them again when we get to the branch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A goldcrest was swinging on a branch of the hedge. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Meera abandoned spear and net, jumped up, and grabbed the branch above her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was so lost in his thoughts, a low hanging branch smacked him hard in the forehead. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He began chewing it, branches, leaves, and all. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As we sped along, I occasionally saw the flash of miners’ lamps down branching tunnels, but it was too dark to see what they were doing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I knocked him on the head with a branch. And he was a much better man than poor old Agravaine, even if we have grown rheumaticky since those bright days.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a gift of blue behind the delicate branches of the cottonwoods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fought the evergreen for a better look, hampered more by his laughter than by the branches. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had that scar on her cheek to prove it, where she had run into a branch one summer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My heel had been injured after I’d climbed out on a branch over the electric fence and dropped back into 12. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Juniper is quite distressed. All her branches are turning yellow. The Council of Cloven Elders has revoked Grovers searchers license in absentia. Assuming he comes back alive, they will force him into a shameful exile.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ron asked, sticking his head through the branches. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“You’ll soon be comfortable, and if we must move, we can make a litter from branches and sling it between our horses.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Which was why I did not move when I felt a large, wet, sloppy plop drop down from the branches overhead. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I am wiping my forehead with the hem of my shirt, standing on a branch, when I hear the sound. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand Sparra warriors perched in the branches of trees all around the Abbey, waiting. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And, believing this, their sap began running, their buds grew fat, their branches suddenly burst forth into flowers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been terrible deaths, with bodies brought out strangled by vines or branches that had reached out malevolently around the throats and limbs of those who decided to leave Village. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ash shifted on the branch, feeling the tree move beneath her, and she wondered if she would see Sidhean that night. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barn was gone now and one year they had cut the hemlock woods and there were only stumps, dried tree-tops, branches and fire- weed where the woods had been. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So Will watched as the flames roared along the resinous twigs, and with streaming eyes and scorched hands he adjusted each fresh branch till the heat was focused as Iorek wanted it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon the trees would be left naked, their branches like skeletons revealed against the sky. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the tree split in four directions, each branch thicker than both of Emily’s legs put together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I counted my way around that circle of branches like numbers on the face of a clock, slowly, one deep breath for each number. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she takes hold of the branch with both hands and slides off it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was the branch she had pushed to get in. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

His face was in the pine needles where he could smell all the tree, from roots deep in the damp earth to the moonlight blue branches, the highest tips swaying in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there clumps of snow fell from the branches, but otherwise there was no sound or movement. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

While rolling in our overlarge campfire, the draccus had scattered burning branches around the top of the hill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Below them, Petra held tight to a low- lying branch with a precarious crack in it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When it came to the final join, Will’s head was ringing, and he was so exhausted by the intellectual effort he could barely lift the next branch onto the fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The few leaves that dangled from the branches were brown and dead. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Snow slid off the branch and fell with a soft plop. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Any sign of danger, a distant howl, the inexplicable break of a branch, sent me flying back to the fence at first. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then she had loosened the earth and weeded with Mama’s big moose antler hoe and her own smaller hoe carved from a crooked tree branch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Although not seriously hurt, he jumped fearfully from branch to branch and fluttered out of reach, then farther, farther away, until he was lost from view. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

As a precaution, I remove my belt, loop it all the way around the branch and my sleeping bag, and refasten it at my waist. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A sister branch, Stability and Control, developed the systems that would provide a plane with a smooth ride through rough air. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

From there the black branches stretch onto the subsequent pages, tying together lines that form letters and symbols, each page almost completely covered in ink. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The branches were empty of birds but still had many berries, and some of those that had been merely red yesterday were now a dark maroon to black. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d silenced Matthias’ conscience with prejudice and the promise of a divine calling that was probably nothing more than the wind moving through the branches of an ancient tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Up there on a branch, barely spitting distance away, little sparrows rested dry and warm, having food brought to them in the comfort of a nest built by their mother. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I squeezed nervously through the thorny door, ducking and holding in my stomach, and entered a long, twisty hallway made of woven branches still carrying leaves and flowers. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Through the window, C.P. could make out the branches of a nearby sweet gum tree covered with several inches of snow. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I hear a splintering crack and my head snaps up just in time to see a short branch fall from the canopy, crumpling in the undergrowth below. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were symbols in an unknown code—how do we know that trees don’t talk deliberately with their branches, giving slow, intricate messages with an unnoticed vocabulary of shapes? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we climbed out of the river and raced back to our favorite branches to start all over again. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The fire sputtered at first, but as it found the drier branches it hissed and crackled then whooshed up in a ball of yellow fire. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouts and shots pursued him from behind, branches and vines caught at him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was still twisted around the branch of the crab apple tree. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She'd been asleep in the branches of an elm, but the howling had woken her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We built a shelter out of tree limbs, palm branches, and whatever other materials we could find, but the huts leaked when it rained and always needed repairs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we’re to be moving slowly, Mags prefers to walk with the aid of a branch Finnick quickly fashions into a cane for her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

To my right I saw a large black hand shaking a branch and bright eyes glaring threateningly through the foliage. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the highest branch of the tallest tree was an eagle. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Unable to find much dry wood on the ground, Cole broke lower branches directly off the trees and fed the fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He offered none of the help he’d given me, teaching me how to stand in the stirrups while going down steep ravines or how to squeeze my thighs when the horse leapt over a branch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I duck under branches to follow her, the rucksack getting caught left and right. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She is also growing branches of a tree upward. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Truth or dare,” Caroline calls from the upper branches. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Downtown was left with the little branch of the Michigan Savings and Loan where my mom worked, the doughnut hole, the two-screen Royal Cinema, Burton’s pharmacy, a pawnshop and, of course, Hank’s T-Shirt Shack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was a small factory of lighting-sets for helicopters, a branch of the Electrical Equipment Corporation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We ran toward the woods and swatted at them with pine branches. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She padded out onto the low first branch carefully, never taking her eyes off the growling coyote who followed on the ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But then they’d begun to land on the boulders and the branches of the giant forest. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Digory now saw that where four trees grew close together their branches had all been laced together or tied together with switches so as to make a sort of cage. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The rope ladder was hooked over a branch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl had to grab on to the spindly trunks and branches clinging to the slope to keep from falling backward. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When he pulled branches from these saplings, they converged with the branches of the saplings next to them, forming walls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I tumbled through the branches, struck my head, and fell into darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I'm another thirty feet in the air when I hear the crack and look down to see Cato flailing as he and a branch go down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Already the birds were beginning to stir and make bright sounds in the branches overhead. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

You encouraged the founding of the women’s branch of the Dominican party. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out his knife, fighting the urge to run away, and peered through the branches. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

A report issued by the Anti-Defamation League concurred with this assessment, naming the North Carolina branch of the United Klans of America “the best run state organization.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I step over wood, mud, branches, sticks, carefully. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

From one such island rose a weirwood gnarled and ancient, its bole and branches white as the surrounding snows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Its massive spreading branches seemed to be enfolding and embracing the tiny building, and perhaps hiding it as well from the rest of the world. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stared up wildly at the branches crackling around the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That one branch of the family tree had begun to own the term ‘popular’ was to many classical music aficionados in itself a revealing and disturbing fact of life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I glimpsed him as he grabbed a branch and clung to it while I kept falling. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the gas down low and, after rubbing a little olive oil on the chicken pieces, arranged them on the grill among the apple branches. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was obviously a highway, for other runs branched off it in all directions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tore a long green branch from the boughs of the tree and whipped Rahim until he bled from his neck and arms and cheeks and ears. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was hoar frost last night, and all of the bare branches are coated white and sparkling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was kind of amusing, and also heartening, hearing my parents recite the branches of government in their broken English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was a basket woven from pliant cottonwood branches, so that as the weight of the body inside shifted the coffin seemed to groan. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

First to bound out of the tree line was Mushie, menacingly brandishing a tiny branch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The land surrounding it was rockier than any other place we knew, and the path to it branched off underneath a massive fallen oak that looked somewhat like a mermaid. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Faster than Polly thought possible, they jumped over logs and under low-hanging branches, the only thought being to put miles between them and Clay Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her hands around the thick branch that Einar had peeled and set firmly in place above the door. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Using all the strength in her legs, Roz jumped straight up, high into the air, and landed on a tree branch overhead. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley’s car was standing, empty, in the middle of a circle of thick trees under a roof of dense branches, its headlights ablaze. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah, you’re right,” said Ron, tearing his eyes away from Professor Flitwick, who had golden bubbles blossoming out of his wand and was trailing them over the branches of the new tree. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

By the time I realized what I was doing and thought about my inexperience in this particular art, I was already at the top of the branches and plucking coconuts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I took the circle of what looked like braided branches from his hand, while Jay stared at his. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His favorite game was to climb out to the thinnest branch on a tree, dangle by one skinny arm, and drop to the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first got to Miss Preston's I used to run off and hide in the branches of this tree, climbing as high as I could and hiding amongst the dense boughs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Its branches were bound with new white rope and it came to a sure pure point at the top. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because Clarence was on the branch next to me, or maybe it was just because I was done with being afraid. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In a minute the owl was sitting beside him again on the branch, thoughtfully breaking up a dead sparrow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just high enough to get my fingers around the lowest branch. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In twenty-four hours it was all gone except for some lovely shady patches in the woods—white-laced branches dripping rain holes in the crust—and the slushy gray piles at the roadside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They swayed in all directions and slapped each other with their branches. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a burning branch from the fire and backed into the crevice where she had stored her belongings. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bra hung from the stub of a broken branch on an old fallen log. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes three or four youngsters went up the same tree, and then they followed one another off the branch, trying to land on the one who went before. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All that exercise has given me a powerful thirst,” said a man, tossing his burning branch into the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gazed straight down at me from almost twenty feet, unquivering, wordless, her hair rubbing against the branches, hanging those narrow bare feet out into the air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roz peered down from the branches and saw weeds rustling in the moonlight. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We found it fairly easily, on a street with a nave of ancient elms branching over it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stop & Shop never bothered to reopen the branch. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My fingers wave overhead, looking for a branch, a limb, something to hang on to. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

While Vonetta recited, Fern did the dance that told of the summer leaves falling into color, falling away and then breaking through spring branches. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Kyle could see dinosaurs munching on tall tree branches far off in the rain forest. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But as we shall see, coherent discourse also uses devices that differ from the branching of a tree, and our metaphors must expand accordingly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At one place, she spotted a man perched up in a dead tree, with a bow in his hand and a quiver hanging horn the branch beside him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m Suzanne Sawyer, the branch manager. My associate told me that you wanted to access a safety-deposit box.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha saw a group of monkeys in the depths of the forest, moving about high in the branches, and heard their wild eager cries. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant she was pulling herself up into the branches. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Entering the Wood was like entering a vast cavern: The sound of her footsteps was magnified by the branches arching above. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias struck a rat square in the face with the butt of his branch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Marine One helicopter could land on one side of the house, its rotor blades kicking up gale-force winds and slamming tree branches, but inside the residence we’d hear nothing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She liked Gothic details: mist hanging over a silent lake, gnarled roots heaving up from the earth, a solitary crow in the branches of a bare tree on the shoreline. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever she had a free hour she stole away to work at the drills Syrio had taught her, moving barefoot over the fallen leaves, slashing at branches and whacking down leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His hat had been knocked off by the first branches of the old walnut trees, so he held it in his hand. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas saw himself climbing a tall, tall tree in Kangadoon and perching on a branch high above the hills. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

If it could be entered across a branch instead of swung into. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

From far and wide people came to admire the wonder, and always wreaths of flowers hung on the branches in honor of the pious and faithful pair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

While me and Howard gathered leaves and branches to stick through the chicken wire, Bertha kept Burl busy with all her questions. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Soon after taking up his position, Davy began to bang out new elements one after another–potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and aluminum or aluminium, depending on which branch of English you favor.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I drop to my knees and push the branches aside. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He gazed upward and found himself under the branches of a tree in full view of the bay. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He raced back up the slope, scrabbling over low stone walls, and pelted through the sheepfold, past the garden and through the cloister, still gripping his apple branch swords. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Other squirrels moved through the branches above, smelling of wet fur and fear, their little claws scratching at the bark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Behind her back the smallest child pauses to break off the tip of every branch she can reach. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My idea was to follow my steer as he traveled through the meat-making branch of the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sunlight streamed through the branches overhead, each one heavy with green buds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I climbed hand over foot for as long as momentum would take me and then switched to a slower shimmy until the branches started and I could use them as steps. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I combed through the branches, hoping to find something to nourish us, but my heart sank; it was the wrong season and the tree wasn’t in fruit. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Snow was piled all along their bare, dark branches, and it sparkled in the sunshine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around at the trees, the long frosted willow branches cascading down, the topiaries that line the nearby path like ghosts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The glow increased and the branch took fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was by himself further down the branch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he tripped over a branch and came down with a crash. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The old man laid a pine branch at the doorway. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gorgonians tend to grow in closely packed, branching masses, but they do not fuse to each other; if they did, their morphogenesis would doubtless become a shambles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell, hitting first one branch, then another, then another before thudding to the ground. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Controlling the tense of an argument is a very good way of controlling its direction because it is, essentially, a way of controlling which branch of oratory you find yourself in. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was peering through Kate’s spyglass, which he had steadied atop a high cactus branch. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Higher up, the elm branches became thin and whippy, not strong enough to support the plank’s weight. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wake up before I have even finished climbing to the highest branch. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Take the nearest tree branch and pound its head in.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The slanting sticks of sunlight were lost among the branches. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt supposed that the monkey must have been dangling from a tree branch, trying to take a drink of water from the river, when the catfish swam up and ate him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I hear what they are saying, but the words get lost amid the sounds of wheels on the street, bare branches rubbing against each other, and the tramping of boots. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

With the light, they both searched the branches. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We ate in silence, broken only by your labored breaths and the rainstorm lashing the banyan’s branches. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She caught herself with a start, seizing the nearest branch for reassurance that there still was a physical world, and she was still part of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Wait for it to grow like leaves grow slowly on the branches of a spring oak tree. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the tops of the branches she looked like an ancient queen of the jungle, presiding over her domain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Petals fell from the branches like a late, wet snowfall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For the moment there was no whispering or movement among the branches; but they all got an uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched with disapproval, deepening to dislike and even enmity. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I searched around for a branch or something to use and came up empty. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A woman from the refugee camp dashed into the yard, shouting, waving a green branch. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stuffed the remainder of the chocolate-covered cotton ball into his shirt pocket and edged his way back gingerly along the branch to the smooth gray trunk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I desperately search the branches but see nothing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat under a tree throughout the following day, thinking about this sad event, when she suddenly heard a bird in the branches above her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It had trees—huge, tall trees, with branches too high for climbing—all about on its lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch, it starts to snow, flakes falling silently onto bare branches. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It's scary, but clinging to branches and putting my foot where she tells me, I manage to get high enough to hide. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I watch them hopping from branch to branch above me, indifferent. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Snow frosted the bare branches of the few spindly trees. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Aesthetics is, strictly speaking, a branch of philosophy which has occupied thinkers from Plato to the present day. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tears from his spot with George, through the field and over branches, past the front porch, where Emmett stands calling out words that aren’t strong enough to stop Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A flock of crows watched from the oak tree, perched on the branches like mourners in a church. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lower branches of the tree dangled in the water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were picking up sticks from the front lawn, sticks and branches that had fallen in the last rainstorm. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In three months, in a time when the leaves would be fat and full, our lives would separate like the branches overhead that made their own way into the sunlight. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were a few branches blocking them from sight, but Sefia had to hoist her legs up so that they wouldn’t dangle beneath the screen of leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When a sentence gets complicated, though, even a literate writer can lose track of how each branch in a coordination harmonizes with the rest of the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are nothing like Dauntless murmurs—they are gentler, like birds launching from branches. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was only vaguely aware of the leaves and branches twisting around him, softening and widening to let him lie back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father re-created in his models. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She picked up the driftwood branch that Turner had let fall. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One branch became bowan in Germanic and bua in Old Norse, meaning to live and dwell, and then the English word build. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Amal arrived to take Liyana’s mother out to the orchards and show her the almonds and olives ripening on the branches. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When it was securely fixed, he threw the free end out, and at once six witches darted toward it, caught hold, and began to pull, urging the cloud-pine branches toward the Polar Star. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon she packed the fish traps with dried meat and suspended them from the overhanging branch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Croy stepped forward and kicked the section of branch away from the track. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He laid the foundation incorrectly, so that it wasn’t long before cracks began to branch over the walls, scarring the iconography. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If we argue against any branch of liberty, just because sometimes people abuse that liberty, then we argue against liberty itself. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above him, the interweaving branches seemed to split the sky into a million little pieces. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The mothers gather their children and herd them along the branches, and the troop moves out, leaping through trees, searching for fruit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds sang from the branches of the fruit trees growing near the curb. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He scrambled easily onto the first low branch and balanced there. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm brought the canoe up onto the lank and sodden grass under a yew tree, tied the painter urgently to the nearest branch, and hastened to fix the hoops into their brackets. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They seemed very close – all the individual branches were clearly outlined. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And because the light was still dim, a morning twilight, the branches and all the white blossoms looked misty and delicate, an almost magic look. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But he'd also vowed to make this the smoothest presidential transition in history, instructing every department in the executive branch to prepare briefing binders for the incoming administration. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Later that night, the river branched in two. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Five smaller alleys branched off the main alley on both sides, and each of these small alleys was lined with brownstone town houses. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I could figure out some way to escape—maybe get a rope up to that maple tree branch and climb out—there’d be no escaping with my family and friends now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there were ten million little crystals shining on every single branch of every single tree, down to the littlest twig. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He caught a glimpse of a black squirrel moving through the snow-covered branches of an oak, and paused to study the silvery web of an empress spider. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She sat by the window with the tin soldier, looking at the hills and wondering exactly where Mo was hiding among all the branches and leaves there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When we find number twelve, Mr. Allen makes a left and we drive on a dirt road so narrow, branches whack the car. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were heavy with bright blossoms and as the wind blew through the branches, golden flowers showered down like rain. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Swooper fluttered up from his branch and screeched, “It’s the monster!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The downpour ends and there's only the residual drippings of water from branches, the rush of the now overflowing stream below us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Two-hundred-year-old pecan trees were commonly chopped down just to make it easier to harvest the nuts on their topmost branches. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If the mother and her children had not come down the path on this day, the pinched tree branches would have grown larger and the fat-bodied spider would have lived. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge tree branches lying on ripped-apart roofs, windows shattered, bikes and toys and trash scattered over lawns. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hold-Your-Nose Billy pushed aside a low branch, revealing a rickety timbered hut with a moldy thatched roof. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

A morning breeze sent them all shuddering, ripping a few from where they clung to the skeletal branches. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Calling to the boy to give her his drum, she hung it on the branch of a tree in a place where he would not be able to get at it easily. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Her brother laughs and the sound echoes through the tent, carried over the branches that are covered in candles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mark looked up at the branches of the trees, finding a clear spot that revealed brilliant stars overhead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The tide and the wind were pushing in hard now, and the current funneled through the mouth of the harbor; the green boughs and branches of the fallen trees lay scattered across the clean snow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon became a tern and flew to her branch for a second, to acknowledge that perhaps they had been insolent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And then came another cry, closer already, and then a third; and at that, all the witches seized their branches and leaped into the air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He searched and then saw an almost perfectly straight branch of driftwood, bleached and smooth as worn soap, right at the waterline. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The branch had almost reached him when he shoved one arm through those around him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, with advice and assistance from the World Health Organization, a branch of the United Nations, Peru had embarked on a nationwide program of TB diagnosis and treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes darted among the branches and bushes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes held me once more so that my feet were stuck to the ground and I could only wave my arms like branches swaying lightly in the breeze. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She looked all around her—back at the house, across the fields, and up into the canopy of branches overhead. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I heard a dry snap, and I wasn’t sure if it had come from the branch or the explosion of heat in my arm or from further up the path. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Standing beside the hackberry shrubs with hundreds of empty desiccated cocoons still clinging to their branches and a carpet of butterfly corpses under her feet, La Llorona did not look anything like a malevolent specter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With its sinuous trunk it stroked the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of tom thick flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miig pointed with his chin to a dark smudge, only visible through the trees by the geometric slope against the slash of branch and leaf. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mel tied a sheet around the tree branch right under the bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the Specters had found their target, too, and they pressed in through the snagging tangle of bush and briar and root and branch, meeting no more resistance than smoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two seasons later, large branches on these trees had died, others were without leaves, and the deformed, weeping effect of whole trees persisted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her branches began to wind back into her spine, one by one, while the folds of bark were devoured, bit by bit, by the folds of her wrinkles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Abra parted the switches like a curtain and went into the house of leaves made against the willow trunk by the sweeping branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His blue eye narrowed, a calculating look entering it, and the cotton branches began to squeeze me again as he grew even more excited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With the Marine Jungschar, the naval branch of the Hitler Youth, Herbert boated on the waters in Tetlow Park in eastern Berlin. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We only could find thin twigs under the brush which wouldn’t burn very long, but we found many, and two thicker branches from the lower parts of a bush that seemed dry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Their panes glow in the starlight, obscuring the treasures I imagine to be inside them, small plants with berries dangling from their branches, rows of potato plants buried in the earth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As I slipped away between the trees and branches, careful to avoid the path of the people, my head was busy with fierce wonderings. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He tapped the top picture, a photo of Warren perched in the low branches of a sycamore, back to the camera, silhouetted against the sky. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She slipped and fell, smacked her face on a branch coming down. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She nodded at the bee ball hanging from the tree branch. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I glanced out of her large picture window and watched the wet branches sway. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I stopped asking the bush to give me gardenias but continued watering it and clipping its branches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A branch of that road ran through the Sonoran Desert and up onto the Colorado Plateau. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She and Auntie An-mei were dressed up in funny Chinese dresses with stiff stand-up collars and blooming branches of embroidered silk sewn over their breasts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late in the century a daily newspaper was being published on the summit as a summer novelty and American Express had opened a branch office. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She managed to grab an overhanging branch when she got close to shore, but the baskets got wet and even the mealie bag was dampened. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, the mathematical interpretation of verbal reactions of robots is one of the more intricate branches of robotic analysis. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He rose to his hind legs, took a step backward, tripped over a low branch and fell flat on his back. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I gather up a bundle of fallen branches, large enough to be a respectable contribution to a fire, and walk toward the Termite Camp with my head down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a ray of moonlight through the branches above lit a spot of silver-blue blood on the fallen leaves. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I grab a tree branch and haul myself up onto the bank and sit down in the blue snow and take off my overshoes and pour out the water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes opened and I could see the sun behind the branch of a Christmas tree. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then she heard the crack of a branch. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The gaping holes in the hedges had closed up, and green branches snaked across to meet each other. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And through the arched gateways of many a palace Shasta caught sight of green branches, cool fountains, and smooth lawns. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When a person moving through the woods breaks a branch, it makes a short, sharp snap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the trees grew taller, the lower branches fell off, so they grew into giant lollipops. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under her command, they would support the Coast Guard and six other Treasury branches. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had gotten halfway across on the tree bridge and now stood there grabbing the upper branches, terrified to move either forward or backward. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We found some long branches of hard wood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Example: The lowest branch on the tallest tree. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Neel kept kneeing and elbowing his way forward, steadying the flashlight as he pushed away branches and roots. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

We burned hemlock branches and breathed the fumes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The fire, fed with the bigger branches, burned brightly in the darkening air. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now two children danced across the gods- wood, hooting at one another as they dueled with broken branches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My second student was a fifty-six-year-old “society photographer” from Windsor, Ontario, named R. Howard Ridgefield, who said that his wife had been after him for years to branch over into the painting racket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Showers of petal snow sifted down when the wind touched the green branches, and the blossom scent drifted upon the air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He barreled through them, vaulting toward the hatch above, branches smacking him in the face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Not even like rain so hard it wakes you up or the kind of wind that hurls tree branches into the streets. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Gradually the branches thinned and the ground beneath him began to slope. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she went forward, she released the branch, and it swung back silently into place behind her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could smell the clothes flapping, and the smoke blowing across the branch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon ran with him, slipping through a tangle of bare branches overhead, across the starry sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Crookshanks darted up first; he had evidently pressed his paw to the knot on the trunk, because Lupin, Pettigrew, and Ron clambered upward without any sound of savaging branches. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She swung up on the lowest branch and climbed slowly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“A story about a tree,” Poppet says, looking up through the twisting black branches above them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A group of streets formed a zone directed by a chief steward, who was in turn responsible to the secretariat of the local branch of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry shouted, trying to follow, but a heavy branch whipped lethally through the air and he was forced backward again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There, the scrub oak was lying splintered and smoking over the bank, its blackened branches in the water. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

While I've been concealed by darkness and the sleeping bag and the willow branches, it has probably been difficult for the cameras to get a good shot of me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She barely had a second to congratulate herself for making it before the branch creaked and then cracked. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

August, Rosaleen, and I stood on the screen porch that jutted off the back of the kitchen and watched the clouds bruise dark purple over the treetops and the wind whip the branches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she even climbed the trees and danced among the upper branches, her toes gripping the limbs as she moved back and forth, teetering a little less every day as her balance returned to her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When we arrived on Christmas Eve, we put up the tree and strung popcorn chains with cranberries on the pine branches. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I heard the snap of branches and groan of falling trunks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tiny flames went darting up the wood like swift red mice, skating over the oil and leaping from bark to branch to leaf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will, had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I need to climb as high as possible, but the branch I’m aiming for is short and looks pliable. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A thick stand of rose of Sharon bushes guarded the path with strong woody branches full of wide pink blooms. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But she knew what she saw when she looked up into the branches and among the waxy dark leaves and the enormous buds like closed white fists. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We were supposed to start at dawn today, head out to the southern valley and scout for another branch location. A few more weeks of this overcrowding and I might get snippy.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The branches scraped and poked my feet through my socks, but I made myself keep on. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were sparkling lanterns hanging from the branches, illuminating the clearing where dozens of finely dressed men and women were dancing, their bodies as graceful as blossoms bending in a spring breeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the snowball made more snow plop from a branch to the ground, Ryan had a sudden thought. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The work of a human, the work of nature; clay from the earth, a branch from the sky. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It’s a world of entwined branches, soft colors in shades of brown and green and yellow. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was under the shade of a large tree with droopy branches covered in beautiful purple flowers that gave off the most amazing scent, like real perfume. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I watch the sky move against the branches, watch the waxwings above me move easily from limb to limb. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She saw something bright yellow in the branches. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I trained him to jump through a hoop I made with thin branches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Karen said, “This tree is naked on the other side. It doesn’t have but two branches.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear a bird sing and find it on a branch. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She carried branches to the house and went back for more. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking the long branch in both hands, he swept it back and forth. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Wind touches the tree branches, and they murmur in the gathering light. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She made a frame from branches and tied bundles of grass across it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the base of the beech, she lifted him to the first branch, saying, “Go on. Go on. I got you.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The stallion was able to avoid the loose stones and fallen branches that lay across the winding path, even without Taran’s hands on the reins. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I spit on my hands, rubbed them together, and reached up for the first branch. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to avoid her, but slammed my shoulder hard into a protruding birch branch. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He spiraled upward, perched briefly at the topmost branch of an enormous pine. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We are covered in leaves, my tie is caught on a branch, but it’s just so full of life that we don’t mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There, tangled in the low branches of a huckleberry bush, were the entrails of my dog. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last they came suddenly into a thin shade; great grey branches reached across the path. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With no prying eyes around, I slipped off one of my petticoats, washed it in the water, and hung it over a willow branch to dry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing particularly new in this: Cicero had thought geography was a branch of geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The monkeys were moving with surprising speed through the tree branches. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Daddy idled the motor and Mr. Johnson looped a long rope around some branches on the rose of Sharon bushes so the boat would stay put while Daddy reached for Peach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jn her crazy lady clothes of reds and greens, she greeted the animals and the moving branches as she carried her porcelain cup to the river. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It perched on the lowest branch of Luna’s tree house, and followed her wherever she went for the rest of the day. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Standing next to it, looking up into the branches, was Ms. Griegson. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the table, knew he’d need to let me go if he were to drag it closer, picked me up instead and hoisted me into the lowest branches. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Computing pools attached to specific tunnels or branches grew larger, spawned their own supervisors, and gave the female professionals the opportunity to specialize in a particular subfield of aeronautics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Waiting in her closet of a room Turtle stared at the white- weighted branches of the maple on the hill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air turned thick; sudden gusts caught the cedars at the edge of the fields and flailed their tops and branches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I'd been purposely avoiding it because books are what I always fall back on, and I needed to branch out. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the branches of trees growing out of the rocky gorge face, the men slid and tumbled down toward the river. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved past the willow branches and left, stomping in the field along the riverbank until he was out of sight. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the stars, through the top branches of the willows. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took one branch in hand, reached for another nearby, and skillfully tied the supple ends together. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later on they built him a shelter of palm branches to protect him from the sun and the rain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

From their dry branches dangled cotton fibers left during the first picking. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tree branches and telephone lines obscured his view, but he could make out the long dark hair that shone like his clarinet itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Unable to meet her eyes, I pulled a crimson leaf from a branch and twirled its stem in my fingers. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nailer chewed his lip, considering their own rough shelters on the beach: squats made of branches and scavenged planks and palm leaves that blew away like trash whenever storms came. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there's some improvement, I could swear he's making an effort to snap every branch we encounter. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They watched Lupin seize a broken branch from the ground and prod the knot on the trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Beavers were busily collecting a trove of fallen branches. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Standing beside the dead stump, I look up and see a golden piece of fruit dangling from an overhanging branch. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the real rain lashed at her window, she slipped some inky rain in between the drawn branches and leaves. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of my ribs snapping like the tree branches Hassan and I used to break to sword fight like Sinbad in those old movies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After maybe a mile they stop using logs and just string the lines on tree branches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"We could experiment. We could find out how to make a small hot fire and then put green branches on to make smoke. Some of them leaves must be better for that than the others." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Those who enlisted prior to being drafted could choose their service branch. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The wind and rain had stopped, but fat drops fell onto her head from a tree branch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was wide open, free of pebbles or fallen branches or even the thick padding of last year’s leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered our last few months of fifth grade, I definitely noticed that Ximena made more of an effort to branch out to other girls in our grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In some places we have to slow down because there are rocks, branches, and other obstacles that I imagine were swept up in a current when this place actually transported water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bod moved slowly forward along the branch, until he was just below the apple. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Their branches curled like sharp claws, scratching at the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ground began to slope upward, and the tangle of barbed branches we moved through became less dense. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he took two of them off the spindly branch where they were lying, blew gently into their faces as they opened their eyes and yawned, and put them in his pocket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Their bare branches spread out to join together the separate patches of land. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to lift myself up, to put the other foot down, and the branch snaps. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the problem of getting the rope over the branch in the first place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ron shouted, throwing his full weight against his door, but next second he had been knocked backward into Harry’s lap by a vicious uppercut from another branch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Their laughter sounded like the creaking of branches, and Lazlo had no choice but to fight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They wrap her in garlands of beads and stroke her face and eyelids with branches of rosemary. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also became good at climbing into trees to look for fruit, and they could swing in the branches almost as well as any monkey. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I said, “Of course. He doesn’t raise his head high enough to see the branches to prove it’s a tree.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself once more up the bank to the tall tree without branches and sat again with his back against the rough bark. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

These clues are tire tracks, a Diet Coke can where it doesn’t belong, stumps and branches, and mud. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Snape seized the branch Lupin had used to freeze the tree, prodded the knot, and vanished from view as he put on the cloak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“A Hogsmeade branch, you know, but a fat lot of good it’ll do us if you lot aren’t allowed out at weekends to buy our stuff anymore… But never mind that now.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Each tree stood in a space of its own, and the branches zigzagged against the clouds and sky like arms reaching out for heaven. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lack of boughs made it difficult to hang the ornaments evenly, so the kids had to hang ten or more ornaments per branch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked faster the closer we got to home, where the live oak trees spread their branches wide, giving cooling relief from the sun’s embrace. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stood straight and turned his palms upward—they were bloody from hitting the branches. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Celia pauses at a tent containing a tree branch covered in candle wax. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What the hell,” he kept yelling, off balance among the branches. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he cupped her head in his hands, turning her up to face the moonlight sliding through the tree branches. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Finch writes: I am on the highest branch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“If it had not been for the Pope, we should never have had this beautiful procession with everybody carrying olive branches and the innocent lovers dressed in white.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wind began to moan, causing branches to stir and trees to creak and knock one upon one another. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Along the way, I see no sign of another tribute, not a puff of breath, not a quiver of a branch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He went back to his rosebush, thinning the smaller branches at the top. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Birds, startled, rose from tree branches and disappeared into the dark sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The wind murmured in the branches of the trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A night bird was singing from a tree branch, just singing its heart out, urgent and feverish, like it was put there to sing the moon up to the top of the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sonia holds the pole, and Gogol and Ben insert the branches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of them boys is looking at me, daring me to use the branches. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pushing her way through the saplings and fallen branches, she found the arrow thirty yards into the trees, its red fletches bright against the mottled green understory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then she saw that on one branch, close to the ground, the thorns had been scraped off, and about a half-inch of it—just big enough for a handhold—was worn smooth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For Joseph, this was the first Christmas tree he’d ever had, and when he looked at one and touched its branches and smiled —number five, sort of—it didn’t seem right to argue. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

When leaves or branches fall, the carbon and nitrogen in the debris are rapidly reabsorbed by the hyperefficient root systems of tropical plants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dark buds appeared on branches, and it seemed that the same sleeping sap that fed them began to chum through my brothers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corridor branched to the left and right, which didn't make a whole lot of sense given how narrow the house was. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, when the deluge finally let up and the thunder became a distant echo, they descended from the branches with deep shuddering breaths. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her palm lines do not branch into head, heart, and life lines like other people’s but crease with just one atavistic fold. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

High evergreen trees grew here, their branches reaching over the clearing. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the turf cliff, Hazel and his companions were crouching under the low branches of two or three spindle trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fig trees give twice a year,” her mother explained, showing her a full branch. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It looks about the size of a raccoon, but it hangs from the bottom of a branch, swaying ever so slightly. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With a flick of Mama’s wrist, the willow’s graceful, slim branches jerked the magistrate, tossing him a few feet offshore. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He knelt and looked between the sparse bottom branches of the tree; it seemed like a long time, and his hands were full of cold sweat when the pickup truck finally appeared. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Different birds kept on singing, though not very near to him, and he did not see any of them, except, now and again, a darting brown shape in the branches. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Keep an eye out for some good .sticks and fallen branches, too, Scoob-a-doob. And if you see any good-sized hunks of wood, bring those over as well.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He ran quickly to the right, away from the main trail; for he had seen footprints that went that way, branching off from the others, the marks of small unshod feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I find a broken branch that will do for a walking stick and I start off. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The mimosa branch knocks against the window and I jump, burn my thumb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I realized that in order for them to grow, they had to branch out and explore new ground. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A ton of the pictures on his phone were of leafless branches dividing up the sky, like the view I had as we floated under that sycamore. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the ice on the ground had melted, although the tree branches were still lined with it, bowing under the weight. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Many of the trees seemed asleep, or as unaware of him as of any other creature that merely passed by; but some quivered, and some raised up their branches above his head as he approached. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Squibbles tried to steal a few fabric strips to line his drey, the nest made of leaves and twigs high in one of my forked branches. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He reached up with one hand and, with a deafening crack, effortlessly ripped a two-foot-thick branch from the trunk of the spruce. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mamita would take a warm, fresh egg from beneath one of our hens, then break off a bunch of small branches from the chilca tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped closer to the trunk, dragging me with him, and peered into the branches. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a tall plant with snakelike branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The gnome had finally managed to extricate his worm and was now sucking on it happily, leaning against the bottommost branches of the rhododendron bush. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A crow, startled by my small commotion, alighted from a branch to the right, cawing his displeasure, a staccato of anxiety stitching the night a darker blue. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I try not to think what it might be—a tree branch, slimy algae, wood, or something dead. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes and saw the sky, cut by the branches of the trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sierra parted some branches and entered the shadowy grove. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the yard was a big tree, with a wooden swing hanging from a branch. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sprite emerged from the fortress first, followed by one of the lithe, willowy nymphs with fingers like small branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We should just take the road,” I say, holding back yet another branch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He threw the branches on the fire and set out again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Here, there, I add green to signify shoots, new stalks, branches slowly, ever so slowly becoming baby trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As dusk fell, shadows deepened beneath the branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A flash between the branches caught my eye as we drove past. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Every day she spent as much time as possible constructing a platform in the lucky-bean branches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just as we’re about to get into the elevator, I look over and see that dead lobby plant, from earlier, and—you wouldn’t believe it—a single bud, popping up from a branch. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Tree branches dance to the songs of the rustling leaves and cicadas. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He lets go of the branch but remains where he is on the wall. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Uprooted trees sprawled their branches in ghastly fashion over streets and houses, flattening them and the bodies of men and women indiscriminately. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the thick-limbed tree and grab the lowest branch. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

No telling how easily these rubbery branches will snap. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now just let go of the branch with your other hand and hold on to me tight.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The woman’s gaze drifted up to the birds in the branches. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She reached out and put her hand on the cold brass handle, and it opened into a corridor lit with candles placed in pewter sconces molded into the shapes of tree branches. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t much other noise—only the little noises of night on a riverbank, wind in the bare branches, the hollow rush of water beneath the damaged stone bridge. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The only noise was the peculiarly bleak whistling of the wind through the upper branches. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug a deep pit in front of his garden and covered it with branches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit another small branch and laid it alongside the first. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It would be a cadet branch, Madam,” said Balan, “I dare say.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the year, the local branches of the ANC and the TIC and the local Ratepayers Association were mobilizing people to resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pale trees line the edges of the tent, showers of snowflakes falling from their branches. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The shadows moved to and fro like branches in a high wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches. He says will it come back tonight?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They draped over the piano and it was so that some of the chairs stood among the branches. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to walk out towards the perimeter of the clearing, into the darkness of branches and shadow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A robin on a low branch twittered a phrase and listened for another that answered him from beyond the farmhouse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the wind rages, sending branches and leaves tumbling past my window. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was as beautiful under the branches of the willow tree as anything in the world can be. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the pheasants would perch on the lower branches of the trees. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When all its branches were added together, the network extended to 46,600 miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think he means to conjure up the same magic that made the roots grow, made the branches of the throne bloom and twine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The roar of the zeppelins was now much louder than the wind in the trees, and lights were moving about, too, shining down through the branches from above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun slanted through the branches overhead, and it looked invitingly snug and secure. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I step on fallen branches, the snaps move through my feet. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As the old Ent approached, the trees lifted up their branches, and all their leaves quivered and rustled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

These branches might seem gay and cheerful were not cannon embowered there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use the nearby branches as steps, with my hands to steady me, twisting and leaning around the tree’s maze. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever he put his foot, there seemed to be a hole or spiteful branch to trip him up. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Grabbing a branch, I swung after them and landed on my feet as lightly as Nero. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The legs were stumps, the ends were logs, and there was a ceiling of branches. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that Oakley Street was a branch of some sort of secret service, but since all she did was interpret the alethiometer on their behalf, she knew very little more. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The square was full of people and the fireworks experts were making up their set pieces for the night and covering them over with beech branches. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then they landed on their branches again and began to sing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Its lower branches slumped to the ground, bent from the weight of kids who swung on them, playing cowboys and Indians. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp north wind clashed the naked branches of the cottonwoods. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not bothering to hide his progress, he pushed aside branches as he walked, letting them whip back to position when he passed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Far ahead, she heard branches cracking, and a sound she knew well, a low chuffing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Tom sprang away, and breaking off a hanging branch smote the side of the willow with it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You needed a whole branch of mathematics to tell you that people are unpredictable?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took one last look at the branches, hoping to see whatever it was again before he returned to the firepit. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He jumps down from his low branch and starts across the field, not waiting to hear their replies, not wanting Caroline to retract the dare. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Monkeys gathered in the high, bare branches at sunset, whimpering to one another as they searched the sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the branches had been ripped away but one, which rose out of the water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every year, when the first flowers showed up, Mama would cut off a few branches and put them in water in a mason jar. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The willow’s unharmed branches snaked toward Sigurd, keeping a distance from him but ready to whip at him if needed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was down at the branch when we got to where we could smell the pigs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The questions propelled me forward, whipping through the cold forest, dodging branches. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I cut off the branches and then started to cutting the limb into fireplace-sized logs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They glided down a mountain and into a forest, thick with bushes and low branches. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vacuum cleaner business was so brisk, in fact, that the company that made them opened a branch factory in the town. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I hadn’t seen the branch coming and it was just a scratch, but I guess he figured it would be easier traveling without me along to get into trouble. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Frantically he scraped the branch around the bottom. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree watched his father break a branch off a tree and hold it out to the woman. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He picked up a branch of driftwood and swept it back and forth through the stained water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then she stood, carefully tying the paper back onto my branch. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I missed it, but when the rock rustled through the branches, the gray cat dropped low to the ground, arched its back, and hissed. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Music draws mockingjays like blossoms do bees, and in a short while he’s got half a dozen of them perched in the branches over our heads. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the dry branches lying everywhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The branch bent under my weight as if delivering me to the deep, and I murmured, “I come to you, waters of death and life. Take me from this world of madness and strife.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Liyana and her friends used to make forts on the ground inside those branches. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It might look like he isn’t, standing mostly on this one leg on a curved branch that looks pretty rotten. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Still up in the branches, she fits a stone from her waist pouch into a thick Y-shaped stick with a leather belt. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She took a coil long enough to reach over one of the branches of a high tree and back down to the ground, and strong enough to bear several times her weight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They stretched up fifty, maybe even a hundred feet before the first branches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze blew again, and Anya saw the dark shape of a person crouched in the branches for a breath. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They lay there for nearly an hour, until the sun struck through the branches above them. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others walked over, and they stood together and looked up into the branches of the big tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that die wood floating up on the beach consisted mostly of branches or stumps that had been in the water for weeks or months. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t fall in love with a sailor boy— Then the branch I stepped on snapped, and I grabbed out at another, but it was dead and came away in my hands. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She wedged a pole across the branches over her head and leaned reeds against it to make a slanted windbreak. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the egg inside the nest, placed the nest on her flat shoulder, and climbed up into the branches. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He missed his branch, clawed at some leaves, and came tumbling to the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds were crosshatched with downed branches, but otherwise the property was undamaged. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They could no longer afford lantern oil, so she burned branches, and when her eyes watered from the smoke, she sewed her tears into the lotus ponds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cluny’s followers were kicking at each other and screaming as they tried to clamber down from the high elm branches. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Squirrels lived in the tree, and after weeks of tempting them with leftover breakfast scraps, Perry lured one off a branch onto the window sill and through the bars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strapped the deer’s legs to a long fallen branch and hoisted it up on their shoulders, each taking turns to bear the weight on the way back to Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Down they went, and farther down, and still the sunlight followed them, deep into the valley, while overhead the branches tossed unceasingly in the bright sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its long branches trailed their fragrant corkscrew leaves almost down to the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But every time my eyes closed, I saw the phantom brakeman with hamburger meat for a face, swinging a ghostly lantern through tree branches like skeletons. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was the only surviving male of the entire branch of his family. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a small area—the clearing where they stood.The trees surrounding them were still and calm, the branches not so much as swaying with a wind. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In Hazel’s mind, green branches were straining in the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christine’s application was received enthusiastically; a follow-up phone call from Langley’s Personnel Department turned into a day of interviews and then a job offer as a data analyst in the Reentry Physics branch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His arms were live branches, growing around her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Great black pig-iron pipes a man could crawl through small, bright brass pipes no bigger around than your thumb There was a vast network of stone tunnels, branching and connecting at odd angles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though I’m taller now than when I last climbed it, it seems impossible to get to the lowest branch. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guava bushes grow close to the ground, their branches laden with green then yellow fruit that seem to ripen overnight. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In places the branches wove a canopy overhead and he was given a moment's respite from die drumming of the rain against his head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the end they were forced to hack off branches and fashion crude slings to carry the corpses back on foot. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He saw only a couple of big gray birds hopping among the branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It sliced through the air and hit a young tree hard enough to make the branches shake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her child calls to her, waves a bare little branch in greeting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She patched up the hole in the dome with a latticework of branches before adding a layer of mud and leaves, and soon the repairs were complete. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A tree was there, but not one gleam of white was on the branches. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped and began to move slowly sideways, the branch tip scratching a yard or so ahead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Van Ness claimed to have revisited the ledge the following day and found the severed branch of a cedar tree about twelve feet high and four feet to the side of where Burr had stood. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the road narrowed, the branches of immense oaks arched across it. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She cut her hand; she twisted her ankle; she knocked her skull against a low-hanging branch and burned her leg in a boiling spring. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then they carried me to my mother’s hut, where there were two big beds made of branches and covered with skin. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something snaps like branches tumbling to the ground in the middle of a tornado. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One would run along a tree branch, then take a flying leap to the next branch. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stop at a tree with a small burlap sack hanging off a branch. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She fires a single arrow that explodes into a flash of lightning that branches out to destroy every plate. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He unbuttoned his stiff collar as he passed through into scrub pines and laid it on a branch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Matthew said from the highest branch, “I don’t think he’s going to be all right until he’s killed Karen with his bare hands.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the lift swooped them back down through the banyan branches to the courtyard, Somkit was quiet—a sure tip-off that something was wrong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She quickly pocketed her book, pulled the cloak around her shoulders, and shoved her way out of the overhanging branches, nearly running toward the path that would take her back to Quinn House. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I collect fist-sized, dry tree branches, Chou bends and shaves the leaves with her ax. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind, soft and cold, clicked through tree branches and stirred the bushes that sprinkled the slope. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She heard Buddy and Lucy climb into their beds above, and then it was quiet, with only the wind brushing the branches against the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey went back to the woods to get needles and dry branches of quick-burning pine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the warm wind and smelled newly cut grass, and a bird perched on a branch of the ailanthus and sang for a long time before it flew away. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He snaps a tree branch, then snaps it again. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches, our naked feet dangling, our trouser pockets filled with dried mulberries and walnuts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us as much as possible, train out creepers, and branches of trees, upon bridges, pulling down and nailing the branches, aiming to obtain shade and reflection of foliage and broken obscuration of water.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So when the wild boar said, Freedom is inside that thicket of branches where I sleep, they followed him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After feeding, the mother flitted to a branch near the nest. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ophie slowed, letting go of her mama’s hand only long enough to feel for the armlike branch that marked the entrance to the burrow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stare into it, allowing my focus to soften, looking beyond the leaves and branches. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He pulled two oranges off a branch and added them to the bag, then pulled it shut with a stone toggle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And she felt a pang of pity as she imagined the dragon, alone, unable to fly, endlessly struggling between trees and branches. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The branches were mostly bare of leaves now, and the squirrels were in full-fledged autumnal hysteria, frantically seeking nuts and burying them everywhere their tiny one-track minds could think of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Heavily weighed down by the wood on my back, branches poking maddeningly, I had burned almost all of the fuel not to waste strength lugging it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was driftwood everywhere, not to mention dead and dry wood all over the hill and dead-dry branches hanging from every tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though groups like ACD and Reentry Physics still employed several of the former West Computers, Katherine and others found themselves the only black employees in their branch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We listened to the branches break, the dirt get unsettled, the grasses sway. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

All around, crooked branches like witches’ fingers make patterns where the sun crisscrosses through. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Ryan scooped up a handful of snow, squeezed it into a ball, and threw it at the branch of a pine tree. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tiller glanced toward the window, at the leafy branch tapping against the panes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was howling now, and Pinmei could see the tree branches clawing at the darkening sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cole watched the birds flitting among the downed branches, feeding on bugs and worms. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The branches of a creosote bush trembled on the other side as some animal slunk into hiding. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told how he raised the alarm when I fell from the branch, then ran downstream, plunging into die water to intercept my floating body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The birds, roosting on low branches, were too full and too stupid to flee. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You and Muthu dragged some fallen branches over to use as tent poles. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Lightfoot, her toes curled tight around the branch, she walked a few feet, hopped down to a larger limb, then swung hand over hand through the tangle of leaves until she reached the trunk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Great masses of curled brown leaves lay tangled in the dead grass, and the branches that thrust against the graying sky were almost bare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The trees wave their branches in the breeze, and a huge gray bird circles, calling out his objection to our presence. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the lowest branch of the fig tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His body stiffened and he drew down his head and peeked out from under a fallen branch. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches of the trees swayed in a rising breeze. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Fangburn, who was trying to extract a piece of elm branch from his Chief’s chest, leaped backwards in fright as Cluny’s eye snapped open inches from his own. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

On the way home Akira ran ahead, sometimes leaping up to slap hard at low branches. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From the far side of the hill, Kendra heard foliage rustling and branches crunching. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue bent down, picked up one of the branches, and weighed it in his hand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then there had been a movement of willow branches twenty-five yards away and downwind, so that no odor of fear came to the rabbit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was like a sparrow in a storm, unable to find a safe branch to cling to. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Climbing up into the branches of the burned part, the chief broke off a piece of charcoal and brought it down to his daughter. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Very slowly, inch by inch, as the boy struggled not to sink, she crept out until the tip of the branch nearly touched the water. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents believed in the dignity of the honest trades, envisioning the generations of their family branching into the future, each more accomplished than the last. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Smaller fetterlings poured in through the breach around it, leaping over the broken branches and thundering across the field. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And at that there was a rustling among the leaves, and the branches parted, and a man stepped out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Animals of the rain forest: left: The slow-moving sloth hangs out in the canopy; right: Is it a branch or a bug? Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Candles rest atop tree branches, flames flickering with the whoosh of dresses sweeping below. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They knew that he didn’t get hit by any frozen tree branch. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were low enough to pick like berries from a branch, and string onto the bracelet with her moon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Two guys from the hockey team came blasting out from behind a tree, snapping branches and kicking rocks as they came at us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The women circled the basket, which was full of blackberries still on their short, thorny branches. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still struggling to get my breath back, I wrapped a leg over the branch and tried to get my bearings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I don't get through this branch in a matter of seconds, the entire swarm could emerge and attack me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Bracing my feet against two branches, I looked out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Top branches rubbed together now and then, their Up up ahead that was singing about Napoleon’s army of fifty thousand men climbing up a hillside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Over the carcass of the horse, they built a platform of hewn logs; trunks of smaller trees and limbs from the greater, and the thickest straightest branches they could find. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He appeared dramatically upon the edge of the clearing, just as a disturbed branch, whose burden was too heavy, emptied a couple of hundredweight of snow on his head. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she realized what had happened: Buds were swelling on the branches of all the dry trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark and tree branches and bramble reached for me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Standing underneath the tree, Sibanda raised his head and sang loudly into the wide branches above him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She stayed either at Anatole’s school or out in the woods having a bow-and-arrow contest with Nelson to see who could shoot a bug off a branch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn off into the grove of brown winter trees, brushing branches out of our faces. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Francis, barefoot and still in his bathrobe, stepped precariously over rocks and branches, balancing his glass of ginger ale. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Methodically, she went from person to person, waving the burning branch with her good hand and shouting insults at any hyenas who might be lurking. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched, he found the pine tree he had in mind, and pulled a length of one supple branch loose. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One greybeard took the weir- wood branch they handed him and used it as a weapon, laying about with it until the queen’s men converged on him with spears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We separated for a moment to help the others navigate the trees and branches but were soon running side by side again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Queenie laughed so hard she slid gracelessly and painfully from one branch to a lower branch, and tore her coat climbing down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We’re in the forest again, only now the trees are square, the branches growing out between windows in the trunks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All along the path, dozens of monkeys were seated on stones, as well as on the branches of the trees. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He heaped them all up, all the dry twigs and branches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I clung to the willow branch but the mandragora that now filled my veins had stolen my strength. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

Up in the branches of the trees, too, I could see, flapping about, torn plastic sheeting and bits of old carrier bags. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They murmured to each other as they rustled through the branches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other branches twisted around one another, always creaking, always groaning, until they formed two long arms and a second leg to set down beside the main trunk. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It looked like glitter scraped from the underside of clouds by the scrubby top branches of the pines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Seated in the branches of the elm tree at the north wall of the Abbey, Cluny watched the shadows lengthen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When the tree heard his sorrowful song, it moved its branches as if it were weeping. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He could hear the wind rattling the bare branches of the elms that lined the street. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t have someone’s hand to hold as I tiptoe to the window, only to realize the scary noise is just a branch scraping the glass, just the wind. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what Adah rooted for as we lay out there with our needlework, watching him waddle up and down the branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Pirate Tree was still standing, but now only blackened wisps tattered its branches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

While he was thinking of ill this he happened to look up through the branch :s toward the top of the tree. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Vines dangled from low-hanging branches, and roots dipped in and out of the water, while the treetops disappeared into blurry white, as if some supreme cartoonist had forgotten to finish drawing them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It arched up and hit the ceiling of pine branches above me, slamming back to the ground not a foot in front of me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“What was it Teresita’s husband said? ‘Don’t be afraid, take the nearest branch and bash its head in.’ Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Over and under and through all manner of trees and bushes and branches. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

That’s not to mention all the fallen branches and raised tree roots waiting to trip him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the fire, the waxy leaves and thick branches stood out black. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey stuck branches in the ground behind the house and covered them with a worn-through blanket, making a tent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sings of the swinging bodies, how they hang among the branches like unnatural, disturbing fruit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queen’s men in studded jacks and halfhelms handed each passing man, woman, or child a piece of white weirwood: a stick, a splintered branch as pale as broken bone, a spray of blood-red leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She started toward a small, distant cage, in the center of which jutted up a branching dead tree. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But before the consul could answer, the door opened and Lyra came in bearing a little branch of pine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Axel looks at his own front yard, where just behind the fence, among the fallen branches, Byrd, Frank, and George are so wrapped up in planning that they haven’t turned to see Dr. Martin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the sick feeling was gone I pulled into the willow bushes and rested again, my arms around some brush, holding tight with my hands to the branches. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A branch, a twisted scarf, I don’t know. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The grapefruits weighed on the branches, huge and round, dark green speckled yellow. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It grew harder and harder to run, with the branches and knots of the trees forcing me to scoot and sidestep, but eventually I forced my way through and stumbled into a clearing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I begin to skirt along the tree line, searching for a tree with a branch high and long enough to fit my needs. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the northernmost realms of Prydain many trees were already leafless, and among the branches clung the ragged shapes of empty nests. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

His lips had grown to the size of tree branches and hung off his jaws in a floppy mess. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For contrast the girl wore a large blue hat, fetching as a frying pan; Ralph watched as she took two steps, gazed up with rapture at the tree branches, then took another two steps. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved me back, and like an utter schlemiel, I tripped over a branch and planted my butt in a shallow puddle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, he jumped up like a grasshopper, ran over to a small pepper tree that was a few yards away, and yanked off two branches. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The knots in the wet and swollen rope were loose, and I figured that Mr. Kendall had already struggled with them while the branch he stood on sagged further and further toward breaking. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

This is Millie’s branch, he thinks as his foot touches it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This tree, unlike every other one she’d seen, still had its leaves—a massive cloud of green hanging low over the grassy land and supported by a mess of tangled branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He points to the branches on the brown patch of grass in his yard. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Holly hooked the wings over a low branch, unstrapping the helmet to give her ears some air. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They sit sipping their newly warmed cider, looking up at the twisting black branches reaching toward the top of the tent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The back seat was piled with azalea branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he turned away and then looked back, there was no longer a sign of her, not even a whispering motion in the needled branches she had moved through. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The branches drooped down at them, heavy with soft, dark green needles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each night our presence was recorded on the quipus, colored strings tied to a long branch of wood. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“First you gotta go in and lop off the branches. Then you chop down the trunk.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The trees—long, slim silhouettes—seemed to guide them most of the time, but sometimes the branches looked like arms with hands of many fingers, ready to attack. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flew up to a low branch and glared down at them, betrayed, preening his feathers, making his feathers sticky with the syrup too. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

That night Ivanito stands by his sisters’ bedroom window transfixed by the branches of the tamarind tree, so black against the sky. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in front of the park where Grandpa Ted used to take me, where we imagined building tree houses high up in the redwoods' top branches. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

From there, I raised and lowered myself, up over the top of the highest branches, and down under low-hanging ones. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Monday morning was blue and white, and everything was blowing: cumulus clouds, bare branches, scraps of rubbish. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sassur had to come to our room with a big branch and beat the invading snakes to death. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was in bloom and the branches scraped and rasped against the house and the myriad air, driving in the window, brought into the room the forlorn scent of the blossoms. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Louisiana, Mom had us climb up on the roof of the car and pull down tuffs of Spanish moss hanging from the tree branches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I got to sleep or not but Momma’s scream made me jump nearly to the magnolia’s top branch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light was dim deeper into the shrubbery, and Robbie’s slender form blended so well with the curling vines and branches it took Sierra a few seconds of squinting to find him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He pushed off the branch and kept moving, as if our following was a foregone conclusion. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even without the binoculars he could make out two lanterns on the shore, a high wall, and further back, through a maze of black branches, the outline of a house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and an old man and an old woman came out carrying bowls of rice and soup and a leafy branch of peaches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the dense trees in the forest I spied branches hiding an old potato cellar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient tree nearby with many well-placed branches and rough bark that should give my feet traction between the slick patches of moss. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the river’s edge during flood season are small trees inundated to the tips of their branches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I fidget and shift, exchanging one prickly branch for another. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She nodded, her eyes still wide with fear, but she let go the branch and took his hand, straightening a litde and swaying. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I follow him thru branches and bushes, the river rushing closer to my right than it’s been in days. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Genie had the absurd thought that the branch with the can sort of looked like it had just finished taking a sip and was asking another branch if it wanted to have a taste. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In mathematics Pascal helped invent a whole new branch of the field: probability theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The branches seem to reach for me,” she said. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It took place in the spring when the vine begins to put forth its branches, and it lasted for five days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed carefully along one of the branches, holding tight to his broomstick, trying to see through the leaves. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

With the tip of the branch, she poked a round hole in each of her own toeprints, then laughed and scribbled the footprints away with the stick. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We are going the wrong way,” he said, gesturing at the moon as it peered down through the canopy of branches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Theresa had begun her internship; they had all studied up on the three branches of government, and so advanced from permanent residents to citizens. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His massive body shook the branches overhead as he struggled, desperate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some even climbed oak trees and perched in branches for a good spot. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this spot, branches stretched all the way across the river to form a canopy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One year later, the importance of the airplane to US defense was underscored when the Army Air Corps was elevated to the status of an independent branch of the military: the United States Air Force. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It had been chopped to pieces, but some of the branches still had golden birds in them, and they whirred around when Grover picked them up, trying to flap their wings. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I jumped, grasping a low, sticky pine branch beside me for balance. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Axel races back down the walkway, through the gate, over branches and debris, and to the front porch where George stands with Ray and Emmett. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They passed behind a group of trees—Mark heard a few hard thunks as darts buried themselves in the branches and trunks—then they were in the open again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

To make it fancier, she also had hung a cracked oval mirror on a nearby branch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the lowermost branch, peering down, a knowing expression on his pointy face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sigurd punched his other arm out the side, grabbed handfuls of willow branches, and ripped them away from his chest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That one dodged his blow, then wrapped around his wrist and shook the axe loose while four other branches wrapped around his ankles, other wrist, and waist. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Master,” he panted, and held out his offering—two branches of flowering plum. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Above the humongous oval-shaped room, thorny branches arched like the roof of a dome, with creeper vines and yellow seed pods hanging down like streamers from rafters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As a result, they could use them for both a delicate task like milking a grazer and the rough business of tearing and shaping branches. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ash let out her breath in relief and lay down on her back, staring up at the arching branches. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another branch broke, almost on the crest of the hill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had found a slender hazel branch and stripped it clean. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Oliver leaped onto the rope swing hanging from one of the many branches. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No branch, no pin, only the dirty, heaving water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I could never sleep on Christmas Eve, so I sat up and gazed at the moon and stars through the branches. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The stroke on the left might be a G-rune with thin branches,’ said Strider. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The poles are adorned with budding branches and held by Lev's fellow newspapermen. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Josh handed up more ornaments with an extended pincer tool, and I snagged them on the branches. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She felt dizzy, and it wasn’t only the swaying and rising and falling of the branches she was wedged among. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at the squirrel, it didn’t look fat or dumb to me, it was a regular old squirrel sitting on a branch chewing on something. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light fell gray among dark branches, dear water dropped from the scarlet needles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She whipped it back and forth past the dark columns of tree trunks, shooting through them at top speed, so fast that her hands and face collected dozens of scratches from the branches blurring by. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Just as he was going to get up and come out from behind the bush, the tree branches parted, and there was Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

That was when I saw some branches rustle on the chinaberry tree across the road from the school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It will be cool under their branches in summer, and in winter they’ll glow white with snow. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hairy branches scrape the truck on either side as we make our way down the drive. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He watched as some unfurled their branches while others curled theirs into huge wooden knots—fists. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Hideous? No way. The most beautiful creatures you’ve ever seen. And way up at the top, way up there, nearest the sun, new branches grow.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Without even bothering to put his glove back on, he began digging the icy snow under Kevin’s head and under the tree branch, so he could pull Kevin out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He explains the branches of marine evolution and the sequences of the geologic periods; on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She made her way to a pile of soft branches and lay there, her stomach cramping terribly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt rough and warm, the same as the tree branch. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear made his way cautiously to his favorite spot, behind a paulownia tree whose low branches kept him hidden from view. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The woods grew quiet now; even the beetles stopped rubbing their smooth shells on softened bark, even the wind picked around the branches instead of rattling straight through. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I’m nearing the fence when a mockingjay lights on a branch and trills at me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stripped a branch off the tree, a switch, and started whipping him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sun was now high, and it shone down through the half-stripped branches of the trees, and lit the clearing with bright patches of light. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remain in my awkward position, muscles trembling with exertion for a while longer, then hoist myself back onto my branch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He scanned the branches of the trees along the path, thinking maybe she’d climbed a tree, but he didn’t find her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had received cuts from tree branches before and I knew that the next day the cuts were red with dry blood and that the welts were sore. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished I’d stayed back at the tree and just stared up into the sky through the branches. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cat dropped the branch and came after him, like a shadow with glowing eyes. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The spies, their thoughts moving even more quickly than their darting steeds, exchanged a glance and brought the dragonflies to rest side by side on a dry, withered branch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This gang, a branch of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, was plainly on edge. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going outside to clean up some branches. You talk to her. She’s smarter than you think.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was only the gnarled branch end protruding upward from the patched coat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We'd gotten them from a Turkish wholesaler: blue branches spreading across a shiny white background, a design called the tree of life. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In my mind’s eye the green orchards of Elsinore appear, ripe with sweet pears and apples that bent the branches and offered themselves to our hands. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The tops of its branches are above the sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A dozen paces more and the children had come to another passage that branched off to the left. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

From behind a glass pane, I see a brilliant green snake coiled around a tree branch. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I climb up, sticking to the stronger branches close to the trunk, and find a sturdy fork for my bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Turns out,” High John answered, “that despite Anansi’s ultimate insult, the bearers of his mark are welcome beneath the branches of the Mmoatia.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I imagined old Ikwa once again sitting on a branch next to me, quietly watching the sun set. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I heard footsteps, a deep echo in the ground, and then branches breaking. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I slowed, crawling over thick branches that arched through the air like tentacles before diving into the fertile soil and becoming roots. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She inched forward a bit, still wondering whether or not she should call out to him, when she stepped on a branch. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On a ridge not far away, a sycamore log lay on its side supported by two of its broken branches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the heap of skins that he used for sleeping while he poked the ashes into a red glow and then added a thick piece of oak branch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the leaves and the branches felt real strong and good and right. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Con was asleep in his bedroll on the other side of the low-burning fire, and the trees arched above in a rib cage of bare branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was more than a little smug, trundling down the hill, helping to maneuver the weight of a full-grown buck on the travois we’d strapped together out of branches and sinew. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of snapping branches and undergrowth being trampled grew nearer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“So you want some fire too, do you? Let me put on another branch, then.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perched on a crooked branch, a brightly colored parrot stretches its wings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’d chop down a tree, trim off the branches as far up as I wanted, then cut away the rest of the top. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unitarians did not stand out in society as heretics, but the faith was easy to live with if you felt uncomfortable with a more serious, stricter branch of Christianity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snap of a branch burst like a gunshot through the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lightning flickered on the eyes of a bird, perched up somewhere in the branches ahead, and for a second, they shone yellow-green, like torches. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Some trees still stand but don’t have branches that bloom leaves. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“One of those branches snapped back on me.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tree hollows—holes in a trunk or branch—are not uncommon, especially in trees like me who’ve been around awhile. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My feet sink into the ground, and above me, the branches grow into one another, forming a kind of tunnel. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a branch of a competing Klan group, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, led by a former member of the UKA Klavern, a saturnine housepainter named Lloyd Jacobs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As they went, they tried to keep under branches, away from the rain. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pulling and pulling on one of them branches to make me a good switch. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

His skull rang in the silence, and he watched shock-still as the storm of hot dirt and rocks and branches and weeds rained down upon him and then wasted itself to a veil of grit. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Varangian walked to a tree and removed a rope that had been tied to a branch. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Their disappointment at not having found Minli forced them to admit their exhaustion, and they had slept under the canopy of tree branches during the day, leaving their silver goldfish as a guardian. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed an overhanging branch and pulled himself out, but it was too late—he could feel cold swamp water seeping into his boots. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When she picked up the branch, the voice grew louder but she still couldn’t make out individual words. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Winnie had been no more than two slow minutes walking timidly under the interlacing branches when she wondered why she had never come here before. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling it, Tab! So they trick her. They put a mirror up in a tree and pretend it’s the moon. She sees it shining through the branches. So she eats.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were no torn scraps of cloth clinging to branches, no deep bootprints or abandoned campsites. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even more troubling was something Kermit found while walking near the campsite—two freshly cut branches, laid carefully side by side, in plain view. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She began carving with the tip of her knife on the highest branches of the tallest trees in the most unreachable regions of the forest: This is a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Portions of the hedge were nearly hollow, a green shell of living branches, leaving enough room to crouch comfortably. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just below this spot another great branch, itself as big as an ordinary tree, jutted out over the tops of the pines, and on this at last Jeremy fluttered gently to rest. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, residential streets branched out, circling around the town itself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child was still in high spirits, and blackbird Ben was helping Pantalaimon fly as high as he could, which was not quite high enough to reach the lowest branches of a light-bearing tree. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The ground is covered with leaves and branches, so I cannot see what’s slithering beneath them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was on her feet again, and the branches dusted her off. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I’m branching out into variations: maps in people’s bodies, maps in animals, maps connecting two people together. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a house decorated with tree branches to celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus, but it did pretty up the place. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the leaves and the grayed-out light filtering through the branches seemed new to him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Roz had spent the day collecting logs and branches and stacking them in a perfect, massive tower. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I gazed up at the trees where a deflated red balloon was caught in some branches. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Luster got into the branch, where they were playing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left them there in that room sitting next to each other like two birds on a branch. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I sat up and saw my bike on the ground, a freshly snapped gumbo-limbo branch sticking out of the front spokes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Velia and Pita were pulling leaves and sprigs off the branches that were still to be made into stakes before piling them neatly next to the whittiers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Enormous it looked, its sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingered hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures that creaked faintly as the boughs moved. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The daughter was just leaving the house to attend the meeting of a branch Folk Lore Socicty, and regretted that she could not accompany them. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird flew among the branches suddenly, all white with a tail like a fall of snow, and the golden apples dimming turned to seeds, each one a drop of crystal. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He played with a piece of branch, trying to distract himself from what he was feeling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He led the way in under the huge branches of the trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were even a few old bunches of acorns from last fall, clinging to the branches. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning as soon as she was awake Laura ran to look out of the window, and one morning she saw in each of the big trees a dead deer hanging from a branch. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson reached up and lifted the Fleece off its branch. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” Lara said, and then we heard footsteps in the distance, mutters and cracking branches. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And second, because he was so large that every branch he passed snapped back violently. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later I saw branches moving; they were still a quarter-mile down the valley, still on my trail. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He even managed to build himself a bench and a worktable from some driftwood and dead cedar branches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The East Wind was streaming through the bare branches of the trees, and seething in the dark pines on the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is a national organization, with overseas branches, whose purpose is to help those living in rural areas—and the children particularly—develop practical abilities and moral character. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next it crunched up branches thick as my wrist as easily as a sheep would tear up a mouthful of grass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The trees rustled and moaned, their great branches shifting under the weight of the wind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Near the top, the branches got thinner and thinner. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You follow the left branch. The passage narrows.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

We decided where the invisible Christmas tree would be, and we sat on the floor and pretended we were taking decorations out of boxes and hanging them on the branches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The men looked at each other for a second longer before they put away their weapons and began fashioning a stretcher from long branches. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As she slips her closed hand over it, removing the leaves, my brother begins to cry because the branch is a switch now no longer beautifully weeping at the bottom of the hill. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

To the side of the bridge, a stack of dead trees rotted, branches hanging into the murky water. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The branches tightened around my wrist, as proof of what they could do, and then they loosened enough so I could talk without wincing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I lean against a tree, wishing I could climb it and hide in the branches. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree branches that should have been heavy with green needles were stripped clean, as if a giant had come and swept them bare with his fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kira saw ice very seldom, only occasionally in the very coldest months when sleet struck the village, breaking tree branches, and the river froze near its banks. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk was at least twenty feet in diameter, with branches as tall as any in the park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He lived in a tree and when other saints visited him for dinner they would sit around on branches like birds having a grand time with their water and dry bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His sister Caroline on the highest branch, because she always climbs the highest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dane finally arrives and sits on a nearby swooping oak branch rather than join the covey of boulders we sit on. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her hands are occupied with steadying a rough crutch made from a broken branch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The branches overhead were all coated in ice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court—the one branch of government charged with the responsibility of protecting “discrete and insular minorities” from the excesses of majoritarian democracy and guaranteeing constitutional rights for groups deemed unpopular or subject to prejudice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Two branches parted, and he glimpsed a little man moving from limb to limb as easily as a squirrel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The first birds are starting to twitter sleepily in the branches above us, and the only color so early is the first bits of scarlet dappling the trees. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Percy was staring longingly at a sunset view of Half-Blood Hill, where the Golden Fleece glittered in the branches of the tall pine tree. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The branches of the oak trees and their dangling threads of moss sweep the ground, and the sweet scent of magnolia flowers fill the air. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They collected around the Sphinx’s paws, grew roots and branches, and began wrapping around the monster’s legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When weariness sets in, a writer’s ability to behold an entire branch of the tree can deteriorate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The older men were placing freshly cut oak tree branches with dark green leaves on the roof and the side walls. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Both were clad in boiled leather and mottled cloaks of brown and green and black, with branches, leaves, and brush sewn about their heads and shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two little gray-and-white chickadees preceded him, flitting from branch to branch over his head. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a branch that stuck out over the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had a new paddle in his hands, carved roughly from a forked branch with a piece of Derek’s pantleg pulled across the fork to form the face of the paddle. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was in fact a branch of almost straight driftwood, which I had decided would make a good cane for Grandma. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches in the tree began to rustle, and leaves floated down around us, as though someone—or a bunch of someones—was climbing down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He began to teach her to use a rope, to knot it and twirl it and fling it so that it caught on a rock or a branch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A hardly perceptible shiver ran through the stem and up into the branches; the leaves rustled and whispered, but with a sound now of faint and far-off laughter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now it was three or four weeks away from first blossom, but with heavy, solid branches. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above his head, on the lowest branch of the pine tree, the Golden Fleece shimmered, its magic protecting the camp’s borders from invasion. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A snap, loud as a hunter’s gun, as the branch gave way beneath him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There is a branch of the C.D.C. that deals with unknown emerging viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her brother leaped into the palm of the branches and picked and pulled his way up to the fake raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Above me hung gnarled branches heavy with green speckled pears. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been assigned to work at the Goupil branch in Brussels, Belgium. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He waved the twig idly as he sat there, his face turned up to gaze at the branches far above him. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, in rocky terrain, he would wedge a branch under a heavy stone and make it roll down a mountain toward his enemies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two figures rushed at the fire and he prepared to defend himself but they grabbed half-burnt branches and raced away along the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Naked white branches lay in a neat pile on a lawn not used to the light. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was still an echo as of following feet in the cutting behind them; a rushing noise as if a wind were rising and pouring through the branches of the pines. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he slept, which was seldom, it was a quick “cat nap” high in the thick branches of evergreens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evening ended with the cracking of branches in the forest and the pounding of rice in mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The woods aren’t magic, but they still speak: the branches rasping in winter, and the rustling wind. I like the creaking leaves and the birds scuttling their wings.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to attending protests over the murder at the Duke Chapel, he began reading about a branch of Catholicism called “liberation theology,” which Archbishop Romero had been preaching. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The boy from District 1 ignites a tree branch for a torch, illuminating the grim determination on all their faces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She gave Big Pinch a long, ferny branch to wave and made him sit next to the berries. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The other is growing the right branches, that is, inferring how the words are supposed to join up in phrases. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I liked them all unless they branched out into fantasy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her goblet was chased silver, too, in a design of twined myrantine branches. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They all held hastily made crosses of green juniper and piñón branches. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were some ten feet from the main trunk, and Mrs. Frisby could see, just above the place where the branch joined the tree, a dark round hole as large as a lunch plate. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The animal noises in the dark forest, the branches snapping and singing, reminded her of their flight, and then of Lovey disappearing into the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A solemn mouth, a broken branch for a nose, two eyes carved deep into the trunk, gazing north up the kingsroad, toward the castle and the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Byrdsong was a Newport News native who served in World War II in the Montford Point Marines, the first group of black men permitted to join that previously restricted branch of the American military. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I gathered gear, left the trap triggered and hanging from a branch, and made my way back up the creek. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She looked up into the branches of the cedars and breathed in their perfume, and he moved his lips over her collarbones and then down into the space between her breasts. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is not the sound of a branch under someone's foot, but the sharp crack of one coming from a tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He held a “sword” in each hand: black apple branches with the stout ends bound in twine to make hilts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted my roots to journey farther, my branches to reach higher. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The queen’s men had made it from the trees of the haunted forest, from saplings and supple branches, pine boughs sticky with sap, and the bone-white fingers of the weirwoods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she sprang into the air, holding the branch in her left hand, as her dæmon skimmed down low over Malcolm and Asta in farewell; and then they were gone. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the distant crack of a breaking branch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was staring up into the branches with her mouth wide open and her eyes bulging as though she had seen a ghost. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A long whippy larch branch sprang forward suddenly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Beside it was a photo of the same spot, though the paper had turned ocher with age, with a boy hanging upside down from those same branches while Ishtar laughed at his antics. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The winds pick up high above, branches billowing in Sagan’s warm breeze, just like the New Mexico desert. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ivy stared up at the structure, nestled among the gnarly branches of a giant oak near the back fence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The branches are bare and black but they are covered with dripping white candles, translucent layers of wax frosting over the bark. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On these pines, the needles hung like pompoms in sparse clusters along lank branches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself trimming back all the stray branches of my thoughts, focusing on just this place, just this time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Curious, Celia picks a frosted peony from its branch, the stem breaking easily. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every few feet the tunnels twisted and turned and branched off. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They use twigs and leaves to build nests in the branches. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A bear pulled up a sledge on which a cauldron of charcoal was smoldering, and thrust a resinous branch into the heart of it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia eased out of the boy’s grasp and settled more securely among the branches. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their broad, short wings were designed to speed them in and around trees and branches. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I saw two kids younger than me working on a snowman, except it was so cold, the snow wasn’t packing and it looked more like a snow heap with branches sticking out for arms. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the branch and tried his weight on it for a second, then sank back down, exhausted from just that. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"I told you twenty times, Renard, you don't come in here! Never again! I will skin you with a branch if I gotta!" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Close as the branches on the trees were slapping by me I knowed they had to be giving me some pretty good whuppings, but I didn’t feel nothing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A narrow but well-worn path branched from the main road, following the river’s shore into the forest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I looked through the branches of the bushes and in front I could see a crowd of people and, above them, a stage holding up the moon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

More shrieking birds swept in, descending into the lower branches, then flapping up again to higher perches in a cyclone of distress. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Steadying myself against the oak tree, I yanked a handful of acorns off a low branch. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I rest my arms on the concrete wall and look down through the bare branches that are like dry coral. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “Do you have any twigs? Little branches? I could use them to make the arms.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

What moon wasn’t already hidden behind clouds was blotted out now by trees, branches filtering its pale light to nil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, only fifteen minutes after she’d left the ground, she was standing on the first branch and planning her route to the next. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I went and looked the branch over and saw that it was just right. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the south part of the fence where the sun shone most of the day, I built long shelves out of branches and put the meat up to dry. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

One attachment was a miniature magnifying glass, with which she began to burn a design onto a dry branch, and it was that which set her thinking about Shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bush was thick and there were lots of palm trees, each surrounded by trees that had woven their branches together. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Red grabbed a branch, about to swing himself up, when a squirrel jumped down, spooked, and jumped on Reds head. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “The branches come down like a tent and their tips touch the ground.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Peering through the branches, he saw six mallards about halfway across, just out of range. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could look for another branch, but it’s almost dark now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So, we need to branch out. And not just on campus!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

People telephone the branch office to request an installation, or to complain about ghost signals, interference, starlings on the wires, and out goes Volkheimer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I made it to the meeting spot, Chi-Roy and Miig were already there, each with a wild turkey strung up in the lower branches of a maple. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At one end of the pool, completely overshadowing it with its branches, there grew the hugest and most beautiful tree that Shasta had ever seen. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Frisby, up on her branch, was staring at the blackberry bush again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He slowly starts turning the gallery branch he manages into one that sells not just the traditional Salon painters but also works by modern artists—the Impressionists, and now the post-impressionists, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He swung himself up, branch by branch, and imagined he was Silas, swarming smoothly up a sheer brick wall. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

With hands and feet, they felt for tree branches or cracks in the rock. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches of the big palm tree in Berges’s front yard were lashing with a dry clatter, and a cat meowed over and over and over in front of some kitchen door closed against it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And there was a woman who lived on the ceiling whose hair waved like the branches of the sycamore trees in a storm.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Conor panted and leaned on the branch to keep himself balanced. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

One huge branch had recently broken off and fallen, and three pine trunks lay bent double under its weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But as they walked, the morning bloomed in the distance, its light slowly filtered over Ma and Ba through the veil of tree branches so he could finally blow out the candle in his lantern. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Crooked between the trunk and a branch, a sort of gray paper cyclone contained a circular hole about an inch in diameter. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Every post office in Baltimore was closed for the holiday except the main branch downtown. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind blew and parted the drooping branches of the weeping willow like a curtain, and Mariam caught a glimpse of what was beneath the tree: the straight-backed chair, overturned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The quiet breeze caused a branch to snap in the forest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sound of branches and twigs breaking, of the flowers being crushed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, we were back at the cottage, with the strange contraption Connor had created out of reeds and willow branches. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She was instantly up, peering down over the side of the tied branches as Otto and I descended, her eyes open wide. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Belly down on a thick branch, Naomi settled into the sway and creak of the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As their eyes met, a bird sang aloud in the branches of the tree. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their riders guided them low, among the shelter of the trees, and then flew from branch to branch, taking their bearings in the gathering dark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After people write their hope on a rag or piece of paper, they tie it onto one of my branches. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rani plucks the bird and orders me to collect branches for her fire. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The branch was too slender, and he didn’t have the sense to pull them in with the string. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It landed on a branch just inside the tree line, cawed, and then flew up and into the sky. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My lap and the branches below were covered with thin, soft leaf peelings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were still drooped from sleep, and her pale brown hair stuck up all over her head like a squirrel’s nest on a winter branch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the branch snapped when the woman reached for it. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And it fended off the whips of branches better than her microfiber dorm jacket. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He pulled a pinon cone from the snowy branches and shook the fat brown pinons into his hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joon leapt forward, and then just as it looked like he might clear, his back foot caught a branch. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The gravel road was smoother, the stones smaller and the tree branches hung down around the path and nearly covered us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large bathroom suite branches off from one side of the room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The largest river I’d ever seen surged along beneath it, roaring and carrying branches over sharp rocks and around twisty turns. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At first they did not see it, but when it began to sing they saw where it was sitting on a branch, beside the thorns. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I ate slowly, watching trees sway and squirrels leaping across branches. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jess braced herself for the crushing blow of a huge branch hitting her head. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She is so tall that the top of her head brushes against a nearby tree branch. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The branch crackled, the leaves curled and the yellow smoke expanded. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Higgledy-piggledy in the branches were wedged baskets of supplies, and on a corner of the platform, protected on two sides by branches, was Mother’s picture, weighted down with stones. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My current sanctuary was a room with thorny branches covering the walls and the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a phantom I have to behold and be held by, in whatever crevices it lies, under whatever branch. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time my brother says ain 't my mother pulls a branch from the willow tree growing down the hill at the edge of our backyard. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The tules and grasses grew back, and willows straightened up with the flood debris in their upper branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’d looked delicious hanging from the tree’s branches, but cut up into pieces, they emitted an aroma unlike anything he’d ever smelled before—the scent was intensely sweet, almost sugaring the very air around it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We all sat and watched the fire eat the leaves, little lapping tongues of flame climbing up the branches. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The handholds in its branches felt solid and familiar, and she descended quickly into the darkness behind a recycler. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Muddy waves crested, dragging along branches torn from trees upstream. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Fiery shingles floated from the roof and caught in the branches of the tree outside my window, setting the bark ablaze. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosts like burnished branches on a flame tree. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The other subjects he was taught, fencing, wrestling, and driving, he took to more kindly, and his teachers in these branches all survived. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, I perched up in the branches of an old oak, hoping for game to come by. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her body knew the way, knew the roots and rocks to step over and the low branches to duck under. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

How to put down a foot without snapping a branch or crackling a dried leaf. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Pushing aside a few branches, he made an opening in a row of bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Marco stands beneath the wishing tree, watching as the candles come alight along the branches. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Archer sat across from her, legs swung over the branches for balance as he sharpened his new knives. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After marking the spot with an upright branch, I turned and followed the road back the way I had come. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn't walk into that room with the smoky fire from the damp branches I had scavenged at the edge of the woods after the coal had run out, my bands empty of any hope. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We were led to the back of the cave and into a smaller tunnel than the entrance, one of four branching off the back wall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In one section, frost sleeved the tree branches and icicles dangled like ornaments. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The branches dip low, and I pass just beneath them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And shouldn’t branches that begin to reach unreasonably high be the first to be pruned? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Overhead, a chandelier sprouted from the rough plaster, its brass branches leafed with shards of cut crystal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She skinnied farther out, until the branch began to sag under her weight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He asks for a transfer out of The Hague to another Goupil branch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I heard branches bending in the canopy over my head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The second squirrel went to dancing up and down on his branch then, chattering louder than ever. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Up she climbed into the branches, treed like a fox, waiting for what would happen next. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked faster when the light from Sam’s windows fluttered through the branches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He found Florida outside, smashing a branch against the side of the well. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to compress down into an even smaller version of herself so that she looked like an angry tree stump with short stubby branches for arms. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A dozen tines of red lightning erupted from each of Og’s fingertips, branching out in all directions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I kept the fire going strong and stretched my wet clothes out on dead log branches around it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The splitting sound, the thunderous impact, the splintering and bits of branches showering him, all had happened when the huge tree crashed to earth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Taran gritted his teeth, as the rough branches bit into his shoulders. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold then, and when the sun went down they built small fires from broken crates they found in the alleys and with branches they tore from the tamaric and willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad pointed to the toilet paper up in the branches along the river’s banks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I keep hoping she’ll invite Mrs. Hameed over for coffee, or to get their nails done while they discuss the three branches of government. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She could fly, birdlike, from tree to tree, catching on to the slenderest branches. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Invisible branches grasped at them or slashed their faces. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A pair of tiny angels, dangling between his finger and thumb as he searched for the right branch. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Overhead, between the branches of the trees, stars shone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pours the rest of the water into our new pot while Kim rekindles the fire by adding dry leaves and branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night noises closed in all around them, crickets and a gentle breeze, leaves bumping into each other on their branches. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the far corner of the yard was an old oak tree, and tied to one of the lowest branches of the tree was an old-fashioned swing. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He lay flat on his back and stared up at the canopy of branches and the reflection of the flames on the leaves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Cant you get done with that moaning and play in the branch like folks. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Move those large branches away, my boy. We must steer the horse and cart behind the trees.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was taken in the back by some mad force and driven into the shelter on his face, slammed down into the pine branches of his bed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the dragon ducked underneath branches and swerved through trees, Minli understood why most dragons flew. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Blue, the madwoman thought as she streaked through the trees from branch to branch to branch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A few clumps of snow cling to the ends of bare branches overhead, and there are glistening white patches of it on the ground, but they’re thawing. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

More than anything else, he wanted to go back into the wood, now, deeper and deeper, with all the branches of the trees closing back together behind him, to conceal himself. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Crouching under a fallen branch on the verge of the lane, Hazel watched the others as they followed Bigwig down toward the farmyard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some, those occurring at critical junctures or branch points, may change the pattern of history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Good and safe," I say as I pass under its branch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Behind him, he heard the soft metallic slither of the lordling's ringmail, the rustle of leaves, and muttered curses as reaching branches grabbed at his longsword and tugged on his splendid sable cloak. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After checking the branches to see if there were any birds hiding, he turned and saw a man aiming a double-barreled shotgun at him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Glover said, “He stayed up in the tree a long time. He slept amongst the branches,, not daring to descend. Finally he heard voices down beneath him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She set the longest branch she could find ablaze. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that crown wasn’t anything to sniff at—twisting spines of diamonds that looked like branches glowing with new frost. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She heard the shards of tile, torn branches, and slivers of wood pounding against the stone courtyard like the beating of drums, but nothing touched her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The beeches with white, naked limbs leant close to one another, their branches intermingled in a strange embrace, making a vault above my head like the archway of a church. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was flickering within the leaves, birds that made their universe inside the mammoth cloud of branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As she passed the meager trail branching from the road, Kendra skidded to a halt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Its branches reached high and stretched wide, and under it sat a little girl who resembled both Charlie and Zooey, staring at the stars overhead, a secret smile on her face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Outside, the village women spread blankets under olive trees, beating the branches until the olives fell. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And, on cue, he saw a murky form darting between submerged tree branches. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Oats rippled alone in the wind, branches waving at the edge of the forest, and when I got near the house, I knew something was wrong. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Perched on a high branch, she would eat Mullah Faizullah’s chocolates and drop the foil wrappers until they lay scattered about the trunk of the tree like silver blossoms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The tree branches bent in the wind violently, as if being shaken by the sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He slithered between the battering branches like a snake and placed his front paws upon a knot on the trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The branches were cut back so as not to interfere with the telephone wires and the tree died. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The villagers who still practiced the old Slavist rituals would decorate birch trees, string up flowers and branches, and leave extra offerings for the rusalki. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We spent the morning talking and looking at examples of trees gored by shedding antlers and branches snapped by lumbering bodies. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We spent the afternoon making decorations from colored paper and clamping tiny candles in tiny holders to the branches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Zvezda ate a mouthful of one, but she managed to get the branches on top of the booth before he could get much more than that. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Rani is so excited she tells me to hang Jay's cage on the tree, and then she helps me climb onto what she says are low branches, though it's higher than I've ever climbed before. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Those branches on the northern side are all dead there. No doubt the whole tree’ll be dead before midsummer. It’s always the north side goes first when there ain’t enough sap.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little dragon dodged backwards, scampering over jagged branches in an attempt to escape. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

All was silent, save for the rumour of war in the City down below, and they heard the water dripping sadly from the dead branches into the dark pool. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I could see him through the thick branches, but he could not see me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the tale, the archery teacher of the Pandavas had tied a wooden fish to a tree branch. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he folded the end of the first branch back over the second. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed off the dragon’s back and she could still see the monkeys through leaves and branches, their bared teeth flashing. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A robin sang from a nearby branch into the disapproving silence of the abbey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He nodded, working the saw carefully beneath a low branch. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Clumps of grass rose high among fallen tree trunks and withered branches. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where she was swinging, just lightly, like a pendulum; the way you could swing as a child, hanging by your hands from a tree branch. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches echoed with birdsong, and the paths wound around lush flower beds and between heavy emerald bushes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A shiver passed over him as he saw the end of a long yellow snake disappear into the branches of a tree a few yards away from them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself to the top with a branch of bearberry shrub, and offered him her hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered that a good while, as we walked side by side through the rain, under the dark branches of the Forest of Otherhord. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

What Rishi was pretty sure was a life-size doll sat in a tree like she was watching the proceedings, her lips, hair, and dress glowing from the black lights strung in the tree branches. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I went through a brush and nearly had a heart attack when the thick branches hooked my M-16 and jerked it out of my hand. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grab on to this!” she said as she reached out with the branch. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While working his way through the thicket, Roy grabbed a dead branch off the ground. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere in the branches above me, I hear Rani say sleepily, "You have a nice singing voice, Kabir." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Bennie had spent every year of the decade that Sierra had known her obsessed with one branch of the natural sciences or another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No way. I took off. But she chased me or something. She threw rocks at me and knocked down this big branch. It could have killed me!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The guards had been targeting Zoe, and before they could figure out that the kid with the pipes was the bigger problem, the wooden planks at their feet sprouted new branches and tangled their legs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And I saw the fig tree at the side of our house, alone in the field with one early ripe fruit hanging on a hidden branch. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The tiny dragon perched on the branch extending over the door of Xan’s tree home, opening his multicolored wings as wide as he could and arching his long neck toward the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Trees stand like spears, dried copper leaves from the previous season still clinging to a few of the branches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually branch scampered eagerly back and forth, leading the way, then circling back. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rue perches in a branch across from me, her hands cupping something. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One gloved hand still clutched the rusty iron longsword he had taken from the crypts below Winterfell, and from time to time he would lash out at a branch, knocking loose a spray of snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I like looking up, discovering eagles’ nests wedged between branches. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

To get to it, one took a rutted, uphill dirt track that branched off the main road between Herat and Gul Daman. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Using the golpata branches for leverage, Neel hoisted himself into the open space. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the branch above me with both hands, but pull myself up with only my left arm. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He balanced the shoe on the end and raised it up to the branch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cool air rushed against my face as we arced above the branches, and the forest smelled like rain on freshly dug earth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Addison padded over to the little owl, who was perched on a branch nearby. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After a while some Lost Boys built us a simple shelter made of tall grass and leafy tree branches. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she and her dæmon raced upward, flying quicker than sparks from a fire, the air rushing through the twigs on her branch and making her black hair stream out behind. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round brown acorns weighed down the thick branches of oak trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“We need one with a good, straight branch on the top to stick the star on,” Hyacinth said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The General was a great tree whose branches protected them—or something like that. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It hops to a new branch, momentarily opening its wings, showing off its white patches. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Daniel acts out the jumping from branch to branch and makes his thin arms flap. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Through the branches, I could make out two men carrying bows, with quivers of arrows strapped to their backs. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I want you to pick that peach up there on the highest branch,” Aunt Sponge went on. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Chitchat leaped out from the branches and clawed at the robot’s eyes, yelling, “Anyone who shows up on our island and tries to take my friend’s mother away has a big problem which is me!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some prisoners used small axes to hack the branches off logged trees, while others stacked wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Only a fraction of the candles are burning, but the sight is no less resplendent as they illuminate the twisting black branches, casting dancing shadows over the striped walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Partway up the trunk, a branch had broken off, and the wound was leaking golden resin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ice glistens on tree branches, frost webs over dried grasses in a sparkling net. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Here the sky opens up, and she hears the clacking of branches: that’s the narrow stripe of gardens behind the Gallery of Paleontology. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For most of my classmates it meant choosing a branch of science that they somehow knew about and would pursue. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He clambered to the top branches and hooted at her with a grimace of fear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo squinted closely at the bark and branches. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His gaze wandered to the ripped-up grass under the splintered branches and crushed boughs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Bongo flew to the low branch where Samar had tied her pink, dotted fabric scrap. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was on the second branch before Penelope could catch him, and she got hold of only his ankle, but it was a firm grip. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Once we were all inside the brush, the shoe poet and the boy replaced the branches. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m warning you!”When still the tree didn’t move, Cole grabbed at the lower branches, all the while cursing and muttering angry threats. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I took hold of a meerkat and dropped it from the branch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed on her branch long after the bears had gone, enjoying some peace and looking herself over. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, approaching the next branching gallery, he slowed his steps and peered briefly into the gloom. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I leveled my rifle on the branch just in front of my face and put the car in my sight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Gus motioned down to the shadows of the branches intersecting and coming apart on the concrete. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Outside, a blue jay perches on the edge of a branch. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The boys lay in the pine needles and looked at the lonely sky through the pine branches. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night creatures returned to their hollows and grottoes, and the birds flitted nervously between the branches, twittering. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He looked up, wanting answers, but Alby was already gone, a trembling branch the only sign he’d ever stood there in the first place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was in the air for another second before sharp leaves raked my face as I hit the upper fronds of a bushy branch, sinking in until I stopped, panting, mired in brambles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lay so still against the tree branch I was just the same everything as the tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the branches overhead, and then when there was no shade he covered his face with a handkerchief to shield his eyes from the sun. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Welcome!” shrieked a large Hyacinth Macaw who was perched on a branch with outstretched wings. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The bonobos had taken to the branches and were already far ahead — I could see fronds waving in the distance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned her body over the ledge and stretched for the tree branch, but she couldn’t reach it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Being a branch on the same family tree as Leo made sense to him, and this strange new history made Joseph suddenly feel more alive, more real, and not quite so lost. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They would as gladly bum me as those logs and broken branches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Francesca tied it to my lowest branch, already crowded with wishes. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wasn't looking at the gate at all, but up into the branches. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The stands were scarred, the walls needed paint, the naked light bulbs seemed ugly, their bare, black wires like the dead branches of a stunted tree. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the whipping and snapping branches of the trees, the buds rode it out head to wind, their bodies horizontal, their neat claws turned to anchors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the hawk was safely rescued from the branches, he realized that he would not be able to climb down again with one hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a Cossack in his family tree, that particular branch would have been grafted in blood and suffering. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They shifted on the branches, muttering and raising their wings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

You worm your way into one account, then branch out to their friends, then their friends, and eventually, you’re able to track the location of any player in New York City. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d need a third and, ideally, a fourth branch to make the nest stable. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Above their heads the trees were full of ravens, their feathers fluffed as they hunched on bare brown branches, staring down at the pageantry below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Several people curse as they trip on roots and fallen branches. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You hit me in the face with a branch,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dragging him along, Gwydion dropped to the earth under an oak tree’s spreading branches. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And then there were hammerheads, whose eyes branched off in far-reaching directions. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She admired a Douglas fir’s complicated bark, followed its grooves to the canopy of branches two hundred feet above. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When nothing sinister leaped out at her, she hurried to the willow and spotted a branch she could tie her linen to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And he turned his back on Tree-ear to arrange the other branch in the vase on the left. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Tilting and horsemanship had two afternoons a week, because they were the most important branches of a gentleman’s education in those days. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt remembered Tam Lin’s words about his master: He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is sleeping, his head resting on the branch, and his bushy, ringed tail dangling beneath him. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Pa made a swing of tough bark and hung it to a large, low branch of Laura’s tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees seemed to be reaching for him now, gnarled black branches outstretched like claws, hungry... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It is also pullulatingly alive: howling with insects, hot and humid as demon’s breath, perpetually shaded by mats of lianas and branches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The components in the making of this film were very significant and intertwined like the main branches on a family tree. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stripped it of branches, broke the trunk into two pieces, and used them to haul himself upright. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My written directions said that I must take every road branch that turned right, and the word “every” was underlined. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The families are quiet and somber, the only sounds come from the branches brushing against the side of the truck and the slush of mud sticking to the tires. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older we got, though, the smaller the branches we brought, until Papa started to go out himself to get the stick. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, slowly he pulled himself along the branch until, from his pulling and Beetle’s weight, it cracked, and they both fell onto the riverbank. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singers made Bran a throne of his own, like the one Lord Brynden sat, white weirwood flecked with red, dead branches woven through living roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Arya saw a tree consumed, the flames creeping across its branches until it stood against the night in robes of living orange. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We received baskets of candy until we grew older and the Easter Bunny branched out. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

From where they stood, a dual set of roads branched off to the east. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When it floundered in sand, the men had to jump out and put creosote branches under the wheels to urge it on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma ignored the branches that scratched her and Ba let his hat fall to the ground as they rushed toward the unseen person. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Amari found a big branch and dragged it to the center. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large tree branches had fallen and a clutter of leaves and roof tiles and dust and dirt littered the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I watched two sparrows twittering and hopping merrily among the naked branches outside the classroom window. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he looked up, through the leafy canopy of branches. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At last, with one final effort, the car cleared a tangle of dead leaves and small branches across the road, and came into a clearing by the gate of Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I notice their branches are as fine as lace. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

At dusk, as she was walking back to our village alone, she entered a stand of tall trees and heard a big crack from a branch. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the branches broke off and all the spindly leaves are brown and soggy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Through the leafy canopy she could see the bone-white branches of the heart tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The last I heard, she’d branched over into designing her own Christmas cards. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Inside the wall trees were growing Their branches hung out over the wall; their leaves showed not only green but also blue and silver when the wind stirred them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle D and JimmyTrotter managed to rig up a clothesline, tying cords from the bent-but-planted pole to the remaining sturdy branch of the pecan tree. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Their tribal governments had three branches: a civil administration, a military, and a branch that dealt with the sacred. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even on the narrow path, she was constantly shoving past branches and twigs, tripping over roots and rocks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Enemy archers returned fire, and a Hunter fell from a high branch. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Leaves fell around him like hot fluttering moths while branches withered to embers and ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Nazis also created different types of Enigmas and unique daily setting tables for various branches of their forces. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the office, another hall branches off to the right. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

From one boy to another he went, dipping the branch each time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her, Ess listened, mouth hanging slightly open, to the tale of a tree that gave everything it had to a boy—its apples and its branches, until the tree was nothing but a stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A lizard vibrates in the crook of the tree’s thickest branch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then at last she saw him . . . only for an instant, framed between the branches of the trees as she looked down at the valley floor, yet she knew it was him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It would have been a lot easier than reaching through the tangle of roots and branches, trying to bring the vibrasaw to bear against a precise spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d only find them when winter came, and suddenly the bush would be scattered with tiny plastic people deep within its branches. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She untied the yellow ribbon Cari had put in her hair and draped it on a low branch so Wash would know that she was in the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would stop every minute to photograph Mom or Jess or some bird perched on a branch. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed heavily out of the branches of the great fallen tree, and with the wind still wild in the leaves and the grass and her hair, set off back to the village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But “if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fruit bat gave a high pinging cry as it left the branches of a wild fig. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The picture side showed a scarlet macaw posed on a mossy branch in a beautiful rain forest. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The tree branches would be stark and, with their leaves fallen, wear a kind of proud desolation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He redoubled his caution and walked even more quietly, being careful not to give himself away by stepping on any branches. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later came the most jolting shock of all as the grapnel found a branch that held it fast. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For little Chestnutt it was fine—she just ducked in between a couple of branches and hid. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were some leaves and branches in it with him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Nowadays, a lot of people just tie a tag around a branch and write their nutty wishes.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Small Boy took aim and put a bullet just under the left foreleg and the bobcat dropped through the branches into the jaws of Becky and her companions. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all clambered up into the chosen tree, straddling the big, damp branches. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I trip on a branch and take a nasty fall. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Its branches grew upward in a graceful arc, then flowed to earth and trailed their ends in the water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mo was kneeling down so his head couldn't be seen above the tangled branches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The tree,” he said to her, “you better fold up the blanket before the snow breaks the branches.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon on the way home from the store: light angling through the trees, cicadas clattering high in the branches, the twins racing and laughing with Wash, her not needing to say anything. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my pocket knife and moved to the creekside, where I cut a branch from a small willow tree, a Y-branch well tufted with leaves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found two solid branches that were level and close together, and I tied the net to them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching out, he caught hold of a branch and swung himself forward to regain his balance. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The branches of the tall pines stirred in a rain-bearing wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low branch brushed his face, and he snapped at it, twisting and pulling until the wood cracked and tore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He kept his head low, and his eyes closed for protection against the pine needles and sharp branches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clarence was sitting on a branch, watching both of us. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was just jumping down from the lowest branch when I heard something, like someone biting into an apple. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not see a leaf anywhere on the dry gray branches. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He went forward again more slowly, kicking aside any leaves or branches on the trail. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Ralph was shot into the air, thrown down, dashed against branches. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fletcher had never warmed to that branch of the family, nor they to him, owing to his peculiar temperament. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, you don’t,” Babulya growled, and she directed another branch to wrap around Sigurd’s chest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But he kept hold of the paddle, and then found a heavy branch nudging at the hoop where Asta was perching, and he seized that and held the canoe still against it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had become a mascot; our branch of the family was split to pieces; I had just about forgotten about being a Little in any family sense. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were nearing the curve in the path where it branched off and led to their homeplace. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Green buds on the tree branches were rolled up like bullets, and I ran my fingers over them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

My feet touch the ground, and I lift my face to the sky, to all those bending branches and drifting clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She went to the window and stared out, trying to spot the bird among bare oak branches that stood out black against a broken sky of gray and palest blue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d even broken off a branch so he could root around. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Just ahead, the thicket of guava branches clears, and there is the footpath, and beyond, the gratifying sight of the car still on the side of the road. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I hurdled fallen logs and ducked low branches, chasing her until my lungs burned. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was going to reach for a branch to pull out Mini, but the branches weren’t really there. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Closer to the car, houses floated in the middle of soggy lawns, trees had been stripped, there were branches down everywhere. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She is plucking her bird of paradise of its dead branches, leaning around the plant every time she hears a car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stooping like a cloud, he lifted a burning branch and strode to meet the wolves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our military is diverse, but not this shiny, new branch. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Thick, sinuous branches hung over our heads, sagging with immense age. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They scattered, then massed again, hovering over her like a great, undulating cloud before settling back onto the branches of the oak tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the last dim rays of light, I make her out, watching me silently from between the branches. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

First, she thought, a snack Shoving her scrying device into her pocket, Sister Ignatia climbed up to the branch with the starling nest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He peered with elaborate caution between branches at the edge and could see Robert sitting on guard at the top of the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There, beneath rotting wood and twisted splintered branches, she found her hidden sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before coming to our hut he had gone into the forest and cut a long, thin branch. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words fall over each other in his mind the way the tree branches outside cross over one another. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was flat on his back, staring at the sunlight in the tree branches. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He wrested the branch away from the younger boy. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She paused for a moment on the thick branch of a tree that she could not identify. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He raised the branch, prepared to use it as a weapon. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It takes me a moment to remember the second, much shorter strand that Beetee wound around a branch and left on the ground before he even began his design on the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I looked, Henrietta was inside, perched on a branch. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Just then, a crow darted down from one of the branches, a streamer of paper in its mouth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher shared rumors of a new branch of the underground railroad said to be operating in the southern part of the state, as impossible as it sounded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“If I may interrupt,” came a cool voice from my highest branches. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The branches fell back straight away, almost concealing him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He looked like the answer to everything, sitting there on a branch, tiny and perfect and winged. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then he placed his foot on one of the lower branches of the bush and climbed up in front of her. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be a branch in someone else’s life anymore—I want to be the tree on my own. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I try to connect the branch to a tree. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Respect the ladies,” she told Ess, as the little girl stared up at a hen roosting in the low branch of a tree. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had a mouth full of the thatching she had carefully woven out of branches for one wall. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And she snapped a little twig off the pine branch she flew with, and sniffed the sharp resin smell with greedy pleasure, before flying slowly down to join the sleepers on the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proceeding cautiously, Kyril Montana advanced through underbrush and dead leaves, automatically avoiding twigs and small branches that cracked underfoot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree leaves, coated with mud shells, fell off their branches, landing with audible thuds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all had branches I could reach from public land, but none of them had quite ripened yet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Malcolm wandered about the grass, looking at the little trees with glowing blossoms and listening to the birds that flew and sang in the branches as prettily as nightingales. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She let go the branch and squeezed his hand. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a moment, Kingshaw moved forward a bit farther, pushing the branches aside carefully with his hands, not knowing what he was going to see. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He tucked the branch under his arm and poked around through the sparse undergrowth, looking for more. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The wind rustles dead leaves still clinging to the oak branches by the street. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to,” he said, stepping back to try to find Frightful among the branches of the ancient hemlock, but primarily to keep Alice from seeing his great sadness. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Thorn let go of the branch and cried, “Please don’t drop me, Roz! I don’t want to die!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a tree branch hitting the house in a storm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We all liked the eagle, but he didn’t look too peaceful until someone suggested we put an olive branch, the symbol of peace, in its claws. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered old men napping on tree branches, forgetting the height of the trees and the vulnerability of their bodies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A bigger gust moves the vast limbs, and the sound builds slowly until the wind commands the branches to dance and the leaves to titter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

She attaches the end of the new ribbon to the same branch to make it look continuous, and begins the process of weaving it through. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I held him and clung to the wet branch, only slowly becoming aware of slight burning feelings on my arms and legs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We found a huge oak with branches thick as separate trees spread wide to shade a large area. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They only look at each other without speaking, but the gesture is so intimate that Bailey glances away, looking up at the twisting branches of the tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He gathered a pile of twigs and heavier branches and with the knife cut them to a useful length before trying to get them lit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They skewered hot dogs on green branches, and when they were cooked wrapped them in slices of bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams tried to laugh himself out of the monarchical morass, claiming that he simply wanted to assure that the executive branch of the government enjoyed a fighting chance against the awesome powers of the legislature. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A dozen witches were making for the flares, carrying thick-leaved, bushy branches, and with them they brushed the glaring lights aside, sweeping them away into the sky beyond. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Farid thought he saw his scarred face among the low-growing branches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Snow swirls, coating the tree branches and giving everything a hushed feel. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The far wall of the glade exploded in a shower of broken branches and fetterlings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I giggle, but of course it’s just Tobias, ducking under a branch. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sought out a handsome tree on the edge of the forest and threw the rope over the lowest branch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One possible explanation for this may be that the Western branch of Christianity took certain elements of its note-family system from the Eastern Byzantine system of modes, called Oktoechos. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Picking up a branch, she draws circles, squares, and crude pictures of our hut in the dirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk past a potted plant with a garish flower blossoming among its branches, and toward the dormitory that has become our temporary home here. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The woman appeared from behind the rock and shook out a thick-leaved branch before dropping it and brushing her hands together. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tunnels branched off to the sides; some of them slanted down; others had steps carved into them leading up. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Stubby tree branches, splintery scrap boards, even pieces of wadded-up paper that look like garbage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Headmaster pushed Neel back through the low-hanging branches that bordered the narrow path to the pond. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I listen carefully to every little noise, the cracking of a branch or . . . wait: What was that? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I tried, you remember? I reached out but you were gone, you went down through those little branches underneath, and when I reached out there was only air.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the young man answered smartly, “Yes, but they do not stay there. They branch forth and bear flowers and fruits.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He said he became secretary of the Port Elizabeth branch of the ANC as well as a member of the National Executive Committee. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She struggled to force the edge down into the tough old branch. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

You sat on benches, and they showed the movie on a sheet hung from the branch of a tree. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had cowered from her since she had thrust the burning branch in his face. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bent trunks and shook branches and then—thunk thunk thunk!—pinecones began raining down. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Wart copied Archimedes in zooming up toward the branch which they had chosen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Deborah sitting beneath the tree, looking up at us in the branches. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They had forked up in the air for him, like trees branching in the night, and rained down sparks. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first I was puzzled and did not understand, and it was only when I bent my head to avoid the low swinging branch of a tree that I realised what had happened. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were on a low tree branch, taking turns leaping onto each other’s heads. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

All of the riders sway in unison, ducking the same branches—left, then right. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Through the bare branches he saw a wild waste of gray water, surging from left to right across the wide open space that had been Port Meadow: he could see the city’s spires beyond it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lily screamed: The branch caught Petunia on the shoulder, and she staggered backward and burst into tears. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Four muskets leaned against a tree, the branches of which hung over the water. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We piled branches beneath the platform and kept it burning. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were submerged, their upper branches barely poking above the floodwaters, their lower branches swarming with fish instead of birds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What I’d thought was just a room at first was actually a forest glade, sheltered by a loose weaving of Thicket branches high above that let light in. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Like a stick in the ground with a few wimped-out branches. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moist soft flakes are falling out of it, piling up on roofs and branches, sliding off now and then to hit with a wet cottony thunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was cutting a tree when a branch dislodged and struck him, breaking his neck. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I frowned at the branch that had once held the large blue bottle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A branch that would’ve been so far from Axel’s reach before the storm is right under his palm now. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But Joe laughed and yelled, “Hurrah! Boy, oh boy!” and before the tree had really settled down, he was into the branches. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Twisting and slashing, he fought his way through the pack and backed up under the low branches of a hedge. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom of the hill they came upon another passage that branched off to their right and slanted steeply downward. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed out how the pile of leaves she had walked through were obviously disturbed, and how the branches of the banerbyre were broken and torn where she’d struggled through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps’ nest in a rotten branch as we walked. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Trees stretched up into the darkening sky like yearning giants, their thick branches contorted and mean from reaching out for something they could never grasp. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If Seth had been standing two or three yards back along the path, a branch thicker than his leg would have clubbed him on the head. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then we could see the branch, where the smoke was blowing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the ladies’ side of the throne room, a dark-haired goddess in green robes sat next to Hera on a throne woven of apple-tree branches. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A short hall branches off to six closed doors. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches of the willow began to sway violently. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It would be little comfort to Cantor that his work was the foundation of a whole new branch of mathematics: set theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

All around us, the trees are brown, their green leaves, wilted in the heat of the white sky, hang quietly on the branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grab hold of that branch right there,” said Burke. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The cat is stuck on the branch now, swiveling its head from side to side in slow-motion panic. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue-green and the branches of the oak trees in the back yard were black and bare against this color. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The moonlit clouds above glowed through their branches like a ceiling of pearl. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The branches holding them were twisted in odd ways. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The oak tree crackled overhead, its branches rasping together in the bracing breeze. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We just have to follow the main branches of the river of corn as it flows and divides through the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But in 1790 the Supreme Court was a woefully weak third branch of the federal government and the principle of judicial review had yet to be established. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were whispering out there; and suddenly the branches were shaken furiously at two places on his right. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ah! the wind and the whiteness and the black branches of Winter upon Orod-na-Thôn! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was a movement in the branches, and then Archer was taking her hands, wiping each of her fingers with a clean wet cloth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mama and Babulya could make the trees use their branches, but could they pull a tree from the earth and make it walk around? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind blows in the branches, and the leaves rustle and sing to each other. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down on a branch and let his feet dangle over the edge. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Of course not. Father surrounded the grave with branches of mutarara, wild gardenia, to confuse them.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our branches never looked as bright as the demonstrators’, though, and sometimes as we drove past, I wondered what it would be like to join them, chanting “Freedom,” standing in the way of cars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As time passes and passes, I begin to see a man and a woman take shape—two bodies tangled up like branches. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They heard a branch snap somewhere in the bushes, as if a large animal was creeping about. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amari dozed, then was startled awake by the rustling of leaves and the snapping of branches. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning Margalo found a note on the branch of her fern when she woke. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

A blackbird with a yellow beak flew into the open area and roosted on a tree branch. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Then the shots come behind us, not loud, not like firecrackers, but sharp and crisp like a dry branch snapping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through my friendship with Gaur and Walter, I was beginning to see that my duty was to my people as a whole, not just a particular section or branch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air held a damp chill, as if the sun that had given a pale, late-winter brightness to the streets in Newton had been too weak to penetrate the dense branches above the woods road. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the distributor himself, who craved fresher air, and whose profits had doubled, was opening a second branch in Burdwan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A small, green snake slid along a branch, causing Nhamo’s heart to speed up, and disappeared into a crack in the bark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She adds a few more branches to the fire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the trackers came near, Kino could see only their legs and only the legs of the horse from under the fallen branch. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a broom made of branches and began to sweep the dusty floor. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree branches couldn’t still be alive, and it had to use plants that weren’t harvested for another purpose. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his arms and they became branches, from which smaller branches shot out and grew leaves. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

So Death crossed to an elder tree on the banks of the river, fashioned a wand from a branch that hung there, and gave it to the oldest brother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You’d have loved all of this—as well as the strings of lights she wound around the crèche and the branch she stuck in a pot and called a Christmas tree. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, in the boots she ran from branch to branch as easily as a squirrel. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She bounced from rock to rock up a steep hill, grabbed a hanging branch, and hurled herself toward the top. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We’re branches grafted on this good tree, Mrs. Price. The great root of Africa sustains us. I wish you wisdom and God’s mercy.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, there were more thick bushes, and he thought he ought not to go through them, in case of getting the string ripped on a branch. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Admission to either branch of the Party is by examination, taken at the age of sixteen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When she opened her notebook, her thoughts snarled like those tangled branches. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He tried to make out where they might be now among the fallen and twisted branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the tree split in four directions, each branch thicker than both of Emily’s legs put together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Together they cleared a place for a fire, surrounded it with stones, then gathered twigs, leaves and branches to burn, plus four slim branches on which they could thread the fish. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He searched for Cruz, but all he could see was a mess of wood planks and branches. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was sun shining, and the branches of trees were waving and tossing in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Florida whacked at the well with her branch. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in a ring of branches around her were four females, one of whom was nervous Banalia. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On a low branch overhanging the stream a raven sat hunched, its feathers ruffled up against the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her heart thudding painfully, she climbed in among the fallen branches, hauling herself through the familiar boughs at their unfamiliar angles, and balanced herself as high up as she could get. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A breeze blows through the palms below, rustling their branches, so they whisper like voices. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She wandered over to a tree with deep, bowing branches. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The shacks were made of plastic, tin and cardboard and stood near clumps of blue gum trees, whose branches screamed like ghosts in the icy Cape wind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard nothing but a squirrel chattering on a branch and saw nothing but a crow winging from one tree to the next. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Beyond the tossing branches she spied a hut, and farther on a wide, open space. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just as the knife cuts through, I shove the end of the branch as far away from me as I can. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The fire in the center of the grove was a small sad thing, ashes and embers and a few broken branches burning slow and smoky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And there were dry branches enough on the ground, and dry sticks, and soon he’d gathered an armful. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

With a leafy branch acting as a broom, Eira swept the ground around the rock. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I run and run, let the branches cut my face, because I have to stop the shooting. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I cling to the branch with one hand and lean out. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

This is because any branch a man breaks accidentally is small and breaks quickly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The aloe branch and loaf of bread that had been hanging over the door since the days of the founding were replaced by a niche with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Hell. Look along the branch. It came down here. I saw it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d heard rumors that service in the military was no longer voluntary, that everyone between the ages of twenty-two and forty had to serve—most of them in the army’s new Psi branch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The branches were slick with rain, but they were sturdy and had knobby, flowered handholds. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she was out, she lifted the end of the ladder with a pole and draped it over a convenient branch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A branch caught the bag and yanked it open. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Beaver were nowhere to be seen, so Roz picked up a fallen tree branch and stomped into the shallows. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We listened to the cracking branches in the woods until we couldn’t hear him anymore. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There he was, curled up in a pile of debbir branches, his snout covered by a paw. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For decades the instructions have been missing; each year they have to figure out the order in which the branches must be inserted, the longest ones at the bottom, the smallest at the top. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why, hell, when the railroad puts a branch out here, I could lay it down neat, broke up and seasoned, right beside the track, for a dollar and a half a cord. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there are only the plastic bags rustling in the branches above them and the dozens of spheres of artificial light glowing in the parking lot beyond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I'll have to saw off the branch at the trunk and send the whole thing down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A prunus vase, with a plum branch to complete its beauty—his dream of making one returned, stronger than ever now, for it would be more than a dream. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was straight, the walls, solid, with no hallways branching off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z